Buddhability How To Do It All, With Dr. Gitima Sharma
Today we’re talking about how to do it all when you have a full plate. Whether you are an overwhelmed parent or caregiver aspiring to build a career you love, or lacking the support you wish you had to care for yourself and everything else in your life, doing it all can be tough. And amid the chaos, we tend to be hardest on ourselves.
Dr. Gitima Sharma, of California State University, talks us through how she approaches this subject as a counselor educator, and also as a Buddhist practitioner and working mom with two young children.
CHEAT SHEET
1:34 How Gitima started chanting Nam-myoho-renge-kyo
13:11 Her own experience with “doing it all”
19:22 The challenges of self-doubt, self-comparison and perfectionism
28:04 What having a sense of purpose means in Buddhism
32:02 What research says about having a sense of purpose
45:46 How to increase your sense of purpose
53:31 A favorite Buddhist quote about time and enlightenment
56:27 Advice for anyone who is struggling to do it all
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