You're listening to episode 105 of the God Center Mom Podcast with me, Heather McFadian.

And today I'm chatting with Ali Worthington, author of the book Breaking Busy.

Busyness, I believe, comes down to a feeling of worth.

We live in a culture that says you have to be more, you have to do more, you have to achieve more.

And what happens is we accidentally get an unhealthy cycle.

So the more we do, the more people praise us for what we do.

And that's, you know, that's not inherently bad.

So what happens next is the more we want to do to get more praise.

Until all of a sudden we realize our schedule's crazy busy and we don't know how we got there.

But when we seek our value in other people or place value in what others think of us,

we lose sight of what we're placed to do on earth.

And that's how we get so busy.

So I really felt like it was important to go through the book and break down all the little ways that busyness creeps up in our life.

And really steals, steals a little piece of who we are and who we were created to be in the life that we're created to live.

So today we're getting God centered about your schedule.

And not really looking at how to be better at time management, like Ali said,

what if what you're doing now is keeping you from something great God has for your future?

That was Ali's story. She was leading a big conference and she heard God tell her to stop.

And you can hear the rest of the story today.

I also love this question.

Ali has this answer when we're looking at our calendars to kind of filter out what should stay and what should go.

Speaking of going, we talk through creating a stop doing less and I'll list and I'll share one thing.

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