Welcome And Weekly Listener Questions

Yo, yo, yo, welcome back to the Feather Your Lifestyle Podcast Conversations on Lifestyle Passions and Hustles. My name's Chris. I am your host, and I'm super excited to be back here having the conversation with you. Episode 282 today. We're also answering another question that came through. And again, if you weren't here last week, basically we just got a question, a couple of questions that have come through, and I really appreciate the questions. Great to be able to bring them into some conversations, things for me personally, but also share back to give you some food for thought to hopefully inspire and motivate and encourage you to continue to go after your dreams, goals, and aspirations. So we're going to answer this question very shortly. We're going to do it off the cuff. I have not answered it myself yet. If you do enjoy these episodes, please make sure you do hit like, hit subscribe, follow along. We drop episodes every single week, 9 a.m. on a Sunday morning. And I would not want you to miss out. Of course, if you want to continue the conversation, you can also jump down below here in the comments on the YouTube and we can continue that conversation. Or you can even ask a question yourself. So let's roll the intro and let's get into it. So the

The Question About Crowded Out Time

question that is for today is what's something in your personal life you've been meaning to make more time for, but keep letting work or other things crowd out? Now, this kind of actually plays on really well from last week's episode. Now, this one, I'm gonna answer it a little bit different because one thing that I struggle with, and I said it last week, was switching off, shutting down, taking some time off. And usually I have to feel like I deserve the break on the day in order to

Switching Off With Games And Chores

do it. And a good example of this is I've been playing Star Wars Zero Company. I've now finished the game. It's I we f I finished it in 28 hours, I think. So I've played it over the last few weeks. And on Saturday, I wanted to, I knew I wanted to play games, but I knew I had a whole bunch of work I had to do. I also knew I had a whole bunch of chores I had to do home personally, just stuff that we're cleaning up and things like that. And you know, I was umming and R and it's like, oh maybe I'll just go play the game first, or then I can do the chores, but then will I be motivated? And sometimes I do this thing, I do two things. Sometimes it's kind of like, well, depending on the sense of urgency, I'll get the hard thing done first and then I'll go take a break. But if I've if I'm stressed, if I am overwhelmed and all those kind of things, yes, usually I'm more inclined to like, okay, I need to go solve this problem, I need to go work on the business and figure out how am I going to solve these stress problems. But sometimes it's actually better for me to go get it out of my system to go play the game because you're really motivated to play the game, but then you go, you're thinking about all these other things and you can't do it. But I think there's a there's there's different times you need to be able to call upon taking the break, taking the time out for

Daily Downtime For Sustainable Hustle

yourself. And I think really the question here is like, what is the one thing you've been managing to make more time for? It's probably actually myself. I try and prioritize my time with Carlo as much as possible. Obviously, I have my business, but you know, just making sure I'm building out that routine for myself, whether it is trying to play more video games, because for me, that's the thing that helps me switch off. It helps helps me kind of do something outside of my normal go, go, go. Because yes, I also do a lot of running, I love running, but that's it's it's building me towards a goal. And that goal being a better version of myself, but also like whether it's a half marathon or a marathon or whatever. And it is, it requires a go, go, go, it's a timetable, it's kind of like a route and it's like a personal business to myself because it does require the attention and you've got to work on it and you've got to work in it at the same time. Actually, go do the run versus doing all the prep work and making sure you do the meal prep and all the things that require to make sure that the whole schedule of the running is actually running as a well-oiled machine. So I think, yeah, for me, it's more so finding the time to make sure I'm dedicating that downtime. And ideally, I should be making sure that at least it's one hour every single day that I'm playing some games or I'm taking some time off or I'm watching a TV show or whatever it may be. And I know that sounds like, geez, this is very simple, but it's just probably where my mind's at the moment because I'm very aggressive with building my business and I just constantly want to be on the go for it, and that that is not sustainable. And I think you have to give yourself permission to just step back and be like, you know what, I'm just gonna do this, I'll time box it, have some fun, and then get onto it because that gives you the ability to kind of cool off your headspace. And to be honest, the amount of times when I've done this and I've then had a good little epiphany moment, or something pops up, and like, this is a great idea, it's because your brain's able to just rest, it's able to start to just think about things, and you're not just chucking things against a wall and hoping something's going to stick. And I think it's really important to do that. So for me, that's what it is in my personal life, is making more time for me to have downtime to rest, recover, just the brain to think. And I've got a good routine of sleep, I've got a good routine of trying to fit in my running, but there is all always something in the back of my mind, and being able to switch that off, I think is is a really, really important piece and something that I'm continuously having to wrestle with, which I did talk about last week as

When Priorities Turn Into Excuses

well. So yeah, that that that's that's that's for me. I think I mean I'm still I've nearly been in our house for a year and haven't even set up my office. I've got goals and aspirations. So it's the same thing, setting time away to be able to build out these things that we we think we want. But the other question I have to ask myself is like when I delay doing something, is it because it's not important? Is it because I don't want it, or is it just because something else is taking priority intentionally? Sometimes we do use other priorities as excuses. Let me say that again. Sometimes we do use other priorities as excuses to stop us from doing the things that we should be doing. But there's always a lot of psychology behind all of that because it's like, why am I delayed doing this? I want this, but I'm not doing it, and self-sabotage, and and we could get into heaps of that. But I think it's important to give yourself the ability to have the freedom to be able to do what you need to do to be able to rest, recover, and feel good. And then everything else outside of that can start to come together. I mean, of course, you still have to juggle the balance of looking after your loved ones, your dependents, still paying your bills and doing all the things that are required to just live, just the cost of living. But within that, you still need to find the time to give you the love that you deserve as well. So I think that's a really important one.

Closing Question And Comments Invite

Really great question. I'm gonna ask you the question yourself, and you can answer it down in the comments. What's something in your personal life you've been meaning to make more time for, but keep letting work crowd out or get in the or other things getting in the way? Let me know down in the comments. I'd really love to continue the conversation with you. Another short and sweet episode. We'll be back here again next week, doing it all again. I'll see you when I'm looking at you. Ciao