"So teach us to number our days that we may get a heart of wisdom."
Psalm 90:12
Time management is easier said than done. I don't need to tell you how vital time is to you and your legacy, but no matter how much you fight for it you could still be wasting more time that you wany to.
Time is the only resource that we can never get more of than others. Unlike money, knowledge, energy or any other resource, we all have the same amount of time in a day, in a week and in a year. No one gets more time in the day than others, and we are responsible for our own time. Even Jesus did His earthly ministry within the confines of time and had only three years to save the whole world. Still He accomplished His goal and made the most of the time He had here on earth.
Proper time management can have many enemies - procrastination, lack of discipline, failing to prepare and plan, and bad habits just to name a few. As you can see, most if not all of the enemies to better time management come back to ourselves. We really can't blame anyone else for not having the time we want or not being able to take good care of the time we are given. It's always our call. In the same way, the solution also lies in you.
Psalm 90:12 tells us, "So teach us to number our days that we may get a heart of wisdom." Note how it is we who must learn to number our days and we who must gain a heart of wisdom. Your parents, your secretary, your boss, your pastor, your spouse or your children cannot learn how to number days for you. They also cannot gain wisdom for proper time management on your behalf. It must start and continue with us.
Thomas Nelson CEO Michael Hyatt shares that a time management problem is really a self management problem. It's not that we lose grip of our time but that we only truly lose grip of ourselves and how we use our time. It's time you regained that control once again.
It's never really about whether we have enough time, but whether we value it enough to steward it well. God has all given us a finite amount of time here on earth and we are to make the best of it. Do you see time as a valuable gift of God? Or do you watch it just flee you and do nothing about it? The key to managing time starts with us and our perception of time. If we truly view time as the precious commodity that it is, we will value it more and manage it better.
