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Where do you waste the most time?
Let's be honest, we all waste time in ministry. Maybe it's tooling around in your office watching episodes of Grey's Anatomy on ABC.com (not me) or spending too much time on a trivial task that essentially makes no difference (me), we've all done it. So where do you waste time?
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Permalink Reply by James Kennison on -
For me it's prayer... I really really spend a lot of time that I should be... ;)
I often find myself over planning. Trying to make everything perfect before I even leave my office. It never works. The unexpected always happens. The variables always change... sometimes less is more for me anyway.
The other area is sermon prep. I used to write out every word... I've recently found that I'm better with bullet lists. Saves time and actually allows for a better delivery.
I'd have to say the biggest time taker is office fellowship. Some instigated by me... mostly not. Part of the job I figure.
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Permalink Reply by Tom Reusch on -
Yeah, I spend a lot of time trying to perfect stuff that only I would notice, and then later I wonder why I even bothered when nobody notices.
I'm also not a good follower of the 'Only Touch It Once' rule in administration. I'm always shuffling papers back and forth on my desk trying to get some sort of presence of mind to do something. And honestly, I think I check my email about 4 times every 10 minutes (it's usually empty as always) just because I like getting emails (which I rarely do).
I also waste a little time on this one particular site for children's ministers to connect...what's that called????
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Permalink Reply by BJ Martin on -
I would have to say the computer is my biggest time hog. It is so easy to get distracted when I'm checking on something. It is easy to get drawn into researching things that I'm not really working on. And of course I have to check my e-mails and I do this way more times than I should in a day.
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Permalink Reply by Daniel Geer on -
cmconnect is my biggest distraction.
Oh, and lunch.
Yeah, and feeding the cats.
Wait, they're not actually at church.
I'd go for over-planning. But it has been too many times that I had more service than action, and I'd rather have left-over action than left-over service!
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Permalink Reply by SheikMozart on -
Putting together graphics for service is my biggest time waster by far. I once spent two hours putting together a title slide for a character that only popped up once for 5 minutes. It's what my old youth pastor used to call "Unnecessary Graphic Design."
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Permalink Reply by janie gausmann on -
the computer. redoing what my assistant should have done or didnt do as I had hoped that she'd done.
did I mention facebook LOL
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Permalink Reply by Marty Martin on -
facebook
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