Jesus Christ Show | Hour 3 [10/22]

Jesus Christ Show | Hour 3 [10/22]

Episode Transcript

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You're listening to KFI AM six fortyon demand. Gigi, Welcome to the
Jesus Christ Show. Oh for theelse, Hi can two seconds? Hi?
Hello there. I am a primarycare physician. Young lady came to
me seeking abortion. I, ofcourse don't do abortion by trade, and

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I refer to the patient and thephysical after referring memes that my staff has
to go on the computer and fillout the referral forms and click the button
and send it. My staff hadsignificant problems doing that, and she approached
me, and I composed and willyou finally get it? But I want

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to know how you would have approachedit? Well, are you a Christian
only facility? No, here's therough part when it comes to it's abhorrent.
It is a vulgar display in manyways, and to get into the

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detail of what's taking place would makemost people lose their breakfast. However,
I assure you that the everybody hasmade it a political issue, which is
to me almost equally as vulgar,because what gets lost on both sides is

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the fact that there is no oneunless there's some bizarre twisted in an individual,
there is no one on either sidethat wants to see a baby die.
No one. The confusion comes becausethere are What really sets the two
sides apart is the definition of whenit's a baby. So the but no

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one's setting out to kill babies,and I that's an ugly thought to think
that that's what people are really doing. They're not. It's just the definition
of when it's a baby. Soscience says something different than theology. Yet
as a scientist, you're there representingthe laws of the land and medicine to

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take care of your patients. Thelaw of the land currently says that under
certain circumstances, during certain times ofthe pregnancy, that to abort that pregnancy
is okay. If you're in apublic facility, your job is to give

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them the information they need to makethe best decisions they can. But the
decision is not on you. It'son the individual. Just like in anything,
your job is to give them thebest information. But the patient can
say no, I don't want totake that pill, or no, I
don't want to follow up. Theycan even tell you that they don't want
you to resuscitate them right correct,And you could say that that's against God's

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will because now you're allowing them tomake a decision to not live correct.
So there's a lot of weight onyou as a physician and in the nursing
community as well, that those thatare in the medical profession to give the
best information, and that's what you'recalled to do. It's not a point

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of preaching. Now, if youfeel that there's an opportunity and you want
to make sure that they have thebest information on both sides, that's fine.
But as far as allowing somebody inthe United States to make that decision,
there are laws that protect them tobe able to do so. And
if you're going to be a positionin a public in the public arena,

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they are going to be allowed todo that. So this is a private
medical office, but not exclusively aChristian office, and we treat people of
faith or not. And my staffis a believer, and so what would

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you specifically say to the believer,Well, if they don't, if they
don't feel comfortable with doing that,there might be a way of around that
for you to allow someone else toor things of that nature. However,
there's a point where if you're goingto be in that industry and it is

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in the United States and it islegal, then there's going to be issues,
and she can even or he caneven make a claim and say,
hey, as a person of faith, this upsets me and I don't want
to be a part of it.And that's fair to a certain degree,
but there's a point where if thelaws are with the laws are, and

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if you don't want to participate inthat, then you know, if you
had Jehovah's witness in there, didn'tbelieve in blood transfusions, now that becomes
an issue, and that starts toinfringe on the individual's right who has a
legal right to get a blood transfusion. They're going, well, I don't
want to fill out the paperwork orI don't want to do this, and
that becomes a little sticky. Soif there are ways around it that could

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be done tactfully and does not impedeon the legal rights and the individual rights
of the person wanting whatever treatment thatis legal, then you can adapt to
those. But you can't just haltthe system based on your faith, because
in that process you're taking away therights of an individual that is legal in

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the United States, and that becomesa problem as well to those that want
to choose that. So my commentto myself was that I'm also a believer,
but that's one I would not haveperformed the abortion myself. Good,

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but it's not in my scope ofservice either. I'm not an over but
even if I was, when Iwould be an objan that would not perform
abortions. But if I were anobi Juan who is whose scopbook service includes
abortion, I would refer the patientto a colleague of mind. And because

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people do have the right to makedecisions, whether right or wrong in our
eyes, in my eyes, butif I am unable to comply with your
wishes, then it is my jobto point them to someone else who can
work with them. And that wasmy comfo to my staff. Do you

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have any need to add to that. No, I think that's a very
honest way of approaching it, becauseif you start becoming the the Christian police,
it becomes problematic. Now let's sayyou're a checker at a grocery store
and now you're looking at twinkies andho hos, and the person in front

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of you is overweight, and youstart going, well, I'm not going
to sell this to you because you'reobviously abusing it, or any of those
that you start policing everybody's option,and if the freedoms exist in the United
States, you have to allow that. Now you don't have to do it
yourself in that sense, but yourpractice has to have somebody that is able
to write that referral or to dothat. Otherwise it stops being a practice

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and a medical practice and starts beinga religious practice, which becomes a problem.
And I think that your consult wasvery fair and honest and looking at
making sure everybody's taken care of,and I think that was the right way
to go about it. Thank you, You're welcome, and thank you for
what you do. It's a veryimportant thing that you do. And I

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know that your faith ties into itand you're praying for people and you're being
there, and that makes you evenmore important out there as a physician.
To have the balance between your scientificmind and your spiritual sense as well,
I think is a very important partof the medical industry. This is an
incredibly difficult subject, but I reallywant people to hear and to be left

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with the thought that nobody wants tokill babies. Nobody does. I know
that's the easier way to think aboutit, and to look at it's not
about that. It's the definition ofwhen they see a baby, and it
may be different than yours, andthat's part of the fight. Part of
the fight is to get science tosee that. And as they see that,

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then that will change. But asif the majority of doctors see that
as tissue and not yet a baby, then it won't matter what you do
and or say. That's where itwill change. But nobody's going around smiling
at taking the life of a child. Nobody wants that, no one,
no matter how hard they are oneither side. It's a matter of the

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definition of when it's a child.There are a lot of decisions that are
tough to make as a believer inthis world. And you're to be in
the world but not of the world, and that means that you are to
separate yourself, but you still haveto interact with it in a way that
is productive and means something. Maybeyou've heard the term so spiritually minded,

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you know, earthly good. Andif you get to a place where everything
is so spiritual that you shut downexisting and connecting as a human being,
then it's gone. It's done.Then you might as well just be in
heaven, because what happens here is. God puts you here for a reason.
It's to exist and interact with thoseother humans. To be an example

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in life as to how one shouldlive. Doesn't mean you're always going to
it right, doesn't mean you're notgoing to make mistakes. But this constant
concept that as a Christian you're justsupposed to rebel against everything rather than leading
by an example, is not thefocus of your purpose here. And that

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may sound strange, but I willtell you that when it comes to things
as weighty as abortion and that topic, and I know that regardless of which
side you land on, I knowI can hear you tighten up when I
even use the word, and automaticallyyour brain switches over to that political view
that you have and not about what'sreally taking place. God sees that child

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at the moment of conception, butscience doesn't yet. And I realize that
those things can be frustrating. ButI also realize that the same people that
would put themselves across the pathway ofan abortion clinic in the name of God
won't do the same thing across thethreshold of a false church or a pastor

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who is lying or fleecing his flock. And that to me is strange as
well, and that shows me thatthere is a political bent here that is
beyond the spiritual and to find thatbalance and that understanding as to why you
believe what you believe and what you'rewilling to do for your faith. When

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God himself says, fear not thosethat can kill the flesh, but he
who can kill the spirit. Mark. Welcome to the Jesus Christ Show.
Good morning. Hi, we onlyhave a couple of minutes here. I
know this is off the wall question, but you know, I have a
environment problem with spurs and rabbits andthings, and I wonder if the Bible

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says anything about poisoning put in poisonnot for animals. I know the Bible
says to take care of the animals, but is it bad to get rid
of them with poisons and going them. You have every right to defend your
property and your home from disease andfrom problems. But what I want to
say on top of that is whenyou poison an animal, and squirrels aren't

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particularly nasty with with disease the wayother rodents like a rat, for instance,
they're destructive and they really the firstthing you want to do is you
want to try sanitation and property maintenance. You want to go through and make
sure you don't have any high proteinthings laying around, dog food, laying

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around cat food, laying around thingslike that that are going to attract them.
There's ways we feed birds and wegot birds. Yes, bird seed
is another one that will will attractthem. And this these all become problems
that lure them in. When youpoison an animal like that, because they
are, you know, in involvedwith other predators. You could end up

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killing multiple animals by poisoning a squirrel, right, and that becomes a problem
to just the the the ecological lineof that animal. So I prefer that
you look for as many methods asyou can to sanitize your a direct area
first, or methods that discourage themfrom being around. But if there,

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if you have to go to othermethods, then hire somebody who's a professional
who looks to make the least amountof damage to that animal and others around,
because otherwise you just for to exexpedite the process, you start really
causing havoc in your environs and that'snot really fair. So you're called to

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be a good steward of all thingsin scripture, meaning animals and the planet
and everything around you, not inthe political hug atry sense, but in
the very real this is the resourcesthat you have at hand sense, and
animals fall into that. And justbe careful when you're doing that. Don't
do it to get it done quickly. There's ways to even catch them and

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get rid of them and things likethat. But just first and foremost,
make sure that you're not causing moredamage than you're doing good. Justin Welcome
to the Jesus Christ Show. Hi, Jesus, I had a question about
right after the ability to become savedand accept Jesus as their personal favor,

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like doing that immediately after resurrection andstuff. Right, Okay, what are
you getting at there? Justin Okay, I'm just asking, like in South
America and in America is like,how did those people go into hell because
they didn't have a chance to Oh, you mean, if they didn't if
they didn't hear the name of Jesusor the consonants and the vowels that make

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Jesus. Yeah, Okay, that'san excellent question. Romans Won. Romans
Chapter one, starting in verse eighteen, is a really good place to go
when it comes to that question becauseit explains the difference between special revelation,
which is scripture or somebody coming andknocking on their door or hut or whatever
it may be and saying, hi, I'm a missionary and you need to

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know Jesus. Well, that's special. That's a very specific revelation, but
there's also general revelation. As Godsays in Romans chapter one, verse eighteen,
it says, for the wrath ofGod is revealed from heaven against all
ungodliness and unrighteousness of men who suppressthe truth and unrighteousness, because that which

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is known about God is evident withinthem. For God made it evident to
them. For since the creation ofthe world, his invisible attributes, his
eternal power, and his divine naturehave been clearly seen, being understood through
what has been made, so thatthey are without excuse. So really,
what it's saying there is since thebeginning of time that God's attributes, the

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invisible things of God can be knownby creation, So really there is no
excuse. It's not about whether somebodycomes to your door and tells you about
Jesus. It's knowing God to thebest of your ability, and the circumstances
you are. In the same way, if somebody had a mental deficiency or

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a child and Heaven forbid, buttheir life is taken, then they are
accountable for what they can know orwhat they did know. It's not about
ignorance. That's not what Heaven's about. That's not what salvation's about. It's
not about ignorance. It's about acceptanceor rejection of the truth. So in

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Romans, it's talking about that thattruth can be known by looking at God's
creation or what some people call nature, looking at those things and seeing,
and that it's imprinted on your heartto know and to seek God. And
that's enough in those circumstances. Sarah, Welcome to the Jesus Christ Show.

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Emilye. Thanks for taking my call. This is the first time I listened
to your show, and I likethe topics and I like the advice and
support that you've given this morning.Well, welcome a Christian and I believe
in God and I have very stronghate this morning, though I have a
question. Is that is something thatI'm struggling with at work. I thought

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I would be bold and call itin. Okay, So what's going on?
So in my I left the jobthat I was in for fourteen years
because it was just like overwhelming withpast and completing task right with the managerial
role. So now I found myselfin that similar role. I was promoted
and it was just like my strugglesare I have deadlines to complete things.

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In front of most parts, Ican complete them, but it's like I
usually have like twenty things I haveto do a one time, and it's
very hard to complete task timely.And I know if I just focus on
one thing and get one thing doneat a time, then that's how I
get through it. But it justseems like I'm always working struggling to get

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current. Does that make sense?Well, sure, don't you say that
that at work you have, uhthere's a multitude of tasks that all need
to be done at the same time. Now does that mean that they all
need to be completed at the sametime or you say in one day you
have a bunch of tasks and theyall need to be done in one day.
There's a bunch of tasks to becompleted, requests from people, managers,

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internal, external, So it's justyou know, the time anthement.
I think that's my biggest struggle wheredo you think the time is going?
If if time seems to be goingout the window, where do you think
it goes? No, I'm notsure how to measure that, because it's
like when I'm at work and stuffare working, I'm not you know,

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just visiting or you know, doingrandom stuff. I'm actually working. But
I think in a way I'm tootrying to measure. Okay, do I
need help with my desk? Youknow, if it's too much? Well
that's a that's a legitimate question,which is why I ask about where you
think your time is going. Ifthere's there is such thing as too much

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work. I know that there arebosses that would say differently, or companies
that would go, no, youcan you can always do more work.
And I'm not a huge fan ofthat. There's a time and a place
on as to where you would break, where you just have only enough to

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give. There were times where Iwalked away and rested. There are times
where I I would leave a cityand people would say, well, aren't
you going to do X, Yand Z, And I'd say no,
I'm I'm done here and I'm movingon to somewhere else. Otherwise, there's
always something around the corner. Ifyou think it's a legitimate amount of work
and you should be able to doit, then you need to find a

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triage system of sorts to tackle certainthings. Would I would gather that out
of every task or group of tasksthat you have, there is one task
that seems to be more daunting thanthe rest, or maybe you know less
about it. And usually when you'rewhen you don't feel confident or strong about
a particular task is when it slowsyou down because you don't want to do

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it wrong, you don't want todo it incorrectly, and so you're you
kind of put it off or goat it very slowly. So you could
see if there's any group of tasksthere's one in particular that seems to weigh
you down or that you are intimidatedby, and put that at the top

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of the list to finish, takecare of that, ask questions, do
what you need to do, butalways creating a triage as the type of
work, what what's going to besimple to do, what's going to take
time, or what you need tolearn to do before you can complete it.
Never never be afraid of asking questions. If you're at a place where
they're they don't like you asking questions. Well, that's not a great place.

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What I pretty confidence and I askedquestions. I need to understand what
I'm doing if I do it.So it's not I don't think it's got
to struggle with that. It's just, you know, prioritizing, Like you
had said, the biggest thing isit's usually a huge tast that's involved,
so to work on that. ButI just it's just I noticed this in

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my other position that it was justlike a gosh, I got all those
work clothes and then when they askedfor help, there wasn't a help of
allable. And I said, youknow what, I can't do this anymore.
You know, I can't work weekends. My kids, you know,
they evening until I left the jobthat was on May's very good money and
oh making, it's sure hearing andit's very scary. Well, the workplace
is changing and they're expecting more ofpeople, and they're not really necessarily caring

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about the family unit the same way. They figure they will always find somebody
who will give up whatever to dothe task. And it's unfortunate. I
will tell you this that if it'sif there's not one particular task that is
daunting. There's not one particular taskthat you feel you don't understand and it's
weighing you down. Then you startat the simplest first and you cross things

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off your list. There's nothing morerefreshing than feeling like you've gotten you had
success on some things, and youreverse the process, get the small ones
done quickly, and then you havemore time on the large ones. It's
it's common sense in so many ways. If there's a blockage, it's you.

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There is a purposely like what amI doing? Am I personally creating
this? You know, at thesame thing with the previous job of my
purposely from now creating this because Idon't know if if I can't focus and
I'm creating twenty five tasks during Dopeople ever refer to you as a perfectionist,

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those that are close to you,Yes, okay, so your particular
in the way you like things done. Yeah, it's so much finance and
accounting, so I guess you know, ways hard to have to be,
you know, so the consequences arelarge. You're dealing with numbers and things

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that actually tied to real money.Yeah, okay, so that that can
be intimidating onto itself, regardless ofthe size of the task at hand.
And of course you need to bethorough. But sometimes there is paralysis by
perfection. You the concern to geteverything done in such a way that you

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get nothing done, so afraid ofdoing things wrong that you don't want to
do anything. I think these areall places where you can you can kind
of poke around and check yourself andsee if they're what's holding you up.
I would also recommend you not thatyou are going to find fun in doing
this auditing for somebody who deals withnumbers. But audit your time. Write

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a list down, keep it nextto you, and audit your time,
your whole day, what time,and be very honest and no one has
to see it but you, Andbe very honest and see where your time
goes. If people are coming inand talking to you too long at the
office, or people are asking youadvice for their stuff, or you're not
getting enough time to do your ownwork, if anyone else has you assisting

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them in their own position or theirown stuff. All of these things,
as little as they may be throughoutthe day, can actually take big chunks
out of what you're trying to process. So if you keep a kind of
timeline on one half what you needto get done, on the other half,
what you're getting done and what's goingon throughout the day, I think

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you'll be surprised as to where yourtime goes. And once you see that,
once you see where the time isactually going, you can troubleshoot and
see how you can use your timebetter. That's very kind. I'm going
to try that deftly. Yeah,so try that first, and you're at
least going to see where there mightbe Oh my goodness. You know,

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five different people came in today andhad me ask them for help on their
own projects. Next time, Ineed to say no until I get to
this point in my list or whateverit might be. And I think you'd
be surprised. It's always the littlethings. People. People don't lose money
throughout the day because they buy yachtson accident. Oh, I was going

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to the grocery store and I boughta yacht, and now my bank account's
broke, you know, completely emptied. Weapons is you go to the grocery
store and you buy the necessities,and then you wait in line and you
go I might want to pack agum. Yeah, I'll get a peck
of gum. And then you go, oh, gosh, that candy bar
looks good and it was a roughday and I probably deserve it. And
then you get that, and thenyou're leaving and you're going, oh,

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well, you know what, I'llbuy a newspaper. Yeah, I haven't
sat down and watched read a newspaperin a long time. And but you
start going through all these things innickel and dime yourself to death, and
it's no different with the commodity oftime. You're constantly nickel and diming yourself
thinking oh, well, yes,I don't want to say no to them,
or I don't want to say noto that. But your first priority
is going to be the task,the list, and that task that's been

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imparted to you first. So audityourself, write it down, do it
for at least one day, butmaybe two would be better, and see
if there's any patterns. But youknow, you're saying that it makes sense
because there are a lot of peoplethat go to need for knowledge, like

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out of you approach joking, andI think because something the people that I've
worked with, like I A wouldjust say okay, what is the problem
I really have to do and Ican fix things. I'm really get a
fixing thing, and I think becausepeople know that, they'll say, okay,
this is a problem, so thatcomes to me for advice to fix
things, and I know my timegets taken for okay, go do this

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or I would do that sort ofthing, and I just need to pull
back. But I'm definitely audit myselfand write it down and just kind of
learning to say, probably know moreand pull back and then focus on my
job at HARE. And you endup doing everybody else's work. When you're
good at everything like that, oryou're you feel comfortable in a lot of
different fields or very good at yourown, people will seek you out.

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And that's a wonderful thing. It'sboth flattering and it's part of the system
and it keeps the system running.But you can't do it at the expense
of what you have to do.So once you find out where it's going,
if you find that that's a patternand a lot of people come and
ask you questions, great, thenyou can set up something and say,
hey, listen, the last hourof every workday is I'm going to take

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questions. I'm finding I'm not gettingmy work done. So if you would
like to come back at this time, I'd love to go over that with
you, because I should be caughtup by them. Whatever it is.
You can even schedule that and filethat in, but you have to see
it as an actual time drain.And now that's one of your tasks,
is helping others in that way.If it's just throughout the day, you'll

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never get anything done. There hasto be a point where you say,
I'm sorry, I've I have abunch of products I have to do,
are projects I have to do,and I'd love to help out. Let's
do it at and you schedule themin. Make it a part of that
system. Audit yourself, write itdown on paper, see where your time
is going. And I know bylistening to how you think and the way

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you ask the question, you willcorrect the problem just by seeing it on
pape. Every generation looks at theirlife and says it's getting more complicated,
and every generation would be correct toa certain degree. There are new things
coming your way every moment of everyday, and you're bombarded with a stimulation

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more than any other generation. Withmobile accessibility, to the entire world,
mobile accessibility to your job. Therewas a time where you came home from
work and you spend time with yourfamily. And nowadays you come home from
work, but you're still tethered toa mobile device, whether it be your

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phone, whether it be your tabletor even a laptop. You're always around
a portal to your boss, tofriends, to family, whoever might need
you. Right that moment. Usedto make a phone call and then if

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you couldn't get the person, ithave to wait. But the world is
in a speed, a little speedlocation right now. That is all about
getting it done and getting it donenow, regardless the feelings may be,
well, family first and you gotto take care of this, and you
got to take care of that.But really it's not how it's structured anymore.

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It's structured. If something needs tobe done with work, it needs
to be done now. Competition isdifferent. Life moves at a different speed,
and in that process it can bevery overwhelming and taxing on certain types
of brains. There's just people thatmove at certain speeds. This is how
they do things, This is howthey do them right, And in that

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process you can feel like you're beingswallowed. But I assure you there is
a way to it. Least calculatewhat your skills are and what you can
and should be doing at any giventime and apply them. And then after
that point you can tip your hatand say this is what I have,

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this is my ability, and ifthey don't like it, you can move
on. But if you're like anyother race, if you feel you can't
run at the speeds that are needed, then downsize find a speed that you
can, because you will always bebest running at a speed that suits you.

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But that must be balanced with growthas well, and looking inwardly and
saying, okay, am I learninga skill or is this pushing me into
another direction to get better at somethingelse or to expand myself? And if
that is the yes answer, thenyou need to stick with it. But
if not, you move on andyou find your proper speed Until next week,

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remember these words. I Am withyou always. Kf I A M
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