Be Personally Aware
Welcome to the newest season of Productive Pastor! This season we are digging into Productivity 101 and talking about 11 strategies against time bound resistance. The first episode is about how we learn to be personally aware of who we are and how it helps us build up a healthy understanding of the work of ministry.
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Why does personal awareness matter when it comes to work?
Have you ever tried to figure out why you might be frustrated, excited, ambivalent or dissatisfied with the “work” side of ministry? In years past I would do that and think I wasn’t working hard enough. But over the last year, I have learned that the way I personally approach work and how I allow work to affect me has a much bigger part of my larger well-being than I imagined.
In this episode, I break down 4 areas where we can begin building up better personal awareness.
1. The state of our soul
2. Why we need to learn to define the work.
3. Understanding who we are wired to be.
4. Draining, dealing, and developing tasks
The next episode we are going to be diving deep into the idea of Time Audits, and that helps us understand where we are spending our time, but thinking about how most of our work can fall into these three categories helps us understand a bit more of our psyche and how we relate to work, energy, burnout, etc. In the workbook module for this episode, we dive pretty deep into these three categories and create personal awareness around them. If you want to get the jump on that, I’ve got a free resource all about time audits. The link to grab the latest edition of my timesheet packet is in the show notes, just sign up for the Productive Pastor email list.
Recommended Resources:
The War of Art | Steven Pressfield
Boundaries for Leaders | Henry Cloud
At Your Best | Carey Nieuwhof
Your Head is a Houseboat | Campbell Walker
Gallup Strengthfinders
Daysheet Resource
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