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As we start out 2022 with grand intentions, I want to invite you to also slow down. Instead of running around like a headless chicken trying to get it all done, learn how to slow down and get into your “zone of focus” to actually get more done in less time and buy back time in your day! Wouldn’t you love to have more time in your day for yourself? I know it sounds counterintuitive, but tune into this episode to learn why slowing down is so important and some actionable steps that you can start taking today to help you slow down and get more done!
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Imagine getting up every day full of energy is
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Melissa Deally:Welcome back to the don't wait for your wake up call podcast. I
Melissa Deally:am Melissa Daly, your host of the show. And as we start out
Melissa Deally:January 2022, I want to talk to you today about slowing down. So
Melissa Deally:often started the new year, we've had a little break at the
Melissa Deally:end of last year, we've set our goals. And we're jumping at the
Melissa Deally:bit to get going and start the year and do all that we can. And
Melissa Deally:sometimes it's actually better when we slow down. In fact, most
Melissa Deally:of the time, it's actually better when we slow down. And I
Melissa Deally:want to talk to you about that today. And hopefully by the end
Melissa Deally:of the show, you have some tips that you can take with you and
Melissa Deally:implement. And just a greater understanding around how our
Melissa Deally:brain and our stress signals impact our body's ability to
Melissa Deally:function at a top notch level. So we've been taught that
Melissa Deally:multitasking is a sign of high productivity. And those who can
Melissa Deally:get more done are good multitaskers it's considered a
Melissa Deally:skill in the corporate world, at least it was when I was in the
Melissa Deally:corporate world. And it's encouraged. And yet the science
Melissa Deally:shows that it is less effective than focusing on one thing at a
Melissa Deally:time and getting it done. And this is because we when we get
Melissa Deally:into the zone of focus, we truly can get things done. And every
Melissa Deally:time we get pulled out of that zone, it can take us 20 minutes
Melissa Deally:to get back into the zone. So if you're multitasking, and you're
Melissa Deally:working on one project over here, you know, maybe it's your
Melissa Deally:year and bookkeeping. And you've been working on that for half an
Melissa Deally:hour, you're in the zone focused. And if someone else
Melissa Deally:comes along and interrupts you, or if suddenly your brain is
Melissa Deally:like, Oh, but I have to do this, and I have to do this, I have to
Melissa Deally:do that, oh, I'll just look at my email quickly, you get pulled
Melissa Deally:out of that zone. And then you do a little bit of email, and
Melissa Deally:then you look at something else, and then maybe come back to the
Melissa Deally:accounting and you can't quite remember where you're at. And it
Melissa Deally:just takes you another 20 minutes to get into that zone.
Melissa Deally:And you would have been far better off finishing that
Melissa Deally:project before looking at email before dealing with anything
Melissa Deally:else. And so it may seem like multitasking is the way to get a
Melissa Deally:lot done, you actually waste a lot of time getting into the
Melissa Deally:zone of focus throughout your day when you have to keep going
Melissa Deally:back to that same project and it takes 20 minutes each time. So
Melissa Deally:you are better off time blocking your bigger tasks and projects,
Melissa Deally:and then turning off all notifications and blocking 45
Melissa Deally:minutes to an hour to do just that one thing that has to get
Melissa Deally:done. And then when it's done, take a break, go for a walk 15
Melissa Deally:minutes, you know, and then come back to whatever it is that you
Melissa Deally:need to focus on next.
Melissa Deally:And the reality is, is that one hour of focus time equals three
Melissa Deally:hours of unfocused time. So you're gaining an extra two
Melissa Deally:hours every time you give yourself that opportunity to
Melissa Deally:focus. And just stop and ask yourself, How often do you give
Melissa Deally:yourself that focus? Or how often are you interrupted and do
Melissa Deally:you allow yourself to be interrupted? How often do you
Melissa Deally:let your brain run the show and take you from this task to this
Melissa Deally:task to this task or how often do you get pulled out of your
Melissa Deally:focus because of alerts and notifications on your phone or
Melissa Deally:your computer? that make you feel like I'll have to check
Melissa Deally:that message. And that just breaks that zone of focus right?
Melissa Deally:You will achieve so much more in any given day, if you just give
Melissa Deally:yourself that gift of focus. So most people focus the best in
Melissa Deally:the morning. And so plan your day around getting your biggest
Melissa Deally:tasks or projects done, when you know you are best able to focus.
Melissa Deally:And I say most people, because that isn't everyone. So if you
Melissa Deally:know you focus better after lunch, then make that your time
Melissa Deally:to focus in your calendar. And all of this is a little bit like
Melissa Deally:the story of the tortoise and the hare, right? Slowing down
Melissa Deally:and focusing on what needs to get done step by step Easy does
Melissa Deally:it rather than just trying to rush through and get it all
Melissa Deally:done. Because when we slow down, it will actually result in us
Melissa Deally:accomplishing more in less time. As counterintuitive. As that
Melissa Deally:sounds to all of us. When our brain gets into that state of
Melissa Deally:overwhelm, our frontal lobe shuts down. And it has a hard
Melissa Deally:time focusing or even deciding what to do next. And that's why
Melissa Deally:we have so much waste of time. We sit in that state of
Melissa Deally:overwhelm, not getting much done. And you know, all you all
Melissa Deally:know this state, we've all been there, right. So that is why
Melissa Deally:choosing to allow your brain to slow down through techniques
Melissa Deally:such as meditation, yoga, breathing exercises, is so
Melissa Deally:beneficial, it actually helps our brain come out of that state
Melissa Deally:of overwhelm. So we can get back to being focused. Now I get it
Melissa Deally:in the middle of your workday, you might not be able to just
Melissa Deally:start doing your yoga class. But you always have your breath with
Melissa Deally:you. So you can always do some breathing exercises, you can
Melissa Deally:always take five minutes, even if it's to go to the staff room,
Melissa Deally:if it's a quiet time of day, or to the washroom and just
Melissa Deally:meditate for five minutes. There's so many apps on your
Melissa Deally:phone free apps paid apps that have meditations for shortest
Melissa Deally:five minutes. And if you're meditating and breathing, you
Melissa Deally:just take your brain and body into a different state, you
Melissa Deally:bring it out of that state of overwhelm. And when I guide
Melissa Deally:people through just short meditations, as an example of
Melissa Deally:this, when I'm working with clients, I often will do it in
Melissa Deally:group sessions. And we just do it for five minutes, not even I
Melissa Deally:asked them how they feel afterwards, every single time.
Melissa Deally:They tell me they feel calm. We don't realize when our nervous
Melissa Deally:system is getting so worked up. And we're in that stressed out
Melissa Deally:state until we start to create awareness around this and do
Melissa Deally:check ins with ourselves and ask how am I feeling in this moment?
Melissa Deally:Am I feeling like I'm I'm in a state of overwhelm? Is that why
Melissa Deally:I can't focus, maybe I need to do some breathing. And in that
Melissa Deally:moment, allow our body to calm, which allows our brain to calm
Melissa Deally:so that we can then get into that zone of focus. So my
Melissa Deally:favorite breathing exercise, and if you've listened to this show
Melissa Deally:before, you will have heard this for sure, but it's just such a
Melissa Deally:simple one. And I want new listeners to hear this as well.
Melissa Deally:I call it 557 breathing, you literally you inhale for five,
Melissa Deally:you hold your breath for a count of five, and you exhale for
Melissa Deally:seven.
Melissa Deally:And you do that for 10 cycles. And as you do that, you're
Melissa Deally:actually signaling to your brain that you're safe. And your brain
Melissa Deally:goes hmm, I thought I was in a stressed out state. But I'm
Melissa Deally:breathing like a safe person, I must be safe, I'm going to turn
Melissa Deally:on my rest and digest nervous system. And that allows us to
Melissa Deally:come out of that state of overwhelm and into that state of
Melissa Deally:calm. And when you do that for just 10 cycles, you can
Melissa Deally:literally do that in less than five minutes. And you can do it
Melissa Deally:anywhere, anytime, because you always have your breath and it's
Melissa Deally:absolutely free. So give it a try. The reason it works so
Melissa Deally:effectively is that when we're in that state of overwhelm, our
Melissa Deally:brain actually thinks that we're in danger. It doesn't know the
Melissa Deally:difference between the danger of us being threatened by being
Melissa Deally:eaten by a lion back in our hunter gatherer days and the
Melissa Deally:sensations in our body. When we are in a state of chronic stress
Melissa Deally:from waking up in the morning waking up late. The alarm
Melissa Deally:doesn't go off. They Kids are, you know being a pain in the
Melissa Deally:neck and it's hard getting them out the door to school, you have
Melissa Deally:a spat with your spouse, you haven't slept well. And now
Melissa Deally:you're driving to work and your boss calls and asks why you're
Melissa Deally:not there, and you have a project deadline that's just
Melissa Deally:moved up by two days. All of those stresses stacking on top
Melissa Deally:of each other, just turn on that chronic stress state, that
Melissa Deally:nervous system is just rising up peeking, you are feeling the
Melissa Deally:overwhelm. And your brain thinks that it needs to save you from a
Melissa Deally:lion or a tiger. And so it's pumping cortisol into your body
Melissa Deally:and adrenaline so that you can get to safety, and it's shutting
Melissa Deally:down other systems. And in that moment, your brain is not able
Melissa Deally:to think about which of these tasks do I do need to do next,
Melissa Deally:because the only thing it can really think about is I'm in
Melissa Deally:danger. And I need to get to safety. And so it's you can't
Melissa Deally:get into that zone of focus, you need to get out of that stress
Melissa Deally:state. And if you were running away from a lion or a tiger, you
Melissa Deally:would be panting, right as you're pumping your arms and
Melissa Deally:running as fast as you can. So when we do this breathing
Melissa Deally:exercise, and your exhale is longer than your inhale, your
Melissa Deally:exhale is a count of seven, and your inhale is a count of five.
Melissa Deally:It results in your brain going, hmm, I thought I was in danger.
Melissa Deally:But I'm breathing like a safe person, I must be safe. And it
Melissa Deally:takes you out of that sympathetic nervous system and
Melissa Deally:into your rest and digest nervous system, which allows you
Melissa Deally:to feel more calm, and allows you to get out of that state of
Melissa Deally:overwhelm, and get into that zone of focus. So that's a
Melissa Deally:really important tool that you have with you all the time that
Melissa Deally:you can use. And the reality is, is that many of us are living in
Melissa Deally:a state of chronic stress in this doo doo doo world. And that
Melissa Deally:does lead to overwhelm. And then we feel like we already have too
Melissa Deally:much to do in any given day, and we can't get it all done. And as
Melissa Deally:such, it may feel like an impossibility to even consider
Melissa Deally:slowing down. Because then how are you going to get more done
Melissa Deally:if you slow down. But the reality is, is that when you
Melissa Deally:slow down and you get into that zone of focus, you can get so
Melissa Deally:much more done. As I said, one hour of focus time, you can get
Melissa Deally:as much done as you would in three hours of unfocused time.
Melissa Deally:So you're gaining two hours, every time you have an hour of
Melissa Deally:focus time. And I want to invite you to take a look at your
Melissa Deally:average day. How do you feel as you go through each day? Are you
Melissa Deally:truly living and enjoying your life or simply running around
Melissa Deally:like a headless chicken? And now stop and think about? How do you
Melissa Deally:want to feel as you go through each day? If you are feeling
Melissa Deally:like you're running around like a headless chicken, does that
Melissa Deally:feel good? Is that what you want? For every day moving
Melissa Deally:forward? Unlikely, right? Because that headless chicken
Melissa Deally:feeling is a feeling of being out of control and never getting
Melissa Deally:it all done. And that doesn't feel great. So stop and think
Melissa Deally:about how do you want to feel? You probably like to feel a
Melissa Deally:little bit more in control.
Melissa Deally:And like you can actually get out of that state of overwhelm,
Melissa Deally:right? And I'm here to tell you that you can, but you need to
Melissa Deally:trust yourself and to give it a try. If you don't give it a try.
Melissa Deally:Nothing changes, right? So what have you got to lose? If you are
Melissa Deally:truly honest with yourself? Is your current status quo working
Melissa Deally:for you? And if not, then it's definitely a sign to try
Melissa Deally:something different. So here are a few steps to get you going.
Melissa Deally:Look at your to do list, because we all have them. And for each
Melissa Deally:item on the list, ask yourself three questions. Does this need
Melissa Deally:to be done? Does this need to be done by me? And does this need
Melissa Deally:to be done right now. From there, you should be able to
Melissa Deally:pare down your list because maybe that doesn't really need
Melissa Deally:to be done at all. Or if it does need to be done. Maybe it
Melissa Deally:doesn't need to be done by you. And maybe you can delegate that
Melissa Deally:if it's something at home you can have your spouse or children
Melissa Deally:help you if it's something in the office, you can delegate
Melissa Deally:that out to a colleague write the name down of the person you
Melissa Deally:can delegate it to next to that item on your list and doesn't
Melissa Deally:need to be done right now. If so, if it has to be done by you
Melissa Deally:and it has to be done right now then maybe that's one of the top
Melissa Deally:Three things you need to get done today. But if it doesn't
Melissa Deally:have to be done right now, then you're going to drop that lower
Melissa Deally:in your list. Because I want you to come up with three up to
Melissa Deally:three things that you personally have to do. And that has to be
Melissa Deally:done today. Now, if some of these things on your list are
Melissa Deally:long term projects, then you need to break them down into the
Melissa Deally:achievable steps that you can get done in any given day. Okay,
Melissa Deally:because if you're, if one of the things on your list is I have to
Melissa Deally:renovate my house, well, you're obviously not going to get all
Melissa Deally:of that done in one day. But you can break that down into steps.
Melissa Deally:I mean, first of all, maybe you need to have some plans drawn,
Melissa Deally:maybe you need to be reaching out and contacting architects,
Melissa Deally:you know, break it down into each step, because you can
Melissa Deally:totally make a few phone calls to have some conversations with
Melissa Deally:different architects today to start choosing which
Melissa Deally:architecture you might want to use. And, you know, set up an
Melissa Deally:appointment to start working on getting plans drawn today. But
Melissa Deally:you're not going to get the whole house renovated today. So
Melissa Deally:I want you to make a list of the top three things that you have
Melissa Deally:to get done today. And each of those things needs to be done
Melissa Deally:within a one hour time frame. And then I want you to block
Melissa Deally:that time in your calendar. Because when you block that time
Melissa Deally:in your calendar, it's much more likely to get done. So if you're
Melissa Deally:that morning focus person, maybe in your calendar, maybe you get
Melissa Deally:to work at nine. So by 930, you can settle and you can block 930
Melissa Deally:to 1030 to get the first task done. If you get it done in less
Melissa Deally:than an hour, awesome. Take a break. And you can start on your
Melissa Deally:next thing early bonus, you're already saving time, if it takes
Melissa Deally:you the full hour, great, no worries, take a break, go for a
Melissa Deally:walk 15 minutes, breathe. If you've if you want to come back
Melissa Deally:and start the second thing, give yourself an hour. Now you have
Melissa Deally:you may already have meetings in your day scheduled in. So you
Melissa Deally:might have to work some of these hours of focus time around
Melissa Deally:different meetings. But it'll be easier to do. If you book it
Melissa Deally:into your calendar further out, by literally just go in and
Melissa Deally:block your calendar every Monday to Friday, from 930 to 1230 for
Melissa Deally:the rest of the year. So you've got your three hours of focus
Melissa Deally:time or even until one o'clock. So you have little breaks in
Melissa Deally:between and lunch at one o'clock. And then maybe your
Melissa Deally:afternoons is when you attend meetings, because you don't have
Melissa Deally:to be as focused in the meeting is more social, potentially. And
Melissa Deally:that's a better time for attending meetings for you.
Melissa Deally:Maybe you can make that work, maybe you have enough control
Melissa Deally:around your calendar to do that. Or maybe you blocked two hours
Melissa Deally:in the morning and focus time around a meeting. And then you
Melissa Deally:have one hour in the afternoon as well. But you really want it
Melissa Deally:blocked in your calendar. And then each day, you can mark in
Melissa Deally:there what the item is that you're going to do in each of
Melissa Deally:those hours. So that you focus on it and you get it done. When
Melissa Deally:you assign the task to the time that you've blocked, it's much
Melissa Deally:more likely that you'll focus on that task. And then turn off all
Melissa Deally:your notifications. So nothing pulls you out of that zone. Make
Melissa Deally:whatever you're working on full screen, so you don't see your
Melissa Deally:email tabs or anything else that might threaten to pull you out
Melissa Deally:of your zone.
Melissa Deally:Even before you get to work and getting into your zone, I also
Melissa Deally:want to invite you to look at your sleep. How are you
Melissa Deally:sleeping, because sleep is so critical to our optimal
Melissa Deally:performance during the day. And the better our sleep, the more
Melissa Deally:focused we can be during the day. So if you're struggling
Melissa Deally:with sleep, then you also need to take a look at what can you
Melissa Deally:do to improve your sleep. And in March of 2020, I did four
Melissa Deally:episodes on sleep, you can go back to those podcasts and check
Melissa Deally:them out. If you want more help with sleep definitely feel free
Melissa Deally:to reach out to me. It is an area that I do help support
Melissa Deally:people because sleep is so critical to our health. I also
Melissa Deally:want you to look at your nutrition, especially what you
Melissa Deally:eat in the morning. But also what you eat in the evening and
Melissa Deally:when you eat is impacting your sleep. But what are you doing in
Melissa Deally:the morning? How are you starting your day? It matters to
Melissa Deally:your ability to be able to focus. If you've started your
Melissa Deally:day, with coffee and sugary breakfast, you're going to feel
Melissa Deally:focused for a short amount of time but then that focus is
Melissa Deally:really going to wane and your your brain is going to be asking
Melissa Deally:you for more and you don't want to get onto a cycle of a
Melissa Deally:rollercoaster ride of needing sugar and crashing meeting sugar
Melissa Deally:and crashing. So having a more nutrient dense breakfast is
Melissa Deally:going to sustain you for longer through your zones of focus. And
Melissa Deally:I love starting my day with smoothies, because you can pack
Melissa Deally:them full of nutrition. In every meal, we want to be having two
Melissa Deally:to three cups of fruit and vegetables. Well, that's so easy
Melissa Deally:to do with a smoothie, throwing in some spinach, some kale,
Melissa Deally:throwing in some fruit, etc, using nut milks and blending it
Melissa Deally:all up together in the blender. The other bonus of that is that
Melissa Deally:because the blender is doing all the work, your digestive system
Melissa Deally:doesn't have to work so hard to break it down and absorb all the
Melissa Deally:nutrients, you've just fed it. Every time we put food in our
Melissa Deally:mouth 30% of our energy goes towards digestion to break that
Melissa Deally:food down. But if it doesn't take as long to break down the
Melissa Deally:food, because the blenders already done a lot of the work,
Melissa Deally:we're not losing that energy to digestion, that gives us more
Melissa Deally:energy for cognitive function and focus. So what you eat in
Melissa Deally:the morning and how you start your day, is really important.
Melissa Deally:And then also consider doing some functional medicine lab
Melissa Deally:testing, because that will show us where your stress levels are
Melissa Deally:at in the body. And if you are someone that's been living in
Melissa Deally:that chronic stress state, you could be starting to burn out
Melissa Deally:your adrenals you could be becoming deficient in key
Melissa Deally:vitamins and minerals that the body needs and the brain needs
Melissa Deally:in order to function at an optimal level. And your body can
Melissa Deally:becoming out of balance. And when we run these lab tests, we
Melissa Deally:can see exactly where those deficiencies are for you where
Melissa Deally:your body is out of balance, what your cortisol levels are
Melissa Deally:doing, because they can be impacting your sleep, where your
Melissa Deally:body might need help calming with some natural adaptogenic
Melissa Deally:herbes while we bring the body back into balance. So it can do
Melissa Deally:all of this on its own. Again, our fast paced, stressed out
Melissa Deally:modern world has most of the population out of balance and
Melissa Deally:depleted not only that our soil systems are depleted. Therefore
Melissa Deally:a lot of the key vitamins and minerals we need aren't in the
Melissa Deally:soil, so they're not in our food. So you definitely wouldn't
Melissa Deally:be the only one I see this all the time. And honestly, it is so
Melissa Deally:much easier to rebalance the body when it's just a little bit
Melissa Deally:out of balance than when it's way out of balance and you're
Melissa Deally:burning out your adrenals that takes so much longer to come
Melissa Deally:back from. So if that's something that you are
Melissa Deally:interested in, definitely reach out. It's something you may not
Melissa Deally:have known about before. But functional medicine, lab testing
Melissa Deally:is very powerful in showing us what's going on inside the body
Melissa Deally:where those imbalances are, so that we know how to bring the
Melissa Deally:body back into balance. Because a depleted body also has a
Melissa Deally:harder time focusing. It's it's not got all its engines running,
Melissa Deally:right. And so that leaves you in that state, again, of overwhelm,
Melissa Deally:and not getting it all done. And feeling like that headless
Melissa Deally:chicken running around. The other thing that you can be
Melissa Deally:doing is reading some books on this topic. So I have a couple
Melissa Deally:here. There's make time by Jake Knapp and John Zaretsky. And
Melissa Deally:that is how to focus on what matters every day. And so some
Melissa Deally:great suggestions in this book, it's a really easy read. And
Melissa Deally:like I said earlier, making that list of the three things that
Melissa Deally:you have to get done today, not the 10, or the 20, or the 30
Melissa Deally:things on your to do list the three most important things,
Melissa Deally:prioritize them and get them done. Because then you feel
Melissa Deally:great about yourself, you've got them done, you feel productive.
Melissa Deally:And whatever else happens in the rest of the day is is gravy in
Melissa Deally:terms of getting things done, and you feel so much better than
Melissa Deally:getting to the end of the day and feeling like you got nothing
Melissa Deally:done because you were focusing on trying to get too many things
Melissa Deally:done multitasking and never finishing any of them been
Melissa Deally:there. I'm sure you have because I know I have. And so I follow
Melissa Deally:these steps myself, for instance today the most important things
Melissa Deally:for me that I need to get done, or I need to record two
Melissa Deally:podcasts, and then I have my membership q&a later today. So
Melissa Deally:those are my three things that I want to focus on today. So I'm
Melissa Deally:starting my day recording two podcasts for the month of
Melissa Deally:January. And then after that, I'll go straight into my q&a By
Melissa Deally:lunchtime. I am going to feel totally accomplished because I
Melissa Deally:got those three things done. And whatever else needs to be done
Melissa Deally:is gravy.
Melissa Deally:The next book that you might find really helpful is called do
Melissa Deally:less by Kate Northrup. And both books are excellent books. I
Melissa Deally:highly recommend them but I don't want you to just read the
Melissa Deally:books and do nothing. You need to read these books and
Melissa Deally:implement their recommendations into your life just like
Melissa Deally:listening to this podcast I'm giving you These tips don't just
Melissa Deally:walk away and go, yeah, yeah, I've heard it all before.
Melissa Deally:Because if you've heard it all before, and you're still in a
Melissa Deally:state of overwhelm, you haven't taken the steps to take action
Melissa Deally:to make some change in your life. So read the books,
Melissa Deally:implement the recommendations, implement the recommendations
Melissa Deally:I'm giving you here today. So you may notice when you come to
Melissa Deally:reading, do less, that step one above, the one where I said,
Melissa Deally:make a list and ask these three questions to yourself, Does this
Melissa Deally:need to be done? Does this needs to be done by me? And does this
Melissa Deally:need to be done right now? They actually come from that book.
Melissa Deally:Because when I read books, I take the learning and I
Melissa Deally:implement it into my life. So none of this is difficult to do.
Melissa Deally:But it does take a willingness to implement some changes in
Melissa Deally:your life. And so you also need to be on alert for your brain
Melissa Deally:recognizing these new habits and wanting to keep you safe and
Melissa Deally:calling you back into your comfort zone. When it starts
Melissa Deally:chirping at you with thoughts like, why are you changing
Melissa Deally:things up? You don't even know if this will work? Why don't you
Melissa Deally:just do what you were doing before because it's easier, you
Melissa Deally:don't have to learn anything new. When you hear those voices
Melissa Deally:in your head, just acknowledge your brain's opinions and gently
Melissa Deally:let it know that you're taking it to a place of more calm and
Melissa Deally:more productivity down the road. And to just bear with you while
Melissa Deally:you get there. Getting into the zone will also take practice.
Melissa Deally:Like everything else that's new, you won't be perfect the first
Melissa Deally:time you try this. But honestly, if you do this for just the next
Melissa Deally:30 days, you will notice a huge difference in that time as it
Melissa Deally:becomes your new modus operandi. Next week, I'm bringing a guest
Melissa Deally:on the show who has been there she called herself Mrs. overdo
Melissa Deally:it. So join us to learn her story and how she was able to
Melissa Deally:get out of that state and into a state of productivity. So thanks
Melissa Deally:so much for listening today. If you enjoyed this episode, please
Melissa Deally:feel free to rate and review it and share it with somebody else
Melissa Deally:that you think might benefit from the show. Happy New Year.
Melissa Deally:And I hope you can find a place of more calm and getting into
Melissa Deally:that zone of focus so that you can slow down but get more done
Melissa Deally:in 2022. Thanks for listening to the don't wait for your wake up
Melissa Deally:call podcast. I just want to let you know that I have another
Melissa Deally:couple of workshops coming up and back by popular demand, I am
Melissa Deally:repeating my boost your immune system workshops because there
Melissa Deally:is never a better time than to boost your immune system then
Melissa Deally:right now, this workshop is a 90 minute workshop that will be
Melissa Deally:interactive and will teach you five habits that you may have
Melissa Deally:that are unknowingly weakening your immune system right now.
Melissa Deally:And that might be helpful to know right, because when you
Melissa Deally:know you do better and you can start to change those habits. As
Melissa Deally:well as I will be teaching you some great tools and steps that
Melissa Deally:you can take to further boost your immune system including a
Melissa Deally:very simple supplement protocol that you can follow and easily
Melissa Deally:implement right away. So I will put the link to register for
Melissa Deally:these workshops. They're absolutely free. Invite your
Melissa Deally:friends and family. I will put that link in the show notes. So
Melissa Deally:please check that out at the end of the episode. Thank you so
Melissa Deally:much. And I look forward to having you join the workshop
Melissa Deally:thank you for investing this time with me on the don't wait
Melissa Deally:for your wake up call Podcast. I'm so glad you joined in. If
Melissa Deally:you can take two minutes to share this episode with someone
Melissa Deally:who you think can benefit and have a positive impact on their
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Melissa Deally:to a wider audience and help disrupt the sick care system we
Melissa Deally:have today and make human health a global priority. Health is
