What's Best Next: How the Gospel Transforms the Way You Get Things Done

the only way to be productive is to realize we don’t actually have to be productive (our goal is to please God, not appease God), and how the gospel continues to give us peace of mind even when everything is blowing up around us.

a life of doing good for others is actually the most exciting life, for God calls us to find ways of doing good with a sense of creativity, competence, and adventure.

The only way to be productive is to realize that you don’t have to be productive.

The reason we should seek to be productive is to serve others to the glory of God, and not for the sake of personal peace and affluence.

Generosity is at the heart of true productivity in all areas of life. This is what the Scriptures teach and, interestingly, what the best business thinkers are also showing.

without making ourselves miserable in the process through overload, overwhelm, and hard-to-keep-up systems.

we often go about our planning as if it were just any other activity. But the Scriptures teach that to make plans without acknowledging God is not just wrong but arrogant (James 4:13 – 17).

We become most productive by putting others first, not ourselves.

Our peace of mind must be based on other grounds — namely, the gospel.