The last three weeks have been a blur. Trip to SC, Easter, birthday, Town Hall for Hope, praise band, trip to Raleigh to see good friend from Philly, trip to Ohio(I’m in columbus as I write this), speaking at a school chapel, Karen’s first wedding show with her coupon books and starting new business. It wouldn’t have been so bad, but I’ve spent many late nights researching and setting things up for my new business. I had been trying to do a better job of getting more sleep and going to bed when Karen does, but that hasn’t happened recently. One night I actually fell asleep on top of the covers when she went to bed early then woke up around 10:30 and got up to work. I have gotten a lot done and now must wait to see if I’ve put into practice works. I just saw that Youk hit a walk off HR to beat the Yanks and that Matthew Stafford has signed on to be a complete and total bust with the Detroit Lions. Sixers won! Ok, the excitement of what I’m learning about marketing and business is spilling over into the rest of my life. Karen and I have had some exciting conversations. We also have faced some stark truths together, but the point is that we are in this together. I feel like I’ve gotten things sort of off the ground and will be able to resume normal sleeping hours this week. The children are doing well. No one’s been sick for a few weeks. Drake makes me laugh everyday and I think his vocabulary doubled this week. It may be that he is using sentences more and more. Charis and Milena need a two day nap because the schedule of the last 3 weeks has been hard on them. I have been challenged recently about the concept of quality time. Just because we are in the same room/house/car with our family doesn’t mean that it’s quality time. One day this week I remember being excited to spend some time with the girls. I got distracted by something(twitter phone beeps perhaps) and the time passed without much interaction. I have spoken to Karen about going “dark” one day a week. Some other pastors I respect spend time away from the electronic stuff periodically. When this starts it will be important to tell those I’m in frequent contact with that I will be unavailable for the next 24 hours or so. No Ipod, no txting, no non-emergency phone calls, no twitter, no computer, no chance you say. I don’t want this to be like the episode of Seinfeld where Kramer vows to stop talking. He keeps forgetting and when reminded always responds,”Starting…NOW!” The point is he never stuck to it. That may be my favorite episode ever. It has Kathy Griffin in it who I am not a big fan of. I’m not really sure why she’s famous. I have been inconsistent in my running during these 3 weeks as well. Partly due to leg issues and partly due to heart(figurative) issues. I guess I’ll go running Monday…without the Ipod.
Yep. It’s easy to be distracted.
No wonder, say, Thomas Jefferson got so much done. He had no phone of any kind, and no computer.