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As you consider everything that’s on your plate right now, I encourage you to reflect on these questions:
• How have you added to your own busyness?
• What’s on your list that you don’t have the resources to do well? What’s on your list that you *do* have the resources to do well?
• Are there tasks you could drop to reallocate those resources to projects that need them?
• Are there tasks for which you could ask for accommodation to better match your capacity?
• Is there a particular resource you feel especially low on? What’s on your plate that’s draining that resource?
Busyness Decoded: How to Limit What You Say “Yes” To
Tara McMullin
Christians would do far more good for our country by learning not to look to DC for solutions but to the glorious Son of God, who loves us and gave himself for us and, in doing so, gave us a whole new way of life—one not shaped by the power of force but the force of the gospel.
A Farewell to Mars
Brian Zahnd
We had learned how to invent things, and the question of why we invent things receded in importance. The idea that if something could be done it should be done was born in the nineteenth century. And along with it, there developed a profound belief in all the principles through which invention succeeds: objectivity, efficiency, expertise, standardization, measurement, and progress. It also came to be believed that the engine of technological progress worked most efficiently when people are conceived of not as children of God or even as citizens but as consumers—that is to say, as markets.
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