EP 24 Time Management & Boundaries

Connection Card Question!Time ManagementFirst, evaluate every single thing you do or are invovled inHow to plan your limitations and tasks that need to be done?Tracking your busyGaging what changes need to be madeDo you live where everyday “slaps you in the face”?What is getting the time in your life?List making, organizing and prioritizing tasks by due dateLauren and Deanna being immature children for 30 secsSetting reminders and utilizing the Notes app digitallyMore likely to miss something when only using digital tools vs hybrid or just with physical toolsDon’t commit till you check your planner, text yourself to check planner and get back to that person who asked you to do somethingNot carrying your planner on you all the time helps and gives you excuse to get back with them later, then asking them to text you about planning something insteadThe necessary vs the urgentSpiritual life takes priorityProductivity tools: time blocking, color coding, regroupingOverwhelming and overextended ourselvesIntentional living requires effort, but yields fruitA spiritual planner can actually end of being a testament/ proof of God’s faithfulness to you throughout the year that you can always go back and look to to be reminded that He was always working even when you didn't see or feel it at the time“Consider the cost”Boundaries = fencesWhat’s in your fence? What are you putting your boundaries around? What are you protecting and is it worth having the fence around it?The goal of boundaries is Christ likenessWhere is your limit personally?Caution for moms/grandparents: “make your boundary the boundary of your relationship with the Lord”Parents teach their kids what’s in their “fence” by what they choose to spend their time onA healthy boundary is not just an excuse to not do stuff you don’t want to doA healthy boundary is a means of saying no to the lesser things, and gets hard when we deem marriage/family/work/selfcare on the same level of priority as the LordBoundaries serve to make the “yes’s” more clear and definitive What are you going to let walk through your gate to cross the boundary of your fence?Some season will have electric fences and some will have white picket fencesWhen you don’t have a fence, you let anything and everything just walk across the yard onto your porch and into your doorNot comparing other peoples fences to your own in different seasons + holding each other accountable with our fencesWhat to do when someone doesn’t respect your boundaryHow many times do you let someone stomp on your boundary after you've been respectful and repeatedly asked them not to?Get wise counsel before you cut people out of your life that are “toxic”Don’t make a permanent decision amid temporary emotionsThink through the things you commit yourself toKeep your committments!Personal boundary examplesPaul “I will not give up the ministry of the Word to tend tables”There is so much more freedom when you set boundaries with the Lord and learn to say “no” to lesser things so that you can say “yes” to better thingsFun Cup Question!Resources: “Boundaries” by Cloud and Townsend,“Good Boundaries and Good- Byes” by Lysa Terkeurst, “Everyone Communicates, Few Connect” by John MaxwellContact us! Email us at theironwomenpodcast@gmail.com and follow/share our Facebook and Instagram accounts @theironwomenpodcast <br/>