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Time management in Bible

Sun, 07 Dec 2025 19:05:22 +0100

The Bible is old and provides life advice, but much has changed since it was written. Can we find time management wisdom in it, considering ancient people had fewer worries? This article explores relevant Bible verses for today, based on the “Time Management Principles From God’s Word” reading plan: https://www.bible.com/reading-plans/11397-time-management-principles-from-gods-word

The Bible Teaches Us to Be Present

Being “here and now” is trendy today. Despite time management tech, worries have increased. Did ancient people face this? Passages suggest yes.

What is zero inbox? 📥

Mon, 07 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0000

The concept or zero inbox we might have heard from book Getting Things Done by David Allen which is starting point in productivity books for those who want to improve their way of handling tasks.

The philosophy

The main idea is not only deleting every single mail in our inbox. The idea is to having “inbox” concept as bucket with items, that has to be dealt with, processed and acted on. One of the most popular task managers have it - Todoist . let’s think of an inbox concept as information buffer, that fills up somewhere on the background. When buffer is overfilled - it’s time to process it.

Good things about Bullet Journal ✒️

Tue, 11 Mar 2025 00:00:00 +0000

No matter how far our wonderful progress has gone - some things remain the same. No matter how smart and digital the world around us becomes, we still have sensory senses and brains.

The brain writes tactilely

There has been a lot of research on how the brain memorizes information better, specifically - what method of writing works better for memorization. Of course - the handwriting method has proven to be more effective. A tactile connection to the fruit of creation - helps us feel that we are real.

How to rest? 🛌

Tue, 07 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Resting - is such a simple thing to do. We do work - then we rest, until it’s time to do work again. Well today - we have so many tech tools that aim to make our lives better, simpler and free up a lot of time. However - perhaps Purpose of Technology is not to do that. Perhaps it’s meant, so that we could do even more “useful” stuff and forget about rest even further. Otherwise - why do we have such term “burnout” today?

ToDo List as checklist, not Task Manager ✔️

Sun, 19 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000

We use our task managers incorrectly, perhaps. Perhaps their purpose is simply wrong. I’ve already written about why task managers are essentially graveyards for tasks in ToDo Apps - Graveyard for Tasks . And yet, we still pay the creators of these so-called “miracle programs” for them.

In his book The Checklist Manifesto, Atul Gawande brilliantly describes the advantages of checklists, particularly in the medical field. After experienced doctors began using checklists, the number of incidents significantly decreased.

Time Management Phylosophy ⌚

Mon, 19 Feb 2024 00:00:00 +0000

We try so hard to accomplish as much as possible. To be efficient. Get more done. Plan your downtime. We hear all this in countless books, videos, podcasts, and who knows where else. We squeeze ourselves dry to get more done and extract more from our time.

Have you ever been truly bored? So bored that you have absolutely nothing to do? If you have, we often quickly find something to occupy ourselves with. Most likely, we grab our smartphones, or a housewife always finds some extra chores to do around the house. Nowadays, we’ve completely forgotten how to be bored.

ToDo Apps - Graveyard for Tasks 🪦

Fri, 11 Aug 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Many people have likely gone through a period in their lives when life started demanding more than before. To meet these new demands, you need different tools for managing time and tasks. People start buying various task management, project management, and note-taking apps, and so on. What’s the result? Burnout. Sound familiar?

Collecting Everything We Can. Why Does It Feel Like a Burden?

Have you read David Allen’s book GTD (Getting Things Done)? It’s possibly one of the first books recommended by bloggers for becoming a productivity guru. There’s a piece of advice in it about the Inbox—recording everything that comes to mind in the “Inbox” folder to deal with later. Then, during the weekly review, we distribute tasks into folders, dates, and labels. The tasks pile up so much that it becomes overwhelming, and a slight sense of anxiety creeps in as soon as we open our task vault. Adding a task to the system is very (too) easy, but deleting it? Not so much, because there’s always a reason to come back to it later.

Digital VS Paper 📎

Thu, 29 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Yes - today, without offloading information from our central processor (the brain) to an external medium, it’s impossible to manage. There’s just too much information, and we can’t keep everything in our heads.

With a phone at hand, we can easily record a smart thought at any moment so it doesn’t slip away—or we can easily open Instagram and check out what’s new there.

Advantages of Technology

An amazing tool for finding and organizing information. The only problem is that everyone online is trying to grab our attention, anyone who can. Unfortunately, those who create content that isn’t genuinely useful to us are often better at this. Nevertheless, some have managed to achieve the opposite. Here’s an example: How to Make Learning as Addictive as Social Media | Luis Von Ahn | TED .