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about 2 weeks ago i started purposely unplugging at the end of the day, turning off twitter, resisting the urge to blog about every little thing.  you know what happened?  i started getting some really great (God) ideas about my life. go figure.  the first issue God put on the table (and the reason for this little exercise)… learning to guard my family time.

it’s real easy to blame my lost family time on everything but the real culprit.  myself.  the truth?  it is noone’s responsibility but my own to make sure my tasks get done in time to claim all of my weekend time for my family.

God’s little revelation to me was this.  my ‘want to get it done’ list will always be more appealing to me than my, ‘have to get it done’ list.  doing (very important, great things) when they are not my real priority only serves one purpose… to feed my ego and my creative appetite.  these are the things that sabotage my family time by leaving my have to’s unplanned for, undelegated and undone on thursday sending me whining to the office on friday, saturday and sometimes really, really early sunday morning.  [ouch]

so, this week i have two lists.  i am officially unlumping my less appealing routine tasks from my fun new exciting tasks (and named them accordingly as a reminder).  i am removing my ‘want to’ list from my eyesight.  nothing gets done on my fun list until the essentials are taken care of.  wow! this little exercise was very telling.  my have to’s only amounted to 3/4 of a page.  now, i’m sure it will grow throughout the week as it usually does.  but now i’m not distracted by all the things i would rather do but, in all honesty, would not even consider leaving my family on the weekend to complete.

(like posting this blog)

[sigh]

baby steps.

i love my God.  He is great and loves me so much no matter what.

i love my family.  i love my job.  i want them all to keep on loving me.

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