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How to Get Out of “Survival Mode” to Live Your Authentic Life with Jesus
Elizabeth Grace Saunders is a time management coach. She works with clients around the world to come up with strategies on how to invest their time well. She helps people get their time aligned with their priorities through a mix of practical time management techniques as well as mindset shifts.
As we read through Scripture and as we get to know Jesus, we were promised a life of love, joy, and peace. But that is not how we often feel.- Elizabeth Grace Saunders
Just like with money, if we are financially strapped, it’s hard for us to be generous with others. With time, if we’re “time poor”, it’s also hard to be generous with others.
We can’t give others what we don’t have. – Elizabeth Grace Saunders
At one point in Elizabeth’s career, she was achieving so much and getting plenty of recognition, but she still felt empty. That changed when she started giving God the glory in her business.
Her book, Divine Time Management, is for “Type A” people: those who are too good at being organized. She noticed that there is a tendency for self-idolatry in high-achievers with strict time management systems. The excessive boundaries, order, and prioritization actually manages God out of one’s system by taking away a sense of dependence or trust in Him. The book focuses on how one could put trusting God back in the center of time management.
Elizabeth briefly discussed he three key sections of her book:
- Trusting God at the center of one’s time management
- Love for one’s true identity
- Alignment with God
Your true identity is who you think that you are, whereas false identity is who you think you have to be. – Elizabeth Grace Saunders
But how can you discover your true identity? To find it, ask yourself: What makes me feel fully alive?
I truly believe that God created us to do things that give us joy and make us feel fully alive. – Elizabeth Grace Saunders
What You’ll Learn
- The differences between traditional time management and divine time management
- The difference between “true identity” and “false identity”
- A key indicators that something might be false for you
- What you should really pay attention to while discovering your true identity
- How to get out of “survival mode”
Resources
- Divine Time Management by Elizabeth Grace Saunders
- A Special Real Life E link for Eternal Leadership Podcast listeners
Bio
Elizabeth Grace Saunders is the founder and CEO of Real Life E®, a time coaching and training company that empowers individuals to achieve more success with less stress. She has worked with coaching and training clients on six continents, and is the author of The 3 Secrets to Effective Time Investment published by McGraw Hill and How to Invest Your Time Like Money published by Harvard Business Review.
Elizabeth is a contributor to Lifehacker, Harvard Business Review, Forbes, and 99U and has appeared on ABC, CBS, and FOX Business. She also has spoken to thousands of individuals, including speaking after Steve Forbes at a business retreat. Stiletto Woman named Elizabeth one of the “Top 25 Amazing Women of the Year.”
Prior to founding her own business in 2005, Elizabeth worked for Meredith Corporation, the publisher of magazines such as Better Homes and Gardens and Ladies Home Journal, VNU Business Media, and Abbott Laboratories. Elizabeth graduated summa cum laude from Drake University.
