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From: "The Word for Today" <list.wft@rbg.co.nz>
Date: Mon, 02 Jun 2008 02:06:46
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Subject: The Word for Today : Overcoming Procrastination!
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The Word for Today
With Bob Gass
Monday, June 2nd, 2008
New Zealand
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Bob Gass <http://websites.rbg.co.nz/TheWordForToday/bobgass_small.jpg> Overcoming Procrastination!
Find out and do whatever the Lord wants you to. - Ephesians 5:17 TLB
To overcome procrastination you must: (1) Take responsibility for your life. No matter how hard you wish, the tooth fairy isn't going to come while you're sleeping and replace failure with success. Great souls have 'wills', feeble souls have 'wishes'. You need to do something!
(2) Examine your excuses. An excuse puts the blame on something other than you, which means the solution is beyond your reach. Excuses are like exit signs on the road of progress; they take us off track. It's easier to move from failure to success, than from excuses to success. So examine your excuses and eliminate them.
(3) Focus on the benefits of completing a task. To get you over the hump, focus on what you'll 'get out of it' when you get it done. Will it bring you benefit? Clear the way for something else you'd like to do? Be a milestone in your personal development or the completion of something bigger? Will it help to clear the decks for you emotionally? Admiral William Halsey said, "All problems become smaller if you don't dodge them, but confront them. Touch a thistle timidly and it pricks you, grasp it boldly and its spines crumble."
(4) Ask for help. Columbus didn't discover the New World on his own, he needed a crew. Speaking of the church, Paul writes, "Each part...helps the other parts grow" (Eph 4:16 NLT). There's infinite value in the assistance others can give you when it comes to breaking old habits and beginning new ones. Yes, it means taking a risk because you will be vulnerable in sharing your hopes and fears. But the risk is worth taking.
SoulFood Bible Readings: 1 Ki 18:16 - 20:43, Mk 14:66-72, Ps 124, Pr 12:26
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