S5 Ep157: Don't Overthink It with Anne Bogel
Live Well Anyway
MacKenzie Koppa
4.6 • 605 Ratings
🗓️ 4 March 2020
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
On the Cultivating the Lovely podcast this week, MacKenzie Koppa sits down for a chat with Anne Bogel. You probably know Anne from her blog Modern Mrs. Darcy or her podcast What Should I Read Next. Today's conversation centers around Anne's newest book Don't Overthink It. This is book about more than just decision-making, so sit back, relax, and enjoy this chat that has a little something for everyone!
- How and why Anne came to write a book about overthinking things
- Why MacKenzie loves Anne’s tips about how to stop overthinking everything
- How overthinking derails us when we have to deal with small problems
- The crucial connection between our physical bodies and surroundings and our ability to think clearly
Sometimes if we don’t know what we really need, we can actively sabotage ourselves.
Anne Bogel- The concept of tending the garden of our thought lives
- Talking about overthinking in terms of trauma
- Every day decision fatigue and the little things that drain our mental energy
- Thinking of outsourcing as more than the obvious tasks that you can hire out
- Being willing to ask for and receive help from others
Anne: getting ready for the daffodils in the spring while keeping the cozy lighting going indoors as much as possible
MacKenzie: enjoying listening to Les Mis music with her daughter
Resources Mentioned- Books:Affiliate links are used in this content.
Rapt: Attention and the Focused Life
Find Anne-You can find Anne on her website ModernMrsDarcy.com and listen to her podcast, What Should I Read Next. You can also follow her on Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest and Twitter.
Find MacKenzie-You can find MacKenzie Koppa on Instagram, Facebook, and the CTL Facebook Group, of course! Join us on Patreon at Patreon.com/CultivatingtheLovely.
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| 0:00.0 | over the years as I've wrestled with these issues myself, like, how do you make decisions? |
| 0:05.2 | How do you handle being spontaneous? |
| 0:07.4 | How do you structure your life in such a way that you feel like you have energy left by 3 p.m? |
| 0:11.4 | To deal with the things that really matter instead of just standing in front of the fridge thinking, |
| 0:15.4 | I have no idea what Mackenzie Kappa. And around here, we know that life is hard, and we have to do everything we can to just make it a little bit more lovely. |
| 0:37.9 | So it's my mission to bring you great conversations, practical tools and information, and a |
| 0:42.4 | healthy dose of community to help make those things happen. |
| 0:45.6 | If you want to find out more, you can go to our website at cultivating thelovely.com, |
| 0:49.3 | visit our amazing membership community at patreon.com slash cultivating the lovely or by connecting with me on |
| 0:55.3 | Instagram, which is one of my favorite places to interact with all of you. You can find me at |
| 0:59.6 | McKenzie Kappa. Thanks so much for joining me today. Ladies, we are back this week with a fan |
| 1:06.8 | favorite on the show. It's Ann Bogle back in the house you guys get so excited when I get to |
| 1:13.5 | interview her it's been a couple of years but I know many of you are loyal listeners to her |
| 1:18.3 | podcast many of you subscribe to her newsletter where you get the Kindle deals and probably |
| 1:23.2 | have a lot of the same problem that I do buying far too many on-sale |
| 1:27.6 | Kindle books. But she is just the best at what she does. And she's so much fun to talk to |
| 1:33.7 | because she's got such a distinct style. And I loved getting to talk to her about her brand |
| 1:39.1 | new project. She has a book coming out this week called Don't Overthink It. Now, it looks to be about decision |
| 1:46.1 | making when you kind of just read the subtitle, but it's so much bigger than that. And it's so |
| 1:52.1 | practical, you guys. It was far better than I expected it to be. And I think it will probably |
| 1:58.0 | go down as being one of my favorite books of the year because it's |
| 2:01.2 | just so practical and a lot of the tools that she has in this book are things that I have actually |
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