Post It Flags Can Change your Life

 by Katherine O'Brien, Certified College Planning Specialist, Senior College Consultant, Celtic College Consultants

A friend recently shared:

About a year ago, I decided that before I read the words of anyone else, I wanted to first hear what my Father had to say to me.

I'd been reading the daily Mass readings for a while, but decided I'd shift to reading them first thing in the morning.

There was a problem though.

I got the readings emailed to me, which meant that they were sitting in my inbox each morning...

...along with a whole bunch of emails from other people that had come in overnight. 

I'd try to force myself to read the readings first...but invariably there'd be another "really important" email I had to read so I "didn't forget"...and I'd end up reading other people's words first.

(And 9 times out of 10, they did not inspire me like God's word would.)

I was about to give up on the idea that I could even do something like this when it suddenly came to me:

Why didn't I just mark the readings in my Bible the night before and eliminate my phone from the process altogether?

I bought these little Post-It flags, and now each night, I mark off the readings for the next morning in my Bible.

 

Now, instead of reaching for my phone "to read the readings," I grab my Bible and truly do have God's word be the first thing I read.

(It's made it so that most mornings, I don't even need to look at my phone until after I've been up for at least an hour. )

The solution to my distraction problem was really simple — $5 Post-It flags — but it took me months to figure it out.

Because I was trying to make a system — emailed readings — work for me that just. plain. wasn't.

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