The Best Minute: On getting started, decisions, and choosing busyness
2 QUOTES FROM OTHERS
I. Ashley C. Ford on the importance of getting started:
“Your first step is just that: the first of many steps. For so long I would stand still, afraid to move in any direction because I wasn’t sure which was the course I wanted to follow for the rest of my life. Finally, someone explained to me that my first steps did not necessarily determine one path for all my tomorrows. There would be more decisions, and more opportunities to make a shift should I need to do so.”
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II. Sam Allberry on questions to ask when following Jesus:
“Discipleship means asking: What does God love that I’m tempted to hate, & what does God hate that I’m tempted to love?
What does God want me to let go that I’m tempted to grip on to, & what does God want me to grip on to that I’m tempted to let go?”
2 IDEAS FROM ME
I. You are more than the decision you make, but you are not less. What you do doesn’t define all of you, but it certainly defines a lot about you. Are the decisions you are currently making defining you as someone you want to be or someone you don’t?
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II. Busyness is a choice. However, it is also a choice we make without thinking. We don’t plan to spend as much time as we do each day looking at our phones or checking our email, or watching too many episodes of a show.
If your life feels too busy, consider one area of your life you unintentionally choose to spend too much time on and create healthy boundaries that will give you more time for other things.
1 INTERESTING FACT
Spanning 2,340 miles, the Mississippi River is the third-largest watershed in the world. That’s one long stretch of water. So long, in fact, that it takes one drop of water approximately 90 days to travel its entire length.
Source: RD
1 QUESTION TO LEAVE YOU WITH
What are you avoiding right now that you’ll wish you addressed one year from now?
P.S. Anyone need some water?
