Welcome to another Conversations with John and Lisa and we're doing a second part today

on Distractions and if you didn't hear the first part I would strongly recommend that

you go back and listen to the previous podcast so you can get part one of this and today

you know well let's just say and the last one let me just wet your appetite why you

want to go back we talked a lot about social media and not in a bad way we believe in social

media we we use it but when it dominates that's what we talk about so anyway Lisa what are

we going to talk about today? Oh today we are going to talk about busyness and boundaries

again another another facet of distraction so many of us failed here from God because we

say we are way too busy to slow down spend time with him we don't know how to set wise

boundaries around our time our relationships or our commitments and I was actually shocked by

these stats John I am too if you and I hope I say his name right Lisa his name is James Potash

okay I'll probably put a little axon on it didn't I James if you're listening sorry about that

buddy but the former director he's the former director of research at John Hopkins Moody's

Order Center listen to what they found in a 2010 study that chronic stress from busyness

result in an overdose of cortisol well you do not want to overdose on cortisol you don't and

the chronic release of cortisol could lead to depression or other mood disorders including

anxiety irritate irritability thank you baby irritability or insomnia those are some pretty serious

things right now I just say one of their really bad side effect of cortisol yes fact oh yeah

that's true that's true I forgot about that yeah so hey if you're like I'm checking my belly

right now baby and you're a bull and anxious but I care about being fat but listen to this anxiety

irritability and insomnia not sleeping that's right and that is a big big problem today and while

we may legitimately feel busy now this is going to blow you guys away Americans working hours have

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