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SNS42: Saturday Night Special – Did You Decide or Feel?

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Join us today for the Saturday Night Special where I talk with you about emotional decision making...

In tonight’s Saturday Night Special I talk with you about emotional decision making, why it’s good and bad, and the fact about why you don’t really make logical decisions anyway.

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00:00:00 Welcome to tonight's Saturday night special number 42 where I talk with you about. Did you decide or did you feel I'm Frazer rice, author of wealth. Actually, I challenge you to invest in yourself, invest in others, develop your influence and impact the world by using your time, your talent, and your treasures to live out your calling. Having the right relationship with all of your gifts is the key to doing this.
00:00:27 One way to be inspired to do that is to listen to this, the inspired stewardship podcast with my friend Scott Mader and right now as I scroll through Facebook and see all of the posts from people, both good and bad, people yelling at each other, people emotionally attacking each other because of how people feel and what their views are. I'm reminded over and over and over that all too often we don't really make a decision.
00:01:03 We just respond out of how we feel. Welcome and thank you for joining us on the inspired stewardship podcasts. If you truly desire to become the person who God wants you to be, then you must learn to use your time, your talent, and your treasures for your true calling and the inspired stewardship podcast who will learn to invest in yourself, invest in others and develop your influence so that you can and tonight's Saturday night special.
00:01:38 I talk with you about emotional decision making, why it is somewhat good and somewhat bad, and the fact about why you really don't make logical decisions in many cases anyway. Now one area that a lot of folks need some help with is around the area of productivity. Getting not just more things done, but actually getting the right things done can be really,
00:02:07 really tough. I've got a course called productivity for your passion that's designed to help you do this and then to hold you accountable and walk with you so that you can tailor productivity, not just to be getting more done, but actually getting the right things done. What's more, we take the approach of looking at your personality and how you actually look at things in the world and tailor the productivity system to your personality.
00:02:37 Because the truth is a lot of the systems that are out there are written really well for somebody with a particular personality type. But if you have a different approach to things, they just don't work. But there's tools and techniques and approaches that you can take that will work for anyone and we help you do that and productivity for your passion. Check it out over@inspiredstewardship.com
00:03:01 slash launch right now with everything that's been going on in the world, it's made me think a lot about decision making, especially about the idea of emotional decision making and and both the good and the bad that comes with that. You know the, the truth is that all of us, all human beings, no matter how we're wired, no matter how we were brought up,
00:03:31 no matter our family of origin, no matter what we've studied in school, we all are emotional decision makers at some level. Now, some of us are more effected by emotion and others of us are less affected by emotion. But the truth is we all make decisions at an emotional level every single day. Stop and think about it. Any decision that you've made where it was just a snap decision made off of your gut,
00:04:00 that that feeling that you get, that this is just the right thing to do. That is an emotional decision. You know, the truth is there are studies that show that there's such a thing as what they call the halo effect, which is basically when you have good feelings about someone, you tend to look at them and understand their actions and give them sort of the benefit of the doubt more than when somebody is somebody you don't have a good feeling about.
00:04:28 You know, the, the truth is that we have different feelings and those feelings affect how we see things, how we think about things. And oftentimes we make decisions based off those feelings. Even if we think we aren't, you know, I often talk to people about sales and marketing and these sorts of things and I, I explained to them that most of the time we actually make decisions with some level of an emotional decision and later we justify that with logic anyway.
00:05:04 How does emotion affect our decision? Well, if you have positive emotions about a person or about an event or about something, you have a tendency to be more favorable in your approach to it and sometimes even if you're just surrounded by other people who are thankful, who are happy, who are outgoing, that lifts your mood and makes you more inclined to make certain decisions.
00:05:30 We also make emotional decisions out of stress and fear and anger where we try to do something like go purchase something because the dopamine hit that it gives us the good feeling that it gives us a lifts are bad spirits. This is self-medicating or retail therapy sometimes where we go out and we do things like spend money, her socialize with others and spend money doing it.
00:05:55 Why? So that it will lift our mood. Similarly, when you have a dark mood, it can affect your decision making. It can make you go out and do things or choose things that you wouldn't normally choose, both for the good and the bad. Sometimes that negative feeling causes you to do something like spend money you really shouldn't spend or say yes to a decision that you shouldn't really say yes to simply to get that good feeling of positive motion.
00:06:24 It makes us sometimes susceptible to hoaxes and abuse and what's more if if the emotion of the post or the comments that we see or the person that's talking to us is in alignment with how we already feel, then we end up with a cognitive bias that causes us to be more likely to accept that statement. And by the same token, when you see things that are out of alignment with how you feel,
00:06:52 you immediately reject them. You know, the truth is all of this stuff is set up in our brain to protect us. It helps us make decisions quickly because the truth is if we had to stop and think and reason about every single decision that we make every single second of the day, we would never do anything but think it's a shortcut. But the problem is that that shortcut often steers us wrong.
00:07:25 It makes us go into behavior and actions and attitudes that aren't really for our best. You know, you don't really make logical decisions. Most of the time you make emotional decisions. Even those of you that are wired with a high C component, a very perfectionist, rule oriented detail kind of personality. Even those folks still make decisions off of emotion. But the emotion is a drive for perfection,
00:07:53 for rightness, for fairness. No matter how you're wired, if you're an I, the emotion is about acceptance and being valued for who you are. If you're an assets about caring and kindness for others, if you're a D, it's about results and goal oriented sorts of things, but in all cases there is an emotional core, not just a logical decision.
00:08:17 Can you stop and think about it? 99.9% of the time you do not sit down and generate a whole bunch of choices and then logically think about the pros and cons of each one before you make a decision. So when do you know to actually take that step and slow down? If you find yourself making decisions constantly out of a negative place out of trying to avoid something out of fear,
00:08:42 it's time to stop and inject some logical decision making. If it's a really big impactful decision that's gonna affect for you for years to come, it's important that you stop and you generate and make those logical decisions. This is one of those things that I work on with folks as a coach is helping them see the options space and recognize when it's time to make a logical decision.
00:09:11 Because the interesting thing is if you have an accountability partner who's a coach because they aren't in the thick of the situation, it's much easier for us to step outside of the emotion. This is why talking it over with a friend is often a good step. If you're trying to help make a logical decision. All of these are things you need to think about and reflect on when you're thinking about how you feel and right now as I scroll through Facebook and see all of the posts from people,
00:09:45 both good and bad, people yelling at each other, people emotionally attacking each other because of how people feel and what their views are. I'm reminded over and over and over that all too often we don't really make a decision. We just respond out of how we feel. Thanks for listening. Thanks so much for listening to the inspired stewardship podcast. As a subscriber and listener,
00:10:19 we challenge you to not just sit back and passively listen, but act on what you've heard and find a way to live your calling. If you enjoy this episode, please, please do us a favor. Go over to inspired stewardship.com/itunes rate all one word iTunes rate. It'll take you through how to leave a rating and review and how to make sure you're subscribed to the podcast so that you can get every episode as it comes out in your feed.
00:10:56 Until next time, invest your time, your talent, and your treasures. Develop your influence and impact the world.


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Episode 615: Tithing Through Debt

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Join us today for an episode about the reason tithing through debt isn't one way...

Today's episode is focused on if you should align your tithing even when in debt...

In today’s episode about impacting the world through stewarding your treasures, I talk with you about what a tithe is, why we are asked to tithe, and should you tithe while getting out of debt.

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00:00:00 Thanks for joining me on episode 615 of the inspired stewardship podcast. Hey there, I'm Cassidy cache the host of that Shakespeare life. If you'd like to impact the world one day like Shakespeare, one way to do that is listening to this. It's inspired stewardship podcast with my friend Scott made her. So should you tie the way you're getting out of debt?
00:00:29 It depends. It depends on where your priorities are, what you truly value, but if you say you value one thing and then when you look at your budget and you look at your money, the way you're spending your money is not in alignment with those values, then I would challenge you to examine it. Welcome and thank you for joining us on the inspired stewardship podcasts.
00:00:55 If you truly desire to become the person who God wants you to be, then you must learn to use your time, your talent, and your treasures for your true calling and the inspired stewardship podcast. We will learn to invest in yourself, invest in others, and develop your influence so that you can impact the world in today's episode about impacting the world through stewarding your treasures,
00:01:25 I talk with you about what a tie even is, why we are asked to tie and about should you tie while you're getting out of debt or struggling financially as we talk about stewarding your treasures, wouldn't it be great if you could support this podcast and do it without costing yourself an extra dime? It turns out you can't. All you have to do is use inspired stewardship.com/amazon
00:01:54 when you're ready to make a purchase via Amazon and a small commission. We'll come back to support the show. If you enjoy the show when you're ready to buy from Amazon, just use inspired stewardship.com/amazon so one of those questions that I get asked by clients a lot is about tithing. While they're struggling with their finances, you know, maybe they're in debt,
00:02:18 maybe they even are behind on things, or they're not making enough money right now and they're struggling to do all of the things that they want to do. And when they get to the bottom of their budget, they don't have enough money left over to give a tithe. And so people will ask me about should I tie the while I'm in debt, should I give money to charity,
00:02:40 to the church while I'm in debt? Or should I wait until I'm financially stable and then begin to give money to those organizations that I want to support? You know the, the funny thing is that's a question that's asked a lot. And the answer is not really one of rules. There's no one set answer where I can look at it and go,
00:03:04 this is what you should do. The reason why is because as a coach, I don't tell people what they should do with their money. It's their choice. But what I will ask is what are your priorities? What are your values? What's important to you? And if giving is something that's important to you, if, if tithing is something that's important to you,
00:03:25 then let's figure out how we can do this regardless of your financial situation. See, let's talk about what a tie the actually is. You know, ties basically just means a 10th it means 10% the idea behind it is before you do anything with the resources that God has given you, you give back to God, that first fruit, that the 10% sort of the best of what's there.
00:03:56 Not the leftovers, not the 10% that's left at the bottom of the barrel, not the rotting fruit, but the top crop. The best of the best. And what's interesting is a lot of times nowadays when we think about tithing, we think about leaving to God what's left over as opposed to giving to God what came first. You know the reason that a lot of times people will say they don't have enough money left in their budget is because they put tithing at the bottom of their budget.
00:04:30 And, and the question you have to ask yourself is, is that where you put it in terms of priorities from a heart and a mind and a soul perspective? Do you put the tie last or first? And if you put it last, well then when you don't have enough money to do it, that's okay. That's the reality. But if you put it first and you say that this is first in my heart,
00:04:57 that giving to God what God has asked of me is first and foremost in my heart. Well then why are you putting it last? Why are you waiting to see what's left over before you decide if you have enough money to put that first? If that's the first priority, then that needs to be funded before anything else and then you figure out how to live on the rest.
00:05:27 The 90% that's left and I'll tell you that's not easy if you're in debt, if you're struggling, if you're behind on payments, if you're dealing with all of that emotion and you're getting collector calls and all of those other things to give that money over is a very deep act of faith and in fact, that's why we're called to tie. It's not because that money is important to God,
00:05:53 it's not because giving that is what's going to suddenly make the church win or lose or make heaven happen on earth or anything else. We're asked to tie, to help change our minds and our hearts and our relationship with money is to help reprogram how we look at money. It's to give us the heart of stewardship so that when we look down and we see our paycheck,
00:06:20 instead of saying thank God I got paid, you say thank God that these resources were given to me, that this money was given to me because now I can do what God has called me to do with it. And one of the first things God calls you to do is to give back to God with a cheerful heart, not with a bigger raging heart,
00:06:43 not worried about it, not angry about it, not scared about it, but with a loving heart, with the recognition that that's what we're called to do. So should you ties, if you're in data up to your eyeballs and it's going to slow down getting out of debt? Well, honestly I think that's an assumption. It's one of the things that I've seen happen time after time is people,
00:07:07 once they wrap their head around it and they began to give the tithe, then suddenly because it opens their heart, it opens their mind and opens their relationships and their view with money. That new money comes in to their situation. Now, I can't promise you that's going to happen, but it does say that God will open up the doors of heaven and pour blessings out upon you.
00:07:28 Sometimes those blessings come in the form of cash. Other times they come in the form of relief, mindset, happiness, lack of stress, lots of arguments, communication and other things. But what's interesting is those intangible benefits suddenly begin to make it easier for you to focus on what's really important for you to be joyful for the fact that your family is healthy and safe and fed and those collector Carl's aren't nearly as stressful anymore.
00:08:00 It helps you begin to recognize that at the end of the day, yes you need to pay back your dad and you should work very hard to do that, but you also need to provide for your family and make sure that they have a roof over their head and they have food in their bellies. Not eating Philemon Yon, but making sure that they are taken care of.
00:08:21 It relieves the way you think about money and reprograms your heart and your mind to begin to have a relationship with money. That is much more healthy. And because of that, usually that change in mindset, those change in habits that change in behavior pays off in the longterm and begins to make things happen faster instead of slower. It's a weird paradox, but oftentimes the best way to go fast is to actually slow down because it changes the way we act and the way we view things.
00:09:00 And that change is what ripples through and makes more changes down the road. So should you tie the way you're getting out of debt? It depends. It depends on where your priorities are, what you truly value. But if you say you value one thing and then when you look at your budget and you look at your money, the way you're spending your money is not in alignment with those values,
00:09:26 then I would challenge you to examine it and make sure that your money and your values align. Thanks for listening thanks so much for listening to the inspired stewardship podcast. As a subscriber and listener, we challenge you to not just sit back and passively listen, but act on what you've heard and find a way to live your calling. If you like this episode on the stewardship of treasures,
00:10:01 you can sign up for our treasures tips by going to inspired stewardship.com/treasures or text in the U S four four two two two treasures tips, and we'll send you five weeks of our best tips on stewarding your treasures. Until next time, invest your time, your talent, and your treasures. Develop your influence and impact the world..


In today's episode, I talk with you about:

  • What a tithe is...
  • Why we are asked to tithe... 
  • Should you tithe while getting out of debt...
  • and more.....

Perhaps the tithe can be a beginning way to acknowledge God as the owner of all things, but it is only a beginning and not an ending. ― Richard J. Foster

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Episode 614: Learning to Be Your Authentic Self

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Join us today for an episode about the reason you need to find your authentic self...

Today's episode is focused on some exercises to help you find your authentic self...

In today’s episode about impacting the world through stewarding your talent, I talk with you about why becoming your authentic self is so important, a few exercises to help you find your authentic self, and why this is a journey not a destination.

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00:00:00 Thanks for joining me on episode 614 of the inspired stewardship podcast. I'm Darryl Lyons, author of 18 to 80 I challenge you to invest in yourself, invest in others, develop your influence and impact the world by using your time, your talent, and your treasures to live out your calling. Having the right behavior with your money is key to doing that, and one way to be inspired to do that is to listen to this, the inspired stewardship podcast with my friend Scott Mader. It's why it's important to reflect on your past,
00:00:43 your present, and your future when you're thinking about who you are and what you want to put out into the world as your message, because it's about all of those things. We are made up of our past, we act in the present and we direct ourselves to a point in the future that's called being intentional about finding your authentic self. Welcome and thank you for joining us on the inspired stewardship podcast. If you truly desire to become the person who God wants you to be, then you must learn to use your time,
00:01:19 your talent, and your treasures for your true calling and the inspired stewardship podcast. We'll learn to invest in yourself, invest in others, and develop your influence so that you can in today's episode about impacting the world through stewarding your talent, I talk with you about why becoming your authentic self is so important. I give you a few exercises to help you find your authentic self, and I talk about why this is always a journey, not actually a destination. You've heard me talk about developing your talent and one of the best ways to do that is through books,
00:02:01 but if you're like most people today, it's hard to find the time to read and that's why today's podcast is brought to you by audible. Go to inspired stewardship.com/audible to sign up and you can get a 30 day free trial. There's over 180,000 titles to choose from, and you can pick one and listen your way to developing your talents via audible. That's inspired stewardship.com/audible to get your free trial and listen to great books. The same way you're listening to this podcast, you'll hear people talk all the time about learning to be yourself,
00:02:43 being you, being your authentic self, a be you, everybody else has taken you. You hear these sorts of pithy sayings and it's interesting because it is very important to learn to become your authentic self.
00:02:59 It's important to learn your own voice, your own tone, how you speak, how you put your message out into the world and how people receive.
00:03:08 You see, one of the interesting challenges with becoming your authentic self is oftentimes it's easy to suddenly become this person and say,
00:03:17 well, other people can just take it or leave it. You know, this is who I am.
00:03:21 They can learn to accept me for who I am and there's some truth to that. We do need to learn to accept others for who they are,
00:03:29 but also you have to take some ownership of making sure that who you are, who your authentic self is,
00:03:37 speaks to other people in a language that they can understand. This is why it's so important to learn about yourself and to learn about communication and to learn about how others receive different communication.
00:03:51 All of those things are important, but right now I want to focus first on learning to be your authentic self,
00:04:00 learning to become your authentic self, focusing on who you are and how you're wired. How do you see the world?
00:04:10 This is one of the reasons that I love things like StrengthsFinder and disc. I am certified to teach and train people in disc and recognize how people adapt to using disc and understanding it so that they can use that filter to communicate with others.
00:04:28 And I love that tool. Then there's tools like the grit test by by Angela Ducksworth and there's others,
00:04:36 the happiness quiz and all sorts of different ways out there that you can get different viewpoints of yourself. And I believe that taking these sorts of assessments and understanding what they say about you,
00:04:51 you know, take the big five inventory, take the disc, take the NBTI, take all of these different assessments and don't take any one of them as the one be all end all of who you are.
00:05:04 But use those to interpret and understand how you're wired. Because as you begin to understand how you're wired,
00:05:13 you begin to understand more about how you see the world. And as you understand more about how you see the world,
00:05:23 you begin to uncover some of your blind spots. You begin to uncover things that perhaps you aren't able to see.
00:05:30 Well this allows you to reach out and find other people that shore up your weaknesses. And it also allows you to identify your strengths and work within those strengths to put out your best self into the world.
00:05:44 So one of the exercises you can do to help you find your authentic self beyond just taking these different assessments.
00:05:50 And again, if you want to take something in disc and understand more about it, please just reach out to me.
00:05:56 I'll set you with an assessment. But other than that, one of the best exercises I love is actually a thought exercise.
00:06:06 So here's how it goes. You know, the first step is to reflect on where you've been. Think about your past.
00:06:13 Think about the past jobs you've had, the past relationships you've had, and identify the top three or four things about each of them that you really loved.
00:06:27 You can also identify the top three or four things that you really disliked and look for trends. Look for patterns,
00:06:35 look for things that are in common. So look to your past and think about what you've done, what you loved about it,
00:06:43 and what you hated about it. And do that for everything that you've done. And then secondly, look to the present.
00:06:52 What are you doing today? What kind of relationships do you have? What kind of of job do you have?
00:07:00 What kind of different areas of your life do you have and how balanced are they? You'll look at the seven main core areas of life and think about how am I doing in my finances?
00:07:11 How am I doing in my health? How am I doing in my social connections, my relationships? How am I doing with my career?
00:07:21 And, and think about how good those different areas are for you. They don't all have to be perfect,
00:07:27 but, but do a reflection on kind of where you stand today. And then this last one, this is my favorite one.
00:07:34 Look to the future. Imagine that five years from now you walked into a, an airport or a bus station someplace where there were a bunch of people around and you ran into somebody who's a dear friend today,
00:07:49 somebody who you really like, but you haven't actually seen them for the last five years. And they say,
00:07:56 Oh, it's so great to see you. Do you mind if we grab a cup of coffee real quick?
00:08:02 You say, yeah, I've got time. I'm waiting for the plane or the train or the automobile.
00:08:06 Whatever's coming. I've got time. Let's sit down and catch up for an hour. And you sat down at a table getting a warm cup of coffee together.
00:08:15 And the first thing your friend says is, how have things been? How has it been these last five years since I last talked to you and you answer your friend with the last five years have been the best years of my life because what would you put after that?
00:08:35 Because what would you say you were doing? What would you say about your relationships? What would you say about your finances?
00:08:42 What would you say about your career? What would you say about everything in your life, your health,
00:08:50 your physical wellbeing, your reputation in the world? Because see, the truth is finding your authentic self is a journey,
00:09:00 not a destination. It's not about where you end up. It's about where you're going. It's about all of the steps that you take in between it.
00:09:10 It's why it's important to reflect on your past, your present and your future. When you're thinking about who you are and what you want to put out into the world as your message because it's about all of those things.
00:09:24 We are made up of our past, we act in the present and we direct ourselves to a point in the future.
00:09:31 That's called being intentional about finding your authentic self. Thanks for listening. Thanks so much for listening to the inspired stewardship podcast.
00:09:48 As a subscriber and listener, we challenge you to not just sit back and passively listen, but act on what you've heard and find a way to live your calling.
00:10:00 If you liked this episode on the stewardship of talent, you can go over to inspired stewardship.com/talent and sign up for our five week series on the stewardship of talent.
00:10:14 Or if you're in the U S you can text four, four two, two two talent tips. That's talent tips to four,
00:10:24 four, two, two, two and get those tips. Until next time, invest your time, your talent,
00:10:30 and your treasures. Develop your influence and impact the world.


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  • Why becoming your authentic self is so important...
  • A few exercises to help you find your authentic self...
  • Why this is a journey not a destination...
  • and more.....

If you don't know who you truly are, you'll never know what you really want. ― Roy T. Bennett

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Episode 613: Time Management is a Myth

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Join us today for an episode about some of the biggest myths in time management and what to do about them...

Today's episode is focused on overcoming the myths of time management...

In today’s episode about impacting the world by stewarding your time, I talk with you about some of the biggest myth’s about time management, why the truth is it’s not about managing time anyway, and a few tips to get more productive anyway.

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00:00:00 Thanks for joining me on episode 613 of the inspired stewardship podcast. Hello my friend. This is dr Brad Miller from the pathway to promise podcast. If you'd like to stay inspired to stay on your pathway to promise you can't do better than listening to the inspired stewardship podcast with my friend Scott Mader. That's how you get more productive anyway, so I just gave you some tools and tips for each of these myths, but the truth is you have to experiment with them to find out what works for you and don't be afraid to tweak the system that the guru has,
00:00:51 if that makes it work better for you, including my own, including the coaching I do. Welcome and thank you for joining us on the inspired stewardship podcast. If you truly desire to become the person who God wants you to be, then you must learn to use your time, your talent, and your treasures for your true calling and the inspired stewardship podcast. We'll learn to invest in yourself, invest in others, and develop your influence so that you can impact the world in today's episode about impacting the world by stewarding your time,
00:01:35 I talk with you about some of the biggest myths when it comes to time management, why? The truth is it's not about managing your time anyway and I give you a few tips so that you can get more productive even if you aren't managing your time. As we talk about stewarding your time, wouldn't it be great if you could support this podcast and do it without just taking too long? It turns out you can't. All you have to do is use inspired stewardship.com/amazon when you're ready to make a purchase via Amazon and a small commission.
00:02:07 We'll come back to support the show just that quick. If you enjoy the show when you are ready to buy from Amazon, just use inspired stewardship.com/amazon let's talk a little bit about time management. You know, often people come to me as a client and that's what they're interested in is time management. But I really hate that description. I've talked about that before on the podcast. In fact, I believe that one of the biggest myths out there about time is that we can manage our time. The truth is we can't manage our time.
00:02:45 All we have is 168 hours in a week. We can't make it grow. We can't do anything to make us have more time.
00:02:53 And in fact, if you suddenly had 28 hours in a day, if you suddenly had 190 hours in a week without changing your mindset and your behavior,
00:03:03 you would actually just fill up those extra hours with the same busy tasks that distracts you today. So the truth is you can't imagine CLI manage your time.
00:03:15 Some of the other myths that are going on, we talk about budgeting our time. I actually use that phrase with clients.
00:03:23 You can budget your time, but you have to budget it in a particular way. See budgeting your time here.
00:03:30 A lot of times what people hear is they'll have a minute by minute plan of how everything is going to happen in their day and then what happens if something goes wrong,
00:03:39 they get distracted, they get frustrated, they throw the budget out the window and they start over because things interrupt them.
00:03:46 The the emergency things that the updates come in and just derail everything they do, but the truth is you can manage to manage or budget your time in different ways.
00:04:02 You just have to be aware that it's not that minute by minute perfection that you're actually aiming for. We also talk about planning every single day and that is important.
00:04:14 It's important to have task list. It's important to have focus. It's important to know and plan the next day,
00:04:20 the day before a little bit and budget your time and put in blocks of time that are important for things.
00:04:27 But the truth is if you want to just go from a day to day perspective, then you lose track of the bigger picture.
00:04:37 One of the other myths, it's all about getting it all done. It's about doing everything possible. And the truth is now it's about getting the right things done.
00:04:46 The real key is identifying what are the things to focus on and what shouldn't you focus on. This is why we often end up multitasking.
00:04:54 Another myth that you can do more than one thing at a time. You can't, and if you're trying to just simply check things off a list and get everything done and you aren't paying attention to what are your real priorities,
00:05:07 what are the most important things? What are the things that leverage and get more done going down the line,
00:05:13 you know, where's the 20% that gets you 80% of the results? Then if you don't do that,
00:05:19 you end up wasting things because you're spending a lot of time getting the unimportant things done instead of moving the big rocks,
00:05:28 which leads us to another myth. You know, you'll hear people talk about putting down the big three every day and you'll hear people talk about scheduling your hardest task first thing in the morning while your decision fatigue is low.
00:05:42 However, you have to be aware of the fact that we all have different kinds of energy levels. We have different rhythms to our energy throughout the day,
00:05:52 and you have to pay attention to your energy throughout the day, throughout the week, even throughout the month.
00:05:58 To be able to know when to put those most difficult tasks that take the most energy, they take the most mindset,
00:06:05 they take the most focus. You don't want to necessarily always put them in the morning. If you're flat in the morning,
00:06:11 you don't want to put them on Friday. If Friday is the day that you're drained, you have to pay attention to your own rhythms.
00:06:19 See, the truth is it's not about managing time anyway. That's not the focus. That's not really what we want to do.
00:06:27 Instead, what we want to do is focus on our priorities and our energy. We look at how we manage our own priorities and we focus on our own internal energies.
00:06:40 What drives us forward? What is the thing that gets us jazzed up? What is the thing that gets all of our energy going?
00:06:47 And these are the things that we're really called to do. And then from there, what we can begin to do is set really big goals.
00:06:56 We can look at the big picture and then you can dial that big picture back into capturing all of it in an external brain,
00:07:05 capturing all of it into a list system of some sort that you can trust so that you aren't carrying around all of this information in your head that's constantly distracting you and pulling you in the next direction.
00:07:17 And then in those lists you can focus on not just the big goal. See, sometimes we make a list and some of them are really easy like call Steve or make this,
00:07:28 but others are big tasks like file my taxes or get the party planned. And instead what we need to do is focus on for every single task,
00:07:37 even big projects. What is the next smallest action I need to take? So when I'm talking about organizing the party,
00:07:46 what do I need to do? Do I need to decide on a theme? Do I need to get invitations out?
00:07:51 Do I need to actually just write names on the invitation? Do I need to put stamps on the envelopes?
00:07:57 What are the small tasks that make up that big task? And the truth is you won't know all of them,
00:08:02 but by putting many of them down and giving the lists that you make context and depth, you'll make more progress.
00:08:10 You'll actually get a lot more done. You'll be more productive. And it's, it's a thing that you have to dial into your own personality,
00:08:19 your own mindset, your own belief, your own history. It takes time to develop a productivity system.
00:08:26 There are tons of ones out there that come off the shelf and people will swear that this is the system that turned their life around.
00:08:33 And now you should try and do exactly the same thing. But what I do when I approach this as a coach or in my course,
00:08:41 productivity for your passion, I always take the approach of no, let's first identify you, your needs,
00:08:50 your priorities, your personality, your rhythms, and then let's plug in the tools and the processes and adapt them to you.
00:09:01 That's how you get more productive anyway, so I just gave you some tools and tips for each of these myths,
00:09:08 but the truth is you have to experiment with them to find out what works for you and don't be afraid to tweak the system that the guru has,
00:09:17 if that makes it work better for you, including my own, including the coaching I do. Throughout that,
00:09:24 what you need to do is dial in, find the ways to be productive anyway. Remember, it's not about managing your time,
00:09:31 it's about managing your energy. It's not about managing time, it's about focusing on your priorities and as you do that,
00:09:41 you'll get more done and what's more important, you'll get the right things done. Thanks for listening. Thanks so much for listening to the inspired stewardship podcast.
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In today's episode, I talk with you about:

  • Some of the biggest myth’s about time management...
  • Why the truth is it’s not about managing time anyway...
  • A few tips to get more productive anyway...
  • and more.....

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