We weren’t made to simply respond to stuff all day, but to take action and move things forward. If we don’t give attention to the discipline of personal effectiveness but instead let the flow of events determine what we do, we will likely fritter ourselves away doing all sorts of urgent things that come our way while never getting to the truly important things.
—Matt Perman
HT: What’s Best Next: How the Gospel Transforms the Way You Get Things Done by Matt Perman
While the tendency to generate ideas is rather natural, the path to making them happen is tumultuous.
—Scott Belsky
HT: What’s Best Next: How the Gospel Transforms the Way You Get Things Done by Matt Perman
Every Christian must be fully Christian by bringing God into his whole life, not merely into some spiritual realm.
—Dietrich Bonhoeffer
HT: What’s Best Next: How the Gospel Transforms the Way You Get Things Done by Matt Perman
Peace of mind results when the good of others, and not our own peace of mind, is our first aim.
—Matt Perman
HT: What’s Best Next: How the Gospel Transforms the Way You Get Things Done by Matt Perman
Productivity comes from engagement, not control and mere compliance. This is why operating in our strengths is so important.
—Matt Perman
HT: What’s Best Next: How the Gospel Transforms the Way You Get Things Done by Matt Perman
More important than efficiency is effectiveness—getting the right things done. Efficiency doesn’t matter if you are doing the wrong things in the first place.
—Matt Perman
HT: What’s Best Next: How the Gospel Transforms the Way You Get Things Done by Matt Perman
Read every day something no one else is reading.
Think every day something no one else is thinking.
It is bad for the mind to be always part of unanimity.
—Christopher Morley
HT: Execupundit
Almost always, your road to victory goes through a place called “failure.”
—Bill Walsh
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True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.
—Kurt Vonnegut
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