Daily Dose
What is a Daily Dose?
Think of the Daily Dose as a fresh flower every day. That perfect little touch to catch your attention, lift your spirit, and give you something to think about during the rest of the day.
Or think of it as a satisfying, 100 calorie bite-size nibble designed for a short daily reading snack.
Or think of it as a bitter pill, necessary for good health, and tolerable (mostly) because it is small and quickly dispatched.
Prompts for Thinking and Doing
Whether a thing of beauty, a nutritious snack, or badly-needed medicine, Doses want to lead to reasonable thinking time and, active implementing time after they are read.
And day after day, as they are bundled together with both extra thinking and extra doing, they become a bouquet of time thoughts, a buffet of effective time tools, and a renewed vigor for time projects. Unfortunately, no one looks forward to constant weeding and watering to produce daily flowers, long kitchen hours to prepare tasty snacks, or taking pills for the rest of their life.
Who do you know who can afford to stop their life to reset, get organized, and then start fresh? Life does not wait while we learn how to oversee and apportion the time our lives are in. Whatever we are going to improve and correct in life has to happen while all the old pulls are still in place. Everyone yearns for quick fixes to specific irritations and simple solutions to deeply entrenched problems.
Leading to Changed Habits
The fact is quick fixes and handy hints can make some difference, but full effectiveness almost always involves BUILDING OR CHANGING A HABIT. The best quick fixes and handy hints are built upon solid principles, principles that can produce a variety of “hints” once they are understood correctly.
Daily Doses are principles and ideas from which habits and hints can grow, offered one flower, snack or pill at a time.
Questions for Learning, not Schooling
I write, you read and think and implement. Sounds like a great deal for me and a lot of work for you! Need some help thinking? Don’t start off trying to think. Instead, after reading the Dose for the Day, ask yourself questions:
- How does the dose apply to you? Who do you know that might need the dose more than you?
- What is your evaluation of the ideas presented: accurate, imbalanced, incomplete, insightful?
- In what way(s) did the “light bulb” go on? How does it connect with your life?
- How would you summarize the dose?
- How is your thinking about time, roles, responsibilities, changing as you read?
The great news is this is NOT SCHOOL: these aren’t the only questions; we can each think of our own. The answers are not answers for a test or a quiz, they helps for us to live our day to day lives. The “right” answer enables us to contentedly succeed both in what we ought to do and what we want to do—and class is never over; the opportunity to start learning again is fresh each day for as long as our Life-Time lasts.
Priority Stewardship 