Do you feel like the master of your schedule or mastered by your schedule?

I’ve had days this fall where each half hour is so tightly packed that a few minute delay shifts the whole day. In response, my mood is rushed, my tone is harsh and my joy is zapped.

Today’s podcast guest, Lysa TerKeurst, author of the new book, “The Best Yes” has some wisdom to share if you feel the same soul stress as me.

Are you being intentional about what you say ‘yes’ to? Or are you reacting to the needs around you and saying ‘yes’ to more than you can handle?

Are you living the life you feel God desires or are you attempting to do all-the-things to please people around you?

In this episode Lysa and I dig into five schedule sappers, ways we don’t take control of schedule and in exchange lose control of our sanity. She shares practical tips for the mom of little ones, ways to be proactive in living our best lives.

What we talk about:

• How she is on this journey with us to manage the tension of overwhelmed schedules and underwhelmed souls.
• The season Lysa is now in and how she would have handed herself this book 10 years ago—how the daily choices are impacted by our best “yeses”.
• The goal of concentric impact circles of a God Centered Mom, but the reality of strangers get my best and my family getting my worst.
• Lysa’s confession of being a people pleaser.
• The tension of having more requests of you than can be done in a day and the power of the words “yes” and “no”.
• Unrushing my soul can sound good in theory, but hard to implement with a rushed reality.
• How do we ‘unrush’ when the realities are rushed.
• Practical ideas for fitting in our best yes with a chaotic four boy schedule.
• Have to get intentional with the time we have.
• Definition of “Schedule sapper”: those things that come and sap our schedules, that we dread saying ‘yes’ but feel powerless to say ‘no’.
• If you allow the thing that feeds your soul to get away from you, you do your family a disservice.
• Delaying never lets the ‘no’ go down easier.
• If you get a request and feel a sense of dread, disappoints family/kids, or introduces drama, then you should say ‘no’ right away.
• Saying ‘yes’ to everything won’t make me wonder woman, but a worn out woman.
• Overestimate my capacity and underestimate my time.
• People not projects need to occupy the sacred space of my heart.

“When the motions of my life are rushed, my emotions don’t have to be.”

“How I set my schedule is how I spend my life. How I spend my life is how I spend my soul.”

Connect with Lysa:

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Show Notes:

• Made to Crave
• Unglued
• The Best Yes
• The Best Yes resources: weekly time assessment tool, chase down the decision tool, videos
• “The Unrush Me” Challenge – 5-day devotional straight to your email, an appetizer leading up to the book.
• “It Will Be Okay: Trusting God through Fear and Change” – new children’s book by Lysa

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