The Exhaustion Of Trying To Do Everything At Once: Hazel Nut and Fig Analogy
Sep 18, 2021Season 1Episode 97
Adrian Starks
Episode: 97
Join us on our 97th episode, The Exhaustion Of Trying To Do Everything At Once: Hazel Nut and Fig Analogy. The host Adrian Starks will dive into his talent of narration and storytelling to take you on a journey of an Aesop Fable that will leave you speechless.
Wait there is more.....
He will also share the lesson to be learned and how to apply it in business that will take you one step further into the direction you want to go.
You will learn how to rid yourself of unnecessary exhaustion
Book Me To Speak: https://bookadrianstarks.com If you want me to come and speak to your team to be part of that learning, support and growth, send me a message.
Join us on our 97th episode, The Exhaustion Of Trying To Do Everything At Once: Hazel Nut and Fig Analogy. The host Adrian Starks will dive into his talent of narration and storytelling to take you on a journey of an Aesop Fable that will leave you speechless.
Wait there is more.....
He will also share the lesson to be learned and how to apply it in business that will take you one step further into the direction you want to go.
You will learn how to rid yourself of unnecessary exhaustion
Book Me To Speak: https://bookadrianstarks.com If you want me to come and speak to your team to be part of that learning, support and growth, send me a message.
How many of us right now are grabbing too much, or we have too much on our plate. And we're trying to do everything at once to the point that it is exhausting. You it's frustrating you and you are not being as productive as you possibly could be. We have been conditioned that busy-ness is productivity, but it's not
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Speaker 1:
Well. Hey everyone, welcome back to the purpose of alive show in the connect now podcast with your hosts, Adrian Starks, and I hope that you all are having a fantastic week and that you have a fantastic weekend today is just going to be me. And we're going to have one of those fun episodes where I reveal a short story to you. And at the very end, I'll give you the lesson to the story. But before I do that, make sure you go ahead and download those podcasts into your favorite podcast platform. Subscribe to the show and leave us a review. It has been a fantastic month of podcasting and I'm pretty sure my fellow podcast was out there feeling the same way. We've had many interviews on this show, wonderful guests, and I cannot wait to reveal these episodes with you as the weeks come up every once in a while, I will do a solo podcast where I'm just keeping it very simple and fun. And I love to do those because learning should be fun at times. It doesn't always have to be a drudgery. So today I'm going to read to you an Aesop fable, and I love these little short stories that have been surviving the eons of time. Businesses still use a lot of them, and I'm not sure if you really understand why these fables were designed in the first place you see, when we read them. We just think there are stories that just popped up and got passed along the ages from person to person and they have, but they originated from somewhere. These stories actually derived from a Greek slave named Aesop. You see, as he was sitting down with his fellow comrades who were also slaves, he would depict these stories in a way, and he would dress these characters in the images of animals so that the slave owners wouldn't know that he was talking about. That's pretty clever, but these stories have more than just a hidden meaning behind them. These stories would not just arrive to them from the authorities. At that time, these stories were used to motivate, to inspire into encourage people around him. And there's always a lesson to be learned from any experience right now in your business. You're going through a lot of experiences that a lot of us we fail to see because we're not actually looking at it for what it is. When you begin to look at things for what they are, then you can begin to determine what they could be. And this becomes the experience. What allows us to grow forward in our lives is the ability to look at that, experience, that story, and find the hidden gem called the lesson. Join me on this Aesop fable. And in the next segment of this podcast, I will reveal to you the lessons to be applied into your business and in your life, you are now listening to the Aesop, fable the boy and the hazelnuts. Once a boy, put his hand into a bottle, containing a lot of hazelnuts and figs. He grabbed as many as his fist could possibly hold, but when he endeavored to pull his handout, he was hampered because the neck was too narrow, unwilling to lose any of his treasure, but unable to draw out his hand, he burst into tears and lamented his heart fortune. Then a wise friend who stood nearby, came to his aid by giving him the following advice grabbed only half right now and the other half later. And you're bound to succeed the end. What if it were possible to get local, fresh groceries delivered right to your front door? Just think how much time and stress it would save you. Well, Instacart gives you unlimited grocery delivery for one low monthly fee. Forget that one ingredient with a family dinner that can offset everything. Instacart can deliver it to your front door. In as little as one hour, you can shop multiple stores, see deals in your area to help you save money. And every item is hand-selected by shoppers based on your preferences, no more rock, hard avocados, and they will keep your eggs safe too. To start your 14 day free trial. Follow the link in the show notes to let Instacart know that we sent you and to help support the show. Instacart never stepped foot in a grocery store. Again,
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Speaker 1:
Welcome back everyone to the purposeful live show in the connect. Now podcast with your host, Adrian Starks, and I hope you had a quick little break to think about that Aesop fable that I just read to you in the first segment. This has to be one of my favorite stories. And I have a lot of favorite stories, but this has to be in my top 10. And this story is something that we always go through in business taking on too many things at once. This story is so life-changing because when you think about this little boy, who's reaching into this jar to try to grab a handful of Hazel figs and nuts, and he can see those in his hand, he has a hold of them, but he can't take them out all at once. So what does he do? He starts crying and being upset by the fact that he can't have it all at once. This wise, man sees this struggle and he comes by and he tells this little boy to grab half now and the other half later, grab half now and the other half later. Think about that. How many of us right now are grabbing too much? Or we have too much on our plate. And we're trying to do everything at once to the point that it is exhausting. You it's frustrating you and you are not being as productive as you possibly could be. We have been conditioned that busy-ness is productivity, but it's not. This lesson applies directly to the people who are business owners, entrepreneurs, psychic enthusiast leaders, managers of teams taking on too much at once is not going to get you the end result that you want. I'm going to say that again, taking on too much at once is not going to get you the end result that you want. I want you to continue to put that picture of that little boy, trying to reach in that jar and grabbing everything out at once. And he can't. And to think about that when you're trying to take on too much at once in your workplace, when you start to get frustrated, you have to tell yourself I need to drop something. What can I let go of right now that I don't need to be working on, or that can be done by someone else? Productivity requires the willingness to know that you can't do everything by yourself and the most productive people around the planet surround themselves with teams that can do the things that they can't do very well. They surround themselves with people who can get the job done in other areas where they don't really need to be. That's not their strong point. As the week goes on, remind yourself one thing at a time. I don't need to do everything at once each day began with a list of the five things that you need to do that day, work your way through that list. One thing at a time, anything that gets on that list, that is not a part of the five things that you need to do. And you find yourself trying to do them. Remind yourself that story of the little boy with the hazelnuts in the fix. Don't grab too many things at once. You only have so much time and you only have so much energy in a given space, do what you can and then do the rest later.
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