37. How to do a Productivity Reset

39. If you do not learn to master your phone...then your phone will become your master.

If you do not learn to master your phone, then you phone will become your master. So…I’m calling it.  We are a people who have been mastered by our phones.  We are their slaves now.  We MUST break this dependency as the stakes are so very high. But how did we get here?  How have we been conquered so easily? And what can we do about it?

38. Are arbitrary deadlines helpful?

Many years ago, I came across a very simple principle.  It was found in perhaps the first series of blog posts I had ever read about this whole issue of productivity.  It is a principle that I now live by.  I do not set arbitrary deadlines.  Not ever.  Many people do though and so I am writing this to provide my logic as you think through the question - are arbitrary deadlines helpful?

37. How to do a Productivity Reset

Every single one of us at some point in our life will start to feel like things are just getting messy.  We are just not on top of life the way we want to be. When that happens - we need to press the reset button.  But - how do you actually do that?

36. Physical Health & Your Effectiveness pt. 1

Sluggishness. Brain fog. The 3 o’ clock slump! Are these things that effect you?  These are all things that affect me, most of every day. They rob us of our focus.  They rob us of our effectiveness. I am no scientist in this area of life but I know that to neglect our physical well being and health can have a huge impact on our productivity.

35. Effective Time Management is all about serving others

It's my view that effective time management is all about serving others.  There are so many angles that I could explain this from and argue my case from but I will pick out just a few in order to build out my position on this for you. This is episode 35 of the Effective Faith Podcast - Effective Time Management is all about serving others.  My name is Chris Wood and I run Effective Faith - helping you to be more than just productive.  At Effective Faith our aim is to intentionally focus on what matters most, to resist the ‘productivity’ idol and to help Christians live effectively for Christ in their everyday work