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When you make a schedule make two lists – what you have to do and what you want to do. Then alternate the lists.
You will never “find time” for anything. If you want time, you must make it.
Time is like manna; we can’t hoard it; we can’t save it; the Lord allots each day it’s own supply
Spontaneity requires freedom of an ordered uncluttered mind.
There are 168 hours in a week. Take 2 hours to plan the other 166 – 10 minutes/day, and 1 hour on Sunday.
Time is life. It is irreversible and irreplaceable. To waste time is to waste life, but to control time is to master your life and make the most of it.
Dost thou love life? Then don’t squander time, for it is the stuff life is made of. – Benjamin Franklin
Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice. But for those who love, time is eternity. – Henry Van Dyke
Arnold Bennett, on time:
You wake up in the morning and lo! Your purse is magically filled with 24 hours of the un-manufactured tissue of the universe of your life. It is yours. It is the most precious of possessions. No one can take it from you. It is unstealable. And no one receives either more or less than you receive. – How to Live on Twenty-Four Hours a Day (Doubleday)
Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today. Benjamin Franklin
Use your life to acquire things that you can carry with you into the next life – testimony, relationships with family and friends, intelligence, covenants and ordinances.
Time, like a snowflake, disappears while we’re trying to decide what to do with it.
You have as many hours in your day as the president of the church or the president of the United States.
Last words of Queen Elizabeth I – “I would give all my possessions for a moment in time.”
A speaker once posed the question of whether it is best to live a “planned life” or a “spontaneous life.” That seems to be like asking whether it is best to create an oil painting with a brush or with paint. They are teammates, not enemies or opposites.
Someone in the rat race of life saying “I can’t stop to read scriptures or exercise or eat” is the same as a racecar driver who doesn’t want to make a pit stop – just wants to keep driving. He will eventually run out of fuel or burn out a tire. – Shannon Williams
Organization tips:
Have 3-4 containers in the laundry room – children can sort it themselves when they drop it off.
For toys, have individual plastic drawers or containers instead of one big toy box – one for tinker toys, play dough, cars, etc. Let children play with one drawer at a time.
After dinner, have each person take their plate to the sink to scrape it and put it in dishwasher.
Model your home after a kindergarten room – assign zones (reading corner, craft corner, snack corner) Keep all supplies stored at the point of use. Label all shelves. For children, label shelves with pictures (cut pictures of toys off of boxes). Remember: A place for everything and everything in its place.
As you clean a room, have boxes for each destination – DI, garbage, other rooms in the house, etc.
Hold a family council each Sunday evening to coordinate schedules for the week
Have a set time each day for family prayer and scripture study
Oprah Winfrey’s “space” plan for organizing
S – sort (organize)
P – purge (throw away)
A – assign a home (zones)
C – containerize
E – equalize (maintain)
Keep a general notebook/binder on kitchen counter. The less you carry around in your head, the better off you will be. If you write it, you can forget about it. “The shortest pencil is better than the longest memory.”
Make a good investment of your time. There are 24 hours per day. What you don’t spend, you lose. It’s not like roll-over minutes from AT&T.
Today is a gift – that’s why they call it the present.
Streamline your daily tasks of life like the automation of Henry Ford so that they will take less time. The routine tasks of our lives – laundry, cooking, housework, etc. are usually not the source of joy in our lives. If we streamline them, we will have more time to do the things that do bring us joy. – Shannon Williams
Housework can’t kill you, but why take a chance? – Phyllis Diller
Warning: Dates in Calendar are closer than they appear. – Bumper sticker
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