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Episode 528: Is Time Using You?

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Join us today for an episode about way time wasting may not be what you believe...

Today's episode is focused on using your time with intentionality...

In today’s episode about developing your influence by stewarding your time, I talk with you about intentionality in our use of time.  I also share why what you say is wasting time may not be but only if you really are intentional in your time and reflection.  I also share how to know if how you use time is wasteful or worship.

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00:00:00 Thanks for joining me on Episode 5 28 of the inspired Stewardship podcast. I'm Scott Brookins from scott brookins dot com. I encourage you to find the way to be inspired to start your dream business and find freedom. And one way to do that is to be inspired by this. The inspired stewardship podcast with my friend Scott made her. I know that about myself. I know that I need some time where I could be inside my own head in a positive way, because I'm also of the personality that I can go inside of my own head in a very negative way.
00:00:41 And so for me that time wasting activity that to someone else from the outside looking in they go. That's completely non productive. Time that doesn't do anything beneficial is incredibly beneficial. 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 sturgeon podcast will learn to invest in herself, invest in others and develop your influence so that you can impact the way in today's episode about developing your influence by stewarding your time.
00:01:28 I talk with you about intentionality when it comes to the use of our time. Why what you say is wasting time may not actually be,
00:01:38 and how to know if it's wasteful or worshipful with 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?
00:01:52 It turns out you can't. All you have to do is use inspired stewardship dot com slash amazon when you're ready to make a purchase via Amazon,
00:02:01 and a small commission will come back to support the show just that quick. If you enjoy the show when you are ready to buy from Amazon,
00:02:09 just use inspired stewardship dot com slash amazon. Time is one of those things that as human beings, which have been worried about well,
00:02:20 probably for all time, I mean in the Bible. Ephesians Chapter five verses, 15 through 17 says Look carefully,
00:02:29 then how you walk not is unwise, but is wise making the best use of the time because the days are evil.
00:02:38 Therefore, do not be foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is. I mean, this passage and there's several others is actually about using our time wisely.
00:02:50 There's dozens of of different examples from Christianity from other philosophies where we talk about measuring or time and using our time.
00:03:01 Well, this is an area where I worked with a lot of folks because I think as human beings we often have this instinct that we're not using our time as well as we could that we could do better at this where we're wasting time.
00:03:17 We're not using our timeto to grow ourselves to serve others. We look up and an hour has gone by and we've spent all of that time thumbing our way through Facebook or watching the black latest next Netflix show.
00:03:32 And we'd look up and we just feel like we have nothing to show for the time that we've spent,
00:03:38 we haven't gotten anything done. We haven't been productive. Maybe we've said all of the goals we've done all our planning.
00:03:45 We've done all of the things right that we talk about, and still things just aren't happening. We're not using our time to its best.
00:03:57 We're not able to look up at the end of the day and say My time has been well spent and I feel that it is a worthy offering unto the Lord and the work that I'm supposed to be doing.
00:04:08 Instead, we find ourselves tired, frustrated and angry at ourselves, vowing to do better the next day.
00:04:18 The truth is, when it comes to time, it is about being intentional. It is about setting the right things and the right intentions in place so that you can use your time well doing all of these things that we talk about setting a plan,
00:04:34 executing on that plan, reviewing it, revising it, setting good goals and breaking them down into very specific task.
00:04:41 Those are important things to do when it comes to using our time with intentionality. But the other half of that is Thio actually execute on that to do things that we're supposed to be doing to do the things that we want to be doing to do the things that were called to be doing.
00:05:08 And here's some funniness about that. Some strangeness about that see, oftentimes things that we consider wasteful of our time aren't wasting time there.
00:05:23 There are time at the beginning of this when I I used the example of sitting down and bingeing on Netflix for several hours.
00:05:31 The funny thing is, that could be a good use of your time. It could be some timeto shift your brain down and recharge your batteries and get reset for a new day or a new set of task.
00:05:44 And that also could be a complete and total time wasting activity where you've sat down and you've wasted hours into the evening into the night and you have a hard time getting up the next day and being productive and doing things and you're angry at yourself and your regretful of the time you spent.
00:06:02 It's not watching Netflix by itself. That would be evil are wasteful. In that situation, it's the intentionality.
00:06:11 Behind it was this time that you intentionally set aside for recharging your batteries. Yeah, I'm a big video game player,
00:06:22 and it would be really easy for me to look at any time I spend playing. Video games is complete and total waste of time.
00:06:29 I've spent money on them, and when I play them, I don't get anything out of them other than relax ation entertainment and the ability sometimes to just disappear for a little while into a fantasy world that allows me to come back out of it and interact with people in a way that's healthier.
00:06:49 And that allows me to be friendly and kind and serve others well and see, I know that about myself.
00:06:57 I know that I need some time where I could be inside my own head in a positive way, because I'm also of the personality that I can go inside of my own head in a very negative way.
00:07:08 And so for me that time wasting activity that to someone else from the outside looking in they go. That's completely non productive.
00:07:16 Time that doesn't do anything beneficial is incredibly beneficial. But you'll notice I reflected on it. I know the benefits that I get.
00:07:27 I also know the dangers that I could easily get sucked into that world and use that world is a distraction that keeps me from coming out and interacting with others.
00:07:37 That keeps me from doing the job that I'm supposed to be do that that becomes the easy way out.
00:07:44 Instead of doing the hard work. That's why just because someone else looks at your activity and says that's a complete waste of time doesn't necessarily mean that it is.
00:07:56 But it also doesn't mean that it's not. You have to take a step back. You have to be intentional in your reflection on your use of time.
00:08:06 That's one of the reasons that one of the things I teach is keeping records of how you're spending your time so that you have that data to be able to reflect on it and come back in and know what it is that you're actually doing and know why you're doing it and then begin to build the systems and the processes in the habits to do the things that you intentionally want to do and to carve out those things that you don't want to do.
00:08:40 It's the intention behind it that creates whether or not that time and that use of that time is wasteful.
00:08:48 Our weather using that time becomes one more example of worshipful use of your time, of sending the time up as something that is valuable for others,
00:09:03 valuable for yourself and even valuable for God. sake. I don't think God wants us to work 24 7 I don't think God wants us tow only do the hard things.
00:09:14 I think God also wants us to enjoy our life. God also wants us to be able to look back and be recharged and be reset.
00:09:24 That's one of the reasons that were supposed to take a Sabbath a day where we do not work. And yet even that day becomes work unto the Lord.
00:09:33 But the work there is the work of intentionally resting and recharging your batteries. So I ask you to look at the time that you're using and not just assume that it's wasteful,
00:09:45 but also to set some intentionality behind how you use your time and use it well, thanks for listening.
00:09:55 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.
00:10:10 But act on what you've heard and find a way toe Live your calling. If you like this episode on the stewardship of time,
00:10:19 be sure to sign up for our stewardship of time tips. Siri's by going to inspired stewardship dot com slash time or texting 44222 time tips and that'll get you our best tips on stewarding your time until next time investor time,
00:10:45 your talent and your treasures develop your influence and impact world.

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  • Intentionality in our use of time...
  • Why what you say is wasting time may not be...
  • How to know if it’s wasteful or worship…
  • and more.....

Guard your time fiercely; be generous with it, but be intentional about it.  - David Duchemin

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Episode 523: Discounting The Value of the Future

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Join us today for an episode about the reason you often can't make progress and what to do about it...

Today's episode is focused on why we often don't use hope well...

In today’s episode about investing in others by stewarding your time, I talk with you about why there is a practical reason we discount the value of the future and allow our present to distract us.  I share why we can help our future self with a few simple techniques and share one.  I also explain why this is a powerful technique for managing time.

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00:00:00 Thanks for joining me on Episode 523 of the inspired Stewardship podcast. 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 Maderer. This idea of tying together something that you want to do with something that you don't want to do is a powerful one. But it comes to managing our time. See, this isn't a willpower trick, per se.
00:00:42 I mean, yeah, there is still a little bit of willpower in that You have to force yourself to actually execute on it. But the interesting thing is, once you begin to execute on it, 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 in the inspired stewardship podcast 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 investing in others by stewarding in your time I talk with you about why there's a practical reason that we discount the value of the future,
00:01:36 why we can help our future self with a few simple techniques and why this is a powerful technique for managing 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?
00:01:55 It turns out you can't. All you have to do is use inspired stewardship dot com slash amazon when you're ready to make a purchase via Amazon,
00:02:03 and a small commission will come back to support the show just that quick. If you enjoy the show when you are ready to buy from Amazon,
00:02:11 just use inspired stewardship dot com slash amazon this time of the year. One of the things that kind of comes up over and over again is this idea of goals and resolutions and how this new start this new beginning of a new year is one of those times that we often use to set and create new realities.
00:02:34 You know, this New year, new you kind of movement and the truth is that there is a lot of power in beginnings.
00:02:43 There's a lot of power in transitions. There's a lot of power in those times where we do see a chance for a new beginning.
00:02:51 You know, whether it's a birthday of, ah, of a particular decade. Maybe when you're turning 40 when you're turning 30 we have a tendency to see those things as new beginnings,
00:03:01 and it really does help us begin toe do things that are different than what we've done before. But the truth is,
00:03:10 there's also some practical reasons why we discount the value of the future. You know, things air a rough if things air challenging right now,
00:03:21 we often will look forward and project the time that we have now the problems that we have now as if they're going to be in the future exactly the same as if what's happening today will never change.
00:03:37 You know, this is one of the problems with looking at things like whether it's a debt snowball where you're trying to project when you'll be debt free,
00:03:44 whether it's something like sitting down and looking at your goals and your productivity in your career, no matter what it is when we look to the future,
00:03:54 it's really hard for us. Sometimes, too, picture the reality of, ah, hopeful future. We discount its value.
00:04:03 We look at it as something that is just not riel, but the truth is hope. And looking to the future and looking at it as a powerful set of scenarios and possibilities is one of the most powerful things we can do to get us in tow action and keep us as an action while we're creating this new you.
00:04:28 This new reality. See, the truth is, willpower only goes so far. If you've ever tried before,
00:04:36 to will yourself to go to the gym every single day. You've probably discovered very quickly that that power runs out there.
00:04:44 There's a limit to just grit and do it. Sure, it works for a while, but it also turns out there is research that shows that if that's all you're doing,
00:04:53 is grinning and doing it just bearing it down and that it actually affects things like your health as well as your ability to be successful.
00:05:01 Instead, there's a couple of simple tricks that you can use that will help you with managing this sort of thing.
00:05:10 So one of them and I'm gonna talk about a few more on Saturday's episode as well. But for right now,
00:05:17 the one I want to focus on is this idea of temptation bundling. See, Let's say you've had a long day at work,
00:05:25 and you've tried to establish a habit of having an evening workout. But every day when you get home,
00:05:32 you're tired. Your will power is drained. Your ability to make decisions is drained, and instead you sit down on the couch and binge Netflix for an hour.
00:05:43 What happens is that temptation that that power of Netflix that draw to that pleasurable activity outweighs your will. Power's ability to force you to do something that in the long term is much better for you.
00:05:58 But right now just feels like work and discipline. And that's the exercise activity, and what you could do instead is you could do what's called temptation.
00:06:06 Bundling. This is identifying something that you really want to do. Let's say in this case, watch Netflix for an hour and linking it to the thing that you're not so thrilled about doing.
00:06:18 Maybe the only time you can watch. Netflix is while you're working out on the treadmill, you tie the act.
00:06:27 Fun activity to the less than fun activity is one of the reasons that I listen to podcasts whenever I'm exercising.
00:06:36 That's kind of my reward for exercising. Of course, it also has the benefit of distracting me and giving me something to think about and focus on beyond just the physical exercise.
00:06:47 This idea of tying together, something that you want to do with something that you don't want to do is a powerful one when it comes to managing our time.
00:06:57 See, this isn't a willpower trick, per se. I mean, yeah, there is still a little bit of willpower in that You have to force yourself to actually execute on it.
00:07:05 But the interesting thing is, once you begin to execute on it, it begins to build up where you look forward to your time on the treadmill.
00:07:14 Why? Because that's when you get to watch and catch up on your latest shows. You may even spend a little longer on the treadmill just so you can watch a little bit.
00:07:22 Maur Netflix This feedback loop of of tying something you want to do with something that's a challenge for you to do becomes a key technique to building the habit and managing your time.
00:07:37 And you can do this with a number of things. You can do it with audio activity. You could do it with video activity.
00:07:42 You can even do it with something like reading a book, and it doesn't have to be tied to physical exercise.
00:07:47 It could be tied to something else. It could be tied to updating your budget. Maybe you have a particular beverage that you really enjoy.
00:07:56 But now fix that and on Lee, tie that to the times that you're working on. Your goals are working on your budget or working on your money,
00:08:05 and that's when you get to have that particular drink that you enjoy. Maybe it's a particular tea or a glass of wine or something like that.
00:08:14 What you're doing is you're creating a neural connection between that pleasurable activity and that activity that you want to turn into a habit.
00:08:23 And if you do that for even just a very short amount of time, even a month or so,
00:08:28 you can build a much longer term habit much quicker than you would otherwise. So even though we look to the future and often discount its power,
00:08:39 we discount the fact that tomorrow will be different from today. And because of that, we can lose hope and we can begin toe.
00:08:46 Just try to grin and bear it and bear our way through his grit, our way through doing things with pure willpower,
00:08:53 which often runs out and then creates that very prophecy that we were worried about, of the future being as bad or the same as it is today.
00:09:02 Instead, tweak it and begin to use temptation bundling to begin to build the habit of doing that long term activity that you know is better for you.
00:09:16 Thanks for listening. Thanks so much for listening to the inspired stewardship podcast. As a subscriber and listener,
00:09:28 we challenge you to not just sit back and passively listen. But act on what you've heard and find a way toe Live your calling.
00:09:38 If you like this episode on the stewardship of time, be sure to sign up for our stewardship of time tips.
00:09:46 Siri's by going to inspired stewardship dot com slash time or texting 44222 time tips and that'll get you our best tips on stewarding your time until next time investor time,
00:10:08 your talent and your treasures develop your influence and impact world.

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  • Why there is a practical reason we discount the value of the future...
  • Why we can help our future self with a few simple techniques...
  • Why this is a powerful technique for managing time...
  • and more.....

Do Something Today that Your Future Self Will Thank you For.

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Episode 518: What to Put on Your Calendar Versus Your To-Do List

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Join us today for an episode about the difference between a calendar and a to-do list and why it is important...

Today's episode is focused on having your calendar and to-do list work for you...

In today’s episode about investing in yourself by stewarding your time, I talk with you about why the way you use your calendar and your to do list is important.  I also share the tactic of dealing with blocking time versus working from a list.  I share with you why this makes a difference to your productivity.

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00:00:00 Thanks for joining me on Episode 518 of the inspired Stewardship podcast. Hey, guys, this is Matt Ham from you.Print would encourage you to find your own journey to living your life's calling, and one way to be inspired. To do that is to listen to the inspired stewardship podcast with my friend Scott mater, especially if you really do put the step in of consciously making a decision about what makes it on your to-do list in terms of what's at the top and what's on the bottom. I will tell you the kinds of task of my to-do list go into the future by months and months and months,
00:00:41 sometimes a year or more into the future. Sometimes I just put things on the to-do list that are someday, maybe ideas that I just want to capture and get out of my head. But they don't even have a due date yet. 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 in the inspired Stewardship podcast will learn to invest in yourself,
00:01:11 invest in others and develop your influence so that you can impact in today's episode about investing in yourself by stewarding your time I talk with you about why the way you use your calendar and your to-do list is important. Ah, share the tactic of dealing with blocking time on a calendar versus working from a list and why this could make a real difference in your productivity 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.
00:01:50 All you have to do is use inspired stewardship dot com slash amazon when you're ready to make a purchase via Amazon, and a small commission will 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 dot com slash amazon Ah, calendars and to do list. You know, the truth is, most of us have multiple calendars and often multiple to do list floating around where we've got a list for work and a calendar for work and then a calendar for our home life and list about things that we want to do at home.
00:02:29 Maybe we carry around a grocery list and other list as well. And the truth is, it's it's funny, but what ends up happening a lot of times as we end up not using these things well, because we're scattered, we're all over the place. We've got multiple documents and multiple things that show our time and compete, and we end up getting confused, getting things lost. Yeah, it's the old joke of I have to have a list so that I know where to find all my list. I have to have a master calendar that pulls all of my calendars in that.
00:03:02 Actually, sometimes it's not a bad idea. The truth is, oftentimes, if we can end up with a single calendar and a single to-do list that we use is sort of the dominant thing that controls all of our time,
00:03:18 we're much more effective because we have one life. We have one calendar. We have one life. We have one list Now,
00:03:26 the other thing that ends up happening a lot of times people hear that and they go great, so I should get it down.
00:03:31 The one thing. So let me use my calendar as my to-do list. And I would suggest that these two things air actually used in different ways,
00:03:42 if you want to be, is effective as possible with how you use your time. So let's talk a little bit about the difference between a calendar and a to-do list and how you determine what you use each four.
00:03:56 See a calendar is really just a list of days and times, and then what we usually add to a calendar.
00:04:04 I mean, the kind of stereotypical system is to think of a calendar is a place to put appointments,
00:04:11 and that's true what you can do with the calendars. You can put things on there that have a fixed time,
00:04:19 a fixed place that they need to occur. It could be an appointment. Now here's the interesting thing.
00:04:25 It doesn't just have to be an appointment with others. It can also be an appointment with yourself. So if there's something that on Thursday,
00:04:35 you need to sit down in front of your computer, and do a certain thing because it's due Thursday afternoon.
00:04:43 And so you've got time blocked out on your calendar on Thursday morning to be able to get it done,
00:04:49 then that's an appointment with yourself that's appropriate to block that time out on your calendar to commit to it physically,
00:04:56 I'm going to be at a certain time at a certain place, even though it's just with myself. And then if somebody else comes along and wants to schedule a meeting or a time during that time on Thursday morning,
00:05:07 you legitimately can say no. I've got an appointment now. You don't have to tell them that the appointment is with yourself.
00:05:15 It's an appointment. It doesn't matter who it's with. They don't need to know that information. It's not necessarily relevant.
00:05:21 So this is a way of blocking time out on the calendar. Four appointments. Now let me share something else.
00:05:28 Another trick on the calendar. Let's say, for instance, you actually have to drive to an appointment.
00:05:35 What we usually fail to do is take into account the time it takes us to get there, and the time it takes us to get back or to the next location.
00:05:43 I'm suggesting that you actually block out on your time transportation time. The amount of time it takes you to get to the appointment,
00:05:51 the amount of time it takes you to get back from the appointment as well. Because again, that time has a fixed time and place.
00:05:59 You're going to be in the car. You're going to be traveling now. Obviously, you can't get everything perfectly right.
00:06:05 Sometimes you put down an hour in the appointment only takes 30 minutes. Sometimes you put an hour in the appointment actually takes an hour and 1/2.
00:06:13 But you can at least get a fairly good grasp of your time. And you can see, for instance,
00:06:19 right away. Hey, this appointment is going into the transportation time. Therefore, I need to call someone and let him know I'm gonna be late to the next thing or I need to rearrange something on my schedule.
00:06:30 It gives you visibility of how your time is flowing throughout the day. So if that's a calendar, then why not just take everything for my to-do list and begin to put blocks of time and say,
00:06:43 hey, this one hour time This is where I'm going to get this done. Well, the truth is,
00:06:48 if you have never noticed your to-do list, oftentimes ends up being somewhat fluid. Sure, there are things that you put on your to-do list that are must do things.
00:06:59 You've got to get this done today because it has a due date. Those oftentimes can come over to your calendar.
00:07:06 But there's a lot of other stuff on your to-do list where it's I need to get these seven or eight things done.
00:07:12 And honestly, if I do three of them on Monday, three of them on Tuesday and three of them on Wednesday,
00:07:17 it really doesn't matter which three I do each day. The order isn't important. It's just the fact that it needs to get done.
00:07:25 It's things that you have a little bit of control over. Um, I'm gonna work on this in the morning,
00:07:30 and we're gonna work on it in the afternoon. Where can it fit in during my day? Or it may be a series of small task that you need to pick up and put down and be able to kind of slot in where you have time so that to-do list is really just a list of all of the possible things that you might want to do.
00:07:49 And then you can prioritize that list and move things around and put certain things at the top of the list and other things at the bottom of the list.
00:07:57 This is why I use Electronic Tool because it makes it much easier for me to drag and drop and move things around.
00:08:03 But this list is somewhat fluid, not completely fluid. There are still things that are locked to certain due dates,
00:08:09 but there's also a lot of things that just kind of get moved around and slotted in where they fit.
00:08:14 And then there's things that I'll pick up and put on my to-do list for today. But then something changes.
00:08:20 A new priority comes in, and I make a conscious decision to move something from today to tomorrow and slot something new in as the priority for today notice.
00:08:31 However, I said I made the conscious decision. What's interesting is if you put those things on your on your calendar,
00:08:39 if you made that kind of time commitment that often feels like a bad thing that feels like it's a failure in some way.
00:08:46 That feels like I was trying to get this done in the morning and I didn't get it done until the afternoon,
00:08:51 and that feels bad. But if you're moving things around on your to-do list and then slotting them in on your calendar is you have time.
00:08:59 It doesn't it doesn't emotionally feel is bad, especially if you really do put the step in of consciously making a decision about what makes it on your to-do list in terms of what's at the top and what's on the bottom.
00:09:12 I will tell you the kinds of task of my to-do list go into the future by months and months and months,
00:09:18 sometimes a year or more into the future. Sometimes I just put things on the to-do list that are someday,
00:09:23 maybe ideas that I just want to capture and get out of my head. But they don't even have a due date yet,
00:09:29 and periodically a review that kind of captured document. And look at these things that don't even have a date and decide.
00:09:35 Is this something I need to move into my priorities? for this quarter this month. This year, whatever it ISS I do.
00:09:42 That is part of that review process that we've been talking about the last few weeks. So my to-do list is a capture tool for all of these ideas.

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

  • Why the way you use your calendar and your to do list is important... 
  • The tactic of dealing with blocking time versus working from a list... 
  • Why this makes a difference to your productivity...
  • and more.....

You have to calendar time for yourself even if you have no idea what you're going to do with it. - Susie Bright

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Episode 513: Did You Set Resolutions?

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Join us today for an episode about the reasons your resolutions haven't worked...

Today's episode is focused on how you can make resolutions more effective...

In today’s episode about impacting the world by stewarding your time, I talk with you about the difference between resolutions and goals.  I also share why setting resolutions generally don’t work but if you modify it a bit it can.  I also talk with you about why you should work with a coach if you really want to turn your resolutions into success.

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00:00:00 Thanks for joining me on Episode 5 13 of the inspired Stewardship Podcast. I'm Dow Tippett, 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 colleague. 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 Maderer. Don't really even tune in to the why behind a resolution.
00:00:46 Why do we want to eat right? Why do we want to get our finances in order? Why do we wanna start a side hustle instead? It's just kind of vague aspiration. And that's why resolutions often peter away because we haven't built into the resolution goals. 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 in. The inspired storage of podcast will learn to invest in yourself,
00:01:26 invest in others and develop your influence so that you can impact the way in today's episode about impacting the world by starting your time. I talk with you about the difference between resolutions and goals, why sitting resolutions generally doesn't work and why you should work with a coach. If you really want to turn your resolutions into success as we talk about Stuart in your time,
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00:02:19 just use inspired stewardship dot com slash amazon. Ah, if you're listening to this episode on the day that it comes out,
00:02:28 you probably stayed up a little late last night, maybe watch some fireworks or watch the ball dropping on TV and got ready for 2020 The New year,
00:02:39 the new decade and one of the traditions that a lot of people do is they set down and they make resolutions for the New Year resolutions for 2020 and first off,
00:02:53 I want to be clear. I have nothing against setting resolutions. That's not necessarily a bad thing. But what I can tell you is,
00:03:02 Ah, lot of studies show that when people just set resolutions, they don't follow through on them that usually by February 14th by Valentine's Day,
00:03:15 whatever it was that they set out and resolved to do has drifted away and they've gone back into their old bad habits.
00:03:23 They're doing what they've always done and expecting a different result. Think about it. Maybe you've done that yourself.
00:03:31 Maybe you sat down and you've made a resolution that, hey, this year this is the year I'm going to get my money in order.
00:03:38 This is the year I'm going to get on a budget. I'm going to make a plan. I'm going to get out of debt.
00:03:43 I'm going toe save more for my kid's college or my own retirement. I'm gonna learn how money works,
00:03:52 and then you start on it in January, you do a budget, you make a plan and then things go wrong.
00:03:58 And by February or March, you're not even trying anymore. Or maybe you've sat down and you made a resolution that you're gonna eat healthier.
00:04:07 You're gonna lose weight this year and you start going to the gym and you start meal planning and you do it pretty diligently.
00:04:14 And by halfway through February, it's kind of gone by the wayside and you're not going to the gym anymore.
00:04:22 You're not eating right. You're just kind of back to your old bad habits. Or maybe you thought,
00:04:29 This is the year I'm going to start my business. This is the year I'm gonna work on my side,
00:04:33 hustle and get something out there into the world that's really more in alignment with what I want to do,
00:04:39 what I want to put out there into the world. It's it's part of my passion is part of my calling it something that I really should be doing.
00:04:47 And you start putting some ideas together and you start frantically trying to work on things, and then you look up and by March you're right back to your old habits and not doing anything.
00:05:00 Now let's talk about what a resolution is. A resolution is really kind of a big idea. It's a it's a general direction.
00:05:10 It's about a behavior. It's about a value. It's about something that you want in your life. I want to eat healthier.
00:05:19 I want to start a side business. I want to get my money and order. But there's not a lot of detail to most resolutions.
00:05:28 What resolutions don't cover is sort of the how and often we don't really even tune in to the why behind a resolution.
00:05:38 Why do we want to eat right? Why do we want to get our finances in order? Why do we wanna start a side hustle and said,
00:05:46 It's this kind of vague aspiration And that's why resolutions often peter away because we haven't built into the resolution goals.
00:05:58 We haven't broken it down and thought about the specificity that we need to think about what things make up eating right and then how are we going to actually accomplish those things?
00:06:11 What's the What are we going to do? And don't get me wrong? We've talked before about the idea of just knowing the next action.
00:06:17 You know, when you're completing a goal. You don't have to know all of the steps. You just have to know some of the steps.
00:06:24 And then what you need to do is put into those goals, connect them to the emotion, connect them to the values,
00:06:31 connect them to the resolution and the why behind it. Why do you want to do these things? You have to build in those deep neurological connections,
00:06:43 and then you have to build the systems and the processes and the habits and often times. One of the best ways to do that is through accountability.
00:06:52 You have toe work with others. You get yourself in a mastermind group, hire a physical trainer if you're working on losing weight and trying to go to the gym,
00:07:02 because that holds you accountable. If you're working on your money, hire a financial coach like myself. If you're working on starting your business,
00:07:10 hire a business coach like myself, work with somebody who's done it with others, work with someone who's seen it before,
00:07:20 join a mastermind group of other people that have started businesses, join a mastermind group of other people who want to lose weight or get their money in order.
00:07:28 Look for some way to surround yourself with accountability and like minded people. Try to figure out what is it that's been my barriers in the past.
00:07:42 Really visualize success. But also think about the obstacles, what's going to get in your way? And then what am I going to do to overcome those obstacles?
00:07:53 Really Think through how it's gonna feel when something goes wrong and then what you're gonna do about it. Because usually what happens is we have this vague idea that everything's gonna go perfect.
00:08:08 We're gonna go to the gym every day. We're gonna eat right every day. And we don't think about the fact that one day you're gonna be there late at work and on your right way home,
00:08:19 you're just gonna you know, you got to grab something. So you just drive thru McDonald's and pretty soon you're right back into the old bad habits of food addiction.
00:08:30 Or pretty soon you're right back into the old systems that got you in trouble with credit card debt in the first place are pretty soon.
00:08:42 You're right back to binging Netflix in the evening. Instead of working on your side hustle and your business.
00:08:49 So one of the things I'd like to offer is I've got a $1 30 minute consultation meeting. I'll sit down with you for 30 minutes,
00:09:00 and what I want to do is go over your resolutions with you and help you break them down into goals.
00:09:07 And if some of those goals are in areas where I have expertise is a coach I'd like to offer to you and talk to you about what coaching would look like.
00:09:15 This isn't a hard sales pitch. This isn't gonna be me sitting down with you and saying, 00 by my coaching by my coaching.
00:09:21 It's really just a conversation where I try to help you a little bit. So you walk out with something actionable that you can actually put into practice.
00:09:30 That might make this year, the year that your resolutions actually work. And if it makes sense for us to keep working together and you need that accountability,
00:09:39 I'll talk to you about what that would look like. So if you're interested in that, go over to inspired stewardship dot com slash new year.
00:09:49 All one word in e w y e a r and sign up for a 30 minute console for just $1 and all.
00:09:58 Sit down and let's make 2020 the best year ever. 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:

  • The difference between resolutions and goals...
  • Why setting resolutions generally don’t work...
  • Why you should work with a coach if you really want to turn your resolutions into success...
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