God Winks & Divine Alignment by SQuire Rushnell

Author:SQuire Rushnell
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Howard Books

UNSHACKLING FROM DISORDER

Who doesn’t get confused when he can’t find something. Where the heck did I write down that phone number?

Who doesn’t get agitated when she can’t find her car keys. Who moved the keys; they belong right here!

Who doesn’t kick themselves, over and over, when an opportunity is missed, because it slipped their mind? Why didn’t I write that down?

Disorder is a form of imprisonment. And most of the time the only way for you to “get out of jail free” is to change something in your own life. Disorder is usually not someone else’s fault. It’s yours. Oh, I know, the kids can create a mess. Your spouse loses things. And others may be to blame to some degree. But by and large—admit it—disorder is something we allow to happen.

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How do you get rid of it? Make it a top priority to change the way you think and act; then begin to influence those around you through your changed behavior.

As a television executive, I used to be late for meetings constantly. I thought nothing of it. Then one day my great-aunt said something about her Bible-study meetings that altered my attitude and the way I subsequently acted.

She said, “I always like to get to my meetings on time. Otherwise it would say that I consider my time more important than my friends’ time.”

That simple sentence—not even intended as a direct communication to judge me—struck home. I thought about all those producers and TV studio executives that I’d kept waiting for meetings simply because my rank allowed me to do it.

Weren’t they busy people too?

Yet, the message I was silently communicating to them was: I’m more important than you are.

I changed. I replaced the disorder of tardiness with the order of timeliness.

Not only did I begin setting an example that my staff could emulate by arranging my schedule so that I could be on time, but I elevated the priority of returning phone calls in a timely fashion as well.

Funny, I can still hear my great-aunt’s sweet voice: “Otherwise it would say that I consider my time more important than my friends’ time.”

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