Regardless of how I feel about the past week, one thing is sure; it is over. It is time for a new week. I spend time on Sunday evening reviewing the past week and getting prepared and focused on the upcoming week. Here is what I have discovered: some weeks are phenomenal and some weeks are not very good, most are a mixed bag, some good with room for improvement.…
Read MoreTime Management Baby-steps
The subject of time management can seem overwhelming. If you were to conduct a “Google” search, you would find enough articles that you would not have time to read through them all in the next 25 years. In just a few moments, the amount of available material would cause you to give up on putting time management principles to work in your life. If you are just getting started in trying…
Read MoreTime-Management
Time-management is self-management or life-management. Time is the building blocks of life. “Time is what we want most, and use worst.” (William Penn). This present minute is all that we have, we must make the most of the minutes we have. To manage our time, we decide that we will not waste our time and we will fight off laziness and procrastination. The biggest battles in life you will wage are mostly against your own lethargy, laziness…
Read MoreThe Two-Minute Rule
Everything is much more comfortable when broken down into manageable pieces. The enormity of most tasks causes us to either give up or procrastinate and eventually ignore what we were going to accomplish. What is the best way to get started? Do something! Several people have written about the two-minute rule. If something can be done in two minutes or less rather than saving it to…
Read MoreFive Things To Do Before You Go To Bed
Never get up in the morning and just let the day happen. Be intentional
Read MoreTwo-thirds Done, One-third To go!
Tomorrow is the first day of September marking that the year is two-thirds over. It seems like just a few days ago I was pondering and contemplating all that I needed to do in 2017. Now that it is two-thirds over I need to personally evaluate what has happened in the first two-thirds and what do I need to accomplish in the last third of this year. As…
Read MorePlan Tomorrow Tonight
One of the reasons that you must have plans for your day is that many days will bring unexpected happenings and events. Only the prepared are flexible enough to move in other directions as the events warrant. There was a time in my life when I would plan my sermons six months to a year ahead. A few times I would be asked by other pastors how can you…
Read MoreDealing with Deadlines
Many folks struggle and become nearly paralyzed when facing a deadline on a project, decision, or assignment. What are some ways of dealing with deadlines? 1. Do not let the ‘perfect’ be the enemy of the good or great. – perfectionism will get you stuck and ruin most of your decisions. Anyone can make a decision with unlimited time. Yet most of us have time limits.…
Read MoreHave you lost your marbles?
John Maxwell in his book 17 Essential Qualities of a Team Player has a great story. It is about a man, explaining to another how he keeps himself motivated and focussed. He decided to put some marbles in a jar. Each marble represents a week of his life. Every Saturday he removes a marble, this serves as a reminder of the passing of time and…
Read MoreHow do I keep what is important in front of me all the time?
What are you doing? I know you are reading this blog, but I mean, what are doing in your life intentionally? How do you keep what is important in front of you all the time? It is getting to that time of the year when New Years resolutions are starting to fade into the background. You were so excited about the possibilities of change and choices you were going to make as…
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