Special Episode: Busy or Bored
Take a Break from Drinking
Rachel Hart
4.9 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 30 March 2020
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
In the middle of this pandemic are you busy or bored? Do you wish you had the opposite problem? Today, I'm explaining how both being busy and being bored are really the same thing and offer us the same opportunity: learning how to manage your mind. All you need is one simple tool. Check out my previous episode, #48 How Questions Work In Your Brain, and start practicing this skill today https://rachelhart.com/48
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| 0:00.0 | Whether you want to drink less or stop drinking, this podcast will help you change the habit |
| 0:06.7 | from the inside out. |
| 0:08.5 | We're challenging conventional wisdom about why people drink and why it can be hard to |
| 0:13.1 | resist temptation. |
| 0:15.0 | No labels, no judgment, just practical tools to take control of your desire and stop worrying |
| 0:21.3 | about your drinking. |
| 0:22.9 | Now here's your host Rachel Hart. |
| 0:24.9 | All right, welcome to another special episode. |
| 0:33.9 | We are talking about feeling busy and feeling bored because that's something that I'm hearing |
| 0:39.7 | from a lot of people right now. |
| 0:42.1 | Either they are overwhelmed with how much they have to do, so they're busy out of their |
| 0:46.3 | minds or they're kind of bored. |
| 0:49.4 | They're trying to figure out how to keep themselves occupied while they are sheltering |
| 0:54.5 | at home. |
| 0:55.5 | They're searching for things to do. |
| 0:57.5 | And what happens for a lot of people is that they recognize themselves as either busy |
| 1:03.3 | or bored and then immediately think about how it would be so much better if they had |
| 1:08.4 | the opposite problem. |
| 1:10.3 | So they might tell themselves, oh my god, I'm so crazy busy, I wish I was bored or I'm |
| 1:15.1 | so bored, I wish I had a ton of things to do right now. |
| 1:18.8 | And what I want to offer all of you today is that busy and bored are really kind of the |
| 1:24.2 | same thing. |
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