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

1 " 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

2 " 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

3 " 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

4 " The only way to be productive is to realize we don't HAVE TO be productive. Our goal is to PLEASE God, not APPEASE God. "

― Matt Perman , What's Best Next: How the Gospel Transforms the Way You Get Things Done

5 " 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

6 " 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

7 " 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

8 " 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

9 " Superficial efficiency seems cheaper at first, but it costs more the long run, with the cost being pushed off onto someone other than the one who saves a few bucks. "

― Matt Perman , What's Best Next: How the Gospel Transforms the Way You Get Things Done

10 " 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

11 " 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

12 " 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

13 " 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

14 " 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

15 " 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

16 " 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

17 " 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

18 " The issue is not whether we have an approach to personal productivity; the issue is whether our approach is a good one or a bad one. "

― Matt Perman , What's Best Next: How the Gospel Transforms the Way You Get Things Done

19 " Something passes muster as a core principle in your life if it is something you would hold to even if you were punished for it — even if it were not advantageous to you in an external sense. "

― Matt Perman , What's Best Next: How the Gospel Transforms the Way You Get Things Done

20 " [The Christian] knows therefore that this holiness is not to precede his reconciliation to God, and be its cause; but to follow it, and be its effect. — William Wilberforce, "

― Matt Perman , What's Best Next: How the Gospel Transforms the Way You Get Things Done