Gary Crittenden: The Weekly Habit That Changed Everything

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🗓️ 13 August 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

What if you paused every week to evaluate your life—not in terms of achievements, but in terms of relationships, discipleship, and faithfulness? For Gary Crittenden, that’s been a Sunday tradition for decades. Inspired by Stephen R. Covey’s “First Things First,” Gary developed a habit to help him keep his priorities straight and on this week’s episodes he shares the ways this practice has helped him in his efforts to become a better disciple of Jesus Christ, a better husband, father, and son.

1:46- A Weekly Reflection
7:58- Keeping an Appointment With Yourself
11:31- Thinkers and Doers
13:33- Using Professional Skills to Serve the Lord
21:27- Keep Walking
25:23- “There Is Nobody Better”
30:02- Why Prioritize Physical Health?
34:48- Honoring Aging Parents
38:21- Networking Vs. Real Relationships
43:09- The Courage to Say No
46:53- What Do We Want Most?
49:33- What Does It Mean To Be All In the Gospel of Jesus Christ?

“As much as we can do, we do and we try to make ourselves as good as we can but even after all of that, it is only by the grace of our Savior Jesus Christ that we actually can receive true perfection in this life…”

Links-
Utah Business article by Tad Walch- https://www.utahbusiness.com/profiles/2024/12/13/gary-crittenden-wall-street-problem-solver/

President Jeffrey R. Holland “Good Things To Come”- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nczw6xHJ0I

The Many Lessons of Multiple Sclerosis by Catherine Crittenden- https://ldswomenproject.com/interview/the-many-lessons-of-multiple-sclerosis/

Transcript

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0:00.0	Just this morning, I saw a video floating around Instagram. It was a video of Sharon Ubank
0:05.6	talking about why the church builds temples, and I haven't been able to stop thinking about how
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0:56.8	register. I'm a big believer that you learn more about the way someone acts than anything they could
1:03.4	ever say. So I'd like to start today's episode by telling you a little story. I'd never met
1:09.1	Gary Crittenden in person prior to this interview, but a few
1:12.7	days after we recorded, I happened to pass him while I was running with my husband and kids
1:17.6	and he was biking. Evidence that everything he says about exercise and self-discipline on this episode
1:23.6	is true. But the thing that impressed me most is that he turned his bike around just to introduce
1:29.1	himself. And that's when it became very clear, Gary Crittenden is someone who practices what he
1:35.3	preaches. Gary Crittenden is currently an executive director at HGGC, but has previously served as
1:43.0	chairman of city holdings.
1:45.2	From 2000 to 2007, he was executive vice president and CFO of American Express, and from
1:51.9	March 2007 to March 2009, he was the chief financial officer of City Group.
1:58.6	He and his wife, Kathy, have three children.
2:05.6	This is All In, an LDS Living podcast where we ask the question, what does it really mean to be
2:11.1	all in the gospel of Jesus Christ? I'm Morgan Pearson, and I am so honored to have Gary
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