“You better count your chickens before they hatch” (2 of 5 time management tips)

Growing up, we always heard that we shouldn’t count our chickens before they hatch. Well, I looked up where that saying originated, and I don’t agree. You can read the origin here. It’s basically a mother telling her daughter to only plan and make decisions for the now, but not for the future.

Jesus said that if someone wants to build a tower, doesn’t that person see how much it’s gonna cost them (time and money), and then decide if they’ll be able to complete it or not? It’s the same way for us in our lives. How many things do we say yes to, only to find out that the cost of that things is way more involved than we thought. And so we wind up pulling a couple of all-nighters or canceling prior commitments we’ve made.

One the best ways to manage your time, is to only take on things that you know you’ll be able to complete without loosing sleep for weeks. I’m not saying that you should only do easy stuff all the time to make sure you get them done. But if you decide you want to do something that’s going to take a lot of your time and effort, make sure you don’t sacrifice that big great thing at the expense of bunch of not-so-important things.

So plan ahead, plan wisely, don’t fill up your schedule too quickly, and don’t forget, “You better count your chickens before they hatch.”