how do you spend your time?

How do you spend your time? Do you know? Are you sure of the answer? Or are you uncertain? Here is a suggestion for discovering the truth about your time management, the daily routines you choose to embrace.

Get a day-timer or notepad for your family. Indicate where each family member is and what they are doing at any given moment based on 15 minute increments for one week, Sunday through Saturday. It may seem overwhelming at first, but it is also revealing. The patterns of your family life are to be found in your daily routines. This is especially true of those routines you hardly notice, yet they take time. During this time, live your lives normally, but record your time with discipline. This will provide you with the greatest accuracy so that you may then decide where changes are needed and what goals should be set. Once the goals are set, then you can decide how best to reach them in realistic ways.

In brief, discover your current reality. Then decide your preferred reality. Finally, set and implement specific, realistic, and measurable goals which will help you achieve it. In this case, it is a matter of deciding how best to use your time. We all have the same amount of time. We also have a choice concerning how we use it.

How is God leading you to change your use of time?