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Planning Your Activities – Strategies For Integrating Beyond Our Main People<\/span><\/h2>\n

Caring For How We Interact – Part 2<\/span><\/h3>\n

Each year is full of learning from past experiences. Your life is your business and it’s good to operate like one. You have to agree that your life is more valuable to you than the companies you work for. If that’s the case, think of the best company you’ve worked for, actually think of all the companies you’ve worked for, what do they do well? It’s from these experiences in working that you should learn from, draw ideas, and implement policies and procedures for your life, your home, and your family.<\/span><\/p>\n

When thinking of how we interact with others, there are some (what I call) low hanging fruit that we can use to help put our plans together on how we can better interact. Here are a few questions to consider. We will focus solely on vacations in this lesson, but you can apply these to any major family events.<\/span><\/p>\n

How many trips do you want to have? What type of vacationing would you like to do? Where on earth will you travel? What does it take to travel like you want to travel? All these questions can be answered by thinking back to the previous year or years. Unless, this is your first time which shouldn\u2019t be the case, but it happens, simply start where you are.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"The Thought or Concept:<\/span>
\n<\/span>For us, we’ve learned that we must be intentional with our interactions. What that means is we have a plan. That plan includes what trips we take. What vacation times will we be available for others? Etc. Because we\u2019re intentional, we’re not just going to have a go at life, because when you do that, life will have a go at you. We plan to give our best to our families no differently than we give our best to our work. [<\/span>To the left<\/span><\/a><\/span>] Why in the world would we give our families less than we give some company that doesn\u2019t know our name? How you interact with your people says a lot about how much you value them. Unthoughtful interactions mean little value, thoughtful interactions mean much value.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cCareful planning puts you ahead in the long run.\u201d – <\/span>bible.com\/97\/pro.21.5.msg<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

The Practice:<\/span>
\n<\/span>Keep in mind that interacting with others outside of our four walls is optional. No one has to spend time with others if they don\u2019t want to and maybe some have had such bad experiences that they no longer want to. I understand; that\u2019s what happens when there is no planning as you will see when we answer three of the most important questions when it comes to interacting with others.<\/span><\/p>\n

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  1. What do we have to do?<\/strong>
    \n<\/b>You must always give thought to what you must do. If you don\u2019t ask this question, when those outside the family (friends, extended relatives, neighbors, and even coworkers) invite you to a function, you might accept an invite that you can\u2019t make because you\u2019re overbooked. The answer to this is to live by a calendar. My first priority is to make sure we have the events for the nuclear-family all settled. For us, we have a few stable vacations to make sure we\u2019ve accounted for when <\/span>    budgeting our time<\/span><\/a><\/span> for a year:<\/span><\/p>\n