Maximizing Your Time
Title: Maximizing Your Time
Category: Pastoral Issues
Subject: Time Management; Scheduling Time
Scripture speaks often about the wise use of time, whether it be laying by one's crops, or "redeeming the time." Lessons learned from the ant in Proverbs relate to acting in a timely manner. Further God's dealings with His people seems to indicate that He has a time table for accomplishing His plan in the world.
Do you often run out of day before you run out of things which need to be accomplished? One man suggested that we develop a "Don't Do List" rather than a "To Do List". There are probably many items we spend time on which are not productive and do not lead us toward our ultimate goal.
No matter what line of work you're in, God has provided enough time to accomplish His purpose for you each day. Here are some practical activities to help you "Maximize Your Time". This list is by no means exhaustive, not does it purport to be the best. However, it is a start.
1. Make sure you are prayed up and open to God's leadership in your life.
2. Purpose to organize your time for maximum efficiency.
3. Allow for God's Divine intervention in your affairs. (Sometimes God sends people and events into our lives, which we simply did not expect. Determine if they are from God or the enemy who seeks to keep you overwhelmed with activities.)
4. Realize that "Maximizing your Time" is really personal management, life management, and it affects everything you do.
5. Ask God, who has made a covenant with you (Heb. 8:10), to give you the desire to organize your life in such a way as to be a more effective instrument for His glory.
6. Understand that such an undertaking requires practice and more practice until it becomes a way of life.
7. Determine God's goals for your life today, this week, this month, this year.
8. Examine your schedule to ascertain if your activities are moving you toward those goals God has given you. (Should they not, adjust your activities).
9. A terrible waste of time is to do something well, which need not have been done.
10. Never allow the "Tyranny of the Urgent" to force you to focus on unimportant matters. (Just because something is urgent does not necessarily mean it is also important.)
11. Finally, Trust God. He wants your life to be productive and fulfilling. When you lie down at night, you should feel that you've accomplished God's plan for your life that day.
(c) Mike Rasberry 2007
Do you often run out of day before you run out of things which need to be accomplished? One man suggested that we develop a "Don't Do List" rather than a "To Do List". There are probably many items we spend time on which are not productive and do not lead us toward our ultimate goal.
No matter what line of work you're in, God has provided enough time to accomplish His purpose for you each day. Here are some practical activities to help you "Maximize Your Time". This list is by no means exhaustive, not does it purport to be the best. However, it is a start.
1. Make sure you are prayed up and open to God's leadership in your life.
2. Purpose to organize your time for maximum efficiency.
3. Allow for God's Divine intervention in your affairs. (Sometimes God sends people and events into our lives, which we simply did not expect. Determine if they are from God or the enemy who seeks to keep you overwhelmed with activities.)
4. Realize that "Maximizing your Time" is really personal management, life management, and it affects everything you do.
5. Ask God, who has made a covenant with you (Heb. 8:10), to give you the desire to organize your life in such a way as to be a more effective instrument for His glory.
6. Understand that such an undertaking requires practice and more practice until it becomes a way of life.
7. Determine God's goals for your life today, this week, this month, this year.
8. Examine your schedule to ascertain if your activities are moving you toward those goals God has given you. (Should they not, adjust your activities).
9. A terrible waste of time is to do something well, which need not have been done.
10. Never allow the "Tyranny of the Urgent" to force you to focus on unimportant matters. (Just because something is urgent does not necessarily mean it is also important.)
11. Finally, Trust God. He wants your life to be productive and fulfilling. When you lie down at night, you should feel that you've accomplished God's plan for your life that day.
(c) Mike Rasberry 2007
