Ok, so I got this in my daily devotional today, but the issue here is that I do not understand step one. I don’t get what I am supposed to do. I KNOW that time management is my main issue in life and I feel like here is the solution and yet I cannot comprehend the words! It is like seeing a fountain behind glass when you are dying of thirst and the instructions for opening the glass are in Japanese and you can’t read Japanese! I feel stupid. But it's not the first time! :)
How am I supposed to figure out where my time is going if I don't know what I am doing?
I really just don't have time to figure this out! LOL
"Show me, O LORD, my life's end and the number of my days; let me know how fleeting is my life" (Ps 39:4).
David accomplished a great deal in his lifetime. However, he also understood life had an end to it and he wanted to make the most of it. He learned to use his time wisely. And so should we.
Peter Drucker was a renown management consultant to major corporations and authored many bestselling business books. He suggested three activities that might help busy executives better manage their time.
"First, do not start with the task. Start with your time. Determine where your time is going. Then, attempt to manage that time and cut back unproductive demands on your time. Consolidate your 'discretionary' time into the largest possible continuing time units.
Drucker refers to the second step as time management. After listing the activities to which we devote our time, he suggests that we ask three questions about each of these activities to help us minimize the amount of time we waste: "What would happen if this were not done at all?" And if the answer is, 'Nothing would happen,' then obviously the conclusion is to stop doing it. Next, which of the activities on my time log could be done by somebody else just as well, if not better? What do I do that wastes my time without contributing to my effectiveness?
Drucker closes by saying 'Know Thyself,' this old prescription for wisdom is impossibly difficult for mortal men. But everyone can follow the injunction 'Know Thy Time' if you want to, and be well on the road toward contribution and effectiveness."
Why not evaluate how you are spending your time and ask God how to better use your time.
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Our lives are made up of three gifts from God-- time, talent, and treasure. Time is the only one that we aren't very likely to get a significant increase in. We might get more talent if we develop what we have, we might get more treasure if we steward what we have, but each of is is here for a limited time that might end tonight.
Time management is about priorities. Start with a well thought out and prayed out life mission then ruthlessly eliminate what is not developing your life mission while creating a balance in rest, family and other essentials. The first time plan you need is time to develop the life mission that prioritizes your time. Let me know if you need some resources for this.
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