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Redeeming Productivity #179
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Issue #179 Your weekly roundup of insights and resources to help you get more done for the glory of God. In Today’s Issue:
Dear steward, I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but it seems like summer is coming to an end. We are starting homeschooling with our oldest this week, and I can already feel the pace of life starting to pick up. Summer is great, but come fall, it’s always hard to get back in the groove with schedules, habits, and priorities. For the past couple of years, to help with the transition from summer to fall schedules, I’ve hosted a free virtual workshop called the “Post-Summer Productivity Reset.” I’ll be doing that again this year, the second week of September. Dates and registration details coming soon! By the way, I was a guest on The Stand on American Family Radio this past week, talking about the concept of life stewardship. You can listen to the recording here. My segment starts at 13:35. Now, let’s dive into this week’s roundup! BROUGHT TO YOU BYRedeeming Productivity AcademyTime management from an eternal perspective.
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THE ROUNDUP 🔗The best links I found this weekDo Quests, Not Goals (6 mins)David Cain / Raptitude
I like this mindset shift. Whereas “goal” has become a tired and bloodless descriptor for the (supposed) intention to do something great, the word quest instills the right mentality for achieving a real-life personal victory: A quest is an adventure, and you expect it to be one. Limiting My Phone Expanded My View of God (5 mins)Kathryn Misenheimer / The Gospel Coalition
Consider this your requisite weekly nudge to embrace digital minimalism. Romans 12 tells Christians who are in the world not to be conformed to it. In a world where smartphone dependence is the gold standard, believers have the unique opportunity to be different. The 3 Horizons of Purpose (2 mins)Brett & Kate McKay / The Art of Manliness
An encouraging perspective. We find purpose in both the minutia of the everyday and in the grandious goals of life. By engaging in small daily acts of upkeep — making the messy clean, the disheveled neat, the chaotic organized — we hold back the decay and disarray that would engulf us and others. SOMETHING I LIKE 👍Living Life Backward
We've been reading Living Life Backward by David Gibson this quarter in the Redeeming Productivity Academy book club. It’s an exegetical deep dive into the book of Ecclesiastes. It's been one of those books where I must set it down every few paragraphs to think, marvel, or praise God. I highly recommend it. WHAT'S NEW ✨On Redeeming ProductivityThe Two-Bar Strategy: How to Have Ambitious Goals Without Overwhelming Your Days (11 mins)
How do we set ambitious goals without being disappointingly unrealistic in our daily plans? I tuned up this popular article and created video and podcast versions of it. 🖋A DOSE OF WISDOMQuote of the Week“Death can radically enable us to enjoy life. By relativizing all that we do in our days under the sun, death can change us from people who want to control life for gain into people who find deep joy in receiving life as a gift. This is the main message of Ecclesiastes in a nutshell: life in God’s world is gift, not gain.”David Gibson Living Life BackwardFINAL WORD 👋Thanks for reading!That's all for this week. For His glory, Reagan Rose Reagan RoseI talk about personal productivity from a Christian perspective. Creator of Redeeming Productivity. Take your productivity to the next levelListen to the Podcast → The Redeeming Productivity Show is available on all podcast platforms and YouTube. Get the Book → Grab a copy of Redeeming Productivity: Getting More Done for the Glory of God Join the Academy → Get access to all of our courses, workshops, private community, book club, and more |
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