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Nov 13

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Daily Dose 25: The Keys 1: Key Purpose and Key People

Home’s Purpose:

Home is the oldest of all the social institutions, set in place by the Lord at the creation. Throughout all of man’s existence, virtually every person has had some kind of home experience. That makes for too many opinions about what might be good, bad, unique, or vital about home  as a social institution. If our priorities are going to help us oversee our homes well, those priorities need to grow from what is true,  not what we think or our cultures declare, not what we or our nations experience. Read more

Nov 12

Daily Dose 24: Executive Oversight 3: The Agenda

Almost every complaint I have had with myself about not having adequate time to do whatever I thought needed doing, has been resolved by the spiritual impact of the Lord’s Day on my wrong thinking, and by the practical impact of my Executive Oversight time to puzzle through to a solution of how to do what must be done in the time available.

So many wonderful things happen on Sunday, I don’t like to “waste” any of it, even for a regular nap. Of course, I have both enjoyed and needed an occasional Sunday nap, but draw the line at laundry, mopping floors, or even routinely cooking big fancy dinners. Read more

Nov 11

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Daily Dose 23: Executive Oversight 2: The Time

Did you know that during the French Revolution the social reformers did away with Sunday and the week as we know it? They tried to implement a 10 day week with no Sundays or Christian holidays. We think we live in a deeply secularized society, but very few social designs have been as stridently secularist as the French Revolution. Read more

Nov 10

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. Read more

Nov 7

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About this blog

I could tell you I was running a high pressure company with increasing product lines, a tight budget, and an inadequate plant for everything the start-up was trying to do. Accurate in one sense, but since what I was running was my home, most of you would say I was deluded. Home is where someone has to clean toilets.

For many, home is not much more than a decorative showplace where a few people eat and sleep and occasionally talk. The really creative, challenging life happens at school, at work, in government offices, shopping malls: virtually anywhere but home.

Home is what happens when all the creative juices have been spent somewhere more interesting and more profitable.

Well, I was at home. It was my focus and if the best it had to offer was the chance to clean toilets, I was going to be bored.

But home is not the backwash of real life. In reality, it is the production site for the world’s most complex product line: responsible, thoughtful, committed, and interesting people.

That truth made my time immeasurably valuable. I began to view time, not as a commodity filled with things to do, but as the carrier through which priorities were either attended to or neglected. Compiling the priorities and coordinating the activities that brought those priorities to fruition became my job and Priority Stewardship was born.

Read the backstory for this blog: Part 1 ~ Part 2 ~ Part 3 ~ Part 4

How Priority Stewardship Is Presented

Time: Discussion about general time truths and principles are gathered here.

Daily Dose: A sequence of short, daily bits of priority stewardship information, giving you tidbits of time information every day to think about on your own time.

House Building: The house analogy gathers together all the areas an executive home builder needs to coordinate in:

  • The Blueprint:
    • The schematic of everything  necessary to build a biblical home.
  • The Keys:
    • The key priorities to open the front door
  • The Front Door:
    • The way into the house: the outlook needed for successful home building.
  • En Suite:
    • The executive retreat where the home overseer meets with herself, her God, and her plans.
  • The Kids’ Room:
    • The room where everything having to do with children is kept
  • The Laundry:
    • The place to learn about mechanical maids and how they help in the modern home
  • The Workshop:
    • The place where the time tools are kept, ready to be used on various home projects
  • The Office:
    • The place where evaluation happens
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