A life is either all spiritual or not spiritual at all. No man can serve two masters. Your life is shaped by the end you live for. You are made in the image of what you desire.
– Thomas Merton

The S in INSPIRE stands for Spiritual. In this area you can track devotional books you’re reading, your daily quiet time, prayer concerns, or anything else that just makes you connect to God or to a higher purpose for your life.

This is also where you could track what might be called Soul Care – things that you do to take care of yourself and your emotional well-being.

How you define and use this area is up to you. For most of us, our spiritual lives are personal. But if there is an area of spiritual discipline where you are seeking to grow, here is a place in your planner where you can track it.

Are you feeling you’d like a more structured prayer life? Do you need to take some quiet time each morning to be still and meditate before the daily chaos begins? Do you want to start the habit of spending time each week outdoors? Would you like to be able to read through the Bible this year?

In the busyness of the week, it is easy to ignore the spiritual side of life. Here is a reminder for you to be sure that your life is balanced.

Just a caution though. I want to warn you against developing a spirituality that is strict and rule-based. It is easy to become inordinately hard on yourself if you fail, or overly judgmental of those who don’t live up to your exaggerated standards.

Let your spirituality build you up and inspire you, not crush you.

If you aren’t sure where you stand on this, or the notion of spirituality makes you uncomfortable, please read the next article in the series.

Read the next article: Don’t Neglect Your Spiritual Needs

Read the previous article: Necessary – Tracking What Needs to Be Done

Read the first article in the series: Internal – Doing the Mental Work in Order to Succeed