Why Having Fun Really Matters & Powerful Strategies to Tame Your Email

Something You Should Know

Mike Carruthers | OmniCastMedia

Science, Self-improvement, Social Sciences, Health & Fitness, Education

4.5 • 4.3K Ratings

🗓️ 16 December 2021

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

Why do people sometimes choke when they swallow? Is it really because it went down “the wrong pipe”? This episode begins with an interesting look at what swallowing is all about and why sometimes thing go wrong. Source: Joel Herskowitz, author of Swallow Safely (https://amzn.to/3pXFjqv) You probably think that having fun is something you do after the hard work is done. Fun is a reward, not a necessity. Yet, there is some solid evidence that having fun is good for you. In fact, making it a priority is essential to your well-being. Journalist and speaker Catherine Price author of the book The Power of Fun: How to Feel Alive Again (https://amzn.to/32113to) joins me to explain how you may be spending a lot of time having time on “fake fun” rather than true fun. And how having more true fun can transform your life. Catherine’s website is https://howtohavefun.com/ You likely have a lot of information coming at you all day long in the form of emails, texts, notifications and other forms of communication. All of that incoming information can sap your time, productivity and energy. To the rescue is Maura Nevel Thomas author of The Happy Inbox (https://amzn.to/323ZUkt). Maura has some really easy and simple strategies that will help you tame all those messages and notifications so you can stay focused on what’s important yet still be available for those people who need you. You know the post office mottos that starts …”Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night…” Well, it turns out that isn’t really the motto or creed of the USPS. Listen as I explain where that motto came from and what WILL prevent your mail carrier from delivering mail if you re not careful https://about.usps.com/publications/pub100.pdf PLEASE SUPPORT OUR SPONSORS! We really like The Jordan Harbinger Show! Check out https://jordanharbinger.com/start OR search for it on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or wherever you listen! Go to https://stamps.com click the microphone at the top of the page, and enter code SOMETHING to get a 4 week free trial, free postage and a digital scale! Get a $75 CREDIT at https://Indeed.com/Something Discover matches all the cash back you’ve earned at the end of your first year! Learn more at https://discover/match Go to https://FarewayMeatMarket.com promo code: SYSK to get $100 off The Butcher's Holiday Collection and site wide free shipping! Go to https://backcountry.com/sysk to get 15% OFF your first full-priced purchase! https://www.geico.com Bundle your policies and save! It's Geico easy! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This message is sponsored by Discover. Did you know you could reduce the number of unwanted calls and emails with online privacy protection?
0:10.0	The latest innovation from Discover. Discover will help regularly remove your personal info, like your name and address, from 10 popular people search websites that could sell your data.
0:24.0	And they'll do it for free. Activate in the Discover app. See terms and learn more at Discover.com slash online privacy protection.
0:36.0	Today on something you should know, why do people sometimes choke when they swallow? Does it really go down the wrong pipe?
0:44.0	Then the power of fun. In fact, you may be looking at fun all wrong.
0:49.0	If you actually carve out times for fun, if you prioritize, far from taking away time and energy from quote-unquote important things in your life, you'll actually have more energy for those things.
1:00.0	You'll find yourself more productive, more creative, more pleasant to be around.
1:04.0	Also, what could prevent your mail from being delivered? You wouldn't want that this time of year. And how to control your incoming email. So it doesn't get in the way.
1:15.0	If you need to check your email once every hour, then check it once every hour. But don't just let it call you away from the thing that you're doing.
1:23.0	I'm right in the middle of this thing and I'll look who's that from. Is that an emergency? Do I have to deal with that? No, I don't. Okay, where was I? That's really detrimental to our productivity.
1:31.0	All this today on something you should know.
1:35.0	This message is sponsored by Discover. Did you know you could reduce the number of unwanted calls and emails with online privacy protection? The latest innovation from Discover. Discover will help regularly remove your personal info, like your name and address from 10 popular people search websites that could sell your data. And they'll do it for free.
2:02.0	Activate in the Discover app. See terms and learn more at Discover.com slash online privacy protection.
2:11.0	Something you should know. Fascinating intel. The world's top experts and practical advice you can use in your life today. Something you should know with my carothers.
2:24.0	Hi, you know, one way I come up with ideas for things to talk about on this podcast is from experiences in my own life. And here's a case in point.
2:35.0	The other day I was eating something and I, you know, went down the wrong pipe and I started choking and and I wondered why that is. Why does that happen? So I looked into it.
2:45.0	And it turns out we swallow about 600 times a day and usually we don't think about it much except when something goes down the wrong way. Then we notice.
2:56.0	Swallowing is actually pretty complicated and requires coordination between the mouth, the tongue, the neck and the throat.
3:04.0	Certain medications or certain medical conditions and even your age can weaken your swallowing skills.
3:12.0	The trickiest types of food to swallow are mixed consistency foods. Serial with milk requires two types of swallowing at the same time. The same goes for fruit with the skin on it.
3:25.0	If you're the type that experiences occasional hacking fits when you drink and the beverage goes down the wrong way, here's some advice.
3:33.0	Lower your chin to your chest a bit when you swallow. It seems to help according to Joel Herscovitz author of the book Swallow Safely. And that is something you should know.
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