Jesus teaches His followers an essential of discipleship: "If you continue in My Word." It means a life of commitment to His teaching, acting on what we already know. In that context we keep on learning the truth about God, ourselves and others, about His purpose for our life and the problems we face. In the process our Lord also frees us from the tyranny of the urgent in our daily lives.
St. Augustine expressed a paradox of the Christian life: "Slavery to God is perfect freedom." In other words, commitment to the will of God - the purpose for which we are designed - offers freedom to become the person we are meant to be - freedom to travel along the road of God's choice...
We need to recognise that the term "time management" is a misnomer. A person cannot do anything to time itself - delay or hasten, save or lose it - much less "manage" it. The challenge is to manage ourselves under the lordship of Jesus Christ, from Whom we get our goals and values. The basic question is what we do within the time frame granted to us - how we plan, decide, organise, evaluate, revise our tasks.
The bottom line is managing ourselves to make the best use of our abilities and opportunities. This is what we really mean when we use the popular misnomer "time management".
- Charles E. Hummel, Freedom from Tyranny of the Urgent
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