No man has a right to be idle. . . . [W]here is it in such a world as this that health, and leisure, and affluence may not find some ignorance to instruct, some wrong to redress, some want to supply, some misery to alleviate?
—William Wilberforce
HT: What’s Best Next: How the Gospel Transforms the Way You Get Things Done by Matt Perman
Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, at all the times you can, to all the people you can, as long as you ever can.
—John Wesley
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There is another that has made you, and preserves you, and provides for you, and on whom you are dependent: and He has made you for himself, and for the good of your fellow-creatures, not only for yourself.
—Jonathan Edwards
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When we are driven by the gospel, we act in God’s power and work for the peace and prosperity of everyone (Jer. 29:4-7). And God’s call on us is to do this through all kinds of work, not just ministry work.
—Matt Perman
HT: What’s Best Next: How the Gospel Transforms the Way You Get Things Done by Matt Perman
Aimless, unproductive Christians contradict the creative, purposeful, powerful, merciful God we love.
—John Piper
HT: What’s Best Next: How the Gospel Transforms the Way You Get Things Done by Matt Perman
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
Basing our happiness on our ability to control everything is futile.
—Stephen Covey, Rebecca Merrill, and Roger Merrill
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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
Nothing is less productive than to make more efficient what should not be done at all.
—Peter Drucker
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Ideas don’t happen because they are great—or by accident. The misconception that great ideas inevitably lead to success has prevailed for too long. . . . Creative people are known for winging it: improvising and acting on intuition is, in some way, the haloed essence of what we do and who we are. However, when we closely analyze how the most successful and productive creatives, entrepreneurs, and business people truly make ideas happen, it turns out that “having the idea” is just a small part of the process, perhaps only 1 percent of the journey.
—Scott Belsky
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