{"id":16132,"date":"2021-06-23T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-06-22T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ucbasiapacific.org\/?p=16132"},"modified":"2022-09-15T14:08:29","modified_gmt":"2022-09-15T04:08:29","slug":"whats-distracting-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ucbasiapacific.org\/twft\/whats-distracting-you\/","title":{"rendered":"What\u2019s Distracting You?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>\u2018Don\u2019t get sidetracked.\u2019 Proverbs 4:27 NLT<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Many of us fail, not because we aren\u2019t talented, determined, or passionate, but because we get \u2018sidetracked\u2019. God told the prophet Habakkuk, <i>\u2018Write down the revelation and make it plain on tablets so that a herald may run with it.\u2019<\/i>  (Habakkuk 2:2 NKJV)<\/p>\n<p> Unless you have a clearly defined goal and keep it before you at all times, you won\u2019t run in the direction you should. As motivational speaker Sam Horn said: \u2018It\u2019s hard to stay on purpose, if we don\u2019t know what our  purpose is.\u2019  <\/p>\n<p>In his book <i>One Big Thing<\/i>, Phil Cooke writes: \u2018I\u2019ve never been a fan of the person who invented the \u201copen door policy\u201d. Sure, we want to be accessible to employees and co-workers, but at some point it\u2019s time to shut the door and get to work. After your next interruption by a visitor, make a note of how long it takes to get back to your previous level of intensity and focus. You\u2019ll be shocked at how much time that steals from your day\u2026 Too often other people\u2019s needs come before our dream. Obviously we need to care for our children, honour our spouses, and deal with our primary responsibilities around our families or jobs. But the first step in achieving our dream is to take responsibility for it. That means scheduling it, and \u201cunscheduling\u201d the lesser needs of co-workers and friends. These daily commitments chip away at our time, and before long our dream gets lost in the shuffle. Stop doing what other people think is urgent, and start focusing on what matters to you.\u2019 <\/p>\n<p> And more importantly, what matters to God!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ucbasiapacific.org\/soulfood\/todays-readings-23Jun2021\/\">SoulFood<\/a>: Jer 7\u20139, Luke 2:8\u201320, Ps 8, Pr 14:9\u201312<\/p>\n<p><em style=\"color: #41423d; font-family: arial, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; line-height: 18px;\">The Word for Today<\/em><span style=\"color: #41423d; font-family: arial, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; line-height: 18px;\"> is authored by Bob and Debby Gass and published under licence from UCB International Copyright \u00a9<\/span><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018Don\u2019t get sidetracked.\u2019 Proverbs 4:27 NLT Many of us fail, not because we aren\u2019t talented, determined, or passionate, but because we get \u2018sidetracked\u2019. God told the prophet Habakkuk, \u2018Write down the revelation and make it plain on tablets so that a herald may run with it.\u2019 (Habakkuk 2:2 NKJV) Unless you have a clearly defined [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ucbasiapacific.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16132"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ucbasiapacific.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ucbasiapacific.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ucbasiapacific.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ucbasiapacific.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ucbasiapacific.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16132\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ucbasiapacific.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ucbasiapacific.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ucbasiapacific.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}