What's Best Next Quotes

“Our greatest fear as individuals and as a church should not be of failure but of succeeding at things in life that don’t really matter. — Tim Kizziar”
― Zondervan Publishing, What's Best Next: How the Gospel Transforms the Way You Get Things Done

“While efficiency is important, it is secondary. More important than efficiency is effectiveness — getting the right things done. Efficiency doesn’t matter if you are doing the wrong things in the first place.”
― Matt Perman, What's Best Next: How the Gospel Transforms the Way You Get Things Done

“We are to be generous not just in the results of our work, but also IN our work.”
― Matt Perman, What's Best Next: How the Gospel Transforms the Way You Get Things Done

“the foundation of effectiveness is not first techniques or tools, but character.”
― Matt Perman, What's Best Next: How the Gospel Transforms the Way You Get Things Done

“One of the best places for efficiency is being efficient with things so that you can be effective with people.”
― Matt Perman, What's Best Next: How the Gospel Transforms the Way You Get Things Done

“A lack of white space on one’s calendar correlates with a lack of white space in one’s brain.”3”
― Matt Perman, What's Best Next: How the Gospel Transforms the Way You Get Things Done

“We need to care about beauty and not just the utility of our products because people are not only rational but also emotional. We need to treat people as whole people. This means caring about purity and the emotional side of human nature, not just utility.”
― Matt Perman, What's Best Next: How the Gospel Transforms the Way You Get Things Done

“It is not loving to impose our own grid onto others. We need to understand their situation and their needs accurately, and this comes from listening to them, not coming in with our own assumptions.”
― Matt Perman, What's Best Next: How the Gospel Transforms the Way You Get Things Done

“The curse of the fall didn't affect only manual work, as we often seem to think. Excessive ambiguity that prevent us from figuring out how to navigate is really a form of confusion. Overload is one of the forms that frustration takes. The inordinate challenges we face in knowledge work can be traced to the fall just as much as the challenges in manual work. Send it especially lies behind the villain of lack of fulfillment. The reason we lack fulfillment is because we aren't fulfilling our true purpose, that is because we have sinned and deviated from God's path.”
― Matt Perman, What's Best Next: How the Gospel Transforms the Way You Get Things Done

“We feel unfulfilled when there is a gap between what is most important to us, the realm of personal leadership, and what we are actually doing with our time, the realm of personal management. You are satisfied with your day when there is a match between what you value and how you spend your time.”
― Matt Perman, What's Best Next: How the Gospel Transforms the Way You Get Things Done

“Technology, hardware, and capital can be copied easily. What can't be copied easily is the culture and human capacity that create those in the first place and does so in a way that engages not just functionally with people, but also emotionally so that people want what your organization offers.”
― Matt Perman, What's Best Next: How the Gospel Transforms the Way You Get Things Done

“Our greatest fear as individuals and as a church should not be of failure but of succeeding at things in life that don’t really matter. — Tim Kizziar”
― Matt Perman, What's Best Next: How the Gospel Transforms the Way You Get Things Done

“To be productive, in fact, glorifies God because when we are productive we are not only obeying him but imitating him. Wayne Grudem perhaps captures this best: “It may be that God created us with such needs because he knew that in the process of productive work we would have many opportunities to glorify him. When we work to produce (for example) pairs of shoes from the earth’s resources, God sees us imitating his attributes of wisdom, knowledge, skill, strength, creativity, appreciation of beauty, sovereignty, planning for the future, and the use of language to communicate. In addition, when we produce pairs of shoes to be used by others, we demonstrate love for others, wisdom in understanding their needs, and interdependence and personal cooperation (which are reflections of God’s Trinitarian existence).”2”
― Matt Perman, What's Best Next: How the Gospel Transforms the Way You Get Things Done

“Aimless, unproductive Christians contradict the creative, purposeful, powerful, merciful God we love. — John Piper, Don’t Waste Your Life”
― Matt Perman, What's Best Next: How the Gospel Transforms the Way You Get Things Done

“The scarcity of time is the reason we have to concentrate on one thing at a time.”
― Matt Perman, What's Best Next: How the Gospel Transforms the Way You Get Things Done

“As John Wesley said, “Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, at all the times you can, to all the people you can, as long as you ever can.”
― Matt Perman, What's Best Next: How the Gospel Transforms the Way You Get Things Done

“We are most productive not when we seek to tightly control ourselves but when we seek to unleash ourselves. Productivity comes from engagement, not control and mere compliance. This is why operating in our strengths is so important.”
― Matt Perman, What's Best Next: How the Gospel Transforms the Way You Get Things Done

“the most unproductive thing of all is to make more efficient what should not be done at all.”
― Zondervan Publishing, What's Best Next: How the Gospel Transforms the Way You Get Things Done

“The biblical call on our lives is not to do good randomly and haphazardly. Rather, God calls us to be proactive in doing good — even to the point of making plans for the good of others.”
― Zondervan Publishing, What's Best Next: How the Gospel Transforms the Way You Get Things Done

“three villains of ambiguity, overload, and lack of fulfillment.”
― Matt Perman, What's Best Next: How the Gospel Transforms the Way You Get Things Done

“Whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never be thirsty again. The water that I will give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life” (John 4:14). The chief villain of the story — lack of fulfillment — is answered and conquered only by God himself.”
― Matt Perman, What's Best Next: How the Gospel Transforms the Way You Get Things Done

“In fact, a concern for productivity naturally points us to the need for us to put God’s purposes at the center of our lives and productivity, rather than our own purposes.”
― Matt Perman, What's Best Next: How the Gospel Transforms the Way You Get Things Done

“Don’t skip planning, even when you are super busy. The biggest reason that people skip planning is because they are busy. This is a trick. Feeling busy is the reason you ought to plan; it indicates that you need planning all the more, not less. Even spending a few minutes planning your week will bear fruit far beyond the time you invested.”
― Matt Perman, What's Best Next: How the Gospel Transforms the Way You Get Things Done

“We aren’t to be ambitious for our own honor or glory. But we are to be ambitious for God’s honor and glory, radically so. “Dreaming and doing things for God is the evidence, the effect, and the expectation of genuine faith.”
― Matt Perman, What's Best Next: How the Gospel Transforms the Way You Get Things Done

“As Michael Horton has said, “Knowing your purpose is a form of law.”6 Anytime we are in the realm of what we are to do, we are in the realm of law. The law is not bad; it’s simply that the law’s role is only to guide our lives and not ultimately empower them. The gospel — what God has done for us in Christ — is the ultimate motivation for what we do. We are to be purpose directed but gospel driven.”
― Matt Perman, What's Best Next: How the Gospel Transforms the Way You Get Things Done

“Don’t first ask, “What appointments and tasks are vying for my attention and how do I get them all done?” Rather, you need to ask whether you should be doing those things at all and, before that, know what’s most important in your life — the “first things.” Then you do those things — either right away, if you can, or by slotting them into your week if you can’t.”
― Matt Perman, What's Best Next: How the Gospel Transforms the Way You Get Things Done

“God doesn’t whisper in our ears what to do next — that would short-circuit the growth of wisdom and path to maturity. Instead, God works through our understanding to enable us to determine the best course of action. He has given us a clear body of ethical teaching in the Scriptures and then, within that framework, given us room to make our own decisions using our renewed thinking. Discernment based on love is the way to know what’s best.”
― Matt Perman, What's Best Next: How the Gospel Transforms the Way You Get Things Done

“True Christian character is not chiefly self-deprecating, but self-forgetful.”
― Matt Perman, What's Best Next: How the Gospel Transforms the Way You Get Things Done

“Just as we do good works from justification rather than for justification, we are also to do good works from peace rather than for peace.”
― Matt Perman, What's Best Next: How the Gospel Transforms the Way You Get Things Done

“we cannot leave behind our doctrine and theology in an effort to be more pragmatic and productive. Rather, the way to become truly productive is to anchor our lives squarely and securely on the great truths of the Bible, especially the gospel of justification by faith alone.”
― Matt Perman, What's Best Next: How the Gospel Transforms the Way You Get Things Done