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Monday - A Day of Review & Reckoning in the Home Office
By Jeff Zbar | December 29, 2008
Every Friday, I look forward to a weekend busy with to-dos, family events, and a chance to play catch-up with work. I may organized the home office, or ferry kids about, or blog a bit, or ponder ways to boost productivity.
Then, every Monday (usually around 3am), I review what was accomplished, and how productive the week ahead may be.
I look at my Google Calendar, my white board of pending assignments, and even my QuickBooks accounts receivables and my business’s bank balance. Sometimes, they’re in alignment like a string of stars shining favorably down upon my life.
And sometimes, they’re like a meteor streaming toward my own little universe.
But when I look at the greater thread here — a life filled with three healthy, smart and spunky kids, a wife who (usually) loves me, a business that’s as thriving as I care to make it (economy be damned) — I see that things are pretty good. Life is a mess out there right about now. The economy has teetered on the brink, though an election seemed to calm nervous investors. The horrors of global conflict have eased (if only a bit). And the apple remains ours for the taking, if we as people and humanity only would recognize opportunities that present themselves.
After all, that’s the opportunity that presents itself to us. In the greatest sense, earth - this pearl of the universe - was handed to humanity to mold as we wished. Some could say we’ve done a lousy job, what with global conflict and mass consumption and our “addiction” to non-renewable resources that poison the planet. Others may say we’re new at this, and “the greater understanding” is a learning process that’s slow to come.
So I’ll look at my Google Calendar, my kids faces, my wife’s eyes and - yes - my QuickBooks A/R and my bank balance, and I’ll try to reconcile things in this very puzzling, very troubling time, very rich time in my - and humanity’s - life.
Life and work are what we make them, no?
It’s Monday. Strive to make your life - and life’s work - rich and rewarding and worth enjoying.
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