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Chapter 7 Embrace Productive Rest shows readers the importance of embracing the God-designed rhythms of rest that are counterintuitively productive for our goals and souls.

Words of wisdom from the author: To do more, most of need to do less and rest more.

Three rhythms of productive rest are encouraged: Bi-Hourly Breaks, Nightly Sleep and Weekly Sabbath, and 3 practical ways to achieve and maintain them.,

Chapter 5 - Accept Your "Unipresence" enables readers to see the benefits of going deep. A definition given for depth is: the ability to focus intensely on one important thing at a time.

Distractions come from all directions. Five enemies in the fight for depth are given. The good news is, four practical ways show how to eliminate distractions and be more focused and productive.

Chapter 4 - Priorities Your Yeses

The motivation in this chapter is to help readers decide what matters most and allow those choices to priorities their commitments.

The author uses a metaphorical 5 story plus basement building to illustrate how to help determine what is important.

Five reasons to set more epic goals are provided, as well as 6 practice steps to assist readers prioritize their yeses.

Chapter 3 - Dissent From The Kingdom Of Noise.
Readers are shown the benefits of reducing noise and allowing silence and even boredom to enhance our lives. Readers are given 5 ways noise limits their ability to redeem time. Great valid points in all of them.

Ten practices are provided to enable readers to make better choices on how to limit noise and embrace silence in order to draw closer to God.

Chapter 2 - Let Your Yes Be Yes was another insightful chapter for me. How often have I said "yes" to a commitment and never fulfilled it? How many times did I say "yes" when I should have said "no"?

I was fascinated with the concept of an Open Loop - in short, thoughts from various sources that get stored in our heads on a given day. The author provides great strategies on how to manage these open loops.

Chapter 1 gives five biblical truths about time and productivity. What is shared in these truths makes perfect sense. Readers are given the 1st principle and two practical steps on how to implement it.

This book gives me the tools I need to redeem my time so I can be purposeful, present, and wildly productive for the kingdom of God on a daily basis.

The book begins with the Introduction: The Solution To Be Swamped. The answer given is this: The solution to or perennial struggle with time management is found in Jesus Christ.

What does it mean to redeem time? Redeeming the time is biblical, found in Ephesians 1:15-16. We are commanded to redeem our time, not to waste it but use it wisely for the kingdom of God.

I'm ready to learn how to redeem my time.