Professor Phil Monroe with a simple strategy for calming anxiety:

Part of the problem with anxiety is that we are trying to control/manage every possible outcome in order to avoid future disaster(s). Fearful people know that the answer to their anxiety will not include,

1. Just not caring anymore. We’ve tried that…it doesn’t work

2. Making sure we get it RIGHT. Tried that too. Didn’t work.

So, what might work? Try this on for size,

What is God’s plan for me for the next five minutes?

Most of us have no clue what God is planning for us next year or even next week. But, I suspect most of us can discern what we need to do right now…for the next five minutes,

- I need to make dinner
- I need to read this assignment for school
- I need to attend to my child’s homework
- I can call a friend who is grieving

Do the one thing you can do for the next five minutes. Do that with as much focus as you can.

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A Philippians 4:8 Microblog

Anyone interested in education or learning will want to read Scott Young’s essay on how to condense a lot of learning into a short period of time. This is the same process he used to learn MIT’s 4-year computer science curriculum in twelve months!

The article is long but well worth reading. In summary:

1. Take your learning goal, and craft it into a compelling, obsession-worthy mission.

2. Find material to learn from, structure it into a flexible curriculum.

3. Define feedback mechanisms to constantly direct your future learning efforts and ensure high-intensity, active recall

4. Test and enforce a schedule that is sustainable over the entire lifetime of the project.

5. Develop a long-term retention strategy (formal or informal).

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Just in case you thought that all they did was ram one another with their cars.

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A Philippians 4:8 Microblog.