Are the tools in your life keeping you on task or off task?
Stop wasting your time and spinning your wheels...
Today's Scripture:
The plans of the diligent lead surely to plenty, but those of everyone who is hasty, surely to poverty.
Proverbs 21:5
Just because you have a PDA, Smart phone or an organizer, or desk calendar does not mean that you are a planner. Often, people use schedules to manage their chaos. A planner does not just go from appointment to appointment because they are on his calendar. Instead, the calendar is a tool to manage his or her goals and plans. You may remember your grandmother telling you that haste makes waste. Without taking the time to plan your day, week, or even life, you hurriedly use up your time with accomplishing the important things that bring success and you overlook the daily joys and miracles because your too "busy" to embrace them.
Planning my friends begins with a vision of your future. Almost seven years ago I too was checking off appointments and just going from hour to hour putting out fires. People ask how I am able to do what I do in a day, week or month? I answer only by God's grace and by allowing him to direct my goals. You can develop financial, social, professional, and spiritual goals. Once you have a goal in mind, you plan accordingly to achieve it. For example, if you want to improve your financial situation, you determine your goal. Then you determine what steps you will take to attain that financial goal. You may want to cut your spending or increase your income with a second job. Then you have a guide, or plan, to follow and keep you progressing toward your goal of attaining the financial status you desire.
Without some type of plan, you may wander haphazardly wasting effort and time.
A plan can give you direction, focus, and accountability to remain diligent in your endeavors.
My good friend and former boss and mentor Rev Ken Powell had a sign on his desk when I started working at the pickle company that read "Plan what you do & do what you plan". Avoid spinning your wheels. Maintain control of your schedule; do not let it control you. We have so many tools and gadgets to assist us today so please be a good steward of your time as well as your money, remember it all comes as a gift from God.
Selah people' and friends review your calendar each day. Make sure that you have evidence of your goals accounted for in your schedule. Plan for work, rest and relationships, make time for God and your family...right it down, key it in or record it and leave yourself a voicemail. Do whatever it takes to plan out your future. If you do not have these listed, schedule time into your day as appointments to develop your goals. Start today for we are not promised tomorrow.
"Choose today to have big vision and to acknowledge it is not about you but it is ll about Christ using each of us to accomplish His work."
Your pastor,
Rev Patrick Muston ~ Via mobile Mount Olive, NC
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