If you are like most people, you feel like your life is busy and there’s no end in site. Mark Driscoll preached a message called "Death by Ministry" to help put busyness into perspective, especially if you’re in ministry. As a part of his message he shared how certain "Big Time" execs have come to terms with the demands on their time. Here’s a few, more to come:
* From 1978 to 1984, Bill Gates took only 6 days off.
* Carlos Ghosn (CEO of Renault and Nissan) has an assistant screen all emails and documents, will not allow a meeting to exceed 90 minutes, splits meeting time into half presentation and half discussion, and has to have at least 6 hours of sleep and his weekends off.
* Marissa Mayer (VP at Google) gets 700 to 800 emails a day, sometimes spends 14 hours straight on Saturdays and Sundays catching up on email, and has learned to live on 4–6 hours of sleep a night.
* Howard Schultz (Chairman of Starbucks) rises between 5 and 5:30 a.m. and prefers face-to-face meetings and phone appointments over emails.
* Bill Gross (Chief Investment Officer of Pimco) gets up around 4:30 a.m., arrives at the office around 6 a.m., refuses to look at any emails he does not want to, only answers the phone 3–4 times a day, does not have a cell phone, does not have a BlackBerry, is intentionally disconnected with the exception of his wife, and works out for an hour and a half every day.
