Dr. Zelana Montminy

For example, if you have things that are taking away your focus right when you wake up, maybe try to set your night up

So that once everyone is in bed, you have time for yourself and you can map out how you're going to start the next day and what you're going to employ.

And maybe don't grab your phone first thing and model to your kids like that you're present with them.

Or maybe carve out a little extra chunk of time in the morning to take time for each other or yourself.

Whatever that is.

Or go outside for a split second and take a breath.

So there's lots of things that we can do in the seasons we're in.

I love that Louvre story, by the way.

And what I love the most is that they did it at 930 in the morning, which very nice work-life balance, even for thieves.

It was real funny.

So we have, only in Paris, we have our noise thieves, right?

So that's like the constant inputs, the overstimulation, the notifications, the news, the chatter, the texts, the comparisons.

Like that's one of the thieves that,

happens to us a lot and it keeps us in high alert for those things.

Like we seek out those quick hits of dopamine and the novelty because of those, like it triggers this network in our brain that expects that and it's overstimulating.

So we mistake that busyness often for meaning.

And that's partly why I dug into this topic because everyone was feeling so burnt out and it couldn't be just the job or the spouse or the kids, right?

It's steeper than that.

So I really feel like this is at the core.

There's like the emotional thieves where we are in a culture that avoids discomfort at all costs and boredom.