Conquering Your Chaos: No Time to WasteSample

Pursue excellence. Never settle for good. Go for great. I’m sure you’ve heard these catchphrases and other rally cries beckoning us to do more and be more. I might normally join in the battle cry to go the distance, but not here. Not in the fight to overcome the chaos confounding our calendars. Not in this single example for the one needing clarity and focus.

Instead of concentrating on greatness, become a finisher. Are you the creative who keeps a hundred ideas flowing at once? Is your workspace an array of sticky notes and half-filled file folders for possible endeavors? Do you have closets with partially completed projects? Is your mind overflowing with ideas you believe God has given you to pursue for His Glory? Often the inability to settle on one possibility hinders you and me from completing the important.

Today is not about your hobbies but those pursuits that remain unfinished because you and I continue to cycle in and out of holy discontent, personal disappointment, and the struggle to believe God. Too often, we can’t seem to pull it all together. It is here where the rubber meets the road, landing us in the gutter with a flat tire.

You and I can look around at other people sort of doing what we are trying to do who seem to do it better. They appear to get more done, more efficiently, with stellar results, while you and I can’t seem to finish a single undertaking. Instead of accomplishing the task, we spend two more weeks tweaking it. Make five improvements. Alter the delivery or the design. Decide it needs an overhaul. By then, the time is gone, and we move on. What we fail to do is finish.

Give yourself permission not to be excellent.

To the fixer, tweaker, overhauler, and the one who can’t pull it all together, complete the good. A good idea executed is better than a great one that never gets realized.

Say “Goodbye” to foggy agendas and the unfinished, almost remarkable works floating around you. Thanks be to God you can conquer the chaos flowing out of your To-Do lists.

· Knowing what God says is important

· Prayerfully discerning what you will neglect

· Separating the urgent from the important

· Considering what you can outsource

· Completing the good

We hope this plan has been an encouragement. For more Gospel-centered resources from Cheri, visit https://www.sheyearns.com/what-is-next/.