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Episode 668: The Process to Grow Your Productivity

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Today's episode is focused on why it's a process not an event...

In today’s episode about developing your influence by stewarding your time, I talk with you about recognizing that productivity is a process not an event, why the view of a process not an event matters, and how this let’s you focus but also forgive.

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00:00:00 Thanks for joining me on episode 668 of the inspired stewardship podcast. 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 really find your gifts and calling is a key. And one way to be inspired to do that is to listen to this,
00:00:26 the inspired stewardship podcast by my friend, Scott made her. Not just in what we do, but in making sure that we do it with the right attitude, with the right intent, with the right heart, with the right spirit, with the right mindset, it allows us to rest when it's time to rest, to be with our family when it's time to be with our family and to be focused and at work when it's time to be at work.
00:01:01 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 column. 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.
00:01:34 And today's episode about developing your influence by stewarding your time. I talk with you about recognizing that productivity is a process on an event. I share why the view of your time and looking at it as a process, not an event matters. And I talk about how this lets you focus, but also forgive 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,
00:02:01 it turns out you can't. All you have to do is use inspired stewardship.com/amazon. When you're ready to make a purchase via Amazon and a small commission 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.com/amazon. This week. I'm talking a lot about some of the ways that focusing on the process can help us in so many ways.
00:02:32 And today I want to talk about recognizing that growing in your productivity is a process, not an event. See, one of the things that I've seen happen to people when they come to me for coaching on productivity is they're trying so hard to fix everything that they end up fixing nothing. They're trying so hard to hit their perfect day. They want to,
00:02:55 they want to have a day. That is the ideal perfection. And even sometimes they manage to hit it one day and then they're mad because they never seem to hit it again. It doesn't hold them where they want to be because you know, let's face it. Our lives are messy and life happens and it's not about actually having everything be perfect. In fact,
00:03:19 we seldom achieve perfection and now don't get me wrong. That doesn't mean you don't want to have an idea of what your perfect day would be. What would your idea ideal day look like that that actually can be a valuable exercise, but only if you recognize that moving towards that ideal is always a process. And what's more, you have to recognize that ideal may change.
00:03:43 You know what my ideal would look like when I was in my twenties is very different than what my ideal day looks like. Now, in my fifties, whether you have, if you have small children at home, that's going to change the picture. If you have adult children in your life, that's going to change the picture. You have to recognize that where you are in your journey and the phase of life changes.
00:04:08 So there's always going to be a process involved in getting more productive. And just a reminder productivity here is not about getting more things done. Getting more things done to me is just efficiency, getting the right things done. That's what makes us productive. And the truth is if you simply managed to get yourself 1% better each and every day, then at the end of the year,
00:04:32 you would be 365% better. Now, granted, we're never going to achieve perfection. We're never going to achieve 1% improvement every single day, but some days we may get better and some days we may get worse. The truth is you're looking for continuous improvement in the direction that you're going. If you get a little better at keeping your morning routine, then that's good.
00:04:56 If you get a little better at keeping your evening routine, then that's good, small improvements across time compound to move you forward. This is why this view of productivity matters. Plus it allows you to look at things and recognize it's not about achieving perfection. You don't have to be perfect to be making improvement. In fact, sometimes perfection holds us back from improvement because if we're aiming for perfection,
00:05:29 we often get stalled out. We stop. We are because that's such an impending mindset. It's such an idea of how could I ever get to that point. This is also where the comparison trap comes in. When we look at how other people are doing, and we compare the end of their journey to our beginning, or even the beginning of their journey to our beginning,
00:05:51 we begin to get frozen by this idea. See, it's a process on an event really matters because when you recognize that phrase, when you recognize that idea, when that begins to get to the core of your being about your productivity, then you can really begin to move the needle and improve, but it also allows you to forgive yourself and others. It allows you to recognize the fact that if today wasn't perfect,
00:06:22 that's okay because tomorrow's a new attempt. Tomorrow's a new day. You can try again. You know, it only ends when you're in the dirt. And as long as you're on this side of the dirt, you've always got a chance to get a little bit better. You've always got a chance to improve. And this forgiveness is also important. It helps us fight perfectionism,
00:06:46 and it also helps us fight judgment. It helps us from getting jealous from comparing ourselves to others. It helps us from looking at others and saying, why did they manage to do that instead of me? And as we move through that, that allows us to continue to improve ourselves, to continue to grow ourselves, not just in what we do, but in making sure that we do it with the right attitude,
00:07:11 with the right intent, with the right heart, with the right spirit, with the right mindset. It allows us to rest when it's time to rest, to be with our family when it's time to be with our family and to be focused and at work when it's time to be at work. And then it also allows us when that doesn't happen to step back and go that's okay,
00:07:33 I've got another shot. I can try again tomorrow because it's not about achieving perfection. It's about the process. It's about moving through life. Not letting life happen to us. Thanks for listening. Thanks so much for listening to the inspired stewardship podcast as a subscriber and listener, we challenge you to not just sit back and passively listen, but act on what you've heard and find a way to live your calling.
00:08:11 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 four, four, two, two, two 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:

  • Recognizing that productivity is a process not an event...
  • Why the view of a process not an event matters...
  • How this let’s you focus but also forgive...
  • and more.....

Making sure we do it with the right attitude, heart, spirit, and mindset. It allows us to be present when we are present. - Scott Maderer

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Episode 663: Tactics versus Strategy to be Productive

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Join us today for an episode about the reason you need to know the difference between strategy and tactics in using your time...

Today's episode is focused on why strategy is key to focus on first to manage your time...

In today’s episode about investing in others by stewarding your time, I talk with you about why there is a difference between the tactics we use and the strategy, how mindset and why are the key strategies, and why if your strategy isn’t right the tactics don’t matter.

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00:00:00 Thanks for joining me on episode 663 of the inspired stewardship podcast. Hey, I'm Nick Pavlidis from the confessions of a terrible husband podcast. I challenge you to not be a terrible husband or wife or friend like me, by being intentional about stewarding your relationships. One way to be inspired, to be a better husband is to listen to this. The inspired stewardship podcast with my friend,
00:00:29 Scott Mader. The truth is you usually don't have a time problem. You have a priority problem and identifying our priority. Notice that singular is much more about the strategy that we use than what app do we download to track our time. If the strategies right, the tactics come easy, but if the strategy is wrong, then the tactics don't even matter.
00:01:03 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. We'll learn to invest in yourself, invest in others and develop your influence so that you can impact the world.
00:01:33 And today's episode about investing in others. By stewarding your time. I talk with you about why there's a difference between the tactics that you use and the strategies you use. When you look at your time, how mindset and why always are key strategies and why, if your strategy is it right, then the tactics don't really matter. As we talk about stewarding your time.
00:01:55 Wouldn't it be great if you could support this podcast and do it without just taking too long, 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 will come back to support the show. Just that quick. If you enjoy the show, when you are ready to buy from Amazon,
00:02:17 just use inspired stewardship.com/amazon. One of those things that comes up time, and again, when I'm working with clients or when I'm working training other coaches on how to work with clients is this idea of the difference between tactics and strategy. So obviously those are words that have specific meanings in various context, but to define what I mean here, when we're talking about our time is tactics are those minute by minute detailed things that we do to create some sort of momentum.
00:02:55 It could be a tool that we use. Like what specific journal do we use if we're journaling or what specific tool do we use to track our time? Do we use toggle or do we use something else? Do we use time Mueller to track what we do during the day? Do we use the various tools like a spreadsheet, or do we use alarms or what app do I download on my phone?
00:03:20 These sorts of questions about the minute by minute detail, how we interface with our time, which to do list app is better, or is it better to keep it to do list as a physical written list? How about do I have one list or two, do I keep one for work? And one for personal, all of these things are minute by minute detail level tactical decisions.
00:03:45 And oftentimes this is where we start our think. We should focus when we're talking about getting better with our productivity, getting better with how we use our time now strategy. On the other hand, that's that high level discussion it's pulling back from the detail of pulling back from the minute, the minute from the things about which specific tools work or how does this process work and looking at how you interface with your time in a holistic way,
00:04:15 it's looking at what's important to you discovering things like what is your why and how you use that? Why? Yeah, it's looking at things like how do we focus on what our limiting beliefs are around time? It's figuring out am I putting the most important things into my life first? Am I filling my life with, you know, the big rocks first are instead,
00:04:43 am I trying to put the things that are most important to me in around the margins? It's the high level conversation about what's important to you and are you actually living your life? with that, see the truth is that strategy, this idea about our mindset, about how we view things and what's important to us and all of those things about how we figure out what's going on are in some ways more important than the tactics,
00:05:18 or at least it should come first. See all too often, we kind of try to figure out what it's going to fix. This, what tool is going to fix this by just, you know, if I use the same tools that somebody famous uses, then my life will be in order just the same way as they are. I mean, if you look around the web,
00:05:38 you'll see thousands of freemiums that involve which two tools are the best to use. These are the tools I use to do X, Y, Z, but the truth is just picking up the tools. Does it mean that they're going to work for you? Because if you haven't figured out what's actually most important to you, how you're wired your personality, like then one particular tool may work or may not work.
00:06:03 Same thing goes for systems and processes. One of the reasons that I recommend, you know, both my own program productivity for your passion, as well as my coaching that I do with people around time, as I spend the initial stages, unpacking these strategic things, because the truth is there's thousands of tools out there, but which one is right for you.
00:06:28 If you pick up a book on productivity and you happen to be wired the same way as the person that wrote it, then it'll resonate with you. It'll make sense. It'll be something that you think to yourself, Oh, this will work. And it very well might. But if on the other hand, you're wired differently. You view the world differently.
00:06:45 Different things are important to you. Your life is structured differently than you're going to have to put in some time and effort to adapt that system, to make it work for you. It's not as simple as just picking up the same tools as the next person. It's being able to deliberately plug in the tactics that are detail specific for you, with your goals and your personality,
00:07:11 and what is important to you. See the truth is if you haven't done the work on strategy, then tactics just becomes a guessing game. This is one of the reasons why I bet you've experienced this, where you download an app, that your friend swears is awesome and will help you so much with X, Y, Z, whatever it is that you're working on.
00:07:32 And then you try it out and you're like, I hate this thing. Does it work? Like they said, it's not fitting with my life and the way I want to use things, that's not because there's anything wrong with you. It's also not because there's anything wrong with the app or the tool is because we haven't yet found the right tool for you.
00:07:54 So there's some, the general breast practices. There are some things that you can start with that work for most people, but you're gonna have to put in the time and effort at a strategy level to be able to start filtering through and picking the right tactics that fit at the right time, in the right way. See if your strategy isn't right. If you haven't done that work about thinking about who you are and how you're wired and all of that stuff,
00:08:22 then the tools just become a guessing game. The tactics just become a guessing game. You just start trying them out one after the other. And usually you get frustrated long before you found something that works and you give up and you say, there's nothing that works. I can't manage my time. I'm just going to have to go through life and react.
00:08:46 You know, when you have those feelings of you're just way too busy go, the truth is you usually don't have a time problem. You have a priority problem and identifying our priority. Notice that singular is much more about the strategy that we use. Then what app do we download to track our time? If the strategies right, the tactics come easy,
00:09:13 but if the strategy is wrong, then the tactics don't even matter. Thanks for listening. Thanks so much for listening to the inspired stewardship podcast, as a subscriber and listener, we challenge you to not just sit back and passively, listen, but act on what you've heard and find a way to live your calling. If you like this episode on the stewardship of time,
00:09:45 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 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 there is a difference between the tactics we use and the strategy... 
  • How mindset and why are the key strategies...
  • Why if your strategy isn’t right the tactics don’t matter...
  • and more.....

In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable. ― Dwight D. Eisenhower

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Episode 658: Watching Your Time

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Join us today for an episode about the power of learning why watching your time may or may not help...

Today's episode is focused on learning to go to flow...

In today’s episode about investing in yourself by stewarding your time, I talk with you about why that phrase isn’t as productive as you think, the difference between watching and planning, and why we often watch time when we aren’t in the flow.

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00:00:00 Thanks for joining me on episode 658 of the inspired stewardship podcast. I'm Frazer rice, author of wealth. Actually, I challenge you to invest in yourself, invest in others, develop your influence and impact the world by using your time, your talent and your treasures to live out your calling, having the right relationship with all of your gifts is the key to doing this one way to be inspired to do that is to listen to this,
00:00:27 the inspired stewardship podcast with my friend, Scott Mader. That can be disruptive to your productivity. Sometimes I have to stop right in the middle and reset my mind to do some time with meditation or even go take a 30 minute power nap to reset my body back into the flow, to allow me to buckle down and get the right things done. And then what's interesting is a lot of times when you come back to the work after that kind of mental break,
00:01:05 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. We'll learn to invest in yourself, invest in others and develop your influence so that you,
00:01:29 The pack In today's episode about investing in yourself by stewarding your time. I talk with you about why that phrase watching your time, maybe isn't as productive as you think. I shared the difference between watching and planning when it comes to time and why we often watch time when we aren't really in the flow. 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,
00:02:02 it turns out you can't. All you have to do is use inspired stewardship.com/amazon. When you're ready to make a purchase via Amazon and a small commission, we'll come back to support the show. Just that quick. If you enjoy the show, when you are ready to buy from Amazon, just use inspired stewardship.com/amazon. I'm going to watch my time. You know,
00:02:26 I've had people say this over the years, or I'm watching the time it takes. I'm watching how long this takes me. It's an interesting idea. It's a, it's a strange turn of phrase. First off, you know, time is not really something that we can watch. It's not an entity that exists out in the real world in some sort of physical space.
00:02:47 And yet the truth is that that idea of watching our time is something that we all kind of talk about and think about, we're going to watch what we do and watch how we do it and see how long it takes. And then we're going to study that and reflect on it and review and revise and get more efficient and better. And, you know,
00:03:09 that's a good concept. I actually talk about how with time, just like money, we need to examine what we do and reflect on our behaviors and make changes in them to make real change it. Isn't just about monitoring the time, but it's about what you do with the information that that gives you, how does it affect your mindset and your behavior?
00:03:29 But the interesting thing is that concept of watching my time can also be something that disrupts our ability to find the things that we really want to do and get into the flow with them. You know, as an example, what the day I'm recording this, I've been batching a lot of different work and trying to get through a large number of podcast. And it's one of those days where,
00:03:54 because of some poor sleep last night, I've, I've had a harder time focusing than normal. And you have those days, two days where you're distracted days, where your energy is depleted and you have a hard time focusing in, and then you have other days and other activities where when you get started with them, time just disappears. You're no longer focused on how long it's taking you.
00:04:20 You're just clicking on all cylinders. And this idea of watching our time can sometimes get us out of those flow moments. It can disrupt our ability to get into the flow, the position and the way it works. When everything clicks and time just disappears. It's not productive to focus all the time, no pun intended on watching our time. Now it is good.
00:04:49 And it's a great idea to plan what we do. And it's a good idea to track what actually happened and reflect on it and make changes. All of that is solid, but there's a difference between that and watching your time, think about it when you've got something coming up and you begin to focus on the days between now and the event at first,
00:05:15 that can kind of feel cool. It's like checking off the days till Christmas, but it also can make that time drag. It can make it feel like it's never going to get here. Now, some of that has to do with the kind of event and whether or not you're dreading it, or whether or not this is an event that you're anxious for.
00:05:36 And the same thing happens with the work we do every day, the work that we're anxious for, the work that we can't wait to do, it can take forever until it comes up on our to do list while the work that we dread, it's all too easy to constantly look at that. And just that have that time to closer and closer and almost feel like a disaster waiting to happen,
00:06:01 watching your time. It's about the mindset that you take when you do it. Are you watching your time? Because you're so focused on that, that the task and the work is no longer important that you're not using this to gain information about how you can get more of the stuff that you want to do into your life and less of the stuff that you hate,
00:06:25 or are you using this as sort of a clock where it's basically just the sword of Damocles hanging over your head, ticking down the minutes of your life going away. SI We often watch time whenever we're not doing the work that aligns the best with our passion when we're not getting into the flow, when we're not doing the work that creates those moments where time just disappears.
00:06:53 Then we begin to focus on every minute we begin to grab a hold of it in a way that isn't real and that can be disruptive to your productivity. Sometimes I have to stop right in the middle and reset my mind to do some time with meditation or even go take a 30 minute power nap to reset my body back into the flow, to allow me to buckle down and get the right things done.
00:07:24 And then what's interesting is a lot of times when you come back to the work after that kind of mental break, suddenly clicks and you're right into the flow and time just disappears and you're no longer watching it. I found myself today looking at my watch about every 10 minutes going, has it been an hour yet? Because it felt like this time was just crawling by.
00:07:47 And then I laid down for 10 minutes and closed my eyes and did a meditation and came back to the work at hand and it clicked. And I began to turn it out in the next hour. I did more work than I'd done in the previous three because I allowed myself to stop thinking about it from the point of view of how long is this gonna take.
00:08:09 And I just focused on doing the work, enjoying the work and getting into the flow so that the work would just come and sure enough, it began to fly by. So be careful with how you watch and why you're watching your time. Are you doing this so that you can learn how to get more of what you want in your life? How you can get more efficient,
00:08:32 how you can gain more information about what you do well and what you don't. Are you doing this with a sense of dread waiting for the next moment to pass and just clicking down the hours, waiting and waiting and waiting for the next moment to come. Thanks for listening. Thanks so much for listening to the inspired stewardship podcast as a subscriber and listener,
00:09:04 we challenge you to not just sit back and passively listen, but act on what you've heard and find a way to live your calling. If you like this episode on the stewardship of 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 until next time,
00:09:42 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 that phrase isn’t as productive as you think...  
  •  The difference between watching and planning...
  • Why we often watch time when we aren’t in the flow...
  • and more.....

A watch can only tell us how much time it is, how much time has passed, or how much time must still pass before something will occur. These statements are related not to time itself but only to its measurement or calculation.  -  Medard Boss

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Episode 653: Time to Rest Too

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Join us today for an episode about creating time to rest...

Today's episode is focused on making sure you give ample time to rest...

In today’s episode about impacting the world by stewarding your time, I talk with you about having a calendar that allows you time for rest, the importance of sleep and rest, and why so many of us fail to give ourselves enough time for this.

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00:00:00 Thanks for joining me on episode 653 of the inspired stewardship podcast. I'm Shelly Lombard, founder of Millie money. Learning how to invest. We'll give you options for your future and to help others get inspired. One way to do that is to listen to this podcast, inspired stewardship with my friend, Scott Mader Balance. And if sleep is the thing that you're giving up,
00:00:35 if you're constantly cutting out sleep, it actually makes it harder for you to get more things done, not easier. It's a counter intuitive thing, but sometimes by actually forcing yourself to have limits by forcing yourself to have boundaries, you will discover that you can get more efficient because of those boundaries. 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 will learn to invest in yourself, invest in others and develop your influence so that you can impact the world. In today's episode about impacting the world by stewarding your time.
00:01:31 I talk with you about having a calendar that allows you time for rest, the importance of sleep and rest, and why so many of us fail to give ourselves enough time for this, 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. All you have to do is use inspired stewardship.com/amazon.
00:01:58 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/amazon. Let's talk about our calendar. Let's talk about looking at the time that we spend each week. The first thing I want to point out is that most of us don't do a very good job of actually paying attention to that.
00:02:27 We don't pay attention to the cycles of time in our life. We don't really know how much time we spend working, how much time we spend playing, how much time we spend sleeping at something that I actually work with when I'm working with people in coaching is finding those rhythms and identifying what's going on just like money. If you don't pay attention to how you use your time,
00:02:49 it's all too easy for it to just slip away. But one thing I want to identify in this episode today is about having time to rest too. Again, I'm reminded of that with everything that's going on right now, a lot of us are running from emergency to emergency under a constant state of located stress, where we're worried about things that are going on in the world.
00:03:15 And I think that's just going to continue to ramp up as we go forward over the next few months. And I would encourage you to intentionally take a half a step back and recognize and pay attention to how much time do you have built into your day for actual true rest. First off, look at what time do you go to bed? And what time do you wake up?
00:03:37 Are you giving yourself ample time to actually sleep? Look at your schedule and look at your time and see if this is something that you have allowed yourself to take days off. Have you allowed and scheduled in time for family time for relaxation, not just time where you take off from work, but you end up working all day long, but time to actually recreate time,
00:04:00 to actually read time, to actually take a walk outside time, to spend some time doing things. This isn't about just vegging in front of Netflix, either. It's it's about paying attention to how you actually recharge your batteries, water, the things that you need to do to allow yourself, body and mind and soul and spirit all time to kind of come back to a place of rest,
00:04:31 to recharge, to zone up. If you're an extrovert, or if you're an introvert, you need a certain amount of time to do this, where you actually just allow your mind to be turned off. You just do some popcorn movies or do some popcorn time things where it's just like eating candy. It's it's about sweet, but no nutrition. You know,
00:04:53 I'm a big proponent of buckling down and hustling and getting a lot of things done. I'm a, I'm a big proponent of productivity, but I'm not a big proponent of busy-ness. I'm think it's important to focus on getting the right things done, not just getting more stuff done. And as part of that sleep and rest are so important. You know,
00:05:16 there's study after study that shows that if you do not get ample sleep, your brain and your body don't reset, it causes you to get sick easier. It causes you to have all sorts of health problems. It makes it more difficult to deal with stress and let's face it right now. Most of us are undergoing stress, sleep and rest are both important.
00:05:40 And yet also studies show that for most of us sleep is actually one of the most under treated things that we have going on. We tend to cut sleep out first because we don't give ourselves enough time for rest. Why? Because we're focused all the time on only work. And when I'm coaching with people, they usually come to me because they want to get more things done.
00:06:07 They want to be more efficient. They want to be able to get more things done. But part of what we do is figure out the balance because you cannot constantly just put new things onto your plate without taking away some things as well. It's about that balance. And if sleep is the thing that you're giving up, if you're constantly cutting out sleep,
00:06:29 it actually makes it harder for you to get more things done, not easier. It's a counter intuitive thing, but sometimes by actually forcing yourself to have limits by forcing yourself to have boundaries, you will discover that you can get more efficient because of those boundaries, having a hard stop, where you turn off for the day and go recharge your batteries helps you get more done because you know that hard stop is coming,
00:06:57 paying attention to the rhythm of energy in your body. And in your mind helps you figure out when should you put the most important task, paying attention to how sleep affects you and whether or not you get enough sleep and how that does actually matters because see, they all thing about eight hours of sleep is not universally true. It depends on who you are.
00:07:19 It depends on your age. It also depends on what's going on in your life. There's a rhythm to our life that all too often we ignore. And the key here is it really a magic about go to bed early, get up early. The key is to pay attention to the rhythms of your life. Pay attention to the signals that your body and your mind and your spirit are sending you and then reorganize your life to be in alignment with those.
00:07:47 Because the truth is alignment is more important than the amount alignment of our money, alignment of our spirit alignment of our energy alignment of our time. This is what allows us to be more productive for all of our passions. Thanks for listening. Thanks so much for listening to the inspired stewardship podcast as a subscriber and listener, we challenge you to not just sit back and passively listen,
00:08:23 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 four four, two, two, two time tips, and that'll get you our best tips on stewarding your time until next time,
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In today's episode, I talk with you about:

  • Having a calendar that allows you time for rest...
  • The importance of sleep and rest... 
  • Why so many of us fail to give ourselves enough time for this....
  • and more.....

Rest is the best cure for busy man and work is the best cure for lazy man. ― Amit Kalantri

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