Q&A: On Quieting Your Inner Voice, Importance of Self-Care, Eating Plant-Based and More!

10/07/16 • 33 min

Balanced Living For Busy Professionals Podcast

In this episode, Diane covers some questions that have been sent into the Balanced Living for Busy Professionals podcast over the last year. These are things she regularly gets asked about food, lifestyle, balance and keeping healthy. This is the last episode for 2016 as the show is taking a break from October – December and will return in a new bi-monthly format with some amazing and informative new guests and solo episodes in January 2017. In the mean time Diane will be re-releasing some of the most popular shows from the last year.

Diane explores the most important factors for self care, uses some personal experience to talk about quietening that inner voice and explains exactly what a plant based diet is and how to travel and negotiate a busy life on this plan.

What you will learn:

Don’t think about work life balance as something separate; it should become your whole life.
Take 10 minutes, 3 times a day to go for a walk.
Find a quiet empty meeting room at work and spend 10 minutes meditating.
Notice how long you spend each day on your phone or gadgets.
Set priorities for when you will reply to emails during the day.
Stop replying to emails at night.
Finish work when you get home and instil an after work ritual to help you unwind.
Getting control of your life means to have to remove yourself from the “do-all” position.
Take the words willpower and discipline out of your vocabulary.
Decide what’s important to you and set priorities.
Processed food is full of sugar that will keep you addicted.
Choose foods that support you.
Stop watching food commercials that encourage you to eat and eat.
You can get enough protein on a plant-based diet.
Use the following websites to get great plant based recipes; plantpurenation.com, foroverknives.com. onegreenplanet.com
Veestro is a great delivery service for people who don’t like to cook and all the food is GMO free.

Quotes:

"You need courage to set boundaries in your life."

"It's in your mind, just let it pass."

"I am where I am in my journey."

Contact Diane:

Email Diane:

[email protected]

Website:

http://www.dianerandallconsults.com

Let us know what you think about this episode by leaving a voicemail or comment: http://www.balanced-living-for-busy-professionals.com/

What you will learn:

Don’t think about work life balance as something separate; it should become your whole life.
Take 10 minutes, 3 times a day to go for a walk.
Find a quiet empty meeting room at work and spend 10 minutes meditating.
Notice how long you spend each day on your phone or gadgets.
Set priorities for when you will reply to emails during the day.
Stop replying to emails at night.
Finish work when you get home and instil an after work ritual to help you unwind.
Getting control of your life means to have to remove yourself from the “do-all” position.
Take the words willpower and discipline out of your vocabulary.
Decide what’s important to you and set priorities.
Processed food is full of sugar that will keep you addicted.
Choose foods that support you.
Stop watching food commercials that encourage you to eat and eat.
You can get enough protein on a plant-based diet.
Use the following websites to get great plant based recipes; plantpurenation.com, foroverknives.com. onegreenplanet.com
Veestro is a great delivery service for people who don’t like to cook and all the food is GMO free.

Quotes:

"You need courage to set boundaries in your life."

"It's in your mind, just let it pass."

"I am where I am in my journey."

Contact Diane:

Email Diane:

[email protected]

Website:

http://www.dianerandallconsults.com

Let us know what you think about this episode by leaving a voicemail or comment: http://www.balanced-living-for-busy-professionals.com/

Previous Episode

How to Be More Present in Everything You Do

There are practical ways you can be more appropriately engaged in your life. In fact, research studies reveal specific methods that you introduce into your daily life can help boost personal and stress-free productivity. When we talk about productivity and getting things done; it’s important to note it is so much more than time management. It's about becoming present with everything you do with your life.

In this episode, Diane speaks with her guest, David Allen about managing your focus, agreements, commitments and more. David Allen is the author of, Getting Things Done. His book has become one of the most influential business books of its era. He is an expert on personal and organizational productivity. David’s approach has helped individuals and organizations bring order to chaos. His mission is to coach and educate people on how you can take your busy schedule and get things done in your life.

What you will learn:

Getting started, gaining control and focus
Get out of your own head
Making better decisions based on priorities
How to alleviate the feeling of overwhelm
How to decide, take action and overcome
How to manage your life and thoughts
Tackling the chaos that is your email inbox
The 2-Minute Rule

Quotes:

“It's not about managing time, it's about managing your focus, managing your agreements, managing your renegotiated commitments with yourself.”

“How do I surf on top of this game of complexity without having to check out from it.”

“Make sure you have a review and reflection process that sees the inventory of all of your commitments.”

“This is a lifestyle art and craft of how you manage the flow of life's work.”

Contact David Allen:

http://gettingthingsdone.com/

Books:

Getting Things Done, by David Allen

Resources:Ted Talks: Getting Things Done, Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity, with David Allen http://ed.ted.com/on/oqfsvelw

Contact Diane:

Email Diane:

[email protected]

Website:

http://www.dianerandallconsults.com

Let us know what you think about this episode by leaving a voicemail or comment: http://www.balanced-living-for-busy-professionals.com/

Next Episode

The Psychology of Habits with Ishika Aswani

Today Diane talks to Ishika Answani, a spiritual psychologist who is based in Dubai. Diane and Ishika met while studying at the University of Santa Monica and bonded over their love of spiritual psychology. In this episode Ishika discusses the difference between honoring your choices versus following habitual patterns. You must be mindful of the habits you’re cultivating before the habits that don’t support your well-being are hard to change. Anything you do repeatedly can become a ritual and a habit which is fine, however you must make sure that these habits are self-honoring and not harming your state of well-being.

Ishika Aswani counsels people in all matters of life including financial, relationships, body issues and radiant health and well-being. Through this work she uses the two tools of spiritual psychology; soul and behavior to help her clients align their inner experience with the outside world.

What you will learn:

Radiant health and well-being is not just physical
Well-being is also mental, financial and emotional
Anything you do repeatedly can become a ritual and then a habit
Mentality is habitual thinking
Attitude is a habitual feeling
Behavior is a mix of habitual thinking and feeling
If we carry guilt around a habit, it is not self-honoring and will harm our well-being
Habits aren’t just mannerisms; they are mental patterns habituated into a way of thinking about ourselves.
Snapping out of a habitual pattern is important so that you can make more conscious choices.
Neutral awareness of habits.
Intention is important
Aligning your thoughts and actions