The Productive Pastor

John at the “Success Begins Today” blog has an excellent post about achieving your goals.  His post is based on a new book by Tim Ferriss called “The 4-Hour Workweek“.  The point of the post is below:

“Tim sets goals based on their excitement level. He says that most
people base their life’s goals on Happiness. To Tim, happiness
can be had in a pill, but excitement is what really drives people to
accomplish a goal…Excitement is the motivation that can keep us going when things get tough.”

You can read the whole of the post here.

Goal setting is so important for us as God’s shepherds.  Do we take the time to set “Big Hairy Audacious Goals” like those talked about by Jim Collins in “Good to Great”?  I think so many pastors get burned out because of the lack of excitement in their work.  Many times, it’s just about maintaining the status quo.

Let’s get excited about goals again.  The first one, make it a goal to sit down in the next few days and outline a few goals for your ministry.  What gets YOU excited?  Write them down and put an action plan together to move forward in achieving them.  I’ve found that it’s great to have goals but if I don’t write them down somewhere and review them regularly, they will fizzle out over time and I run the risk of never achieving them.

Good luck!

Welcome to the “The Productive Pastor”. This is a weblog designed to share productivity tips and tricks with others to help them become more efficient and organized in their work. As a Pastor/Church Planter myself, I know how hard it is to stay on task and keep organized when you’re not punching a time clock and have many things to get done. I hope to collaborate with others eventually to help make this a valuable site that will help all of us to be more efficient and effective in doing the Lord’s work. He deserves our very best!