Time Management 101 - Getting Your Time Back

We live in a world that gives us more and more...faster and faster and calls it progress. But is this good for us? Do you ever feel like someone else is setting the agenda of your life? Thankfully the Bible gives us some wisdom on how to make the most of the days we are given.

Here is a talk that I gave called "I want my time back" in which I explore this topic biblically and try to apply it to our lives. As we begin the new year, we all need to consider an important question.

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Is there enough time in my life right now for me to do what I say matters most on a daily basis?

Here is an excellent and (short!) book that can make a BIG difference - A Minute of Margin: Restoring Balance to Busy Lives180 Daily Reflections by Richard Swenson

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Where’s the balance? Too many of us are losing the "war of the planner." We want to get everything done, but for some reason, it never happens. And the machines that were supposed to make lives easier only leave our lives more stressful.

Something has to give, and often it does––to disastrous consequences.

Expanding on principles from Dr. Richard Swenson’s best-selling books Margin and The Overload Syndrome, this book consists of 180 daily readings to help restore balance to hectic, modern lives. Each reading serves as a practical assignment––a helpful "prescription"––to eliminate unneeded frustrations, reflect on what’s really important, and start winning the war with our time.

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Sand?

What are you building your life on? "No one sets out to build on sand....Life is this way. No one sits down and plans on having a mediocre existence. No couple pledges their troth aiming at getting a divorce someday. Nobody nurses a grudge in hopes of becoming a bitter resentful person. People don't give birth to children intending to be so busy that their kids won't know them. No one sits down and plans on his life going to hell" (Ortberg). It just happens one choice at a time.

Jesus told a story once and asked a very profound question: sand or rock? What's it gonna be?

Why did someone have to invent the Sundial?

Ok....I am preparing a message on Time. And I am now much more aware than ever why I do not like watches...or their predecessor...sun dials. I am not alone! I was amused when I came across what Plautus, a Roman Playwright in 200 B.C., said:

The gods confound the man who first found out
How to distinguish hours! Confound Him, too,
Who in this place set up a sun-dial,
To cut and hack my days so wretchedly,
Into small portions.

Preach it, brother...