Manage Energy, Not Time

I've heard and read much about time management. I wish I could say I've been helped by it. I really haven't. I recently saw this title: "Manage Your Energy, Not Your Time," on a list of books I should buy or borrow. Though I eventually got into the material and it was valuable, the title alone helped me immensely. Manage your energy. not your time. This is exactly right. It's not just physical energy either. It's creative energy and, for lack of a better word, "thinking" energy. Mental energy is what I mean. The things that drain it are everywhere. Checking the news on the Internet more than 5 times a day will do this. So will living through days that are repeats of prior days. If you are living a "Groundhog Day" life, you are losing energy. Boredom is exhausting. This is probably why traditional time management techniques are so limited in their outcomes. They are industrial and mechanical in their approach. They might save time on paper, but they do not save what makes time valuable. The key is to live an interesting life. It is our responsibility to make sure we do.  A safe, predictable, risk-free life often turns out to be an unproductive life. Worse yet is a life aiming for these things. When we call Jesus our Lord, we mean to call Him our manager. Pray that He will manage and redeem your time and your energy, so that you live a life that is interesting to Him and because of Him.