Daily Breakfast #212
This episode of the Daily Breakfast is dedicated by William Ferguson to Dennis Schenkel, a seminarian at St. Meinrad Archabbey in St. Meinrad, Indiana. In this show: Stress and Time Management; another green light for the future of SQPN; the Edirol R-09 versus the Zoom H4; Rudolphus Rubrinasus translation.
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I can identify with your time management problems… difficulties… whatever. I found that I was spending more time trying to figure out HOW to manage my time, than I was managing it… Then I would change tactics and try another method etc. I finally gave up and tried to just get along with what I was already doing. Go figure…
Good luck!
Have had a terrible time management problem, myself. Spent 10 to 16 hours a day on the job for a couple of years. I do not recommend my solution, but with the administration that we have, it was the only one available – I simply lowered my standards.
The only priest in Amersfoort? Quite the “character building opportunity” as the motivational speakers say. For listeners who want a little more information on the city, check this link:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amersfoort
Especially note that the population is well over 100,000.
My prayers for you, Father R. Just remember that you have built a community out here (not a virtual community, but a real one). Don’t be shy about yelling for help. Many hands (and computers) make light work.
Dear Fr. Roderick,
I’m so glad that your metting with the vicar general went very well. I was happy to hear that he fully identifies with your vision, even though he doesn’t use the Internet at all. My stomach churns whenever you talk about the meeting with the vicar general. When you described this meeting, I constantly thought what if the vicar general said no, what if vicar general didn’t approve, what would happen to the future of SQPN…. I felt so relieved when you said the vicar general was happy with the growth of SQPN. Thanks be to God.
I can relate to the time management troubles. I use a communication suite to plan my time (e.g. Outlook in Windows, Evolution or KOffice in Linux). I can sync it with my smartphone and Palm PDA.
I want to share another tip: as a university student I use my iPod to listen to lectures I recorded earlier when I travel by train or my PDA to read PDF-files, so I can take a lot of paperwork with me, all stuffed in my small PDA.
Oh my goodness…that picture! It’s exactly how I feel!
Cheers to you, Fr. Roderick, you are doing a good thing.
Zoom H4
Loved the cat!
I’m a bit behind on listening to DBs. I am responsible for 100 databases. There is only me to work on them. Time management is a necessity for me. I took a course in time management. One time management dictum is to learn that not every task is worth doing. The course I took suggested no more than 3 levels of priority. The first is the must do. A Funeral Mass would be an example of a priority 1. Priority 2s are things that need to be done, but the world won’t stop if they don’t happen immediately. The Daily Breakfast would be a Priority 2. Priority 3s are things which are good to do, but have no time deadlines. Anything else, don’t put on your list. If your list is more than 40 items, you aren’t being real on your priority setting. There are things which fall into the don’t do category on your list. Remember this is not a life list, but a list of what you can reasonably do in a defined period of time. I use a week as my time period. You should have no more than 5 priority 1s. 10 -15 priority 2s. The rest 3s. Tasks can change priority up or down. I revise on daily basis. I like to date the tasks. If they are around for a month and I have not done it, its not worth doing.
Its not easy to let go of a task. Especially if it something you want to do, but it really isn’t important. I find that when my task list gets too long, I get overwhelmed and my output slows down.
Best of Luck with developing a time management scheme that works for you.
Liz