Ask anyone how they're doing, and there's a good chance you'll hear good but busy.

We're all busy, seemingly all the time, and our lives are often dominated by the drive to get things done, to be productive.

And yet all too often, our drive toward productivity can lead us feeling discouraged and burned

out. My guest today is Anna Avila, and she wants to help Christians recover a distinctly Christian

approach to productivity, a productivity rooted in the finished work of Christ on our behalf,

and our new identity as children of God. In our conversation, she emphasizes that we each have just the right time we need to do what God wants us to do,

walking through several key productivity principles that will help us make good decisions,

manage our time wisely, and make the most of what God has given us, all for His glory.

Anna works as a senior writer for the Spanish edition of the Gospel Coalition,

and is the creator and host of the Pienza podcast.

She has an undergraduate degree in clinical biochemistry,

a diploma in biblical studies,

and is the author of,

Make the Most of Your Productivity,

a guide to honoring God with your time from Crossway. Let's get started.

Well, Anna, thank you so much for joining us on the Crossway podcast today.

No, thank you for having me. I'm so excited to be here. So it sometimes seems to me that the world,

that people can be divided into two

categories. Those who read productivity books and those who don't read productivity books. And yet you

open your new book on productivity, making the case that this is something that all Christians

should think about, at least to some extent. Why is that? Well, productivity can mean a lot of things

to a lot of different people, but really what productivity is, is just learning how to best use

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