Boredom comes often and easily. But productivity? Well, that can be more of a mixed bag. The good news is that it's not as hard to merge the two as it sounds. All it takes is a little planning and a little discipline. While we can't exactly drillmaster you into doing anything, we can definitely lend a hand with the first bit. So dream big, because good things are coming your way.

Productive Things to Do When Bored

Use it or lose it" is an old adage that doctors like to pepper into warnings regarding muscle atrophy, and that applies to the brain as well. Studies show that learning a musical instrument at age 60 or older can actually halt cognitive decline and memory loss. Other functions, including planning abilities and information processing, also seem to improve with music lessons.

1. Learn a Musical Instrument

Some tasks just feel impossible to accomplish. Or maybe they just seem super dull. Still, sometimes, a boring task is just what you need to interrupt a boring day. Cleaning out your junk drawer is one of those things that no one wants to do, but everyone feels good once it's done. Besides, you never know what missing items you'll find hidden among the clutter.

2. Clean Out Your Junk Drawer

Did you know planning for an event can be just as fun as the actual activity? That's not just an assumption, it's science. Seriously. According to experts, planning for an event can help alleviate anxiety and allows ample room for fantasy—a process that can actually provide more enjoyment than your plans. Besides, date nights are important to maintain connections, communication, and gratitude.

3. Plan for a Date Night

Here's a horrifying fact: The residue left on your make-up brushes won't just tint your face the next time you use them, it can actually contaminate your pores. It's true, uncleaned brushes are known to collect dust, dirt, and bacteria—all of which can wreak havoc on your skin. Fortunately, there are plenty of cleaners around to help you get the job done. You can also just wash them, squeeze out the water, and lay them flat to dry. If boredom isn't enough to motivate you here, the idea of preventing future break-outs just might.

4. Clean Your Makeup Brushes

According to experts, meal prepping can save you lots of time and money. Even if you make too much, you can always freeze the leftovers until you need them next. It also gives you a good excuse to experiment with different recipes and try new culinary techniques.

5. Meal Prep for the Week

DIY projects became big during the initial lockdown. Makes sense too, given we weren't allowed in many places outside of our own home. While things have loosened up in the time since, the trend has managed to stick around. And when you have a whole house to go through, there are lots of different options to pursue. Whether you want to decorate your home decor or fancy up your wall space, the decision is up to you.

6. Run A DIY Project

Putting together a care package for family or friends is a great way to practice a little empathy. It's also a thoughtful way to connect with someone who you haven't seen for a while. While you should curate the basket towards your target's interests, there are plenty of creative ways to put your own personal spin on things.

7. Put Together a Care Package for a Friend or Family Member

The only thing that's better than cooking for sport is cooking for purpose. Across cultures, food is used to share history, heritage, and tradition. Reintroducing plates enjoyed long ago can also help trigger certain memories, allowing individuals to reacquaint themselves with people and places from their past.

8. Try out an Old Family Recipe

Ok, so not everyone is into home cooking. That's ok, there are plenty of ways to enjoy restaurant-grade meals from the comfort of your own kitchen. Lots of establishments have actually made their recipes public. Whether they really want to make their dishes more available or they just think the move will make them look good, it doesn't really matter. What is important is being able to enjoy high-quality meals from home and for a fraction of the price

Yup, we're back to planning. And yes—it's still just as beneficial as it is when it comes to date night. Only this time, there are extra details to obsess over. Placemats? Yes. Cutlery? Most certainly. Themes? A definite maybe. If you've ever fantasized about channeling your inner Julia Child, now's your time.

10. Plan Your Next Dinner Party

Good food is something worth celebrating. But good food and drinks, well that's a pretty stellar combo. And if you just want to enjoy the latter, that's ok, too. Trying out a new cocktail recipe is a great way to liven up an otherwise boring day. Just make sure you've taken care of all your responsibilities beforehand and aren't planning on getting behind the wheel after.

11. Try out a New Cocktail Recipe

If you're going to experiment with sweets, you might want to gather up a few friends. That way, you don't do all the damage alone. Homemade ice cream is not only delicious (fresh and no risk of freezer burn), but it's also relatively easy to make. If you want, you can also do healthy variations. Fruit ice cream is a great homemade alternative to products loaded with dairy and saturated fats.

12. Make Homemade Ice Cream

STAY BUSY WITH THIS CREATIVE AND COMPREHENSIVE LIST OF THINGS TO DO WHEN BORED.

Stay busy with our list of things to do when bored. We've got cooking activities, creative pursuits, outdoor adventures, and much more!

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Things to Do When Bored (According to Science)!

Part 2 of Indistractable is dedicated to the conscious decision of making time for traction. The author divides this Part as follows:<ul><li>Turn your Values into Time</li><li>Control the Inputs, not the Outcomes</li><li>Schedule Important Relationships</li><li>Sync with Stakeholders at Work</li></ul>

Make Time for Traction

"If I know how you spend your time, then I know what might become of you."

"Values are not end goals; they are guidelines for our actions. [...] If we chronically neglect our values, we become someone we're not proud of - our life feels out of balance and disminished."

To call something a distraction you need to know what it is distracting you from, to differentiate between traction and distraction you have to plan ahead.When planning your calendar make sure it reflects your values so you can become the person you aspire to be.A framework which you can use to schedule a balanced life is the three life domains: you, relationships and work. Plan your day to spend time within each domain according to your values.Scheduling isn't easy, hence why you'll need to revise and refine your schedule regularly. Despite that, you must commit to it once it's set.

Turn your Values into Time

"When it comes to our time, we should stop worrying about outcomes we can't control and instead focus on the inputs we can. [...] The one thing we control is the time we put into a task."

You are at the center of the three life domains, in order to fully experience relationships and work you have to schedule time for yourself first.Outcomes are difficult to control, but what you can really control is the time and dedication you put into a task. Once you commit, do it.Unlike outcome, input can be controlled by you. When it comes to living the life you want, making sure you allocate time to living your values is the only thing you should focus on.

Control the Inputs, not the Outcomes

"The people we love most should not be content with getting whatever time is left over. Everyone benefits when we hold time on our schedule to live up to our values and do our share."

If someone is important to you, make regular time for them on your calendar. The people you love deserve more than getting whatever time is left over.
Go beyond scheduling date days with your significant other. Put domestic chores on your calendar to ensure an equitable split.
As a relational being, maintaining important and healthy relationships is crucial for your life. A lack of close friendships may be hazardous to your health. Ensure you mantain important relationships by scheduling time for regular get-togethers.

Schedule Important Relationships

"In fact, studies have found that workers who spend more than fift-five hours per week on the job have reduced productivity; this problem is further compounded by their making more mistakes and inflicting more useless work on their colleagues, resulting in getting even less done in more time."

Synchronizing your schedule with workplace stakeholders is essential to take time for traction in your day. Without visibility of how you spend your time, colleagues and managers are more likely to distract you with superfluous tasks.Synchronize as often as your schedule changes. If your schedule template changes from day to day, have a daily check-in. However, most people find a weekly alignment is sufficient.

Sync with Stakeholders at Work

"Using a detailed, timeboxed schedule helps clarify the central trust pact between employers and employees."

These ideas are a summary of the Part 2 of Indistractable - Make Time for Traction. Soon I will publish more ideas respecting the remaining parts of the book in order to go deeper as it deserves.

'A must-read' Mark Manson We are living through a crisis of distraction. Plans get sidetracked, friends are ignored, work never seems to get done. Why does it feel like we're distracting our lives away? In Indistractable, behavioural designer Nir Eyal reveals the hidden psychology driving you to distraction. Empowering and optimistic, this is the book that will help you design your time, realise your ambitions, and live the life you really want. 'If you value your time, your focus or your relationships, this book is essential reading' Jonathan Haidt, author of The Righteous Mind 'A guide to staying focused in an age of constant distraction' Guardian 'Exactly what most of us need in order to focus on what is important, rather than the dazzling, illuminated, unsatisfying distractions of modern life' Matt Haig 'Does exactly as it promises. Amazing' Chris Evans 'The best guide I've read for reclaiming our attention, our focus and our lives' Arianna Huffington

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"Indistractable provides a framework that will deliver the focus you need to get results." —James Clear, author of Atomic Habits "If you value your time, your focus, or your relationships, this book is essential reading. I'm putting these ideas into practice." —Jonathan Haidt, author of The Righteous Mind   National Bestseller Winner of the Outstanding Works of Literature (OWL) Award Included in the Top 5 Best Personal Development Books of the Year by Audible Included in the Top 20 Best Business and Leadership Books of the Year by Amazon Featured in The Amazon Book Review Newsletter, January 2020 Goodreads Best Science & Technology of 2019 Finalist   You sit down at your desk to work on an important project, but a notification on your phone interrupts your morning. Later, as you're about to get back to work, a colleague taps you on the shoulder to chat. At home, screens get in the way of quality time with your family. Another day goes by, and once again, your most important personal and professional goals are put on hold. What would be possible if you followed through on your best intentions? What could you accomplish if you could stay focused? What if you had the power to become "indistractable?" International bestselling author, former Stanford lecturer, and behavioral design expert, Nir Eyal, wrote Silicon Valley's handbook for making technology habit-forming. Five years after publishing Hooked, Eyal reveals distraction's Achilles' heel in his groundbreaking new book. In Indistractable, Eyal reveals the hidden psychology driving us to distraction. He describes why solving the problem is not as simple as swearing off our devices: Abstinence is impractical and often makes us want more. Eyal lays bare the secret of finally doing what you say you will do with a four-step, research-backed model. Indistractable reveals the key to getting the best out of technology, without letting it get the best of us. Inside, Eyal overturns conventional wisdom and reveals:    • Why distraction at work is a symptom of a dysfunctional company culture—and how to fix it    • What really drives human behavior and why "time management is pain management"    • Why your relationships (and your sex life) depend on you becoming indistractable    • How to raise indistractable children in an increasingly distracting world Empowering and optimistic, Indistractable provides practical, novel techniques to control your time and attention—helping you live the life you really want.

Nir Eyal is an accomplished writer whose work has resonated with readers around the world. Nir Eyal has published several books that explore a range of topics, from fiction to nonfiction, and has received critical acclaim for the ability to weave compelling narratives. Nir Eyal's writing style is known for its depth and authenticity, and has earned quite a loyal following of readers.

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How our brains learn

Notes are not a record of my thinking process. They are my thinking process

<ul><li>You have to read and write a lot. </li><li>You review notes routinely</li></ul>

Why Zettelkasten works 

<ul><li>Literature Note: a note with the interpretation of literature and its source</li><li>Permanent Note: Insights combining ideas from various literature Note.</li></ul>

How Zettelkasten works

Learn about Zettelkasten method and why it works so well! Timestamp 0:00 - Intro 0:13 - Typical learning methods 0:39 - How our brains learn 1:04 - Problem typical learning methods 1:18 - Zettelkasten Intro 1:39 - How zettelkasten works 2:46 - Why zettelkasten works so well Links for additional detail: AMAZING lecture about zettelkasten https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPOI4f7yCag&t=1335s Luhmann's online repository https://niklas-luhmann-archiv.de/bestand/zettelkasten/suche How to take smart notes https://www.amazon.com/How-Take-Smart-Notes-Nonfiction-ebook/dp/B06WVYW33Y Credits: Luhmann's videos and images: https://niklas-luhmann-archiv.de/ Richard Feynman image https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Richard_feynman_-_fermilab1.jpg Amazon Logo https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Amazon_PNG6.png

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Learn about Zettelkasten method and why it works so well!

Timestamp
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0:13 - Typical learning methods
0:39 - How our brains learn
1:04 - Problem typical learning methods
1:18 - Zettelkasten Intro
1:39 - How zettelkasten works
2:46 - Why zettelkasten works so well


Links for additional detail:
AMAZING lecture about zettelkasten
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPOI4f7yCag&t=1335s
 
Luhmann's online repository 
https://niklas-luhmann-archiv.de/bestand/zettelkasten/suche

How to take smart notes
https://www.amazon.com/How-Take-Smart-Notes-Nonfiction-ebook/dp/B06WVYW33Y

Credits:
Luhmann's videos and images: 
https://niklas-luhmann-archiv.de/

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Economic inequality is a symptom of processes=some good, some bad- that drive the global economy. It's the residue of a post-industrialized age.

On Economic inequality

"Inequality is not the same thing as unfairness; and, to my mind, it is the latter that has incited so much political turmoil in the rich world today" says Deaton

Inequality or unfairness

<ul><li>Health financing</li><li>Mergers of large companies</li><li>Sluggish federal minimum wage</li><li>Diminishing worker power</li><li>The rise of temps</li><li>The growth of the stock market</li><li>Corporate wins in politics</li></ul>

What's unfair

The rising unfairness is not a consequence of seemingly unstoppable forces like globalization and technology, but of a dysfunctional economy.

A dysfunctional economy

Are we confusing unfairness with inequality.

Inequality is often misconceived as the cause of certain social processes.

Discover the world of business and economics.

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A Nobel Prize-Winning Economist Thinks We’re asking All the Wrong Questions About Inequality

<ol><li>You can reflect on work habits</li><li>You have a better focus on goals</li><li>You can decide what is important</li><li>To have better life</li></ol>

Why plan your day?

<ul><li>Evening before</li><li>morning right before you start working</li></ul>

When to plan your day?

<ol><li>Decide when your day will end</li><li>Plan your breaks</li><li>Plan your Afterhours</li><li>Pick your tasks</li><li>Estimate duration</li><li>Schedule your tasks</li></ol>

Steps to planning work day

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We are not determined by the experiences we've had, but rather, the meaning we give to them. Instead of thinking about 'past causes', think about 'present goals'.

We are free to choose the meaning of our experiences

We get angry and show aggression to make a point. We make a point to possibly win an argument, which in turn is a means to establish supremacy over the person on the receiving end.

Our emotions are mere tools to justify our intended actions

It is only in social contexts that a person becomes an individual

A lot of problems arise because we feel inferior, we feel that we lack something. A feeling of inferiority is a result of the subjective meaning that we have assigned to a trait of ours. If we feel that we lack something, the right way to tackle it is by striving to bridge the gap.

All problems are, at the core, interpersonal relationship problems

For any action that you intend to take, ask if this is your task? Does the result affect you? All interpersonal conflicts are caused by intruding in someone else's task.

Separation of tasks

You are not living to satisfy other people's expectations. Getting recognised is not your task. Hence, deny any need for recognition

Being of use to someone - either by one's actions or by mere presence, is the true essence of happiness.

Happiness is contributing to the community

Real freedom is having the courage to be disliked

A lot of time and effort is spent on unnecessary things, which are futile. The mantra for happiness is really simple, and this book, with the help of a dialogue, gives it to the reader.

A single book can change your life. Already an enormous bestseller in Asia, with more than 3 million copies sold, The Courage to be Disliked demonstrates how to unlock the power within yourself to be the person you truly want to be. Using the theories of Alfred Adler, one of the three giants of 19th century psychology alongside Freud and Jung, it follows an illuminating conversation between a philosopher and a young man. The philosopher explains to his pupil how each of us is able to determine our own lives, free of the shackles of past experiences, doubts and the expectations of others. It's a way of thinking that's deeply liberating, allowing us to develop the courage to change, and to ignore the limitations that we and those around us can place on ourselves. The result is a book that is both highly accessible and profound in its importance. Millions have already read and benefited from its wisdom. Now that The Courage to be Disliked has been published for the first time in English, so can you

Ichiro KISHIMI Philosopher, Adlerian psychologist and translator of English and German languages. Born in 1956.M.A.in philosophy from Kyoto University. Director of the Japanese Society of Adlerian psychology. Former counselor at Maeda Clinic in Kyoto and has taught philosophy and ancient Greek at various institutions such as Kyoto University of Education and Nara Women's University. He presently teaches educational psychology and clinical psychology at Meiji School of Oriental Medicine in Suita, Osaka. Kishimi now has his own private counseling office in Kameoka, Kyoto, and devotes his time to giving lectures on Adlerian Psychology and child education.

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Fumitake Koga is an accomplished writer whose work has resonated with readers around the world. Fumitake Koga has published several books that explore a range of topics, from fiction to nonfiction, and has received critical acclaim for the ability to weave compelling narratives. Fumitake Koga's writing style is known for its depth and authenticity, and has earned quite a loyal following of readers.

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David McRaney is a science journalist, author, and host of the You Are Not So Smart podcast. He shares 5 key insights from his new book, How Minds Change: The Surprising Science of Belief, Opinion, and Persuasion.

How Minds Change: The Surprising Science of Belief, Opinion, and Persuasion

Persuasion is not coercion. It is also not an attempt to defeat your intellectual opponent with facts or moral superiority, nor is it a debate with a winner or a loser. Persuasion is leading a person along in stages, helping them to better understand their own thinking and how it could align with the message at hand. You can’t persuade another person to change their mind if that person doesn’t want to do so, and the techniques that work the best focus on a person’s motivations more than their conclusions. In many ways, persuasion is mostly encouraging people to realize that change is possible.

1. Persuasion is not coercion.

Ultimately, all persuasion is self-persuasion. People change (or refuse to do so) based on their desires, motivations, and internal counterarguing. By focusing on these factors, an argument becomes more likely to change minds.

Beliefs aren’t ideas stored in your brain, possessions on a shelf, or files in a biological computer. Belief is a process. To believe or doubt is the result of neurons in associative networks delivering an emergent sensation of certainty, or lack thereof. The speed of change is inversely proportional to the strength of our certainty, and certainty is a feeling: somewhere between an emotion and a mood, more akin to hunger than to logic. Persuasion, no matter the source, is a force that affects that feeling.“Ultimately, all persuasion is self-persuasion.”

2. Certainty is an emotion.

Brains resist change to some degree because updating when you shouldn’t is dangerous (you might become wrong). But since not updating when you should is also dangerous (you might stay wrong), the brain walks a tightrope, changing its mind carefully given a variety of motivations and goals.

3. Social death is greater than physical death.

The strongest motivation to resist change is the fear of shame and ostracism. As social primates, humans value being good members of their groups much more than they value being right—factually, morally, or otherwise—so much so that as long as we have a group that satisfies our needs, we will choose to be wrong if it keeps us in good standing with our peers.For the ideas that identify us as members of a group, we want to seem trustworthy, and reputation management as a trustworthy individual often supersedes most other concerns, including our mortality.

“The brain walks a tightrope, changing its mind carefully given a variety of motivations and goals.”

Disambiguation is what brains do when confronted with novelty and uncertainty. We use what we think we know to disambiguate the ambiguous. I love that term, especially because it comes from reading comprehension: the act of deriving meaning through context when a word, phrase, or entire essay could be interpreted in many ways.

4. Disambiguation leads to naïve realism.

There’s a term in psychology that pairs well with disambiguation “naïve realism.” This is the certainty one feels when blind to the fact that you are disambiguating, meaning your interpretation doesn’t feel like an interpretation. Since subjectivity often feels like objectivity, naïve realism makes it seem as though the best way to change people’s minds is to show them the facts that support your view, because anyone else who has read the things you have read or seen the things you have seen will naturally see things your way, given that they’ve pondered the matter as thoughtfully as you have.

Therefore, you assume that anyone who disagrees with your conclusions probably just doesn’t have all the facts. If they did, they’d already be seeing the world as you do.This is why you continue to ineffectually copy and paste links from all of your most trusted sources when arguing points with those who seem misguided, crazy, uninformed, or plain wrong. The problem is that this is exactly the same approach that the other side thinks will work on you.

“Since subjectivity often feels like objectivity, naïve realism makes it seem as though the best way to change people’s minds is to show them the facts that support your view.”

Imagine attempting to reach the Moon with a ladder and, upon failing, giving up in frustration because now you believe the Moon is unreachable. When we use the wrong tools and approaches, the people on the other side of the issues we care about can seem impossible to reach. That’s why I used to avoid arguing about politics, superstitions, or conspiracy theories, but I changed my mind about how minds change (and how to change them) after meeting the experts and activists who not only showed me a better way, but also explained the science behind why it works.

5. No one is unreachable.

Even among the people who seem furthest away from what you consider the ground truth, change is a moonshot away once you understand the nature of resistance and the proper techniques to avoid it. The ability to change our minds, update our assumptions, and entertain other points of view is one of our greatest strengths. It is an evolved ability that comes free with every copy of the human brain. To leverage that strength, we must avoid debate and start by having conversations.

Debates have winners and losers, and no one wants to be a loser. But if both sides feel safe to explore their reasoning, to think about their own thinking, to explore their motivations, then we can each avoid the dead-end goal of winning an argument. Instead, we can pursue the shared goal of learning the truth.

“We must avoid debate and start having conversations. Debates have winners and losers, and no one wants to be a loser. But if both sides feel safe to explore their reasoning, to think about their own thinking, to explore their motivations, we can avoid the dead-end goal of winning the argument.”-David McRaney

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Science journalist David McRaney shares 5 key insights from his new book, How Minds Change: The Surprising Science of Belief, Opinion, and Persuasion.

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Sadness, anger, depression, anxiety, pain, hurt, loneliness, bitterness and every other kind of negative emotions are the direct opposite of gratitude. Life can be messy, difficult and painful, you look arround and it seems you are the only one having it hard, why does it seems like everyone else have it together except me, why does it look like everyone else is happy except me. These are the kind of thoughts that sets you up for failure. Winners do not focus thier energy thinking about the negative Instead they are grateful for what they have and where they are.

HOW PRACTICE GRATITUDE 

GRATITUDE is more than a positive emotion, it is the vent of the mind that allows fresh breeze to blow into your soul so that the chaos of life don't clutter your mind. This Episode will surely can your perception and give you something to be grateful for and teach you how to practice gratitude. <a href="https://tinyurl.com/2qar9cfb">LISTEN TO THE PODCAST EPISODE</a>

HOW TO PRACTICE GRATITUDE 

How to practice gratitude and enjoy a stress free life.

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GRATITUDE 

In the gym, sometimes you feel like it’s an “off day”, and then you hit a personal record anyway.  15 minutes of warm-up is often all it takes to get out of that “off” state of mind.  Applies to a lot of other things too.

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15 mins is all it takes

“Faith must be based upon certainty. There must be definite knowledge of God’s purpose and will. Without that there can be no true faith.” - Alexander R. Hay (pg. 4) “Every Christian has been positioned forever in the risen Lord by spiritual birth. But only the believer who knows, grows. It is faith in the facts of our position that gives us the daily benefits of growth in our condition.” (pg. 78)

Faith

“Our hope for victory over sin is not, ‘Christ plus my efforts,’ but, ‘Christ plus my receiving.’ To receive victory from Him is to believe His Word that solely by His grace He is, this moment, freeing us from the dominion of sin. And to believe on Him in this way is to recognize that He is doing for us what we cannot do for ourselves.” - Charles Trumbullpg. 21

Preparation 

Our reckoning on the finished work of our death to sin, in Christ at Calvary, Is God's one way of deliverance - there is no other way because that is the way He did it. We learned not to add a finished work in the matter of Justification, and now we must learn not to add to the finished work of emancipation. We will be freed when we enter His prepared freedom - there is no other.

For most of us, It is time to stop asking God for help. He didn't help us to be saved, and He doesn't intend to help us live the Christian life.Immaturity considers the Lord Jesus a Helper.Maturity knows Him to be Life itself.God is not trusted, not honored, in our continually asking Him for help. In the face of "my God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus" (Phil. 4:19), how can we beg for help? Our responsibility is to see in the Word all that is ours in Christ, and then thank and trust Him for that which we need.pg. 65

Help

It is true that the downward path (the negative side) has been the consequence both of the workings of self and the tactics of the enemy. Nevertheless, it is also true that the Father has seen to it that it happened, in order that the hunger caused through failure might be satisfied in the Lord Jesus Christ. He knows what needs we need to keep us needy! pg. 251

Failure Recognized

Our Father takes us down until the self-life is uncovered and then up as the truth of the Christ-life discovered. This spiritual principle cannot be circumvented. "Beloved, do not be surprised at the firery ordeal among you, which comes upon you for your testing, as though some strange thing were happening to you." - 1 Peter 4:12pg. 255

All through the years of defeat, we have been slowly learning that the harder we tried to live the Christian life the deeper we came under the dominion of the law of sin. We tried to "be” we tried to "do,” and there was nothing but failure year in and year out.As long as we depended on our own resources, all we produced was sin. But in the midst of our wretched attempts to be delivered from the "body of this death” (Romans 7:24), our faithful Father was teaching us what we had to know for our freedom in Christ: self is our greatest enemy, Christ is our only hope (Philippians 1:21).(pg. 208)

Defeat And Victory! 

When we reckon ourselves alive to God in our risen Lord, we are thereby taking our position as seated with Him in the heavenlies. We know that the anchor and source of our life is safely and eternally hid with Christ in God. We are assured that nothing, and no one, can touch us apart from His blessed will. Our attitude is that of looking down on all that He takes us through-we are not under His circumstances, but above them all in our victorious Lord. Standing in our position, we learn in whatever state we are in,"to be content"; we learn how to be abased, and we learn how to abound.

LIVE POSITIONALLY"CRUCIFIED, RISEN, SEATED"(Galatians 2:20; Ephesians 2:6)LIVE POSITIVELY"FULLY PERSUADED"(Romans 14:5)LIVE POSSESSIVELY"ALL THINGS ARE YOURS"(1 Corinthians 3:21)LIVE TRIUMPHANTLY"MORE THAN CONQUERORS"(Romans 8:37)

Five volumes on sanctification published under one cover, presenting biblical foundations and keys to spiritual growth in Christ. It includes "Abide Above", "The Green Letters", "The Ground of Growth", "The Principle of Position", and "The Reckoning That Counts".

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Religion & Spirituality

"Not I, but Christ." That brief phrase reflects our complete dependency on Jesus for everything that the Christian life is about, from right standing with God, to spiritual growth, to personal well being, to practical service. In four words, it captures the essence and sweep of The Complete Green Letters.The language of The Complete Green Letters may have a classic flavor, but the remarkable insight and spiritual penetration are thoroughly and refreshingly contemporary. Drawing from the spiritual heritage of the Keswick Convention, these beloved writings by Miles J. Stanford comment powerfully on the true nature of spirituality. Here in one volume, in logical order, are: <ul><li>The Green Letters: Principles of Spiritual Growth</li><li>The Principle of Position: Foundations of Spiritual Growth</li><li>The Ground of Growth: The Christian's Relationship to the Cross and the Risen Christ</li><li>The Reckoning That Counts: The Realization of Spiritual Growth</li><li>Abide Above: A Guide to Spiritual Growth</li></ul>A sound apprehension of the deeper life can make the difference between progress or frustration, peace or turmoil. If you desire a better understanding of what it means to serve Christ, his church, and the world around you, The Complete Green Letters shines light on the path of spiritual growth.

Miles J. Stanford

The Complete Green Letters

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