I don’t know about you but one of my biggest weaknesses is
that I am a procrastinator; I have been ever since I was young. I would always
put off what needed to get done until I was out of time and had no choice but
to do it. Well this week I read a blog post by Pete Wilson that challenged and
spoke to me, and if you are like me and struggle with procrastination I think
it will do the same for you. So I thought I would share it with you today.
The Right Thing At The
Right Time - Pete Wilson
You know what I struggle
with these days. In a word? Procrastination.
Procrastination is the
failure to do the right thing at the right time.
For most of us our problem
is not that we don’t know what to do. Our problem is not that we deliberately
refuse to do what we ought to do. We just don’t get around to doing it. I’m preaching
to myself today, but here’s a few things I’ve found helpful.
1. Give Up Perfection.
One of the strongest links
to procrastination is perfectionism. My friend Jon Acuff calls this the procrastinating perfectionist.
Jon says “90% perfect and shared with the world always
changes more lives than 100% perfect and stuck in your head.”
Eccl. 11:4 “If you wait
for perfect conditions, you’ll never get anything done.”
Stop waiting for…
The perfect day.
The perfect plan.
The perfect reason.
The perfect person.
If you wait for perfection
to pursue it will always paralyze.
2. Buddy Up.
Go public with your
dreams. The longer I stay quiet about something God has prompted me to do the
more likely I am not to do it.
The longer you live with a
God prompt the more content you become with not following it.
3. Ruthlessly Prioritize
I must decide what really
matters. This is a choice of the heart. I want to live so that my
life reflects my values. So that when people look at me, they know what
is really important to me.
Psalm 90:12 “Teach us to
number our days so that we may grow in wisdom.”
Today is a gift. I’m not
promised or owed tomorrow. It’s a gift.
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-Brad Snipes
Middle School Pastor, BCC