WEBVTT 00:00:08.359 --> 00:00:11.140 What's going on, Pursuers? Welcome to The Pursuit 00:00:11.140 --> 00:00:14.339 of Calling, the podcast that provides you with 00:00:14.339 --> 00:00:17.260 the strategies and tools needed to successfully 00:00:17.260 --> 00:00:20.820 discover and pursue your calling. Whether it's 00:00:20.820 --> 00:00:23.239 through inspiring stories, thought -provoking 00:00:23.239 --> 00:00:26.160 interviews, or quick, insightful episodes on 00:00:26.160 --> 00:00:28.559 personal growth and development, we've got you 00:00:28.559 --> 00:00:32.359 covered. I'm your host, Thomas Carney. Enjoy 00:00:32.359 --> 00:00:40.179 the episode. Okay, guys, this is going to be 00:00:40.179 --> 00:00:43.359 a quick episode this week. As you can tell, I'm 00:00:43.359 --> 00:00:47.020 in a little bit of a better mood this week than 00:00:47.020 --> 00:00:50.340 I was last week. Last week, I was feeling overwhelmed. 00:00:50.799 --> 00:00:55.700 I was feeling stuck. I wasn't sure. I had so 00:00:55.700 --> 00:00:58.659 many priorities and not sure which one was actually 00:00:58.659 --> 00:01:04.379 the top priority because all the priorities are 00:01:04.379 --> 00:01:09.040 important. I just didn't know what to do, and 00:01:09.040 --> 00:01:10.359 that's kind of what I was talking about last 00:01:10.359 --> 00:01:13.180 week. But I want to say I'm doing a lot better. 00:01:14.400 --> 00:01:16.500 I want to thank you for your prayers. I want 00:01:16.500 --> 00:01:19.879 to thank you because I honestly believe they 00:01:19.879 --> 00:01:25.299 worked. This past week has felt much more manageable. 00:01:26.019 --> 00:01:27.760 If you're watching the video, you're watching 00:01:27.760 --> 00:01:31.459 me pull windows across the screen. I'm not looking 00:01:31.459 --> 00:01:42.469 at the camera. Apologies. Let me adjust. Cool. 00:01:42.469 --> 00:01:46.510 And this past week has been a lot more manageable. 00:01:46.590 --> 00:01:49.530 And I want to share some of the things I've been 00:01:49.530 --> 00:01:52.609 doing to overcome that paralyzing feeling of 00:01:52.609 --> 00:01:56.810 having a million tasks, but not knowing where 00:01:56.810 --> 00:02:01.969 to start. I want this to be an encouragement. 00:02:04.629 --> 00:02:07.829 The biggest thing that helped me, the biggest 00:02:07.829 --> 00:02:11.280 thing that helped me was prioritization. Now, 00:02:11.280 --> 00:02:14.819 I said I had so many tasks and so many tasks 00:02:14.819 --> 00:02:19.259 and so many priorities that weren't just tasks, 00:02:19.360 --> 00:02:22.719 but they were like projects. And the tasks within 00:02:22.719 --> 00:02:24.719 those projects are the things that I wanted to 00:02:24.719 --> 00:02:28.620 do and things I wanted to accomplish. And I didn't 00:02:28.620 --> 00:02:30.979 know what to do next. I think I told you last 00:02:30.979 --> 00:02:33.560 week, Andrew, my friend Andrew and I talked and 00:02:33.560 --> 00:02:35.780 he was talking about Bible study. He was doing 00:02:35.780 --> 00:02:38.539 with the other staff members at Amplified Church. 00:02:39.210 --> 00:02:41.729 And they're talking about the analysis paralysis 00:02:41.729 --> 00:02:46.569 or exactly what I was going through, being paralyzed 00:02:46.569 --> 00:02:49.009 by having too many priorities, by having too 00:02:49.009 --> 00:02:51.030 many things to do. And they're essentially what 00:02:51.030 --> 00:02:55.169 they came to the conclusion of was just do something 00:02:55.169 --> 00:02:58.129 and just start. So that's what I started with. 00:02:58.349 --> 00:03:00.710 I just did something. And even if it was the 00:03:00.710 --> 00:03:06.430 wrong thing, then I would find that out. But 00:03:06.430 --> 00:03:08.669 luckily, that wasn't true. I realized what my 00:03:08.669 --> 00:03:12.210 priorities were. My priority, I'm moving soon. 00:03:12.349 --> 00:03:15.370 My priority was getting things set up to move, 00:03:15.490 --> 00:03:19.930 asking people to help me move, figuring out where 00:03:19.930 --> 00:03:22.270 I was going to get a washer and a dryer, because 00:03:22.270 --> 00:03:24.169 that was really important, and I got that figured 00:03:24.169 --> 00:03:30.289 out now. And all of those things, and today I 00:03:30.289 --> 00:03:32.469 was setting up utilities for whenever I move. 00:03:32.550 --> 00:03:35.719 All that stuff is really important. But the way 00:03:35.719 --> 00:03:42.639 I prioritize those things was through a to -do 00:03:42.639 --> 00:03:46.280 list system. I use an application called to -do 00:03:46.280 --> 00:03:47.840 list. You've heard me talk about it maybe on 00:03:47.840 --> 00:03:51.500 this podcast before. I love it because it allows 00:03:51.500 --> 00:03:53.360 me to break things out into separate projects 00:03:53.360 --> 00:03:56.479 and prioritize them using whatever method you 00:03:56.479 --> 00:04:00.379 want to use. But you can flag them from P1 to 00:04:00.379 --> 00:04:03.889 P4, from priority one to priority four. And that 00:04:03.889 --> 00:04:06.710 helps me be like, okay, I'm going to do this 00:04:06.710 --> 00:04:10.389 task tomorrow because usually I like to prioritize 00:04:10.389 --> 00:04:14.490 the day before for the next day. And I'm going 00:04:14.490 --> 00:04:16.370 to do this tomorrow. This is maybe going to be 00:04:16.370 --> 00:04:21.050 done at this time. And this priority one, that 00:04:21.050 --> 00:04:23.769 means like there might be other things to do 00:04:23.769 --> 00:04:27.350 that day, but this is priority one. This needs 00:04:27.350 --> 00:04:30.199 to be done first. Or this is the thing that absolutely 00:04:30.199 --> 00:04:32.980 needs done in Priority 3. Maybe it's important, 00:04:33.220 --> 00:04:37.540 but it won't be the end of the world if it doesn't 00:04:37.540 --> 00:04:45.500 get done. Something... I know I'm talking fast. 00:04:46.459 --> 00:04:48.100 Like I said, this is going to be a quick episode. 00:04:49.199 --> 00:04:52.339 Honestly, some unexpected things happened earlier 00:04:52.339 --> 00:04:58.019 in this day. I'm just going to be recording this 00:04:58.019 --> 00:05:02.079 quick episode because I didn't have as much time 00:05:02.079 --> 00:05:07.579 to prepare. And that's life. However, something 00:05:07.579 --> 00:05:09.560 might, now getting back to it, my therapist, 00:05:09.839 --> 00:05:13.079 Brittany, told me, because I was trying to plan 00:05:13.079 --> 00:05:14.560 out, I was getting overwhelmed because I wanted 00:05:14.560 --> 00:05:16.540 to plan out my weeks. And she said, if planning 00:05:16.540 --> 00:05:19.399 out your week seems overwhelming, just try a 00:05:19.399 --> 00:05:22.220 day or two. Just try to plan out the next day 00:05:22.220 --> 00:05:25.769 or the next two days and see how that goes. Because 00:05:25.769 --> 00:05:28.149 where I would get stuck is I would try to plan 00:05:28.149 --> 00:05:31.709 out a week, two weeks, a month ahead. And then 00:05:31.709 --> 00:05:33.529 I wouldn't be able to stick to that. And then 00:05:33.529 --> 00:05:36.709 I'd get overwhelmed. Or I'd get discouraged because 00:05:36.709 --> 00:05:41.029 I didn't stick to the plan. Because life happened. 00:05:41.170 --> 00:05:45.009 Unexpected things would happen. So what I'm finding 00:05:45.009 --> 00:05:48.089 the easiest for me is to sit down the night before 00:05:48.089 --> 00:05:50.689 and plan out the next day or the next two days 00:05:50.689 --> 00:05:53.370 of the priorities of the things I want to get 00:05:53.370 --> 00:05:56.689 done. Recently, it has had a lot to do with moving 00:05:56.689 --> 00:06:02.750 and actually less to do with a podcast or my 00:06:02.750 --> 00:06:06.329 business. But I've actually been even more motivated 00:06:06.329 --> 00:06:09.629 to get into my podcast and into my business because 00:06:09.629 --> 00:06:17.110 of my life actually having some systems to it. 00:06:18.610 --> 00:06:20.689 I'm remembering a quote right now. I think it's 00:06:20.689 --> 00:06:28.959 from James Clear. Man, what is it? Oh, here we 00:06:28.959 --> 00:06:32.579 go. You do not rise to the level of your goals. 00:06:32.819 --> 00:06:37.079 You fall to the level of your systems. That's 00:06:37.079 --> 00:06:39.259 a quote from James Clear, the author of Atomic 00:06:39.259 --> 00:06:42.060 Habits, which is one of my favorite books. I'm 00:06:42.060 --> 00:06:45.019 going to reread it, actually. I'm actually thinking 00:06:45.019 --> 00:06:46.560 very—now that I'm just thinking about it, that 00:06:46.560 --> 00:06:48.480 should be a book I reread at least once a year. 00:06:49.720 --> 00:06:52.779 But I'm going to— But that's a book that's just 00:06:52.779 --> 00:06:54.540 talking about how to create habits, positive 00:06:54.540 --> 00:07:00.240 habits, in order to live that satisfactory life. 00:07:00.339 --> 00:07:03.699 To live a life, in my mind, living a life of 00:07:03.699 --> 00:07:07.079 peace and not of chaos. Because I like when in 00:07:07.079 --> 00:07:10.060 Scripture there's a verse that says, where there's 00:07:10.060 --> 00:07:12.939 no vision, the people perish. And where there's 00:07:12.939 --> 00:07:16.620 no, in my mind, where there's no forward thought, 00:07:16.860 --> 00:07:20.709 where you're not thinking ahead. and planning 00:07:20.709 --> 00:07:22.970 for the goals that you have set out and creating 00:07:22.970 --> 00:07:25.750 the habits and the systems in order to achieve 00:07:25.750 --> 00:07:28.930 those goals. If you're not doing that, those 00:07:28.930 --> 00:07:31.529 goals are either not going to get achieved or 00:07:31.529 --> 00:07:36.149 going to become really hard to achieve. So my 00:07:36.149 --> 00:07:38.910 challenge to you is to think about the systems 00:07:38.910 --> 00:07:42.250 in your life, your priorities, maybe in context 00:07:42.250 --> 00:07:47.089 of this episode, the prioritization systems of 00:07:47.089 --> 00:07:52.360 your life. of how do you prioritize the things 00:07:52.360 --> 00:07:55.759 that need to get done? Maybe you're not as much 00:07:55.759 --> 00:07:59.779 like me. I'm very systematic. I like having to 00:07:59.779 --> 00:08:01.939 do, I like doing the same thing. I like having 00:08:01.939 --> 00:08:04.540 the same systems every day. If I wake up at the 00:08:04.540 --> 00:08:06.639 same time, go to bed, I try to go to bed at the 00:08:06.639 --> 00:08:09.560 same time. I read before, I have a night routine. 00:08:10.279 --> 00:08:13.720 And I like to think that, I would love to think 00:08:13.720 --> 00:08:16.180 that everybody worked exactly like me, but I... 00:08:16.439 --> 00:08:18.839 Not sure that's the case. I know everybody has 00:08:18.839 --> 00:08:27.259 habits and everybody has priorities. So whenever 00:08:27.259 --> 00:08:29.720 you're thinking about your priorities, whenever 00:08:29.720 --> 00:08:31.319 you're thinking about the things you need to 00:08:31.319 --> 00:08:33.980 get done from day to day, what is your system? 00:08:34.019 --> 00:08:36.639 Do you have a system? Or are you just trying 00:08:36.639 --> 00:08:38.200 to remember all the things that you need to get 00:08:38.200 --> 00:08:43.720 done? I've been there and it sucks. And you probably 00:08:43.720 --> 00:08:48.379 don't get everything done. So my challenge to 00:08:48.379 --> 00:08:53.919 you for this next week is to reassess your systems, 00:08:54.320 --> 00:09:01.360 figure out how you can best prioritize what needs 00:09:01.360 --> 00:09:04.720 to get done for the goals that you want to achieve 00:09:04.720 --> 00:09:07.240 to help you get from where you are to where you 00:09:07.240 --> 00:09:11.080 want to be. The whole point of this podcast is 00:09:11.080 --> 00:09:14.559 to essentially help you get... from where you 00:09:14.559 --> 00:09:17.080 are to where you want to be to help you achieve 00:09:17.080 --> 00:09:18.700 the goals, the vision that you have for your 00:09:18.700 --> 00:09:21.399 life. And having these systems, these prioritization 00:09:21.399 --> 00:09:26.559 habits is an extreme part of that. All right. 00:09:27.179 --> 00:09:29.200 Thank you guys for listening to this episode 00:09:29.200 --> 00:09:31.700 of the Pursuit of Calling podcast. If you liked 00:09:31.700 --> 00:09:34.240 this episode, go ahead and share it out on Spotify 00:09:34.240 --> 00:09:37.860 or I guess, no, share it out on Instagram, you 00:09:37.860 --> 00:09:39.840 know, all the Instagram, Facebook, wherever you 00:09:39.840 --> 00:09:42.279 use social media and give it a five -star review. 00:09:42.779 --> 00:09:46.320 on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and wherever else 00:09:46.320 --> 00:09:48.460 you listen to your podcasts. All right, guys. 00:09:48.539 --> 00:09:50.360 Thank you for listening to this episode again. 00:09:50.559 --> 00:09:53.460 Keep pursuing your calling. I'll see you next 00:09:53.460 --> 00:09:53.679 time.