In his book Good to Great, author Jim Collins talks about a company's "stop doing" list--the (sometimes good) things a business should cut out to allow more time for the great, missional things.

I like this approach better than the traditional "start doing" focus of New Year's resolutions. Removing unhealthy or ineffective things can add so much to our quality of life. So here's my stop doing list for 2008. What's on yours?

In 2008 I need to stop......
--Slouching
--Arriving 5-15 minutes late for everything
--Looking at my multivitamins and refusing to take them for no reason other than laziness
--Multi-tasking (it doesn't work, you just do two things half as well)
--Leaving things in my car instead of just making the extra trip to bring them inside
--Buying CDs I never listen to
--Hitting the snooze button over and over (I'm instituting a two-hit limit in '08)
--Staying up later than I should (see above)
--Eating so many SunChips
--Rethinking old history and "what if" and playing the Game-O-Pointless-Regret
--Surfing the internet when I should be doing something productive

--Tossing contracts, bills and other paperwork into piles to deal with "later"

--Buying take-out instead of cooking from scratch

Whew.