Sharpen your saw

"I have so much to do today, I’ll need to spend another hour on my knees.“ ~ Martin Luther

Connecting to our inner core and purpose provides leadership to our busy lives. It adds clarity and effectiveness to our work. Connection to our core values and belief system puts us in the driver’s seat every day, ready to get us closer to things that are truly important to us – the essential things. The things we draw energy and motivation from, the things that inspire and uplift us. Yet, we often feel stressed and overwhelmed looking at our daily to-do lists.

The world that surrounds us is full of distractions. How often do we find ourselves caught up in urgent but merely unimportant tasks? Permanent availability and media accessibility provide unlimited options to procrastinate. Urgent things jump the queue ready to blur our sight for the truly important things - if we let them.

As we battle to get ahead of our long to-do lists, we can be more effective if we are aligned with our value system. We gain clarity if we focus on the things that are aligned with what is important to us. When we take time to think, pray and reflect and build it into our daily schedule, we escape our busy lives to put things into perspective.

But figuring out what is important may not always be easy or obvious. It takes time and we tend to avoid it because it has no deadline – it is not urgent. Nobody will ask us to have an answer to that by next week. Consequently, we tend to push it away.

Clarity of our inner core and purpose practised in daily commitments rewards us with a source of power in releasing and multiplying our energies, especially when times get busy. It refreshes us and shows our destination to set our course for. Preserve and enhance your greatest asset – you: Schedule and protect your “me-time” to keep your saw sharp.