Journal: tempest fugit!

No, not a typo - just a recognition that the passage of time can cause a storm!

I spent four hours this week in a coaching scenario - and I enjoyed it!

We looked at work/life balance and the things that energised me.
We looked at the things I wanted to do and the things I was doing and asked some difficult questions.

The interesting thing to note was that peaks came after a week off, reduced week and, in the case of the highest, Holy Week as preparation, services and home visits crowded in.

My lowest week this year (thus far) arrived when a 'flu bug hit the family.


Watch this space as I work at reducing life to something below the forty-five hour mark.

I have to say that, and I'm writing this at 04:00 having woken at 02:35 and finding myself unable t o sleep, that I enjoy what I do and do what I enjoy, but as the organist keeps telling me, "It's long hours, not hard word, that kills you!"

So I'm looking to live a lot longer :-)

These are the scores on the doors that outline work area averages for a week

 And (knowing you like pictures) here are the same areas depicted graphically:

So, let's see where this coaching thing takes me. I've already made sleep a 'protected area' (unless there's a crisis that is ;-) ) and will now be looking as seeing how I can raise the bar with study and prayer and growing as a Christian (A colleague says better to have a healthy cleric than a knackered one - wonder if this is the model for 2017?).

The winds of change are flying through the boondocks and life is, as the Chinese curse never said, about to cause me to live in interesting times!

Prayer and encouragement will be most welcome over the coming day.


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