In the past, the topic of personal productivity has certainly been an interest of mine. I like to play with tools like Omnifocus or Things, or read about the GTD methodology. However, it seems that just because one enjoys learning about productivity does not mean that he or she is actually productive.
This new year, my hope is to be diligent, faithful, and fruitful, rather than just gauging my success by the amount of busyness I experience on a daily basis. One of the most helpful things I’ve read is a document at C.J. Mahaney’s blog (irony alert: sharing productivity tips after denouncing them). It is an aggregation of several blog posts he wrote on biblical productivity and brings light to some of the underlying problems that can prevent us from real diligence, faithfulness, and fruitfulness. It’s worth the time it takes to read it.
C.J. Mahaney’s Biblical Priorities for Personal Productivity