See your day in terms of people and relationships first, not tasks. Creating connections and interacting with people make up the most important parts of your work.
—Matt Perman
HT: What’s Best Next: How the Gospel Transforms the Way You Get Things Done by Matt Perman
Be strong and very courageous. Be careful to obey all the law my servant Moses gave you; do not turn from it to the right or to the left, that you may be successful wherever you go.
—Joshua 1:7 NIV
Your ability to select your most important task at each moment, and then to get started on that task and to get it done both quickly and well, will probably have more of an impact on your success than any other quality or skill you can develop.
—Brian Tracy
HT: What’s Best Next: How the Gospel Transforms the Way You Get Things Done by Matt Perman
No one will be able to stand against you all the days of your life. As I was with Moses, so I will be with you; I will never leave you nor forsake you.
—Joshua 1:5 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
I will proclaim the name of the Lord.
Oh, praise the greatness of our God!
He is the Rock, his works are perfect,
and all his ways are just.
A faithful God who does no wrong,
upright and just is he.
—Deuteronomy 32:3-4 NIV
The great thing, if one can, is to stop regarding all the unpleasant things as interruptions of one’s “own,” or “real” life. The truth is of course that what one calls the interruptions are precisely one’s real life—the life God is sending one day by day; what one calls one’s “real life” is a phantom of one’s own imagination. This at least is what I see at moments of insight: but it’s hard to remember it all the time.
—C.S. Lewis
HT: What’s Best Next: How the Gospel Transforms the Way You Get Things Done by Matt Perman
The Lord himself goes before you and will be with you; he will never leave you nor forsake you. Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged.
—Deuteronomy 31:8 NIV
Researchers have found that whenever most systems—such as airports, freeways, and other such things—exceed about 90 percent capacity, efficiency drops massively. Not just slightly, but massively. This is called the “ringing effect.” The reason is that as a system nears its capacity, the effect of relatively small disturbances is magnified exponentially.
— Matt Perman
HT: What’s Best Next: How the Gospel Transforms the Way You Get Things Done by Matt Perman
Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid or terrified because of them, for the Lord your God goes with you; he will never leave you nor forsake you.
—Deuteronomy 31:6 NIV
