The source of our lack of fulfillment is not just that the best of our intentions often get knocked away from us. The deeper reason is that we feel unfulfilled when there is a gap between what is most important to us (the realm of personal leadership) and what we are actually doing with our time (the realm of personal management).
—Matt Perman
HT: What’s Best Next: How the Gospel Transforms the Way You Get Things Done by Matt Perman
Whenever the ark set out, Moses said,
“Rise up, Lord!
May your enemies be scattered;
may your foes flee before you.”
—Numbers 10:35 NIV
Basing our happiness on our ability to control everything is futile.
—Stephen Covey, Rebecca Merrill, and Roger Merrill
HT: What’s Best Next: How the Gospel Transforms the Way You Get Things Done by Matt Perman
The Lord bless you
and keep you;
the Lord make his face shine on you
and be gracious to you;
the Lord turn his face toward you
and give you peace.
—Numbers 6:24-26 NIV
It doesn’t matter how efficient you are if you are doing the wrong things in the first place. More important than efficiency is effectiveness—getting the right things done. In other words, productivity is not first about getting more things done faster. It’s about getting the right things done.
—Matt Perman
HT: What’s Best Next: How the Gospel Transforms the Way You Get Things Done by Matt Perman
Do not take advantage of each other, but fear your God. I am the Lord your God.
—Leviticus 25:17 NIV
Nothing is less productive than to make more efficient what should not be done at all.
—Peter Drucker
HT: What’s Best Next: How the Gospel Transforms the Way You Get Things Done by Matt Perman
Moses did everything just as the Lord commanded him.
—Exodus 40:16 NIV
The ideas that move industries forward are not the result of tremendous creative insight but rather of masterful stewardship.
—Scott Belsky
HT: What’s Best Next: How the Gospel Transforms the Way You Get Things Done by Matt Perman
Moses bowed to the ground at once and worshiped. “Lord,” he said, “if I have found favor in your eyes, then let the Lord go with us. Although this is a stiff-necked people, forgive our wickedness and our sin, and take us as your inheritance.”
—Exodus 34:8-9 NIV
