The Guide to better decisions

Jesus was a man who got things done, yet he always seemed to have time for people. In her book, Jesus CEO: Using Ancient wisdom for visionary leadership, Laurie Beth Jones describes some of the ways that Jesus made time. One of the most important was that he guarded his energy.

He did not waste physical or emotional energy on judging others, negative self-talk, argumentation or procrastination. Over the ages, many people have tried to emulate Jesus in order to be better people; Jones shows how you can emulate Him in order to be better time manager.

Understand how your self-image and self-esteem influence your time-management skills. People with low self-esteem often waste lots of time agonizing over whether they even deserve the favorable outcomes that would come with getting something done. Indeed, low self-esteem can be a sneaky disguise for laziness (“I don’t deserve a job like that, so I won’t even apply”).

If you feel stuck, spend some time every day creating a visual mental image of yourself as a winner, a caring and deserving person whose success will help not only yourself but the many others you care for.

I use my head by asking myself a practical question, and I consult my heart by asking myself a private question. Then, after I listen to myself and others, I make a better decision and act on it. (Spencer Johnson,M.D. “yes” or”No” )

Many of us feel guilty for “doing nothing,” for just sitting and thinking, or just sitting. But it’s often when you just sit and think that the important questions arise, and it’s when you just sit that the answers to those questions come to you.

Is patient, Rainer Maria Rilke written in his sonnets to Orpheus: In spite of the farmer’s work and worry, He can’t reach down to where the seed is slowly transmuted into summer. The earth bestows.