When to Stop Striving & Start Pausing : Quitting Daily Podcasting

<p>Helen vulnerably discusses the importance of rest, why she's stopping the 100-day challenge for the sake of her mental health, and meditation practice. </p> <p>Products/Books Mentioned (Afilliate Links)</p> <ul> <li><a href="https://amzn.to/38gaVzC">Think Like a Monk </a></li> </ul> <p>Show Notes</p> <p>*Full transcript can be found at <a href="https://whoyouneeded.com/">WhoYouNeeded.com</a></p> <p>[00:00:00]  Welcome back. My name is Helen from "WhoYouNeeded.Com" and today's episode is about mindset. It's about resetting when you feel tired and not yourself lately. I know that with the year Mark coming to a close with the global pandemic, some of us can feel down. We can feel discouraged about the progress or lack thereof that's being made.</p> <p>[00:00:23] So I really want today's episode to feel a little bit. Relaxing and a bit of a cleanse from the rest of the news that you might be reading about the state of the world. So, sit back, relax, drink your afternoon tea or coffee. Maybe you're listening to this in the morning and just rest with me for a little bit.</p> <p>[00:00:43] I just posted something a few minutes ago about rest, how important it was to just reset, to not move at the pace that everyone else expects you to be moving in. But to just take a deep breath, wake up. Take some time to yourself and think about what I really need right now with everything that's going on.</p> <p>[00:01:03] Sometimes I forget to meditate to really take a pause. And there's the digital space. There is the need to Oprah overproduce and to overwork yourself because you are working from home. And a lot of us haven't been taught those boundaries of when do I shut it off? When do I stop? And I'm here to tell you that I'm learning this too.</p> <p>[00:01:26] There's so much information out there that now that my phone is available at my fingertips at 24 hours a day, seven days a week, it's hard to not be consumed by online media and by the surmounting pressures of being perfect during a pandemic. It's actually something I