Do More Better: A Practical Guide to Productivity

by Tim Challies

As you study the sluggard throughout Proverbs you will see that he is a man who refuses to begin new ventures, a man who will not finish what he has begun, a man who will not face reality and, through it all, a man who is restless, helpless, and useless. His life is chaotic because his soul is chaotic.

Busyness is a tricksy little fish.

whatever keeps you from doing good to others is a problem—a serious problem.

No amount of organization and time management will compensate for a lack of Christian character,

There are many good things in this world that will go undone or that will have to be done by someone else.

You do not exist in this world to get things done.

The great thing, if one can, is to stop regarding all the unpleasant things as interruptions of one’s “own,” or “real” life. The truth is of course that what one calls the interruptions are precisely one’s real life—the life God is sending one day by day; what one calls one’s “real life” is a phantom of one’s own imagination.