(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…
In August, former procrastinators, I’m taking a break for some summer time recharging. Because school starts this month for many and because all of us are affected by the school year, I’m going to replay our August month on Routine. Enjoy lots of summer play and rest; then this month’s posts will help with new…
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…
You know, former procrastinators, even experts in their fields don’t agree. Stephen Guise encourages such small goals that performing them takes very little effort – so little that it’s actually easy to exercise will power and do them. (Read two pages in a book, do one push up.) In The Compound Effect Darren Hardy says,…
Happy Day After Father’s Day, former procrastinators. I hope you have wonderful fathers, husbands, sons, and other influential men in your lives that you gratefully honor. Reviewing Darren Hardy’s The Compound Effect has prompted me to recall ways my own dad compounded his influence as my father. His consistent “deposits” of instruction, counsel, fun, and…
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