The First Choice of the Day

Are you looking for help on how to make every day a great day? Well, here is a “can’t miss first choice” — getting up! Maybe you’re thinking, What’s the big deal about that? Everyone eventually wakes up. And everyone gets up sooner or later in the day.

Yet, it’s hard, isn’t it? Waking up with anticipating It is something I struggle with every morning. Do you? Well, I find there are a few things that increase my ability to get up and attempting to shine.

Plan Your Priorities – There is nothing more practical than a prioritized plan. Prior to putting my head on my pillow, I make a plan for a fresh, new, successful day — a plan that will work only if I get up when I planned to get up. It helps me recall, somewhere in the dullness of waking that my plan was made because of thought through priorities, a passionate desire for things I think are significant, and a dream or two of some accomplishments. Then I have a motive. There is nothing more powerful than a motive.

Identify the Need – It’s easy to forget the urgency of the needs of the day when you are still semi-conscious. But, reflect on the real needs that might not be met if you aren’t around to meet them. You are important! Others need and are depending on you…for food to fuel their day, for transportation, for encouragement, for enhanced productivity, for vital communication…On and on goes the list of crucial needs that I meet to take care of myself, my work, and others. There’s nothing more persuasive than a need.

And finally, it’s a matter of will — Willpower is revealed every time you make a conscious choice. As the saying goes, “Where there’s a will, there’s a way.” Both Titus 2:4 and Galatians 5:23 speak of the freedom and blessings that come from exercising self-control. There’s nothing more productive than willpower.

Whew! All of this…just to get out of bed in the morning. But this one first and primary daily right choice requires a plan, a motive or dream or desire, a purpose, a need, a schedule, and loads of will. Then, once you’re up, you begin to live out one of my favorite sayings, “Life begins when you get moving.”

Question: What most motivates you to get out of bed in the morning?

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Jim and Elizabeth George

Jim and Elizabeth George are bestselling authors and national speakers dedicated to helping people live a life after God’s own heart. Together, they have written over 150 books with more than 14 million copies sold around the world. For over 35 years, the teachings and steadfast example of Elizabeth and Jim have helped countless men and women:

  • Simplify life by focusing on God’s priorities.
  • Appreciate God’s Word and apply it to everyday situations.
  • Respond to circumstances with confidence by seeing yourself through God’s loving eyes.
  • Increase closeness in marriage by serving and honoring each other.
  • Powerfully shape the hearts of children and teenagers.
  • Enjoy greater intimacy with God.

Learn more about Jim and Elizabeth George here.

Jim and Elizabeth George

Jim and Elizabeth George are bestselling authors and national speakers dedicated to helping people live a life after God’s own heart. Together, they have written over 150 books with more than 14 million copies sold around the world. For over 35 years, the teachings and steadfast example of Elizabeth and Jim have helped countless men and women:

  • Simplify life by focusing on God’s priorities.
  • Appreciate God’s Word and apply it to everyday situations.
  • Respond to circumstances with confidence by seeing yourself through God’s loving eyes.
  • Increase closeness in marriage by serving and honoring each other.
  • Powerfully shape the hearts of children and teenagers.
  • Enjoy greater intimacy with God.

Learn more about Jim and Elizabeth George here.


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