What? Eye. Read. 💡: 'Unfinished business is our worst business', 'you need to be bored', and '6 'magic phrases' that make children listen to their parents'

September 9, 2025

Here is the best thing I heard (What?), saw (Eye.), and read (Read.) this week, as well as the best idea (💡) I developed.

President Russell M. Nelson, “Doors of Death“, April 1992 General Conference:

“[W]e who tarry here have a few precious moments remaining ‘to prepare to meet God’ (Alma 34:32). Unfinished business is our worst business. Perpetual procrastination must yield to perceptive preparation. Today we have a little more time to bless others—time to be kinder, more compassionate, quicker to thank and slower to scold, more generous in sharing, more gracious in caring.”

“You Need to Be Bored. Here’s Why.” | Harvard Business Review | Arthur C. Brooks:

“I get it. You don’t want to be bored. You need to be bored. Be bored more. Tomorrow, when you go to the gym in the morning after you wake up, don’t take your phone. Can you handle it? Not listening to a podcast while you’re working out? Just being in your head? I promise you, you’ll have your most interesting ideas while you’re working out without devices. It’s probably been a long time since you’ve done that. Commute with nothing, not even a radio. Can you do that?

“Start getting better at periods that are 15 minutes and longer of boredom, and watch your life change. Number one, you’ll be less bored with ordinary things in your life. If you get better at the skill of boredom, you’ll be less bored with your job. You’ll be less bored with your relationships. You’ll be less bored with the things that are going on around you. But more importantly, you’ll start digging into the biggest questions in your life. Purpose. Meaning. Coherence. Significance. And who knows? You might just get happier.”

I need to be more active on social media to strive to build up God’s kingdom.

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