Be Back Monday

I never have time over weekends to publish a new post so I need to be sure to get to this today, being it's a Friday!

So, you may ask, how goes it with your Day-Timer? Is it helping track your time? Is it keeping you on task?

For the most part, yes. Do not expect to adhere to it each day without fail, though. Things happen, stuff comes up.

Take yesterday. My first planned task was to publish a new blog post. Well, I had no internet connection until after 11:00. I don't know what the reason was; the modem and wireless router looked fine. Neither computer could connect, though. I needed to be at an 8:45 appointment, then had to take my father out at 10:00, so I couldn't do anything to fix it until after coming back home. I did pray about it, though.

After coming back home I looked at the situation, and everything was working normally! I thanked God for taking care of it for me. That was so fantastic! As for my schedule, I had some extra time at noon since I had planned to take my father to the drugstore and post office, but he was sleeping. So I used that time for my blog.

This morning was another story. Again, I had my blog scheduled at 8:00. After waking up, however, I found my BlackBerry had died during the night. Couldn't turn it on, and when I tried to charge it I got a message saying there was no battery at all. I rely on my wonderful BlackBerry; they're not called "CrackBerry" for nothing.

I called customer service. I was told there is a software problem in the device which can't be fixed. Oh, joy! So they are sending out a new device to me but I won't get it until Tuesday. Then my father had a 10:00 eye appointment, with an additional 3 stops after that.

As you can understand, my morning was shot. I did have my father's errands in my schedule, but not the stuff preceeding that.

So, a schedule provides the framework around which your day is built. Even though it doesn't turn out exactly as you had hoped, you still have the basic structure. Something still remains to work with.

I visualize the Hindenburg tragedy. We all know how it burned entirely, but the frame remained behind. There will always be something salvageable. Make your frame sturdy and fireproof, so you've got something left to work with.

Now you know why you need a structure, plan, or whatever you want to call it. Not just for your big goals but the smaller daily ones. It's the day-to-day that takes us to the ultimate goals.

Junie