Week 4 Exodus 13-32
I saw a quote in Good to Great that was pretty helpful, and so I decided to rewrite it and apply it to bible reading. I know…it’s specific advice for CEOs. But I think it’s also general advice for anyone who just wants to get something done.
MHJ’s re-phrase of Jim Collins: I want to read the bible. But how do I get going? How do I keep going? The starting point and the key is not to add bible reading onto all the other things I’m doing. A better start-point for me is to admit that a lot of what I’m doing right now is a waste of time and energy. So I need to identify my time-wasters. Then I need to ignore and stop wasting time on them. Now I can organize my spare time to get done what I want to get done (but didn’t have time or energy for before).
Note: credit to Jim Collins Good to Great (NY: Harper, 2001).
The actual quote says: the point of this entire book is not that we should “add” these findings to what we are already doing and make ourselves even more overworked. No, the point is to realize that much of what we’re doing is a waste of energy. If we organized the majority of our work time around applying these principles, and pretty much ignored or stopped doing everything else, our lives would be simpler and our results vastly improved (205)