Selfishly Selfless
Good Life Project
Jonathan Fields / Acast
4.5 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 13 April 2017
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
Heard any of these?
You have to take care of yourself, before you can take care of others.
In an emergency, put your oxygen mask on first, or else you won't be in position to help those who rely on you to be okay.
The purest form of service to others is when it comes form a place of complete selflessness.
Yup, we've all heard them. I'n fact, I've uttered every single one.
Truth is, the distinction between self-care and other-care, indulgent and generous, selfish and selfless, well, it's not quite so clean. Nor is the motivation for the behavior associated with any. Why? Because of a little quirk of human physiology.
And, that's what we're talking about in today's Good Life Project Riff.
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| 0:00.0 | Today's show is sponsored by FreshBooks, which is a super cool cloud accounting software. |
| 0:05.7 | It helps you take care of your paperwork faster so you can spend all of your time |
| 0:10.0 | doing the stuff that you love to do in your business rather than trying to build and follow up |
| 0:14.4 | and track and do all this other stuff. It takes care of that for you. For a 30-day free trial, |
| 0:19.1 | go to freshbooks.com slash good life and be sure to enter the Good Life project |
| 0:24.8 | in the How Did You Hear About Us section. |
| 0:29.9 | Hey there, it's Jonathan here with a Good Life Project RIF. |
| 0:34.0 | Always get to be hanging out with you. Today's RIF is about a bit of mythology. It is all about |
| 0:42.0 | the difference between being selfish and being selfless and the mythology around the personal |
| 0:50.0 | development world and all of that stuff. So excited to dive in to that conversation. |
| 0:56.4 | Right now I want to share a little bit about today's sponsor with you. |
| 0:59.9 | One of the things that we've come to learn about our Good Life Project community here is that |
| 1:04.0 | we've got a ton of conscious entrepreneurs and freelancers and that's why I'm really excited |
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| 2:02.2 | Slash. Good Life. And enter the Good Life Project in the How Did You Hear About a Section on to our show. |
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