Get Rid of the Noise

Author: Chris Helder

In this book, I introduce an idea I call "10 seconds of guilt…then move on." I hope you love it and can use it to help yourself enjoy your life more. It’s about acknowledging an unhelpful feeling, then quickly dismissing it. There are studies that suggest that over 90% of the things we worry about and feel bad about will never happen or are beyond our control to change. This idea has really resonated with my Australian audiences. So many people—men and women alike—come to me and share their guilt about their aspiration to be perfect. Women have told me about their need to be corporate powerhouses, great mothers, amazing wives, and perfect friends—and still have time for yoga, gym workouts, and calling their in-laws. It’s impossible! And with a media storm of news, fake news, and social media messages blowing our way, we struggle to keep up. All this external noise creates a whirlpool of internal noise about what we should be looking after and how we should be behaving as we try to fix everything.