So, what would you do with a little extra time in your day?  Go to the gym?  Read more?  Pray?  Study your Bible?  Invest in your family?  Hangout with friends?  Serve in the church?  Study?  Sleep?

If your life is anything like mine, you carry around a long list of things you would do “if I just had more time.”  Let’s take it even one step further.  The things on that list are probably things you really want to be doing, right?  And a lot of the things you are doing are things you don’t want to be doing, right?  Hmm.  No wonder so many of us live stressed out, frustrated lives where we never have enough time.

Paul speaks so directly to that problem when he writes, “Therefore be careful how you walk, not as unwise men but as wise, making the most of your time, because the days are evil.” (Ephesians 5:15-16)  I’ve been trying to look at my life in the last few weeks in light of this truth.  And I’ve realized there are a lot of places I’m wasting time and not “making the most” of it.  Here are a few of the culprits in my life:  email, Facebook, checking the Dow, my Blackberry, etc…  You see a theme developing?

I wonder how many hours we all waste on the computer and I wonder if we made just a few changes if we wouldn’t find ourselves with more time to do the things that really matter.  Here’s what I’m trying – checking email once a day, Facebook once a week and reprogramming my Blackberry so it doesn’t notify me every time I get an email.

Bottom line – I feel like I’m more in control of life.  And I have more time.  Try it – you just might get to more of the things you really want to do in life.