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My Sunday “To-Do” List
Do you ever daydream during worship services? Even as your lips sing the words to the songs and hymns, does your mind flit to memories from the past week or plans for the next? Ecclesiastes 5:1...
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In Pursuit of Lasting Results
I have a friend who refuses to iron more than one piece of clothing at a time. She believes that dying with a closet full of clean, pressed clothes would be testimony to a wasted life. Why bother...
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A New Year/ A New You
Even in grade school, my favorite section of the library was the “how-to” shelf. While my friends were reading their way through all 175 volumes of Nancy Drew, I was checking out book after book on...
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How Will You Be Remembered?
An interviewer once asked Nobel Laureate Toni Morrison how she had become such a great writer. Did she study a particular method? Read books to hone her craft? Study under famous authors? To which...
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My Empty Nest List
I distinctly remember crying when my firstborn was only four days old, because our time together was ticking by so fast. And sure enough, it seems like I barely blinked before he was grown and gone,...
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Lesson #1: Keep Your Eyes on the Ball
When I first got married, I possessed an utter lack of coordination in the area of gross motor skills. I couldn’t catch (or hit) anything to save my life. No matter what was tossed to me — baseballs,...
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New Year’s Resolutions We All Should Make
I’m all for making lists of specific goals, but sometimes general reminders are in order, as well. Try posting these objectives on a bulletin board and reviewing them daily until they become automatic...
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Consistency is Key
Last January, I wrote about the different approach I was trying for my 2012 New Year’s resolutions. I purposed to work on one new habit at a time and allow it to become firmly established before moving...
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Lesson #4: Perfectionism is a Trap
My father was a general contractor. He was also a perfectionist — not a perfectionist about everything, mind you, but certainly a perfectionist about his work. When Daddy did a job, he did it right....
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19 Ways to Boost Productivity
Do you start every new year like I do, with a long list of things you want to accomplish in the following twelve months? Wouldn’t you love to look back on 2014 next December, having actually completed...
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Health Watch: Time to Schedule a Screening Colonoscopy
I had my first screening colonoscopy this week. My husband made the appointment for me when he called to schedule his own. I’m all for dating your mate. And I’m normally delighted when my husband plans...
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Setting Goals for the New Year
Goals. Resolutions. Plans for the future. Call them what you may, but as a perpetual list maker, I have always loved the fresh start a New Year symbolizes. It’s a chance to dream big, to try harder,...
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We Find What We Look For
When my husband was doing his medical residency, he had an attending physician who truly seemed bewildered by Doug’s happiness. “Why are you always so cheerful?” he’d ask. “You’re poor. You live in a...
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5 Productivity Tips that Aren’t Tied to Tech
I’ll be first to admit that technology is amazing. I use it all the time. To set goals. Coordinate schedules. Make phone calls. To text family and friends. Take photos. Make lists. To track fitness....
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Don’t Ditch Your New Year’s Resolutions Yet!
Photo by Estée Janssens on Unsplash Did you make any New Year’s Resolutions this year? How’s it going? Are you sticking with the plan? Or have you already abandoned the idea completely? A couple weeks...
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Never Enough Time?
My husband and I are both list makers by nature, but we approach our lists differently. I’m all about the details, which is why I’ve been known to start the New Year with as many as seven type-written...
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EP 32: How to Get Stuff Done
Today I’m pulling back the curtain on habits that have helped me be more productive. I hope you’ll find them helpful for getting stuff done, as well. Most of the material for today’s podcast is taken...
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EP 40: The Art of Setting Worthwhile Goals
Goals are important because they provide a sense of purpose and direction. Proverbs 16:9 assures us “A man’s heart plans his way, But the LORD directs his steps.” So even when you aren’t 100% sure...
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