Next Actions--The Way Out!

I was reminded (by my friend Al--thanks Al!) of something that I believe is very important: NEXT ACTIONS.  What is a "next action," you might ask?  Well, in a nutshell, it's the next step you need to take toward completing a project.  A project has several steps.  If we don't break the project into those steps, and determine the next action, the project can get stalled.

I stalled on church planting.  In the "waiting" for God to sell our house, I stopped planning out the next actions for planting.  Last week that changed.  I wrote out what I needed to accomplish--some goals--and put some next actions to them.  My personal challenge was to accomplish at least one next action every week.  The amazing thing that happened was that I knocked out a bunch of them in one week!

I have to give credit to David Allen for his awesome book Getting Things Done.  Now if I can just continue to apply it!


Have you stalled on any projects lately?  What do you do to stay motivated, stay on task, and get things done?