Resources on time stewardship?

[Unique_name]

Hey everyone.
I was listening to Matt Fradds latest podcast with Fr Mike Schmitz today and it got me questioning how I can be a better steward of my time.
I actually struggle the opposite way as they do. I tend to manage my time very poorly. Part of it is a legitimate health issues that causes excessive fatigue and lack of energy but part of it is also probably laziness, and part of it is just that I was never trained how to manage my time we’ll. You don’t know what you don’t know, you know?

Does anyone have any resources to help train me to be more purposeful with my time?

 

[LeafByNiggle]

Your question goes to the issue of using your time efficiently. To that end, I am reminded of St. John Paul II’s encyclical, Evangelium Vitae in which the word “efficiency” appears 6 times. Here are all 6 occurrences:
John Paul II:

This culture [the “culture of death”] is actively fostered by powerful cultural, economic and political currents which encourage an idea of society excessively concerned with efficiency.

The so-called “quality of life” is interpreted primarily or exclusively as economic efficiency, inordinate consumerism, physical beauty and pleasure, to the neglect of the more profound dimensions-interpersonal, spiritual and religious-of existence.

It [the body] is reduced to pure materiality: it is simply a complex of organs, functions and energies to be used according to the sole criteria of pleasure and efficiency.

The criterion of personal dignity-which demands respect, generosity and service-is replaced by the criterion of efficiency, functionality and usefulness: others are considered not for what they “are”, but for what they “have, do and produce”. This is the supremacy of the strong over the weak.

Here we are faced with one of the more alarming symptoms of the “culture of death”, which is advancing above all in prosperous societies, marked by an attitude of excessive preoccupation with efficiency and which sees the growing number of elderly and disabled people as intolerable and too burdensome. These people are very often isolated by their families and by society, which are organized almost exclusively on the basis of criteria of productive efficiency, according to which a hopelessly impaired life no longer has any value.

As you can see, this great saint was not a big fan of efficiency. This has always stuck with me as a very profound realization, as I often find myself being overly concerned with “getting things done” efficiency, instead of being open to God’s plan for my life.

( Here is the whole encyclical if you would like to read it.)