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Year End Review 2018

Decision Making

31 Dec

Looking back over the year, former procrastinators, here are some of the lessons that have most helped me do what needs doing when it needs doing.

  • “Comfort is the emotion that has deceived us all.”
  • Spend no time in the City of Good Intent – content with the idea of what I’ll do someday but taking no action.
  • My greatest impact could be in areas I feel are mundane.  Life-changing character growth and influence take place in the daily duties of life.
  • Instead of instant gratification (procrastination), choose the thing I want more than temporary relief. Choose  the work/rest/play.
  • Pause to be refreshed by moments of pleasure – little valves that relieve pressure and increase joy.
  • Sometimes fun takes extra work.  It’s worth it.
  • Completing at least one thing every day propels me forward.
  • Let resurrection power direct my daily thinking. Refuse to use excuses.  Remove rose-colored glasses that keep me from seeing reality – the time I actually have, what’s priority, etc.
  • The Lord, a friend, a counselor can help release the weights of unforgiveness, broken relationships, pain, crooked thinking that drag me down and feed delay.
  • Straying from the path of action occurs naturally.  I must constantly make course corrections.
  • Priorities are the most important things for me to do – a limited number of essentials.  Establish routine to accomplish priorities, the bowling pins I want to knock down at the end of the lane.  Routines are bumpers that keep my ball in the lane so I hit the pins.
  • Routine is a gift of time, energy, and peacefulness to myself and those around me.  Lack of routine is my greatest time waster and energy drainer. When I drop routine, I drop priorities.  Keeping routine with its priorities makes it less likely I will take on too much.  It helps me avoid putting things off and being overwhelmed.  It leads to accomplishing the most important things. I can use priorities and routine to move God-given dreams into my regular week.
  • When I invest in fewer things, I make significant progress in the things that matter most.  Make trade-offs.  Not “How can I do both?” but, “Where do I want to truly invest?”  Choose.
  • Remove the plank from my own eye.  I can change more than I’ve admitted.
  • Move at a pace that lets me recognize God’s grace, express gratitude, and show generosity.  Hurry and piled up obligations create a stingy spirit in me.
  • Calculate work days needed for a project and days actually available; plan realistically.
  • Margin allows more time for tasks and in between tasks.
  • Misplaced worship creates stress.  Worshipping Jesus relieves stress.  What do I worship?

What lessons have most helped you do what needs doing when it needs doing?

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  1. Ana says

    December 31, 2018 at 11:59 am

    Beth, I love these insights! So much wisdom and food for thought! I Need to keep mulling these over. Many are very applicable to me and I desire to apply them more thoroughly to my life! Thank you!

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  2. Beth Sterne says

    February 21, 2019 at 8:12 am

    Thank YOU, Ana. I learn so much from you!

    Reply

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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

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