Welcome to Unfuck Your Brain. The only podcast that teaches you how to use psychology, feminism,

and coaching to rewire your brain and get what you want in life. And now here's your

host, Harvard Law School grad, feminist rock star, and master coach, Carla Lohan-Thyle.

Chickens, it is finally spring, like for real spring. Like it's been above 50 degrees

for a week's spring, even if just barely like 51. So chickens obviously lay eggs in spring.

This isn't actually an animal husband trade podcast now. I hope you guys don't mind. No,

so we're not going to lay eggs, but I'm definitely feeling those kind of generative creative

juices flowing because that's what spring does. And I've been taking advantage of the

weather recently and I've been working at a cafe in my neighborhood that has outside

tables. And yesterday I was sitting there and I was doing some planning for the month,

like to plan out my work. Those of you who have worked with me know I teach a very specific

organizational system to get your workload under control. And I use it myself. So I'm

doing my monthly planning. And I heard these two women next to me engaging in the most

competitive sport in New York City, which is the busy Olympics. So you know what the

busy Olympics are, right? It's a cut through a competition in which each person tries to

convince one or more other people or just anyone within earshot that they themselves are

truly the busiest person in the world, or at least the busiest person in that conversation.

Now even before I became a coach, I was like pretty unenthused about the busy Olympics.

I was really always more than happy to let other people win at being the busiest. My goal

is never to be the busiest. But a lot of people do want to be the busiest. Feeling busy

is one of the things that stresses out a lot of us. Even as we continue to be invested

in being busy or more importantly, in seeming busy to other people and even to ourselves.

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