AVOIDING NEGOTIATIONS

“90 percent of success is not getting distracted.” 

Both of these lines jumped out at me from an email newsletter called Brain Food, by Shane Parrish.

I am one who can “negotiate” with himself all morning, every day if I allow it. Some days it’s not as intense as others, but I find that any amount of negotiating ends in paralysis.

I have been feeling for some time that I need a morning routine beyond drinking coffee and then making breakfast for Melissa and Sarah.

Once they head out for school is when the negotiating starts. 

I do know the centerpiece to a solid morning routine MUST be Scripture and prayer. 

When I go straight to the Bible first thing in the morning, it tends to ground me for the day in all the deeper realities of life. 

I guess it’s not surprising that if I don’t go there first, the doors are thrown open to negotiations and distractions.

In other words, small thinking.