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Focus on the Family with Jim Daly

Clearing Out Your Space and Schedule (Part 1 of 2)

Focus on the Family with Jim Daly

Focus on the Family

Kids & Family, Society & Culture, Relationships, Parenting

4.74.5K Ratings

🗓️ 9 August 2023

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Courtney Ellis wants to invite families to follow her example in decluttering her life, her home & her schedule. Courtney also described why too many screens & too much technology is a form of clutter — and how her kids would often see the back of her hand holding a phone instead of seeing her face. (Part 1 of 2)

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0:00.0

Hey friends, here's the latest episode of my podcast, ReFocus with Jim Daily, featuring

0:04.6

former NFL player Benjamin Watson. He shares about protecting the lives of every human being,

0:10.4

pursuing justice for all. Visit ReFocus with JimDaily.com.

0:15.6

I would say the clutter in my life is probably social media that tends to be so

0:20.0

addicting, to just continuously mindlessly scrolling. Either laundry, that's not folded,

0:26.5

or all the things that I need to do that come into my head before I go to sleep.

0:30.9

For me, clutter is whenever my room is super messy and I get a lot of trash left in my car

0:37.6

and I begin to feel like my life's cluttered so I have to clean out my car and clean my

0:41.2

whole entire room and pick up every single piece of laundry. While I have too many pots in my

0:45.2

kitchen, so we had to go and buy a new shelf. Well, I wonder if you can relate. Your schedule,

0:50.4

your home, your job, there's just way too much stuff and life feels overwhelming.

0:56.0

Maybe it's time to purge or downsize or even simplify. Well, this is focus on the family.

1:01.6

That's our topic today. Thanks for joining us, your host is focus president and author Jim Daily,

1:06.3

and I'm John Fuller. John, I already smiling because everybody knows how much I love this topic

1:10.5

when it comes to my garage. So I'm proud to send you a topic. Ironically, I just finished cleaning it.

1:18.0

I'm happy. Was it because you knew we were going to have a problem? No, I didn't know this was

1:21.6

coming like three weeks ago, but yeah, we're out there. Troy and I have sweeping away,

1:25.5

getting the boxes organized, putting up the leftover Christmas stuff up in the attic in the garage.

1:30.2

And it's like, I feel good. I feel really good. Do you know one thing? It's so funny. I think

1:35.6

about this because my laundry, I keep piles. So I got my dirty pile ready to go and then there's

1:40.4

the t-shirts I wore just once or twice. I go wearing them again in a separate pile. I'm not going

1:45.0

to fold them up and put them back in my drawer. So today we are going to talk about all these

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