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Get a Handle on Your Time

Scheduling My Life

Now I want you to actually take out a piece of paper from your new notebook, as the author recommended, and write down everything you wish you could accomplish in a day.  Remember to write down how much time each task will take.  

I want you to add a few things to your list, if you haven't included these already.

• Time to spend with God each day.  Half an hour is a good start.  
• Time to read books each day.  In these 10 steps, I've included over 15 books to read, and that's just a start!  These little articles will never be able to address everything that God wants to do in your home, so that's why I recommend books.  However, if your life is a mess, you might feel that time for reading is a luxury you can't take.  I'd like you to change your thinking and realize that growing your inner life is absolutely vital!  So, to make it happen, schedule time for it in your day.

We'll add some more things as we work through these 10 steps.  For now, though, make a rough-draft schedule.  I'd do it in pencil, since you'll probably change it many times.  In fact, my daily schedule is on my computer, on Microsoft Excel, where I can "cut and paste" the little boxes around to my heart's content.

Now it's time to add a book to your reading list...

Managers of Their Homes, by Steve and Teri Maxwell

On to Step Three...