Tranquility du jour #352: Overwhelmed
Tranquility du Jour
Kimberly Wilson
4.6 • 554 Ratings
🗓️ 2 November 2015
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
Overwhelmed with Brigid Schulte. Learn her secrets to making work, love, and play work, tips to move toward time serenity, and the importance of unplugging.
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Brigid Schulte is the author of the New York Times bestselling book on time pressure, Overwhelmed: Work, Love & Play when No One has the Time. She has spoken all over the world about how to make time for The Good Life by redesigning work cultures to focus on effective work and innovation, by re-imagining gender roles for a fairer division of labor and opportunity at work and home and, instead of seeking status in busyness, by recapturing the value of leisure. She is an award-winning journalist for The Washington Post and The Washington Post Magazine. She was part of the team that won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for coverage of the Virginia Tech massacre. She is also a senior fellow at the New America Foundation. She lives in Alexandria, Virginia, with her husband, Tom Bowman, a reporter for National Public Radio, and their two children. She grew up in Portland, Oregon and spent her summers with family in Wyoming, where she did not feel overwhelmed.
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| 0:00.0 | Tranquility DeJure, November 2nd, 2015. |
| 0:08.6 | Bonjour and welcome to the 352nd edition of Tranquility DeJure. |
| 0:15.5 | Welcome to November. |
| 0:17.0 | On Halloween, I did the exciting thing of Penny My November Dreams, and I shared that on social media yesterday and on the blog. |
| 0:24.7 | And so the fun thing about really kind of sitting down and thinking about what it is that I want to see unfold in November is it put me on track for actually doing my daily meditation sits and beginning to use an app that I had signed |
| 0:41.0 | up for over a year ago. |
| 0:43.4 | And, you know, just taking this time to step back and recognize that there's only two months |
| 0:48.5 | left in this year. |
| 0:49.7 | And how do I want to wrap it up? |
| 0:51.9 | And so I encourage you, if you have have a moment to just take, I mean, |
| 0:54.8 | it probably took me 15 minutes to sit down with some washi tape, ephemera, and a Sharpie |
| 1:00.8 | and really think about what I wanted to see unfold in November. So if you haven't had an |
| 1:05.1 | opportunity to do that yet, I encourage you to just take a little bit of time and think about |
| 1:09.8 | over these next four weeks what you'd like to see unfold, what do you want to have experienced by November 30th, and what do you want to have felt and explored and done. |
| 1:20.7 | Today's show is with the lovely Bridget Schultz on Overwhelmed, which is this great book that she wrote. |
| 1:27.2 | And I want to share her secrets to |
| 1:30.0 | making work, love and play work, tips to move toward time serenity, and the importance of |
| 1:37.6 | unplugging. I think you'll really enjoy this conversation with Bridget. It's quite inspiring, |
| 1:43.7 | and she gives a lot of great tips. |
| 1:47.3 | Also, you'll find that probably through the end of the year I'm going to be doing podcasts weekly. |
| 1:53.0 | I've got quite a few in the can and what that means is ones that I've recorded over the past few months and |
| 1:57.8 | I would just want to get these out to you because there's some really |
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