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Posts from the ‘Values, Priorities and Goals’ Category

Oct 27

Daily Dose 8: Priority Primer

  • How long would it take to compile a list of everything you must do and want to do for your whole life?
  • How would you know if you forgot to list an important item?
  • Do you think it would be time well spent if you prepared such a list?
  • How do you think you would feel once you had the list in hand: energized or overwhelmed?
  • How long would the list be helpful: a day, a week, a month, or a year, before it would be hopelessly out-of-date?

Quite a few organizational systems start with compiling such a list–and yes, if someone has hired a time consultant it might take several days of consulting fees to pull it together. These systems are following excellent ancient advice from the Lord when they ask their clients to undertake such a project. The Lord’s advice comes to us in the form of a prayer from Moses back to the Lord in Psalm 90: teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts to wisdom (Psalms 90:12). Read more

Oct 26

Daily Dose 7: Priority Stewardship: What do the words mean?

Do you know how to get the right answer for any situation? You need to ask the right questions! Questions set a line of inquiry, and the best sets of questions help us maintain a wholesome objectivity, a passionate determination, and a helpful empathy. Questions are so informative! At times questions open new vistas and insights way beyond their actual answers. Questions are so helpful, we’ll need to give them a day or two on center stage, but right now, we just need to know what time questions will work that kind of magic for us? Read more

Oct 25

Daily Dose 6: Biblical Thinking

Thinking about time through the priority stewardship lens is not slapping a new term on top of an old idea, but realigned thinking. Accurate biblical thinking aligns our minds with God’s—something that is neither natural nor (often) welcome for most of us. While it may sound impressive (or boorishly superior) to declare, “My thoughts in this area of life reflect God’s thinking,” such words usually point to a motive or an attitude that is decidedly NOT aligned with God’s thoughts and character. So here is the first truth about biblical thinking: it is never just about the superficial words or surface responses, it is at least equal doses of motives, desires, drives, and thinking. Read more

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