5 Ways to
Waste the Next 10 Years
( and 5 Scriptures to Help You Live Them Well )
Nobody wants to waste ten minutes , much less ten years ! But it ’ s so easy to do if we aren ’ t careful .
You ’ re 30 , blink and you ’ re 40 , and then suddenly you open your eyes to see that you ’ re 50 ! When did that happen ?! So , only a few more flutters of the eyelashes and you are a whopping 60 or 70 or 80 years old ! * gasp *
Ten years can pass as easily as ten minutes if we aren ’ t paying attention , so we need to think about what we want the coming decades to look like .
We can ask God to help us live out today and tomorrow well , but we can also determine what will ‘ not ’ help us live today , tomorrow , and the next ten years well .
There are some attitudes and actions we can avoid over the next ten minutes — over the next ten years — which will protect us from missing out on a meaningful day … a meaningful decade . Your life , my life , all our lives are way too important and valuable to waste them , but if for some odd reason you feel the need to squander your next decade , here are five ways to do it ! [ big goofy grin ]
These are five choices and habits that will certainly help us waste the next ten years :
1 . Look back — live in the past .
If you want to endure a long decade of regret , just focus on how things used to be . Look back to how much better you felt , how much thinner you were , and how much better it was when the kids were home or you had that job or you lived in that house . You get the idea .
If you focus on only what was , you will not live in what is . There is no better way to waste a good day than to pine away for long gone days . If you only focus on the past , always looking back , you will miss the growth and blessing and beauty of today . You do this for ten years and by the time the decade comes to a close , you will have glorified the past , missed the present and have no excitement for the future .
2 . Look down — be negative .
If you choose to focus on what is wrong , all you will experience is what could be better or should be different . A negative spirit makes every day worse than it has to be and every burden heavier than it really is . Negativity is a time waster because it never adds to your life , joy or vitality . It only depletes you and drains your peace and wellness .
If you want to endure a long decade of regret , just focus on how things used to be .
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