The Most Important Things You Need To Stop Doing

We're not the first burnout culture. Every culture that has ever existed has worked too hard, has been too stressed out, has wanted to get away from it all. You you see this in the writings of the Stoics. Two thousand years ago Seneca talked about this very place, the Bay of Naples, which is where the rich Romans would go to escape the stressful lives. They had made for themselves. They wanted to see the country. They wanted to tour the old sites. They wanted to lay. at the beach. But what Seneca understood and what I want to talk about in today's video.

some better strategies for building balance in our lives. Because it's not feasible. to go on vacation all the time. It's not feasible to live. In a fantasy life. And as Mark Sullivan says in Meditations, we have within us all the things we need at this very moment. To feel peaceful. To feel good, to feel still.

of ataraxia, which is exactly what the stoics aspire to do. If you want more tranquility in your life, you have to do less, Marcus Areelia says. And the magical thing, when you do less, when you eliminate the inessential, when you stop saying yes to things that don't matter, when you stop getting caught up in busy work and nonsense, he says you get the double benefit of doing the essential. things better. Your creative work, getting outside, gratitude, all the things that matter in life, you do better when you do less stuff. So much of what we do, it's because we think we have to, because other people are doing it, because we're afraid to say no.

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