People vs Task

This has been one of those weeks that seems like every time I sit down to work on something, something else comes up and stops me from getting things done. I came in today hoping to get a lot of things done so I'd be free tomorrow. But as soon as I came in my office a guy asked if he could use my computer for a sec to check email and send a quick one out. He said it would only take a couple of minutes. As soon as he gets on he downloads a massive powerpoint presentation and starts going through it, laughing out loud at each slide. You know one of those laughs that people do when they want you to ask what their laughing at. I of course ignore it because I want to get to work and not spend the next hour looking at things I don't really care about. Well 25 minutes later he finally says he's about done and asks how to do a couple things and then looks up more emails and finally gets off of my computer after 10 more minutes. As I was sitting in my chair getting more and more frustrated about how long this was taking I was reminded of one of my profesors at LU.
Dr. Gutierrez was my favorite professor and in one of his classes he taught about knowing if we are a people person (which I think I am most of the time) or a task person. I realized this morning that I was being a task person and how frustrated I was getting. It set my whole morning on fire and I was about to choke someone out.

In minisry, life and especially in planting a church I want to focus on helping people and not accomplishing a task. Because at the end of the day I may accomplish a lot of things but if I have neglected the people at the task or who the task is for than I have accomplished nothing.