Your weekly roundup of insights and resources to help you get more done for the glory of God.
In Today’s Issue:
- Resetting Your Productivity
- Quests, Not Goals
- Limiting My Phone Expanded My View of God
- The 3 Horizons of Purpose
- Book: Living Life Backward
Dear steward,
I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but it seems like summer is coming to an end.
We are starting homeschooling with our oldest this week, and I can already feel the pace of life starting to pick up. Summer is great, but come fall, it’s always hard to get back in the groove with schedules, habits, and priorities.
For the past couple of years, to help with the transition from summer to fall schedules, I’ve hosted a free virtual workshop called the “Post-Summer Productivity Reset.” I’ll be doing that again this year, the second week of September. Dates and registration details coming soon!
By the way, I was a guest on The Stand on American Family Radio this past week, talking about the concept of life stewardship. You can listen to the recording here. My segment starts at 13:35.
Now, let’s dive into this week’s roundup!
BROUGHT TO YOU BY
Redeeming Productivity Academy
Time management from an eternal perspective.
Redeeming Productivity Academy is our membership program that equips believers with the plans, tools, and support they need to get more done for the glory of God.
As a member, you get access to:
- Our private community of like-minded believers
- Live workshops with Reagan & expert guests
- Our complete course library
- Goal challenges
- Christian Productivity Planner for Notion
- Productivity book club
Join 250+ believers who are becoming more organized, consistent, and more productive for the glory of God.
Interested in sponsoring the newsletter?
THE ROUNDUP
The best links I found this week
Do Quests, Not Goals (6 mins)
David Cain / Raptitude
I like this mindset shift.
Whereas “goal” has become a tired and bloodless descriptor for the (supposed) intention to do something great, the word quest instills the right mentality for achieving a real-life personal victory: A quest is an adventure, and you expect it to be one.
Limiting My Phone Expanded My View of God (5 mins)
Kathryn Misenheimer / The Gospel Coalition
Consider this your requisite weekly nudge to embrace digital minimalism.
Romans 12 tells Christians who are in the world not to be conformed to it. In a world where smartphone dependence is the gold standard, believers have the unique opportunity to be different.
The 3 Horizons of Purpose (2 mins)
Brett & Kate McKay / The Art of Manliness
An encouraging perspective. We find purpose in both the minutia of the everyday and in the grandious goals of life.
By engaging in small daily acts of upkeep — making the messy clean, the disheveled neat, the chaotic organized — we hold back the decay and disarray that would engulf us and others.
SOMETHING I LIKE
Living Life Backward
We’ve been reading Living Life Backward by David Gibson this quarter in the Redeeming Productivity Academy book club. It’s an exegetical deep dive into the book of Ecclesiastes.
It’s been one of those books where I must set it down every few paragraphs to think, marvel, or praise God. I highly recommend it.
WHAT’S NEW
On Redeeming Productivity
The Two-Bar Strategy: How to Have Ambitious Goals Without Overwhelming Your Days (11 mins)
How do we set ambitious goals without being disappointingly unrealistic in our daily plans?
I tuned up this popular article and created video and podcast versions of it.
A DOSE OF WISDOM
Quote of the Week
“Death can radically enable us to enjoy life. By relativizing all that we do in our days under the sun, death can change us from people who want to control life for gain into people who find deep joy in receiving life as a gift. This is the main message of Ecclesiastes in a nutshell: life in God’s world is gift, not gain.”
David Gibson, Living Life Backward
