The Moments You Need to Simplify
Focus on Parenting Podcast
Focus on the Family
4.4 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 5 September 2024
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
Life in American culture is filled with busyness. When your to-do list is long, is living a more simplified lifestyle even possible? Courtney Ellis joins Jim Daly to provide some tips for simplifying your life and cleaning out your home. Then, Danny and John explain why having free time in your schedule is a good thing.
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| 0:00.0 | If you're not careful, things kind of get busy, then the house is cluttered, the |
| 0:07.6 | schedule is cluttered, your head is cluttered. |
| 0:10.4 | How do you take a moment and just pause and reset? |
| 0:13.5 | I'm John Fuller along with Dr. Danny |
| 0:16.0 | who heads up our parenting team here at Focus on the Family. |
| 0:19.0 | And Danny, it's a constant battle. |
| 0:21.6 | We really have to work to keep things simple. It seems just kind of counterintuitive. |
| 0:27.0 | It really is true, isn't it? |
| 0:28.0 | Everything goes towards disorder, which completely rebuts evolution, right? |
| 0:34.7 | Things don't improve. |
| 0:35.7 | They go towards disorder all the time. |
| 0:37.7 | And so we need many moments of reset. |
| 0:41.4 | Things don't naturally just fix themselves and if we don't pay |
| 0:45.7 | attention if we're not intentional then our focus our energy our attention will |
| 0:50.2 | get pulled in all kinds of directions and our more most and really our most precious |
| 0:55.1 | commodity time gets snatched up right it gets gets pulled in all kinds of different directions |
| 1:01.4 | and really simplifying helps us steward what we will |
| 1:04.8 | be needing to be a part of and that is is our relationships or time we need to be all |
| 1:12.2 | in that and sometimes we just need some some moments |
| 1:16.3 | to reset and say okay what's the most important thing what's not as important |
| 1:19.9 | how did these things come into our home? |
| 1:23.0 | What is requiring my time, what's capturing my attention, |
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