Want to lower your stress? Want to enjoy the beauty of spontaneity? Want to keep calm? Want peace? The Answer: Work two weeks out. In other words, complete all that you know is due two weeks prior to it’s actual due date. Space for spontaneity is the added benefit of living two weeks out. If…
time management
Time Management for the Rest of Us
I have consumed many books on time and management for work and for family life. Learning how others maximize their 24-hours fascinates me. The One-Minute Manager taught me to start with one-minute goals then review and clarify regularly. Steve Covey’s successful habits taught me to distinguish tasks by importance and urgency. David Allen’s Getting Things…
Four Steps to Planning Student Ministry Events
Student Ministries have the privilege of creating events where teens can experience God in new ways. Retreats, mission projects, lock-ins, day trips, and conferences offer opportunities that are out of our ordinary, daily existence. By their nature, they uniquely expand the space for the Holy Spirit to move. As youth leaders, we need to responsibly…
Life: Bordered or Integrated?
What would an integrated life look like? What if my family, faith, work and play were more intricately woven together? We live in a world of many boundaries. My home life is supposed to be separate from my work life. Relationship experts recommend no conversation over the dinner table of faith or politics. Clear lines…
