Special Breaking Busy episode: Identifying the signs of crazy busy and finding peace and purpose.

The Alli Worthington Show

Alli Worthington

Health & Fitness, Self-improvement, Education, Society & Culture

4.8 • 634 Ratings

🗓️ 30 December 2019

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

HAPPY almost 2020! We're looking to a new year, a new decade--and it's a great time for a fresh start. What if we all started off with less stress, more joy, greater purpose, and a lower chance of burnout? In this special episode, I'm sharing a free chapter from my book Breaking Busy! I'll share my personal story of how busy almost broke me...until I got (a literal) wakeup call....from my bra. We'll take inventory, learn to recognize the red flags of busy, and get a game plan to go from a frazzled to full life. I'm also giving away chapter one from Breaking Busy free today. Quotes from this episode- 1. Contrary to what many of us have been told, we all have limits. We can't handle it all, nor should we. We have to stop pretending we are superhuman with an endless supply of energy, because we aren't. Embracing our limits and respecting our personal capacity is the key to success and living out our calling. 2. Not taking care of ourselves works in the short run but it always spells disaster for everyone around us eventually. Taking care of ourselves means we’re willing to care for ourselves so we will be able to live out the calling on our lives. Self care is never selfish. You can’t live the life that God created for you if you’re running on fumes. 3. Having a limited physical capacity is not a flaw in my character, it is by glorious design for an incredible purpose to realize my need for him. 4. When God created us, he created us with limitless capacity to love others and a limitless ability to stretch our talents to be used for his glory. 5. We each have a different capacity level. Our levels increase and decrease, depending on our season and our situation. Identifying and respecting our own capacity is life changing and it's the first step to breaking busy. If you love the message of Breaking Busy and want your own copy, you can grab one on Amazon on sale. Happy New Year, Alli www.alliworthington.com/podcast/breakingbusy

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0:00.0	Hey, hey, this is Allie and welcome to the Allie Worthington show.
0:06.7	It's where we gather, learn, share our stories and have a great time.
0:10.8	Every week I'll be chatting with a friend who I know, who I like and I respect,
0:15.4	and I want to learn something from.
0:17.3	And after we have that discussion, we are going to have coaching time.
0:20.2	So I'm going to be
0:20.8	answering your questions about life, about faith, and about business.
0:26.9	Happy New Year. We are about to start 2020 together. And I thought there's no better way to
0:32.8	start 2020 than to do an assessment on how busy we are and make a plan for the future to break out
0:39.8	a pattern to busyness. And because of that, I'm bringing you my first chapter of breaking
0:44.7	busy to start the year this year. So here we go. I'm very attached to my iPhone. Attached enough that when I can't find it, my whole life
0:56.4	stops until it's found. Years ago, I was on a business trip to California and due to horrible
1:01.6	planning and judgment on my part, I had an assistant schedule my return flight to Nashville
1:06.5	at 6 a.m. I knew better than to get on a flight at 6 a.m. I had burned myself before, getting too
1:12.5	little sleep and doing too much, but like a defiant toddler who insists that last donut won't
1:17.7	give her a stomach ache this time. I insisted that I needed that early flight so I could fit more
1:22.6	in my day. What I forgot was a 6 a.m. flight meant that I had a.m. wake up call. Wake up calls that early in the
1:30.7	morning mean one of three things. You hate yourself. The person who booked your flight for you hates you
1:36.5	or you're too prideful to know your own limits. I had a long, long drive to the airport and I was not in good shape. With really bleary eyes I flopped on the shuttle
1:48.0	a little after 3 a.m. and stretched out across a whole roll of seats hoping to sleep just a little bit
1:53.6	longer on that trip to the airport. Now I was driving to San Francisco and normally I would have
1:59.0	stayed awake for the drive across
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