Using Time Well

Can't help myself to post this one from CROSSWALK (In Touch with Dr. Charles Stanley)

This is very timely for me...This is what i really need to do as of this moment. =)

Matthew 25:14-28

As today's passage indicates, the Lord gives us resources and abilities, and He desires that we use them well. One such gift is time.

In order to manage our days effectively, we should continually review them: What activities did we choose? How long did each one take? What were the results? This discipline will reveal what is most important to us.

In looking closely at our assessments, we can determine what drives our decisions about how to use time. Some people merely respond to circumstances for a majority of their day. They jump from one thing to the next, answering phone calls, reorganizing shelves, or doing anything that appears in their world at the moment. But this style of living misses the mark.

Other people spend their time according to desires. They want to relax, so they get home and watch television for the evening. Or they love to hunt, so they use their time to research equipment and locate wildlife in the forest. Desires are not bad, but they should not drive the bulk of our actions.

Thankfully, there are also people who live according to what they deem important. Loving God and serving others, for instance, are two biblical values that should, ideally, determine what we do with our time.

If you itemize your activities and their time consumption over the course of a week, you might be surprised at the dominating events. Each moment is a gift, so set aside a few minutes each evening to plan. Then revisit the way you spent the last 24 hours. This will help you to live purposefully.

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Remember that you are an apple up on one of the high and frail branches of the tree, most often guys would like to pick you. But that means they would have to climb, risk the chance of falling. One day, there's this guy who climbed the tree, and you felt so happy and excited. However, since you are on a frail and high branch, it is taking him some time. So, you feel impatient. Then out of the blue, a guy with a long stick is trying to pluck you. You feel so excited again ... BUT, don't you think you'd better wait for the one who risked it all to get you than for that someone who stayed safely on the ground and your not even sure if he could catch you when you fall ???
Remember, INTELLIGENT girls escaped troubles, WISE girls avoid.
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The PRESENT

3 wAys tO uSe YoUr PRESENT mOMenT:

* Be in the present
When you want to be happy and successful, focus on what is right now. Use your purpose to respond to what is important now.

** Learn from the past
When you want to make the present better than the past, look at what happened in the past. Learn something valuable from it. Do things differently in the PRESENT.

*** Plan for the future
When you want to make the future better than the present, see what a wonderful future would look like. Make plans to help it happen. Put your plan into action in the PRESENT.


Even in the most difficult situations
When you focus on what is right in the present moment,
It makes you happier,
And gives you the needed energy and confidence to deal with what is wrong.

Anytime you are unhappy in the present
Or feeling unsuccessful,
It is time to learn from the past
Or plan for the future.

Look at what happened in the past.
Learn something valuable from it.
Use what you learn to improve the present.

You cannot change the past,
But you can learn from it.
When the same situation arises,
You can do things diffently
And enjoy a more successful present.

No one can predict or control the future,
However, the more you plan for what you want to see happen,
The less anxious you are in the present,
and the more the future is known to you.

-- The PRESENT by Spencer Johnson

How to be FINANCIALLY FIT

3 Steps to be financially fit:

1. debt-free
2. savings
3. investment

Things to remember in achieving your goal:
1. Take small steps at a time.
2. Maintain a discipline in keeping your goal.
3. Don't give up when you encounter set-backs.

"Moreover, GOD is able to make every grace abundant for you, so that in all things, always having you need, you may have an abundance for every good work."
-- 2 Corinthians 9:8

"What you have not saved in your youth, how will you acquire in your old age?"
-- Sirach 25:3

"Precious treasure remains in the house of the wise, but the fool consumes it."
-- Proverbs 21:20

"Go to the ant, O sluggard, study her ways and learn wisdom; For though she has no chief, no commander or ruler, she procures her food in the summer, stores up her provisions in the harvest."
-- Proverbs 6:6-8

"ALWAYS THINK OF A NOBLE GOAL"