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Time is always a question of balance.  It is easy to keep yourself occupied.  Every person needs empty spaces in their lives.

It is all too easy to go faster and faster nowhere.  It is essential to slow down, even stop even if that is briefly.  ‘Be still and know I am God’, the words from Proverbs in the Bible.

How can you possibly hear that tiny voice inside you if you are always rushing from one thing to another?  It is so essential to stop periodically and examine your life, figure out where are you heading.

That tiny voice inside you is too often passed by you in busyness and turmoil.  ‘Observe the Sabbath’, one of the ten commandments, is there to encourage you to get off your treadmill and look at your life.

How can your life have balance if you do not give your self time to examine it?  How you use your time is always a question of balance.  That is the only way to hear your tiny voice so easily covered up by other things.

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It is important not to get seduced by good things.  There is no end to good things.  When you let yourself be seduced by good things, they become a distraction and you never get to the “meat” of your schedule.

It means first being still and then looking at your life and listening to your tiny voice telling you what is really important for you to do.  Each person has one.  And if you let yourself be distracted by good things you never get there.

Your “mission” is your unique contribution to the world–to the people in your circle.  It has been crowded out.  So be aware of the seduction of good things and say no to them.  There is no end to good things.

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When you are feeling overwhelmed and can’t think clearly all you can do at that point is the next thing and eventually everything will take care of itself.

It may be a little difficult to ascertain the next thing but this certainly is the easiest thing to do when you are not able to look too far ahead.  And eventually your feeling of being paralyzed will pass.

If you can force yourself to look at your life and do what is most pressing, then go to the next thing, your life becomes more manageable no matter how you feel.

So the next time you can not see too far ahead figure out what the next thing in your life needs done and do it and eventually your life will settle down and feel more manageable.  The next thing should always be your goal.

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