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Pedram Shojai - Time Is Our Most Valuable Gift • The Art Of The To-Do List • Smile More :)
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Pedram Shojai is former Taoist monk who is an accomplished physician of Chinese medicine and has lectured on wellness around the world. His no-nonsense approach teaches esoteric concepts to Western readers in an easy to understand way.
Today we discuss his new book, The Art of Stopping Time.
In this episode, we discuss:
- Most people are in a state of overwhelm
- Time is our most valuable gift
- At the end of the day, the teacher can't give you anything
- Assembling your life garden
- Your worth in society isn't how busy you are
- How saying yes can mean saying no to things we've already committed to
- Imagine yourself on your deathbed
- You'll be pushing up flowers
- Start making appointments for yourself and your self-care
- Using airplane mode to keep you from getting distracted
- We don't know how to be anymore, we have to do and produce
- What doing nothing really means
- Enjoy every moment like it's your last time experiencing it... it is
- If you have a to-do list that won't get done by the end of the day, you're sentencing yourself to a life of misery
- The art of the to-do list
- Needs vs. wants
- The simple act of smiling
- Sipping tea can be a meditative practice
- You can't be "on" all the time
- How to properly construct your bucket list
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Related links:
Pedram Shojai - The Art of Stopping Time (book)
Pedram Shojai - The Urban Monk (book)
Well.Org website (Pedram's the founder)
The Urban Monk (Pedram's website)
Follow Pedram on Facebook and Instagram
Listen to Ryan Nicodemus previously on TUHP (episode #132)
Minimilism: A Documentary About the Important Things
Marie Kondo - The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up (book)
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306: Haemin Sunim – Let Go Of Perfectionism, Combat Depression, Take Things Slowly
298: Kate Northrup – Do Less, Surrender Your Control, Yoga Nidra
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