What’s One Factor You Can Cease Doing To Assist • Easy Nourished Dwelling
On this episode of Easy Shifts: Conversations to Gas the Physique, Thoughts and Soul, Martha and Peter talk about the significance of figuring out habits to cease for higher well being and wellness. They discover the impression of staying up late and senseless telephone scrolling, the advantages of boredom, and the challenges of overthinking selections. The dialog emphasizes the worth of studying from decisions and sustaining perspective in life.
Key Takeaways
- What’s one factor you may cease doing?
- Stopping staying up too late would assist me.
- Senseless scrolling of the telephone is an issue.
- It’s okay to be bored – boredom has lots of advantages for us.
- You don’t must overthink each resolution.
- We’re right here to be taught, we’re right here to develop.
- There’s no proper or mistaken on the finish of the day.
What’s One Factor You Can Cease Doing to Assist Podcast
Video Transcript
Martha McKinnon (00:00)
Hello, welcome to Easy Shifts, conversations to gasoline the physique, thoughts and soul. I’m Martha McKinnon from the weblog Easy Nourished Dwelling and with me is my brother and accomplice at Easy Nourished Dwelling, Peter Morrison.
Peter Morrison (00:14)
Hello everybody. Hello Martha.
Martha McKinnon (00:16)
Hello. Hello, the way you doing?
Peter Morrison (00:18)
I’m good, how are you?
Martha McKinnon (00:20)
I’m doing rather well. I’m doing rather well. So in the present day I’ve a thought-provoking query. Are you prepared?
Peter Morrison (00:27)
Mmm, certain. It’s form of scary.
Martha McKinnon (00:30)
Okay, what’s… So we thought, it’s form of scary. Are you prepared? So what’s one factor you may cease doing that will make a distinction in your well being and wellness journey? We speak lots, you recognize, about what’s one thing we must always begin doing. And typically we don’t take into consideration what we’d take away or one thing that we may cease doing that might be actually useful to us and actually shift issues and never change issues.
And so for me, and I had the benefit of getting slightly time to consider it, this query got here into my electronic mail this morning and I believed, my gosh, that’s a extremely good query. And I had time to consider it and I stated, that’s could be a extremely good query to share with our listeners and our readers as a result of it’s thought scary. And what got here to thoughts for me was what I may cease doing is staying up too late and blowing previous my bedtime.
And that type of got here up because of, you recognize, one other Weight Watchers assembly this week was speaking about routines and morning routines and that got here up. It’s like the truth that your morning routine is basically tied to usually attending to mattress on time. So stopping, you recognize, staying up too late. That may be one thing that will actually assist me make the entire subsequent day so significantly better.
It’s a lot really easy on the finish of the day to only form of get misplaced within the telephone, fairly actually. You begin, verify one factor, you verify the opposite, and fairly quickly you’ve been scrolling approach too lengthy. And so, that was the one factor that got here to thoughts for me.
So it’s form of tied with stopping, staying up too late, and in addition simply stopping the senseless scrolling of the telephone. You understand, these are two. So senseless scrolling, senseless utilizing of the units and staying up too late.
Peter Morrison (02:28)
Mm-hmm. I used to be simply considering…
Martha McKinnon (02:30)
And if I sit right here, I’ll most likely… Go forward. No, I’m sorry. I’ll most likely consider one thing else if I sit right here, however…
Peter Morrison (02:37)
Oh gosh, I want I may bear in mind, I learn this actually good article just lately. It was, by who? Was he a health care provider? Was he a psych? I imply, I don’t even bear in mind. I’ll must attempt to discover it. I may add it to this video. However anyway, his complete, what was it? The entire thing was, prefer it’s okay to be bored.
Martha McKinnon (03:07)
Oh sure.
Peter Morrison (03:09)
Like we’ve this psychological factor the place we’ve to be doing one thing on a regular basis. And he’s like, so many good issues occur to us like once we’re bored. And he talked about just like the telephone and he has guidelines along with his household, like, you recognize, no telephones throughout dinner and no screens, you recognize, after a sure time and.
It was simply such an exquisite article. Yeah, so.
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Martha McKinnon (03:39)
And possibly, I don’t know, possibly it’s someone else you’re speaking about due to this, suppose is getting explored fairly a bit in our world proper now. However I comply with a well being and wellness author named Michael Easter. He has a sub stack column and he’s written a few books known as Shortage Mind and the Consolation Disaster. And he’s talked very particularly about that in a number of the writings that he’s carried out.
The truth that boredom is wholesome and it has lots of advantages for us and it’s one thing that was a part of our tradition like endlessly till like these trendy occasions and we simply have these units and these distractions on the prepared. The place due to these we simply don’t have the form of simply empty time and house that we had you generations in the past and it’s yeah to our detriment.
Peter Morrison (04:34)
Proper. I simply Googled him. It’s not the identical individual, however I wish to take a look at that slightly extra.
Martha McKinnon (04:39)
Okay. Yeah, for certain.
Peter Morrison (04:42)
So let me, I’m nonetheless considering, however I completely agree. I’m with you with the, I’m very inconsistent with my bedtime. And I like these days, these nights once I permit myself to, it’s eight 30 or 9 o’clock and I’m, I’m simply carried out with the day and I simply love, I simply get such a very good sleep and yeah. And I’m, then there are these nights like final evening the place it was nearly midnight after which it set the course for a moderately hectic morning, so it’s form of fascinating.
Martha McKinnon (05:18)
Yeah. Yeah.
Peter Morrison (05:20)
One thing I may cease doing? That is exhausting whenever you’re on the recent sea.
Martha McKinnon (05:34)
Effectively, You would at all times fill it in. I’d love for our readers to share with us. And once more, that is going to be a extremely brief podcast, however I feel brief is typically good. You understand folks can simply flip this off and once more, take some moments to only ponder and take into consideration what would make an actual distinction for them by way of altering issues up. So you’ve gotten time to consider it.
Peter Morrison (06:03)
Yeah, and it’s form of a normal factor. However one factor I want to work on is prefer to cease overthinking issues as a result of I are likely to overanalyze and analysis and suppose by way of any prospects. And I feel there are occasions, you recognize, you’re shopping for a home otherwise you’re doing a significant life change. That’s good. However for the, you recognize, shopping for a TV or what film to look at, I imply, it’s, you recognize, you don’t must type of…
Martha McKinnon (06:32)
Which spaghetti sauce to decide on off the shelf? I do know it’s just like the paradox of alternative is actual and over evaluation and over analytic analyzing issues is an actual subject. Yeah, stopping that overthinking. I feel the bottom line is simply to determine the way you go about stopping that proper? Like how do you discover that it’s occurring and what possibly do you do as a substitute whenever you whenever you notice that you simply’re form of spinning your wheels?
To consider effectively what can I do to cease that? What can I do as an alternative? How do I break that cycle? And that would take slightly considering.
Peter Morrison (07:10)
And to be okay with simply making a choice, being okay with the end result. You understand, once more, I’m speaking small, not very significant decisions. And understanding that, effectively, if it’s one thing you don’t like or doesn’t work out, then make a distinct alternative subsequent time. However you don’t must, you recognize, it’s not life altering, earth shattering. It’s only a studying.
Martha McKinnon (07:36)
Yeah. Effectively, that’s fascinating. I feel the training is essential. As I used to be making ready to get on the digicam with you right here in the present day, I used to be type of scrolling by way of potential matters right here. And one factor that popped out for me was a press release like that from Ellen Langer, who I feel I’ve talked about earlier than. She wrote a e book known as The Conscious Physique, and she or he talked about that very factor. To attempt to simply, what if we simply handled every little thing that occurs in each alternative and each resolution as simply a chance to develop and be taught?
And never like a life threatening state of affairs. And typically it’s simply how we place it to say, yeah, we’re right here to be taught, we’re right here to develop. There’s no absolutes. There’s no, there’s actually no proper or mistaken on the finish of the day.
Peter Morrison (08:16)
Mm-hmm.
Martha McKinnon (08:18)
So if we may simply reposition it to say, we’re going to be taught a method or one other. And typically we’re going to be taught extra from a alternative that doesn’t go completely completely. So possibly simply serious about it in that regard, I believed that, my gosh, that’s simply one other actually good reminder to assist get us off that tendency to only overthink and over fear and over stress about selections that aren’t actually in the entire scheme of life. I imply, simply preserve protecting our perspective if we will. Yeah. Effectively, cool. These are some actually good ideas. So once more, I’d love for readers to share their ideas, their concepts, what involves them as they ponder this query as a result of I like studying from our readers and our listeners.
Peter Morrison (09:08)
Thanks everybody.
Martha McKinnon (09:10)
So thanks for going within the scorching seat, Peter. I respect it.
Peter Morrison (09:16)
That’s a lukewarm seat, it wasn’t that scorching. All proper, take care everybody, see you subsequent time.
Martha McKinnon (09:24)
Okay, have a very good one. Bye bye.
