EPISODE 148: How to Take Back Your Time with Christy Wright
How to Take Back Your Time with Christy Wright
This week I had the pleasure of talking with Christy Wright, best-selling author, speaker, mama, and business coach. We dive into talking about her new book “Take Back Your Time” and the #1 question that Christy gets asked… “how do you balance it all?!”
In this episode we talk about:
This life balance that we all try to attain.
Looking at the priorities in our life.
What if balance isn’t what you do, but something you become. Where you can be balanced in an out-of-balance world.
How balance looks more like PEACE and being confident in your choices.
How to get more peace and balance is not being more efficient and productive.
The idea that life balance isn't doing everything for an equal amount of time or everything all the time, it’s doing the right thing at the right time.
Shake the guilt off. You are not doing something wrong, if you are doing what you love and what’s right for you.
How this practice starts with ownership of our lives and our time, and our schedule.
Align your time with the things that are more important.
We don’t have to say ‘yes’ to everything.
This is YOUR LIFE. No one gets to tell you how to spend it. You get to decide how you want to spend it.
We only ask ourselves: “Do they need me? Can I do it?, Can I squeeze it in?” We NEED to be asking the questions: “Is this right for my family? Is this a priority? Do I want to do it? Is this right, right now?”
A good thing at the wrong time is the wrong thing.
Discerning this would bring the peace, and the balance you are looking for.
Excerpt from Christy’s book: “I don’t know what labels and limits you’ve been living within. But I want to remind you, you don’t have to. You can break out of the box you’ve put yourself in and dream about something bigger and better for yourself, your life, and your future.” (Mic drop…am I right?)
Sometimes we just have to hear the ridiculousness of our limits in order to get over them.
I ask Christy the question: “How do you get present?” Christy shares one part practical - and one part theoretical. The first practical answer is that we must have boundaries to be present. Ask yourself the question “What keeps me from being present? How can you guard against that?” and put it to ACTION. The second theoretical part of the answer is all about flipping your focus and training your brain. Stop focusing on where you are NOT. Look through the front windshield on where you are and are going, and not what’s in your rearview mirror. The more you can train your brain to be present in the moment, the happier you are.
You can feel more alive when experiencing life in the moment!
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