Speaker 1: You're listening to KFI A six forty on demand.
Speaker 2: Mark, Welcome to the Jesus Christ Show. Good morning, Hi,
Speaker 2: we only have a couple of minutes here.
Speaker 3: I know this is off the wall question, but you know,
Speaker 3: I have a environment problem with spurls and rabbits and things,
Speaker 3: and I wonder if the Bible says anything about poisoning
Speaker 3: putting poison out for animals. I know the Bible says
Speaker 3: take care of the animals, but is it bad to
Speaker 3: get rid of them with poisons and going them.
Speaker 2: You have every right to defend your property and your
Speaker 2: home from disease and from problems. But what I want
Speaker 2: to say on top of that is when you poison
Speaker 2: an animal, and squirrels aren't particularly nasty with disease the
Speaker 2: way other rodents like a rat, for instance, So they're destructive.
Speaker 2: They're destructive, and they really The first thing you want
Speaker 2: to do is you want to try sanitation and property maintenance.
Speaker 2: You want to go through and make sure you don't
Speaker 2: have any high protein things laying around, dog food, laying
Speaker 2: around cat food, laying around things like that that are
Speaker 2: going to attract them.
Speaker 1: There's ways birds, yes.
Speaker 2: Bird seed is another one that will will attract them
Speaker 2: and this these all become problems that lure them in.
Speaker 2: When you poison an animal like that, because they are,
Speaker 2: you know, in involved with other predators. You could end
Speaker 2: up killing multiple animals by poisoning a squirrel, right, and
Speaker 2: that becomes a problem to just the the the ecological
Speaker 2: line of that animal. So I prefer that you look
Speaker 2: for as many methods as you can to sanitize your
Speaker 2: direct area first, or methods that discourage them from being around.
Speaker 2: But if they're if you have to go to other methods,
Speaker 2: then hire somebody who's a professional who looks to make
Speaker 2: the least amount of damage to that animal and others around,
Speaker 2: because otherwise you just for to expedite the process, you
Speaker 2: start really causing havoc in your environs, and that's not
Speaker 2: really fair. So you're called to be a good steward
Speaker 2: of all things in scripture, meaning animals and the planet
Speaker 2: and everything around you. Not in the political hug a
Speaker 2: try sense, but in the very real this is the
Speaker 2: resources that you have at hand sense and animals fall
Speaker 2: into that, and just be careful when you're doing that.
Speaker 2: Don't do it to get it done quickly. There's ways
Speaker 2: to even catch them and get rid of them and
Speaker 2: things like that. But just first and foremost, make sure
Speaker 2: that you're not causing more damage than you're doing. Good Gigi,
Speaker 2: Welcome to the Jesus Christ Show.
Speaker 4: Oh for the else, Hi can two seconds? Hi?
Speaker 1: Hello there.
Speaker 4: I am a primary care physician.
Speaker 5: Young lady came to me seeking abortion. I, of course
Speaker 5: don't do abortion by trade, and I refer to the
Speaker 5: patient and the.
Speaker 4: Physical After referring to the inset, my staff has to
Speaker 4: go on the computer and fill out the referral forms
Speaker 4: and click the button and send it. My saff had
Speaker 4: significant problems doing that, and she approached me, and I
Speaker 4: composed and will you finally get it? But I want
Speaker 4: to know how you would have approached it.
Speaker 2: Well, are you a Christian only facility? No, here's the
Speaker 2: rough part. When it comes to abortion, it's abhorrent. It
Speaker 2: is a vulgar display in many ways, and to get
Speaker 2: into the detail of what's taking place would make most
Speaker 2: people lose their breakfast. However, I assure you that everybody
Speaker 2: has made it a political issue, which is to me
Speaker 2: almost equal as vulgar, because what gets lost on both
Speaker 2: sides is the fact that there is no one unless
Speaker 2: there's some bizarre twisted in an individual. There is no
Speaker 2: one on either side that wants to see a baby die.
Speaker 1: No one. The confusion comes.
Speaker 2: Because there are What really sets the two sides apart
Speaker 2: is the definition of when it's a baby. So the
Speaker 2: but no one's setting out to kill babies and I
Speaker 2: it's that's an ugly thought to think that that's what
Speaker 2: people are really doing.
Speaker 1: They're not.
Speaker 2: It's just the definition of when it's a baby. So
Speaker 2: science says something different than theology. Yet as a scientist,
Speaker 2: you're there representing the laws of the land and medicine
Speaker 2: to take care of your patients. The law of the
Speaker 2: land currently says that under certain circumstances, during certain times
Speaker 2: of the pregnancy, that to abort that pregnancy is okay.
Speaker 2: If you are in a public facility, your job is
Speaker 2: to give them the information they need to make the
Speaker 2: best decisions they can. But the decision is not on you,
Speaker 2: it's on the individual. Just like in anything, your job
Speaker 2: is to give them the best information. But the patient
Speaker 2: can say no, I don't want to take that pill,
Speaker 2: or no, I don't want to follow up.
Speaker 1: They can even tell you that they don't want you to.
Speaker 2: Resuscitate them right, correct, And you could say that that's
Speaker 2: against God's will because now you're allowing them to make
Speaker 2: a decision to not live.
Speaker 4: Correct.
Speaker 2: So there's a lot of weight on you as a
Speaker 2: physician and in the nursing community as well, that those
Speaker 2: that are in the medical profession to give the best information,
Speaker 2: and that's what you're called to do. It's not a
Speaker 2: point of preaching.
Speaker 1: Now.
Speaker 2: If you feel that there's an opportunity and you want
Speaker 2: to make sure that they have the best information on
Speaker 2: both sides, that's fine. But as far as allowing somebody
Speaker 2: in the United States to make that decision, there are
Speaker 2: laws that protect them to be able to do so.
Speaker 2: And if you're going to be a position in a
Speaker 2: public in the public arena, they are going to be.
Speaker 1: Allowed to do that.
Speaker 4: So this is a private medical office, but not exclusively
Speaker 4: a Christian office. And we treat people of faith or not.
Speaker 4: And my staff is a believer, and so what would
Speaker 4: you specifically say to the believer, Well.
Speaker 2: If they don't, if they don't feel comfortable with doing that,
Speaker 2: there might be a way of around that for you
Speaker 2: to allow someone else to or things of that nature. However,
Speaker 2: there's a point where if you're going to be in
Speaker 2: that industry and it is in the United States and
Speaker 2: it is legal, then there's going to be issues. And
Speaker 2: she can even or he can even make a claim
Speaker 2: and say, hey, as a person of faith, this upsets
Speaker 2: me and I don't want to be a part of it.
Speaker 2: And that's fair to a certain degree, but there's a
Speaker 2: point where if the laws are with the laws are,
Speaker 2: and if you don't want to participate in that, then
Speaker 2: you know, if you had a Jehovah's witness in there
Speaker 2: didn't believe in blood transfusions, now that becomes an issue,
Speaker 2: and that starts to infringe on the individual's right who
Speaker 2: has a legal right to get a blood transfusion. They're going, well,
Speaker 2: I don't want to fill out the paperwork or I
Speaker 2: don't want to do this, and that becomes a little sticky.
Speaker 2: So if there are ways around it that could be
Speaker 2: done tactfully and does not impede on the legal rights
Speaker 2: and the individual rights of the person wanting whatever treatment
Speaker 2: that is legal, then you can adapt to those. But
Speaker 2: you can't just halt the system based on your faith,
Speaker 2: because in that process, you're taking away the rights of
Speaker 2: an individual that is legal in the United States, and
Speaker 2: that that becomes a problem as well to those that
Speaker 2: want to choose that.
Speaker 4: So my comment to myself was that I'm also a believer,
Speaker 4: and but that's one, I would not have performed the
Speaker 4: abortion myself.
Speaker 1: Good.
Speaker 4: But two, I it's not in my scope of service either.
Speaker 4: I'm not an.
Speaker 6: Over but even if I was, when I would be
Speaker 6: an og in, that would not perform abortions. But if
Speaker 6: I were an obuan who is whose scope of service
Speaker 6: includes abortion, I would refer as a patient to.
Speaker 4: A colleague of mind. And because people do have the
Speaker 4: right to make decisions, whether right or wrong in our eyes,
Speaker 4: in my eyes, but if I am able to comply
Speaker 4: with your wishes, then it is my job to point
Speaker 4: them to someone.
Speaker 6: Else who can work with them.
Speaker 4: And that was my comfo to my staff.
Speaker 6: Do you have any need to add to that.
Speaker 2: No, I think that's a very honest way of approaching it,
Speaker 2: because if you start becoming the Christian police, it becomes problematic.
Speaker 2: Now let's say you're a checker at a grocery store
Speaker 2: and now you're looking at twinkies and ho hos, and
Speaker 2: the person in front of you is overweight, and you
Speaker 2: start going, well, I'm not going to sell this to
Speaker 2: you because you're obviously abusing it or any of those
Speaker 2: that you start policing everybody's option. And if the freedoms
Speaker 2: exist in the United States, you have to allow that.
Speaker 2: Now you don't have to do it yourself in that sense,
Speaker 2: but your practice has to have somebody that is able
Speaker 2: to write that referral or to do that. Otherwise it
Speaker 2: stops being a practice and a medical practice and starts
Speaker 2: being a religious practice, which becomes a problem. And I
Speaker 2: think that your consult was very fair and honest and
Speaker 2: looking at making sure everybody's taken care of, and I
Speaker 2: think that was the right way to go about it.
Speaker 1: Thank you, You're welcome.
Speaker 2: And thank you for what you do. It's a very
Speaker 2: important thing that you do. And I know that your
Speaker 2: faith ties into it and you're praying for people and
Speaker 2: you're being there, and that makes you even more important
Speaker 2: out there as a physician. To have the balance between
Speaker 2: your scientific mind and your spiritual sense as well, I
Speaker 2: think is a very important part of the medical industry.
Speaker 2: This is an incredibly difficult subject, but I really want
Speaker 2: people to hear and to be left with the thought
Speaker 2: that nobody wants to kill babies. I know that's the
Speaker 2: easier way to think about it and to look at
Speaker 2: It's not about that. It's the definition of when they
Speaker 2: see a baby, and it may be different than yours,
Speaker 2: and that's part of the fight. Part of the fight
Speaker 2: is to get science to see that. And as they
Speaker 2: see that, then that will change. But as if the
Speaker 2: majority of doctors see that as tissue and not yet
Speaker 2: a baby, then it won't matter what you do and
Speaker 2: or say. That's where it will change. But nobody's going
Speaker 2: around smiling at taking the life of a child. Nobody
Speaker 2: wants that. No one, no matter how hardcore they are
Speaker 2: on either side. It's a matter of the definition of
Speaker 2: when it's a child. There are a lot of decisions
Speaker 2: that are tough to make as a believer in this world.
Speaker 2: And you're to be in the world but not of
Speaker 2: the world, and that means that you are to separate yourself,
Speaker 2: but you still have to interact with it in a way
Speaker 2: that is productive and means something. Maybe you've heard the
Speaker 2: term so spiritually minded, you know, earthly good, and if
Speaker 2: you get to a place where everything is so spiritual
Speaker 2: that you shut down existing and connecting as a human being.
Speaker 1: Then it's gone, it's done.
Speaker 2: Then you might as well just be in heaven, because
Speaker 2: what happens here is God puts you here for a reason.
Speaker 2: It's to exist and interact with those other humans. To
Speaker 2: be an example in life as to how one should live.
Speaker 2: Doesn't mean you're always going to get it right, doesn't
Speaker 2: mean you're not going to make mistakes. But this constant
Speaker 2: concept that as a Christian you're just supposed to rebel
Speaker 2: against everything rather than leading by an example, is not
Speaker 2: the focus of your purpose here. And that may sound strange,
Speaker 2: but I will tell you that when it comes to
Speaker 2: things as weighty as abortion and that topic, and I
Speaker 2: know that regardless of which side you land on, I
Speaker 2: know I can hear you tighten up when I even
Speaker 2: use the word, and automatically your brain switches over to
Speaker 2: that political view that you have and not about what's
Speaker 2: really taking place. God sees that child at the moment
Speaker 2: of conception, but science doesn't yet. And I realize that
Speaker 2: those things can be frustrating. But I also realize that
Speaker 2: the same people that would put themselves across the pathway
Speaker 2: of an abortion clinic in the name of God won't
Speaker 2: do the same thing across the threshold of a false
Speaker 2: church or a pastor who is lying or fleecing his flock,
Speaker 2: And that to me is strange as well. And that
Speaker 2: shows me that there is a political bent here that
Speaker 2: is beyond the spiritual and to find that balance and
Speaker 2: that understanding as to why you believe what you believe
Speaker 2: and what you're willing to do for your faith when
Speaker 2: God himself says, fear not those that can kill the flesh,
Speaker 2: but he who can.
Speaker 1: Kill the spirit. Justin Welcome to the Jesus Christ Show.
Speaker 7: Hi, Jesus. I had a question about right after the
Speaker 7: ability to become saved and accept Jesus as their personal favor,
Speaker 7: like doing that immediately after resurrection and stuff.
Speaker 1: Right, Okay, what are you getting at there?
Speaker 7: Justin Okay, I'm just asking, like in South America and
Speaker 7: in America is like, how does those people go into
Speaker 7: hell because they didn't have a chance to Oh.
Speaker 2: You mean, if they didn't if they didn't hear the
Speaker 2: name of Jesus or the consonants and the vowels that
Speaker 2: make jes Us.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Okay, that's an excellent question. Romans one.
Speaker 2: Romans Chapter one, starting in verse eighteen is a really
Speaker 2: good place to go when it comes to that question,
Speaker 2: because it explains the difference between special revelation, which is scripture,
Speaker 2: or somebody coming and knocking on their door or hut
Speaker 2: or whatever it may be and saying, hi, I'm a
Speaker 2: missionary and you need to know Jesus. Well, that's special.
Speaker 2: That's a very specific revelation, but there's also general revelation.
Speaker 2: As God says in Romans, chapter one, verse eighteen, it says,
Speaker 2: for the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against
Speaker 2: all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men who suppress the truth
Speaker 2: and unrighteousness, because that which is known about God is
Speaker 2: evident within them. For God made it evident to them.
Speaker 2: For since the creation of the world, his invisible attributes,
Speaker 2: his eternal power, and his divine nature have been clearly seen,
Speaker 2: being understood through what has been made, so that they
Speaker 2: are without excuse. So really, what it's saying there is
Speaker 2: since the beginning of time that God's attributes, the invisible
Speaker 2: things of God can be known by creation, So really
Speaker 2: there is no excuse. It's not about whether somebody comes
Speaker 2: to your door and tells you about Jesus. It's knowing
Speaker 2: God to the best of your ability and the circumstances
Speaker 2: you are. In the same way, if somebody had a
Speaker 2: mental deficiency or a child and Heaven forbid, but their
Speaker 2: life is taken, then they are accountable for what they
Speaker 2: can know or what they did know. It's not about ignorance.
Speaker 2: That's not what Heaven's about. That's not what salvation's about.
Speaker 2: It's not about ignorance. It's about acceptance or rejection of
Speaker 2: the truth. So in Romans, it's talking about that that
Speaker 2: truth can be known by looking at God's creation what
Speaker 2: some people call nature, looking at those things and seeing
Speaker 2: and that it's imprinted on your heart to know and
Speaker 2: to seek God. And that's enough in those circumstances. Sarah,
Speaker 2: Welcome to the Jesus Christ Show.
Speaker 8: Emily, thanks for taking recall. This is the first time
Speaker 8: I listened to your show, and I like the topics,
Speaker 8: and I like the advice and support that you've given
Speaker 8: this morning. Well, welcome a Christian and I believe in
Speaker 8: God and I have very strong fate this morning, though
Speaker 8: I have a question. Is that is something that I'm
Speaker 8: struggling with at work. I thought I would be bold
Speaker 8: and call it in.
Speaker 1: Okay, So what's going on?
Speaker 8: So in my I left the job that I was
Speaker 8: in for fourteen years because it was just like overwhelming
Speaker 8: with task and completing task right with managerial role. So
Speaker 8: now I found myself in that similar role. I was
Speaker 8: promoted and it's just like my struggles are I have
Speaker 8: deadlines to complete things. In front of most parts, I
Speaker 8: can complete them, but it's like I usually have like
Speaker 8: twenty things I have to do one time, and it's
Speaker 8: very hard to complete task timely. And I know if
Speaker 8: I just focus on one thing, you get one thing
Speaker 8: done at a time, then that's how I get through it.
Speaker 8: But it just seems like I'm always working struggling to
Speaker 8: get hurt. Does that make sense?
Speaker 2: Well, sure, don't you say that that at work you
Speaker 2: have uh there's a multitude of tasks that all need
Speaker 2: to be done at the same time. Now does that
Speaker 2: mean that they all need to be completed at the
Speaker 2: same time or you say in one day you.
Speaker 1: Have a bunch of tasks and they all need to
Speaker 1: be done in one day.
Speaker 8: There's a bunch of tasks to be completed, requests from people, managers, internal, external,
Speaker 8: So it's just you know, the time antement. I think
Speaker 8: that's my biggest struggle.
Speaker 1: Where do you think the time is going?
Speaker 7: If?
Speaker 2: If if time seems to be going out the window,
Speaker 2: where do you think it goes?
Speaker 8: No, I'm not sure how to measure that, because it's
Speaker 8: like when I'm at work and stuff are working, I'm
Speaker 8: not you know, just visiting or you know, doing random stuff.
Speaker 8: I'm actually working. But I think in a way I'm
Speaker 8: too trying to measure Okay, do I need help with
Speaker 8: my desk? You know, if it's too much?
Speaker 2: Well that's a that's a legitimate question, which is why
Speaker 2: I ask about where you think your time is going.
Speaker 2: If there's there is such thing as too much work,
Speaker 2: I know that there are bosses that would say differently,
Speaker 2: or companies that would go, no, you can you can
Speaker 2: always do more work. And I'm not a huge fan
Speaker 2: of that. There's a time and a place on as
Speaker 2: to where you would break where you just have only
Speaker 2: enough to give. There were times where I walked away
Speaker 2: and rested. There are time where I would leave a
Speaker 2: city and people would say, well, aren't you going to
Speaker 2: do X, Y and Z, And I'd say no, I'm
Speaker 2: I'm done here and I'm moving on to somewhere else. Otherwise,
Speaker 2: there's always something around the corner. If you think it's
Speaker 2: a legitimate amount of work and you should be able
Speaker 2: to do it, then you need to find a triage
Speaker 2: system of sorts to tackle certain things. I would gather
Speaker 2: that out of every task or group of tasks that
Speaker 2: you have, there is one task that seems to be
Speaker 2: more daunting than the rest, or maybe you know less
Speaker 2: about it. And usually when you're when you don't feel
Speaker 2: confident or strong about a particular task is when it
Speaker 2: slows you down because you don't want to do it wrong,
Speaker 2: you don't want to do it incorrectly, and so you're
Speaker 2: you kind of put it off or go at it
Speaker 2: very slowly. So you could see if there's any group
Speaker 2: of tasks there's one in particular that seems to weigh
Speaker 2: you down or that you are intimidated, buy and put
Speaker 2: that at the top of the list to finish, take
Speaker 2: care of that, ask questions, do what you need to do,
Speaker 2: but always creating a triage as the type of work,
Speaker 2: What what's going to be simple to do, what's going
Speaker 2: to take time, or what you need to learn to
Speaker 2: do before you can complete it. Never never be afraid
Speaker 2: of asking questions. If you're at a place where they're
Speaker 2: they don't like you asking questions. Well, that's not a
Speaker 2: great place.
Speaker 8: Tell me what, I pretty confidence, and I asked questions.
Speaker 8: I need to understand what I'm dream if I do it.
Speaker 8: So it's not I don't think it's about to struggle
Speaker 8: with that. It's just you know, prioritizing. Like you had said,
Speaker 8: the biggest thing is it's usually a huge task that's involved,
Speaker 8: so to work on that.
Speaker 6: But I just.
Speaker 8: It's just I noticed this in my other position that
Speaker 8: it was just like a gosh, I got all those
Speaker 8: work clothes and then when they asked for help, there
Speaker 8: wasn't a help of allable. And I said, you know what,
Speaker 8: I can't do this anymore. You know, I can't work weekends.
Speaker 8: My kids, you know, they need me until the job
Speaker 8: that was on it's very good money, and it's like,
Speaker 8: oh goodness, sure called hearing and it's very scary.
Speaker 2: Well, the workplace is changing and they're expecting more of people,
Speaker 2: and they're not really necessarily caring about the family unit
Speaker 2: the same way. They figure they will always find somebody
Speaker 2: who will give up whatever to do the task.
Speaker 1: And it's unfortunate.
Speaker 2: I will tell you this that if it's if there's
Speaker 2: not one particular task that is daunting, there's not one
Speaker 2: particular task that you feel you don't understand and that's
Speaker 2: weighing you down. Then you start at the simplest first
Speaker 2: and you cross things off your list. There's nothing more
Speaker 2: refreshing than feeling like you've gotten you had success on
Speaker 2: some things, and you reverse the process, get the small
Speaker 2: ones done quickly, and then you have more time on
Speaker 2: the large ones. I mean, it's it's common sense in
Speaker 2: so many ways. If there's a blockage, it's you.
Speaker 8: There is purposely, like what am I doing? Am I
Speaker 8: personally creating this?
Speaker 4: You know?
Speaker 8: I have the thinking with a created job and my
Speaker 8: purposely for now creating this because I don't know if
Speaker 8: if I can't focus and I'm creating twenty five tasks during.
Speaker 2: Do people ever refer to you as a perfectionist, those
Speaker 2: that are close to you, Yes, Okay, so your particular
Speaker 2: in the way you like things done?
Speaker 8: Yeah, because it's sting much finance and accounting, so I
Speaker 8: guess you.
Speaker 2: Know ways or have to be you know, so the
Speaker 2: consequences are large. You're dealing with numbers and things that
Speaker 2: actually tied to real money. Yeah, okay, so that that
Speaker 2: can be intimidating onto itself, regardless of the size of
Speaker 2: the task at hand, and of course you'd need to
Speaker 2: be thorough. But sometimes there is paralysis by perfection. You
Speaker 2: the concern to get everything done in such a way
Speaker 2: that you get nothing done, so afraid of doing things
Speaker 2: wrong that you don't want to do anything. I think
Speaker 2: these are all places where you can you can kind
Speaker 2: of poke around and check yourself and see if they're
Speaker 2: what's holding you up. I would also recommend you not
Speaker 2: that you are going to find fun in doing this
Speaker 2: auditing for somebody who deals with numbers. But audit your time.
Speaker 2: Write a list down, keep it next to you, and
Speaker 2: audit your time, your whole day, what time, and be
Speaker 2: very honest and no one has to see it but you,
Speaker 2: And be very honest and see where your time goes.
Speaker 2: If people are coming in and talking to you too
Speaker 2: long at the office, or people are asking you advice
Speaker 2: for their stuff, or you're not getting enough time to
Speaker 2: do your own work, if anyone else has you assisting
Speaker 2: them in their own position or their own stuff. All
Speaker 2: of these things, as little as they may be throughout
Speaker 2: the day, can actually take big chunks out of what
Speaker 2: you're trying to process. So if you keep a kind
Speaker 2: of timeline on one half what you need to get done,
Speaker 2: on the other half, what you're getting done and what's
Speaker 2: going on throughout the day, I think you'll be surprised
Speaker 2: as to where your time goes. And once you see that,
Speaker 2: once you see where the time is actually going, you
Speaker 2: can troubleshoot and see how you can use your time better.
Speaker 8: That's very good. I'm going to try that deperately.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so try that first, and you're at least going
Speaker 2: to see where there might be Oh my goodness. You know,
Speaker 2: five different people came in today and had me ask
Speaker 2: them for help on their own projects. Next time, I
Speaker 2: need to say no until I get to this point
Speaker 2: in my list or whatever it might be. And I
Speaker 2: think you'd be surprised. It's always the little things.
Speaker 1: People.
Speaker 2: People don't lose money throughout the day because they buy
Speaker 2: yachts on accident. Oh, I was going to the grocery
Speaker 2: store and I bought a yacht, and now my bank
Speaker 2: account's broke, you know, completely emptied. What happens is you
Speaker 2: go to the grocery store and you buy the necessities
Speaker 2: and then you're wait in line and you go, I
Speaker 2: might want to pack a gum. Yeah, I'll get a
Speaker 2: peck of gum. And then you go, oh, gosh, that
Speaker 2: candy bar looks good and it was a rough day
Speaker 2: and I probably deserve it. And then you get that,
Speaker 2: and then you're leaving and you're going, oh, well, you
Speaker 2: know what, I'll buy a newspaper. Yeah, I haven't sat
Speaker 2: down and watched read a newspaper in a long time.
Speaker 2: And but you start going through all these things in
Speaker 2: nickel and dime yourself to death, and it's no different
Speaker 2: with the commodity of time. You're constantly nickel and diming
Speaker 2: yourself thinking oh, well, yes, I don't want to say
Speaker 2: no to them, or I don't want to say no
Speaker 2: to that. But your first priority is going to be
Speaker 2: the task of the list and that task that's been
Speaker 2: imparted to you first.
Speaker 1: So audit yourself, write.
Speaker 2: It down, do it for at least one day, but
Speaker 2: maybe two would be better, and see if there's any patterns.
Speaker 8: But you know, you're saying that it makes sense because
Speaker 8: there are a lot of people that go to need
Speaker 8: for knowledge, like how do you approach joking? And I
Speaker 8: think because some of the people that I've worked with,
Speaker 8: Like I would just say, Okay, what is the problem
Speaker 8: I really have to do, and I can fix things.
Speaker 8: I'm really get a fixing things, and I think because
Speaker 8: people know that, they'll say, okay, this is a problem.
Speaker 8: So it comes to me for advice to fix things,
Speaker 8: and I know my time gets taken for okay, go
Speaker 8: do this, So I would do that sort of thing,
Speaker 8: and I just need to pull back. But I'm definitely
Speaker 8: audit myself and write it down and just kind of
Speaker 8: learn to say probably know more and pull back and
Speaker 8: then focus on my job at here.
Speaker 2: And you end up doing everybody else's work. When you're
Speaker 2: good at everything like that, or you're you feel comfortable
Speaker 2: in a lot of different fields or very good at
Speaker 2: your own, people will seek you out.
Speaker 1: And that's a wonderful thing.
Speaker 2: It's both flattering and it's part of the system and
Speaker 2: it keeps the system running. But you can't do it
Speaker 2: at the expense of what you have to do. So
Speaker 2: once you find out where it's going, if you find
Speaker 2: that that's a pattern and a lot of people come
Speaker 2: and ask you questions, great, then you can set up
Speaker 2: something and say, hey, listen, the last hour of every
Speaker 2: workday is what I'm going to take questions. I'm finding
Speaker 2: I'm not getting my work done, So if you would
Speaker 2: like to come back at this time, I'd love to
Speaker 2: go over that with you, because I should be caught
Speaker 2: up by then. Whatever it is, you can even schedule
Speaker 2: that and file that in, but you have to see
Speaker 2: it as an actual time drain. And now that's one
Speaker 2: of your tasks, is helping others in that way. If
Speaker 2: it's just throughout the day, you'll never get anything done.
Speaker 2: There has to be a point where you say, I'm sorry,
Speaker 2: I have a bunch of products I have to do,
Speaker 2: are projects I have to do, and i'd love to
Speaker 2: help out. Let's do it at and you schedule them in.
Speaker 2: Make it a part of that system. Audit yourself, write
Speaker 2: it down on paper, see where your time is going.
Speaker 2: And I know by listening to how you think and
Speaker 2: the way you ask the question, you will correct the
Speaker 2: problem just by seeing it on paper.
Speaker 1: Every generation.
Speaker 2: Looks at their life and says it's getting more complicated,
Speaker 2: and every generation would be correct to a certain degree.
Speaker 2: There are new things coming your way every moment of
Speaker 2: every day, and you're bombarded with a stimulation more than
Speaker 2: any other generation, with mobile accessibility to the entire world,
Speaker 2: mobile accessibility to your job. There was a time where
Speaker 2: you came home from work and you spend time with
Speaker 2: your family. And nowadays you come home from work, but
Speaker 2: you're still tethered to a mobile device, whether it be
Speaker 2: your phone, whether it be your tablet or even a laptop.
Speaker 2: You're always around a portal to your boss, to friends,
Speaker 2: to family, whoever might need you. Right that moment. Used
Speaker 2: to make a phone call and then if you couldn't
Speaker 2: get the person, it have to wait. But the world
Speaker 2: is in a speed, a little speed location right now.
Speaker 2: That is all about getting it done and getting it
Speaker 2: done now, regardless the feelings may be, well, family first
Speaker 2: and you got to take care of this, and you
Speaker 2: got to take care of that. But really it's not
Speaker 2: how it's structured anymore.
Speaker 1: It's structured.
Speaker 2: If something needs to be done with work, it needs
Speaker 2: to be done now. Competition is different. Life moves at
Speaker 2: a different speed, and in that process it can be
Speaker 2: very overwhelming and taxing on certain types of brains. There's
Speaker 2: just people that move at certain speeds. This is how
Speaker 2: they do things, This is how they do them right.
Speaker 2: And in that process. You can feel like you're being swell,
Speaker 2: but I assure you there is a way to at
Speaker 2: least calculate what your skills are and what you can
Speaker 2: and should be doing at any given time and apply them.
Speaker 2: And then after that point you can tip your hat
Speaker 2: and say this is what I have, this is my ability,
Speaker 2: and if they don't like it, you can move on.
Speaker 2: But if you're like any other race, if you feel
Speaker 2: you can't run at the speeds that are needed, then
Speaker 2: downsize find a speed that you can, because you will
Speaker 2: always be best running at a speed that suits you.
Speaker 2: But that must be balanced with growth as well, and
Speaker 2: looking inwardly and saying, okay, am I learning a skill
Speaker 2: or is this pushing me in another direction to get
Speaker 2: better at something else or to expand myself? And if
Speaker 2: that is the yes answer, then you need to stick
Speaker 2: with it. But if not, you move on and you
Speaker 2: find your proper speed Until next week, remember these words.
Speaker 2: I am with you always.
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