“…not delegate, not optimize, but stop.” I’m going to think on this one. This is good advice. I’m currently at 100. I need to figure out how to bring it down to 85.
Have you heard of Kendra Adachi and "The Lazy Genius Way"? She's has a podcast and several books. She has 13 principles on how to "be a genius about the things that matter and lazy about the things that don't." (and she is a mother of three!)
GREAT article. We're all doing too much. What is non-essential, what is enough, what can we say no to...these are questions I try to ask myself so there's wiggle room to deal with the unexpected encounters and be present to them. Having space to reflect is a gift, but I have to build the gift into the schedule intentionally or that time so easily seems to get frittered away. Putting my cell phone in a drawer for a meditative hour early in the morning is a practice that really helps me. If I could only do it more.
So glad it resonated! "What is enough" is the core question I keep coming back to as well.
Thanks for the tip on putting the cell phone in a drawer. Will try that!
One thing that helps me is to turn my cell phone display from full color to grayscale. I'll include a how-to in a future post, but you can easily Google it to figure out how to do it!
“…not delegate, not optimize, but stop.” I’m going to think on this one. This is good advice. I’m currently at 100. I need to figure out how to bring it down to 85.
Have you heard of Kendra Adachi and "The Lazy Genius Way"? She's has a podcast and several books. She has 13 principles on how to "be a genius about the things that matter and lazy about the things that don't." (and she is a mother of three!)
Thank you. Can't wait to listen and read!
GREAT article. We're all doing too much. What is non-essential, what is enough, what can we say no to...these are questions I try to ask myself so there's wiggle room to deal with the unexpected encounters and be present to them. Having space to reflect is a gift, but I have to build the gift into the schedule intentionally or that time so easily seems to get frittered away. Putting my cell phone in a drawer for a meditative hour early in the morning is a practice that really helps me. If I could only do it more.
Thanks SAM!
So glad it resonated! "What is enough" is the core question I keep coming back to as well.
Thanks for the tip on putting the cell phone in a drawer. Will try that!
One thing that helps me is to turn my cell phone display from full color to grayscale. I'll include a how-to in a future post, but you can easily Google it to figure out how to do it!