Investing one's Time Wisely

I'm sitting here at working reflecting on the lessons learned last night at a financial management course offer by our church.

The entire lesson yesterday (part of a 5 week course) was on Vision and they spoke of the importance of investing your money (and time) effectively.

Your God given Vision should be your passion, your purpose, your joy.  It should really motivate you.  That thing you love to do so you never get tied of the long hours it can sometimes take to make it happen.


That Vision should dictate how your money and time are therefore spent.  We all have only 24 hours a day. It's how we use those 24 hours that dictate the life we lead.

That's what's troubling me now.   I'm here at work.  At a job that has absolutely nothing to do with my God-given purpose.

Why?

Well, to pay the bills of course.  My God-given purpose has yet to do that.

But what's the point?   What's the point of having a Vision if we're stuck in our little rat-race.  The rat-race won't get us ahead.   It's not working harder that will benefit you.  It's working smarter, at those things that you're best at.

But how do you manage to invest your time in your vision when it doesn't initially (and maybe not for years) pay your bills??

You take the hit.   You live at the level you can live at, while you pursue that vision single-mindedly.  Robert Kiyosaki lived out of his car with his future-wife for months until they could get their next business off the ground after his previous business had gone bankrupt.  He refused to invest his money, or time, elsewhere, except in his own vision.

The nine hours a day I spend working or traveling for work are a huge waste of my potential and not part of my God-given Vision.   But can I do without them to invest that same time in my/God's Vision for me?

How do I not?  How can I say I trust in God yet put more faith in man's ability to feed me?

But to step out in faith, and leave my job so I can pursue a full-time writing career would put everything my wife and I own in jeopardy.

Is there some middle ground?  Some paying work I could do that would be in line with my vision?  Perhaps.  Perhaps.   I will have to explore this further.