»Exercise

• What are the major elements of your job? (Admin, preparation, speaking, pastoral, training etc)
• How do you divide up your time?
• How does that compare to how you would most want your time to be divided?
• What are the biggest pressures & stresses on your time?
• How do you cope when you are most stressed?!

»Some Basic Tips

Put the big things in first

• relationship with God
• space to prepare
• time for people
• personal needs
• time off & holidays

Guard your gauges

• Spiritual
• Physical: days / time off / exercise / eating right
• Social: family / friends
• Emotional: fun!
• Intellectual: reading, stretching

Be accountable

• articles: spiritual attacks on leaders
• not just for “moral” issues but in how you use your time, and in your approach
• sample accountability questions

Value your most important tools:

• an organiser (diary, palm, outlook, mobile)
• your contract (see later)
• your management (also later – don’t let the congregation, yp, leaders etc manage u!)
• good friends (spouse, etc)
• the word “NO”!

Develop systems & habits)
"..busyness is a subtle form of procrastination in which we fill our lives with activity to avoid doing what really needs doing...the more we avoid something the great the resistence become...our life-management system needs to ive us a mentod of overcoming resistance"
(Mark Forster "Get Everything Done" p 71/2)

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