Freedom from Tyranny of the UrgentInterVarsity Press, 2009 M09 20 Winner of the 2004 ECPA Platinum Book Award! Is the clock a slavemaster or a tool that serves you? Does the quantity of your responsibilities squeeze out the quality of your life? Are urgent things so pressing that you don't have "inner time" to sort out what's really important? How can you discern what God wants you to do? Charles Hummel's classic booklet Tyranny of the Urgent has sold over one million copies. Now for the first time he expands on the life-changing perspective that has transformed the lives of thousands struggling to keep from being swept away by the rush of life. Gathered in this book are proven principles taken straight from biblical teaching, from today's time-management experts and from Hummel's own life experience. You'll discover how to
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... spent with people and " quantity time " spent on things . 6 Clock & Calendar : Friends or Enemies ? 51 They can enslave us — or serve us . Like fire , the clock and calendar make good servants but bad masters . 7 The Art of Saying No 59 ...
... spent with people and " quantity time " spent on things . 6 Clock & Calendar : Friends or Enemies ? 51 They can enslave us — or serve us . Like fire , the clock and calendar make good servants but bad masters . 7 The Art of Saying No 59 ...
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... spend less time together over meals . Breakfast is largely self - serve on different schedules . Dinner often has one or more missing because of late work or school programs , or leaving early for an evening activity . Those who remain ...
... spend less time together over meals . Breakfast is largely self - serve on different schedules . Dinner often has one or more missing because of late work or school programs , or leaving early for an evening activity . Those who remain ...
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... spend time with the others from one month to the next . Even with our own friends elsewhere in town , visits become shorter or less frequent . What accounts for this decline in neighborly relationships ? A major reason is that it takes ...
... spend time with the others from one month to the next . Even with our own friends elsewhere in town , visits become shorter or less frequent . What accounts for this decline in neighborly relationships ? A major reason is that it takes ...
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... spend your time on those that are the most important . In other words , do first things first . If you can't finish all the tasks on the list by this method , you couldn't by any other method , either . And without some system , you'd ...
... spend your time on those that are the most important . In other words , do first things first . If you can't finish all the tasks on the list by this method , you couldn't by any other method , either . And without some system , you'd ...
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Page 81 - If you want to be perfect, go, sell your possessions and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come, follow me.
Page 113 - Create in me a pure heart, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit within me. Do not cast me from your presence or take your Holy Spirit from me.
Page 15 - Jesus. He will be great, and will be called the Son of the Most High; and the Lord God will give him the throne of his father David, and he will reign over the house of Jacob for ever; and of his kingdom there will be no end.
Page 17 - For even the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.
Page 112 - Know that the LORD is God. It is he who made us, and we are his; we are his people, the sheep of his pasture.
Page 117 - Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?
Page 57 - Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity ! I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand ; instead of a million count half a dozen, and keep your accounts on your thumb nail.
Page 67 - But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well.
Page 113 - PSALM cm. pRAISE the Lord, O my soul : and all that is within me •*• praise his holy Name. Praise the Lord, O my soul : and forget not all his benefits.
Page 22 - Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died.
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