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Your Move with Andy Stanley Podcast

Prioritizing What's Important

Your Move with Andy Stanley Podcast

Andy Stanley

Religion & Spirituality

4.73.9K Ratings

🗓️ 30 December 2022

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

When everything is important, nothing is important. What’s the one thing in your life that deserves your attention the most?

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0:00.0

Hey everybody, Andy here. Welcome to the Your Move podcast where we help you make better decisions and live with fewer regrets.

0:07.0

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0:13.0

It's the generosity of people like you who make this podcast possible.

0:17.0

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0:22.0

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0:29.0

That's yourmove.is slashgive. Thanks for your support and now here's this week's podcast.

0:42.0

One of the things that we might have in common is that I am very easily distracted.

0:47.0

In fact, I went to the doctor a few years ago about something just my physical and in talking to my doctor,

0:54.0

he said, have you ever been tested for ADD? And I'm like, I don't know. That was kind of a joke.

1:00.0

Yeah, I said no, I have it. He said, well I suspect that you might be have my, I said, well I remember how I used to mow the grass as a kid and my dad would say,

1:08.0

look, it's just a bunch of straight lines and I could do about four straight lines and then I just had to go do something else.

1:14.0

Okay, so I'm a like some of you, I'm very easily distracted but the problem is this and you can relate to this.

1:20.0

The things that I get distracted by are never as important as the thing I get distracted from.

1:27.0

Right? Isn't this true for you to the things because it's multiple things that I get distracted by.

1:32.0

They're never important. I mean, they're not bad and they might be marginally important but they're never as important as the thing I get distracted from.

1:39.0

And losing focus in some areas of our lives is not that big a deal. All right? And in some seasons of our lives is not that big a deal.

1:46.0

But there are certain things that if you take your eye off that ball, you wake up five years down the road, 10 years down the road and you realize,

1:52.0

oh no, how did I get here? How did I make such a mess in my life? Or not even a mess in my life? How did I end up on this track that I never remembered choosing and I had another plan for my life?

2:01.0

And this is, this was not my dream. You know, this was not what I was imagining for my future.

2:06.0

So perhaps there's something that needs more of your undivided attention in this season of your life.

2:12.0

There may be that one thing and maybe this isn't true for you, but for maybe a lot of us.

2:16.0

There may be that one thing that potentially impacts everything. For example, this may be the season or this may be the year where you've got to work on that habit.

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