182: Pedram Shojai – Time Is Our Most Valuable Gift • The Art Of The To-Do List • Smile More :)

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)
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Marie Kondo – The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up (book)

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