Here is my activity/productivity list for the day:
- Devotional study of Psalm 116 (BI: Those who know God’s salvation respond with love.) — 30 minutes
- Prayer bike ride through a new neighborhood — 60 minutes
- Blog about my productivity experiment — 40 minutes
- Work on processing audio for Sunday’s sermon — 25 minutes
- Make lunch for kids and watch AFV with them — 60 minutes
- Finishing sermon audio process and upload — 30 minutes
- Reloaded home Email Server — 20 minutes
- Converted a Simpsons video for my Palm Pilot — 10 minutes
- Blogged my sermon — 10 minutes
- Made dinner for the kids and watched a movie with them — 2.5 hours
- Hanging out with Jen, working on miscellaneous household things for the rest of the evening.
Analysis
According to my productivity experiment, here’s how my day broke down.
Personal
- Prayer: 60 minutes
- Bible: 30 minutes
- Other Books: 0 minutes
- Total: 1.5 hours
Family
- Time with kids: 3.5 hours
- Time with Jen: 2 hours
- Total 5.5 hours
Mission
- Direct contact: 1 person (15 minutes)
- Spiritual conversation: 0
- Strategic planning : 0
- Total 15 minutes
Routine
- Managing home: 20 minutes (fixed email server)
- Managing church: 65 minutes (blogged Sunday’s sermon)
- Total 1.5 hours
Wow! As I look at this list, I’m thinking “That’s how I’m starting my week long productivity experiment?” It doesn’t look very productive to me. I’m going to have to do better.
Cool!
I like the catagories; do yo have goals for each?
One goal that would be critical for where you are right now under Mission, is time spent investing in existing and potential leaders. Time has a tendancy to default to the path of least resistance, not necessarily where it needs to go!
Keep up the good work!
Richard
Great suggestion, thanks Rich.