Daily Dose 22: Executive Oversight 1: The Need

When I answered the phone one afternoon, the college administrator on the other end began by apologizing for the interruption. “Quite all right,” I responded. “I’m a mother. I never get interrupted, I just change focus a lot.” Truer words were never spoken. Rarely have more helpful words been spoken. Changing focus is what we need.

If you haven’t noticed, our recent discussions have all been ponderous and, at least for me, convicting. I never think about the contentment question for myself, or ask it of others, or try to explain it to a group, without that weight bearing down. Life is heaped with things that need changing and the easier path is to brush most of the pile aside again and again. Facing it all at one time is convicting, I agree. That it is good to do so, is also true. But that does not mean I could survive digging through the pile nonstop until it was gone.

Changing focus is what we all need, especially when I’ve set you up to fail.

Make a list of priorities. Make a list of values. Ask yourself a convicting question over and over again, in all sorts of aspects of your life. Take time to oversee your home. If either you or I had enough time to do those things, we would have spent it. Not one thing I’ve said sounds like a practical help to get on top of the laundry or do something cool with the kids or perform a random act of kindness for a co-worker.

To make headway, we need to cycle our concentration to one of the most important profitable inefficiencies and talk about the weekly executive oversight meeting. And in that one sentence, three time tools  and one outlook were pulled out, all of which need introducing, but only one gets its turn today.

Every woman from about sixteen on needs an executive oversight meeting with herself on a weekly basis. The truth is every person who is even remotely responsible needs an executive oversight meeting with him or herself on a weekly basis. The busier a person is, the more they need the time. The more beholden the person is to the demands of others, the more they need the time. Basically, almost every functioning modern human needs the time.

Finding A Consistent Oversight Time

The question is, where to find the time?

For any who answer that first, great question, “Are you a Christian?” in the negative, the answer is too many options to be specific or helpful. If you are involved in the professional world, Thursday and Friday afternoons are sometimes suggested as good days for such a task, but that doesn’t help the personal or home oversight.

But, if you are a Christian, you have no excuse. An ideal time for such a meeting has been available since the creation week (a long time ago), but it was certainly life-changing for me when I made it available for myself. When do you think would be a consistent time to meet with yourself on a regular basis?