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Here are 8 practical strategies to help you build discipline in your life.

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3:08 – 1. Remember that maturity does not come over night.6:22 – 2. Don’t let emotions in the driver’s seat.8:36 – 3. Start by disciplining your mind with the truth.11:23 – 4. Strive to have discipline mature into habit.13:27 – 5. Remember that discipline always requires sacrifice.15:52 – 6. Build on habits that are already working.18:02 – 7. Harness waves of motivation to create system that last.22:05 – 8. Always do the right thing, the first time, no matter how small.24:12 – Conclusion

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Read this as an article, 8 Strategies for Developing Christ-Honoring Self-Discipline

Listen to part one: RPS #61 — You Need to Learn Discipline

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3:08 – 1. Remember that maturity does not come overnight.

6:22 – 2. Don't let emotions in the driver's seat.

8:36 – 3. Start by disciplining your mind with the truth.

11:23 – 4. Strive to have discipline mature into habit.

13:27 – 5. Remember that discipline always requires sacrifice.

15:52 – 6. Build on habits that are already working.

18:02 – 7. Harness waves of motivation to create a system that lasts.

22:05 – 8. Always do the right thing, the first time, no matter how small.

24:12 – Conclusion

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Summary

Discipline is a rare commodity. In business, those who have it succeed consistently, those who don’t just get by or get lucky. For Christians, however, discipline is a necessity. But what is discipline, why do we need it, and how can we learn it?

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0:00 – Welcome5:22 – What is Discipline?11:36 – Why You Need Discipline22:32 – Teasing Practical Steps in the Next Episode

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Do you ever have those days where you come home and think, “that was a really productive day”? Imagine if you could make every day feel productive and let that momentum carry you through, not just days, but weeks of productive work.

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0:00 – Welcome2:57 – The Problem7:06 – Closing the Loops9:39 – Make a Plan to Finish the Right Tasks12:07 – How to Write a Book17:23 – Principles for Breaking Your Projects Down24:31 – Creating Reusable Project Templates25:46 – My Process for Writing a Blog Article29:20 – Conclusion

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Your outlook on life is one of the biggest factors in deciding the quality and success of your work. But should Christians be optimists? And what does biblically-based optimism even look like?

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0:00 – Welcome2:18 – Optimism vs. Pessimism3:20 – The Right Kind of Optimist5:16 – Evangelical Eeyores7:52 – Every Believer Should Be an Optimist10:19 – Reasonably Happy12:53 – Eternally Optimistic16:27 – Joyfully Long-Suffering17:17 – More Than a Personality Trait19:17 – Optimism Is True and It Gets Results22:18 – Conclusion

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Where would you be today if you weren’t so afraid of other people’s opinions? That’s the question that drove me to look for biblical answers to my fear of man.

In this episode, we discuss how destructive living in the fear of others can be to our lives and personal productivity, and how Scripture provides a way out of this snare. I also share a big life update.

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How to Stop Being Afraid of People, So You Can Start Getting Stuff DoneEp. 12 – Interview with Adam Ford, Creator of The Babylon BeeSign-up for the Redeeming Productivity Newsletter.

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0:00 – Welcome, and Major Life Update4:16 – Why You Should Fear the Fear of Man8:41 – How to Attack the Fear of Man12:12 – What Fear of Man Does to Us14:01 – The Fear of Man Is Beatable16:58 – Rightly Ordered Fears20:02 – First, Fear God24:25 – Second, Love People28:43 – Outro

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In this episode, we talk about the joy of reading, note taking, Roam Research vs. Notion, and applying note taking techniques to writing and idea creation.

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Episode 55 – Bible Notetaking Systems with Matthew EverhardRelearning the Joy of Reading (Blog)How to Take Smart Notes by **Sönke AhrensTrack book series for students – Track is a series of books designed to disciple the next generation in the areas of culture, doctrine, & the Christian life. While the topics addressed aren’t always simple, they are communicated in a manner that is.

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01:42 Relearning the Joy of Reading02:17 How to Take Smart Notes04:39 Trying Roam Research (Again)06:53 Roam Research vs. Notion09:44 Applying Smart Note to My Book Project14:17 Smart Notes for Idea Creation

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Hello, and welcome to the redeeming productivity show. This is the podcast that helps Christians get more done, and get it done like Christians. And I’m your host, Reagan Rose.

Well, I am on vacation this week in Florida with my family. So if you hear some background noise, that’s probably my son screaming, or my wife cooking dinner right now, we’re having fish tacos.

So this episode, I’m going to do kind of a little bit more of what my friend Daryl Harrison calls a freestyle episode. And basically, I’m just going to be talking about a few things that I’ve been thinking about learning and reading about that have application to personal productivity. And it’s not super structured, it’s not super outlined. But hopefully, it’ll be super fun. I just didn’t want to go two weeks without giving you guys an episode. So here we are, we’re gonna be talking about

I guess we’ll be talking really about note taking, which I know I’ve talked about a lot with my interview with Matthew everhard. And some of the other episodes. In recent history, we’re talking about the Citadel, Kazakhstan, you know, and and knowledge management systems. But it’s something I just keep digging deeper and deeper into. And the more I think about it, the more I think that if if we could kind of come up with a better way to organize our thinking, organize our notes. And as we’re reading and stuff, and I think it’s a worthy endeavor, to try to find a good better way of taking notes. In fact, if you haven’t seen the blog post I posted last week on relearning the joy of reading, you should check that out I in that I talk a little bit about how one of the things that’s helped me regained kind of a love for reading, in recent days, has been

trying to get better at taking notes and retaining what I’m reading in a way that doesn’t get in the way of the reading process, but actually, helps make it a bit more fun, actually. And so, as I’ve been thinking about that, and trying to get better at that, I bought a book that I’d been hearing a lot about, called How to take smart notes, by some K, Aaron’s and this is a great, great read, if you have any interest at all in research and writing or any of that kind of stuff. This is a book that is worth your time checking out. It’s called How to take smart notes. And I have been

implementing already. And in fact, kind of ironically, a little Inception wise, I’ve been implementing some of the ways of taking notes that the book talks about, as I’m reading the book. So in the notes on the book, but basically, what how to take smart notes is about is it’s about writing and thinking and the fact that those processes can be improved through a more organized note taking system. And they kind of flip the the traditional idea of how you would go about writing something on its head. So instead of what we’re kind o

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Episode 55 – Bible Notetaking Systems with Matthew Everhard

Relearning the Joy of Reading (Blog)

How to Take Smart Notes by Sönke Ahrens

Track book series for students – Track is a series of books designed to disciple the next generation in the areas of culture, doctrine, & the Christian life. While the topics addressed aren’t always simple, they are communicated in a manner that is.

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02:17 How to Take Smart Notes

04:39 Trying Roam Research (Again)

06:53 Roam Research vs. Notion

09:44 Applying Smart Note to My Book Project

14:17 Smart Notes for Idea Creation

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03:10 – Why we drop the ball

07:33 – 1. Don’t Overcommit to Begin With

10:27 – 2. Develop a System to Track Your Commitments

12:11 – 3. Communicate Early

15:30 – 4. Be 100% Honest

20:47 – 5. Ask for Forgiveness

23:45 – 6. Learn from Your Mistakes

25:56 – Believe the gospel when we drop the ball

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Getting Things Done by David Allen

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No matter how well we plan, organize, and delegate, sometimes we drop the ball. Sometimes we let people down. Sometimes we fail to live up to our commitments. And sometimes we make matters worse by failing to communicate. This can lead to broken trust and people losing respect for you. So, how do we drop the ball gracefully? Today I’m going to give you five ways.

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00:00 – Introduction03:10 – Why we drop the ball07:33 – 1. Don’t Overcommit to Begin With10:27 – 2. Develop a System to Track Your Commitments12:11 – 3. Communicate Early15:30 – 4. Be 100% Honest20:47 – 5. Ask for Forgiveness23:45 – 6. Learn from Your Mistakes25:56 – Believe the gospel when we drop the ball

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Transcript

Welcome to the redeeming productivity show. This is the podcast that helps Christians get more done and get it done like Christians. And I’m your host, Reagan Rose. Well, I’m here this is Episode 56. And I’m sitting here I got a ice cold Lacroix. Well, this is a Kroger brand. So, seltzer water, zero calories, naturally flavored lemon, listen to this. Just went all over my computer. It’s okay. It’s okay. Just a few droplets. Well, got another episode for you. So we’re gonna be talking today about the art of gracefully dropping the ball, how to let people down without losing their respect. Ooh, intriguing title. I know. I wrote it. And so here’s the deal. No matter how well you plan, no matter how well you organize, no matter how well you delegate, sometimes you drop the ball. Sometimes you let people down. Sometimes you fail to live up to your commitments and your promises. But sometimes, talking to myself here, we can make matters worse, when we fail to communicate when those things happen. And this can lead to broken trust can lead to people losing respect for you. And the question is, how do we drop the ball gracefully? Well, today, I’m going to give you five ways that you can drop the ball gracefully, and not lose people’s respect, not lose their trust, when you have to break a commitment. So we’ll talk about that in just a second. Before we do just a quick plug for the newsletter, if you don’t get my bi weekly newsletter, you should it on Wednesdays I talk about things that have come out on the blog about new podcast episodes, and just some other things that I’m thinking. And that’s really the only place you can get that just it’s a little more. I was gonna say unhinged musings, but that’s not the word I’m looking for. Though it may be more accurate, that’s gonna say less, you know, rehearse less polish. This is kind of what I’m thinking about in regard to Christianity and productivity that week. And then on Fridays, you get my Reagan’s roundup feature with just as five links from around the web, to help you on your journey to becoming a more productive Christian. So if you’re not on the newsletter, you should sign up. It’s redeemedproductivity.com/newsletter. And also now when you sign up for the newsletter, you get a free morning routine planner PDF. It’s something I’ve pulled together, that kind of will walk you through the steps for creating a morning routine for yourself that involves things like Bible study, and exercise and prayer. And just if you walk through the steps, you’ll have yourself a handy dandy routine in the morning. So check that out the redeeming productivity newsletter at redeemingproductivity.com/newsletter. And also if you’re interested in supporting my work producing this podcast, these videos, blog posts, etc. You can do so on patreon.com/re