Concentrate and Eliminate – Creating Space for What Matters

Concentrate & Eliminate

1. The origins

2. The benefits.

3.  How to apply the concept

What is concentrate & eliminate?

This idea is rooted in intentional living, helping you focus on what’s meaningful while freeing yourself from unnecessary commitments, possessions, or tasks in favor of honoring your faith, priorities, and calling. The concept of “concentrate and eliminate” focuses on simplifying your life by identifying what truly matters and removing the excess.

Where did concentrate & eliminate come from?

Popularized by Anne Ortlund in her book Disciplines of the Beautiful Woman published in the 1970s.

Benefits of “Concentrate & Eliminate”

– Clarity and Focus:

By concentrating on what’s important, you eliminate mental and emotional clutter, allowing you to focus more effectively on your goals.

– Reduced Stress:

Removing distractions and non-essentials lightens your load, creating a sense of relief and simplicity.

– More Time for What Matters: When you eliminate unnecessary tasks and commitments, you have more time and energy for the things that bring joy and fulfillment.

Application for Daily Life

Time Management:

Focus on your priorities and cut out activities that don’t contribute to your goals.

Minimalism:

Apply this principle to your possessions by keeping only what is meaningful or useful.

Emotional Well-Being:

Set boundaries to eliminate draining relationships or commitments that don’t align with your values.

Let’s Review

1. The origins of concentrate & eliminate.

2. The benefits of concentrate & eliminate.

3. How to apply the concept

Ultimately, “concentrate and eliminate” helps you create space for what truly matters by focusing on the essentials and removing distractions.

Show Notes

Episode Description

Are you feeling overwhelmed by distractions in your life? In this episode, we explore the concept of ‘Concentrate and Eliminate,’ inspired by Anne Ortlund’s teachings. Learn how to simplify your life by focusing on your core priorities—faith, family, and purpose—and eliminating distractions that hold you back from living a meaningful and purposeful life in Christ.

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is your life filled with distractions

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and clutter leaving little room for what

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truly

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matters discover how the concept of

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concentrate and eliminate inspired by

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Anne ortland can transform your life

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into one of focus Clarity and purpose

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let’s simplify your life to magnify

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God’s plan hello and welcome back to the

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channel in today’s episode we will dive

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deep into the idea that could change

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your life it’s concentrate and

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eliminate this concept is inspired by an

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ortland concept from disciplines of the

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beautiful woman this powerful strategy

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is about simplifying your life as a

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Christian it helps you focus on what

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really matters by eliminating the noise

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and distractions so you can live with

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greater intention and purpose for God’s

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Kingdom in this episode we’ll discuss

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the origins of concentrate and eliminate

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we’ll dive deep into the benefits and

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how you can apply this concept to

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improve your life all right so what is

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concentrate and eliminate this idea is

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rooted in intentional living helping you

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focus on what’s meaningful while freeing

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yourself from unnecessary commitments

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possessions or tasks in favor of

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honoring your faith your priorities and

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your calling the concept of concentrate

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and eliminate focuses on on simplifying

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your life by identifying what truly

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matters and removing the excess where

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did concentrate and eliminate come from

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the idea was made famous by an ortland

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in her book disciplines of the beautiful

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woman which was published in the

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1970s all right so what are the benefits

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of implementing concentrate and

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eliminate if you’re anything like I am I

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want to know what’s in it for me what am

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I going to get if I put in the work to

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implement whatever it is I’m trying to

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learn so here are those reasons first

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off is Clarity and focus by

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concentrating on what’s important you

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eliminate mental and emotional clutter

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allowing yourself to focus more

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effectively on your goals two you reduce

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your stress removing distractions and

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non-essentials lightens your load and

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creating a sense of relief and

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simplicity third you create more time

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for what really matters when you

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eliminate unnecessary tasks and

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commitments you have more time and

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energy for the things that bring you Joy

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and

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fulfillment all right so if you’ve been

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around before watched any of videos or

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if you’ve listened to any of my podcasts

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you know my favorite part of any of it

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is a applying it to our daily lives so

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let’s get into it number one is time

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management by focusing on our priorities

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and cutting out activities that don’t

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contribute to our goals we create space

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to achieve what truly matters in our

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lives two if we look at this from the

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perspective of

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minimalism we apply this principle to

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our possessions by keeping only what is

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Meaningful and useful third we look at

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our emotional well being by setting

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boundaries to eliminate draining

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relationships or commitments that don’t

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align with your

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values in all of this you probably see a

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common theme or a common thread in that

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by applying concentrate and eliminate to

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our lives we cut out the things that

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really don’t matter and make margin or

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make space for what truly matters in our

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lives all right let’s review what we’ve

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learned in in this episode we discuss

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the origins of concentrate and eliminate

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we looked at some of the benefits as

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well as how to practically apply this to

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our lives ultimately concentrate and

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eliminate helps you create space for

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what truly Matters by focusing on the

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essentials and removing

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distractions I’d encourage you to check

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out this video up here and also the

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video down here to dive deep into more

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of a related topic of of setting

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boundaries

 

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