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Category: priorities

  • and the winner is…

    So the headline news today is that in a well-hyped ceremony to give awards to people who have done their job well some of the people were announced as the winners of an award and then someone else realised it was a mistake and that some other people should have been given the award. Meanwhile,…

  • sweeping changes

    Luke 10:38-42 38 As Jesus and his disciples were on their way, he came to a village where a woman named Martha opened her home to him. 39 She had a sister called Mary, who sat at the Lord’s feet listening to what he said.40 But Martha was distracted by all the preparations that had to be made.…

  • grrrrr computers

    I had one of those grrrrr moments over the weekend when my hitherto reliable computer decided it was time to become unreliable. (Before I go any further I would like to make it clear they do not want any “should have bought a Mac” comments please!) Windows users will know that in the bottom left-hand…

  • prioritisationing

    What are your priorities? That’s a good and important question. I can remember a session at Bible College where we looked at this and how you set priorities. We used an urgency / importance matrix like the one below: The idea is that you evaluate how urgent and how important things are, and then prioritise…

  • the parable of the banquet (revisited)

    It was a very posh do. In a very expensive restaurant. The chef had three Michelin Stars and more were expected. There was normally a waiting list of six to eight months just to get a table. But since he was also the host of the event the chef reserved the whole place for his…

  • the parable of the lost zeros

    In 2007 I was in Ghana for a meeting of the Baptist World Alliance. I changed a small amount of currency into the Ghanaian currency, cedi. I was impressed by the ‘wodge’ of notes that I got, especially with all the 000’s. I felt wealthy. (And when I saw how some people lived I realised I…

  • em-fassis

    No, you aren’t experiencing some sort of strange cyber double vision. The image in this bloggage* is the category cloud from the blog. I try to tag most of my bloggages. Apparently it makes it easier for people to find me. But it also reveals, through this clever cloud thingy, the emphases in my reflections.…

  • just a thought…

    This is not a criticism. Let me get that out there first. I am using something that happened this week to make a wider point. This week the Church of England met in Synod. Without making any judgements at all it is interesting to me to consider how many of the subjects of discussion and…

  • enter the matrix

    I am not sure when I first came across the matrix that is supposed to help you prioritise I have always found it helpful, but there are a couple of problems: Who decides whether something is urgent or important? What I consider important, for example, may be considered unimportant by others. What happens to the…

  • loopholes?

    What do you do when there are no rules? What happens when new and as yet envisaged circumstances arise for which no rules have been written? To an extent that seems to be what is happening with social media and how it is being used in our society. we are having to work out the…