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SNS 75: Mindset Comes from Action, Action Comes from Mindset

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Join us today for the Saturday Night Special about an Action Mindset...

In this episode I share why you need an action mindset to achieve your goals...

In tonight’s Saturday Night Special I share with you what a mindset is.  I share how to recognize if your mindset is primed for action.  I also share what to do to begin shifting your mindset towards action.

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SNS 75 Mindset Comes from Action, Action Comes from Mindset
[00:00:00] Scott Maderer: [00:00:00] Welcome to tonight's Saturday night, special episode 75. I'm Heather Huemen from sweet tea, social marketing. 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 ability to reach others is key.
[00:00:24] And one way to be inspired to do just that is to listen to this, the inspired stewardship podcast with my friend, Scott Mader.
[00:00:43] why aren't you taking action? Why have you given up in the past? Is it because of being afraid of failure or rejection? Is it because you believe that things are too hard? Is it believed that because you believe that you don't have the necessary skills? There's reasons [00:01:00] why you don't take action. Welcome and thank you for joining us on the inspired stewardship podcast.
[00:01:08] 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 in 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.
[00:01:37] the ninth, Saturday night special. I share with you what mindset really is. And I talk about how to recognize if your mindset is actually primed for action. I also share a few things you can do to begin shifting your mindset towards taking action this year. No one area that a lot of folks need. Some [00:02:00] help with is around the area of productivity, getting not just more things done, but actually getting the right things done can be really tough.
[00:02:11] 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.
[00:02:40] 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 in [00:03:00] productivity for your passion.
[00:03:01] Check it out over@inspiredstewardship.com slash launch. No, I've talked before on the podcast about mindset and beliefs, but I'm not sure if I've ever actually defined it. A mindset according to psychology is a belief that orients the way we handle situations, it's the way that we work through what's going on and what should our response be?
[00:03:29] What should we do? Or what should we not do? In a good situation, our mindset can help us spot opportunities can help us grow, but they can also trap us in limiting. And self-defeating. Cycles there, there are tons of beliefs. There are tons of mindsets. I've talked before about the fixed versus the growth mindset that Carol Dweck popularize there's others about how we view the world and whether or not we view that.
[00:03:58]The only way people [00:04:00] respond to things is through authority and compliance, or do we view that people can learn to trust and cooperate? Do we view the universe and people as basically good, or do we look at them as basically evil and needing to be controlled? There's beliefs about whether or not we want to look at failure and avoiding failure as our primary goal.
[00:04:26] Are we okay with making new discoveries and making mistakes if they lead to new things? So there's all sorts of mindsets. But today I wanted to talk a little bit about an action mindset. See, the truth is that this is the time of year where a lot of people sit down and make resolutions and set goals and do all of these things.
[00:04:49] But a lot of studies show that by February, most of that action that people begin to take in response to that fizzles out. Then we'll start going to the gym because we want to [00:05:00] get in shape, but by mid February, that's gone. And part of that I think is because of the lack of changing our mindset around action and the action mindset is a determination to move from thinking about doing something to actually doing it.
[00:05:20] And here's the most important part. And it's the mindset about persisting? Even when the challenges are great, even when it gets hard, continuing it's moving from thought to action. One step at a time doing it one small step at a time. It's about how you say yes to yourself. So my wife and I are trying again, we've done this for a few years now where we've tried to walk the number of the year in miles.
[00:05:53] So this year we're trying to walk 2021, [00:06:00] 2022, 2021 was last year miles. And the funny thing is. Yo last year we had the same goal and it just completely fizzled out on us. And part of that is because we began to say no to ourselves each and every day, instead of yes, we began to fizzle out on it because well, last year was a hard year in a lot of ways.
[00:06:22] And that was the goal that we decided to give up last year. But we're continuing this year to reset refocus and do it again. See the action mindset contributes to how you act on your goals, whether or not you get motivated, whether or not you get connected to a reason to do them. See if you've struggled in the past with taking action with taking massive important action.
[00:06:50] It's usually not a lack of information. The truth is if we think about doing our money, most people can do the math. That's required in a budget doing [00:07:00] a budget. You can Google how to do a budget, but sticking to a budget, actually living on a budget. That's the hard thing. If you want to be financially successful, you can learn the tools and the techniques.
[00:07:13] It's the action that holds us back. Same thing for other goals as well. But the question that you have to ask is, are you really willing to make the changes, not just in what you believe, but also what you do, because the truth is it's a feedback loop. What we believe affects what we do, which affects what we believe, which affects what we do.
[00:07:35] You have to start though with changing your thinking. Why aren't you taking action? Why have you given up in the past? Is it because of. Being afraid of failure or rejection, is it because you believe that things are too hard? Is it believed that, is it because you believe that you don't have the necessary skills?
[00:07:53] There's reasons why you don't take action, but here's what you can do in [00:08:00] response. You can begin to reframe how you think about. That goal, how you think about that item begin to try to connect it to a bigger why? So it's not just about walking. It's about getting healthy. It's not just about walking. It's about being able to live longer so that I can be around the people that I love.
[00:08:21] It's not just about going to exercise. What are the benefits that it gives you? What is your, why behind it? What makes it more than just this goal? And also, instead of focusing on the challenges, focus on the rewards, focus on the good things, focus on how you feel better or how you lose a little bit of weight or how your energy begins to pick up.
[00:08:43] If it's an exercise goal, focus on the good, there's always bad. There's always challenges. Everything in life has bad things, but focus on the good. Also try to make sure that your goal is set with [00:09:00] very specific action words, verbiage that gives you the tasks that you're going to do. I'm going to walk 5.6 miles every single day.
[00:09:15] That's a very specific action. It tells me what I'm going to do. I'm going to take a walk. It tells me how far I'm going to have to walk. And so far I've been managing to do that specificity and verbs of action help make you do it. Give yourself a deadline set, a goal and a timeline that you need to do it by.
[00:09:36] That helps you stick to it and share that deadline with others and ask them to hold you accountable to it. Ask them to check in with you once a week or once a month periodically and see how you're doing. You may even want to find a buddy and go through that goal with them so that each of you are trying to do it because that also can help motivate both of you to follow [00:10:00] through because you don't want to let the other person down.
[00:10:03] And pay attention to your emotions around it. Make sure you're listening to inspirational music. You're paying attention to your energy. You're doing things to bring your energy up. You're rewarding yourself when you follow through with the goal. So that you're celebrating your wins and able to stick to it.
[00:10:23] All of these things help you begin to have a mindset to action and not be one of the people whose goals fizzle out by February 14th. Thanks for listening.
[00:10:39] 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 enjoy this episode, please, please do us a [00:11:00] favor. Go over to inspired stewardship.com/itunes rate.
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Episode 780: Is Debt a Sin?

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Join us today for an episode about answering the question of debt and sin...

Today's episode is focused on how being in debt isn't a sin but debt can act as a sin....

In today’s episode about investing in yourself through stewarding your treasures, I talk with you about how the Bible does (and doesn’t) describe debt.  I talk about so called “good debt” and “bad debt” and share why it’s not the debt that creates any sin but our response.  I also share why not having debt may be an important goal if you really want to live your calling.

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Episode 780 Is Debt a Sin
[00:00:00] Scott Maderer: [00:00:00] Thanks for joining me on episode 780 of the inspired stewardship podcast. I'm Jennifer Lozado, author of inheriting chaos with compassion. I encourage you to find the ways to be loving with your family both before and after you pass. And one way to be inspired to do that is to listen to this, the inspired stewardship podcast with my friend, Scott Mader.
[00:00:32] paying the debt off gives you options. It gives you choices. It gives you the ability to do things that perhaps you wouldn't have been able to do. If you have the debt's still there and that freedom, that ability to make different choices, that ability to do things that God is calling you to do that.
[00:00:56] Welcome. And thank you for joining us on the inspired stewardship [00:01:00] 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 in 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.
[00:01:28] And today's episode about investing in yourself through stewarding your treasures. I talk with you about how the Bible does and doesn't describe death. I talk about good debt and bad debt, and I share why it's not the debt that creates any sin, but our response, I also share why not having debt may be an important goal.
[00:01:47] If you really want to live out your calling. 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, [00:02:00] it turns out you can. 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, we'll come back to support the show.
[00:02:13] If you enjoy the show, when you're ready to buy from Amazon, just use inspired stewardship.com/amazon. In Monday's episode, Marcus and I talked a little bit about debt and what the Bible describes debt as. And I wanted to go into that a little bit more, I've talked before, I've referenced it a few times about is debt a sin.
[00:02:36] And one of the things that I would say is it's not a sin in the terms of being something that's eliminated or shown in the Bible to be. One of those quote listed sins, but it could be a sin in your life in some ways. And the way I talk about it is like this, sin is anything that [00:03:00] gets in our way between us and our relationship with God.
[00:03:04] And so debt could certainly do that. So it's not the act of going into debt that creates a sin in that and using that definition. It's the fact that it could be something that blocks us from that relationship. But let's look at what the Bible actually says about debt. One way it describes debt is the debt we owe God and using that kind of definition, it's the debt that we can never repay.
[00:03:33] It's a debt that has to be paid for us. It's the debt of a covenant that we have with God. But there's other warnings about debt that are more about the kind of debt that you're probably thinking about. What'd I say debt debt of money from Proverbs 22 seven, the rich rule over the poor and the borrower is slave of the lender.
[00:03:55] Now I'm not going to compare being in debt to being a literal [00:04:00] slave. Being a slave is a horrible thing. And the fact that has ever existed is one of those things that I can't. Really fathom. I couldn't imagine being a literal slave and what that must be alike, but it's using that analogy because it's saying if you owe money, you're not free to make decisions of your own.
[00:04:20] You're not able to make your own choices because you've entered into an agreement to pay it back. And in fact, it goes on later in Proverbs, 22, 26 and 27 to say, but not one of those who gives pledges, who puts up security for deaths. If you have nothing with which to pay, why should your bed be taken from under you?
[00:04:41] In other words, the idea is if you don't pay back your debts, they can come in and take property of yours, your a you're at the mercy of someone else able to do that. It also says in Proverbs 17, one who lacks sense, gives a pledge and puts up security in the presence of his [00:05:00] neighbor. Basically, it's saying, if you go into debt, that's foolish.
[00:05:05] It's a lacking of wisdom. And of course, Romans 13, eight says, Oh, no one, anything except to love each other for the one who loves another has fulfilled the law. The idea being that we shouldn't be in any sort of debt other than the debt of relationship. And in that way, that's why I would say that debt isn't and is a sin because the truth is if you go into debt, If you go into that dead and it keeps you from being able to live out and do what you want to do in terms of your relationship with God, it keeps you blocked off from that relationship than it is acting as a barrier.
[00:05:47] It's your response to the debt that creates the sin. You'll hear people talk about good debt and bad debt. How, if you are using other people's money to [00:06:00] finance something like buying rental real estate, that's quote good debt while something like a consumer credit card debt is bad debt because there's no asset to stand for it.
[00:06:11] And I would argue that. All of these things are debt, whether they're good debt, whether they're bad debt, it doesn't really matter to me. There's not a value statement of good or bad. That makes sense. Instead, you want to look at what the debt is doing in terms of your relationship with others. What is it doing in terms of your relationship with God?
[00:06:33] Is it blocking you. From being able to do that. Is it blocking you from being able to live out your calling? Is it blocking you from being able to do what God calls you to do? If it is, then it is indeed bad debt and so-called good. Debt could still do that because if you've got a lot of money that you owe one, two or three rental houses, [00:07:00] you are forced out of certain decisions and into other decisions.
[00:07:04] Now you still have great options. You still have things you can do, but. You don't have the same options of somebody who owns those same rental places completely free and clear. The debt creates a change in your relationship. And I think that's important because think about it. If you had a ton of debt and you're working a nine to five job that you hate and your ability to go on a mission trip.
[00:07:32] Or to be able to give towards something that you're called to give towards. Would it be limited, would you be able to do and give as freely? Would you be able to take time off work and be able to travel on a mission trip and do good deeds for others? And of course the answer is no, if you're completely debt free, would you be able to do that?
[00:07:53] And the answer is you'd be much more likely to be able to. So it's not so much that [00:08:00] you don't do good things while you're in debt and it's not that debt makes you a bad person or a good person. It's that paying the debt off gives you. Options. It gives you choices. It gives you the ability to do things that perhaps you wouldn't have been able to do.
[00:08:18] If you have the debt's still there and that freedom, that ability to make different choices, that ability to do things that God is calling you to do that is why debt can act as a sin. Even though going into debt is not a sin. Thanks for listening.
[00:08:45] 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 [00:09:00] your calling. If you like this episode on the stewardship of treasures. 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.
[00:09:22] 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. .

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

  • How the Bible does (and doesn’t) describe debt... 
  • So called “good debt” and “bad debt” and share why it’s not the debt that creates any sin but our response...
  • Why not having debt may be an important goal if you really want to live your calling...
  • and more.....

The rich rules over the poor, and the borrower is the slave of the lender. - Proverbs 22:7

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Episode 779: Big Goals Are Never Easy

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Join us today for an episode about the need to set big goals even if you don't achieve them...

Today's episode is focused on setting and pushing towards big goals....

In today’s episode about investing in yourself through stewarding your talent, I talk with you about why even though big goals aren’t easy you should set at least some big goals this year.  I share how to know how to achieve (or not) those goals and I share a framework to stay motivated to achieve those goals.

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Episode 779 Big Goals Are Never Easy
[00:00:00] Scott Maderer: [00:00:00] Thanks for joining me on episode 779 of the inspired stewardship podcast.
[00:00:09] RJ Jackson: [00:00:09] I'm RJ Jackson, the courage
[00:00:10] giver. I encourage you
[00:00:12] to have the courage you need to live
[00:00:14] your calling.
[00:00:16] And one way to be inspired to do that is to listen to this, the inspired stewardship podcast with my friend Scott Mader.
[00:00:33] Scott Maderer: [00:00:33] but all along the way, you've got to make sure you implement tracking and you implement accountability that you
[00:00:39] measure what you're doing and you're hold yourself accountable
[00:00:42] RJ Jackson: [00:00:42] to pushing on that.
[00:00:43] Scott Maderer: [00:00:43] I guess the truth is
[00:00:45] RJ Jackson: [00:00:45] let's look back at that client that sets the 15 goal a month idea if they just went from two
[00:00:53] Scott Maderer: [00:00:53] to four.
[00:00:54] Doubling welcome. And thank you for joining us on the inspired stewardship podcast. [00:01:00] 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 in 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.
[00:01:28] Today's episode about investing in yourself through stewarding your talent. I talk to you with you about why, even though big goals, aren't easy. You should try to set at least some really big goals every year. Even this one, I share how to know how to achieve
[00:01:45] RJ Jackson: [00:01:45] or how not to achieve and why that
[00:01:47] Scott Maderer: [00:01:47] matters those goals.
[00:01:49] And I share a framework to stay
[00:01:50] RJ Jackson: [00:01:50] motivated to
[00:01:51] Scott Maderer: [00:01:51] actually follow through. You've heard me talk about developing your talent and what are the best ways to do that is through [00:02:00] books. 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.
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[00:02:37]Big goals are not easy.
[00:02:39] RJ Jackson: [00:02:39] That's part of what makes them
[00:02:41] Scott Maderer: [00:02:41] big goals. When you sit down and you decide that you want to
[00:02:44] RJ Jackson: [00:02:44] do something massive, you want to make an impact. You want to make a big
[00:02:48] Scott Maderer: [00:02:48] change in your life.
[00:02:50] RJ Jackson: [00:02:50] It's
[00:02:50] Scott Maderer: [00:02:50] always intimidating. It's always scary. It always feels very uncomfortable. It feels like it's impossible.
[00:02:58] Like this will never get done. [00:03:00] And, we've talked before about smart goals and one way to interpret that is that. A and smart is attainable. And I think there is a lot of value and a lot of
[00:03:09] RJ Jackson: [00:03:09] good ideas behind sitting down and planning, mini goals that you know,
[00:03:16] Scott Maderer: [00:03:16] or a tape
[00:03:17] RJ Jackson: [00:03:17] attainable, that you can get them done.
[00:03:18]You can hit them this
[00:03:19] Scott Maderer: [00:03:19] year.
[00:03:20] RJ Jackson: [00:03:20] But I think you should have at least a
[00:03:22] Scott Maderer: [00:03:22] few areas of your life, whether it's in business, whether it's in personal life,
[00:03:27] RJ Jackson: [00:03:27] you should have a few things
[00:03:29] Scott Maderer: [00:03:29] where you focus each year
[00:03:31] RJ Jackson: [00:03:31] on trying to have a
[00:03:33] Scott Maderer: [00:03:33] big, hairy, audacious goal as
[00:03:36] RJ Jackson: [00:03:36] Jim Collins calls it
[00:03:38] Scott Maderer: [00:03:38] from good to great wait.
[00:03:39]
[00:03:39] RJ Jackson: [00:03:39] You should be able to set a goal that kind of tries to make you knock it out of the park.
[00:03:45] Scott Maderer: [00:03:45] Something.
[00:03:46] RJ Jackson: [00:03:46] That if you hit it, it's going to make a massive change.
[00:03:50] Scott Maderer: [00:03:50] And part of the reason for that, especially in a year like this, when we're all trying to reset is the real truth is when you set these really [00:04:00] big goals,
[00:04:00] RJ Jackson: [00:04:00] even if you fall
[00:04:01] Scott Maderer: [00:04:01] short,
[00:04:02] RJ Jackson: [00:04:02] you often achieve
[00:04:04] Scott Maderer: [00:04:04] real massive success.
[00:04:09] RJ Jackson: [00:04:09] Some people don't
[00:04:10] Scott Maderer: [00:04:10] set goals at all. Some people don't like the goal setting mindset, but the truth is hitting big goals
[00:04:17] RJ Jackson: [00:04:17] or not hitting them.
[00:04:19] Scott Maderer: [00:04:19] Doesn't matter what matters is what happens
[00:04:22] RJ Jackson: [00:04:22] to you because you set an aim
[00:04:25] Scott Maderer: [00:04:25] for big goals,
[00:04:27] RJ Jackson: [00:04:27] a big goal that may be so big that you can't even accomplishment. Even if you
[00:04:32] Scott Maderer: [00:04:32] miss it by a mile, it's still worth the risk.
[00:04:37] If especially you approach it with the right attitude. We'll talk some about that in a minute.
[00:04:43]RJ Jackson: [00:04:43] If you set a big goal, you begin to. Align
[00:04:47] Scott Maderer: [00:04:47] things and stretch what you believe is possible. You begin to
[00:04:51] RJ Jackson: [00:04:51] recognize that maybe you can do a lot
[00:04:53] Scott Maderer: [00:04:53] more. Let's say you're a business owner and it's relatively easy for you to add two clients a [00:05:00] month.
[00:05:00] This happens pretty much every month of the year, without a lot of effort, without a lot of work. And the truth is
[00:05:07] RJ Jackson: [00:05:07] you could actually have as many as
[00:05:09] Scott Maderer: [00:05:09] 10 clients a month that you onboard. So what if you set the goal of onboarding.
[00:05:15] RJ Jackson: [00:05:15] 15 clients a month. The interesting thing is immediately,
[00:05:19] Scott Maderer: [00:05:19] your brain has to look at it different.
[00:05:21] You have to recognize that you're going to have to run some experiments. You're going to have to try some things.
[00:05:26] RJ Jackson: [00:05:26] You're going to have to do something other than
[00:05:27] Scott Maderer: [00:05:27] just sit back and do what you've always done. There's no possible way you can achieve
[00:05:33] RJ Jackson: [00:05:33] it
[00:05:33] Scott Maderer: [00:05:33] without it. That's what
[00:05:35] RJ Jackson: [00:05:35] big goals do they fit?
[00:05:36] Force you
[00:05:37] Scott Maderer: [00:05:37] to test and
[00:05:38] RJ Jackson: [00:05:38] learn and adapt and make mistakes
[00:05:40] Scott Maderer: [00:05:40] and try again.
[00:05:41] RJ Jackson: [00:05:41] And what's interesting
[00:05:43] Scott Maderer: [00:05:43] is that will pay off dividends.
[00:05:45] RJ Jackson: [00:05:45] And the other thing is they
[00:05:46] Scott Maderer: [00:05:46] often cause us to emotionally
[00:05:49] RJ Jackson: [00:05:49] feel
[00:05:49] Scott Maderer: [00:05:49] relatively strong because the truth is when we're working towards a really big goal and often gives us a lot of emotional feedback.
[00:05:57] It gives us a feeling of we're [00:06:00] doing something that
[00:06:01] RJ Jackson: [00:06:01] matters
[00:06:02] Scott Maderer: [00:06:02] to do this though, to stay motivated, to work towards a goal that it's
[00:06:07] RJ Jackson: [00:06:07] entirely possible. You may not even hit. You have to be willing to embrace. The unknown. You have to be willing to be a little bit uncomfortable.
[00:06:17] Scott Maderer: [00:06:17] You have to work to get clarity on what is
[00:06:20] RJ Jackson: [00:06:20] this goal and what do you want to achieve?
[00:06:24] You have to begin to put into place
[00:06:26] Scott Maderer: [00:06:26] checkpoints or milestones and aim towards those. You have to learn with a real purpose. You have to
[00:06:34] RJ Jackson: [00:06:34] focus on
[00:06:35] Scott Maderer: [00:06:35] learning with just in time learning where you're just learning the next step. You're just staying one step ahead of yourself and you're learning. And then
[00:06:43] RJ Jackson: [00:06:43] applying that learning back immediately so that it
[00:06:47] Scott Maderer: [00:06:47] solidifies it.
[00:06:49] That's also where coaching
[00:06:51] RJ Jackson: [00:06:51] and feedback comes in handy because
[00:06:53] Scott Maderer: [00:06:53] there's a lot of studies that show that real learning occurs best
[00:06:57] RJ Jackson: [00:06:57] when you have coaching and
[00:06:59] feedback
[00:07:00] [00:06:59] Scott Maderer: [00:06:59] during that process.
[00:07:01] RJ Jackson: [00:07:01] And
[00:07:02] Scott Maderer: [00:07:02] that follow through,
[00:07:03] RJ Jackson: [00:07:03] having somebody who holds you accountable and pushes you
[00:07:07] Scott Maderer: [00:07:07] is a valuable when you've set really
[00:07:10] RJ Jackson: [00:07:10] big
[00:07:11] Scott Maderer: [00:07:11] goals.
[00:07:12] RJ Jackson: [00:07:12] And then you can begin
[00:07:13] Scott Maderer: [00:07:13] to systematize it and turn it into a habit. Because
[00:07:17] RJ Jackson: [00:07:17] once you begun to turn things into
[00:07:20] Scott Maderer: [00:07:20] unconscious learning where you just do it
[00:07:23] RJ Jackson: [00:07:23] automatically, then all of a sudden that big goal becomes something that you can do each and every year. And
[00:07:28] Scott Maderer: [00:07:28] now you're looking for a new. Big goal, but
[00:07:32] RJ Jackson: [00:07:32] all along the way, you've got to make sure you implement tracking and you implement accountability that you
[00:07:38] Scott Maderer: [00:07:38] measure what you're doing and you're
[00:07:40] RJ Jackson: [00:07:40] hold yourself accountable to pushing on that
[00:07:42] Scott Maderer: [00:07:42] because the truth is
[00:07:45] RJ Jackson: [00:07:45] let's look back at that client that sets the 15 goal a month idea.
[00:07:50] If they just went from two
[00:07:52] Scott Maderer: [00:07:52] to four.
[00:07:53] RJ Jackson: [00:07:53] Doubling that's a relatively easy goal. They could probably do that and make very
[00:07:59] Scott Maderer: [00:07:59] few [00:08:00] changes to how they operate.
[00:08:01] RJ Jackson: [00:08:01] But if they want to go from two to 15, that suddenly
[00:08:06] Scott Maderer: [00:08:06] means they have to make massive changes. And
[00:08:09] RJ Jackson: [00:08:09] what happens if they miss the goal? What happens if they only
[00:08:12] Scott Maderer: [00:08:12] get two thirds of the way there, they're
[00:08:14] RJ Jackson: [00:08:14] still getting 10 clients
[00:08:16] Scott Maderer: [00:08:16] a month, which is well over twice, what the tinier goal would give them.
[00:08:22] And the truth is this happens to us all the time. We often undersell our own abilities. We
[00:08:28] RJ Jackson: [00:08:28] often think that we can't
[00:08:30] Scott Maderer: [00:08:30] do it when in reality, we're holding ourselves back. So what are one or two areas of your life where you feel like you really need to push yourself this year? You really need to set a big goal.
[00:08:44] RJ Jackson: [00:08:44] And if you have those
[00:08:45] Scott Maderer: [00:08:45] and you need a coach, or you need someone to hold you accountable, I'd love to be that person. Thanks for listening.
[00:08:57] Thanks so much for listening to the inspired stewardship [00:09:00] 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 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.
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Episode 778: Spend Time Wisely

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In today’s episode about investing in yourself by stewarding your time, I talk with you about why this year more than ever you need to focus on spending your time wisely.  I share how you can know if you are spending your time wisely and share a simple three part framework to help you begin to spend your time more wisely this week.

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Episode 778 Spend Time Wisely
[00:00:00] Scott Maderer: [00:00:00] Thanks for joining me on episode 778 of the inspired sturgeon podcast. I'm Joe Schum from soul patch, hippo success coaching. I want to serve your journey to be the next version of you to be inspired, to become the most authentic. You listen to this, the inspired stewardship podcast by my friend, Scott Mader every day can help you keep the focus that you need.
[00:00:34] and begin to create systems and structure around them. Group things together, block things into blocks of time. Control the time on your calendar. What's available for meetings what's available for calls what's available for emails. Schedule those things that you've been putting off and maybe not getting done, but that are really important to actually get done.
[00:00:58] Welcome. Thank [00:01:00] 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 in the inspired stewardship podcast. We'll learn to invest in yourself.
[00:01:17] Invest in others. And develop your influence so that you can impact the word.
[00:01:30] And today's episode about investing in yourself by stewarding your time. I talk with you about why this year more than ever. You need to focus on spending your time wisely. I share how you can know if you are spending your time wisely. And I share a simple three part framework to help you begin to spend your time more wisely, that you can apply this very week.
[00:01:50] 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 [00:02:00] you have to do is use inspired stewardship.com/amazon. When you're ready to make a purchase via Amazon and a small commission, we'll come back to support the show.
[00:02:09] Just that quick. If you enjoy the show, when you are ready to buy from Amazon, just use inspired stewardship.com/amazon. I don't know about anyone else, but I think we can all pretty much agree that 2020 was not probably the most fun year that you've ever had in your life. Even if things worked out okay for you, even if you didn't get ill or suffer a job loss or have other issues or problems or concerns that came up, it probably wasn't what is going to go down in history as your best year ever.
[00:02:47] You may have had a good year, but you probably didn't have a great one. And I think that's why this year 2021, it's so important to focus on spending your time wisely. [00:03:00] Okay, by the way I'll actually give you a little secret. I would say that no matter what happened last year, and I would say that no matter what year it is, because the truth is time is one of our most scarce resources.
[00:03:13] In fact, it is the most scarce resource, even more scarce than money or anything else. We do not have an unlimited amount of time. We are. All given 24 hours in a day, seven days a week. But what we're all given also is the ability to choose how we spend that time. We're given some amount of power to choose what we do with that time.
[00:03:39] And my argument would be that even more than money. Our time is where she, we should focus our attention first on making sure we're doing it wisely because out of spending time wisely comes habits around money. Out of spending time wisely comes habits about monitoring our [00:04:00] energy and paying attention to how our energy flows.
[00:04:03] Think about time right now. You already pay for convenience. Whether it's stopping it at a convenience store or paying for overnight delivery. Any of these things are a way that we change time and give it a monetary value. And the shorter, the time, the more expensive it is, if you're thinking about something like a delivery, that's an.
[00:04:23] Example of why our time has a factor or has a measure here on our money. Think about how you value time and how you spend it. What dollar amount would you put on an hour of your time? When you look at it that way you begin to recognize that sometimes what you're doing with your time today is not necessarily what you want to do with your time forever.
[00:04:51] No time cannot be stored up co time cannot be saved in that sort of sense of putting it in the bank and saving it for later. You [00:05:00] can only spend the time you have right now. And are you spending the time in a way that gives you happiness, that gives you freedom that gives you and builds for the future.
[00:05:12] Are you spending the time today in a way that just really. It's the same today as it will be tomorrow as it will be the next day where you're not really focusing on changing or improving or growing, are you spending the time in a way, if you're a business owner that helps to grow, generate growth, that helps to generate income.
[00:05:37] That also does it in a way where you don't have to hustle around the clock and work 24 seven. If you're an employee, are you figuring out a way to do things more efficiently and to grow it so that you don't have that same 24 seven mentality? See this 24 seven grind. All the time mentality I would argue is a broken measure of time.
[00:05:59] We're [00:06:00] not spending our time wisely. If it requires us to work 24 hours a day in seven days a week. Instead, we should actually transform ourselves so that we can maintain and grow and do what we need to do without having to work eight hours a day, 16 hours a day, 27 hours a day. And yes, I know that last one's impossible, but you get the point.
[00:06:23] That seems to be what we hold up as a badge of honor nowadays. So how do you know if you're spending your time wisely? How do you know. If you're actually able to do what you want to do in the time that you have. The first step for any time you want to know what you're doing is to actually pay attention, to be attentional about measuring what you're doing.
[00:06:47] See the truth is you probably do several hundred tasks each and every day. And you consciously, only think about one or two of them. So keep a detailed log. I talk about doing what I call the 30 [00:07:00] minute or 15 minute miracle exercise, where you sit down and take a piece of paper and put 30 minute increments on it.
[00:07:06] And then have an alarm set on your watch. That silently goes off every 30 minutes and every 30 minutes you take a moment or two and you jot down the big ideas. What did you do in the last half hour? You don't have to keep a detailed moment by morning moment, second by second law, but begin to capture.
[00:07:22] The things that you do, you can use an electronic tool like toggle to do this as well. Especially if you work on the computer all day, but log, what are you doing? How much are you spending on Facebook? How much on Netflix? How much on email, how much on actually calling clients and then begin to apply once you've captured that for a couple of days or a week or a month, sit down with those tasks and begin to identify what are you doing?
[00:07:50] Think about the Eisenhower matrix, this idea of urgent and important. How many of these tasks are urgent? How many are important? How many are both [00:08:00] and how many are not urgent and not important at all? Are there tasks that you can be eliminating from your calendar or the things that you're doing today that you actually need to just get rid of?
[00:08:11] They don't actually need to be, get done. Are there any that need to be automated and turned into something that happens automatically or delegated to others, maybe you can outsource it or hire someone to do it. The truth is until you've identified, which are the tasks that you should be doing, which are the tasks you should be paying attention to, which are the tasks that are really the most important for you to get done.
[00:08:38] You can't spend your time wisely. And then once you've done that focus in on those very few tasks that are probably left. Cause there really won't be as much as you think, and begin to create systems and structure around them, group things together, block things into blocks of [00:09:00] time, control the time on your calendar.
[00:09:02] What's available for meetings. What's available for calls what's available for emails, schedule those things that you've been putting off and maybe not getting done, but that are really important to actually get done. Make sure that you're making some time for your family, for yourself, for health, for wellness, for taking care of yourself for all of those things that are really important, but because they're not urgent, we tend to not pay attention to them.
[00:09:31] No, Psalm 90 verse 12 says teach us to number our days that we may get to the heart of wisdom. And that's the framework that we really have to use. Pay attention to how we use our time, because out of that comes spending our time wisely. Thanks for listening.
[00:09:56] thanks so much for listening to the inspired stewardship [00:10:00] 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 liked this episode on the stewardship of time, be sure to sign up for our stewardship of time tips series by going to inspired stewardship.com/time or texting four four, two, two, two time tips, and that'll get you our best tips on stewarding your time.
[00:10:39] Until next time, invest your time, your talent and your treasures. Develop your influence and impact the world.

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

  • Why this year more than ever you need to focus on spending your time wisely... 
  • How you can know if you are spending your time wisely...
  • A simple three part framework to help you begin to spend your time more wisely this week...
  • and more.....

So teach us to number our days that we may get a heart of wisdom. - Psalm 90:12

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