Plan Your Work,
Work Your Plan.
If you can keep this simple couplet in mind before you start anything, I guarantee you that you will have a more successful day and more time to do the things you wanted to do. This applies to everything. I will give you three simple examples.
1. You think to yourself, "I am going to read the bible more often." So you read it one day and then when the urge hits again, you read a little more, and then you have a frustrating day so you read a little more. The problem with this method is that you have no goal in your reading. Instead, I propose that you set up a schedule for your bible reading. You make a covenant with yourself to read X number of pages, X minutes a week on a certain day, or X chapters in a month. When you have this kind of a schedule, you break down the complex ideas of the bible into manageable parts. You focus on getting something out of the Bible during each session. And most importantly, you read the sections you perhaps would leave out because they are not your favorite.
2. You want to clean up your yard. So you put on your work clothes and head out there. You begin by picking up the leaves in the yard and fill your first bag...and notice you don't have a second bag. You run to the store for more leaf bags and come back home to finish up cleaning the leaves. Next you want to plant your new flowers, and you begin to plant but you don't have any potting soil. So you run back to the store for soil, and so on and so forth. If you made a list of all the jobs needed in the yard and made one trip to the store for everything, you might have time help the elderly neighbor who can't get to her yard anymore.
3. You have a project at work, so you figure you will start the project, and as you start, you get a new great idea and so you take the project in a different direction. Then as you work on the project some more, you get yet another great idea and take the project in yet a third new direction. By now, your co-workers are so tired of taking the project in one direction and undoing it to go in your next better direction that the project loses momentum and force. If instead, you sat down at the table with your team and planned the project; every creative idea could come out before the work starts and once the final plan is in place, the staff can each take a step and no step is left undone. No typo is left unedited. No organizational chart un-copied.
I will help you with starting to live your life according to this couplet. Say right now with me, "Until today, I did not structure my life as well as I could. So from this day forward - I will "Plan to Work, and Work My Plan.
If you would like to know Jesus better and have a great time while doing it. Come to Hope Covenant Church and be part of a great church community. Keep in mind our summer schedule. Service is now at 10:00 A.M.
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