Where do you waste the most time?

[Tom Reusch]

Let's be honest, we all waste time in ministry. Maybe it's tooling around in your office watching episodes of Grey's Anatomy on ABC.com (not me) or spending too much time on a trivial task that essentially makes no difference (me), we've all done it. So where do you waste time?

[Tom Reusch]

Yeah, I spend a lot of time trying to perfect stuff that only I would notice, and then later I wonder why I even bothered when nobody notices.

I'm also not a good follower of the 'Only Touch It Once' rule in administration. I'm always shuffling papers back and forth on my desk trying to get some sort of presence of mind to do something. And honestly, I think I check my email about 4 times every 10 minutes (it's usually empty as always) just because I like getting emails (which I rarely do).

I also waste a little time on this one particular site for children's ministers to connect...what's that called????

[BJ Martin]

I would have to say the computer is my biggest time hog. It is so easy to get distracted when I'm checking on something. It is easy to get drawn into researching things that I'm not really working on. And of course I have to check my e-mails and I do this way more times than I should in a day.

[Daniel Geer]

cmconnect is my biggest distraction.
Oh, and lunch.
Yeah, and feeding the cats.
Wait, they're not actually at church.
I'd go for over-planning. But it has been too many times that I had more service than action, and I'd rather have left-over action than left-over service!

[SheikMozart]

Putting together graphics for service is my biggest time waster by far. I once spent two hours putting together a title slide for a character that only popped up once for 5 minutes. It's what my old youth pastor used to call "Unnecessary Graphic Design."

[janie gausmann]

the computer. redoing what my assistant should have done or didnt do as I had hoped that she'd done.

did I mention facebook LOL

[Marty Martin]

facebook