Wednesday, August 06, 2008

Stoopid ... with Two O's!

Don't be stoopid ... plan something right now!
Here are some suggestions:

  • -A Date with wife
  • -A good workout
  • -Your meals for the week
  • -Your reading schedule
  • -A meeting with someone
  • - Plan Time to think
  • - Plan to buy and write thank you cards
  • -Plan a surprise for someone random
  • - Plan Time Away
  • - Plan to meet someone new
  • - Plan do something different
  • - Just Plan something and see it through !
As my old pastor would also say : Proper Prior Planning Prevents Poor Performance! Just Do it!

Side Note: I had a conversation with a friend today who said that he doesn't believe in planning (specifically when it comes to church programming & weekend planning) ... he told me that he just "wings it" and "let's God do the rest". He also said that he feels like he "trusts God more when he does that!"
My response was ... "I love you bro , but you're just stinking Lazy and Stoopid with two O's! You may trust God more (which I don't think is the case) ... but God ain't trusting you with jack squat! That's just lack of passion and drive -- specially for the things of God! --- Then I told him that he was indeed planning alright ... planning his failure and complacency route... which at the end of our convo (and after I paid for his coffee) --- he agreed. :)

...I told him I would share this ...so no worries ..... he doesn't read my blog anyway ...

Any thoughts from blogville? I'd like to hear your take...
How would you have answered differently .. or maybe even agree with him? Why?


12 comments:

Kevis said...

very insightful!

SmilingSally said...

It's long been said that if you fail to plan, you plan to fail. So all you did is set your friend straight. Since you took the time to explain it to him AND pay for his coffee, I'm sure he still considers you a friend--and you are!

We all need friends who will set us straight.

Anonymous said...

You're right bro ...

That junk is Stooopid with Three O's!


We must be faithful in the small , we must be good stewards of resources and time, we must be diligent ! All those things we already know ..

Cruise Controlling through life stinks ... specially in ministry ... when lives are at stake!

Peace - just planned to go have Starbucks with Jessica. Lol - pinecrest Starbucks ... wanna join ?

Chris V.


Ps... who is this bud of yours ?

Lauren said...

Good job on displaying perspective.

Anonymous said...

Heredes,

You're*
Or...
You are*

Stoopid mistake.

Love ya bro. Greetings from Oklahoma!

Phillip Koo said...

I agree.

@heredes said...

Hey Officer ...

YOU STOOPID was on purpose homeboy! ;)

But I still love ya anyways!

-H

Marcy Ribeiro said...

Babe,
Great words of wisdom.. "You are" or "You're always" [that's for mr mctypo since He misunderstood what you were saying :) reminding me of that... :) Thank you!

i don't want to be STOOPID!...

Anonymous said...

awesome post! thanks for the insight...and now i am off to plan a date with my wife...lol!

Indy said...

I agree planning is essential...glad I'm not "stoopid"!

Heather Palacios said...

HR, it goes w/ out saying that you always have good producer-posts, but I'm moved more by your pastorly-posts. This was one of them. Thank u for it.

Anonymous said...

Muy bueno lo que decis.... excepto que no das el nombre del "friend" que dijo lo de no planear... asi que eso baja el puntaje!!!!