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TIME MANAGEMENT FOR MISSION - I
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1. Carry a recipe card or journal and make a notation of every task that needs doing, as you think of it.
2. Plan your week vith blocks of time for rest, recreation, and fun so that you can use your creative energies well during your working time.
3. Use a dicta-phone and a volunteer typist or secretarial service. You can work anytime an idea strikes, you don't need to be near your computer or have a block of time to sit down and do the word processing.
4. Go to a monthly bulletin unless you have a volunteer who will assume weekly responsibility.
5. Do your creative writing whenever the mood strikes. Keep a file of themes and ideas you would like to work on. Keep a file of your written materials so you can use it again appropriately when the well goes dry.
6. Block off in your week the times when etiquette allows you to be visiting; perhaps two evenings a week for visiting, one morning for hospitals and nursing homes, and one aftemoon for visiting seniors. Dealing with people is your primary business and the rest of the week should be shaped around that priority.
7. Get rid of your phone machine that takes messages and instead let people know on your phone message when they can reach you. "I will be at my phone in the office Tuesday and Thursday evenings from 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm, and Wednesday and Friday mornings from 9:00 am to 11:00 am. If it is a pastoral emergency please feel free to call at my home phone number which is ..." This frees you from the obligation of responding to phone tag all week.
8. Don't sit through meetings, drop in to express support and encouragement and to answer questions and concerns. This allows you to connect with many different circles of people in a helpful and uplifting way without burning up time and energy and without interfering with the leadership you've developed.
Item I
©1999 Ronald C. Ferris
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