7 Simple Choices for a Better Tomorrow by Bob Merritt & Bill Hybels
Author:Bob Merritt & Bill Hybels
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Religion
ISBN: 9781441238597
Publisher: Baker Books
Published: 2012-07-01T22:00:00+00:00
Seasonal Rhythm
Do rhythms change depending on the season of life? Yes, but certain rhythms will never change based on a person’s hardwiring. I will always be most creative in the mornings. I will never gain energy from social outings. I will always need regular periods of solitude built into my rhythm to restore. I will never allow myself to be ill-prepared when giving a message, speech, or interview. I will always need space after a weekend of leading and speaking. Exercise will always be a part of my rhythm, even on vacation.
God made you in such a way that you need a daily rhythm, weekly rhythm, monthly rhythm, and annual rhythm. At 9:30 every morning I get my only cup of coffee. I reward myself with that small pleasure every day. During lunch I sit in our cafeteria and enjoy the playful banter with staff from all departments. Then at the end of the day, after my workout, I go home to eat, relax, unwind, and read or watch TV with my wife. I love those two and half hours from 6:30 to 9:00 p.m. It’s my daily Sabbath.
Every Friday is my weekly Sabbath. I don’t go to work, talk to staff, answer my phone, or overload my day with projects. Obviously, some home projects need to get done, but a lot of things get left undone. It’s why we’ll never own a second property. Life’s too short.
My monthly rhythm is somewhat dictated by seasonal events like Easter, Christmas, and fall. But I’ve gotten into a monthly groove where I speak three weekends in a row and then have one or two weekends off from speaking. I go hard and then let up, go hard and then let up.
For my annual rhythm, I have a monthly planner that I use to block off vacation and travel time a full year in advance. If it doesn’t get on the calendar, it doesn’t happen. This also helps my staff members plan their year. After a long, hard season, I reward myself and my family with a getaway of some sort. Living in Minnesota, we’ve found that going south somewhere for ten days in February helps us thaw out and rejuvenate our souls. When my kids were teenagers, I made a commitment to take them each somewhere fun once a year to make sure I was connecting with their lives. I have a six-week summer break that I use for vacation, writing, and fishing in Alaska, and I always take a fall hunting trip. These are the things that keep me alive. People who are going at Mach speed and fail to build in regular intervals of rest and recovery are out of rhythm and won’t sustain over the long haul. Your life should look less like a straight line and more like a roller coaster with regular peaks of output followed by valleys of rest. You don’t have a work life and a home life. You have one life, and everything’s intertwined.
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