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Chet
2. September 2010 22:47
I'm in one of those seasons of life where tiredness, and even exhaustion, is more than something felt more than at certain points of the day... it's more of a permanent state of mind. A big part of it, I'm sure, is the "role" I've taken on as "family-member-with-the-1AM-to-6AM-feeding-shift." Add to that some significant focus on planning and changing my business model, a coaching role that can easily take up 1-2 hours a day, and then all the other stuff that comes with being a man, husband, and father. Oh, and then all those things that tug at my heart with signifance beyond my own little world.
But that's not what's captured my attention.
What's captured my attention is that even though I'm averaging 4-6 hours of sleep a night, almost guaranteed to be interupted at some point... when that moment of interuption comes, I'm up, awake, and ready to go. But a few months ago, before the baby was born and my sleep was only stopped by an alarm clock or a body finally rested enough to wak...
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Chet
31. August 2010 07:36
GOAL: BUDGET MY TIME EACH DAY AND EACH WEEK
GOAL SUMMARY: I want control. Don't we all? I want to look back at the end of a 24 hour period of time and say, "I spent my day in a way that was productive, useful, and enjoyable." But so often, I seem to get to the end of the day barely breathing... having the time to reflect back on what I did seems like a dream. Why is that? If I'm doing what's important to me, and reflecting on my day is important to me, it seems that I should have the ability to "pencil in" reflection at the end of my day, right?
Perhaps the problem. I'm pencilling in the must-do priorities of my life and letting the crisis of the moment take control. There's nothing wrong with dealing with a crisis, if it is, in fact, a crisis. But I have a feeling that many of the things I rearrange my minutes, hours, and days for each week are probably not quite as important as I make them out to be - important enough to rearrange the things I really want and need to do. I'm ...
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Chet
30. August 2010 17:10
GOAL: LEAD MY SON TO FAITH IN JESUS CHRIST
GOAL SUMMARY: I was hesitant to even think of making up a Goal Planning Sheet for this. Why? Well, for starters, the whole point is that I want my son's decision about his eternal destination to be just that... his decision. I remember next to nothing about my own salvation experience at four years old, and while that doesn't invalidate it by any means, it's also not something I can look back to and point out the steps I took to make it my own decision, versus something that was just told to me, I believed, accepted, and that's that. And I don't think that's bad. In fact, it's tremendously good. Should my son come to faith at that early of a place in his life, I think I'd be overjoyed. I also wonder if I'd wonder for quite a while, "was it real, or did I push him too hard?"
So that's what this is here for... not to come up with some strategy that will get him saved by the time he's seven or eleven or twenty seven, but for me, to set this as ...
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Chet
26. August 2010 13:58
GOAL: SPEND AN HOUR EACH DAY READING AND WRITING FOR PLEASURE
GOAL SUMMARY: I dearly love to read and write for pleasure. Yet both seem to somehow lose their place on my priority list when other things "come up." Is this because they're really not that important to me? I don't think so, because I definitely miss them in my life. Is it because I simply don't know how to prioritize them so that they are a part of my life, no matter what? Maybe. I suppose this GPS will help me if that's the case. Perhaps part of the reason I don't read or write for pleasure as often as I should is because I don't feel I deserve to enjoy a block of time like that each day. Now there's an introspective thought. I could probably write for an hour or more just on that one.
Regardless, this is one of at least three goal planning sheets I'm working on this week. I've both broadened and narrowed this one already today. It initially was going to be "Spend 30-60 minutes reading each day." That then got changed t...
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Chet
22. August 2010 06:49
Part of my business / life coaching experience is looking inside myself for what I really want to do. As I develop an inventory of 100+ dreams, I am searching inside myself for what motivates me. I believe that a big part of this experience is to explore the unknowns of my heart, but I also think it's a practical search of the things that can be driving forces behind the changes I need to make, regardless of what "side" of my life it's on.
Dream #61: Hit a home run at a softball game.
Why would something as "trivial" as that make my list? Well, apparently it's not trivial to me, because it has been on my mind for several weeks as we wrapped up our softball season without any home runs. I wondered, should I make a Goal Planning Sheet for this? Can I simply create the motivation, identify the obstacles and solutions, and then pursue them one at a time, with the end result of hitting a home run at just the right time?
Bottom of the last inning. Game is tied. Bases loaded. 2 Outs. I s...
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