A recorded talk advising listeners to treat communication with God like a business consultation: prepare concrete questions in advance, time-block sessions for efficiency, and prioritize listening by journaling responses. The speaker recommends practical techniques (e.g., an 80/20 split favoring listening and follow-up questions) to make prayer more actionable and disciplined.
Have a list of questions you want to talk to them about. Like literally business questions. As if you're meeting with like a million dollar consultant that some you got like off of a lottery drawing. Okay. And when you come to that consultant, you're going to have a list of questions you want to ask and you're going to have it ready to go because you are optimizing that time. I do believe that there you should optimize your time with God. Right, let's. The reality of it is, is we have certain time in the day and if you're going to time block it, be efficient about it. I think God and efficiency totally go hand in hand. It's not a la de da da da. I think a lot of faith quote unquote stuff has a lot of la de da da da and not enough practicality. So be practical, have your questions ready and then ask it. Right? But once you ask it, then have a note or journal ready and then write down the answers. Like you have to actually listen. I think we're trained a lot of times to tell God our problems as if he doesn't know and then we don't actually listen. So if you actually like we're conceptually measuring how much talking time you have and how much listening time you have. Like it should be like you talk, you know, maybe 20, 30 max. Right? Let's say the 80, 20 rule. Let's just do that. 20% you ask questions and 80% you're writing down and then asking more follow up questions. Like God, what do you mean by that? God, can you make that clear? Or God, can you say that again? Or God, how about this? Or you know, I'm saying like a normal conversation, keep asking, but write down whatever you think you're hearing because that's part of listening. Okay. And writing it down is one of the best ways to do it.
