It’s Time for a Change!
Do you feel there is just not enough time in the day? Andrew Mellen, author of Calling BS on Busy, combines cutting-edge neuroscience with common sense to change the way we think and act about time, bringing us into the present moment with clear intention, gratitude and abundance.
Andrew Mellen is the Wall Street Journal and Audible best-selling author of Unstuff Your Life!, and Calling BS on Busy. He has appeared on Oprah, Martha Stewart and CBS Sunday Morning. Andrew speaks nationally and internationally. Some of his corporate clients include American Express, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the New York Mets baseball team. He is long-time practitioner of meditation and mindfulness.
THE YOGA HOUR TEAM COMMENTS: This is a great interview with Andrew Mellen. The tools he shares to bring mindfulness into our lives are simple and straightforward. He discusses how having an “unconscious relationship with time” brings the stressful feeling of not having enough time to do what we think we should do. The key he says is to realize there are 24 hours in the day, period. Andrew shared that prioritizing those hours based on core values can bring fullness into your life. Once behaviors are aligned to core values you are not so easily pulled off balance. We then prioritize doing the things that are important to us. His description of the “golf ball” exercise and the “80/20 Rule” really help put time scheduling in perspective. Don’t miss this podcast if you feel overwhelmingly busy.
DR. TRUJILLO’S COMMENTS: I found our conversation to be particularly valuable to me personally and I believe it will be for our listeners as well. Being conscious of how we spend our time is part of the practice of Right Use of Vital Force, one of the Yamas or ethical principles of yoga. As Andrew points out, none of us know when we will be “kicked off the island” so we don’t know how much time we each have and we need to use it wisely. I appreciate his approach of starting by being conscious of what is most valuable to us as we consider how we spend our time. I love that he recommends using very simple tools (a stopwatch, timer, and calendar) that are easily accessible and inexpensive. The episode is filled with lots of down-to-earth tips about how to change our relationship with time.