Naming and living our priorities help us maintain our focus on our purpose and dream.
Naming and living our priorities creates alignment on our life playing field.
Naming and living our priorities help us keep the main thing the main thing.
Naming and living our priorities better enable us to identify time wasters and eliminate them.
A friend of ours was giving us an update on one of her daughters. She said her daughter is a minimalist. I had heard the term before but never really gave it much thought until she told us what her daughter was doing and how she was living with no excess or waste.
If you reflect upon my previous week of messages it is easy to see that my family had no choice but to be minimalists. Distractions were at a minimum compared to the world we live in today. I don’t believe any of my grandparents woke up one day and said, “I need to simplify things, my life is way too chaotic.” Or, “I’m spending way too much time on Facebook, I need to delete my account.” I believe it is safe to assume that keeping the main thing the main thing was a way of life for most everyone back then.
Our world’s ability to keep the main thing the main thing was forever challenged when Bill Gates’ dream of everyone having a computer in their home became a reality. Our focus became even more distracted when Steve Jobs made the computer small enough to fit in our hand.
Today we live in a world of “maximalists”…not a word yet, but it’s the opposite of minimalists, which makes it a challenge to remain focused on our priorities. Which is why I’m spending two weeks on this section of our life playing field.
I’m assuming you’ve listed your priorities by now.
I now challenge you to minimize and make a list of everything you do that has absolutely nothing to do with any of your priorities and commit to not wasting time doing those things any longer…easier said than done.
P.E.A.C.E.
Jay@EagleLaunch.com
Philippians 3:13, “Brothers, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead.” (NIV)
