In Preach My Gospel, Elder Ballard says that we must set goals and learn how to master the techniques to achieve them. Mastering the techniques needed to reach our goals includes becoming the master manager of our time.
It is interesting that each of us is freely given exactly the same amount of time each day. No one is given 25 nor 23 hours. I find that often when the last hour of one day finally finds me, I feel that all those 24 hours disappeared and I accomplished nothing. I can't even remember what I was doing most of those hours.
As I consider Elder Ballard's words, I know I am not a master manager of my time. I have hundreds of goals to meet in six months. I guess the best thing would be to prioritize my goals and choose the one or two or three that seem to be the most important. Then I need to consider "mastering" management of my time as I consider how I am going to accomplish those goals.
Every major goal will involved many small goals, small stepping stones to make progress toward the big one, (Our mission.) I have shared in this blog many goals. Often I find that I mention one, one day and then mention another one the next day. Then two days later I mention another one. So I guess it is time for me to sit down and remember those goals, evaluate them, and then prioritize them to which are the three that I feel, through Spiritual direction, are the most important, then strive to master my time management to pursue those three.
I guess I could say it is my goal to do that, then I need to set smaller goals to.... Now it is getting crazy. Goals to set goals, to work on goals, to arrive at a goal. With only six months to go, I need to figure out what time it is? I need to start focusing on the most important goal to prepare for that ultimate goal. Then I need to work on my time management to achieve it.
What time is it? It is time to select one major goal, focus on that specific goal and then manage my time to make progress toward that goal. I could even make it a goal to become a master manager of my time. Sorry I couldn't stop myself...
Bottom line? What time is it? What do I do now? It is time to evaluate my progress of the past six months, evaluate where I am, have I wasted time, am I making enough progress, am I focused on the master goal? It is time to ponder and improve. I need to select the one that Father would have me work on right now, which ultimately would will help me achieve others I am sure.
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