Every few months it seems a new book comes out on time management and personal effectiveness. Each one claims to have found “The hidden secret of success” which everyone before them has somehow overlooked. However, after watching the fads for many years now, I’ve really concluded there are only 3 absolutely essential pillars to time management and nearly every new book or tape on the topic builds on these 3 concepts.
1. Set goals
2. Prioritize your goals
3. Schedule activity to help reach your highest priority goal first.
There’s a lot we can add to those three concepts, especially from a Christian perspective of making sure we’re doing what God wants us to do, but much of it comes right back to those three things:
1. Set goals
2. Prioritize your goals
3. Schedule activity to help reach your highest priority goal first.
It’s really a very simple formula, but it will help us redeem the time.
Rick Grubbs is best known as the host of “Redeeming the Time,” a one-minute radio program featured on hundreds of radio outlets around the world. He has spoken thousands of times on Biblical time management in all 50 states and 26 other countries. He is the author of the book “Morning Momentum: God’s plan for launching an unstoppable day”. He and his wife Carrie live in Salisbury NC with several of their 12 children.
