Welcome to the Gathering Pod, the audio version of my weekly gathering room broadcast.

I'm Martha Beck.

Today's Gathering Room is about something that I just really, really, really needed to know about five minutes ago.

The moral of the story, I will beat myself to the punch right here.

Spoiler alert, the moral is, there is less to do than you think.

There is less to do than you think.

And I just tried to do a whole lot more than I could with a Facebook that wasn't working.

And then I just realized, I'll just have to do Instagram. There's less to do a whole lot more than I could with a Facebook that wasn't working. And then I just realized I'll just have to do Instagram.

There's less to do, there's not more to do.

It's just another example of the way these days, every time I sit down to do something,

I think I have a lot to do, and it turns out I'm doing too much.

It turns out that I'm driving myself crazy, ruining relationships and my

help by doing what I think needs to be done when in fact a lot less needs to be done. And our

culture is so productivity obsessed, right? So I think we all grow up with this idea that if we're not

constantly producing something

and constantly doing something proactive and virtuous and constructive, then we're not doing enough.

And I believe we're doing much, much, much, too much.

We've had great sickness in my house.

Everybody's been sick.

I've been sick.

The kid's sick. The dog is sick.

Everybody's sick. And it really taught me all over again, as I learned during the 12 years that I

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