The Top 3 Obstacles to Destiny // Discover Your Destiny, Part 4

<p>We each have a God-given destiny: A plan that God has for our lives, which fits perfectly with who He made us to be. The problem is that many people aren’t living out that destiny because there are some obstacles in their way, so let’s find out what they are and how to get around them, so that you can live out your destiny.</p> <p> </p> <h3><span style="color: #ff9900;"><strong>Putting First Things First</strong></span></h3> <p>Most people these days live hectic lives, just scraping through each day. Personally, my list of things to do is as long as my arm and then some. There are some personal things I have to do; things to do with writing and recording and producing this radio-programme; there’s an organisation to run; people to meet with; this project; that project; a new idea over here, another one over there; hundreds of e-mails each day ... Welcome to my world.</p> <p>Now don’t get me wrong; I’m not complaining and none of those things are terribly bad at all, but the point is that with so many more things to do than I can possibly fit into my day, or my week or even my year, my process for deciding what I do is absolutely critical. Chances are, the same is true for you.</p> <p>One of the big mistakes I used to make is that I’d sit down in the morning, which (given that I’m a morning person) is my most lucid and productive time, and just start answering e-mails. After a while, I realised I wasn’t getting anything else done because by putting my E-mails first, I was putting other people’s priorities first. I was in fact dancing to their tune instead of sorting out for myself what the most important things were on my agenda, and doing those things first.</p> <p>There’s a well-known principle or framework that you read in a lot of management books, that sets out the difference between what’s urgent and what’s important, and what you discover is that almost nothing that’s urgent is important, and almost nothing that’s important is urgent. And yet most of us react to urgent things, or at least the things that