Let’s assemble the players here, former procrastinators. Priorities and routine are effective as a duo. So are mini habits and routine. What would we get if we utilized all three together? BAM! What a powerful combo! This triumphant trio gains us victory over procrastination, regret, fatigue, frustration, confusion, and other weights that defeat us. We win….
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…
Congratulations, former procrastinators! Through a tough year, we’ve met the challenge to be more diligent. The report on my goals: I dropped the writing goal entirely because family considerations brought a more pressing requirement. I could not manage three super high demand priorities. As of this writing, I’ve completed two photo albums I aimed for…
Here’s a cool thing, former procrastinators. The root word of “routine” is “route” or “road.” So helpful! Knowing this, I think of the word in a friendly, profitable way. This is significant because a road leads somewhere, even if it dead ends in the woods as I once did exploring. Where do you want…
Reporting in, former procrastinators: I have completed the first photo album and given it to our daughter! Yea! Two more albums to meet this year’s photo goal. A few essentials. Our petunias remind me of focusing on a few. When I pluck shriveled blossoms off the flowers, I give them relief – permission to…
Just think, former procrastinators. Thinking takes time so it’s easy to put off. Sometimes we don’t want to grapple with a thought that keeps niggling at our minds, so we keep ourselves too busy to think. Thinking through an issue is item number three we’re tackling this month – a third way we can enjoy…
Thinking through what to do in case of emergency, former procrastinators, is one thing we prefer not to deal with but helps equip us when we do. Thinking ahead enables us to think more clearly if or when emergency times come. General Dwight Eisenhower said, “Plans are worthless, but planning is everything.” (He credited an…
Go to the ant, you sluggard; consider its ways and be wise! It has no commander, no overseer or ruler, yet it stores its provisions in summer and gathers its food at harvest.
Proverbs 6:6-8
. . . you have put off the old man with his deeds, and have put on the new man who is renewed in knowledge according to the image of Him who created him.
Colossians 3:9-10