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Reagan’s Roundup: June 26th, 2025

June 26, 2025by Reagan Rose6 min read

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Your weekly roundup of insights and resources to help you get more done for the glory of God.

In Today’s Issue:

Adjusting Habits to the Season
Isaiah 55 on Planning
Is ChatGPT Making You Dumber?
Serving Like Jesus at Work
What Makes You Think You Can Do Better?

Dear steward,

I love the summer season (even in the midst of this heatwave that’s been hitting us hard in Southeast Michigan).

But as much as it can be a season of fun and rest, summer also tends to be a season of disruption. Our normal routines get interrupted, and if we aren’t intentional, habits can easily fall to the wayside.

But with disruption comes opportunity.

The biggest mistake we can make when a schedule change disrupts our good habits is to blindly try and keep the habit going without accounting for the reality of change.

Adjusting your habits to the reality of the season isn’t breaking them, it’s being proactive about keeping them. You see, the longer you go trying to force yourself to do a habit at the same time and in the same way that worked in one season but not in a new one, the more likely you are to end up breaking that habit for good.

The wisest course of action is to proactively adjust your habits to the new season. The sooner we adjust our habits to the schedule change, the less likely it is that we will completely break the habit.

I’ve learned through experience that I’ve got to adjust my morning routine in the summer, or things like Bible reading, exercise, and the like are going to completely fall off.

I tend to stay up a bit later in the summer, so I’m getting up later. That means I’ve moved my routine later in the morning and shortened it. I’m doing more reading during other parts of the summer, so I cut that out of the morning routine to simplify it.

If you’re feeling like you’re losing some of your habits—especially your morning habits—this summer, I’d advise you to sit down and come up with a new plan to help you adjust your habits to the new season.

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Weekly Word

For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, declares the Lord. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.
– Isaiah 55:8-9

Our plans don’t always go as expected. And that’s a good reminder that God’s purposes are not bound by our calendars. His ways are higher, and His timing is always perfect.

Worth Your Time

Why Do You Think You Can Do Better? (3 mins) A valuable reminder for the productivity-minded: “When we make a commitment to pray for change, we acknowledge that change is hard and slow, that our current tendencies are harder to shake off than we’d like to admit, that we tend to be slow learners and growers.”
Is ChatGPT Making You Dumber? (5 mins) A new study from MIT researchers found some alarming (if rather obvious) issues with people becoming reliant on AI for help with writing. Users “consistently underperformed at neural, linguistic, and behavioral levels.” And they become lazier as the experiment went on. When tools to help us be more productive we must not only focus on what the tool can do, but also on what using the tool is doing to us.
Serving like Jesus at Work (6 mins) “Servant leadership is one of the most influential and highly debated leadership theories of the last 40 years. . . . Like God, we can both lead and serve. We can put others ahead of ourselves. Let me share six surprising scriptural secrets of service, surrender, and sacrifice.”