With the new year just around the corner, I'm armed with new planning pages and resolve. This year, I plan to conquer time. Ambitious? Indeed.
The key part (for me) is finding the discipline to go to bed at a decent time. It's a vicious cycle that's contingent on the time I get to sleep. The later I stay awake, the later I want to sleep the next morning. The later I sleep, the more I scramble to get the kids out the door (picture me yelling: "Let's go! Let's go! Let's go!"). The morning usually sets the tone for the day, and thus my productivity: at the gym, at work, at home.
My new year's resolution is to go to bed each night at a decent time. We'll see how that goes.
I'm reading a new book by Dr. Gary Smalley entitled: Great Parents, Lousy Lovers. It's talking about building a margin into your life. He uses the metaphor that each activity is like blowing air into a balloon. The more activity, the more the balloon gets fills. Rest is like letting some air out. Downtime is important. That means, I'll need limit my daily tasks/activities to create realistic outcomes.
So, this 2011, I endeavor to conquer time by going to bed earlier and creating some wider time margins in my daily schedule.
Also, I'm conducting an informal survey about household chores. Send to your friends and family. I'm interested to see the results. http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/maniacalmother
A hogmanay for Bessie, i.e., a thought from dad.
ReplyDeleteWe should endeavor to conquer time. We exist “in time,” and are creatures “of time.” Since time is relative to our perspective and our perspective is bound by our existence and our existence is reflective of our actions, we can and should control or conquer these actions. Our actions are reflective of our faith, or to say it more pragmatically, “we do what we believe”. So, if we choose to act and follow through with selected actions, we have, in a sense, conquered time! Way to go, Bess.
Very interesting, Dad. THANKS.
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