Cheryl Johnson on What Is Box Lunch Lifestyle? - Creative On Purpose Live

23 Dec 2018 · 1 min

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Cheryl Johnson describes the Box Lunch Lifestyle: prepare your own lunch, eat for 15 minutes, spend 15 minutes on something just for you, then give yourself credit. She ties it to a Stoic principle about doing your best and using lunch time with intention.

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Tell me about the two elements of the Box Lunch Lifestyle approach to your half hour of lunch. You have 15 minutes for one thing and then 15 minutes for the other.
It's very simple. There are four steps, very easy. So the first step is make your lunch. Make anything that you want to eat. Anything that you can make for yourself is the right lunch. And the second step is when you take your lunch break, eat for 15 minutes and just eat. And then for the next 15 minutes, you do something that's just for you. And the fourth and final step, which I think is really important, is giving yourself credit. And I will say this, Scott Perry, that one of— I think one of the most important things that I've learned from you about Stoicism is the idea of do the best you can. And I think that is, I think that is so important, and I think the Box Lunch Lifestyle framework is such a great invitation for people to embrace that.