The Best Minute: on attention, cool preachers, and doing what you want

2 QUOTES FROM OTHERS

I. Chip Heath on getting someone’s attention:

“The most basic way to get someone's attention is this: Break a pattern.”

II. Ray Ortlund on “cool” preachers:

“I don’t like cool preachers. Cool is shallow. Not real. Not sincere. Cool can even use people.

But I’ll hang on every word from a broken-hearted, fearless, earnest, cheerful preacher who *hates* scolding people and *loves* offering Jesus in His grace and glory to sinners.”

2 IDEAS FROM ME

I. Instead of focusing on the things you don’t want to do, spend your energy on the things you want to do. If you want to get healthier, instead of trying not to eat bad things, plan out what good things you want to eat each day.

Focusing on what you want to do will eventually weed out what you don’t want to do while also creating the habits you need to sustain your positive desires.

II. Remember this as Covid-19 numbers continue to go down and vaccines continue to go out: Church online is a supplement not a substitute.

1 RANDOM FACT

We start to forget childhood memories while we're in childhood.

Do you remember what it was like when you walked for the first time, or how you felt on your first day of kindergarten? The answer for most of us is probably not. But at what age do these memories begin to fade? Psychologists at Emory University found that while children between the ages of five and seven remembered 60 percent or more of their early life events, eight- and nine-year-olds recalled less than 40 percent of the same memories.

Source: Best Life