Christy: Here are some points that I’ve found helpful from a course that I took last fall...
Evaluate your time. I found it an eye-opening experience to actually record a week in 30 min. segments. This will show plainly what you’re spending your time on! Psalm 90:12
Identify priorities. 1 Cor. 14:40; 1 Thes. 4:11-12 Main priorities of a singled woman listed in 1 Cor. 7:34
List goals: Long-term and Short term. Prov. 16:9
Prepare a "to do" list at the end of the day for the next day. It is helpful to separate the list into ABC’s. A = top priority; B = important; C = not necessarily important, but would like to do.
Reserve the time in every day that you are most alert and active for these “to do” jobs. Eph. 5:15-16
Summer: Thanks so much, Christy, for sharing those suggestions and your thoughts with us! I too, have a little something to say on this subject, although it may be somewhat indirectly related... To carry out all our plans and goals, we must first develop the self control we will need to do this. Only with Jesus helping us to be self-disciplined can we ever stick to our schedules..... Ohhhh!! How hard it is to do this! (I know! K) What Good Are Plans Without Action? As I’m sure everyone knows already, they are good for nothing! So....... Happy Planning and DOING! :-) :-)
P.S. Just a hint: Let’s practice doing things that we don’t feel like doing to help us develop discipline. Let’s fight the world’s idea that says, “If it feels good, then do it!” - and also the world’s mentality of, “Take it easy. You deserve the best...”
Procrastination
P laying around when you
R eally should be working
O n things more worthy of your time...
C an hardly seem to stick,
R ight with that awful job,
A nd so thrust it in the back of your mind..
S ay you, “I’ll do it some-
T ime in the future perhaps.
I n a later day I’ll do it!...
N ow is not a good time,
As I’d like to read this book.
The plot is good; I just can’t quit!...”
In the end I know you’ll certainly find,
On this job, that you’re awfully behind...
Now is never the time to procrastinate!!!