This is optimal living daily episode 1273 stop and ask yourself by Greg Audino of Greg Audino.com. And I'm just a moloch. Happy Thursday. Welcome back to Optimal living daily also known as the O LD podcast where I read to you from some of the best blogs. I can find and get permission from today's post coming from actor and certified life coach Greg a dino actually not really opposed to not a Blog. This is more of me re-enacting his video. But anyway before we get to it, thank you to Joy bird. Third find your joy today at Joy bird.com old with joy birdie get one-of-a-kind Furniture crafted to your unique taste. This is quality handcrafted Furniture using high quality and responsibly sourced materials to fit your exact specifications. See how Joy bird can help you design your dream space create the furniture that brings you Joy today at Joy bird.com. Oh LD go to Joy bird.com old and receive an exclusive offer for 25% off your first order by using the code. Oh well. For now, let's get right to it and start optimizing your life. Stop and ask yourself by Greg Audino of Greg Audino.com. You might meet a lot of people that unhappily describe themselves as being on autopilot. They feel as though their lives are run by the same routine without much Vigor or variation. There is dissatisfaction boredom and obligation yet in spite of this time flies, even though they're not having fun or perhaps. This is you life is moving right on along and they'll you've answered the bell and you're doing all the things you should be doing. So working paying your bills on time only cheating on your taxes a little bit. There's still the Faction, there's still a sense of incompletion or time not well spent and times important. We all know how important time is though. We tend to not treat it as such we're all very much aware that time is our most valuable currency never to be replenished that said our measurements of life and life's worth can't be separated from time. We know we're on a clock of some sort and if that clock didn't exist and we had as much time as we wanted to do whatever we want with our lives surely a lot of our pressures and negative. Terry about how we're spending our time would cease to exist with that in mind. It's crucial to understand that the source of many judgments about what we're doing with our lives are relative to time. Maybe not if you're out killing people for a living that's probably a moral dilemma, but for most of us who live a more ordinary type of Lifestyle, so getting to the core of a disc satisfying life usually requires us to ask ourselves what we're doing with our time. What are we doing with this fleeting opportunity? What are we doing with each? Moment which are the only Snippets of life will ever truly live in as they vanish to the Past in an instant and the future is anyone's guess time is running out. It's an undeniable truth and although you already know it hearing it again might give you a twitch of awareness or aliveness that what you're seeing hearing smelling tasting and touching in front of you is all that you really have. So what now for at least a moment we're hyper present and aware of our Limited. And time on this Earth dwindling by the millisecond and here you are listening to this podcast. Well, what can I tell you? How can we get through this thing together all I can offer you at this moment and any moment is the opportunity to ask yourself one question a question. That is sure to optimize your time on this Earth that question is am I doing what I want to be doing groundbreaking. I know it might also be rephrased as am I doing something that makes me happy or am I enjoying myself right now? Or even am I doing the best possible thing at this moment and if the answer is yes and you've considered the likely consequences, then that ingrate you've got to figure it out keep on keeping on there is an extra level. However, because a lot of the time we're not doing what we most want to be doing and unless there's some Colony people out there who spend all day every day running naked in a field while eating ice cream. I'm betting that we all have at least small bouts of time where we'd rather be doing something else and why is that that's because that Thing I said before about the aliveness that comes with acknowledging that this moment in front of you is all you'll ever have goes away for 99.9% of us. It doesn't last that would be Madness. If all our brains can keep up with is the present moment like that. We're constantly working around stimuli to sort out the best scenario given what we want for the future and how that can be attained based on the experiences. We've had in the past with that in mind with our current mode of operating in mind. There's a follow-up question. You can ask yourself if your answer to the first question. Enough. Am I doing what I want to be doing was no question 1 a is is what I'm doing at least an investment in the future. So is this current action at least purposeful and building something? I want down the road from here. It can get trickier thoughts about balancing present happiness with future planning may come into play that's about efficiency and pursuing future goals giving you a limited amount of time might come into play that's about the true value of that future goal may come into play questions like that are Viable and can and should be addressed separately perhaps with a coach but what most people don't realize is the simple Act of asking these questions has the power to buy yourself more time. Why is that because in giving an honest assessment of how purposeful and dense each of your actions? Are you give yourself a clear view of how much time you're wasting on the things that are neither fulfilling you or helping to fulfill you in the future? You're given the chance to buy back that time that you'd otherwise be wasted. On things that are not serving you in the least, but you have to be honest with yourself. Some people might say that TV is a huge time waster and a great example of something that isn't fulfilling nor is an investment in the future but TV is something that you know purposefully relaxes you and if you're cognizant of its effects, then you may have good reason and watching it each day. Some people might hate their job and it's not what they want to be doing. But the money that comes with it is an investment in the future. That's when questions of efficiency and value that I mentioned before. Might come into play. Some people may be thrilled and certainly enjoying themselves by telling their boss to fuck off in this moment. But in reality, they like their job their riled up for no reason and while it's fun telling the boss to finish off. This is not ultimately a good decision down the road where humans and have the ability to weigh consequences. We don't to live in dog brain all the time. We can make decisions based on the least amount of regret. So there's variation between situations and people of course, but being mindful enough to check in and ask yourself. Am I doing what? I want to be doing and or is what I'm doing at least an investment in the future is a massive launching point in the awareness of time spent there for offering you a clearer perspective into what does and doesn't need to take up your very precious time. You just listen to The Post titled stop and ask yourself by Greg Audino of Greg Audino.com. Definitely check out his video version of this you does a great job. You can find all of that at Greg Dino.com Linked In This episode's description and a told podcast.com. 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Greg Audino shares his thoughts on stopping and asking yourself. Episode 1273: Stop And Ask Yourself by Greg Audino on Mindfulness & Pursuing Your Goals for Personal Development Greg Audino is both a certified life coach and an actor. He combines his passions to create short and digestible videos which shine new light on the turbulent areas of life that many of us already have our minds made up about. Constantly seeking to share new insight, Audino uses humor and a variety of PG-13 examples to offer a refreshing and more relatable approach to self-development. TV fanatics can find him with principle roles on shows like Westworld, Now Apocalypse, NCIS:LA, and Jane the Virgin to name a few. Greg's videos, as well as information about becoming a life coaching client of his, can be found at gregaudino.com. The original post is located here:  https://gregaudino.com/videos/ Please Rate & Review the Show! Facebook Group and Join the Ol' Family to get your Free Gifts! See how Joybird is revolutionizing online furniture shopping. Go to joybird.com/OLD and receive an exclusive offer for 25% off your first order by using the code OLD. 