My productivity system contains three components: capture, configure, and control. I want to make sure I fully capture all the tasks on my plate as well as the things that arise throughout the day (per David Allen’s Getting Things Done system). After capturing tasks, I want to configure all the tasks: process them to make…
Even though Oliver Burkeman is not a Christian, he has written a deeply Christian book. His book, Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals, book could be summarized as saying, "You're not God!!" or as Moses wrote thousands of years ago, "Teach us to number our days, That we may present to You [God] a heart…
Productivity guru Stephen Covey popularized a very compelling illustration about prioritization in his book, First Things First, using a jar to represent a person's life. Typically, we haphazardly jam our lives to the full, placing in big rocks (our highest priorities), pebbles (middling priorities), and sand (things we don't really care about) in a jumbled…
Raising Lazarus 