One Step Closer and Fresh Ideas

Have you ever got distracted by new ideas just when you were finishing a task or project? It happens to me a lot. But I have found a solution to keeping it from derailing a project or keeping me from finishing a task. It’s a simple solution, but very effective.

A lot of times when I’m writing, a new idea on another project surfaces in my mind. If I don’t write it down, it will disappear. I may or may not think of it later when I’m working on that project. So, drumroll, please… I write it down in a folder or notebook for that writing project. I know. Simple, right?

By doing this, I keep it from keeping my focus from my current project, but don’t lose the thought about another project. I have learned over my years of writing that this is the simplest and easiest solution to my mind wandering from the current project. I don’t know if you’re like me, but I often get distracted with new ideas and shiny new projects while I am almost done with the current project.

I have learned it’s not wrong to let your mind wander, to think about other projects. But it is wrong for you to become a Leonardo DaVinci and it never finish a project. Since I am so close to the end of my Daily Devos book project, I am finding it harder to focus. However, I am one devotional closer.

I have had another project to work on that I am doing today. I was asked by a missionary friend of mine to give a presentation on enduring suffering, trials, and hardship to the Central Eurasia Lifelong Learning leaders. I am so excited to present this talk to them. They are reading my book in preparation for today. The missionary thought of me because he has also read my book and thought I could speak on this topic from both a practical view and as one who has endured suffering through my paralysis. Once I get this done, it’s back to finishing out those devotionals. It’s back to preparation and writing, editing for me.

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Jonathan Srock

Rev. Jonathan Srock is an ordained minister with the Assemblies of God since 2010. He received two Bachelor’s degrees in Biblical Languages and Pastoral Ministries, as well as a Masters of Divinity from Assemblies of God Theological Seminary. Jonathan was privileged to be the Lead Pastor of New Life Assembly in Shillington, PA for five years before suffering sudden paralysis in 2013. Jonathan has been a Christian since 1988.

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