If you really want to just wander through the next decade with nothing to show for it, be a nothinking, gloom-gazing, glass-halfempty( with a hole in it) kind of person and you will surely arrive at the ten-year mark with nothing but complaints to show for it!
3. Look in— be consumed with yourself.
Nothing will help you waste the next ten years better than being totally self-absorbed! If everything is all about you all the time, you will find that you will spend lots of time attending to your insatiable need to make yourself happy. And, since being on your mind all the time is so demanding, you will have no time to think about anyone or anything else! The thing about this timewasting habit is that by the time your next decade is up, you won’ t just feel like you wasted time, you will feel completely isolated and victimized because nothing and no one ever satisfied you.
4. Look ahead— worry about the future.
Looking ahead to ponder what we want the future to be like is a good thing. You know, if you aim at nothing, you will hit it! So, looking ahead and setting goals is not a bad thing, but you waste time if you look ahead so much that you don’ t live today well. If your look ahead becomes a worried stare into the future unknowns, you will miss out on today because you’ re speculating about tomorrow.‘ Will we have enough money?’‘ What if I get sick?’‘ What if …’ you get it. If you focus on the‘ what ifs’, then you will completely waste what is right in front of you— today! Then when the calendar turns the page marking ten years, you will find that all that worry has to start all over again. So, if you really want to waste time, worry your time away!
5. Look away— stay distracted.
Just like you can mindlessly spend money— a little here, a little there— until suddenly your wallet is empty and you have no idea where the cash went, you can do the same with your time. You can spend hours and days on little distractions until eventually, years pass and you wonder,‘ Where did the time go?’‘ What did I do?’
Distractions are helpful to give us mental breaks. Distractions can actually spawn creativity and give us needed rest, but they can also lead us to detours and aimlessness if we aren’ t careful. If you really want to live out your next ten years with nothing to show for it, respond to every impulse, never say no to anything anyone ever asks you to do, indulge in distractions and avoid the discipline of setting any goals and striving to meet them. Then, aha! Ten years will pass in the blink of an eye and you may not even notice since you will be so distracted!
Now, none of that sounds good to me! How about you? Who wants to waste time when you can spend time growing, learning, loving and living?! I want God’ s truth to guide my next ten years and I know you want the same, so here are five Scriptures to help guide you. If we meditate on these truths, God’ s Word can guide us to live out every day— every decade— with purpose and peace:
1. Do not say,“ Why were the old days better than these?” For it is not wise to ask such questions.( Ecclesiastes 7:10 NIV)
2. Finally, brothers and sisters,
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