“People know you for what you’ve done, not for what you plan to do.” ~Unknown
While plans are nothing until they are executed, plans are extremely important. For the last week I have been working on the Hambrick Family Master Plan July 1, 2010 – June 30, 2011. That is a fancy way of saying that [...]
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“Everything’s gonna get lighter, even if it never gets better.” – Mates of State, Get Better
People who know about this project often ask me how things have changed. And with the exception of the financial category, concrete improvements are hard to come by. Even in the financial category, money still feels tight – I think it always [...]
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“I have so much to do (today) that I should spend the first three hours in prayer.” ~ Martin Luther (1546 c.e.)
Yesterday I was talking about my project and how I thought it was possible to greatly improve one’s own life in just ten percent of that individual’s given time. Then I began talking about [...]
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“If you want something you never had, then do something you never did.”
I have to admit that I didn’t really consider how much time this tithe of time would take. The whole reason I have created and begun to live this program is that my life was broken. I wanted things I did not have [...]
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“When I have money, I get rid of it quickly, lest it find a way into my heart.” ~John Wesley
I didn’t have a plan for a category to tackle today. I just thought I would live my life and see where it went. It went to me working on five of the six.
Family
Today is Ally, [...]
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“Sweet childish days, that were as long as twenty days are now.” ~William Wordsworth
Family
I took Katherine to the zoo again. It has been five trips now and we have still not seen the whole thing. I would estimate that we have seen 75% and that does not include the Wild Animal Park. It is really nice [...]
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“Never mistake motion for action.” ~Ernest Hemingway
I was really busy today, but I wouldn’t say I was taking action. Besides office hours and household shopping, I found myself on the phone with family and friends most of the morning. My dad called to tell me that, while doing some genealogy research, he found out that [...]
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“I know God will not give me anything I can’t handle. I just wish that He didn’t trust me so much.” ~Mother Teresa
Finishing the Race
Thank goodness I have another day to finish the week’s quotas. Today I spent the morning with Katherine and Christina thrift shopping for a ‘big-girl’ bed for Katherine. We came up [...]
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“Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.” ~Henry Ford
Time to rebuild the project. I have been to lackadaisical about when and what days I do my ‘tithe’. While my sister was here – she left this morning – I was still working on the project, but it [...]
http://www.titheyourlife.com/day-19-falling-off-wagon/
Day 102: Annual Budget Meeting
Christina and I just finished our annual budget meeting. We are now working off of a July to June fiscal year budget as opposed to a January to December.
Our agenda looked like this:
Financial goals for the year
Expected maintenance
Major purchases
Future planning
Career development
Our daughter
Each of these had sub-topics, but one could get the gist from the above.
We [...]
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