Perfect partners complement each other, former procrastinators. They may be flavors, business associates, or Clydesdale horses. They anchor each other. They also animate each other. That’s what makes priorities and routine a dynamic duo. When you determine your priorities and build them into your routine, you have direction and power. There’s a matching up of needs, heart desires, and practical steps that results in accomplishment because the priority gets regular attention. This dynamic duo helps us avoid “procrastinated priorities” –…
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Routine and Mini Habits, Perfect Partners – Lay Aside Every Weight
There are pairs that just go together, former procrastinators. Lock and key, hammer and nails, needle and thread. Neither item in these pairs can fulfill its purpose without the other. Sending a needle through fabric without thread accomplishes nothing. Trying to push a limp thread without the needle gets you nowhere. These pairs work together. Sometimes we procrastinate by default because we’re trying to act with one member of a pair. We try to “work in” a class or scripture…
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Building the Special into Routine – Lay Aside Every Weight
We women – and moms in particular, former procrastinators, – have a tendency to set aside things we long to do in order to serve those in our care. So many household chores actually are priorities. So much family care takes time and attention that there seems to be nothing left for certain things we long to do. We sometimes even stop thinking about them. The interest and desire either fade or get put in a box on a shelf…
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Taking Time to Train – Lay Aside Every Weight
Dinnertime at my cousins’ house was fun, former procrastinators. When my uncle came home from work, he and my aunt relaxed in their chairs; he read the newspaper, she did needlework. My cousins moved to the kitchen and completed the dinner preparations my aunt had begun earlier in the day. When dinner was ready, the girls called the family to the table. Once when a lady was visiting and observed what was going on, she made the comment, “You’re so…
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Starting Routine – Lay Aside Every Weight
Maybe, former procrastinators, the idea of establishing a routine is overwhelming. You can do it! Begin with the morning tasks before leaving for school or work. What is the priority? Leave the house with margin so you aren’t running for the bus stop or catching every red light. (We know that happens.) Write down your target time of departure, allowing extra minutes to avoid rushing the drive. What things do you need to do before leaving? Try this. Make a…
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Routine, the Great Weight Lifter – Lay Aside Every Weight
My friend, former procrastinators, says lack of routine is our greatest time waster. It’s also a great energy zapper. Now I think it’s one of the heaviest weights we lug around. Many schools begin in August, so we give attention to routine at this time of year. Whether you send school kids off on a bus, drive them, send them to the computer, or meet them at the kitchen table, there’s a time to report in for the workday. Yet…
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Is It Really Conversation?
We’ve heard, former procrastinators, “Prayer is conversation with God.” Focusing on this definition, I realize I’m a poor conversationalist. Do you feel unsatisfied after devotions? Do you still carry the weight you came with? Do you feel like you have to pray certain things in a certain way in order to “cover it all”? Do you have “fallback prayers” that enable you to check the quiet time box? Do you feel heard? I wonder…Does God feel heard by me? Often…
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