(Here’s a refresh on routine while I take a month’s break. Thanks!) Maintaining routine, former procrastinators, can be a challenge – with big payoffs. Owning a car is a challenge with payoffs. It requires adding fuel, going in for regular maintenance, and tending to repairs. It takes time, effort, money. Still, most of us prefer to maintain our cars and enjoy the benefits that come from having ready transportation. When we bought our cars, we considered our needs, budgets, preferences. …
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Routine Application – Using Routine Where Most Needed
(Here’s a refresh on routine while I take a month’s break. Thanks!) Do you identify with my friend, former procrastinators? She said, “My management style is to whack the alligator closest to the boat.” Love that! Hate that. What an apt description. We really don’t want it to describe us. So we’re changing! Not as many ‘gators or as much whacking as there used to be. Her statement describes what happens when we procrastinate. We put off choosing the best…
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Routine Practice – Preparing to Get Out the Door
(Here’s a refresh on routine, former procrastinators, while I take a month’s break. Thanks! ) Routine is a great way to help us do what needs doing when it needs doing. This week we tackle getting to work or school. Whether you and your family catch a bus, pile into a car, or commute to the kitchen table you must physically transition to work. Let’s concentrate on three areas: getting out the door – or over to the table –…
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The Gift of Routine – Routine
In August, former procrastinators, I’m taking a break for some summer time recharging. Because school starts this month for many and because all of us are affected by the school year, I’m going to replay our August month on Routine. Enjoy lots of summer play and rest; then this month’s posts will help with new routines. You can relieve pressure and help things run smoothly if you actually do practice runs before the fall schedule starts. (Remember to check out…
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That Word “Success” – Freedom’s Call
We former procrastinators are alert to ideas that will genuinely help us do what needs doing when it needs doing – work, play, or rest – so we enjoy that freedom God has for us. We’ve learned we can imprison ourselves through our own choices. We’re learning to choose freedom from being overwhelmed, confused, constantly tired, behind. Sometimes help comes through books, programs, DVD’s that are not Christian productions – yet they contain biblical truth. As we use such resources…
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Rest Well – Freedom’s Call
For some of us former procrastinators, rest is actually one of the things we put off. We don’t think we have the freedom to relax. We have a backlog of items on our do list and feel guilty for being behind. We just don’t think we can stop or even pause to take a break. So we push on trying to do more. This thinking is counter-productive. It works against us and our efforts because it drags both down. Since…
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Go Play! – Freedom’s Call
Our daughter, former procrastinators, told me “When I have kids, forget toys. I’m just giving ‘em cardboard boxes.” She knows how much fun she had playing with those. The crowning occasion was when we rounded up refrigerator and washing machine boxes from stores to add to our leftover moving boxes. The kids had a grand time building tunnels, houses, a castle, a village. We hurry to accomplish so much we don’t think we have the freedom to play. We put…
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