Do More Better: A Practical Guide to Productivity

by Tim Challies

What is it that the Lord has entrusted to you? What has he made you responsible for? If the master gave talents to his servants and demanded an accounting, what has God given to you, and where will he demand that accounting?

I want you to create a list of each one of your areas of responsibility. You will need to think about all of life and create broad categories, asking the question: Before God, what am I responsible for? Now here’s the challenge: You need to have every one of life’s responsibilities encompassed by a category, yet with as few categories as possible. I would suggest targeting five or six categories, with no more than nine.

Productivity is effectively stewarding your gifts, talents, time, energy, and enthusiasm for the good of others and the glory of God. You have limited amounts of gifting, talents, time, energy, and enthusiasm, but unlimited ways of allocating them. For this reason productivity involves making decisions about how to allocate these finite resources.