767: Stop Hurrying and Start Producing, with John Mark Comer

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🗓️ 16 March 2020

⏱️ 74 minutes

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We are all busy and we’re all in a hurry. Who just loves it? Who feels they are producing their best work while in such a harried state? Yet, who feels trapped by it? So now I’m going to give you some miracle, “seven steps” formula that sounds nice and shiny, but we all know...nothing is going to change, right?” But alas, there is no formula. It comes down to awareness of what is really driving us, and what we believe. I’m part of a prayer group of about a dozen men, all business owners with big audiences. One of them said we all had to get this book he was reading, titled, “The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry.” I got the book. I read it. I contacted the publisher and said I wanted the author on The Ziglar Show with me. That...is what I bring you today. John Mark Comer. John's story is this...he was pastoring a successful megachurch in Portland, OR with six services each Sunday and a marathon lifestyle which left him feeling burnt out and detached from those around him. In a moment of desperation, he asked a mentor for advice. The response he received was this, “You must ruthlessly eliminate hurry from your life. There is nothing else.” From that was born John's new book, "In The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry: Staying Emotionally Healthy and Spiritually Alive in Our Current Chaos." In this show we unpack the concept and what I found was this; an amazing case for me to change my paradigm and limit the hurry of my life. Why? Personal peace, for sure. But also...better production. I don't want to do a ton of good work. I want to do a smaller amount of truly great work. Just today I got word from someone else that they had read the book and it had significantly disrupted their life with this new perspective. But we go deeper too. I’d tell you we talked about the lifestyle of Jesus, except I’m concerned you’d discount it as I used to, in regards to...Jesus wasn’t married. He didn’t have kids or a mortgage. A 9-5 job. But then...he did have a scant three years to save the world before he was assassinated. It might be worth considering… This is a big show folks. You can connect with John at his website johnmarkcomer.com/ and of course find “The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry” wherever you buy books. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is a Glass Box Media Podcast.
0:05.0	Hello everyone, I'm Kevin Miller and this is the Ziegler show,
0:10.0	where our goal is to inspire your true performance. In this episode, stop hurrying and start producing. So we're all
0:19.6	busy and we're all in a hurry. And who just loves that? Who feels they're producing their best work while in such a hurried state?
0:27.5	Yet who feels trapped by it? So now I'm supposed to give you the miracle seven steps formula that sounds real nice and
0:34.4	shiny to addressing that but we all know nothing's really going to change
0:38.0	right but there is no formula it does however come down to awareness of what's really driving us what we believe
0:46.0	I'm part of a prayer group of about a dozen guys all business owners with big audiences influencers
0:52.2	is what people would say.
0:53.5	One of them said a couple weeks ago actually,
0:56.3	it wasn't that long, you've got to get this book
0:58.6	called The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry.
1:01.9	So I got it, so did everybody else. I read it, we all read it and it just was
1:06.9	incredible. I contacted the publisher right away, said I've got to have this guy on
1:11.6	the Ziggler show with me.
1:14.0	That's what I bring you today.
1:15.0	That guy is John Mark Comer.
1:18.0	So John's story is this.
1:20.0	He was pasturing a successful mega church in Portland, Oregon.
1:23.7	They had six services that he did every Sunday.
1:26.5	He said it was a marathon.
1:27.6	And he was living a marathon lifestyle
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