To Do List

I got this devotional in my inbox the other day.  What a great message.  I immediately thought how fitting for me and all those other busy moms out there.  But it's also a great reminder for anyone. Time to focus on these two munchkins!

Completing To-Do List is not Your Life's Purpose
by Rick Warren

"A time to embrace and a time to refrain." (Ecclesiastes 3:5b NIV)

God never intended for us to make completing a to-do list the purpose of our lives. Yet, many of us keep trying to cram more and more into each day.

The fact is, there are many things we think we must do that really are not worth doing. My point is this: You won’t simplify your life by getting an electronic organizer. You won’t even do it by convincing your neighbor, who makes Martha Stewart look like a sloth, to give you tips about coordinating your activities.

Simplifying is really about choices — prioritizing what is important — and then sticking to those choices no matter how tempting it is to add more to your to-do list. In fact, take those tempting activities and put them on a list of things not to do.

You are the only one who can assume responsibility for your time and clarify what’s really important to you.

Now, maybe you’re thinking, “But I have to take care of the kids,” or “I have to get this report done by Friday.” I’m not naïve about the pressures many people feel today, but it may be that those things — your children, your work — are the priorities you keep on your to-do list, and you move other things to the not-to-do list.

Talk About It:
- You are the only one who can assume responsibility for your time and clarify what’s really important to you.
- Re-evaluate your to-do list for today. What's really important? What can be moved to the not-to-do-list?