Season 1, Episode 6: I Don’t Want to Optimise Anymore
Season 1, Episode 6
I Don’t Want to Optimise Anymore is a conversation with Rach, Britt, and Bec about productivity and hustle culture, barriers to rest, and what we are learning about pursuing rest.
Thanks for listening to Season 1, Episode 6 of The After Dinner Mint, a podcast of Stories I’d Tell You at Dinner. We bring Christian women in Western Australia together through honest stories. Thanks for sharing your day with us!
I Don’t Want to Optimise Anymore is a conversation with Rach, Britt, and Bec about productivity and hustle culture, barriers to rest, and what we are learning about pursuing rest.
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In today’s episode, we explore:
🎧 What drives us to pack our schedules full, tick boxes, and get stuff done
🎧 What gets in the way of us resting and saying no.
🎧 What we are learning about rest, limits, finitude, and prayer.
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Bible references
“For where jealousy and selfish ambition exist, there will be disorder and every vile practice. But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, open to reason, full of mercy and good fruits, impartial and sincere. And a harvest of righteousness is sown in peace by those who make peace.” James 3:16-18 ESV
“The wisest of women builds her house, but folly with her own hands tears it down.” Proverbs 14:1 ESV
Where Jesus sneaks away to pray, before walking on water, is recorded in the gospel of John (chapter 6:15-21).
“Now it is God who makes both us and you stand firm in Christ. He anointed us, set his seal of ownership on us, and put his Spirit in our hearts as a deposit, guaranteeing what is to come.” 2 Corinthians 1:21-22 (NIV)
“But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law.” Galatians 5:22-23 ESV
“For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and spirit, of joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart.” Hebrews 4:12 (ESV)
“He said to them, “You are from below; I am from above. You are of this world, I am not of this world.” John 8:23 ESV
“if my people who are called by my name humble themselves, and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven and forgive their sin and heal their land.” 2 Chronicles 7:14 ESV
Books
You’re Only Human: How Your Limits Reflect God’s Good Design and Why That’s Good News by Kelly M. Kapic
Crazy Busy: A (Mercifully) Short Book About a (Really) Big Problem by Kevin DeYoung
Humble Roots: How Humility Grounds and Nourishes Your Soul by Hannah Anderson
The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry: How to Stay Emotionally Healthy and Spiritually Alive in the Chaos of the Modern World by John Mark Comer
Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World by Cal Newport
Everyone a Child Should Know by Clare Heath-Whyte and Jenny Brake