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🗓️ 21 May 2015
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0:00.0 | We are talking with our friend Tripley, Trip in your new book, Rise, you write this, quote, |
0:11.0 | to put it simply, procrastination is pride because it assumes you know the future, but |
0:17.0 | we don't know when our health will decline or our lives will end. |
0:20.8 | We don't even know for sure when life will get busier, end quote. |
0:26.3 | Everything that our time is short helps to bring clarity to our daily priorities, of course, |
0:30.5 | and it makes us diligent in those priorities. |
0:33.8 | So explain how this relates to procrastination. |
0:37.1 | Well, you know, I feel very experienced in writing about procrastination because that's |
0:43.2 | been something that's been an issue for me of my lifetime management, it was not a natural |
0:47.8 | strength to me. |
0:49.0 | And you know, especially in my college years, time management and procrastination went |
0:53.8 | to pop up a lot and got really convicted me. |
0:57.1 | When I say to myself, oh, and over again, you know what, I'll do this later. |
1:00.3 | I'm assuming that I'll have a later. |
1:02.5 | I'm assuming that I'll have the time to do that at some other time. |
1:06.7 | And that's just knowledge that I don't really have, you know, this is like what James says |
1:11.1 | with, and James too, when he says, come now, you who say today or tomorrow, we will go |
1:16.4 | into such and such a time and spend a year there and trade and make profit, yet you do |
1:20.7 | not know what tomorrow will bring. |
1:22.9 | What is your life for you are missed that appears for a little time and advantages instead |
1:27.0 | you ought to say, if the Lord wills, we will live and do this or that. |
1:31.2 | And I think one of the principles there is it's very proud to say with certainty that today |
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