Those involved in the ministry know that ministry comes a great deal of mental weight. Information, responsibilities, prayer requests, to do lists, concerns about people and their issues, ideas God is giving you, etc... The brain can become a tangled web of thoughts that becomes difficult to navigate, and heavy to carry around. Here are my top 5 suggestions for 'Cleaning the Computer' or de-cluttering the ministry mind.
1. Make silence a priority during your personal prayer time, and do it early in the day.
2. Offload all possible information onto digital means. Keep a device handy, enter ideas, prayer requests, to do items, etc... immediately. Never say, "I have to remember that", always make your device remember for you.
3. Make others responsible for what they need from you. If they ask you to do something for them, make an appointment, call them back, etc... tell them to contact you to follow up. This way, if you forget, their follow-up contact will remind you and make you deal with it. Meanwhile you have peace of mind knowing that you won't leave someone hanging. That individual has similar interactions with a very few people. You, as a minister, have dozens of these kinds of interactions going at the same time...make the other person responsible.
4. Stop scrolling facebook and twitter. Utilize them for communication only. Your newsfeed only adds weight to your life.
5. Read blogs & articles, don't read the comments
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