October 12, 2025 • 32 mins
Poisoning Animals
Abortion
Special vs General Revelation
Managing Work Life
Abortion
Special vs General Revelation
Managing Work Life
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to KFI A six on demand. Mark, Welcome
to the Jesus Christ Show. Good morning, Hi, we only
have a couple of minutes here.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
I know this is off the wall question, but you know,
I have a environment problem with spurls and rabbits and things,
and I wonder if the Bible says anything about poisoning
putting poison out for animals. I know the Bible says
take care of the animals, but is it bad to
get rid of them with poisons and going them.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
You have every right to defend your property and your
home from disease and from problems. But what I want
to say on top of that is when you poison
an animal, and squirrels aren't particularly nasty with with disease
the way other rodents like a rat, for instance, So
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they're destructive. They're destructive, and they really The first thing
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 protein things laying around,
dog food, laying around cat food, laying around things like
that that are going to attract them. There's ways we
feed birds and we got birds, yes, bird seed is
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another one that will will attract them, and this these
all become problems that lure them in. When you poison
an animal like that, because they are, you know, in
involved with other predators. You could end up killing multiple
animals by poisoning a squirrel, right, and that becomes a
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problem to just the the the ecological line of that animal.
So I prefer that you look for as many methods
as you can to sanitize your direct area first, or
methods that discourage them from being around. But if they're
if you have to go to other methods, then hire
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somebody who's a professional who looks to make the least
amount of damage to that animal and others around, because
otherwise you just to expedite the process, you start really
causing havoc in your environs, and that's not really fair.
So you're called to be a good steward of all
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things in scripture, meaning animals and the planet and everything
around you, not in the political hug atry sense, but
in the very real this is the resources that you
have at hand sense, and animals fall into that. And
just be careful when you're doing that. Don't do it
to get it done quickly. There's ways to even catch
them and get rid of them and things like that.
But just first and foremost, make sure that you're not
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causing more damage than you're doing. Good Gigi, Welcome to
the Jesus Christ Show.
Speaker 3 (02:42):
Oh for the else him two seconds.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
Hi, Hello there.
Speaker 4 (02:48):
I am a primary care physician.
Speaker 5 (02:51):
Young lady came to me speaking abortion. I, of course
don't do abortion by trade, and I refer the patient
and the physical after referring beings that my staff has
to go on the computer and fill out the referral forms.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
And click the button and send it.
Speaker 4 (03:10):
Myself had significant problems doing that, and she approached me,
and I consoled and well, you finally get it.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
But I want to know how you would.
Speaker 6 (03:24):
Have approached it.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
Well, are you a Christian only facility? No, here's the
rough part. When it comes to abortion, it's abhorrent. It
is a vulgar display in many ways, and to get
into the detail of what's taking place would make most
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people lose their breakfast. However, I assure you that everybody
has made it a political issue, which is to me
almost equally as vulgar, because what gets lost on both
sides is the fact that there is no one unless
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there's some bizarre twisted in an individual. There is no
one on either side that wants to see a baby die.
No one. The confusion comes because there are What really
sets the two sides apart is the definition of when
it's a baby. So, but no one's setting out to
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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. So science
says something different than theology. Yet as a scientist, you're
there representing the laws of the land and medicine to
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take care of your patients. The law of the land
currently says that under certain circumstances, during certain times of
the pregnancy, that to abort that pregnancy is okay. If
you're in a public facility, your job is to give
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them the information they need to make the best decisions
they can. But the decision is not on you, it's
on the individual. Just like in anything, your job is
to give them the best information. But the patient can
say no, I don't want to take that pill, or no,
I don't want to follow up. They can even tell
you that they don't want you to resuscitate them right, correct,
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And you could say that that's against God's will because
now you're allowing them to make a decision to not
live correct. So there's a lot of weight on you
as a physician and in the nursing community as well,
that those that are in the medical profession to give
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the best and that's what you're called to do. It's
not a point of preaching. Now. If you feel that
there's an opportunity and you want to make sure that
they have the best information on both sides, that's fine.
But as far as allowing somebody in the United States
to make that decision, there are laws that protect them
to be able to do so. And if you're going
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to be a physician in a public in the public arena,
they are going to be allowed to do that.
Speaker 6 (06:29):
So this is a private medical office, but not exclusively
a Christian office, And we treat people of faith or not.
And my staff is a believer.
Speaker 5 (06:45):
And so what would you specifically say to.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
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 to or
things of that nature. However, there's a point where if
you're going to be in that industry and it is
in the United States and it is legal, then there's
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going to be issues. And she can even or he
can even 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 the
laws are with the laws are, and if you don't
want to participate in that, then you know, if you
had a Jehovah's witness in there didn't believe in blood transfusions,
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now that becomes an issue, and that starts to infringe
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 or I don't want to
do this, and that becomes a little sticky. So if
there are ways around it that could be done tactfully
and does not impede on the legal rights and the
individual rights of the person wanting whatever treat meant that
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is legal, then you can adapt to those. But you
can't just halt the system based on your faith, because
in that process, you're taking away the rights of an
individual that is legal in the United States, and that
that becomes a problem as well to those that want
to choose that.
Speaker 3 (08:19):
So my comment to myself was that I'm also a believer,
and but that one I would not have performed the
abortion myself. Good, But two, I it's not in my.
Speaker 7 (08:38):
Scope of service either.
Speaker 3 (08:40):
I'm not an over but even if I was, when
I would be an obj in that would not perform abortions.
But if I were an ob Juan who is whose
scope of service includes abortion, I would refer the patient
to a colleague of mind.
Speaker 6 (08:58):
And because people do house.
Speaker 3 (09:00):
The right to make decisions, whether right or wrong in
our eyes, in my eyes, but if I am able
to comply with your wishes, then it is my job
to point them to someone else who can work with them.
Speaker 6 (09:19):
And that was my comfo to my staff.
Speaker 3 (09:24):
Do you have any need to add to that.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
No, I think that's a very honest way of approaching it,
because if you start becoming the Christian police, it becomes problematic.
Now let's say you're a checker at a grocery store
and now you're looking at twinkies and ho hos, and
the person in front of you is overweight, and you
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start going well, I'm not going to sell this to
you because you're obviously 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 your practice has to have somebody that is able
to write that referral or to do that. Otherwise it
stops being a practice and a medical practice and starts
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being a religious practice, which becomes a problem. And I
think that your consult was very 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 very important thing that you do it. And
I know that your faith ties into it and you're
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praying for people and you're being there, and that makes
you even more important out there as a physician. To
have the balance between your scientific mind and your spiritual
sense as well. I think is a very important part
of the medical industry. This is an incredibly difficult subject,
but I really want people to hear and to be
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left with the thought that nobody wants to kill babies.
Nobody does. I know that's the easier way to think
about it and to look at it's not about that.
It's the definition of when they see a baby, and
it may be different than yours, and that's part of
the fight. Part of the fight is to get science
to see that. And as they see that, then that
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will change. But as if 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
it will change. But nobody's going around smiling at taking
the life of a child. Nobody wants that. No one,
no matter how hardcore they are on either side. It's
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a matter of the definition of when it's a child.
There are a lot of decisions that are tough to
make as a believer in this 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
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still have to interact with it in a way that
is productive. It means something. Maybe you've heard the term
so spiritually minded, you know, earthly good, and if you
get to a place where everything is so spiritual that
you shut down existing 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
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puts you here for a reason. It's to exist and
interact with those other humans. To be an example in
life as to how one should live. Doesn't mean you're
always going to get it right, doesn't mean you're not
going to make mistakes. But this constant concept that as
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a Christian you're just supposed to rebel against everything rather
than leading by an example, is not the focus of
your purpose here. And that may sound strange, but I
will tell you that when it comes to things as
weighty as abortion and that topic, and I know that
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regardless of which side you land on, I know I
can hear you tighten up when I even use a word,
and automatically your brain switches over to that political view
that you have and not about what's really taking place.
God sees that child at the moment of conception, but
science doesn't yet. And I realize that those things can
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be frustrating. But I also realize that the same people
that would put themselves across the pathway of an abortion
clinic in the name of God won't do the same
thing across the threshold of a false church or a
pastor who is lying or fleecing his flock, And that
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to me is strange as well. And that shows me
that there is a political bent here that is beyond
the spiritual and to find that balance and that understanding
as to why you believe what you believe and what
you're willing to do for your faith when God himself says,
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fear not those that can kill the flesh, but he
who can kill the spirit. Justin Welcome to the Jesus
Christ Show.
Speaker 7 (14:23):
Hi, Jesus. I had a question about right after the
ability to become saved and accept Jesus as their personal favor,
like doing that immediately after resurrection and stuff.
Speaker 1 (14:37):
Right, Okay, what are you getting at there?
Speaker 7 (14:41):
Justin Okay, I'm just asking, like in South America and
in the America is like, how does are those people
go into hell because they didn't have a chance to.
Speaker 1 (14:49):
Oh, you mean, if they didn't if they didn't hear
the name of Jesus or the consonants and the vowels
that make Jesus. Yeah, Okay, that's an excellent question. Romans
Won Romans Chapter one, starting in verse eighteen is a
really good place to go when it comes to that question,
because it explains the difference between special revelation, which is
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scripture or somebody coming and knocking on their door or
hut or whatever it may be and saying, hi, I'm
a missionary and you need to know Jesus. Well, that's special.
That's a very specific revelation, but there's also general revelation.
As God says in Romans chapter one, verse eighteen, it says,
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for the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against
all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men who suppress the truth
and unrighteousness, because that which is known about God is
evident within them. For God made it evident to them.
For since the creation of the world, his invisible attributes,
his eternal power, and his divine nature have been clearly seen,
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being understood through what has been made, so that they
are without excuse. Really, what it's saying, there is since
the beginning of time that God's attributes, the invisible things
of God can be known by creation, So really there
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is no excuse. It's not about whether somebody comes to
your door and tells you about Jesus. It's knowing God
to the best of your ability and the circumstances you are.
In the same way, if somebody had a mental deficiency
or a child and Heaven forbid, but their life is taken,
then they are accountable for what they can know or
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what 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 acceptance or rejection of the truth.
So in Romans, it's talking about that that truth can
be known by looking at God's creation or what some
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people call nature, looking at those things and seeing and
that it's imprinted on your heart to know and to
seek God. And that's enough in those circumstances. Sarah, Welcome
to Jesus Christ Show.
Speaker 8 (17:15):
Emilye. Thanks for taking my call. This is the first
time I listened to your show, and I like the
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 to a struggle eight this morning,
though I have a question is that is something that
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I'm struggling with at work. I thought I would be
bold and calling.
Speaker 1 (17:39):
In Okay, so what's going on?
Speaker 8 (17:43):
So in my I left the job that I was
in for fourteen years because it was like overwhelming with
task and completing task right, it was managerial role. So
now I found myself in a similar role. I was
promoted and it was just like my struggle are I
have deadlines to complete things in front of the most parts,
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I can complete them, but it's like I usually have
like twenty things I have to do one time, and
it's very hard to complete task timely. And I know
if I just focus on one thing, you get one
thing done at a time, then that's how I get
through it. But it just seems like I'm always working
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struggling to get current. Does that make sense?
Speaker 1 (18:28):
Well, sure, don't you say that that at work you
have there'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 same
time or you say in one day you have a
bunch of tasks and they all need.
Speaker 8 (18:43):
To be done in one day. There's a bunch of
tasks to be completed, requests from people, managers, internal, external,
So it's just you know, the time mantement. I think
that's my biggest struggle.
Speaker 1 (18:59):
Where do you think that time is going?
Speaker 4 (19:00):
If?
Speaker 1 (19:01):
If if time seems to be going out the window,
where do you think it goes?
Speaker 8 (19:07):
No, I'm not sure how to measure that, because it's
like when I'm at working stuff and working, I'm not
you know, just visiting or you know, doing random stuff.
I'm actually working. But I think in a way I'm
too trying to measure. Okay, do I need help with
my desk? You know, if it's too much?
Speaker 1 (19:26):
Well, that's a that's a legitimate question, which is why
I ask about where you think your time is going.
If there's there is such thing as too much work,
I know that there are bosses that would say differently,
or companies that would go, no, you can, you can
always do more work. And I'm not a huge fan
of that. There's a time and a place on as
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to where you would break, where you just have only
enough to give. There were times where I walked away
and rested. There are times where I would leave a
city and people would say, well, aren't you going to
do X, Y and Z, And I'd say no, I'm
I'm done here and I'm moving on to somewhere else.
Otherwise there's always something around the corner. If you think
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it's a legitimate amount of work and you should be
able to do it, then you need to find a
triage system of sorts to tackle certain things. I would
gather that out of every task or group of tasks
that you have, there is one task that seems to
be more daunting than the rest, or maybe you know
less about it. And usually when you're when you don't
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feel confident or strong about a particular task is when
it slows you down because you don't want to do
it wrong, you don't want to do it incorrectly, and
so you're you kind of put it off or go
at it very slowly. So you could see if there's
any group of tasks there's one in particular that seems
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to weigh you down or that you are intimidated by,
and put that at the top of the list to finish,
take care of that, ask questions, do what you need
to do, but always creating a triage as the type
of work, what what's going to be simple to do,
what's going to take time, or what you need to
learn to do before you can complete it. Never never
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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.
Speaker 8 (21:24):
What I pretty confidence and I asked questions. I need
to understand what I'm dam 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 is it's usually a huge task that's involved,
so to work on that.
Speaker 3 (21:41):
But I just.
Speaker 8 (21:44):
It's just I noticed this in my other position that
it was just like a gosh, I got all those
workload and then when they asked for help, there wasn't
a help avolable. And I said, you know, I can't
do this anymore. You know, I can't work weekends my kids,
you know, the evening. Until I left the job that
I was on very good money. And it's goodness hearing
and it's very scary.
Speaker 1 (22:04):
Well, the workplace is changing and they're expecting more of people,
and they're not really necessarily caring about the family unit
the same way. They figure they will always find somebody
who will give up whatever to do the task. And
it's unfortunate. I will tell you this that if it's
if there's not one particular task that is daunting. There's
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not one particular task that you feel you don't understand
and it's weighing you down. Then you started the simplest first,
and you cross things off your list. There's nothing more
refreshing than feeling like you've gotten you had success on
some things, and you reverse the process, get the small
ones done quickly, and then you have more time on
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the large ones. It's it's common sense in so many ways.
If there's a blockage, it's you.
Speaker 8 (22:54):
There is a purposely, like what am I doing? Am
I personally creating this?
Speaker 1 (23:00):
You know?
Speaker 8 (23:00):
If I have a thinking with previous job of my
purposely from now creating this because I don't know if
if I can't focus and I'm creating twenty five tasks.
Speaker 1 (23:10):
During Do people ever refer to you as a perfectionist,
those that are close to you, Yes, okay, so your
particular in the way you like things done.
Speaker 8 (23:25):
Yeah, it's still much finance and accounting, so I guess
you know, some ways hard to have to be, you know.
Speaker 1 (23:33):
So the consequences are large. You're dealing with numbers and
things that actually tied to real money. Yeah, okay, so
that that can be intimidating onto itself, regardless of the
size of the task at hand, And of course you
need to be thorough. But sometimes there is paralysis by perfection.
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You the concern to get everything done in such a
way that you get nothing done, so afraid of doing
things wrong that you don't want to do anything. I
think these are all places where you can you can
kind of poke around and check yourself and see if
they're what's holding you up. I would also recommend you
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not that you are going to find fun in doing
this auditing for somebody who deals with numbers. But audit
your time. Write a list down, keep it next to you,
and audit your time, your whole day, what time, and
be very honest and no one has to see it
but you, And be very honest and see where your
time goes. If people are coming in and talking to
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you too long at the office, or people are asking
you advice for their stuff, or you're not getting enough
time to do your own work, if anyone else has
you assisting them in their own position or their own stuff.
All of these things, as little as they may be
throughout the day, can actually take big chunks out of
what you're trying to process. So if you keep a
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kind of timeline on one half what you need to
get done, on the other half, what you're getting done
and what's going on throughout the day, I think you'll
be surprised as to where your time goes. And once
you see that, once you see where the time is
actually going, you can troubleshoot and see how you can
use your time better.
Speaker 8 (25:24):
That's very kind. I'm going to try that desperately.
Speaker 1 (25:26):
Yeah, so try that first, and you're at least going
to see where there might be Oh my goodness. You know,
five different people came in today and had me ask
them for help on their own projects. Next time, I
need to say no until I get to this point
in my list or whatever it might be. And I
think you'd be surprised. It's always the little things. People.
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People don't lose money throughout the day because they buy
yachts on accident. Oh, I was going to the grocery
store and I bought a yacht, and now my bank
account's broke, you know, completely emptied. What happens 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 peck a gum. Yeah, I'll get a
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peck of gum. And then you go, oh gosh, that
candy bar looks good and it was a rough day
and I probably deserve it. And then you get that,
and then you're leaving and you're going, oh, well, you
know what, I'll buy a newspaper. Yeah, I haven't sat
down and watched read a newspaper in a long time.
And but you start going through all these things in
nickel and dime yourself to death, and it's no different
with the commodity of time. You're constantly nickel and diming
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yourself thinking oh, well, yes, I don't want to say
no to them, or I don't want to say no
to that. But your first priority is going to be
the task, the list, and that task that's been imparted
to you first. So audit yourself, write it down, do
it for at least one day, but maybe two would
be better, and see if there's any patterns.
Speaker 8 (26:53):
But you know, you're saying that it makes sense because
there are a lot of people like it's need for knowledge,
like how do you approach joking? And I think because
some of the people that I've worked with like I
would just say, Okay, what is the problem I really
have to do and I can fix things. I'll really
get a fixing thing. And I think because people know that,
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they'll say, okay, this is a problem. So that comes
to me for advice to fix things, and I know
my time gets taken for okay, go do this or
I would do that kind of thing, and I just
need to pull back. But I'm definitely audit myself and
write it down and just kind of learn to say
probably know more and pull back and then focus on
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my job.
Speaker 1 (27:38):
At hare and you end up doing everybody else's work.
When you're good at everything like that, or you're you
feel comfortable in a lot of different fields or very
good at your own, people will seek you out. And
that's a wonderful thing. It's both 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,
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if you find that that's a pattern and a lot
of people come and ask you questions, great, then you
can set up something and say, hey, listen, the last
hour of every workday is I'm going to take questions.
I'm finding I'm not getting my 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 caught up by then. Whatever it is, you can
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even schedule that and file that 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 never get anything done.
There has to be a point where you say, I'm sorry,
I have a bunch of products, i have to do,
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a projects I have to do, and i'd love to
help out. Let's do it at and you schedule them in.
Make it a part of that system. Audit yourself, write
it down on paper, see where your time is going.
And I know by listening to how you think and
the way you ask the question, you will correct the
problem just by seeing it on paper. Every generation looks
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at their life and says it's getting more complicated, and
every generation would be correct to a certain degree. There
are new things coming your way every moment of every day,
and you're bombarded with stimulation more than any other generation.
With mobile accessibility to the entire world, mobile accessibility to
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your job. There was a time where you came home
from work and you spend time with your family. And
nowadays you come home from work, but you're still tethered
to a mobile device, whether it be your phone, whether
it be your tablet or even a laptop. You're always
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around a portal to your boss, to friends, to family,
whoever might need you. Right that moment. Used to make
a phone call and then if you couldn't get the person,
it have to wait. But the world is in a speed,
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a little speed location right now. That is all about
getting it done and getting it done now, regardless the
feelings may be, well, family first and you got to
take care of this, and you got to take care
of that. But really it's not how it's structured anymore.
It's structured. If something needs to be done with work,
it needs to be done now. Competition is different. Life
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moves at a different speed, and in that process it
can be very overwhelming and taxing on certain types of brains.
There's just people that move at certain speeds. This is
how they do things, This is how they do them right,
And in that process you can feel like you're being swallowed.
But I assure you there is a way to at
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least calculate what your skills are and what you can
and should be doing at any given time and apply them.
And then after that point you can tip your hat
and say this, this is what I have, this is
my ability, and if they don't like it, you can
move on. But if you're like any other race, if
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you feel you can't run at the speeds that are needed,
then downsize find a speed that you can, because you
will always be best running at a speed that suits you.
But that must be balanced with growth as well, and
looking inwardly and saying, okay, am I learning a skill
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or is this pushing me into another direction to get
better at something else or to expand myself? And if
that is the yes answer, then you need to stick
with it. But if not, you move on and you
find proper speed until next week, remember these words. I
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am with you always. KFI A M six forty on
demand
You're listening to KFI A six on demand. Mark, Welcome
to the Jesus Christ Show. Good morning, Hi, we only
have a couple of minutes here.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
I know this is off the wall question, but you know,
I have a environment problem with spurls and rabbits and things,
and I wonder if the Bible says anything about poisoning
putting poison out for animals. I know the Bible says
take care of the animals, but is it bad to
get rid of them with poisons and going them.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
You have every right to defend your property and your
home from disease and from problems. But what I want
to say on top of that is when you poison
an animal, and squirrels aren't particularly nasty with with disease
the way other rodents like a rat, for instance, So
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they're destructive. They're destructive, and they really The first thing
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 protein things laying around,
dog food, laying around cat food, laying around things like
that that are going to attract them. There's ways we
feed birds and we got birds, yes, bird seed is
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another one that will will attract them, and this these
all become problems that lure them in. When you poison
an animal like that, because they are, you know, in
involved with other predators. You could end up killing multiple
animals by poisoning a squirrel, right, and that becomes a
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problem to just the the the ecological line of that animal.
So I prefer that you look for as many methods
as you can to sanitize your direct area first, or
methods that discourage them from being around. But if they're
if you have to go to other methods, then hire
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somebody who's a professional who looks to make the least
amount of damage to that animal and others around, because
otherwise you just to expedite the process, you start really
causing havoc in your environs, and that's not really fair.
So you're called to be a good steward of all
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things in scripture, meaning animals and the planet and everything
around you, not in the political hug atry sense, but
in the very real this is the resources that you
have at hand sense, and animals fall into that. And
just be careful when you're doing that. Don't do it
to get it done quickly. There's ways to even catch
them and get rid of them and things like that.
But just first and foremost, make sure that you're not
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causing more damage than you're doing. Good Gigi, Welcome to
the Jesus Christ Show.
Speaker 3 (02:42):
Oh for the else him two seconds.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
Hi, Hello there.
Speaker 4 (02:48):
I am a primary care physician.
Speaker 5 (02:51):
Young lady came to me speaking abortion. I, of course
don't do abortion by trade, and I refer the patient
and the physical after referring beings that my staff has
to go on the computer and fill out the referral forms.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
And click the button and send it.
Speaker 4 (03:10):
Myself had significant problems doing that, and she approached me,
and I consoled and well, you finally get it.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
But I want to know how you would.
Speaker 6 (03:24):
Have approached it.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
Well, are you a Christian only facility? No, here's the
rough part. When it comes to abortion, it's abhorrent. It
is a vulgar display in many ways, and to get
into the detail of what's taking place would make most
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people lose their breakfast. However, I assure you that everybody
has made it a political issue, which is to me
almost equally as vulgar, because what gets lost on both
sides is the fact that there is no one unless
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there's some bizarre twisted in an individual. There is no
one on either side that wants to see a baby die.
No one. The confusion comes because there are What really
sets the two sides apart is the definition of when
it's a baby. So, but no one's setting out to
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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. So science
says something different than theology. Yet as a scientist, you're
there representing the laws of the land and medicine to
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take care of your patients. The law of the land
currently says that under certain circumstances, during certain times of
the pregnancy, that to abort that pregnancy is okay. If
you're in a public facility, your job is to give
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them the information they need to make the best decisions
they can. But the decision is not on you, it's
on the individual. Just like in anything, your job is
to give them the best information. But the patient can
say no, I don't want to take that pill, or no,
I don't want to follow up. They can even tell
you that they don't want you to resuscitate them right, correct,
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And you could say that that's against God's will because
now you're allowing them to make a decision to not
live correct. So there's a lot of weight on you
as a physician and in the nursing community as well,
that those that are in the medical profession to give
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the best and that's what you're called to do. It's
not a point of preaching. Now. If you feel that
there's an opportunity and you want to make sure that
they have the best information on both sides, that's fine.
But as far as allowing somebody in the United States
to make that decision, there are laws that protect them
to be able to do so. And if you're going
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to be a physician in a public in the public arena,
they are going to be allowed to do that.
Speaker 6 (06:29):
So this is a private medical office, but not exclusively
a Christian office, And we treat people of faith or not.
And my staff is a believer.
Speaker 5 (06:45):
And so what would you specifically say to.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
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 to or
things of that nature. However, there's a point where if
you're going to be in that industry and it is
in the United States and it is legal, then there's
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going to be issues. And she can even or he
can even 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 the
laws are with the laws are, and if you don't
want to participate in that, then you know, if you
had a Jehovah's witness in there didn't believe in blood transfusions,
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now that becomes an issue, and that starts to infringe
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 or I don't want to
do this, and that becomes a little sticky. So if
there are ways around it that could be done tactfully
and does not impede on the legal rights and the
individual rights of the person wanting whatever treat meant that
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is legal, then you can adapt to those. But you
can't just halt the system based on your faith, because
in that process, you're taking away the rights of an
individual that is legal in the United States, and that
that becomes a problem as well to those that want
to choose that.
Speaker 3 (08:19):
So my comment to myself was that I'm also a believer,
and but that one I would not have performed the
abortion myself. Good, But two, I it's not in my.
Speaker 7 (08:38):
Scope of service either.
Speaker 3 (08:40):
I'm not an over but even if I was, when
I would be an obj in that would not perform abortions.
But if I were an ob Juan who is whose
scope of service includes abortion, I would refer the patient
to a colleague of mind.
Speaker 6 (08:58):
And because people do house.
Speaker 3 (09:00):
The right to make decisions, whether right or wrong in
our eyes, in my eyes, but if I am able
to comply with your wishes, then it is my job
to point them to someone else who can work with them.
Speaker 6 (09:19):
And that was my comfo to my staff.
Speaker 3 (09:24):
Do you have any need to add to that.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
No, I think that's a very honest way of approaching it,
because if you start becoming the Christian police, it becomes problematic.
Now let's say you're a checker at a grocery store
and now you're looking at twinkies and ho hos, and
the person in front of you is overweight, and you
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start going well, I'm not going to sell this to
you because you're obviously 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 your practice has to have somebody that is able
to write that referral or to do that. Otherwise it
stops being a practice and a medical practice and starts
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being a religious practice, which becomes a problem. And I
think that your consult was very 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 very important thing that you do it. And
I know that your faith ties into it and you're
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praying for people and you're being there, and that makes
you even more important out there as a physician. To
have the balance between your scientific mind and your spiritual
sense as well. I think is a very important part
of the medical industry. This is an incredibly difficult subject,
but I really want people to hear and to be
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left with the thought that nobody wants to kill babies.
Nobody does. I know that's the easier way to think
about it and to look at it's not about that.
It's the definition of when they see a baby, and
it may be different than yours, and that's part of
the fight. Part of the fight is to get science
to see that. And as they see that, then that
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will change. But as if 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
it will change. But nobody's going around smiling at taking
the life of a child. Nobody wants that. No one,
no matter how hardcore they are on either side. It's
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a matter of the definition of when it's a child.
There are a lot of decisions that are tough to
make as a believer in this 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
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still have to interact with it in a way that
is productive. It means something. Maybe you've heard the term
so spiritually minded, you know, earthly good, and if you
get to a place where everything is so spiritual that
you shut down existing 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
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puts you here for a reason. It's to exist and
interact with those other humans. To be an example in
life as to how one should live. Doesn't mean you're
always going to get it right, doesn't mean you're not
going to make mistakes. But this constant concept that as
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a Christian you're just supposed to rebel against everything rather
than leading by an example, is not the focus of
your purpose here. And that may sound strange, but I
will tell you that when it comes to things as
weighty as abortion and that topic, and I know that
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regardless of which side you land on, I know I
can hear you tighten up when I even use a word,
and automatically your brain switches over to that political view
that you have and not about what's really taking place.
God sees that child at the moment of conception, but
science doesn't yet. And I realize that those things can
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be frustrating. But I also realize that the same people
that would put themselves across the pathway of an abortion
clinic in the name of God won't do the same
thing across the threshold of a false church or a
pastor who is lying or fleecing his flock, And that
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to me is strange as well. And that shows me
that there is a political bent here that is beyond
the spiritual and to find that balance and that understanding
as to why you believe what you believe and what
you're willing to do for your faith when God himself says,
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fear not those that can kill the flesh, but he
who can kill the spirit. Justin Welcome to the Jesus
Christ Show.
Speaker 7 (14:23):
Hi, Jesus. I had a question about right after the
ability to become saved and accept Jesus as their personal favor,
like doing that immediately after resurrection and stuff.
Speaker 1 (14:37):
Right, Okay, what are you getting at there?
Speaker 7 (14:41):
Justin Okay, I'm just asking, like in South America and
in the America is like, how does are those people
go into hell because they didn't have a chance to.
Speaker 1 (14:49):
Oh, you mean, if they didn't if they didn't hear
the name of Jesus or the consonants and the vowels
that make Jesus. Yeah, Okay, that's an excellent question. Romans
Won Romans Chapter one, starting in verse eighteen is a
really good place to go when it comes to that question,
because it explains the difference between special revelation, which is
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scripture or somebody coming and knocking on their door or
hut or whatever it may be and saying, hi, I'm
a missionary and you need to know Jesus. Well, that's special.
That's a very specific revelation, but there's also general revelation.
As God says in Romans chapter one, verse eighteen, it says,
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for the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against
all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men who suppress the truth
and unrighteousness, because that which is known about God is
evident within them. For God made it evident to them.
For since the creation of the world, his invisible attributes,
his eternal power, and his divine nature have been clearly seen,
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being understood through what has been made, so that they
are without excuse. Really, what it's saying, there is since
the beginning of time that God's attributes, the invisible things
of God can be known by creation, So really there
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is no excuse. It's not about whether somebody comes to
your door and tells you about Jesus. It's knowing God
to the best of your ability and the circumstances you are.
In the same way, if somebody had a mental deficiency
or a child and Heaven forbid, but their life is taken,
then they are accountable for what they can know or
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what 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 acceptance or rejection of the truth.
So in Romans, it's talking about that that truth can
be known by looking at God's creation or what some
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people call nature, looking at those things and seeing and
that it's imprinted on your heart to know and to
seek God. And that's enough in those circumstances. Sarah, Welcome
to Jesus Christ Show.
Speaker 8 (17:15):
Emilye. Thanks for taking my call. This is the first
time I listened to your show, and I like the
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 to a struggle eight this morning,
though I have a question is that is something that
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I'm struggling with at work. I thought I would be
bold and calling.
Speaker 1 (17:39):
In Okay, so what's going on?
Speaker 8 (17:43):
So in my I left the job that I was
in for fourteen years because it was like overwhelming with
task and completing task right, it was managerial role. So
now I found myself in a similar role. I was
promoted and it was just like my struggle are I
have deadlines to complete things in front of the most parts,
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I can complete them, but it's like I usually have
like twenty things I have to do one time, and
it's very hard to complete task timely. And I know
if I just focus on one thing, you get one
thing done at a time, then that's how I get
through it. But it just seems like I'm always working
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struggling to get current. Does that make sense?
Speaker 1 (18:28):
Well, sure, don't you say that that at work you
have there'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 same
time or you say in one day you have a
bunch of tasks and they all need.
Speaker 8 (18:43):
To be done in one day. There's a bunch of
tasks to be completed, requests from people, managers, internal, external,
So it's just you know, the time mantement. I think
that's my biggest struggle.
Speaker 1 (18:59):
Where do you think that time is going?
Speaker 4 (19:00):
If?
Speaker 1 (19:01):
If if time seems to be going out the window,
where do you think it goes?
Speaker 8 (19:07):
No, I'm not sure how to measure that, because it's
like when I'm at working stuff and working, I'm not
you know, just visiting or you know, doing random stuff.
I'm actually working. But I think in a way I'm
too trying to measure. Okay, do I need help with
my desk? You know, if it's too much?
Speaker 1 (19:26):
Well, that's a that's a legitimate question, which is why
I ask about where you think your time is going.
If there's there is such thing as too much work,
I know that there are bosses that would say differently,
or companies that would go, no, you can, you can
always do more work. And I'm not a huge fan
of that. There's a time and a place on as
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to where you would break, where you just have only
enough to give. There were times where I walked away
and rested. There are times where I would leave a
city and people would say, well, aren't you going to
do X, Y and Z, And I'd say no, I'm
I'm done here and I'm moving on to somewhere else.
Otherwise there's always something around the corner. If you think
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it's a legitimate amount of work and you should be
able to do it, then you need to find a
triage system of sorts to tackle certain things. I would
gather that out of every task or group of tasks
that you have, there is one task that seems to
be more daunting than the rest, or maybe you know
less about it. And usually when you're when you don't
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feel confident or strong about a particular task is when
it slows you down because you don't want to do
it wrong, you don't want to do it incorrectly, and
so you're you kind of put it off or go
at it very slowly. So you could see if there's
any group of tasks there's one in particular that seems
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to weigh you down or that you are intimidated by,
and put that at the top of the list to finish,
take care of that, ask questions, do what you need
to do, but always creating a triage as the type
of work, what what's going to be simple to do,
what's going to take time, or what you need to
learn to do before you can complete it. Never never
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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.
Speaker 8 (21:24):
What I pretty confidence and I asked questions. I need
to understand what I'm dam 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 is it's usually a huge task that's involved,
so to work on that.
Speaker 3 (21:41):
But I just.
Speaker 8 (21:44):
It's just I noticed this in my other position that
it was just like a gosh, I got all those
workload and then when they asked for help, there wasn't
a help avolable. And I said, you know, I can't
do this anymore. You know, I can't work weekends my kids,
you know, the evening. Until I left the job that
I was on very good money. And it's goodness hearing
and it's very scary.
Speaker 1 (22:04):
Well, the workplace is changing and they're expecting more of people,
and they're not really necessarily caring about the family unit
the same way. They figure they will always find somebody
who will give up whatever to do the task. And
it's unfortunate. I will tell you this that if it's
if there's not one particular task that is daunting. There's
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not one particular task that you feel you don't understand
and it's weighing you down. Then you started the simplest first,
and you cross things off your list. There's nothing more
refreshing than feeling like you've gotten you had success on
some things, and you reverse the process, get the small
ones done quickly, and then you have more time on
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the large ones. It's it's common sense in so many ways.
If there's a blockage, it's you.
Speaker 8 (22:54):
There is a purposely, like what am I doing? Am
I personally creating this?
Speaker 1 (23:00):
You know?
Speaker 8 (23:00):
If I have a thinking with previous job of my
purposely from now creating this because I don't know if
if I can't focus and I'm creating twenty five tasks.
Speaker 1 (23:10):
During Do people ever refer to you as a perfectionist,
those that are close to you, Yes, okay, so your
particular in the way you like things done.
Speaker 8 (23:25):
Yeah, it's still much finance and accounting, so I guess
you know, some ways hard to have to be, you know.
Speaker 1 (23:33):
So the consequences are large. You're dealing with numbers and
things that actually tied to real money. Yeah, okay, so
that that can be intimidating onto itself, regardless of the
size of the task at hand, And of course you
need to be thorough. But sometimes there is paralysis by perfection.
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You the concern to get everything done in such a
way that you get nothing done, so afraid of doing
things wrong that you don't want to do anything. I
think these are all places where you can you can
kind of poke around and check yourself and see if
they're what's holding you up. I would also recommend you
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not that you are going to find fun in doing
this auditing for somebody who deals with numbers. But audit
your time. Write a list down, keep it next to you,
and audit your time, your whole day, what time, and
be very honest and no one has to see it
but you, And be very honest and see where your
time goes. If people are coming in and talking to
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you too long at the office, or people are asking
you advice for their stuff, or you're not getting enough
time to do your own work, if anyone else has
you assisting them in their own position or their own stuff.
All of these things, as little as they may be
throughout the day, can actually take big chunks out of
what you're trying to process. So if you keep a
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kind of timeline on one half what you need to
get done, on the other half, what you're getting done
and what's going on throughout the day, I think you'll
be surprised as to where your time goes. And once
you see that, once you see where the time is
actually going, you can troubleshoot and see how you can
use your time better.
Speaker 8 (25:24):
That's very kind. I'm going to try that desperately.
Speaker 1 (25:26):
Yeah, so try that first, and you're at least going
to see where there might be Oh my goodness. You know,
five different people came in today and had me ask
them for help on their own projects. Next time, I
need to say no until I get to this point
in my list or whatever it might be. And I
think you'd be surprised. It's always the little things. People.
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People don't lose money throughout the day because they buy
yachts on accident. Oh, I was going to the grocery
store and I bought a yacht, and now my bank
account's broke, you know, completely emptied. What happens 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 peck a gum. Yeah, I'll get a
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peck of gum. And then you go, oh gosh, that
candy bar looks good and it was a rough day
and I probably deserve it. And then you get that,
and then you're leaving and you're going, oh, well, you
know what, I'll buy a newspaper. Yeah, I haven't sat
down and watched read a newspaper in a long time.
And but you start going through all these things in
nickel and dime yourself to death, and it's no different
with the commodity of time. You're constantly nickel and diming
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yourself thinking oh, well, yes, I don't want to say
no to them, or I don't want to say no
to that. But your first priority is going to be
the task, the list, and that task that's been imparted
to you first. So audit yourself, write it down, do
it for at least one day, but maybe two would
be better, and see if there's any patterns.
Speaker 8 (26:53):
But you know, you're saying that it makes sense because
there are a lot of people like it's need for knowledge,
like how do you approach joking? And I think because
some of the people that I've worked with like I
would just say, Okay, what is the problem I really
have to do and I can fix things. I'll really
get a fixing thing. And I think because people know that,
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they'll say, okay, this is a problem. So that comes
to me for advice to fix things, and I know
my time gets taken for okay, go do this or
I would do that kind of thing, and I just
need to pull back. But I'm definitely audit myself and
write it down and just kind of learn to say
probably know more and pull back and then focus on
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my job.
Speaker 1 (27:38):
At hare and you end up doing everybody else's work.
When you're good at everything like that, or you're you
feel comfortable in a lot of different fields or very
good at your own, people will seek you out. And
that's a wonderful thing. It's both 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,
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if you find that that's a pattern and a lot
of people come and ask you questions, great, then you
can set up something and say, hey, listen, the last
hour of every workday is I'm going to take questions.
I'm finding I'm not getting my 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 caught up by then. Whatever it is, you can
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even schedule that and file that 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 never get anything done.
There has to be a point where you say, I'm sorry,
I have a bunch of products, i have to do,
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a projects I have to do, and i'd love to
help out. Let's do it at and you schedule them in.
Make it a part of that system. Audit yourself, write
it down on paper, see where your time is going.
And I know by listening to how you think and
the way you ask the question, you will correct the
problem just by seeing it on paper. Every generation looks
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at their life and says it's getting more complicated, and
every generation would be correct to a certain degree. There
are new things coming your way every moment of every day,
and you're bombarded with stimulation more than any other generation.
With mobile accessibility to the entire world, mobile accessibility to
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your job. There was a time where you came home
from work and you spend time with your family. And
nowadays you come home from work, but you're still tethered
to a mobile device, whether it be your phone, whether
it be your tablet or even a laptop. You're always
(29:54):
around a portal to your boss, to friends, to family,
whoever might need you. Right that moment. Used to make
a phone call and then if you couldn't get the person,
it have to wait. But the world is in a speed,
(30:16):
a little speed location right now. That is all about
getting it done and getting it done now, regardless the
feelings may be, well, family first and you got to
take care of this, and you got to take care
of that. But really it's not how it's structured anymore.
It's structured. If something needs to be done with work,
it needs to be done now. Competition is different. Life
(30:40):
moves at a different speed, and in that process it
can be very overwhelming and taxing on certain types of brains.
There's just people that move at certain speeds. This is
how they do things, This is how they do them right,
And in that process you can feel like you're being swallowed.
But I assure you there is a way to at
(31:02):
least calculate what your skills are and what you can
and should be doing at any given time and apply them.
And then after that point you can tip your hat
and say this, this is what I have, this is
my ability, and if they don't like it, you can
move on. But if you're like any other race, if
(31:24):
you feel you can't run at the speeds that are needed,
then downsize find a speed that you can, because you
will always be best running at a speed that suits you.
But that must be balanced with growth as well, and
looking inwardly and saying, okay, am I learning a skill
(31:45):
or is this pushing me into another direction to get
better at something else or to expand myself? And if
that is the yes answer, then you need to stick
with it. But if not, you move on and you
find proper speed until next week, remember these words. I
(32:06):
am with you always. KFI A M six forty on
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