The Shortest Pencil

I've heard Rick Warren share an idiom that I have find really helpful in a recent transition: "The shortest pencil is longer than the longest memory." This is specifically true of my memory.

I am absolutely absent minded. I have conversations that I forget. I have a daily ritual of searching all around my house for my car keys. But the truth is you probably all have your own experience to prove that I'm absent minded.

Recently I've undergone a major switch over in my time management, and I've gone old school. I used to use calendar planning in my college days and in the beginning of my ministry. Over the years I've given way to electronic calendaring, but over the last several months have realized just how many things were slipping through the cracks. I needed to make a change, and so I moved back to the calendar. So far, it has put me back on top of things. I'm glad I found the pencil again.

--Ben