Feeling buried by noise and notifications? In today’s Daily Podcast, Jonathan Doyle unpacks a timeless idea from Psalm 90:12 — “Teach us to number our days”—and shows how valuing time transforms your focus, decisions, and impact. You’ll hear why distraction is the silent cost center in your life and business, how to move from passive scrolling to purpose, and the simple mindset shift that kills regret.

In this episode:

• The hidden tax of data overload & news cycles
• Why “numbering your days” builds wisdom and urgency
• Trading comfort for contribution—using your gifts daily
• Practical prompts: audit your time, choose one bold action, bless one person today

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hello there, my friend Jonathan Doyle with you.

Welcome to the Daily Podcast.

I'm so pleased you're here.

It's, I've been watching the metrics recently and it's great to have so many

new listeners, so you are all welcome.

It is a joy to do this every day, just to try and bring you some

daily encouragement, some insights and motivation just to help you

make use of this incredible gift.

Of life.

I woke up this morning before I came into the studio and the, we're coming

into spring here and we're blessed.

We have a beautiful view outta the front of our house and I just walked

out there and I thought, it is good.

It is good to be alive for another day.

There's just this beautiful, I've always been a very much an early morning person

and all my early morning, people know what I'm talking about, that feeling

when you just walk out there and it's just so fresh and beautiful and just

knew that it was a joy to be coming into the studio to share with you today.

So whatever you're going through, whether your life is absolutely

fantastic at the moment, whether everything is working perfectly,

please write a book for the rest of us.

And for those of you that may be really struggling.

And life might be really difficult.

I just hope there's something in the podcast.

It'll be a blessing to you Today.

I actually just wanna share with you a thought about time.

I would like to suggest that we probably devalue, the sheer

importance of time itself.

What do you often hear me talk about a culture of mass distraction.

We live at a moment in history with the torrent of information and data coming

at us is absolutely extraordinary.

I'm giving a keynote in Phoenix in a few days, and one of the things I'm

talking about is how senior leaders just get overwhelmed by the sheer

amount of data that's coming at them.

And I looked at some research and it's just extraordinary.

Like it's something like 600 gig of data coming at us in terms of

media messaging in a day, and we're only able to process, I think it's

something like 10 kilobits per second.

So there's this huge sea of data information coming at us all the time, but

there's only so much that we can actually process at any particular given moment.

So I think we live in this time of great distraction.

I think you probably agree with me that the news cycle at the moment is

presenting us with so much chaos and problems all around the world that I

don't know whether it's we can become a bit rabid in the headlights, right?

Like we just are going through the motions of each day just trying to

get through and make ends meet and do the things that we have to do.

That it's possible for us to get, forget the sheer incredible value

of time itself and that we're given this one precious, magnificent life.

And I think we can easily lose track of just the gravity of that.

Just how significant it is to be given this span of time.

And again, I know we don't live this way, but that there's no guarantees for any

of us of what that time will look like.

We all live under this assumption.

I. Think most of us think that we are gonna be in good health and life's just

gonna go on till, I think, do you do this?

Do you kinda think sometime in your eighties maybe you'll probably have to

start thinking about, what happens next?

But most of us just have this assumption, don't we, that we're

gonna have this 80 plus years?

Statistically it's roundabout that figure.

And so I wonder if we don't pay much attention to a couple of points

first that we're not guaranteed it.

So today could be our last day.

I know that's not a, this is meant to be a motivational podcast, but how would we

live if today was literally our last day?

And the other thing is, I just think we can take it for granted.

We just have this assumption that things are just gonna keep moving

along and then we'll sort our problems out sometime in the future.

And I just think it's possible to waste and to squander time.

Again, because of the amount of distraction in our culture, we

can just burn so much of our days.

Immersed in all sorts of distractions.

I don't know about you, it could be Instagram, it could be news websites.

All of us, even disciplined, good people are struggling 'cause it's pretty new.

This is a pretty new moment in history where this sort of stuff, our

parents were probably not, dealing with this, however old you might be.

It's unlikely that whatever age you are that your parents were dealing

with, the constant, IM sort of implications of this massive global

news media landscape that we inhabit.

AI's just gonna make it more and more intense as that journey unfolds.

I just simply wanted to share with you today a piece of wisdom.

We dated somewhere between either 3,500 years old or there's another

interpretation that puts it around two and a half thousand years

old, but it's from the Bible.

It's from Psalm 90.

And it's just what I love about about the Bible is just the

kind of profound supernatural wisdom that just permeates it.

But there's, in Psalm 90.

I just wanted to share with you verse 12, it, I don't know if you've

ever heard this, but it just says this, teach us to number our days

that we may gain a heart of wisdom.

Teach us to number our days.

That we may gain a heart of wisdom.

Teach us to pay some attention to the fact that we're not guaranteed, definitely

not eternal life while we're here, like we don't get indefinite time while

we're physically living on this planet and teach us to number our days, teach

us to pay some attention to, to think about the brevity of our life and why.

Because if we think about the fact that time isn't.

Permanent for us, then we'll get a heart of wisdom.

How I think what the Psalmist is getting at is if we reflect in a sober

manner on the relative shortness of life, we'll start to look at some

of our decisions in a wise way.

Time wasting petty fights with family members, wasting

time decisions and choices.

So I think as we really begin to value the importance of time.

We may start to live in a more, I don't know what's the right word?

We like live in a way that's more aware and awake of the gifts that we've been

given and the importance of relationships and I think making a contribution.

I definitely notice this as I get older.

I'm like, I shouldn't think this way, but I'm kinda like, have I done enough, with

the gifts that I've been given, have I made enough of a return on those gifts?

I don't think I have.

And people would maybe look at me and go, but you've done all this stuff and you've

spoken to over half a million people.

And I go, that's great.

But I still feel as I get older for me, that the clock's ticking and I

want to contribute more and more.

It's why I get up every day, come to the studio and do these short

messages because I want to contribute.

Because I know that my time isn't permanent, and so my message to you today

is to just to think a little bit about this, the role of time in your life.

Are you valuing it wisely?

Are you doing things with your life that, that make your gifts

a blessing to other people?

Are you wasting time?

Are you wasting time either on the literal or the metaphorical couch

of life, just letting the days go by and then one day looks like the rest?

And, I just, the longer that I live I'm quite convinced that people

have these unique and special gifts, and using our unique and special

gifts is just such an imperative.

And I just find it amazing that with seven or 8 billion people on the planet,

I truly believe that everybody has them.

I said that just a couple of episodes ago, so my friend,

please don't waste your life.

And please don't waste too much of your time.

Get me, he hear me on this.

There's definitely times when we need to relax and just chill and take things a

little bit easier and just sit back and definitely have fun and just let the time

pass and enjoy the moment, all of that.

I get it.

But let us be sober minded people.

Let us, as Psalm 90 says, let us number our days rightly.

So that we gain a harder wisdom, right?

So that would be just something I really would pray that you'd think about today.

Use your time wisely.

Make decisions.

Take some risks, do stuff, serve people.

Get in the game.

You do not, one of the worst human experiences is not so much failure or,

doing things that hurt people because we can seek forgiveness and repentance

and we can change and we can grow.

It's regret.

It's getting towards the end of our life realizing that many doors are now closed

and there's doors that we can't walk back through that we could have walked through.

And that's not a great way to live.

So please think about this beautiful gift of time.

What are you not doing that you could be doing?

Who are you not blessing that you could be blessing?

What skill are you not developing that you could be developing?

Because one day the clock stops.

And yes, there is definitely so much more on the other side of this life.

I'm really excited about that.

But we are given this one life and we are gonna have to give an account of ourselves

and let's not waste any more time.

So get out there, use those gifts, use those skills, and make something

remarkable of this one amazing life that you've been given.

That's it for me today.

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