The Roots of Procrastination, Inattention and Anxiety, with Dr. Ellen Vora, M.D.

Afford Anything

Paula Pant | Cumulus Podcast Network

Entrepreneurship, Business, Investing

4.6 • 3.4K Ratings

🗓️ 2 March 2022

⏱️ 64 minutes

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#367: Since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, many commentators have remarked that we’re living in an “epidemic of anxiety.” More than 40 million Americans suffer from anxiety, and countless millions more notice themselves “acting out” against their responsibilities in smaller, self-sabotaging ways: procrastinating, lacking motivation, grappling with an inability to concentrate. In today’s episode, Dr. Ellen Vora, M.D., discusses both the internal and environmental factors that can exacerbate anxiety. She talks about nutrition and sleep, as well as the fact that, frankly, your job just might suck. She applies these ideas to tactics that allow us to better handle our finances, investments, careers and lives. Dr. Ellen Vora holds a B.A. from Yale University and a medical degree from Columbia University. She’s a board-certified psychiatrist. Enjoy this conversation, and share your comments and feedback with members of our community at affordanything.com/community For more information, visit the show notes at https://affordanything.com/episode367 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	You can afford anything but not everything.
0:11.2	Every choice that you make is a trade-off against something else and that doesn't just
0:14.4	apply to your money that applies to any limited resource that you need to manage.
0:18.6	Like your time, your focus, your energy, your attention, saying yes to something implicitly
0:23.8	means, turning away all other opportunities.
0:27.4	And that opens up two questions.
0:29.6	First, what do you really want?
0:31.2	What matters most?
0:32.2	What are your priorities, your values?
0:33.8	Second, how do you align your decision-making to reflect that?
0:38.0	Since often, there can be a behavior gap between what we think we want and how we behave.
0:44.7	Answering these two questions and living, the answers to these two questions, is a lifetime
0:49.3	practice.
0:50.3	And that's what this podcast is here to explore and facilitate.
0:53.8	My name is Paula Pat. I am the host of the Affordable Care Foundation and today, Dr. Ellen
0:58.6	Vora joins us to talk about procrastination, motivation, and anxiety.
1:05.8	Since these are the elements of psychological and emotional, resistance, and resilience
1:10.9	that we need to grapple with, if we want to be better at managing our money, our careers,
1:15.8	our businesses, our investments, and our lives.
1:19.8	Dr. Vora completed her undergrad at Yale and her medical degree at Columbia.
1:25.3	She is board-certified in psychiatry, and she joins us in today's episode to talk about
1:30.4	how the symptoms of anxiety are the result of various physiologic inputs, meaning it's
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