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In Today’s Issue:Personal Knowledge ManagementProverbs 18:15Exercise & the Writing LifeCreating Distraction-Free FocusMartin Luther on Changing Diapers

Dear steward,

To thrive in our information-saturated world, we need systems. Just as a to-do list system can help you be a person of your word, the same applies to how you manage information.

Creating a personal knowledge management system (PKM) is a worthwhile endeavor for any Christian seeking to be faithful in stewarding their life for God’s glory, but who also finds that disorganization is getting in their way.

You want a reliable way to find that tax document when you need it, or resurface that quote you jotted down months ago. These are the times when having a simple plan for organizing your information comes in handy. And it doesn’t have to be some big, complex thing that takes up all your time.

The way I see it, most people would be well served by having a plan for handling two things:

Documents – Tax returns, legal documents, insurance policies, receipts, and other files.Notes – A place to store things like quotes, ideas, book summaries, Bible study or sermon notes, etc.

Over the next few weeks, I’ll be sharing some tips on how to organize your knowledge so you can find the important stuff when you need it.

Next week, we’ll begin by looking at how you can organize your important documents. And I’ll share an easy-to-follow process for moving towards being (mostly) paperless.

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Weekly Word

“An intelligent heart acquires knowledge, and the ear of the wise seeks knowledge.”
– Proverbs 18:15

Your mind is a tool. So sharpen it daily. Fruitful living comes from actively seeking truth and understanding of God’s world and God’s Word.

Worth Your TimeExercise and the Writing Life (4 mins) Anthony Kidd writes about missionary Adoniram Judson’s fitness routine. “When you consider how phenomenally productive Judson was, you might wonder, how was he able also to maintain this fitness regimen too? I suspect Judson would tell us that the physical regimen helped enable his scholarly productivity.”How to Create a “Distraction-Free” Focus Ritual (3 mins) “The purpose of a distraction-free ritual is to allow you to focus your full attention on one important task or project.”Work Is Cursed. We Need the Gospel. (4 mins) “Let’s model work for our family, for each other, and for the little ones as we labor in a manner worthy of the calling to which we’ve been called.”Words of Wisdom

“God, with all his angels and creatures, is smiling, not because that father is washing diapers, but because he is doing so in Christian faith.”
– Martin Luther

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