"Some leaders dissipate their units' energy on constant, unprioritized activity. Not all activities support the mission. A unit's energy is not easily replenished and should be treated as a precious resource to be expended only towards decisive goals." -- MCDP 1-3: Tactics
2 Thessalonians 3:11
For we hear that some among you walk in idleness, not busy at work, but busybodies.
Constant activity is not productivity.
There is a motion which is more akin to commotion than summation. It is not aimed at a particular goal, but rather it's goal is merely to keep shooting and reloading.
Un-prioritized action is under-utilized energy.
Energy costs something. It comes from somewhere and can be spent somewhere else, but it must be replenished if used and it cannot be stored indefinitely. It needs to go somewhere, but it can't go just anywhere. It needs to be used toward a particular end or it is spent in vain.
Wasted energy exhausts resources and leads to exhaustion.
Focused energy uses resources and replenishes by achieving progress.
2 Timothy 3:6-7
For among them are those who creep into households and capture weak women, burdened with sins and led astray by various passions, always learning and never able to arrive at a knowledge of the truth.
Unfocused function never gets anywhere. It is always going and never arriving. It is learning without gaining knowledge. It is moving without accomplishing anything. It is spinning without having spun something.
In order to spend energy wisely, you have to know where you're trying to go before you take a step. If you want to see progress, you need to know, "progressing towards what?" If you don't know the target, you don't know if you're missing it. If you don't know the destination, you don't know which exits to take. If you don't know where you're going, your next steps do not matter; but if you have a particular place you want to go, you must take care to align your steps with your destination.
Proverbs 4:26
Ponder the path of thy feet,
and let all thy ways be established.
Direction determines destination.
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