The she applied the same principles of organization she learned in a closet to a calendar. The first step is knowing what is important. A next step is making sure you prioritize your time to reflect those values. So if I value spending two hours of time with the family in the evening, but an evening meeting eats up the two hours, then I still make up those two hours another day by dropping something that is a lesser priority. We set our hand to the plow, face forward, and keep our eyes on the goal.
T here are some consequences to that, of course.
We can't be all things to all people. If we try that we will have the ants zeeing every which way again. We can't rally around every good cause. We will need to focus on doing as well as we possibly can a few things, rather than doing every good thing poorly. N o one who sets the hand to the plow and looks back is fit for the kingdom of God.