5 Habits Constantly Draining Your Energy | Yung Pueblo

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Yung Pueblo (0:30)

Saying yes to too many things is the path to burnout. You just keep adding on more and more things, more responsibilities, more objectives. It's easy to get lost.

Codie Sanchez (0:37)

It's actually a really good point.

Yung Pueblo (0:39)

I don't need to add more things. I don't need to follow every exciting path. You can't have a perfect plan. You can't wait for this ideal moment to execute and try to act on it. For a lot of people, they just wait too long.

Codie Sanchez (0:51)

What do you think people should do who are ambitious but want to enjoy their life?

Yung Pueblo (0:56)

That's such a good question, so...

Codie Sanchez (1:01)

Now you have millions of people that follow you online, that have read your work.

What are the most common things people repeat back to you? Like, what are the things that people are getting tattooed on their bodies? Because I know that's happening. What are the things that you're like, Oh, wow, whatever came in to me, this really resonated?

Yung Pueblo (1:20)

Yeah, I think the most common one that I see is, if the pain was deep, you will have to let it go many times. The act of letting go is healing, but it doesn't mean it's a one-time event. You may have to let that same thing go over and over again because the mind is malleable, but it requires practice. So when you feel that tension coming up, instead of grabbing onto it and rolling in it, you have to practice letting it go, and then eventually the mind will learn.

Codie Sanchez (1:50)

So for you, let's say somebody is in deep pain. Do you have a practice that you think through to release pain?

Yung Pueblo (1:58)

I mean, I've been meditating Vipassana really seriously since 2012, and started off with 10-day practices, 10-day meditation retreats that are totally silent. I've done 20-day long retreats, 30-day, 45-day.

And this year, I did my first 60-day retreat. And that practice, it's sort of like taking yourself to the mental gym. You're building awareness, you're building non-reaction, and you're building compassion for yourself and others. Those are things that are built into the human mind, but they're not necessarily strong. And that's the key way that I take care of myself. That's really where my, you know, when the mind is really heavy and full of pain, you're not going to put out your best output. When you decrease that heaviness and the mind becomes lighter, then your creativity really starts flowing. So I think without spending all that time meditating, I would have never been a writer.

That's why I always spend time. Like when I carve out a year, like I started this year with a 60 day meditation retreat, totally silent in India. And I need that time to just work on myself so that I can come out and give more. But without that, you know, you just keep adding on, adding on more and more things, more responsibilities, more objectives, and it's easy to get lost. So to me, that clarifies what should I actually spend my time on. It helps me do the healing that, you know, of the challenges that I went through when I was younger and just stay focused.

Codie Sanchez (3:27)

So you know how these days they say founders have to be obsessed? You have to be obsessed to win.

Yung Pueblo (3:33)

Obsessed is the buzzword these days. It is.

Codie Sanchez (3:35)

And so I guess my question is like, is it possible to be healthily obsessed?

Yung Pueblo (3:41)

I'd rather be focused and excited about what I'm doing than obsessed. Obsessed is like, when I hear that word, I feel like there's a bit of a cloud over my eyes where part of being a founder is adaptability. You have to be able to adapt. You can have a clear goal, but if you need to shift things to actually be able to make a return to your investors, to be able to actually hire more people or really produce something successful, the plan from day one is not going to be the same plan like three years from then. So I think focus allows that flexibility that obsession doesn't.