 December 2017 / January 2018 - Vol. 95  What
Led Me to
Write a Book
on Divine Time
Management I experienced God's guidance for me in writing two previous books, The 3 Secrets to Effective Time Investment, and How to Invest Your Time Like Money, but they were firmly in the business time management space. I appreciated how they made a positive impact in many people’s lives and helped expand my influence and credibility in the business world. Giving glory to God in my business But then everything started to change in the summer of 2015, when I felt God commanding me to give Him the glory in my business. I really wasn’t sure what that meant. I had been a business owner for 10 years and I was never ashamed of my faith, but I didn’t advertise it. Now in regard to God’s command, I wasn’t sure how to respond. Did He want me to stop doing anything with time management, my area of expertise? Or was there another solution? What ended up emerging after about a month and a half of wrestling with this question was God prompting me to start a Divine Time Management group coaching program as part of my business as well as writing a book proposal for my first Christian inspirational book. How the process works with non-fiction books is that you write a book proposal, then your book agent pitches that proposal to publishers. If one of the publishers chooses to offer you a contract then you write the book. I started on the proposal for Divine Time Management in January of 2016. I believed God had called me to this work, but from a practical perspective, it didn’t make much sense. I didn’t have an established Christian network to help with marketing. This is one of the most important considerations for publishers—how will you sell the book? But God told me that He would give me favor and to not worry about the fact I didn’t have as large a Christian platform as I had a business network. And He came through, I got a publishing contract in the summer of 2016 with FaithWords, a publisher of authors like Joyce Meyer and John Maxwell. A journey of faith Since then, it’s been a journey of faith in writing the book, editing the book, creating the video book trailer (you can view it at www.DivineTimeBook.com), narrating the audiobook, and preparing for the release of the book. God has given me courage and favor each step of the way and continues to do so. One of the biggest things that I’ve seen in the process is that you need to walk in obedience and as you do, God provides exactly what you need exactly when you need it. From providing time to do the extra work to write and edit a book to connecting me with Christian videographers who could create a film to giving me favor with people who could promote my book, I didn’t have the resources when I started the journey but the resources appeared along the way. My encouragement for you is that if God is calling you into new territory in business or in other parts of your life that you will have the courage to move forward in trust that God will provide. When we’re willing to do things that don’t make sense and that may even look foolish to the world but are God’s call for our lives, we will experience the most blessings possible and bring God’s kingdom to earth.
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Elizabeth
Grace Saunders
is an
internationally
recognized
expert on
effective time
management and
the founder of
Real Life E
Time Coaching
and Speaking.
Her company
partners with
individuals on
the journey
from feeling
guilty,
overwhelmed
and frustrated
to feeling
peaceful,
confident and
accomplished.