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The urgent has addictive properties. I want you to understand, we biologically,

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biochemically get addicted to the urgent. And so there's an adrenaline rush. You

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wonder why sometimes people put things off to the end? There's a lot of payoff.

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Remember, everything we do we're doing it because there's some kind of payoff, okay?

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And you have to look at that honestly and say, what is it? Like when we talked

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about habits, we talked about the reward, right? The reward. So what's the reward

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in that? The adrenaline rush, but there's also the reward that says, look what I

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pulled off. There's a reward in that. There's a recognition in that. Look at

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you, how you pulled that off in such a short time. I had that crazy pace and

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and society rewarded it. The most common thing people would say to me is, I don't

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know how you do it all. You're a wife and a mother and you run a corporation and

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you run a foundation and you homeschool and you lead a Bible study and

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you lead a speech and debate high school championship. And I don't know how you do

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it all. I was so recognized. Oh, I feel so good. Absolute insanity. Craziness. What

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was I thinking? Lose a huge part of your life. Just incredible pace, but everybody

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recognizes it. Look at you. So we become addicted to this and so there's that

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sense of excitement when when these problems are solved and and being busy

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and stressed. It's a sadismal. It's a badge, you know, that I wear on

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my lapel. It's a mark that I'm important, that I matter. I'm somebody. Look at me,

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how busy and what I'm doing. I'm important. The difference of what true

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importance is. The difference between urgent and important. See, the problem is

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that the important tasks, they don't necessarily have to be done immediately.

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Catch this. Catch this. And so for this reason, we can put them off. We can shove

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them into tomorrow or next week or next month or next year or never. We can

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put them off. We neglect things like exercise and eating right. We miss

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important times with loved ones. We rush through times of growing spiritually,

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of getting that revelation knowledge. We miss the opportunity to grow our minds,

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grow our spirits. And it's usually not until we get a wake-up call. You get a

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heart attack and then it's like, I guess I better start taking care of this body.

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Because taking care of the body was incredibly important. We got to be in

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this. This is the temple of the Holy Spirit. This is where God has chosen to

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live. This is how God has chosen for me to operate while I'm on this

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planet. Somewhere between, you know, whatever in 120 years, right? And I have a

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choice to look at the important and say, this has got to carry me. And so I'm

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going to have daily disciplines. It's going to be a priority.