What's Best Next: How the Gospel Transforms the Way You Get Things Done

by Matt Perman

So if you find yourself getting too bogged down in how you organize and keep up your next action lists and project lists, the problem is not your next action and project lists. Rather, these are simply symptoms of a leadership problem: you aren’t leading yourself the way you ought. You don’t have clarity on what you ought to be doing and the direction you should be taking. The result is confusion down in the lower levels. Make your productivity systems streamlined, but don’t spend time over-optimizing. Act. You are free to do this because knowing what’s best does not depend on having your system all up to date; rather it depends on just stopping, reflecting, and asking, “What is the best thing to do now?”