Time Management has been a business idea for decades. But if you’re serious about expanding your soul and your time on Earth, you need to practice Spiritual Time Management.
I’ve been guiding friends and clients since 1973. It’s my full time job -- I love showing you opportunities and how to grab them, where the tough stuff is and how to get through it, and handing you your toolbox through tarot and oracle cards, past life exploration, spirit guide and angelic conferences and mediumship.
My website corbiemitleid.com is full of articles, blogs, where to find me for live appearances and where to listen to me as I guest on other podcasts.
And there’s a full menu of readings, from short burning questions all the way up to the jewel in the crown, my Soul Plan readings, which are based on the work I did with Robert Schwartz. Whether it’s general questions about your life in practical terms, romance readings, business consultations, discovering your sentence of passion or digging into that single challenge that has run through your life, you can find the appointment that is right for you.
Until next time, keep those ruby slippers polished, and I’ll meet you on the Psychic Yellow Brick Road!
Time Management has been a business idea for decades. But if you’re serious about expanding your soul and your time on Earth, you need to practice Spiritual Time Management.
I’ve been guiding friends and clients since 1973. It’s my full time job -- I love showing you opportunities and how to grab them, where the tough stuff is and how to get through it, and handing you your toolbox through tarot and oracle cards, past life exploration, spirit guide and angelic conferences and mediumship.
My website corbiemitleid.com is full of articles, blogs, where to find me for live appearances and where to listen to me as I guest on other podcasts.
And there’s a full menu of readings, from short burning questions all the way up to the jewel in the crown, my Soul Plan readings, which are based on the work I did with Robert Schwartz. Whether it’s general questions about your life in practical terms, romance readings, business consultations, discovering your sentence of passion or digging into that single challenge that has run through your life, you can find the appointment that is right for you.
Until next time, keep those ruby slippers polished, and I’ll meet you on the Psychic Yellow Brick Road!
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Time management has been a business idea for decades, but if you're serious about expanding your soul and your time on Earth, you need to practice spiritual time management. Hi, I'm Corbie Mitleid and this is the Psychic Yellow Brick Road. The world is changing and life doesn't have the spark it used to, so we look around and ask where do I need to go to catch the magic again? You've found it. Welcome to the Psychic Yellow Brick Road, a weekly podcast that delves into the intuitive world, metaphysics, life purpose and how to connect with the compassion of spirituality. I'm Corbie Mitleid and I've been on the Psychic Yellow Brick Road for 50 years. I'm a Certified Tarot Master, past life specialist, psychic medium, channel, and author and, most importantly, I'm an Elder in the field, ready to pass on everything I've discovered to you. So let's hit that Psychic Yellow Brick Road where you can find the real wizards and avoid the flying monkeys.
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Spiritual Time Management. To understand what spiritual time management looks like to most people, I did a fair amount of research on the idea and I was disturbed to find that for many bloggers, the idea revolved around religion, giving it more time doing what it tells you to do and learning to compress everything else. That's not my idea of spiritual time management. Even if we're not religious, we're spiritual. Certainly you have that part of yourself front and center if you listen to this podcast. For me, spiritual time management is giving yourself enough time for your spirit, your soul, to grow, flourish and perhaps shine your light in the world a little brighter and a little farther, without denying the fact that life also holds as enlightenment quotes go chopping wood and carrying water and laundry and soccer practice and all those myriad small things that make up our lives in the 21st century. It's also about giving ourselves more time in a spiritual manner, and the five problem children around that are multitasking, double thinking, techno, toxicity, me lastness and exhaustion. So let's take a look at how to get those problem children to behave.
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Multitasking you only have one life this time. Don't live it trying to have two. Multitasking is when we're trying to talk on the phone and fold the laundry and keep an eye on the timer on the stove. Or at work, rushing to finish a report while participating in a conference call and trying to tell our assistant when to schedule the next three interviews. Or and yes, I've done this and so have you attempting to keep three Facebook conversations and a text dialogue all going at once.
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When we're trying to juggle so many unconnected things, we're not really there for any of them, we can't be as creative as we'd like, we can't savor what we're doing, there's no satisfaction at the end of the task because we didn't really feel the doing of it and we've allowed our existence to slip away without really participating in it. If you live until you're 70, that's the usual three score and 10, you live until you're 70, that's the usual three score and 10, you have roughly 613,000 hours in your life. That looks like a lot of time when you're five, but trust me, the closer you get to that number, the more precious those dwindling hours are and the more you're tempted to look back and bemoan all the time you wasted, and you'll be shocked at how much of it you don't remember if you've spent your life multitasking. So part of spiritual time management is being absolutely focused and there for what you're doing. When you are, when you're immersed in a task, letting it permeate your mind and heart, there's joy in it, there's learning, and joy and learning are a big part of spiritual growth. Then there's double thinking. That's when you make a decision but you worry about whether it was the right one.
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Or you try to do a mental flow chart of worst case scenario, focusing on how to do damage control if a project doesn't please the boss, or trying to figure out every single possibility for a given situation before the situation even happens. And it's all done under a sense of stress, panic and fear. When I have a client who describes that kind of thing to me, I immediately ask them how old are you? Surprised they blurt it out I'm 32. And I retort no, you're actually 64. You're trying to do two lives worth of thinking in one head and that's why you're so exhausted and they get it so. Unravel the double thinking. Learn how to close the mental book on a situation rather than obsess. It's kind of like trying to get your mind to stop jabbering when you're trying to meditate. Pema Chodron, the wise Buddhist nun and best-selling author, says that when that happens during meditation, one should just note thinking and turn back to clearing your mind without focusing on what you did that you didn't want to do. When you're done with a subject and need to move on, mentally, close your book. And when the thoughts bounce back and demand more time but you're done, nod at them, say no double thinking, thank you and get back to what you really want to concentrate on at the moment.
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Then there's techno-toxicity Example Wanda's an entrepreneur. If you look around Wanda's home office, you'd see two phones, a large computer and various other pieces of technology she needs to run her business. In her bedroom she has an e-reader, a NOAA radio to warn her in case of bad weather and the alarm that wakes her up with a myriad number of ringtones. In her living room, she has a flat-screen TV and all the usual media peripherals. Wanda works 10 to 12 hours a day at her business. Much of it is conducted online with clients around the country. What contact she has with humanity is via texting, zoom or phone, and when she needs a break from work, she goes to one of the other pieces of tech in the house and plugs in there. Even when she goes to bed at night, rather than read a book, she plays video games for an hour or so until she's numb enough to turn out the light.
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Now, wand is an extreme, I grant you, but we are all of us incredibly plugged into technology and we avail ourselves of it constantly, and not only does it fragment our attention spans, but it keeps us from being aware of time. Techno-toxicity is like walking into a casino the lights and noise are mesmerizing because the casino is designed so you forget where the doors are and you always spend far more time and money there than you expect, unless you're constantly watching the clock and staying mindful. One of the fastest ways to regain your time is avoid the tempting plug-in. You know we talk about limiting computer or television time for kids. We need to limit our own techno time. Try for just a week to keep track of how much time you spend on a piece of technology rather than communicating with people. Really, look at where tech has replaced non-electronic joys. E-readers are fine, but when was the last time you really savored a book in your hands, getting lost in the words, the smell of the paper, the feel of the binding? In fact, when was the last time you spent an hour or so daydreaming and resting your mind rather than filling it with someone else's fantasy world or, even worse, doom-scrolling? It's time to take back your mind and your life from the pixels and the pings.
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The next unruly child is a twin: me-lastness and exhaustion. Somewhere along the road, spiritual time management started to look a lot like putting everyone else first, being compassionate and generous and always thinking of them, because being selfish is not a spiritual use of your time. My dears, I do beg to differ. Women, especially, are brought up to put themselves last. Do your chores. Help your parents, do for your family. Be the good worker. Always say no thank you so that someone else can have more. Always say it's no problem when someone asks you to do something. Be cheerful, be helpful, be kind, be giving. And while we've come a long way, baby, it's still part of the social norm for women to literally not know how to say me first.
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While it's wonderful to be and do all those things, you can't give if your basket is empty. You can't feed someone if your cupboard is bare. Give if your basket is empty. You can't feed someone if your cupboard is bare. And if you act like you're not hungry and you don't need anything, people will believe you and no one will return the favor.
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When we're constantly exhausted by doing and giving to an extreme, we feel like we have no time at all. We don't have enough energy to take care of ourselves in even the most basic ways, and the more we fill what time we have with things we think we should be doing for others, the less we actually feel like doing them. Giving and doing become expected chores, like going to the dry cleaners or cleaning up after the dog when we walk him A required part of life, but nothing to delight over. And that is such a double loss because when you take time for yourself, when you put yourself at the top of your priority list, you load that basket, you fill that pantry, you discover big and little ways of loving yourself that are so delicious you may want to pass some of them on to others. You give yourself enough energy and refreshment that doing what is required on a daily basis and doing for others feels far less daunting and feeds you at the same time. It feeds them. You live, really live in the delight of what you're doing, so that you experience life rather than slog through it.
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So multitasking, double thinking, techno, toxicity, me lastness and exhaustion. If you can deal with these five time and energy stealers and more creative ways, boom. All of a sudden you'll have more time than you thought you did. If you can deal with these five time and energy stealers in more creative ways, boom. All of a sudden you'll have more time than you thought you did, you'll feel less exhausted so that you can use every moment of time more productively. You can acknowledge and honor everything you do and you will feel infinitely more in control of your life, your time and your mental and emotional state, which gives you the time to experience and expand your spirituality a lot more than 10 minutes every Tuesday if you've got the time.
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I've been guiding friends and clients since 1973. I love showing you opportunities and how to grab them, where the tough stuff is and how to get through it, and handing you your toolbox through tarot and oracle cards, past life exploration, spirit guides and angelic conferences and mediumship. My website, corbiemitleid. com, is full of articles, blogs, where to find me for live appearances and where to listen to me as I guest on other podcasts. There's a full menu of readings, from short burning questions all the way up to the jewel of the crown, my soul plan readings, which are based on the work I did with Robert Schwartz. Whether it's general questions about your life in practical terms, romance readings, business consultations, discovering your sentence of passion or digging into that single challenge that has run through your life, you can find the appointment that's right for you.
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You know your opinion matters a lot, so, if you enjoy this, take a few minutes to leave a review. Word of mouth is key with podcasts, so share it with others. And if you really want to help make the magic happen, go find me at patreon. com. There's a tier called I Believe in you and for just a couple of dollars a month, you can be an official roadie and help all the things I do the podcast, the books, the classes, the videos keep on coming. This has been Corbie Mitleid, and until next time, keep those ruby slippers polished and I'll meet you on the Psychic Yellow Brick Road. Yellow Brick Road.