On Purpose with Elizabeth Pehrson
Sep 8, 2026 · 26 min · 9 segments
We’d love to hear from you! Send us a text! Rather than waiting until the new year to make the changes you know you need, what if you could take a simple approach: ask four questions and adjust their…
Elizabeth PehrsonHostSo the other day, I read two questions that I haven't been able to stop thinking about.
And they're incredibly simple questions, but if given enough thought, I believe that they are pretty profound.
And I think that there's some additional questions that we could add to them as well.
These thoughts, these ponderings, these ramblings that I've had since I saw these two questions.
Wherever you are, whatever you're doing, I want you to pause for just a minute.
Which activities, if doubled, would make your life meaningfully better? Which activities, if doubled, would make your life meaningfully better? And...
Which activities, if halved, would make your life meaningfully better? That's it.
But I read those questions and I thought, wow, why haven't I ever asked myself those questions before? I don't know about you, but I think when most of us decide that we want our lives to be better, we immediately start thinking about what we need to change.
A new morning practice, a new diet, a new workout, a new app to organize the other 12 apps that we're supposed to organize our lives.
Have you ever done that before or is that just me? These questions are different.
They're asking you to look at the life that you already have and ask, what's working well for me? And what's not working so great? And then adjust the proportions.
Because maybe a better life isn't always about finding something new to do.
Maybe sometimes it's just about doing more of what makes our lives good or better or richer or deeper or more full and less of, well, what doesn't? So with that in mind, I want to take those two questions and then add two more of my own.
And for the purpose of our time together, we're going to ask four questions.
What should I double? What should I cut in half? What is missing that I need to add? And finally, what doesn't need to be reduced at all? It just needs to go.
So what should I double? What should I cut in half? What is missing that I need to add? And lastly, what doesn't need to be reduced at all? What just needs to go? So let's start with the first one.
So the other day, I read two questions that I haven't been able to stop thinking about.
And they're incredibly simple questions, but if given enough thought, I believe that they are pretty profound.
And I think that there's some additional questions that we could add to them as well.
These thoughts, these ponderings, these ramblings that I've had since I saw these two questions.
Wherever you are, whatever you're doing, I want you to pause for just a minute.
Which activities, if doubled, would make your life meaningfully better? Which activities, if doubled, would make your life meaningfully better? And...
Which activities, if halved, would make your life meaningfully better? That's it.
But I read those questions and I thought, wow, why haven't I ever asked myself those questions before? I don't know about you, but I think when most of us decide that we want our lives to be better, we immediately start thinking about what we need to change.
A new morning practice, a new diet, a new workout, a new app to organize the other 12 apps that we're supposed to organize our lives.
Have you ever done that before or is that just me? These questions are different.
They're asking you to look at the life that you already have and ask, what's working well for me? And what's not working so great? And then adjust the proportions.
Because maybe a better life isn't always about finding something new to do.
Maybe sometimes it's just about doing more of what makes our lives good or better or richer or deeper or more full and less of, well, what doesn't? So with that in mind, I want to take those two questions and then add two more of my own.
And for the purpose of our time together, we're going to ask four questions.
What should I double? What should I cut in half? What is missing that I need to add? And finally, what doesn't need to be reduced at all? It just needs to go.
So what should I double? What should I cut in half? What is missing that I need to add? And lastly, what doesn't need to be reduced at all? What just needs to go? So let's start with the first one.
The rest of this transcript — segmented and speaker-labeled, so you land on the exact moment something was said
Search every transcript — by keyword, by phrase, or by meaning, across every show Radar indexes
Trends — what is surging across podcasts, measured against its own baseline
Alerts — when a name you follow appears in a newly indexed episode
No account is needed to search Radar.
