The Quiet Life with Susan Cain

The Quiet Life with Susan Cain

A Quiet Life, in Seven Steps: Today is Step One

How to Spend Your (Remaining) Time

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Susan Cain
Mar 10, 2025
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Art: Vasili Nesterenko, “Spring in New York” (because every painting of flowers is really about the question of remaining time)

As I mentioned last week, my Audible podcast series, ‘A Quiet Life in Seven Steps’, has been nominated for an Ambie Award! (As I understand it, this is like an Emmy or Oscar of the podcasting world - congratulations to the entire production team!)

When I shared this news, one of our Quiet Life members, Ralph Rickenbach, asked if we could walk through the steps of the podcast series here, in our Kindred Letters, so that you could get a taste of them—and have the chance to discuss them with each other.

I love this idea.

So today, let’s discuss Step One: How to Spend Your (Remaining) Time. In that episode, I gave you three essential questions to ask yourself. Let’s go through the first of those questions now.

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