When It’s Time to Delete Instead of Catch Up
Needless to say, it’s been a crazy few months. With the addition of my son to our family back in August, our schedules have been completely turned up-side-down. Don’t get me wrong, I love my new schedule and the numerous opportunities throughout my day to spend playing with my now 12-week old son are precious moments I know I’ll never have back. But things have been piling up.
Priorities Change All The Time
The down side (if there is one – hahaha) to being ordered and routine in my life is that I don’t always deal well with change. I love change – it’s just easier when I get to initiate it, that’s all. But what happens when some things that you intended to stay up on and do frequently keep piling up without your attention? Do you let yourself feel overwhelmed; allowing procrastination to convince you there will be more time tomorrow? I’m not. Sometimes it’s just not possible to catch up.
Time to Delete
The picture above is part of a screen shot from my Google Reader, the RSS Aggregate I use to keep up with the numerous ministry, technology, business and financial blogs and news sources that I follow and read (or well, try to read) every day. Yup, 601 unread articles. Yikes. I’m not sure how long it would take me this evening to read 601 articles, but if I don’t finish, there will be a few more tomorrow for sure. It’s time to delete what hasn’t been read, deal with the fact that I’m missing some great content, but remind myself that I’ve been productive with what’s really important in my life right now.
How About You?
Are there things in your life that have been piling up? Did you run out of time to do some of the things you intended? Not everything is as easy as just hitting the delete button and moving on, but I would bet that it’s possible in some. You have to make time to do the things that are most important – and it will always be at the expense of something else. Learn to be ok with that.
Tonight, I chose to let go of some back logged reading and learning opportunities so that I could write this post. Now, if only I had a delete button for my front yard and the foot-tall grass that’s been growing in my absence… geez.
I'm one of those ministry/ business/ techie/ computer/ finance guys (weird, huh?) with a heart for people and an example of what God can do in a life through relationship.
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November 8th, 2009 at 3:01 am
It’s nice to see your heart come through in your writing. I liked this very much. It shouldn’t (necessarily) be a priority, but I like the fact that your blog is somewhere on the screen capture of your life.
November 8th, 2009 at 9:05 pm
Thanks Mark.
When are you starting yours? I’d add you to my list in a heartbeat.
November 13th, 2009 at 10:08 am
So true! –> “You have to make time to do the things that are most important – and it will always be at the expense of something else. Learn to be ok with that.”
OK now I’m going to get crackin’ & do some more work on this house! Then think about some important papers that are piling up.