Al Jennings II

E-mail OC

How often do you check e-mail? Recently, I had this thought. What if the mailman delivered mail to my box every 30 minutes? What I run out to the box and check it every half hour? At least I hope I wouldn't! Well, it made me think, why do I check e-mail so much? It was totally making me less productive than I could be. While it seems like a small thing that doesn't take very much time, when you stop and think about it, (at least for me) you can spend a great deal of time opening, checking, and responding to all sorts of e-mail messages. So I decided to do something about it. I have made a decision to only check e-mail twice a day. That is my goal anyway. Admittedly. I'm not there yet. But I press toward the goal of checking e-mail only twice a day! Yesterday for example, I checked my e-mail not twice a day, but less than I have been, for sure. And already, I'm getting more work done. I heard about a study that revealed that most people only work two (productive) hours per day. They may think they work eight hours, but the majority of people only work about two hours. Ouch!
I challenge you to take control of your e-mail, and don't let your e-mail control you. Spend your discretionary time doing the important stuff based on your goals in life.
I hope I've helped you, that would be productive time and a win for me today.
Can anybody relate to what I'm talking about? I'd love to hear your thoughts.
Oh, and one more thing. Here's a tip that may make you more productive: "don't check e-mail first thing in the morning".

I'm having what I say (on my mac)

I am writing this blog using a brand-new speech recognition software program. For those of you not familiar with speech recognition programs, its software that types what you speak. The program I've used in the past was called iListen from a company called MacSpeech. I'd rate it a 5 on a scale of 1-10.
With it you can do stuff like, dictate e-mails & documents, and open/edit applications. It is very useful when it works well. But the problem is, it wasn't that good. It was fair, but not good. I used to have to spend so much time editing after I dictated, that I may as well have just typed it. Actually, I used this program to write some of my book material. Since you can talk faster then you can type, it causes me to do my book writing and document typing a lot faster. Well anyway, the MacSpeech company came out with a brand-new product. It's not an upgrade, but a totally redesigned software program called, "Dictate". And I mean to tell you, I don't know of any other software program that I have been this excited about. Because it actually works. It has an amazing 90+ percent accuracy rating. And that is truly remarkable. The bottom-line for me is that I can really go to town writing and editing books, typing documents, not to mention writing blogs!
Currently, I am revising & doing a total makeover of the winning track platinum level. And I used Dictate to do this. I've got some brand-new material in the platinum level that this software helped me to produce. And I am excited about getting it done and out to you. It will be ready for the platinum level class that will start April 9.

To love Him is to be known by Him

1Cor. 8:3 But if anyone loves God, this one is known by Him.

John 14:23 Jesus answered and said to him, “If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word; and My Father will love him, and We will come to him and make Our home with him.

Do you want to be known by God? Then love Him. Jesus said, if U love Him, U will keep His word. Prove your love to him today by being a doer of the Word of God (James 1:22). Put the Word of God into practice in every area of your life today. When we do this, we are known by God. And when we are known by God, He will do all kinds of special favors for you. He will do in your life, exceedingly abundantly above all that you can ever ask or think (Ephesians 3:20).

Do what's important

RU inventing things 2do 2 avoid the important?

Productivity

Just because UR dedicated & committed doesn't make U productive. Get things done!

Not enough time in the day?

Lack of time is often means lack of focus.

What are you putting off out of fear?

Sometimes what we most fear doing, is what we most need 2do.

Identify your fear and conquer it!

"Named must your fear be, before banish it you can."
Yoda (Star Wars - The Empire Strikes Back)
2Tim. 1:7 For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind.
Conquer your fear. You can do it!

If you say bad stuff, you will get bad stuff

Num. 14:1 So all the congregation lifted up their voices and cried, and the people wept that night. 2 And all the children of Israel complained against Moses and Aaron, and the whole congregation said to them, “If only we had died in the land of Egypt! Or if only we had died in this wilderness!
In part two of the children of Israel's quest to occupy the land of Canaan, I want to share with you the negative consequences of having what you say. The majority of the congregation complained because of the negative report that was brought back by the 10 unbelieving spies. They said, “If only we had died in the land of Egypt! Or if only we had died in this wilderness!" Sometimes people try to poke fun at people who believe in the confession of God's Word by calling us, "name it and claim it people". They say stuff like, "oh, you go to that 'name it and claim it' church." Jesus named it and claimed it. He cursed a fig tree, and told us we can speak to the mountain and it would obey us (Mark 11.23). It was Jesus who said we could have what we say.
These negative Israelites certainly had what they said. You see, you will have whatever you say whether good or bad. They basically said, we may as well have died in the wilderness! And they got exactly what they said. Check it out:
Num. 14:26   And the LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying, 27 “How long shall I bear with this evil congregation who complain against Me? I have heard the complaints which the children of Israel make against Me. 28 Say to them, “As I live,’ says the LORD, ‘just as you have spoken in My hearing, so I will do to you: 29 The carcasses of you who have complained against Me shall fall in this wilderness, all of you who were numbered, according to your entire number, from twenty years old and above. 30 Except for Caleb the son of Jephunneh and Joshua the son of Nun, you shall by no means enter the land which I swore I would make you dwell in.
You can have whatever you say. What should we say? Only say what God says because death and life are in the power of the tongue. With your tongue you either speak death to your life or life to your life. Choose life; the Word of God is life. Speak the word of God and live!
(Proverbs 18:21; 4:20-22; Deut. 30:19)

Jesus believed in name it and claim it

Mark 11:23 For assuredly, I say to you, whoever says to this mountain, “Be removed and be cast into the sea,’ and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that those things he says will be done, he will have whatever he says.

In Numbers 13 and 14 we find the story of the children of Israel who refused to go in and possess the land that God had already promised to them.
Moses sent 12 spies to scope out the land that God said was theirs. 10 of the 12 spies came back with an evil report. Only Joshua and Caleb came back with a report of faith! They said we are well able to go in and possess the land. The 10 who came back with an evil report convinced the rest of the congregation that they were not able to go in and possess the land. Because they didn't believe, God called their unbelief evil. Unbelief is evil to God.
Read, meditate, and study the Word of God. And whatever promises you find in the Word, receive, believe, and boldly say what God has promised you; it's yours. Boldly confess: it's my I have it now! Because Jesus said in Mark 11:23 that you can have whatever you say.
Come back to the blog tomorrow and from this story of the children of Israel, I will show you the negative consequences of having what you say.