Task Targeting
Monday morning starts the same for me each week. I sit down with the yellow piece of paper or the word document and begin listing all of the tasks I want to target for the day, the tasks for those I work with, and the family things that I’d like to see happen. Usually much of these lists are carried over from the previous week which leads me to question the way I go about targeting these specific tasks. How much of my time is spent listing the tasks rather then just carrying out the given task that needs to be done. However, I can talk myself in a circle because it is only until I see the bulk mass of all the tasks that need to be done that I am able to prioritize what I will go after. Here is the real problem for me though - it is the endless tasks that I do that aren’t on the list and serve little to no purpose. It use to be the endless checking of e-mail or the message board on fantasy football (although I’ve curbed that significantly) and now it is tracking down different ideas or reading the newspaper or I don’t know what but it is something other then the targeted list and I wish I knew how to change that.
Over the next few weeks Jenny and I are intentionally going to chart out a rhythm for our lives. One that includes a date night, a Sabbath, some travel, and try to keep the main things the main things. I’m curious what works for others because as good as things are for us now I wonder if it couldn’t still be better.
