Podcast
STOP! 21 Stops to Reduce Stress and Enhance Joy
Hosted by Eric Parmenter · EN
“All too often, we seek happiness by adding new actions to our calendars when we should be subtracting them. STOP! looks at our frantic lives with fresh eyes, offering guidance to help us focus on our top priorities.” – Adam Grant, PhD,
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STOP! Listening to This Podcast and Get On with Your Life
Sep 6, 202000:10:17Tap to summarizeYou see, George, you’ve really had a wonderful life. ―Clarence, It’s a Wonderful Life
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STOP! Devaluing Yourself
Aug 30, 202000:12:07Tap to summarizeThe worst loneliness is to not be comfortable with yourself. ―Mark Twain
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STOP! and Smell the Roses with People You Love
Aug 23, 202000:14:47Tap to summarizeI love spending time with my friends and family. The simplest things in life give me the most pleasure: cooking a good meal, enjoying my friends. ―Cindy Morgan
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STOP! Spending Time with People Who Bring You Down
Aug 16, 202000:10:23Tap to summarizeAssociate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for it is far better to be alone than to be in bad company. ―George Washington If you want to soar with the eagles, don’t hang out with the turkeys. ―Author Unknown
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STOP! The Debt
Aug 9, 202000:05:58Tap to summarizeI am positive that personal finance is 80 percent behavior and only 20 percent head knowledge. Our concentration on behavior—realizing that most folks have a good idea of what to do with money but not how to do it—has led us to a different view of personal finance. ―Dave Ramsey, The Total Money Makeover
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STOP! Buying Things of Little Value
Aug 2, 202000:08:46Tap to summarizeIn the US and much of the industrialized world, cheap clothes are everywhere. At any fast-fashion chain store, you’ll find piles upon piles of jeans that cost less than $20. The problem is, all that low-cost clothing is produced, sold, and finally discarded in mass quantities, which has serious consequences for the environment, the workers paid poorly to make them, and even the mental well-being of the people buying them. ―Mark Bain, “The Case for Expensive Clothes,” The Atlantic
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STOP! Spending Impulsively
Jul 26, 202000:09:00Tap to summarize. . . Our impulses are too strong for our judgment sometimes. ― Thomas Hardy, Tess of the D’Urbervilles To me, impulsive means foolish. But if a person’s not a little impulsive, they don’t have a pulse. ―Jarod Kintz, Whenever You’re Gone, I’m Here for You
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STOP! Worrying
Jul 19, 202000:05:57Tap to summarizeTherefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own. —Jesus, Matthew 6:34 (NIV)
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STOP! Overloading Your Schedule
Jul 12, 202000:10:39Tap to summarizeIt is not enough to be busy. So are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about? —Henry David Thoreau
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STOP! Talking Too Much
Jul 5, 202000:07:59Tap to summarizePeople don’t care how much you know until they know how much you care. —Theodore Roosevelt
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