Over the past couple of months I have implemented the following systems to help hold back the ever present onslaught of entropy in my vocational life. It's helping.
1. Man Bag- As you know, I bought a man bag... a murse... a satchel. Whatever. It helps because it holds my planner. It is really just a way of physically attaching my calendar to myself at all times. So I can schedule and check my schedule and store important papers and receipts, etc at all times.
2. Drugs- I went to the Dr and was diagnosed with narcolepsy and add. The drugs are helping somewhat. Now I can concentrate for more than 15 minutes at a time. Which is part of the reason my blog posts are fewer and farther between.
3. Admin Assitant- I hired my wife to be my admin assistant, even though every body said not to. It was the best decision I've made since I married her. I should have hired her two years ago. She does three times the work in half the time.
4. Cell phone clip- Every three weeks I lose my cell phone for ten days. I recently spent twenty bucks on a crappy little cell phone holder that clips to the strap of my man bag (see item 1). Well worth the money, even if the design of the holder totally throws off the aesthetic of the bag. I've not lost my cell phone since I purchased it! I'm going to get another clip to attach my keys to my bag. I think my entire life should be held together with little clips like that. Maybe I'll create a clip system and write a book with a an accomanying work book and journal and go on the motivational speaking circuit. Nobody would come of course, unless a charged 25k per session and called it a "workshop".
Other things I am excited to implement: A prayer system I found out about that helps to organize prayer requests in a systematic manner so you can pray through them in a way that makes some sense. Now when I say I'll pray for somebody there's about a 40% chance I'll either forget, or only pray for them once and then forget. This new system should help greatly. I'll keep you updated. Also, a strategic planning system for the church that will help us align what we do with what we say wwe want to do. I kind of had something like this in effect already, but this system I learned about is much more thorough, yet simple and has less holes in it. It will help keep me and GC on task.
6 comments:
Funky, share your prayer system! If there is one area, and I think there is only one, that I am beyond bad when it comes to "disciplines", I would have to say prayer.
Help a brotha' out.
I will! It is based on the Lord's prayer and is divided into seven different segments. You kind of have to see the paper with it's columns and what not. I'll make a copy and mail it to you. Email me with your address. I'll have my admin assistant send it right out ; )
I've developed my own method to treat my ADD and I think it is effe
Did you say you got a new cell phone?
When you get that clip for your keys, you should totally get one with a retractable chain. Not only does it give you some added hipness, it keeps little ones amused in certain situations.
What happens if you lose your murse?
Then I turn to a life of aimless wandering and mumbling. All those street people you see around town aren't homeless. They are church planters who have lost their murses.
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