{"id":2523,"date":"2019-04-26T03:00:52","date_gmt":"2019-04-26T08:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kerryaclark.com\/blog\/?p=2523"},"modified":"2019-04-24T20:47:23","modified_gmt":"2019-04-25T01:47:23","slug":"your-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kerryaclark.com\/blog\/your-time\/","title":{"rendered":"The Facets That Govern Your Time"},"content":{"rendered":"

Are You on Target to Reach Your Destination?<\/span>
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Measuring Your Length of Time – Part 1<\/span><\/h3>\n

Are you on target to reach your destination? <\/span>
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\n<\/span>Everyone needs a way to outline their life, not so you can be predictable, but so that when you set sail you reach your destination or get as close as possible in the time you have for the journey. \u00a0To put life in perspective, if you desire to be intentional and live the life you desire, you\u2019ll need something I call \u201ca time-grid.\u201d What\u2019s a time-grid?<\/span>
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\n<\/span>In order to get a better picture of your life and what you need to do to have the life you dream of, you need to look at your life in stages of time. \u00a0That\u2019s what \u201ca time-grid\u201d is, the ability to look at life in stages.<\/span>
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\n<\/span>\"\"The Thought or Concept:<\/span>
\n<\/span>The Facets of Your Life<\/b>
\n<\/b>Pamela and I developed this idea many years ago and at that time it had no name. \u00a0We found out that you can\u2019t really separate your work from your spiritual endeavors, nor your spiritual endeavors from your family, nor your family from your work as it relates to what you need to do with your time. \u00a0Each facet impacts the time you have and none of it will respect the other facet\u2019s time unless you do something about it. <\/span>
\n<\/span>There was a time where I gave way too much time to our church and very little to the family. \u00a0How unbalanced was that? And BTW I\u2019m not talking about the mythical work-life balance your company promotes. \u00a0I\u2019m speaking to you seeing the landscape of time so that you can still navigate life to reach your destination which considers every facet that makes up your life. \u00a0<\/span>
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\n<\/span>In defining the time-grid, we need to discuss three precursors and they are 1) our jobs, 2) our work, and 3) the business of our lives.<\/span>
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\n<\/span>The Practice:<\/span>
\n<\/span>Three Precursors to evaluate what impacts your time.<\/b>
\n<\/b>Let\u2019s get to it. \u00a0These are not in order of preference or importance.<\/span><\/p>\n

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  1. Our jobs. <\/b>\u00a0I learned how to give my job the right head-space from a vice-president of finance, I once reported to. \u00a0She said, \u201cyou work [have this job] so that you can support and care for your family.\u201d Jobs are what we use to support and provide for what matters most, the main areas of our life which is our family. \u00a0Our job is not the major priority. It\u2019s the other areas that motivate us to do our jobs well because of what the job can do for them.<\/span><\/li>\n
  2. Our work. <\/b>\u00a0I know what you might be thinking, our jobs and our work sound like the same thing. \u00a0They\u2019re not. Your work is your purpose for existence. Why are you on earth? If you have a job that consumes all of your time, you\u2019ll never live to fulfill your purpose. \u00a0So being able to distinguish these precursor areas is important to establishing your time-grid. Otherwise, you may live a life where you never live out your purpose or one where you never earn a dollar. \u00a0That\u2019s possible and I\u2019ve seen them both.
    \nYou see Pamela and I have a well defined purpose for why we live. \u00a0In fact, we have created three platforms so that others can benefit from our gifts to the world. \u00a0Those platforms are:<\/p>\n
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    1. Our mission – Sohrs.com<\/a>. \u00a0This is what we\u2019re using to expose the world to all Christianity has to offer while connecting the entire family of faith.<\/li>\n
    2. Our message – NoLongerCommon.com<\/a>. Using this website, we help others understand that \u201cordinary is no longer enough.\u201d \u00a0We help people reach higher heights by revealing and helping them understand their unique gifts, skills, and talents.<\/li>\n
    3. Our ministration – kerryAclark.com<\/a>. \u00a0Ministration is simply our ministry to administer service to others. \u00a0Using this platform we provide messages, resources, and tools to help people with the business we call their lives.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n
    4. Our lives.<\/b> I like to refer to this as \u201cthe business of your life,\u201d because your life is your business. \u00a0Your life consists of everything you do. It doesn\u2019t carve out a special life for your employer that doesn\u2019t impact your home. \u00a0It doesn\u2019t carve out a special life for church that doesn\u2019t impact what you do on the job. It doesn\u2019t carve out a special life for your personal life that neither impacts your employment or your religious pursuits. \u00a0They all work together to form one life, one human-being, and that\u2019s you.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      As we get a better understanding of these three facets, so then will we be able to properly align them within our time-grid.<\/span>
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      \n<\/span>Today is Friday!<\/span>
      \n<\/span>We\u2019re just getting started on the subject of establishing what I\u2019m calling \u201ca time-grid.\u201d \u00a0It\u2019s going to change how you view time and your calendar. In our next message, we will go into greater depth with \u201cOur lives – The Business of Our Lives\u201d and why this facet is most important to get a handle on. \u00a0Until next Friday, thank you for visiting <\/span>      kerryaclark.com<\/span><\/a>; share this web-post with your closest friends. <\/span>
      \n<\/span><\/p>\n

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