I just took some time out on my mountain bike in the hilly countryside overlooking Carluke and spotted two deer crossing the single track road in the afternoon sun.
The pair, who’d clearly been grazing in an adjacent field, saw me coming and high tailed it over a fence and back into the dense woods.
I was reminded of something I journaled a couple of days ago after emerging from a few very positive but nonetheless densely packed days:
‘One thing at a time.’
Also, an online reading I’d seen yesterday came to mind. It’s title was :
‘One sequence at a time.’
Everyday life can be something like the forest that the deer disappeared into. It can be tempting to go from tree to tree – task to task – based on what’s right in front of us.
What would help us all make more progress is to stay focused on one woodland path at a time. That way we would make more headway.
I heard some months ago about one businessman who divides his day into 90-minute chunks so that he can make meaningful progress in each project area. Something as rigid may not be quite right for you or me and fit our workstyle or lifestyle. But the bones of something are there.
Perhaps one of things you need to do is take more time out – like the deer did from the woods – to be built up to enable to you to be a better builder.
This applies whether you’re a people builder, family builder, business builder or church builder. You can’t give out to the full what you yourself don’t fully have.
It takes intent and effort to set aside the time to be restored, whether mentally, spiritually, physically or relationally.
So, how will you go about getting out of the thickets of life to spend some time in the daylight to get recharged and re-assess your priorites?
Further question: what strategies are helpful in making sure we don’t get overwhelmed by too much ‘bitty’ activity and stay on top of often conflicting demands?
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