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8 Scripture Backed Productivity Habits That Will Destroy Procrastination and Build Your Legacy · Bible Ascent

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  Speaker 1: What if everything you have been taught about productivity is
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  Speaker 1: completely wrong. What if the reason you are still stuck,
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  Speaker 1: still behind, still overwhelmed, still staring at that same unfinished
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  Speaker 1: list at ten o'clock at night has nothing to do
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  Speaker 1: with your discipline, your intelligence, or your work ethic. What
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  Speaker 1: if the real problem is that you have been handed
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  Speaker 1: a broken map, and no matter how hard you walk,
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  Speaker 1: a broken map will never take you where you need
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  Speaker 1: to go. Here is a number that should stop you cold.
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  Speaker 1: The average American spends two hours and eleven minutes every
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  Speaker 1: single day procrastinating. That is not two hours in a week.
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  Speaker 1: That is over thirty two full days every single year, gone, burned,
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  Speaker 1: buried under scrolling and delay and the quiet convincing lie
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  Speaker 1: that says I will start tomorrow. And the cost is
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  Speaker 1: not just time. Forty percent of Americans have experienced real,
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  Speaker 1: documented financial loss because they simply could not get things
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  Speaker 1: done when it mattered. But here is the question I
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  Speaker 1: want you to sit with for just a moment. What
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  Speaker 1: if the answer was never in a new productivity app
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  Speaker 1: What if it was never in a color coded planner,
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  Speaker 1: a four in the morning alarm, or a motivational video.
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  Speaker 1: What if the most powerful performance system ever created has
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  Speaker 1: been sitting on your nightstand gathering dust for years. In
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  Speaker 1: the next twenty minutes, I am going to walk you
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  Speaker 1: through eight biblical habits that will destroy your procrastination at
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  Speaker 1: the route, reclaim the most valuable resource you will ever
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  Speaker 1: be given, and position you to build a legacy that
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  Speaker 1: your children's children will still be talking about long after
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  Speaker 1: you are gone. These are not feel good platitudes. These
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  Speaker 1: are scripture backed, life tested, deeply practical principles, and they
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  Speaker 1: are going to change the way you think about time, work,
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  Speaker 1: and calling forever. Before we go any further, I want
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  Speaker 1: to ask you to do one thing right now. If
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  Speaker 1: you have ever ended a day feeling completely exhausted and
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  Speaker 1: yet completely behind at the same time, drop the word
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  Speaker 1: a single week. Now, let's go. Most people think of
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  Speaker 1: the Bible as a spiritual book, and it is, but
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  Speaker 1: it is also something more. It is the most psychologically sophisticated,
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  Speaker 1: the most practically complete, and the most deeply human guide
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  Speaker 1: to high performance ever written. Colossians three, verse twenty three
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  Speaker 1: does not say try your best when you feel motivated.
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  Speaker 1: It says, whatever you do, work at it with all
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  Speaker 1: your heart, as working for the Lord, not for human masters.
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  Speaker 1: That is a divine design principle and embedded in the
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  Speaker 1: architecture of how we were created to function. The proof
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  Speaker 1: is everywhere in scripture. Look at Nehemiah. He rebuilt the massive,
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  Speaker 1: shattered walls of Jerusalem in exactly fifty two days, a
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  Speaker 1: project that historians and structural engineers today will tell you
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  Speaker 1: should have been impossible. Hostile neighbors were threatening him with violence.
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  Speaker 1: Resources were scarce, the workers were physically exhausted after decades
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  Speaker 1: of living in rubble. And yet Nehemiah moved with clarity, focus,
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  Speaker 1: and an unshakable sense of divine purpose, and the walls
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  Speaker 1: rose fifty two days. That same power, that same clarity
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  Speaker 1: is available to you. Right now. I want to tell
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  Speaker 1: you about Michael, a software engineer from Seattle who came
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  Speaker 1: to me several years ago. He was thirty four years old,
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  Speaker 1: drowning in fifty thousand dollars of personal debt, professionally burned out,
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  Speaker 1: and spiritually hollow. He had a dream of law unching
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  Speaker 1: a nonprofit to serve at risk youth in his city,
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  Speaker 1: kids growing up without fathers, without direction, without hope. But
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  Speaker 1: that dream had been sitting on the shelf for over
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  Speaker 1: ten years, buried under the weight of procrastination, dressed up
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  Speaker 1: as not being ready. By applying just two of the
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  Speaker 1: habits we are going to cover today, Michael doubled his
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  Speaker 1: income within eighteen months and finally launched that nonprofit. It
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  Speaker 1: now serves over three hundred kids every single year. What
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  Speaker 1: changed not his talent, not his zip code, not his circumstances,
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  Speaker 1: his habits. Let's build yours. Mark one, verse thirty five.
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  Speaker 1: Very early in the morning, while it was still dark,
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  Speaker 1: Jesus got up, left the house and went off to
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  Speaker 1: a solitary place where he prayed. Think carefully about what
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  Speaker 1: that verse is actually showing us. Jesus, the Son of God,
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  Speaker 1: the most consequential person who ever walked this earth, did
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  Speaker 1: not begin his day by reacting to other people's demands.
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  Speaker 1: He did not roll over and immediately engage with the
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  Speaker 1: noise of the world. He rose before the world could
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  Speaker 1: interrupt him, and he gave his first and sharpest hours
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  Speaker 1: to communion with the Father. The first fruits principle runs
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  Speaker 1: through the entire Bible. You give the first and the best,
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  Speaker 1: not the leftovers, not what remains after everything else has
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  Speaker 1: taken its share the first. Most of us are doing
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  Speaker 1: the opposite. We wake up and within sixty seconds we
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  Speaker 1: hand our most focused, most alert, most cognitively powerful mental
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  Speaker 1: state over to our inbox, our social media feed, and
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  Speaker 1: other people's emergencies, and then we wonder why we feel reactive, scattered,
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  Speaker 1: and behind. Before nine in the morning, James is a
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  Speaker 1: real estate agent in Tampa, Florida. He was averaging around
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  Speaker 1: fourteen sails per year, decent, but far below what he
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  Speaker 1: was capable of. He made one single change, no phone
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  Speaker 1: until nine in the morning. From six to seven, he
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  Speaker 1: did what he called his deep work block, focused completely
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  Speaker 1: distraction free work on his single most important task of
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  Speaker 1: the day. No music, no notifications, no multitasking, one thing.
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  Speaker 1: Within one quarter, his sales volume jumped by thirty percent.
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  Speaker 1: One habit one hour, thirty percent. Your action step tomorrow morning,
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  Speaker 1: do not touch your phone for the first thirty minutes
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  Speaker 1: after you wake up. Use that time to pray, to
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  Speaker 1: sit in stillness, and to identify your one big thing,
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  Speaker 1: the single most important task that would make this entire
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  Speaker 1: day a success. Not five things, one start there. Proverb six,
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  Speaker 1: verse six. Go to the ant, you sluggard, consider its ways,
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  Speaker 1: and be wise. The ant does not move a mountain
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  Speaker 1: in a day. The ant moves one grain of sand,
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  Speaker 1: then another, than another. The mountain eventually moves because the
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  Speaker 1: ant never stops, not because the ant ever does something
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  Speaker 1: dramatic or extraordinary. This is one of the most underrated
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  Speaker 1: truths in all of scripture. Procrastination is almost never laziness.
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  Speaker 1: Procrastination is almost always fear. Specifically, the fear response triggered
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  Speaker 1: by a task that feels too big, too ambiguous, or
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  Speaker 1: too uncertain. Your brain looks at a massive, undefined goal
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  Speaker 1: and sends out a distress signal. This is dangerous. Wait
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  Speaker 1: until you are ready, wait until conditions are perfect. And
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  Speaker 1: so you wait, and the task grows larger in your imagination,
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  Speaker 1: and you wait some more. Sarah is a stay at
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  Speaker 1: home mother of two in Columbus, Ohio. She had wanted
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  Speaker 1: to write a book for six years, a memoir about
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  Speaker 1: her journey through postpartum depression and the specific scriptures that
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  Speaker 1: pulled her back from the edge. But she had no time,
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  Speaker 1: or so she told herself. Her youngest was t two,
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  Speaker 1: her oldest was four. She was running on three hours
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  Speaker 1: of broken sleep most nights. She started writing exactly two
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  Speaker 1: hundred words per day during her toddler's afternoon nap, not
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  Speaker 1: two thousand words, not a chapter, two hundred words, less
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  Speaker 1: than one page. In ten months, she had a finished
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  Speaker 1: manuscript of over ninety five thousand words. Her book is
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  Speaker 1: now in the hands of thousands of women who are
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  Speaker 1: walking through exactly what she walked through, and she gets
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  Speaker 1: messages every week from women who say it save their lives.
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  Speaker 1: Your action step, Take the single biggest project you have
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  Speaker 1: been avoiding, the one that feels too large to start,
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  Speaker 1: and break it into fifteen minute micro tasks, not our
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  Speaker 1: long sessions. Fifteen minutes. Then do just one of those
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  Speaker 1: tasks right now before this video ends. Matthew five, verse
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  Speaker 1: thirty seven. All you need to say is simply yes
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  Speaker 1: or no. Productivity is not about doing more. That is
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  Speaker 1: one of the most dangerous and most widely believed lies
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  Speaker 1: in our culture. Productivity is about doing less of what
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  Speaker 1: does not matter, so you can pour everything you have
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  Speaker 1: into what does. Every yes you say to something that
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  Speaker 1: does not align with your God given calling is a
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  Speaker 1: silent no to the things that do. Your time is
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  Speaker 1: not infinite, Your energy does not regenerate automatically. Every distraction
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  Speaker 1: you accept is a withdrawal from your legacy account. Marcus
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  Speaker 1: is a project manager in Atlanta, Georgia. He had a
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  Speaker 1: good salary, a stable job, and almost nothing saved. When
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  Speaker 1: he finally sat down and tracked his spending honestly, really honestly,
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  Speaker 1: he realized he was saying yes to four or five
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  Speaker 1: social obligations every single month, not because he wanted to,
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  Speaker 1: but because he felt guilty saying no. Dinners, events, weekend outings,
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  Speaker 1: all attended out of social pressure rather than genuine desire.
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  Speaker 1: By learning to decline three of those events per month,
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  Speaker 1: here ead up over six hundred dollars monthly. Three years later,
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  Speaker 1: that single discipline, just saying no three extra times a
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  Speaker 1: month has compounded into over forty thousand dollars of additional wealth,
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  Speaker 1: not from working harder from choosing better your action. Step
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  Speaker 1: open your calendar and look at next week, find one meeting,
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  Speaker 1: one event, or one commitment that does not align with
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  Speaker 1: your God given goals. Decline it today. Practice the firm, clean,
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  Speaker 1: guilt free know this week. Genesis two, verse three. Then
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  Speaker 1: God blessed the seventh day and made it holy because
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  Speaker 1: on it he rest. God did not rest because he
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  Speaker 1: was tired. God rested to model rhythm. The Sabbath is
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  Speaker 1: not weakness. It is not falling behind. It is one
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  Speaker 1: of the most counter cultural, most strategically powerful things you
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  Speaker 1: can practice in a world that has turned busyness into
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  Speaker 1: a status symbol and exhaustion into a badge of honor.
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  Speaker 1: Here is what nobody tells tells you about the Sabbath.
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  Speaker 1: Refusing to rest is not faithfulness. It is foolishness. You
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  Speaker 1: are running an engine at full throttle without ever stopping
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  Speaker 1: to refuel, and eventually, always it breaks down. The breakdown
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  Speaker 1: does not look like a sudden collapse. It looks like
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  Speaker 1: years of slowly declining output, creativity that stops showing up,
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  Speaker 1: relationships that quietly erode, and a growing sense that all
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  Speaker 1: your hard work is producing less and less fruit. Denise
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  Speaker 1: was a high school teacher and part time business owner
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  Speaker 1: in Nashville. Tennessee. She worked seven days a week for
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  Speaker 1: three straight years trying to build her online tutoring business
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  Speaker 1: while managing a full teaching load. She was proud of
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  Speaker 1: her grind. Then one Sunday morning, she sat down at
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  Speaker 1: her desk, opened her laptop and simply could not make
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  Speaker 1: herself type a single word. Her doctor called it burnout.
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  Speaker 1: Her pastor called it something else. He called it a
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  Speaker 1: failure to trust God. With her results, she implemented one
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  Speaker 1: full unplugged sabbath per week. Within sixty days, her creativity returned.
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  Speaker 1: Within ninety days, her monthly revenue had actually increased because
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  Speaker 1: she was finally working from a full tank instead of
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  Speaker 1: an empty one. Your action step designate one full day
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  Speaker 1: this week as a genuine technology free sabbath, rest worship,
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  Speaker 1: and restore. Watch what it does to your output in
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  Speaker 1: the six days that follow. Habacic two, verse two. Write
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  Speaker 1: down the revelation and make it plain on tablets so
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  Speaker 1: that a herald may run with it. There is something
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  Speaker 1: neurologically profound that happens when you write down a goal.
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  Speaker 1: It moves from the abstract, shapeless realm of someday into
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  Speaker 1: the concrete, physical world of today. Your brain treats written
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  Speaker 1: goals differently from thought goals. It assigns them greater urgency,
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  Speaker 1: greater reality, and greater emotional weight. But scripture established this
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  Speaker 1: principle thousands of years before neuroscience had the tools to
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  Speaker 1: explain it. If your vision, your calling, your legacy, your
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  Speaker 1: God given assignment for this season of life exists only
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  Speaker 1: as a mental note, it is a dream. The moment
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  Speaker 1: you write it down with clarity and specificity, it begins
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  Speaker 1: its transformation into a plan. David was a youth pastor
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  Speaker 1: in Phoenix, Arizona, who had been talking about planting his
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  Speaker 1: own church for seven years. Seven years of conversations, seven
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  Speaker 1: years of some day, seven years of ideas that lived
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  Speaker 1: and died entirely inside his own head. His mentor sat
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  Speaker 1: him down and gave him one assignment. Write it down.
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  Speaker 1: Not a business plan, not a budget. Just write down,
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  Speaker 1: in plain language, what the church would look like, who
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  Speaker 1: it would serve, what it would stand for, and when
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  Speaker 1: it would launch. David spent ninety minutes writing three pages.
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  Speaker 1: Six months later, his church held its first service. It
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  Speaker 1: now has over four hundred members. The dream did not change.
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  Speaker 1: Writing it down changed him. Your action step this week?
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  Speaker 1: Write down your top three goals, one for your faith life,
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  Speaker 1: one for your financial life, and one for your family.
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  Speaker 1: Make them specific enough that a stranger could read them
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  Speaker 1: and know exactly what success looks like. Put them somewhere
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  Speaker 1: you will see them before nine in the morning, every
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  Speaker 1: single day. Proverbs twenty seven, verse seventeen. As iron sharpens iron,
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  Speaker 1: so one person sharpens another. You were not designed to
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  Speaker 1: build your legacy alone. Isolation is procrastination's closest ally. When
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  Speaker 1: no one is watching, it is easy to let things slide.
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  Speaker 1: When no one is expecting anything from you, The excuses
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  Speaker 1: come cheap and easy. The Biblical model, from Moses and
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  Speaker 1: Aaron to David and Jonathan to Paul and Timothy, is
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  Speaker 1: always shared mission, shared accountability, shared respons responsibility for one
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  Speaker 1: another's growth. Find one person, not a cheerleader, not someone
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  Speaker 1: who will tell you what you want to hear, but
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  Speaker 1: one person who shares your values and will tell you
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  Speaker 1: the truth. Meet with them once a week, even if
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  Speaker 1: it is a fifteen minute phone call. Share your specific goals,
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  Speaker 1: report your actual progress. Let them ask the hard questions.
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  Speaker 1: This single habit is one of the most consistent predictors
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  Speaker 1: of long term goal achievement. Across every field of study,
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  Speaker 1: not because external pressure is the goal, but because committed
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  Speaker 1: relationship creates a level of follow through that will power
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  Speaker 1: alone can never sustain your action. Step send one text today.
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  Speaker 1: Write after this video to one person and ask them
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  Speaker 1: to be your accountability partner. Tell them exactly what you
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  Speaker 1: are working toward one text today. What we have covered
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  Speaker 1: so far will change your life if you apply it.
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  Speaker 1: But I need you to stay with me for the
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  Speaker 1: next two habits because this is where most people tap out,
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  Speaker 1: and it is exactly why most people never break through.
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  Speaker 1: Habit seven is the one that separates the people who
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  Speaker 1: dream about a legacy from the people who actually build one.
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  Speaker 1: This is the principle that explains why some people seem
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  Speaker 1: to accomplish more in a single year than others accomplish
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  Speaker 1: in an entire decade. Stay with me Exodus eighteen, verse
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  Speaker 1: twenty one. But select capable men from all the people,
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  Speaker 1: men who fear God, trustworthy men who hate dishonest gain,
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  Speaker 1: and appoint them as officials. Moses was leading more than
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  Speaker 1: a million people and doing everything himself, judging every dispute,
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  Speaker 1: answering every question, solving every problem personally from morning until night.
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  Speaker 1: He was burning out at a historic scale. His father
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  Speaker 1: in law, Jethro, watched him for exactly one day and said,
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  Speaker 1: with the directness of a man who loved him too
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  Speaker 1: much to stay quiet, what you are doing is not good.
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  Speaker 1: You will only wear yourself out. The work is too
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  Speaker 1: heavy for you. You cannot handle it alone. And then
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  Speaker 1: Jethro gave Moses one of the most powerful productivity principles
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  Speaker 1: in all of Scripture. Delegate. Identify capable people, trust them,
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  Speaker 1: release the work that does not require you. Free yourself
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  Speaker 1: to do the work that only you can do. Every
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  Speaker 1: hour you spend doing something someone else could do for
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  Speaker 1: less than your time is worth is an hour stolen
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  Speaker 1: directly from the work you were uniquely built for. This
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  Speaker 1: is not laziness. This is stewardship. You are a steward
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  Speaker 1: of your gifts, your energy, and your calling. Using your
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  Speaker 1: highest hours on your lowest value tasks is a poor
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  Speaker 1: return on what God invested in you. Kevin was a
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  Speaker 1: small business owner in Charlotte, North Carolina, who was doing
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  Speaker 1: his own bookkeeping, his own social media, his own customer
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  Speaker 1: service emails, and his own sales calls. All in a
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  Speaker 1: single day. He was working eighty hours a week and
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  Speaker 1: barely keeping the business alive. His coach asked him one question,
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  Speaker 1: what is the single activity that only you can do
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  Speaker 1: in this business, the thing that directly generates revenue. Kevin said,
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  Speaker 1: sales calls. He was spending four hours a week on
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  Speaker 1: sales and forty hours a week on everything else. He
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  Speaker 1: hired a part time virtual assistant for fifteen dollars per
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  Speaker 1: hour to handle everything except sales. Within sixty days, his
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  Speaker 1: weekly sales calls went from four hours to twenty five hours.
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  Speaker 1: His revenue doubled in one quarter. He did not work harder,
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  Speaker 1: he stopped doing the wrong things. Your action step, write
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  Speaker 1: down every recurring task you do in a given week.
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  Speaker 1: Circle the ones that only you, specifically you, with your
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  Speaker 1: specific gifts and calling, can do. Everything else is a
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  Speaker 1: delegation opportunity. Begin planning how to hand off at least
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  Speaker 1: one of those tasks within the next thirty days. Verse four.
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  Speaker 1: When you are on your beds, search your hearts and
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  Speaker 1: be silent. The most effective people in history and the
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  Speaker 1: most faithful stewards in scripture share one practice that almost
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  Speaker 1: no one talks about. They review. They do not sprint
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  Speaker 1: through the day and collapse into sleep. They pause, They examine,
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  Speaker 1: and they ask the honest questions. Where did I honor
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  Speaker 1: God with my effort to day? Where did I give
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  Speaker 1: in to distraction? What would I do differently tomorrow? What
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  Speaker 1: am I grateful for that I almost missed? Without reflection,
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  Speaker 1: you will repeat the same patterns tomorrow that hurt you today.
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  Speaker 1: You will wake up with the same vague anxiety, make
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  Speaker 1: the same avoidant choices, and end the day with the
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  Speaker 1: same unfinished list and the same hollow feeling that something
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  Speaker 1: important slipped away. The evening audit breaks that cycle. It
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  Speaker 1: is the feedback loop that turns daily experience into long
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  Speaker 1: term wisdom. And it takes less than five minutes your
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  Speaker 1: action step every evening this week, write down three things
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  Speaker 1: one thing you did well today, one thing you will
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  Speaker 1: do differently tomorrow, and one thing you are genuinely grateful
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  Speaker 1: for five minutes every evening. Commit to it for two weeks,
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  Speaker 1: and watch what happens to your self awareness, your intentionality,
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  Speaker 1: and your daily momentum. I want to tell you about Robert.
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  Speaker 1: Robert was, by every external measure, a deeply committed, hard
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  Speaker 1: working man. He was the first one in the office
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  Speaker 1: and often the last to leave. He answered every email
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  Speaker 1: within twenty minutes. He never turned down a request. He
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  Speaker 1: was always busy, relentlessly, visibly, exhaustingly busy, and that busyness
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  Speaker 1: was quietly destroying the things that mattered most to him.
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  Speaker 1: He missed his daughter's piano recital because he was catching
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  Speaker 1: up on a report he had procrastinated on at the
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  Speaker 1: beginning of the week. He missed his son's final baseball
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  Speaker 1: game of the season for the same reason. He told himself.
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  Speaker 1: It was temporary, he told himself, once the project was done,
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  Speaker 1: once things settled down, he would be more present. He
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  Speaker 1: kept a note on his desk that said, building our
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  Speaker 1: Future to remind himself why he was working so hard.
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  Speaker 1: One Tuesday evening, Robert sat alone in his car in
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  Speaker 1: the parking garage of his office building at nine forty
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  Speaker 1: five at night, and he broke down completely. He realized
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  Speaker 1: that the legacy he was building was not a future
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  Speaker 1: worth having. He was building a career at the cost
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  Speaker 1: of a family. He was pouring himself out for outcomes
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  Speaker 1: that would not remember his name, while the people who
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  Speaker 1: loved him most were learning to live without him. He
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  Speaker 1: was producing a great deal and contributing almost nothing. Robert
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  Speaker 1: began with just two habits, the Sabbath reset and the
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  Speaker 1: first Fruit's focus. He started his mornings in prayer and
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  Speaker 1: scripture before he ever opened his laptop. He started saying
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  Speaker 1: no to the commitments that were consuming his evenings and
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  Speaker 1: week ends without returning anything of lasting value. He implemented
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  Speaker 1: the evening audit and started ending each day with intention
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  Speaker 1: instead of exhaustion. Today, Robert is a senior executive at
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  Speaker 1: a company that employs over eight hundred people. But more importantly,
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  Speaker 1: and he will tell you this is the only thing
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  Speaker 1: that truly matters. He has not missed a single family
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  Speaker 1: dinner in over two years. Last month, his fourteen year
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  Speaker 1: old daughter wrote him a card for his birthday. She
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  Speaker 1: wrote four words that undid him completely. She wrote, Dad,
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  Speaker 1: you showed up. That is a legacy. We often think
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  Speaker 1: of procrastination as a personal problem, a private failure, something
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  Speaker 1: that only costs us. But it does not stay private.
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  Speaker 1: It steals from our families, It steals from our callings.
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  Speaker 1: It steals from the people God placed in our lives
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  Speaker 1: who need us to arrive fully, presently, completely, and who
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  Speaker 1: are paying the price every day that we delay. You
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  Speaker 1: were not given this day by accident. You were not
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  Speaker 1: given your gifts, your story, your calling, and your specific
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  Speaker 1: window of time on this earth so that you could
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  Speaker 1: spend it watching it slip away. You were given it
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  Speaker 1: to build something, Something that outlasts you, something that carries
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  Speaker 1: your fingerprints and the grace of God in equal measure,
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  Speaker 1: something worth passing on. We are not just trying to
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  Speaker 1: be productive. We are trying to be faithful stewards of
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  Speaker 1: the most irreplaceable gift we have ever been given. And
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  Speaker 1: faithfulness starts today, not tomorrow, not when conditions are perfect,
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  Speaker 1: not when you feel ready. Today, if you are done
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  Speaker 1: making excuses and you are ready to step fully into
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  Speaker 1: the calling God placed on your life, I want you
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  Speaker 1: to do one thing right now. Type this in the
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  Speaker 1: comments below. I am a faithful steward of my time.
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  Speaker 1: Say it publicly, because declaring it is an act of faith,
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  Speaker 1: and faith Scripture tells us without action is not really
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  Speaker 1: faith at all. Let this community be your iron. Let
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  Speaker 1: us sharpen one another. And if you know someone right now,
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  Speaker 1: a friend, a coworker, a family member, someone in your
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  Speaker 1: small group who is trapped in the cycle of burnout
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  Speaker 1: and busyness and never quite catching up, share this video
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  Speaker 1: with them today. Do not wait, do not think about it,
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  Speaker 1: just share it. It might be the exact conversation they
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  Speaker 1: have needed someone to start on their behalf. Next week
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  Speaker 1: on Bible Assent, we are going to dig into the
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  Speaker 1: number one reason that God's people stay financially stuck, even
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: when they are working incredibly hard, even when they are
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  Speaker 1: tithing faithfully, even when they are doing everything they were
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  Speaker 1: told to do. It is not what most teachers will
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  Speaker 1: tell you, it is not what most churches will say
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  Speaker 1: from the pulpit, and it is one of the most
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  Speaker 1: Go build something that lasts. God bless you, and let's
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  Speaker 1: get to work.