Keep the main thing the main thing. Do we not get busy and distracted with minors
instead of the majors? Do we forget to keep the main thing the main thing? So
the most important aspect of creating our schedule clearly is to know what's
important and to schedule what's important first. See, remember we said
that it's very easy to crowd out the important with the urgent. If you leave
things to their own and if you have a garden and you leave it in its own way
the weeds are gonna take over the garden. If you leave your life just random just
let it just flow. I don't like structure some of you say. I don't want to be
governed by a calendar or compass or anything. I just want to be free. Let me
be free. There's a very high possibility if you do that that distractions are
going to crowd out the things you're really trying to accomplish. To truly
focus on the important it does have to have some type of system some type of
calendaring. So I'd like to maybe have you think about something a little
different. For those of you that do not like structure don't put me in a box.
Systems and calendar is a form of a system can create tremendous freedom and
part of the freedom is it can get stuff off your brain. Those of you that are
just trying to remember and you're like okay I yeah okay I got to do that and
that and that and that and you forget something super important. I can't tell
you how many people have forgotten clients, forgotten customers, forgotten
something really important. It's easy to do. You can't get so busy that you forget
what's really important. So systems calendars are a way of creating freedom
in your life to free your brain to focus on creativity and things that you would
like to focus on to be really present with the people you love and not
distracted trying to remember what's coming next in the next hour. So we want
to use a calendaring system. What does scripture say? Ecclesiastes 3 1 in
the Amplified says there is a season, a time appointed for everything. See God
must believe in some kind of calendaring. He has the seasons come. He makes
four seasons every year. They might have a different length depending where you
are on the equator on the world but there's there's typically four seasons.
He chose to do that. Seven days. He must think that's important. One day of rest.
He must think it's important to have some kind of scheduling. So it says
there is a season, a time appointed for everything and a time for every delight.
Remember every delight. That needs to be scheduled. There's a time for every
delight. If you're tending toward workaholism and you don't think there's
any room and you're putting off your life until after you retire and then
you're too sick to enjoy what it was that you put off for your whole life. No.
Every day there's a time. Every delight and every event and every purpose under
heaven there's a season. There's a time.