March 13, 2025 • 34 mins
Kingdom Revolution Podcast: From Time Management to Time Stewardship with Lissa Figgins
Episode Overview
In this episode of Kingdom Revolution, host Kristin welcomes Lissa Figgins, an "untime management strategist" who shares her transformative approach to time for Christian women entrepreneurs. Lissa reveals how shifting from managing time to stewarding it as a gift from God can lead to greater peace, productivity, and purpose in both life and business.
About Our GuestLissa Figgins describes herself as a "recovering busyness owner" who once relied on traditional time management techniques to run her business. After receiving a stress-related health diagnosis (hystericus globus), she began a journey to discover God's perspective on time, which completely transformed how she approaches her business and helps other Christian women entrepreneurs.
Key Takeaways The Problem with Traditional Time Management
- Time management often leads to "busyness" rather than productivity
- Many business owners feel busy but don't see meaningful results
- Constantly chasing calendars, checklists, and time blocks creates stress
- Based on Ephesians 5:15-16: "Look carefully how you live, not as unwise, but as wise, redeeming the time..."
- Not about squeezing more into your day, but making the most of opportunities
- Having an eternal perspective on how you spend your time
- Replace "I don't have time" with "I have time"
- Trust that God has given you enough time for what He's called you to do
- Stop the self-fulfilling prophecy of time scarcity
- Management = control and containment (exhausting "whack-a-mole")
- Stewardship = investing resources on behalf of the owner (God)
- Like the parable of the talents (Matthew 25:14-30)
- Instead of always asking "What time is it?" (which leads to panic)
- Start asking "What is it time for?" (which leads to purpose)
- Focus on "purposeivity" rather than productivity
- Stop leaving God "on the couch" after morning devotions
- Based on Matthew 6:33: "Seek first the kingdom of God..."
- Regular meetings with God about your business decisions
- Not slowing down (constantly doing, doing, doing)
- Lacking clear boundaries (reacting to the "tyranny of the urgent")
- Random actions (doing random things at random times for random results)
- Being too heads-down (not looking ahead strategically)
- Evaluating where your time goes and what results it produces
- Just as important as evaluating financial investments
- The ultimate ROTI is kingdom impact
- CEO Belief: Startin
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Transcript
Episode Transcript
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Are you a Christian woman businessowner feeling overwhelmed by the
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never ending race against time?
The world tells us that successcomes from better time management,
but what if that's not God's way?
Join me and the special guest atthe Kingdom Revolution podcast as
we talk about The biblical conceptof redeeming the time with Lyssa and
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uncover how stewarding time as a gift,rather than trying to control it,
can transform your business in life.
If you've ever thought there'sjust not enough time, then let's
rewrite that story together.
Because as our next guest says,you have time and she wants
you to ask this question, areyou investing it the way God?
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Lisa, welcome to theKingdom Revolution podcast.
I'm so thankful to have you tellour listeners a little bit about
who you are who you serve and whyare you so passionate about helping
Christian women invest their timeaccording to biblical principles?
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Yeah, Kristen, thank you so muchfor this opportunity to spend
time with you, pun intended.
I pray this is going to be fruitfulfor both you and I and go glorify
the Lord and everyone who listens isgoing to be blessed and challenged
and move to action as well.
So, yes, I am Lissa Figgins.
I call myself an untimedmanagement strategist because.
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I too at one time believed that timemanagement was the solution to feeling
like there was never enough time.
And so I was always chasing aclock, a calendar, a checklist.
Can anyone relate, right?
Especially as a business owner, it'slike we have all these roles around
our home and then we take on theresponsibility of being a business owner.
And just, it feels like it justmakes the problem even bigger.
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And I often introduce myself as arecovering busy ness owner, right?
A busy ness owner.
Is someone who is running a business,but it's just busy, you know, like
you're filling your calendar withall these meetings, but they're
really not producing much fruit.
You're putting lots of thingson your to do list and you're
checking those boxes, but you'rereally not seeing the needle move.
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You feel like you're doing all thethings that a business owner should do.
But when you look at your bankaccount, it's really producing little,
you know, to not much in there.
And so my story, uh, and reasonreally why I'm doing this is
because I was a business owner.
I was the poster child for tryingto lean on time management and
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I ended up with a diagnosis.
So I had started feelinga ball in my throat.
Of course, who has time to think about it?
So I ignored it like anybusiness owner would.
And after it had been a year.
I thought, Ooh, something may be growing.
I probably need to check this out or itwill cost me a lot of time, energy stress.
Right?
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So I finally went and did that.
I had a specialist who scoped my throat.
I remember going to his officefor the follow up appointment.
He sat me down, right?
He looked me in the eye and he said,Lissa, I have good news for you.
There is not anythinggrowing in your throat.
I was like, okay, good.
He's but you have hystericus globus.
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And he just sat there with a smirkon his face, like I was supposed
to know what that was, and I'mlike, what is Hystericus Globus?
So he went on to explain to me, Globus,like a globe, you have the sensation of
a ball in your throat, and Hystericus,and he starts swirling his finger
next to his head like you're crazy.
And he thought it would make me feelbetter to say that's where they get
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the word hysterectomy from because theythought women are going crazy in midlife.
And I was like, so you'retelling me I'm crazy.
And he's it's in your head andI'm happy to prescribe you a pill.
Now, I am not against medicationfor mental health because there
are so many good uses for that.
But I knew in that moment, itwas not going to fix the problem.
For me, it was going to mask the problemand allow me to continue chasing my time
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and just not feeling so bad about it.
Right.
Because really when I looked at it.
I had a, I had a ordered calendar.
I had ordered a checklist.
I had all the time blocks lined up.
I had all that stuff.
The problem was I didn'thave a rightly ordered heart.
I was always chasing my not enoughness.
My time wasn't enough.
My doing wasn't enough.
I wasn't enough, right?
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It was just like slippery slope.
So anyway, long story short,I wish I could say everything
changed in that instant.
It didn't.
But that's when God got my attention andsaid, Lisa, your busyness is not this
outside thing or your calendar thing.
It's a heart thing.
I want you to stop and pause the busyness.
And look at what I have to say aboutyour time and the purpose behind it.
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And then, of course, as I looked aroundand everybody else is saying, Oh,
life is busy, busy, busy, always busy.
I was like, Okay, this isn't just for me.
I need to start talking about this.
Yeah.
Oh my goodness.
What a powerful story.
I love just listening how Godtook you through a journey.
of solving this problem for yourselfof this busyness and not having
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enough time and thinking that youalways have to be in control of being
busy control of where the time goes.
I mean, we want to be in control ofwhere the time goes, but many Christian
women entrepreneurs that are listeningare going to be relating to your story
because we struggle with that needto quote unquote control time that
multitask to always be productivebecause that's what the world says to do.
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And we want to have a successful business.
So we, we, we we time block.
We have our checklist.
Like you said, you had everything inorder and you were doing the thing, but
you weren't seeing the results and thefruit that you knew that you could see.
And I love your framework and what youand the Lord created out of this journey.
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But let's start with that biblicalconcept of redeeming time, because
I know it's important to stewardtime well, but as business owners,
we really don't think that way.
So it's a mindset shift that Ilove that you talk us through.
So how does that biblical conceptof redeeming time help us as
Christian women in online business?
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Yeah.
So redeem her time was born in a, inthe pew, uh, during a sermon coming
out of Ephesians on the back of mybulletin, uh, Ephesians five, 15 through
16 says, look carefully how you live.
So there is like attention, right?
We have to pay attention becauseotherwise, we all know we're gonna get
swept up in the sea of busyness, right?
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We'll get swept up in this hustle,hurry culture or the striving,
you know, to thrive type thing.
And, you know, and it is, itis, you have to be intentional.
I have to notice, right?
So look carefully how you live,not as unwise, but as wise.
So that tells me I havetwo choices, right?
And this is true for anyone, believer ornot, but especially as a believer, right?
Like I want to be wise in thechoices I'm making, right?
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Not unwise.
Proverbs is all kinds of, you know,things that tell, uh, you know, shows the
contrast between the wise and the unwise.
And the next frame says redeemingthe time, which literally means
making the most of the opportunities.
And here's where I feellike we get it wrong.
Right.
Like you said, I was taught back inthe day as a business owner, especially
when I had younger kids under my roof.
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I now I'm an empty nest mom.
So to all of you young moms out there,they do grow up and move out of the house
and uh, yeah, life does look different.
It's not any less busy though.
I will tell you that.
Uh, so if you're believing the lie thatlife is going to be less busy when they
grow up and move out, that is not true.
But anyway, I was told fits your businessinto the nooks and crannies, you know,
find it when you're in line, do this whenyou're, you know, like in between thing,
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you know, it was just like all of that.
Right.
So you're, you think you're makingthe most of the opportunities,
but really you're missing thebigger purpose behind your time.
God could have whisked us offto heaven the minute he saved us
and we can get on with eternity,which is time forever with him.
But instead.
He chose to leave us on this earthwith, with the limits on time, right?
We get 24 hours a day, like it or not.
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And, you know, and he is calling usto be intentional with this gift.
He's given us in with theopportunities he's put in front of us.
Right.
And then the last part of that verse says,so look carefully how you live, not as
unwise, but as wise redeeming the time.
And then I love how this version said,because these are difficult days.
Amen to some difficult days, right?
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There will be distractions anddetours and demands and all
kinds of things on your time.
And so if we do not have an eternalperspective on our time, it will
get sucked up by all the things.
It will get spent on thingsthat really don't matter.
I want to be mindful of thefact that one day I'm going
to stand in front of the Lord.
And how does that affect howI spend my time today, knowing
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that that day is coming?
And, you know, this is where weare called to not just manage the
time that we have and chase it.
Like, it's this limited resource thatI, like you said, I have to keep under
control before it gets away from me.
But how do I see it as this gift andsomething I'm called to steward and
something that is more than enough.
Right for what it isthat I've been called to.
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Yeah, it's so important.
We can, I mean, we think about alot of areas in our life where we go
to, I call it my heavenly board ofdirectors and ask for guidance, ask
for that next step with our marriage.
With our family, with our business,but doing that same thing with time
is going to allow you to have somuch more time in the day and be
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honestly be a lot more productive.
I found each and every morning whenI actually do that and spend time
with Holy Spirit that the day playsout in at two in the afternoon.
I'm like, Whoa, I thought it was.
Already five o'clock.
There's so much more time that gets addedon to that day, which is counterintuitive
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to the world's way of doing thingsand kind of how we've been taught.
So what are some shifts that we haveto, we got to take in order to see?
You call it an R O T I. What is that?
But what are some shifts thatwe need to take to see that day
stretched out a little bit furtherwithout actually stretching it out?
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Yeah.
Yeah.
Cause we can't add more time to her day,no matter what it looks like on social
that she's got all the time in the world.
She has 24 hours too, right?
Not five minutes more.
Okay.
So I call it ROTI, R O TI, return on time invested.
Like this is the work that Ithink most people don't take
the time to do, pun intended.
Is to pause the busyness.
To think about where their time is goingand where it's not and what their roadie
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is, the return on time invested, likewhat is the fruit or lack thereof for
the way I'm spending, investing my time.
We do it with our money, right?
And if we can determine thatsomething is not a good use of our
money, we don't keep putting itout there, but we don't ever check.
Where our time is going and whatthe balance is and what's coming in.
Right.
So I really help women to look at theirtime and then to look at their roadie.
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Right.
And ultimately, you and I both knowwe can build amazing businesses and we
can do all these things in this earth.
But 1 day it's not going to be therebecause it's not It's not going to be none
of that will go on into eternity, right?
Except for the meaning behind that.
And so here's where that's the ultimateroadie is like, how am I building the
kingdom with how I'm investing my time?
Which comes down to those threeshifts that you just asked about.
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So shift number one isour belief around time.
If we are telling ourself,there's never enough time, right?
If I had time, if only I had time,when I have time, you know, like
things like that, like we are saying.
God does not know what I need andtherefore, you know, like I'm either
going to complain or compare, right?
Just like the children ofIsrael with manna, right?
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Like we don't like this manna and they hadto trust that God had given them enough.
And so I'm going toencourage your listeners.
Every time you catch yourself saying,I don't have time, I'm behind when
I have time, if I had time, if Icould find the time, I want you to
shift it and go, I have time, right?
That's what I say then if everyone inmy podcast is you have time, right?
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We have to believe I do have time becausethat slows us down to the presence of it.
And then the purpose of it.
Which is really, really important.
And as long as you tell yourself, youdon't have time, you will be, it'll
be a self fulfilling prophecy, right?
You will always be chasing after time.
So the first one is ourshifting our belief.
The second one is shifting our rolebecause like you started off, we're
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told by the world, you have to bebetter at managing your time, right?
That's the solution.
And I think that really it's timemanagement is not the solution.
It's actually the problem.
Because if you think about whatmanaging means, it literally means to
exert control over and keep contained.
Watch a manager at a, at a fast foodrestaurant, and they are playing
whack a mole all day long, right?
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Trying to keep everybody in lineand keep everything contained.
And at the end of theday, how do they feel?
They're like, super exhausted,go to bed and have to come
back and do it all over again.
Can you relate, right?
We spent all day longtrying to keep everything.
And if you watch myhands, it's very top down.
I'm literally putting like a cap.
On what can happen because it's all aboutmy control and what I can keep how I'm
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keeping everything in line or trying toit's a constant game of whack a mole.
You will never win because
no matter how much you try
to control it, you know, or containit, something's going to pop up or out.
Right?
Instead, I believe we arecalled to be stewards our time.
We are called it is a gift.
I didn't make it.
I can't save up from yesterday.
I can't borrow from tomorrow.
And just again, like that mannaillustration, I have to trust
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every day that the 24 hours thatGod gives me is more than enough
for what he's called me to do.
And my role is not tokeep it from getting away.
Like the parable, the talents, theone guy who got the two, the one
that he got the one talent, right?
We think, Oh, poor guy.
He had two pennies.
That was 20 years wages.
Take whatever you made in 2024 times 20.
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That's a lot of money.
He had a lot, but what did he do?
He went and buried it in theground to keep it contained.
So it didn't get away.
He did a great job of managing,but what was the master's
response when he came back?
Like away from me, youwicked and lazy servant.
That was not the purposefor which I gave you time.
This talent, right?
Right.
The other two guys who got thetwo and the five, again, it really
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didn't matter how much they got.
We don't know what they did with it,but they invested, traded, planted, who
knows what they came back with double.
Right.
They doubled it.
That's a great return on investment.
And what did the master say to them?
Well done, good and faithful servant.
The difference was the firstguy saw himself as a manager.
My job is to keep this contained.
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And to keep it from getting away from me,it's all about me versus the other two
who were like, this doesn't belong to me.
It's been entrusted to me as a gift.
And I am to invest this is what asteward means to invest the resources
of someone else on their behalfin order to increase the value.
And so we have to switchour role around time.
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I right now permission to resign frombeginning banner at managing your time.
How many times have you said that?
I just need to get betterat managing my time.
As of today, Lisa says, you don't everhave to be good at managing your time.
Ditch that title of manager.
And the third shift is around the questionwe ask around our time, because what do
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you think, Kristen, is the number onequestion that goes through our head or
comes out of our mouth when we look atour watch, clock on the wall, the clock
on our computer or our phone or whatever?
What do you think that is?
Oh, goodness.
Yeah.
What time is it?
What time is it now?
What time
is it?
And then how do you respond?
Ah, I'm behind.
Oh, my goodness.
That took longer.
Where did time go?
Time got away from me.
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I had no idea.
Right?
We're in this now I'mtrying to run to catch up.
Yeah.
So I want you to listen really carefullyand your listeners, because I'm going to
shift the question like this much, butit's going to make the hugest difference.
So instead of what time is itstart asking the question, what
is it time for when you do that?
Does it make you feel like I have tojump up and start running and go in
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a bazillion directions all at once?
No, it like slows you down.
Like I said earlier to the presence ofyour time and the purpose behind it.
And this is also why I've coinedthe term purposeivity, right?
Like we are taught productivity,which is about checking
boxes and getting stuff done.
And not that there's not a place for that.
But when we focus on purposivity,what's the purpose behind the
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time I have in front of me,that's a whole different thing.
And then I'm, that's also goingto help eliminate multitasking.
Because if I know the purpose ofmy time right now is to have a
conversation with you, guess what?
I'm not answering the textthat came on my phone.
I'm not switching the laundry.
I'm not writing an email.
I'm not, you know, but whatdo we do most of our day?
We're doing like three things atonce and wondering why nothing gets
done well and why it takes so long.
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So we've got to shift our beliefs.
Our roles and ourquestions around our time.
Yeah.
Oh my goodness.
Those are three key things you'regoing to want to pause or go
back, rewind, and listen to.
Those are absolutely amazingshifts that you need to take place.
And I love how you talked about stewardingthe time because We stored everything
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in our life, or at least we should, andI love how you've taken that concept
and put it on time, because it, ithonestly is so important, especially
as women, because we're wearing the,the mom hat, the wife hat, the business
owner hat, maybe even the 9 to 5 er hat,and, It also wreaks havoc sometimes,
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like you mentioned in the beginning ofthis podcast episode, on our health.
And when we can just take a step backand, and change those, have those
belief shifts, ask different questions,and then just hand it over, like I
teach, hand your business over to theLord, your call to steward it well,
hand it over to Him, and say, whatdo you want me to do with this time?
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How do you want me to orchestratemy day, my week, my month?
I love that.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And I call it, I've built, I've created aconcept called the with God framework of
like, how do we invest our time with him?
Because for so long I was the start offthe day with Jesus on the coffee on the
couch and then leave him there while I gorun my business and take care of my day.
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Yeah.
And maybe I pop out a prayer oncein a while, but it wasn't like
this, like I'm doing this with you.
And so this is this whole different chef.
When I see my time as a gift from him,I see it as belonging to him, not me.
I see the eternal purpose behind it.
Now.
That's like I'm talking to him allday long about how I'm investing
it in the context of the life andbusiness, ministry, relationships,
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health, things that are in thisseason of life that I'm in.
Yeah, I love that because youand I, you know, but you full
wholeheartedly believe that it ispossible to build a thriving business
without relying on time management.
What the world says, and you wantto talk a little bit about that and
your, your framework that you created.
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Yeah, yeah.
So to keep it really simple, becauseof course I, you know, work with women
over an entire year to really makethese changes, the growth and change
on perspective and our use of timeand then the fruit of it, the roadie I
love going to the Sermon on the Mount.
Because Jesus is teaching the people howlife in the kingdom is upside down from
the way that they're seeing it aroundthem, even from the Pharisees who were
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supposedly following, you know, God's way.
Right.
And he tells them in Matthew6, 33, seek first the kingdom.
And his righteousness and all of thesethings will be added to you as well.
Right.
And right before that, he talked aboutthe people that run around chasing.
What am I going to eat?
What am I going to drink?
What am I going to wear?
Like it all depends on them.
Yeah.
And I think that we, we think again, likein my business, who am I going to talk to?
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Who wants what I have to offer?
And how am I going to, you know, like, howam I going to get people to pay attention?
Whatever, whatever thequestions are, right.
We run around like the world,like this all depends on us.
And he's seek me first.
And I actually created a template forwhat I call a with God daily meeting.
And so it's this agenda of howwe listen to him and how we
talk to him about our business.
And so the way that that verse actuallylike in the original is written, it's seek
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first his dominion and his way of doing.
And all these worries, allthese, these things will be,
he's already taken care of.
He already knows what you need.
So why are we running around asbelievers like the rest of the world
that doesn't know him and not like yousaid, going to him first and saying,
God, here are my worries and concerns.
Here are my fears.
Here is where I feel the lack.
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I'm seeking you first.
and trusting that you are going tofill me up and that you are giving
me everything I need so that thenI can go invest it in the fields
where you've called me to do that.
And that's a whole different wayof approaching life and business
than just it all depends on meand I just have to keep going.
Oh, so good.
I know you have a gift for our listeners.
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We'll talk about that in aminute or two, but tell us.
Or give the listeners what are somesimple things that they can start to
implement after listening to this amazingpodcast that will allow them to look at.
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The four mistakes that we mightbe making as business owners
and how we can not make them.
Yeah, I love this question.
Uh, it's first going to start with yourbelief, your role and your question.
So that's that foundational piece, right?
But then as we are approaching thingsin our business, I think mistake
number one, that busyness owners make.
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Is not slowing down, right?
We we're up and it's whatdo I have to get done?
Whether it's in our house, in ourbusiness, you know, outside of our
home, and it's just don't, doing,doing, doing all day long and
pouring out of an empty cup often.
So we have to have that dailymeeting with God is that first
thing to build our CEO belief.
The second mistake that I see business,business busyness owners make is that we
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don't have clear boundaries on our time.
Right?
Like we are reacting all day longto the tyranny of the urgent or
every distraction or demand on ourtime, and we're just, we wonder.
Why it feels like there's never enoughtime because we're giving our yeses away
to all these things and not then havingthem for the things that really matter.
And so we have to build CEO schedules.
where we make time for thethings that matter most.
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First, I call them our oranges.
I've got this illustration behindme of the oranges and skittles.
Most people let the skittlesfill in first and wonder why
there's no room for the oranges.
I actually do this illustrationwhere I pour the skittles in first,
try to put the oranges in, andthere's not room for all of them.
Maybe two or three.
Then we pour everything out.
I put the oranges in first, which are theeight areas of attention, your faith walk,
your family, your friendships, your, yourservice, which is your work, business,
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ministry, your stewardship, which isyour finances, your, uh, your passions,
your wellness, and your dwelling.
I put the eight oranges in first.
And I'm like, look at all fits.
And everybody looks at me like,Lissa, there are skittles in life.
And I'm like, okay, watch, I pour allthe skittles in and they literally fit.
Without going over the top becauseorder determines capacity, right?
We have to have boundaries aroundwhat are my oranges and where
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am I making time for those?
And yes, there'll beskittles that fill in.
So that's the CEO schedules.
The third mistake I seebusiness owners make is random.
We do random things at randomtimes for random reasons and
wonder why we have random results.
You know, and we're doing all thethings because this new guru told
us this is the next best thing.
You know, the secret sauceto our, you know, success.
And so we just layer on one more thing.
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And so, CEOs have to build CEO systemsof going, okay, what does really matter?
What is going to move the needle?
How much, how much and how often do Ineed to give this time and attention?
And then the last one is, I thinkthat we're so heads down, right?
But then we look up and we're like,why am I not where I wanted to be?
Like CEOs look ahead, right?
They have strategy.
They're, they're,they're forward thinking.
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They're not just like in survival mode.
They're thinking ahead about the biggerpicture and where they're growing.
And that's going toinform their time today.
So when, when, when I take a woman frombeing a busy owner to a, what I call a
CEO, a Christ empowered operator of herbusiness and her life, she's got CEO
belief, she's got CEO schedules, she's gotCEO systems, and she's got CEO strategies.
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And it's amazing how her roadie, is likethrough the roof, like the hundred fold
that it talks about all over scripturebecause she's doing it with God and she's
taking that time and investing it wisely.
Oh, amazing.
Yes.
Yes.
Oh, that is so good.
I love all of that.
And before we wrap up and talk aboutyour time assessment, I think you have
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for the listeners, I'm reading thenotes here and the story of Christy,
how you helped her reduce her businesshours from 50, was she doing 50 a week?
To less than 10.
Oh my goodness.
50 hours a week on business.
To less than 10 and increased her income.
Do you want to talk alittle bit about that?
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Yeah.
And this is just, this is justone example of the work that I get
to do when I walk alongside CEOs.
Because number one, she wasn'tpaying attention to her time and
really stopping to think about it.
And so by, by making those, thosethree shifts we talked about, that
started changing her perspectivebecause she was always in her head
about, there's never enough time.
I'm not doing enough.
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And then she wasn't seeing theresults in her bank account.
Right.
But then what she shared was reallywhat started shifting things was
starting to look at her roadie,her return on time invested.
She was doing all these things thatfelt like what she should be doing,
but she wasn't really intentionallymaking the time to look at.
And what results am Igetting from these things?
And is there, and then she put onher CEO hat and went strategically.
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Is there a way that I could do thisin a different way, such that I am
spending less time, but making moremoney and it was so interesting because
when she shared with me about how she'sgoing from 10 or from 50 hours down
to less than 10, my initial questionwas, how does that make you feel?
Is that overwhelming?
Is that I don't know.
It's gonna take me along time to get there.
And because again, she wasalways in her head before
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about her time and her results.
And she goes, Lisa, I'm excited.
I'm encouraged.
I feel equipped.
Because I'm looking atmy time differently.
I'm paying attention to my roadieand I have these CEO tools.
I call them the CEO essentials, notnice to haves, must haves that are like,
they're helping me get to this point ofI can have a business that is on my time.
And then I have all this timeto go invest in these other
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things that matter in my life.
And I'm like, that'swhat this is all about.
So yeah, whether it's goingfrom 50 down to 10 or just
going from 50 down to 30, right?
What would that look like?
If you actually could, you know,reduce your hours, but increase
your dollars and ultimately glorifyhim because you've got now got the
resources to be able to invest in theother things that he's calling you to.
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Yeah.
Oh, my goodness.
So good.
Such valuable information.
Thank you so much.
What is the gift you havefor the listeners today?
Would you like to talk a littlebit about that assessment?
Yes, well, if we go all the way back tothe very beginning of our conversation,
when we looked at Ephesians 5, right, wesaid the first step is paying attention.
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Look carefully how you live.
So I would love to offer your audiencemy Redeem Her Time balance assessment.
It is a very simple tool that isgoing to visibly help you see, Okay.
How you are living, where are you givingtime and attention and where are you not?
And, and just so you know, thereis a coaching video that comes with
it where I say, Hey, there is noshame stories or judgment here.
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You know, like this is like inTiffin until we see where we are
and the roadie of our time, how it'saffecting the eight different areas.
Cause you can take youthrough all eight areas.
We can't change anything, youknow, we're not really going
to be able to do the growth.
So yeah.
So redeem her time.
com forward slash assessment.
Is the link to go and grab that thecoaching video is attached to that.
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It will only take you a few minutes,but guaranteed it is going to increase
your roadie because you're going tobe paying attention to what needs
time and attention instead of itdemanding your time and attention.
And, you know, it alwayscosts us more down the road.
Right?
Yeah.
Thank you so much.
I appreciate that.
And you amazing listeners, youcan connect with Lissa and grab
that resource in the show notes.
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So thank you so much.
This has been absolutely amazing.
Do you want to leave our listenerswith any last minute words of wisdom?
Yeah, three words.
You ready for this?
You have
time.
Amen.
So good.
If this episode blessed you today, makesure you share it with a business bestie.
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Until next time, havean amazing blessed day.
Are you a Christian woman businessowner feeling overwhelmed by the
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never ending race against time?
The world tells us that successcomes from better time management,
but what if that's not God's way?
Join me and the special guest atthe Kingdom Revolution podcast as
we talk about The biblical conceptof redeeming the time with Lyssa and
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uncover how stewarding time as a gift,rather than trying to control it,
can transform your business in life.
If you've ever thought there'sjust not enough time, then let's
rewrite that story together.
Because as our next guest says,you have time and she wants
you to ask this question, areyou investing it the way God?
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Lisa, welcome to theKingdom Revolution podcast.
I'm so thankful to have you tellour listeners a little bit about
who you are who you serve and whyare you so passionate about helping
Christian women invest their timeaccording to biblical principles?
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Yeah, Kristen, thank you so muchfor this opportunity to spend
time with you, pun intended.
I pray this is going to be fruitfulfor both you and I and go glorify
the Lord and everyone who listens isgoing to be blessed and challenged
and move to action as well.
So, yes, I am Lissa Figgins.
I call myself an untimedmanagement strategist because.
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I too at one time believed that timemanagement was the solution to feeling
like there was never enough time.
And so I was always chasing aclock, a calendar, a checklist.
Can anyone relate, right?
Especially as a business owner, it'slike we have all these roles around
our home and then we take on theresponsibility of being a business owner.
And just, it feels like it justmakes the problem even bigger.
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And I often introduce myself as arecovering busy ness owner, right?
A busy ness owner.
Is someone who is running a business,but it's just busy, you know, like
you're filling your calendar withall these meetings, but they're
really not producing much fruit.
You're putting lots of thingson your to do list and you're
checking those boxes, but you'rereally not seeing the needle move.
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You feel like you're doing all thethings that a business owner should do.
But when you look at your bankaccount, it's really producing little,
you know, to not much in there.
And so my story, uh, and reasonreally why I'm doing this is
because I was a business owner.
I was the poster child for tryingto lean on time management and
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I ended up with a diagnosis.
So I had started feelinga ball in my throat.
Of course, who has time to think about it?
So I ignored it like anybusiness owner would.
And after it had been a year.
I thought, Ooh, something may be growing.
I probably need to check this out or itwill cost me a lot of time, energy stress.
Right?
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So I finally went and did that.
I had a specialist who scoped my throat.
I remember going to his officefor the follow up appointment.
He sat me down, right?
He looked me in the eye and he said,Lissa, I have good news for you.
There is not anythinggrowing in your throat.
I was like, okay, good.
He's but you have hystericus globus.
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And he just sat there with a smirkon his face, like I was supposed
to know what that was, and I'mlike, what is Hystericus Globus?
So he went on to explain to me, Globus,like a globe, you have the sensation of
a ball in your throat, and Hystericus,and he starts swirling his finger
next to his head like you're crazy.
And he thought it would make me feelbetter to say that's where they get
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the word hysterectomy from because theythought women are going crazy in midlife.
And I was like, so you'retelling me I'm crazy.
And he's it's in your head andI'm happy to prescribe you a pill.
Now, I am not against medicationfor mental health because there
are so many good uses for that.
But I knew in that moment, itwas not going to fix the problem.
For me, it was going to mask the problemand allow me to continue chasing my time
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and just not feeling so bad about it.
Right.
Because really when I looked at it.
I had a, I had a ordered calendar.
I had ordered a checklist.
I had all the time blocks lined up.
I had all that stuff.
The problem was I didn'thave a rightly ordered heart.
I was always chasing my not enoughness.
My time wasn't enough.
My doing wasn't enough.
I wasn't enough, right?
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It was just like slippery slope.
So anyway, long story short,I wish I could say everything
changed in that instant.
It didn't.
But that's when God got my attention andsaid, Lisa, your busyness is not this
outside thing or your calendar thing.
It's a heart thing.
I want you to stop and pause the busyness.
And look at what I have to say aboutyour time and the purpose behind it.
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And then, of course, as I looked aroundand everybody else is saying, Oh,
life is busy, busy, busy, always busy.
I was like, Okay, this isn't just for me.
I need to start talking about this.
Yeah.
Oh my goodness.
What a powerful story.
I love just listening how Godtook you through a journey.
of solving this problem for yourselfof this busyness and not having
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enough time and thinking that youalways have to be in control of being
busy control of where the time goes.
I mean, we want to be in control ofwhere the time goes, but many Christian
women entrepreneurs that are listeningare going to be relating to your story
because we struggle with that needto quote unquote control time that
multitask to always be productivebecause that's what the world says to do.
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And we want to have a successful business.
So we, we, we we time block.
We have our checklist.
Like you said, you had everything inorder and you were doing the thing, but
you weren't seeing the results and thefruit that you knew that you could see.
And I love your framework and what youand the Lord created out of this journey.
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But let's start with that biblicalconcept of redeeming time, because
I know it's important to stewardtime well, but as business owners,
we really don't think that way.
So it's a mindset shift that Ilove that you talk us through.
So how does that biblical conceptof redeeming time help us as
Christian women in online business?
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Yeah.
So redeem her time was born in a, inthe pew, uh, during a sermon coming
out of Ephesians on the back of mybulletin, uh, Ephesians five, 15 through
16 says, look carefully how you live.
So there is like attention, right?
We have to pay attention becauseotherwise, we all know we're gonna get
swept up in the sea of busyness, right?
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We'll get swept up in this hustle,hurry culture or the striving,
you know, to thrive type thing.
And, you know, and it is, itis, you have to be intentional.
I have to notice, right?
So look carefully how you live,not as unwise, but as wise.
So that tells me I havetwo choices, right?
And this is true for anyone, believer ornot, but especially as a believer, right?
Like I want to be wise in thechoices I'm making, right?
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Not unwise.
Proverbs is all kinds of, you know,things that tell, uh, you know, shows the
contrast between the wise and the unwise.
And the next frame says redeemingthe time, which literally means
making the most of the opportunities.
And here's where I feellike we get it wrong.
Right.
Like you said, I was taught back inthe day as a business owner, especially
when I had younger kids under my roof.
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I now I'm an empty nest mom.
So to all of you young moms out there,they do grow up and move out of the house
and uh, yeah, life does look different.
It's not any less busy though.
I will tell you that.
Uh, so if you're believing the lie thatlife is going to be less busy when they
grow up and move out, that is not true.
But anyway, I was told fits your businessinto the nooks and crannies, you know,
find it when you're in line, do this whenyou're, you know, like in between thing,
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you know, it was just like all of that.
Right.
So you're, you think you're makingthe most of the opportunities,
but really you're missing thebigger purpose behind your time.
God could have whisked us offto heaven the minute he saved us
and we can get on with eternity,which is time forever with him.
But instead.
He chose to leave us on this earthwith, with the limits on time, right?
We get 24 hours a day, like it or not.
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And, you know, and he is calling usto be intentional with this gift.
He's given us in with theopportunities he's put in front of us.
Right.
And then the last part of that verse says,so look carefully how you live, not as
unwise, but as wise redeeming the time.
And then I love how this version said,because these are difficult days.
Amen to some difficult days, right?
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There will be distractions anddetours and demands and all
kinds of things on your time.
And so if we do not have an eternalperspective on our time, it will
get sucked up by all the things.
It will get spent on thingsthat really don't matter.
I want to be mindful of thefact that one day I'm going
to stand in front of the Lord.
And how does that affect howI spend my time today, knowing
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that that day is coming?
And, you know, this is where weare called to not just manage the
time that we have and chase it.
Like, it's this limited resource thatI, like you said, I have to keep under
control before it gets away from me.
But how do I see it as this gift andsomething I'm called to steward and
something that is more than enough.
Right for what it isthat I've been called to.
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Yeah, it's so important.
We can, I mean, we think about alot of areas in our life where we go
to, I call it my heavenly board ofdirectors and ask for guidance, ask
for that next step with our marriage.
With our family, with our business,but doing that same thing with time
is going to allow you to have somuch more time in the day and be
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honestly be a lot more productive.
I found each and every morning whenI actually do that and spend time
with Holy Spirit that the day playsout in at two in the afternoon.
I'm like, Whoa, I thought it was.
Already five o'clock.
There's so much more time that gets addedon to that day, which is counterintuitive
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to the world's way of doing thingsand kind of how we've been taught.
So what are some shifts that we haveto, we got to take in order to see?
You call it an R O T I. What is that?
But what are some shifts thatwe need to take to see that day
stretched out a little bit furtherwithout actually stretching it out?
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Yeah.
Yeah.
Cause we can't add more time to her day,no matter what it looks like on social
that she's got all the time in the world.
She has 24 hours too, right?
Not five minutes more.
Okay.
So I call it ROTI, R O TI, return on time invested.
Like this is the work that Ithink most people don't take
the time to do, pun intended.
Is to pause the busyness.
To think about where their time is goingand where it's not and what their roadie
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is, the return on time invested, likewhat is the fruit or lack thereof for
the way I'm spending, investing my time.
We do it with our money, right?
And if we can determine thatsomething is not a good use of our
money, we don't keep putting itout there, but we don't ever check.
Where our time is going and whatthe balance is and what's coming in.
Right.
So I really help women to look at theirtime and then to look at their roadie.
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Right.
And ultimately, you and I both knowwe can build amazing businesses and we
can do all these things in this earth.
But 1 day it's not going to be therebecause it's not It's not going to be none
of that will go on into eternity, right?
Except for the meaning behind that.
And so here's where that's the ultimateroadie is like, how am I building the
kingdom with how I'm investing my time?
Which comes down to those threeshifts that you just asked about.
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So shift number one isour belief around time.
If we are telling ourself,there's never enough time, right?
If I had time, if only I had time,when I have time, you know, like
things like that, like we are saying.
God does not know what I need andtherefore, you know, like I'm either
going to complain or compare, right?
Just like the children ofIsrael with manna, right?
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Like we don't like this manna and they hadto trust that God had given them enough.
And so I'm going toencourage your listeners.
Every time you catch yourself saying,I don't have time, I'm behind when
I have time, if I had time, if Icould find the time, I want you to
shift it and go, I have time, right?
That's what I say then if everyone inmy podcast is you have time, right?
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We have to believe I do have time becausethat slows us down to the presence of it.
And then the purpose of it.
Which is really, really important.
And as long as you tell yourself, youdon't have time, you will be, it'll
be a self fulfilling prophecy, right?
You will always be chasing after time.
So the first one is ourshifting our belief.
The second one is shifting our rolebecause like you started off, we're
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told by the world, you have to bebetter at managing your time, right?
That's the solution.
And I think that really it's timemanagement is not the solution.
It's actually the problem.
Because if you think about whatmanaging means, it literally means to
exert control over and keep contained.
Watch a manager at a, at a fast foodrestaurant, and they are playing
whack a mole all day long, right?
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Trying to keep everybody in lineand keep everything contained.
And at the end of theday, how do they feel?
They're like, super exhausted,go to bed and have to come
back and do it all over again.
Can you relate, right?
We spent all day longtrying to keep everything.
And if you watch myhands, it's very top down.
I'm literally putting like a cap.
On what can happen because it's all aboutmy control and what I can keep how I'm
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keeping everything in line or trying toit's a constant game of whack a mole.
You will never win because
no matter how much you try
to control it, you know, or containit, something's going to pop up or out.
Right?
Instead, I believe we arecalled to be stewards our time.
We are called it is a gift.
I didn't make it.
I can't save up from yesterday.
I can't borrow from tomorrow.
And just again, like that mannaillustration, I have to trust
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every day that the 24 hours thatGod gives me is more than enough
for what he's called me to do.
And my role is not tokeep it from getting away.
Like the parable, the talents, theone guy who got the two, the one
that he got the one talent, right?
We think, Oh, poor guy.
He had two pennies.
That was 20 years wages.
Take whatever you made in 2024 times 20.
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That's a lot of money.
He had a lot, but what did he do?
He went and buried it in theground to keep it contained.
So it didn't get away.
He did a great job of managing,but what was the master's
response when he came back?
Like away from me, youwicked and lazy servant.
That was not the purposefor which I gave you time.
This talent, right?
Right.
The other two guys who got thetwo and the five, again, it really
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didn't matter how much they got.
We don't know what they did with it,but they invested, traded, planted, who
knows what they came back with double.
Right.
They doubled it.
That's a great return on investment.
And what did the master say to them?
Well done, good and faithful servant.
The difference was the firstguy saw himself as a manager.
My job is to keep this contained.
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And to keep it from getting away from me,it's all about me versus the other two
who were like, this doesn't belong to me.
It's been entrusted to me as a gift.
And I am to invest this is what asteward means to invest the resources
of someone else on their behalfin order to increase the value.
And so we have to switchour role around time.
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I right now permission to resign frombeginning banner at managing your time.
How many times have you said that?
I just need to get betterat managing my time.
As of today, Lisa says, you don't everhave to be good at managing your time.
Ditch that title of manager.
And the third shift is around the questionwe ask around our time, because what do
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you think, Kristen, is the number onequestion that goes through our head or
comes out of our mouth when we look atour watch, clock on the wall, the clock
on our computer or our phone or whatever?
What do you think that is?
Oh, goodness.
Yeah.
What time is it?
What time is it now?
What time
is it?
And then how do you respond?
Ah, I'm behind.
Oh, my goodness.
That took longer.
Where did time go?
Time got away from me.
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I had no idea.
Right?
We're in this now I'mtrying to run to catch up.
Yeah.
So I want you to listen really carefullyand your listeners, because I'm going to
shift the question like this much, butit's going to make the hugest difference.
So instead of what time is itstart asking the question, what
is it time for when you do that?
Does it make you feel like I have tojump up and start running and go in
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a bazillion directions all at once?
No, it like slows you down.
Like I said earlier to the presence ofyour time and the purpose behind it.
And this is also why I've coinedthe term purposeivity, right?
Like we are taught productivity,which is about checking
boxes and getting stuff done.
And not that there's not a place for that.
But when we focus on purposivity,what's the purpose behind the
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time I have in front of me,that's a whole different thing.
And then I'm, that's also goingto help eliminate multitasking.
Because if I know the purpose ofmy time right now is to have a
conversation with you, guess what?
I'm not answering the textthat came on my phone.
I'm not switching the laundry.
I'm not writing an email.
I'm not, you know, but whatdo we do most of our day?
We're doing like three things atonce and wondering why nothing gets
done well and why it takes so long.
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So we've got to shift our beliefs.
Our roles and ourquestions around our time.
Yeah.
Oh my goodness.
Those are three key things you'regoing to want to pause or go
back, rewind, and listen to.
Those are absolutely amazingshifts that you need to take place.
And I love how you talked about stewardingthe time because We stored everything
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in our life, or at least we should, andI love how you've taken that concept
and put it on time, because it, ithonestly is so important, especially
as women, because we're wearing the,the mom hat, the wife hat, the business
owner hat, maybe even the 9 to 5 er hat,and, It also wreaks havoc sometimes,
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like you mentioned in the beginning ofthis podcast episode, on our health.
And when we can just take a step backand, and change those, have those
belief shifts, ask different questions,and then just hand it over, like I
teach, hand your business over to theLord, your call to steward it well,
hand it over to Him, and say, whatdo you want me to do with this time?
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How do you want me to orchestratemy day, my week, my month?
I love that.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And I call it, I've built, I've created aconcept called the with God framework of
like, how do we invest our time with him?
Because for so long I was the start offthe day with Jesus on the coffee on the
couch and then leave him there while I gorun my business and take care of my day.
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Yeah.
And maybe I pop out a prayer oncein a while, but it wasn't like
this, like I'm doing this with you.
And so this is this whole different chef.
When I see my time as a gift from him,I see it as belonging to him, not me.
I see the eternal purpose behind it.
Now.
That's like I'm talking to him allday long about how I'm investing
it in the context of the life andbusiness, ministry, relationships,
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health, things that are in thisseason of life that I'm in.
Yeah, I love that because youand I, you know, but you full
wholeheartedly believe that it ispossible to build a thriving business
without relying on time management.
What the world says, and you wantto talk a little bit about that and
your, your framework that you created.
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Yeah, yeah.
So to keep it really simple, becauseof course I, you know, work with women
over an entire year to really makethese changes, the growth and change
on perspective and our use of timeand then the fruit of it, the roadie I
love going to the Sermon on the Mount.
Because Jesus is teaching the people howlife in the kingdom is upside down from
the way that they're seeing it aroundthem, even from the Pharisees who were
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supposedly following, you know, God's way.
Right.
And he tells them in Matthew6, 33, seek first the kingdom.
And his righteousness and all of thesethings will be added to you as well.
Right.
And right before that, he talked aboutthe people that run around chasing.
What am I going to eat?
What am I going to drink?
What am I going to wear?
Like it all depends on them.
Yeah.
And I think that we, we think again, likein my business, who am I going to talk to?
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Who wants what I have to offer?
And how am I going to, you know, like, howam I going to get people to pay attention?
Whatever, whatever thequestions are, right.
We run around like the world,like this all depends on us.
And he's seek me first.
And I actually created a template forwhat I call a with God daily meeting.
And so it's this agenda of howwe listen to him and how we
talk to him about our business.
And so the way that that verse actuallylike in the original is written, it's seek
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first his dominion and his way of doing.
And all these worries, allthese, these things will be,
he's already taken care of.
He already knows what you need.
So why are we running around asbelievers like the rest of the world
that doesn't know him and not like yousaid, going to him first and saying,
God, here are my worries and concerns.
Here are my fears.
Here is where I feel the lack.
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I'm seeking you first.
and trusting that you are going tofill me up and that you are giving
me everything I need so that thenI can go invest it in the fields
where you've called me to do that.
And that's a whole different wayof approaching life and business
than just it all depends on meand I just have to keep going.
Oh, so good.
I know you have a gift for our listeners.
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We'll talk about that in aminute or two, but tell us.
Or give the listeners what are somesimple things that they can start to
implement after listening to this amazingpodcast that will allow them to look at.
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The four mistakes that we mightbe making as business owners
and how we can not make them.
Yeah, I love this question.
Uh, it's first going to start with yourbelief, your role and your question.
So that's that foundational piece, right?
But then as we are approaching thingsin our business, I think mistake
number one, that busyness owners make.
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Is not slowing down, right?
We we're up and it's whatdo I have to get done?
Whether it's in our house, in ourbusiness, you know, outside of our
home, and it's just don't, doing,doing, doing all day long and
pouring out of an empty cup often.
So we have to have that dailymeeting with God is that first
thing to build our CEO belief.
The second mistake that I see business,business busyness owners make is that we
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don't have clear boundaries on our time.
Right?
Like we are reacting all day longto the tyranny of the urgent or
every distraction or demand on ourtime, and we're just, we wonder.
Why it feels like there's never enoughtime because we're giving our yeses away
to all these things and not then havingthem for the things that really matter.
And so we have to build CEO schedules.
where we make time for thethings that matter most.
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First, I call them our oranges.
I've got this illustration behindme of the oranges and skittles.
Most people let the skittlesfill in first and wonder why
there's no room for the oranges.
I actually do this illustrationwhere I pour the skittles in first,
try to put the oranges in, andthere's not room for all of them.
Maybe two or three.
Then we pour everything out.
I put the oranges in first, which are theeight areas of attention, your faith walk,
your family, your friendships, your, yourservice, which is your work, business,
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ministry, your stewardship, which isyour finances, your, uh, your passions,
your wellness, and your dwelling.
I put the eight oranges in first.
And I'm like, look at all fits.
And everybody looks at me like,Lissa, there are skittles in life.
And I'm like, okay, watch, I pour allthe skittles in and they literally fit.
Without going over the top becauseorder determines capacity, right?
We have to have boundaries aroundwhat are my oranges and where
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am I making time for those?
And yes, there'll beskittles that fill in.
So that's the CEO schedules.
The third mistake I seebusiness owners make is random.
We do random things at randomtimes for random reasons and
wonder why we have random results.
You know, and we're doing all thethings because this new guru told
us this is the next best thing.
You know, the secret sauceto our, you know, success.
And so we just layer on one more thing.
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And so, CEOs have to build CEO systemsof going, okay, what does really matter?
What is going to move the needle?
How much, how much and how often do Ineed to give this time and attention?
And then the last one is, I thinkthat we're so heads down, right?
But then we look up and we're like,why am I not where I wanted to be?
Like CEOs look ahead, right?
They have strategy.
They're, they're,they're forward thinking.
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They're not just like in survival mode.
They're thinking ahead about the biggerpicture and where they're growing.
And that's going toinform their time today.
So when, when, when I take a woman frombeing a busy owner to a, what I call a
CEO, a Christ empowered operator of herbusiness and her life, she's got CEO
belief, she's got CEO schedules, she's gotCEO systems, and she's got CEO strategies.
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And it's amazing how her roadie, is likethrough the roof, like the hundred fold
that it talks about all over scripturebecause she's doing it with God and she's
taking that time and investing it wisely.
Oh, amazing.
Yes.
Yes.
Oh, that is so good.
I love all of that.
And before we wrap up and talk aboutyour time assessment, I think you have
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for the listeners, I'm reading thenotes here and the story of Christy,
how you helped her reduce her businesshours from 50, was she doing 50 a week?
To less than 10.
Oh my goodness.
50 hours a week on business.
To less than 10 and increased her income.
Do you want to talk alittle bit about that?
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Yeah.
And this is just, this is justone example of the work that I get
to do when I walk alongside CEOs.
Because number one, she wasn'tpaying attention to her time and
really stopping to think about it.
And so by, by making those, thosethree shifts we talked about, that
started changing her perspectivebecause she was always in her head
about, there's never enough time.
I'm not doing enough.
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And then she wasn't seeing theresults in her bank account.
Right.
But then what she shared was reallywhat started shifting things was
starting to look at her roadie,her return on time invested.
She was doing all these things thatfelt like what she should be doing,
but she wasn't really intentionallymaking the time to look at.
And what results am Igetting from these things?
And is there, and then she put onher CEO hat and went strategically.
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Is there a way that I could do thisin a different way, such that I am
spending less time, but making moremoney and it was so interesting because
when she shared with me about how she'sgoing from 10 or from 50 hours down
to less than 10, my initial questionwas, how does that make you feel?
Is that overwhelming?
Is that I don't know.
It's gonna take me along time to get there.
And because again, she wasalways in her head before
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about her time and her results.
And she goes, Lisa, I'm excited.
I'm encouraged.
I feel equipped.
Because I'm looking atmy time differently.
I'm paying attention to my roadieand I have these CEO tools.
I call them the CEO essentials, notnice to haves, must haves that are like,
they're helping me get to this point ofI can have a business that is on my time.
And then I have all this timeto go invest in these other
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things that matter in my life.
And I'm like, that'swhat this is all about.
So yeah, whether it's goingfrom 50 down to 10 or just
going from 50 down to 30, right?
What would that look like?
If you actually could, you know,reduce your hours, but increase
your dollars and ultimately glorifyhim because you've got now got the
resources to be able to invest in theother things that he's calling you to.
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Yeah.
Oh, my goodness.
So good.
Such valuable information.
Thank you so much.
What is the gift you havefor the listeners today?
Would you like to talk a littlebit about that assessment?
Yes, well, if we go all the way back tothe very beginning of our conversation,
when we looked at Ephesians 5, right, wesaid the first step is paying attention.
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Look carefully how you live.
So I would love to offer your audiencemy Redeem Her Time balance assessment.
It is a very simple tool that isgoing to visibly help you see, Okay.
How you are living, where are you givingtime and attention and where are you not?
And, and just so you know, thereis a coaching video that comes with
it where I say, Hey, there is noshame stories or judgment here.
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You know, like this is like inTiffin until we see where we are
and the roadie of our time, how it'saffecting the eight different areas.
Cause you can take youthrough all eight areas.
We can't change anything, youknow, we're not really going
to be able to do the growth.
So yeah.
So redeem her time.
com forward slash assessment.
Is the link to go and grab that thecoaching video is attached to that.
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It will only take you a few minutes,but guaranteed it is going to increase
your roadie because you're going tobe paying attention to what needs
time and attention instead of itdemanding your time and attention.
And, you know, it alwayscosts us more down the road.
Right?
Yeah.
Thank you so much.
I appreciate that.
And you amazing listeners, youcan connect with Lissa and grab
that resource in the show notes.
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So thank you so much.
This has been absolutely amazing.
Do you want to leave our listenerswith any last minute words of wisdom?
Yeah, three words.
You ready for this?
You have
time.
Amen.
So good.
If this episode blessed you today, makesure you share it with a business bestie.
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Until next time, havean amazing blessed day.
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