In Chapter Nine of my book titled Created For Greatness – Living Your Best Life Through God’s Word, I discuss managing time.
As I stated in my book, we all have days when time just seems to slip through our fingers. But if you end every day wondering why you didn’t accomplish much, and if you often feel lack of control in your life, you’re probably not managing time effectively.
If we do not learn how to manage our time better, time will manage us. And because God’s Word tells us to make the best use of our time (Ephesians 5:16), my blogs from June 2023 until December 2023, will deal with ways to manage our time better.
The Why Question.
In general, why is it important to learn how to manage your time better?
The time-management experts say:
When you feel in control, your stress level drops.
You have more energy and are more productive.
And when you are more productive, you feel better about yourself.
And now the question becomes why do you want to manage your time better?
Maybe your answer to the why question is that you want to have less stress.
But here is something else to consider: In order to find the complete answer to a Why question, you need to ask and answer it 3 times.
So your second question becomes: Why do you want less stress?
Maybe your answer is that you want less stress so you can have more energy.
And your third and final question becomes: Why do you want to have more energy?
Maybe your answer is that you want to have more energy so after work you can enjoy your family, the evening activities, and the fruits of your labor.
By answering the why question three times, you now have the complete answer to the Why question, and as a result, you have created a goal.
Write down your goal and keep it on your desk.
Re-reading your goal from time-to-time will enable you to fight through distractions and difficulties that could hinder your efforts to manage your time better.
How does the Why question apply to believers?
The answer to that question is twofold.
First, we want to make the most of our time and live with a purpose because that is what the Lord commands us to do in Ephesians 5:15,16.
Second, when our time comes, we want to hear what the servant heard in Matthew 25, namely, “Well done good and faithful servant, enter into my joy”.