Let’s talk about time. Some people are naturally good at time management, others not so much. But everyone can learn how to do it. It’s not as hard as it looks, but if you’re not really trying, and you don’t ask God for help, it may be challenging. Time is very important to us for many reasons. How long we’ll live; how much daylight is in a day, these are just a couple.
Something I’ve heard quite a bit is that you have to make time to do the things you want to do. For example, reading the Bible and having quiet time with God. It was something I wanted to do for a while, but I didn’t think there was time. Eventually, I realized that there is always time, whether you think you’re busy or not. That time while you’re sitting on the couch, relaxing from a long day. How about instead of turning on the TV, pull out a Bible? Maybe it’s that time you have while on your lunchbreak, or perhaps after you finish your homework.
For me that answer was waking up earlier, when everything is peaceful and quiet. But in all of these scenarios, one thing remains the same: making time. We all have more free time than we think. We just have to harness it and use it for whatever you want to get done, but couldn’t before. But time has multiple aspects to it, including one that I personally think a lot of people should work on: over-booking yourself.
Maybe this has never happened to you before. But whether you have over-committed yourself or you missed out on something because someone else has, it can be annoying. Writing down the things you want to do and/or have to do in a day can be helpful, but you don’t want your planning to get out of hand. Planning doesn’t always help though. Of course, praying about it is the best thing you can do, but thinking about the possibility of saying “no” every once and a while will most likely help too.
Now, there isn’t really anything you can do if you get left in the dust by someone who can’t manage time, and I’m probably not the best person to be talking about this because it makes me pretty angry. Here’s the bottom-line: you can’t control people and the choices they make. You can try to talk to them about it, but they have to decide to listen and make a change.
You might not want to be the person that talks to them about it, but you might have to be. Of course, I would always always pray first. Ask God for advice and for him to keep you calm. If the time is right, he will give you the words and the strength to say them.