Happy New Year, former procrastinators! Rejoice as you review the progress you’ve made in putting off procrastination. The following points have been a special help to me this past year: Employ mini habits. (See the book, Mini Habits by Stephen Guise and the March blogs.) When I’m tempted to put something off, I remember creating…
When I was a spring chicken, former procrastinators, I jogged in the early morning. (Picture that – a chicken jogging!) My mentor and several of us girls went to the track and did our laps. Another jogger was our pastor who offered me some pointers. He explained that I was swinging my arms from side…
(Here’s a refresh on routine while I take a month’s break. Thanks!) Maintaining routine, former procrastinators, can be a challenge – with big payoffs. Owning a car is a challenge with payoffs. It requires adding fuel, going in for regular maintenance, and tending to repairs. It takes time, effort, money. Still, most of us prefer…
(Here’s a refresh on routine while I take a month’s break. Thanks!) Do you identify with my friend, former procrastinators? She said, “My management style is to whack the alligator closest to the boat.” Love that! Hate that. What an apt description. We really don’t want it to describe us. So we’re changing! Not as…
(Here’s a refresh on routine, former procrastinators, while I take a month’s break. Thanks! ) Routine is a great way to help us do what needs doing when it needs doing. This week we tackle getting to work or school. Whether you and your family catch a bus, pile into a car, or commute to…
We former procrastinators are alert to ideas that will genuinely help us do what needs doing when it needs doing – work, play, or rest – so we enjoy that freedom God has for us. We’ve learned we can imprison ourselves through our own choices. We’re learning to choose freedom from being overwhelmed, confused, constantly…
Reporting to you, former procrastinators: Tracking my computer time reveals that I spend twice as much time “vegging out” as I thought I did. That is changing this week. In my sixth grade class, when someone got in trouble, our discerning teacher might ask, “Were you under the influence?” She was referring to other…
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