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Episode 978: YOLO

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Today's episode is focused on both the good and bad effects of YOLO on your time...

In today’s episode about investing in yourself by stewarding your time, I talk with you about the YOLO idea.  I share some of the benefits of YOLO.  I also share some of the downsides of the YOLO philosophy.

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Episode 978: YOLO

[00:00:00] Scott Maderer: Thanks for joining me on episode 978 of the inspired stewardship podcast.

[00:00:07] Gina Johnson: I'm Gina Johnson from synergy mindset coaching. I encourage you to find your own journey from surviving to thriving. And one way to be inspired to do that is by listening to this, the inspired stewardship podcast with my friend, Scott.

[00:00:23] Scott Maderer: that's not a problem with Yolo. That's a problem with how we've identified our values and priorities. And by the way, if you haven't done the hard work of identifying your values and your priorities that having a yellow philosophy leads you to just jump from thing to thing with no pattern and no.

[00:00:43] And no real direction. 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 [00:01:00] 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.

[00:01:10] Can impact the world.

[00:01:13] In today's episode about investing in yourself by stewarding your time. I talk with you about the, you only live once our Yolo idea, I share some of the benefits of Yolo, and I also share some of the downsides of the Yolo philosophy as we talk about stewarding your time. Wouldn't it be great. If you could support this podcast and do it.

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[00:01:58] Yolo [00:02:00] are you only live once is one of those catch phrases that kind of went around and became this big sensation. And I don't necessarily hear it quite as much now. Especially after COVID and everything, but I still hear people talking about it. And I think COVID actually highlights some of the reason why this idea, the you only leave once idea.

[00:02:26] The idea of Carpe diem seize the day becomes so important for us to understand the truth is understanding and recognizing that it is true. You only do live one. That is the true situation that you find yourself in. The thing of it is we often think of our life as a dress rehearsal. Like we're going to get another attempt at it, but the truth is the life that you're living today is the only [00:03:00] life you have.

[00:03:01] You truly do only live once. But the truth is understanding too, that having that mentality can lead to both good choices and bad choices when it comes to how we manage our time, how we manage our money. And even more importantly, how we manage ourselves, if you recognize that the truth is. See yourself as having a limited amount of time, you'll actually focus more and get more done.

[00:03:35] Have you ever had a day where you have nothing on your calendar and you think to yourself, oh, I'm going to get so much done today. And then you get to the end of the day and you've accomplished less than on those days where you had several events and several other things planned and you were just grabbing time in between other things to get stuff done.

[00:03:53] And you ended up getting more done when you had less time. The truth is that there's [00:04:00] some psychology behind that also plays out with the Yolo philosophy. They've actually studied people that are diagnosed with a terminal illness, though. They have some sort of near fatal experience and we look at how they are affected.

[00:04:16] And usually there's a period of initial shock, but many people after. Experience a profound shift in how they spend their time, how they appreciate life and their general sense of happiness. Because a lot of folks then will very quickly start cutting stuff out of their life that used to stress them out, things that they used to pretend to care about, but really didn't and focus.

[00:04:43] Instead on those things that they really feel called to do the things they most enjoy, the things that really give them. Benefit and joy in their life. This happens too. When you study people, as they age, as we age, [00:05:00] we tend to devote more time to activities and relationships that are positive in our life and spend less time on things that breathing negativity, this bias.

[00:05:13] This idea is a parent at all levels. Older people when looking at a scene tend to focus on their pleasant aspects are when you look at a college student and you remind them of death in an experiment, they then spend more time looking at positive words and less time looking at negative words and word selection.

[00:05:38] In other words, when we become aware that our life is scarce, our time is limited. We tend to focus more on positive things and less on negative things. And that happens with our time. This is a benefit of recognizing Yolo it's its sort of scarcity played out. Have you ever had it where you're out shopping and you [00:06:00] find the last of something on the shelf, the last box of cereal, the last shirt in that size, the last shirt of that color and all of a sudden you feel compelled to buy.

[00:06:12] That's because scarcity creates a certain level of desirability. And the same thing happens when we recognize that we do only live once. Unfortunately, there's also some downsides to this. I'm sure you've seen articles where someone w. Tweeting out. You only live once before, perhaps dying in a drunk driving accident or people who are arrested and their excuse afterwards is you only live once.

[00:06:44] The truth is there is also times when our mortality thoughts when recognizing that we're mortal can actually. Affect our self-esteem and belief systems. And that means that when we're [00:07:00] reminded of death, the things that we value, the things that we put our priorities to the things that give us the most joy and the most self-esteem are amplified.

[00:07:11] And that means sometimes that may include reckless or bad behavior as well, because. Sometimes, if our value system isn't set up in a way that is powerful and good, but instead values behaviors that many people would look at as negative. Then those are what get amplified by recognizing that you only live one.

[00:07:38] That's not a problem with Yolo. That's a problem with how we've identified our values and priorities. And by the way, if you haven't done the hard work of identifying your values and your priorities that having a Yolo philosophy leads you to just jump from thing to thing with no pattern and no sense and no real [00:08:00] direction to your life, to both of these are true.

[00:08:06] Of recognizing that the life that you're living today is the one and only life that you get. Thanks for listening.

[00:08:16] 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 call. 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

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

  • The YOLO idea...
  • The benefits of YOLO...
  • The downsides of the YOLO philosophy...
  • and more.....

Dream as if you’ll live forever. Live as if you’ll die today. – James Dean

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Episode 973: Time Management is Hard

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Today's episode is focused about three reasons time management is hard...

In today’s episode about impacting the world by stewarding your time, I talk with you about why Time management is so difficult.  I share ten reasons that time management is hard.  I also share some tips on what you can do about it.

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Episode 973: Time Management is Hard

[00:00:00] Scott Maderer: Thanks for joining me on episode 973 of the inspired stewardship podcast.

[00:00:07] Ryan Englestad: I'm Ryan Ingolstadt from pop psych 1 0 1. I encourage you to find health. And one way to be inspired to do that is by listening to this, the inspired stewardship podcast with my friend, Scott.

[00:00:18] Scott Maderer: I've got pretty good at it over the years. And yet the truth is time management is hard over the years of studying this and working with other people, I've discovered that there's not a simple app or a trick or a hack or a single technique that works for all people that turns us all into the super organized, highly.

[00:00:40] Welcome and thank you for joining us on the inspired stewardship. 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, [00:01:00] invest in others and develop your influence so that you can impact the world.

[00:01:06] In today's episode about impacting the world by stewarding your time. I talk with you about why time management is so difficult. I share 10 reasons why time management is really hard. And I also share some tips on what you can do with. 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.

[00:01:31] 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. Just that quick. If you enjoy the show, when you are ready to buy from Amazon, just use inspired stewardship.com/. No, the truth is that we talk a lot about time management on the show and I've gotten pretty good at it over the years.

[00:01:57] And yet the truth is [00:02:00] time management is hard over the years of studying this and working with other people, I've discovered that there's not a simple app or a trick or a hack or a single technique that works for all people that turns us all into the super organized, highly productive. Instead, it is about experimenting, trying different things.

[00:02:22] It's a work in progress. It's something that you have to do and work at each and every day. And you have to begin to recognize and focus on yourself, your own strengths and weaknesses and tools and techniques that help inject that into your. So I want to talk about 10 specific reasons why time management is hard.

[00:02:44] And for each also give you a little bit of a tip about what you can do about it. The truth is we all want quick fixes. We all want solutions, but often times there's a degree of self-discipline that's needed. I've talked [00:03:00] before about how systems and processes Trump discipline, but there is a need to have a certain amount.

[00:03:08] Clarity on your goals that lends itself to being disciplined about them. Discipline is often the way to get started while systems and processes are the way to continue. And so one thing you can do to inject that self-discipline is get crystal clear on your goals and why you're trying to do it. And what's the why behind it.

[00:03:31] Why do you care about your. The second tip is we often get unclear on what is our real priority. It's true. You can use something like the Eisenhower box. So that's the one we've talked about before with an important and urgent kind of grid, dividing it into four boxes and other things to delegate and identify which task you should really focus on.

[00:03:54] But beyond that, you also need to pay attention to what are your real values what's important to you? [00:04:00] And why do you care about. You'll notice that in each of these so far, I'm talking about us as well as just tools and techniques. The third thing is as much as we'd love to have control over everything, we often don't.

[00:04:17] There are things that happen to us that are beyond our control. And what you have to do is learn to focus. The things that are really in your control. Yes, you can develop contingencies, you can develop other plans, you can develop resiliency and all of these other skills, but at the end of the day, when life happens, you have to learn to focus on what you do have control.

[00:04:40] The fourth thing that makes time management hard is distractions because we live in a world with constant distractions messages that are meant to pull us off of our task and make us pay attention to things that aren't really important. But it's [00:05:00] easy to get sucked into that rabbit hole each and every day.

[00:05:03] And what you can do is begin to identify what are your distractions? What are the activities that suck up your time and begin to block or eliminate them during times when you're trying to pay attention, which brings us to the fifth thing, maintaining focus. We're often not really good at maintaining.

[00:05:23] Focus. This is where techniques like Pomodoro and meditation can help begin to train your brain into how to learn, to focus on the things that are most. The sixth, the fact that work is seldom finished anymore. Unlike doing something like manually building a shelf or building a wall, it's hard to know where the beginning, the middle and the end.

[00:05:51] So it's important to sit down before you begin a task and decide for this particular task, what is done? What is [00:06:00] complete? What is finished? What is good enough to be off my plate and move. The seventh, a lack of boundaries. This is related to the one we just covered, but the truth is with laptops, smartphones, wifi, all of these things.

[00:06:16] It also means that our work often blends into the rest of our life in a way that blends it together. And it's where you have to create and set boundaries between your personal and your work, whether you're self-employed or work for someone else, you have to establish. Those boundaries. The eighth reason that time management is hard as this idea that we can plan our way to success that we optimistically spend all of this time predicting what will get done and how much we'll do, and never actually begin to work on it.

[00:06:53] And because of that, we often end up starting way too. And so this idea of doing [00:07:00] early rapid implementation or action quickly is so important to managing our time. The ninth reason is this idea of present self versus future self psychologically. We often decide what our future self will do, but ignore the fact that when we get there, it's our present self that makes the decision that early morning run.

[00:07:26] That sounded really good. Last night is really hard to do whenever you wake up at five in the morning. And this is one of those things where you have to work on the delayed gratification habit. You've got to work on the systems and processes to help you. And the last reason why time management is hard as sometimes we have that day where we just say everything stinks and we don't want to pay attention to it.

[00:07:52] We just want to waste some time. And you know what, it's important to remember that's actually okay. As long [00:08:00] as it's from time to time, not each and every day, as long as it's few and far between and something that you do when you really have to recharge your batteries, there's nothing wrong with just saying, you know what, today I'm not going to be productive and that's okay.

[00:08:17] Thanks for that.

[00:08:18] 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 call. 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 4 4, 2, 2, 2 time tips, and that'll get you our best tips on stewarding your [00:09:00] time until next time.

[00:09:03] 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 Time management is so difficult...
  • Ten reasons that time management is hard...
  • Some tips on what you can do about it...
  • and more.....

Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. We all have twenty-four hour days. – Zig Ziglar

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Episode 968: Do You Have Too Many Goals?

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Today's episode is focused on filtering to your most important goals...

In today’s episode about developing your influence by stewarding your time, I talk with you about how it is possible to have too many goals.  I share some techniques you can use to filter your goals.  I also share what to do about goals at different scales.

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Episode 968: Do You Have Too Many Goals?

[00:00:00] Scott Maderer: Thanks for joining me on episode 968 of the inspired stewardship podcast.

[00:00:06] Dow Tippet: I'm , DowTippett author of seven daily choices. 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.

[00:00:22] Having the ability to make the right choices every day is key. And one way to be inspired to do that is to listen to this, the inspired stewardship podcast with my friend, Scott.

[00:00:34] Scott Maderer: and as you do that, filter through the goals and identify what things are, habit goals, what things are achievement goals, what things. A month or a week or a year to do. And what things can I knock out relatively quickly? And that way you end up with some goals at different scales, and then you can repeat this process as you accomplish one of these goals and knock it off the list.[00:01:00]

[00:01:00] 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 in the inspired stewardship podcast. You'll learn to invest in yourself, invest in others and develop your influence so that you.

[00:01:24] Can impact the work

[00:01:26] and today's episode about developing your influence by stewarding your time. I talk with you about how it is possible. You can have too many goals. I share some techniques you can use to filter down to your most important goals. And I also share what you can do about setting goals at different scales.

[00:01:46] 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 [00:02:00] 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.

[00:02:05] Just that quick. If you enjoy the show, when you are ready to buy from Amazon, just use inspired stewardship.com/. How many goals are you really trying to accomplish right now? There's a really good chance. There's a really good possibility that you've actually got to. This happens to a lot of us when we're trying to be productive and get a lot done.

[00:02:29] And it's an understandable, easy to make mistake. We want to achieve everything that we can. We want to be the best that we can. And even I have told you to set goals and even set big, hairy, audacious goals, challenging ones. But the problem is that often what we end up doing is setting too many goals.

[00:02:51] And in basically that's the same as having none at all, because you end up frustrated and frazzled and feeling like you're [00:03:00] never making any progress on any of them. And the truth is the cure is really easy. Cut the list of goals down to something that's more manageable, but. We often feel like, we've got to have more goals, we've got to keep pushing ourselves and we push against that idea.

[00:03:23] The truth is the process that you can go through to begin to identify what are the goals that you really want to pay the most attention to is first to just do a brain. Sit down with a piece of paper or your computer, or turn your phone on to record and just talk out loud and start talking about all of the goals that you have, get them captured in some way.

[00:03:50] Don't worry about filtering them, just think about all of the things that you want to do regardless of the scale, regardless of the details, regardless of whether there's [00:04:00] something about. Building type activity or an achievement goal, something that you want to accomplish. And the truth is trying to begin to identify what are the little routine things that aren't really goals per se, but are just the, you need to get them done all the time, like the laundry and the bills and various habits like that.

[00:04:24] And what are actually the big goals that you really want to accomplish in some sort of sizable, timescale things like quitting smoking or writing a book. Or changing careers, things about maybe redoing relationships or strengthening relationships. These sorts of larger activities often have been floating around in your head nagging at you for weeks or months.

[00:04:53] And so capture them and get them down on paper and then begin to divide the [00:05:00] list and prioritize the list. Look at it and divide, what are personal and water professional goals. You should have some of each and then begin to look at what, which of these goals are the most important. What are the things that if I could only do one thing on this list, what are the things that I would most want to do?

[00:05:20] You can also group goals into small goals. Look for the small goals that you can knock out quickly and easily. And then you can also identify the goals that would have the biggest long-term impact, the ones that would change your life in a positive way, or change your career in a positive way, and then decide using these kind of three identifiers.

[00:05:46] What is the one top goal that you should achieve? What is the one thing that you want to get? And then if I could do one other [00:06:00] thing, what would it be? And if I could do one other thing, what would it be? And then begin to identify the timescale for these goals. Are they short-term goals? Are they long-term goals?

[00:06:12] Are they things that are going to take a long time to accomplish? And if so, begin to break them down into smaller components. What are the things I can do today that move me towards writing about. Cause saying, write a book as a goal is all well and good. But if you don't start thinking about what are the activities that make up writing a book you're never going to get started.

[00:06:35] And as you do that, filter through the goals and identify what things are, habit goals, what things are achievement goals, what things require a month or a week or a year to do, and what things can I knock out relatively quick? And that way you end up with some goals at different scales, and then you can repeat this process as you accomplish one of these goals and knock it off the list.

[00:06:59] [00:07:00] What's the next thing that moves into the most important slot. And what's the thing after that, you usually only want to have three to five goals for the year. Three to five for quarter three to five for a month and three to five for any week or day. And that way you can begin to scale these goals and build them up and connect them to each other.

[00:07:24] So that over a year, you will accomplish huge things. The truth is way too often. We way overestimate what we can get done in a day, but we way underestimate what we can get done in a year. And by setting this framework and identifying what goals fall at different scales, what goals are really the most important by getting them down on paper, you can begin to accomplish the goals that you have, not just have so many goals that never get done.[00:08:00]

[00:08:00] Thanks for listening.

[00:08:01] 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. But act on what you've heard and find a way to live your calling. If you like 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 4 4, 2, 2, 2.

[00:08:37] Time tips, and that'll get you our best tips on stewarding your time 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 it is possible to have too many goals...  
  • Some techniques you can use to filter your goals...
  • What to do about goals at different scales...
  • and more.....

Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing. ― Sylvia Plath

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Episode 963: Why You Never Seem to Have Enough Time

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Join us today for an episode about the reason you FEEL like you have no time, and what to do about it..

Today's episode is focused on the psychology of busy...

In today’s episode about investing in others by stewarding your time, I talk with you about why we feel we never have enough time.  I also share why it’s as much psychological as based on the clock.  I also give you some tips on what to do about it.

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Episode 963: Why You Never Seem to Have Enough Time

[00:00:00] Scott Maderer: Thanks for joining me on episode 963 of the inspired stewardship podcast.

[00:00:06] Travis Rosser: I'm Travis Rosser, the author of you Inc. The step-by-step guide for finding the business within you. 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 call.

[00:00:24] Having the ability to really find your gifts and calling is a key. And one way to be inspired to do that is to listen to this, the inspired stewardship podcast by my friend, Scott Maderer.

[00:00:37] And don't get me,

[00:00:38] Scott Maderer: I'm saying if you're working two jobs to put a roof over your head and food on your table, you run right out and quit your job so that you can go out and do something that feels. But what I am saying is until you identify a path towards that, you're going to stay feeling too busy, overwhelmed, and stressed out.

[00:00:59] But if you [00:01:00] identify a path and begin walking down that path, you'll immediately begin to feel better. Welcome.

[00:01:06] Travis Rosser: 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. Your talent and your treasures for your true calling and the inspired stewardship podcast.

[00:01:23] We'll learn to invest in yourself, invest in others and develop your influence so that you

[00:01:30] Scott Maderer: can impact the world.

[00:01:32] And today's episode about investing in others by stewarding your time. I talk with you about why we feel we never have enough. I also share why it's as much psychological as based on the clock. And I also give you some tips on what you can do. As we talk about stewarding your time. Wouldn't it be great.

[00:01:51] 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 [00:02:00] 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. Just that quick. If you enjoy the show, when you are ready to buy from Amazon, just use inspired stewardship.com/.

[00:02:16] Nowadays, it seems like we look up at the end of the day and it's amazing that it's the entire day has passed the day's over and yet we've got nothing done. We're trying to figure out a time to schedule plans with others. And it doesn't seem like there's any time open on the calendar. Most people nowadays feel like we don't have enough time.

[00:02:38] And I wanted to talk about some of the reasons behind. First off, there's actually a study, a lot of studies. Now that show that on average, American workers are working 47, 48 or 50 hours somewhere in that neighborhood instead of a 40 hour work week, even though there's a lot of research that shows that over 40 hours tends to be less.[00:03:00]

[00:03:00] And in fact, if you look at the spread, many people are spending 70 or more hours every week working, especially if you include their second job or a side hustle kind of jobs as well. And this has a couple of distinct effects. First off you are maybe working more hours than you really need to, because you're trying to make yourself seem a little more indispensable to your company, or just because.

[00:03:27] There's a need to be busy or sometimes it's even just because you have no else. No other thing to do you fill up your schedule with lots of busy stuff, not filling up your schedule with lots of important. Another study that's out there shows that there's a lot of extra tasks that we do. And we often times feel pressured about these tasks.

[00:03:53] If they tend to be looked at by us as tedious, repetitive, or an interesting when you're doing [00:04:00] tasks that you're not really jazz to do you end up feeling like you have less. Stress plays a massive role in how we feel about time. And when we feel like we've got conflicting goals and we're pulled in multiple directions and we're not in alignment, that stress makes us feel like we don't have enough time.

[00:04:23] And I've talked before about how social media could create that feeling of FOMO. That feeling of I'm always missing out. I want to do something else that I'm not doing right now. A lot of times, too, you're not paying attention to the time that you are actually using and where you're using it. And so you'll spend hours on something simple and repetitive, and that's rewarding, like checking Facebook when you're not actually getting the work done that you need to do.

[00:04:54] There's also studies that show that when you lack autonomy, when you don't feel like you [00:05:00] have any control over your own time, That begins to make you feel more and more out of control. If you feel like you have the ability to make choices about your time, then suddenly you begin to feel more in control.

[00:05:17] And it's not necessarily saying no to doing something and creating more free time. It's just having the ability to choose when and what you do. The truth is all of these things can affect to you and your time, but notice that many of them don't necessarily actually have anything to do with the number of hours that you work or the amount of time that you put in.

[00:05:40] The first one that we talked about in terms of 40 hours a week does, but the rest of them all have a psychologic. Component the fact that we feel overwhelmed and busy and stressed out and not engage. And like we have no autonomy is as much psychological as it is based on the clock. [00:06:00] And the truth is you can do things about that.

[00:06:04] You can begin to find ways. To block out social media. You can begin to find thing ways to say no to some things so that you can say yes to the most important things. That's what we talk about over and over again on this show is the way you can do that by paying attention to where you're spending your time by focusing in on what your real goals and values are by doing the deep work.

[00:06:35] You begin to open up the feeling of having more time and the reality of having more time, both the clock and your psychology begins to align every time I've taken on extra things, even whenever it was something I wanted to do. And I thought it was important if it wasn't in alignment with my overall goals, [00:07:00] I end up feeling stressed out, tired, frustrated.

[00:07:05] And too busy to really do what I'm supposed to do. And every time that happens, I end up feeling like I don't have enough time, even though I often times do. And the truth is that's the same for you. So the first step and the most important step is always to really sit down with your calendar and your to-do list and your other task and figure out what are my priorities, what are my values?

[00:07:36] What is really important to me and what can I do to begin to bring these things into a. And don't get me wrong. I'm not saying if you're working two jobs so that you could put a roof over your head and food on your table, you run right out and quit your job so that you can go out and do something that feels better.

[00:07:54] What I am saying is until you identify a path towards that, you're going to [00:08:00] stay feeling too busy, overwhelmed, and stressed out. But if you identify a path and begin walking down that path, you'll immediately begin to feel. And that's what I teach. That's what we try to do. It's not about living out your calling magically.

[00:08:19] It's about doing the hard work, doing the deep work so that you truly can live your life in alignment and do what God calls you to do. Thanks for listening.

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

  • Why we feel we never have enough time...
  • Why it’s as much psychological as based on the clock...
  • Some tips on what to do about it...
  • and more.....

The key is not to prioritize what’s on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities. – Stephen Covey

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