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 forty 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 disease the
way other rodents like a rat, for instance, So they're destructive.
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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.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
There's ways we seed birds and we got bird.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
Yes, bird seed is 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
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that becomes a 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,
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then hire 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 3 (02:48):
I am a primary care physician.
Speaker 4 (02:51):
Young lady came to me seeking 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 and click the button and send it. Myself had
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significant problems doing that, and she approached me, and I
consult and we finally get it.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
But I want to know how you would 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 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 take
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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 them the
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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, and
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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 the best
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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 to be
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a position in a public in the public arena, they
are going to be allowed to do that.
Speaker 3 (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 4 (06:45):
And so what would you specifically say to the believer.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
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 going to
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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, now that
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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 it's legal,
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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's one, I would not have performed the
abortion myself.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
Good.
Speaker 3 (08:33):
But two, I it's not in my scope of service either.
I'm not an over but even if I was, when
I would be an og in that would not perform abortions.
But if I were an Obi Juan who is whose
scope of service includes abortion, I would refer the patient
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to a colleague of mind. And because people of the
House 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
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with them. And that was my comfo to my staff.
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. And I
know that your faith ties into it and you're praying
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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 left
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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 will change. But
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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 a matter of
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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 still have to
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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,
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because what happens here is God 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 a Christian you're just supposed to
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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 regardless of which side you land on,
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I know I can hear you tighten up when I
even use the 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
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that those things can 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 to me is strange as well.
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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, fear not those that can
kill the flesh, but he who can kill the spirit.
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Justin Welcome to the Jesus Christ Show.
Speaker 5 (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 5 (14:41):
Justin Okay, I'm just asking, like in South America and
in the America is like, how does those people go
into hell because they didn't have a chance to Oh.
Speaker 1 (14:50):
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. Roman's 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. Well, 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
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there 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
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can know or 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
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what some 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 the Jesus Christ Show.
Speaker 6 (17:15):
Emily, 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 very struggle hate this morning, though
I have a question. Is that is something that I'm
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struggling with at work? I thought I would be bold
and call it in.
Speaker 1 (17:40):
Okay, So what's going on.
Speaker 6 (17:43):
So in my I left the job that I was
in for fourteen years because it was just like overwhelming
with task and completing task right with the managerial role.
So now I found myself in a similar role. I
was promoted and it was just like my struggle are
I have deadline to complete things? In front of 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 and get one
thing done at a time, then that's how I through it.
But it just seems like I'm always working struggling to
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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 to be done
in one day.
Speaker 6 (18:45):
There's a bunch of tasks to be completed, requests from people, managers, internal, external,
So it's just you know, the time antement. I think
that's my biggest struggle.
Speaker 1 (18:59):
Where do you think that time is going? If if
time seems to be going out the window, where do
you think it goes?
Speaker 6 (19:07):
No, I'm not sure how to measure that, because like
when I'm at work and stuff are 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 it's
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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 feel
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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 to weigh
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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 be afraid
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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 to me.
Speaker 6 (21:24):
What I pretty confidence and I asked questions. I need
to understand what I'm dream if I do it. So
it's not I don't think it's that 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 4 (21:41):
But I just.
Speaker 6 (21:44):
It's just I noticed this in my other position that
it was just like, oh gosh, I got all those
work cload and then when they asked for help, there
wasn't a help of allable. And I said, you know what,
I can't do this anymore. You know, I can't work
weekends my kids, you know, the evening since I left
the job that I live on very good money. And
it's like, oh my 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.
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There's not one particular task that you feel you don't
understand and it's weighing you down. Then you start at
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
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more time on the large ones. It's it's common sense
in so many ways. If there's a blockage, it's you.
Speaker 6 (22:54):
There is a purposely, like what am I doing? And
am I personally crazing this? You know, if I have
a thinking of the previous job of my purposely from
now creating this because I don't know if I have
I can't focus and I'm creating twenty five pass during.
Speaker 1 (23:13):
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 6 (23:25):
Yeah, it's stilling much finance and accounting, So I guess,
you know, ways.
Speaker 1 (23:30):
Hard to have to be, you know, 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.
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But sometimes there is paralysis by perfection. 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
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you up. I would also recommend you 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.
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If people are coming in and talking to 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
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you're trying to process. So if you keep a 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
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can troubleshoot and see how you can use your time better.
Speaker 6 (25:24):
That's very good. 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 pack a gum. Yeah, I'll get a
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pack 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 6 (26:53):
But you know, you're saying that it makes sense because
there are a lot of people that 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'm really
get a fixing things, and I think because people know that,
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they'll say, okay, this is a problem. So it 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 at here.
Speaker 1 (27:38):
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, if you
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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 them. Whatever it is. You can even schedule
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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've I have a bunch of products I have to do,
are projects I have to do, and I'd love to
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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 rite 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 a little speed location right now. That is all
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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 forty 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 disease the
way other rodents like a rat, for instance, So they're destructive.
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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.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
There's ways we seed birds and we got bird.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
Yes, bird seed is 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
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that becomes a 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,
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then hire 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 3 (02:48):
I am a primary care physician.
Speaker 4 (02:51):
Young lady came to me seeking 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 and click the button and send it. Myself had
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significant problems doing that, and she approached me, and I
consult and we finally get it.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
But I want to know how you would 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 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 take
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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 them the
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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, and
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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 the best
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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 to be
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a position in a public in the public arena, they
are going to be allowed to do that.
Speaker 3 (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 4 (06:45):
And so what would you specifically say to the believer.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
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 going to
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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, now that
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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 it's legal,
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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's one, I would not have performed the
abortion myself.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
Good.
Speaker 3 (08:33):
But two, I it's not in my scope of service either.
I'm not an over but even if I was, when
I would be an og in that would not perform abortions.
But if I were an Obi Juan who is whose
scope of service includes abortion, I would refer the patient
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to a colleague of mind. And because people of the
House 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
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with them. And that was my comfo to my staff.
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. And I
know that your faith ties into it and you're praying
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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 left
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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 will change. But
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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 a matter of
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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 still have to
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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,
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because what happens here is God 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 a Christian you're just supposed to
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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 regardless of which side you land on,
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I know I can hear you tighten up when I
even use the 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
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that those things can 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 to me is strange as well.
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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, fear not those that can
kill the flesh, but he who can kill the spirit.
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Justin Welcome to the Jesus Christ Show.
Speaker 5 (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 5 (14:41):
Justin Okay, I'm just asking, like in South America and
in the America is like, how does those people go
into hell because they didn't have a chance to Oh.
Speaker 1 (14:50):
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. Roman's 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. Well, 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
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there 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
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can know or 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
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what some 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 the Jesus Christ Show.
Speaker 6 (17:15):
Emily, 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 very struggle hate this morning, though
I have a question. Is that is something that I'm
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struggling with at work? I thought I would be bold
and call it in.
Speaker 1 (17:40):
Okay, So what's going on.
Speaker 6 (17:43):
So in my I left the job that I was
in for fourteen years because it was just like overwhelming
with task and completing task right with the managerial role.
So now I found myself in a similar role. I
was promoted and it was just like my struggle are
I have deadline to complete things? In front of 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 and get one
thing done at a time, then that's how I through it.
But it just seems like I'm always working struggling to
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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 to be done
in one day.
Speaker 6 (18:45):
There's a bunch of tasks to be completed, requests from people, managers, internal, external,
So it's just you know, the time antement. I think
that's my biggest struggle.
Speaker 1 (18:59):
Where do you think that time is going? If if
time seems to be going out the window, where do
you think it goes?
Speaker 6 (19:07):
No, I'm not sure how to measure that, because like
when I'm at work and stuff are 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 it's
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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 feel
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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 to weigh
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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 be afraid
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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 to me.
Speaker 6 (21:24):
What I pretty confidence and I asked questions. I need
to understand what I'm dream if I do it. So
it's not I don't think it's that 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 4 (21:41):
But I just.
Speaker 6 (21:44):
It's just I noticed this in my other position that
it was just like, oh gosh, I got all those
work cload and then when they asked for help, there
wasn't a help of allable. And I said, you know what,
I can't do this anymore. You know, I can't work
weekends my kids, you know, the evening since I left
the job that I live on very good money. And
it's like, oh my 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.
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There's not one particular task that you feel you don't
understand and it's weighing you down. Then you start at
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
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more time on the large ones. It's it's common sense
in so many ways. If there's a blockage, it's you.
Speaker 6 (22:54):
There is a purposely, like what am I doing? And
am I personally crazing this? You know, if I have
a thinking of the previous job of my purposely from
now creating this because I don't know if I have
I can't focus and I'm creating twenty five pass during.
Speaker 1 (23:13):
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 6 (23:25):
Yeah, it's stilling much finance and accounting, So I guess,
you know, ways.
Speaker 1 (23:30):
Hard to have to be, you know, 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.
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But sometimes there is paralysis by perfection. 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
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you up. I would also recommend you 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.
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If people are coming in and talking to 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
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you're trying to process. So if you keep a 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
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can troubleshoot and see how you can use your time better.
Speaker 6 (25:24):
That's very good. 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 pack a gum. Yeah, I'll get a
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pack 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 6 (26:53):
But you know, you're saying that it makes sense because
there are a lot of people that 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'm really
get a fixing things, and I think because people know that,
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they'll say, okay, this is a problem. So it 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 at here.
Speaker 1 (27:38):
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, if you
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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 them. Whatever it is. You can even schedule
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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've I have a bunch of products I have to do,
are projects I have to do, and I'd love to
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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 rite 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 a little speed location right now. That is all
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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
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