redeeming your time 2

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00:00Why is it that the worst songs are some of the hardest to get out of our heads?

00:05Is it because they're uniquely catchy?

00:08That might be part of it, but there's actually a scientific answer to this question.

00:13Dr. Roy Baumeister explains that if you listen to a randomly chosen song and shut it off

00:19halfway through, the song is likely to run through your mind at odd intervals.

00:25If you get to the end of the song, the mind checks it off, so to speak.

00:30If you stop it in the middle, however, the mind treats the song as unfinished business.

00:35And that's why this kind of earworm is so often an awful tune rather than a pleasant

00:39one.

00:40We're more likely to turn off the bad one in mid-song, so it's the one that returns

00:45to haunt us.

00:46Neurologists will tell you that it's not just unfinished songs that our minds keep reminding

00:51us of.

00:52There are also unfinished tasks and unfulfilled commitments which our brains are bursting

00:57with.

00:58That's a problem, because God didn't design our brains to store that much information.

01:04And because we know we can't keep track of it all, our mental to-do lists often cause

01:09Christ-followers a tremendous amount of anxiety.

01:13Why?

01:14Because we know that Jesus has commanded that our yes be yes, which brings us to the second

01:20principle of this series.

01:23Principle 2.

01:24Let your yes be yes.

01:26To redeem our time in the model of our Redeemer, we must ensure that our yes is yes from the

01:32smallest to the biggest commitments we make.

01:35Our solutions for practicing this principle in our modern context are inadequate, to say

01:40the least.

01:42From trying to keep track of to-do's in our head to storing tasks in start emails, I think

01:46most of us would admit that our yes is not always yes, like Jesus commanded, and thus,

01:54we're more stressed than ever.

01:57So what's the solution?

01:59Extracting all of your commitments out of their current locations, your brain, email

02:03inbox, post-it notes, etc., and placing them into a trusted external system.