People who succeed in life set their priorities early and maintain them daily. That way they don\u2019t have to keep re-establishing them. That\u2019s a good idea for two reasons: <\/p>\n
(1) It takes the emotion out of it.<\/i> If you\u2019re not careful, you can make a life-altering decision based on a temporary situation, rather than God\u2019s will. Or worse, base your decisions on your feelings! By establishing your life\u2019s priorities before you have to, you can do it without your emotions manipulating and controlling you. Plus, you\u2019re more likely to set them with integrity. Joshua did that: \u2018As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.\u2019<\/i> <\/p>\n
(2) It makes managing your life easier.<\/i> Once you nail down what\u2019s important to you, you can live based on those principles. Suppose you\u2019re a compulsive gambler and you decide to stop. Your task then becomes ordering your life in light of that decision. That means removing the betting app from your phone and avoiding the casino. Or, say you want to build a better marriage: that may mean spending less time at work or on a hobby, and planning a weekly date night with your spouse. It takes honesty, born in prayer, to know what your real issues are and to make good decisions accordingly. <\/p>\n
And it takes character and perseverance to follow through once those decisions are made. The great thing is that once you decide, then \u2018commit your actions to the Lord, and your plans will succeed.\u2019<\/i> (Proverbs\u00a016:3\u00a0NLT<\/sup>) He will give you the strength each day to live by your decisions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" People who succeed in life set their priorities early and maintain them daily. That way they don\u2019t have to keep re-establishing them. That\u2019s a good idea for two reasons: (1) It takes the emotion out of it. If you\u2019re not careful, you can make a life-altering decision based on a temporary situation, rather than God\u2019s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"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":[10],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1578"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1578\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}