No Returns.
What if you quit everything you're doing now, would it affect anything else?
That's the question I found myself asking this week. I've just finished a job that I was grateful to have, but took a considerable amount of time, energy, and for this time had to be a bit of a priority.
Tonight I'm also making a list of priorities for my life entering this next season. Now, it seems like I should be able to know what's important in my life, right? But maybe sometimes we don't really think about what's important. When I was in high school, I was challenged to make a list of daily goals. But. They had to be attainable in some way: meaning I had to think through the steps of how I would accomplish those goals, because as it still rings through my memory that, "a goal without a plan is just a wish." So after I had written them down, I was then challenged to read them once every day. My list was fairly short and it would have been doable, but I failed miserably. Come to think of it, I don't actually remember what many of them were. The whole purpose of that though was to daily make a conscious effort to strive towards the things you knew were important. Remembering.
It's been a couple months now, but on one of the biggest jobs I had worked on, a lady came outside and jokingly said to her husband, "Honey, I don't like it, can you put 'em back?" Now she was referring to multiple large fir trees that we had either removed or taken a good portion off of. Unfortunately, in that line of work, there's no returns. We can't just put them back up, or glue those branches back on. That's not exactly how it goes.
You can't just simply put a fifty-year-old tree back. You can plant a new one, but that takes time. Similarly, you can't just simply take your weeks back. Some weeks I don't know where the time goes. In recent past, there were numerous days that all I could manage was eating dinner(maybe not even making it) and going to bed so that I can get up early and do it all over again. But do you see the dilemma with that phrase? It's easy to get swept away in what you're doing, and not exactly think about where you're going.
There's no returns. With time we can take back what we've lost, but it doesn't just reappear. So, I ask it again. What if you quit everything you're doing now; would any of it matter? Do you have priorities in life that haven't actually been making the top of the priorities list? I've been told that what we spend time on is a good representation of where our heart is at. But I would instead say what we make time for better shows that. I know you, like me, don't always get to live out your days like you would like. There's some things that simply must be done. But when you quit that and think of all the things that could have been, you have to start from where you're at. And build it up from that. Replant. Repurpose. Reprioritize. Reformat. Rethink. And re-grow.
That's the question I found myself asking this week. I've just finished a job that I was grateful to have, but took a considerable amount of time, energy, and for this time had to be a bit of a priority.
Tonight I'm also making a list of priorities for my life entering this next season. Now, it seems like I should be able to know what's important in my life, right? But maybe sometimes we don't really think about what's important. When I was in high school, I was challenged to make a list of daily goals. But. They had to be attainable in some way: meaning I had to think through the steps of how I would accomplish those goals, because as it still rings through my memory that, "a goal without a plan is just a wish." So after I had written them down, I was then challenged to read them once every day. My list was fairly short and it would have been doable, but I failed miserably. Come to think of it, I don't actually remember what many of them were. The whole purpose of that though was to daily make a conscious effort to strive towards the things you knew were important. Remembering.
It's been a couple months now, but on one of the biggest jobs I had worked on, a lady came outside and jokingly said to her husband, "Honey, I don't like it, can you put 'em back?" Now she was referring to multiple large fir trees that we had either removed or taken a good portion off of. Unfortunately, in that line of work, there's no returns. We can't just put them back up, or glue those branches back on. That's not exactly how it goes.
You can't just simply put a fifty-year-old tree back. You can plant a new one, but that takes time. Similarly, you can't just simply take your weeks back. Some weeks I don't know where the time goes. In recent past, there were numerous days that all I could manage was eating dinner(maybe not even making it) and going to bed so that I can get up early and do it all over again. But do you see the dilemma with that phrase? It's easy to get swept away in what you're doing, and not exactly think about where you're going.
There's no returns. With time we can take back what we've lost, but it doesn't just reappear. So, I ask it again. What if you quit everything you're doing now; would any of it matter? Do you have priorities in life that haven't actually been making the top of the priorities list? I've been told that what we spend time on is a good representation of where our heart is at. But I would instead say what we make time for better shows that. I know you, like me, don't always get to live out your days like you would like. There's some things that simply must be done. But when you quit that and think of all the things that could have been, you have to start from where you're at. And build it up from that. Replant. Repurpose. Reprioritize. Reformat. Rethink. And re-grow.
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