GREEN BAY CHI ALPHA

Session 3 - Budgeting Time

What's in a Typical Week?

This may seem impossible.
The trick is being smart. How do you increase your hours?  
  • Whatever you do, BRING SOMEONE WITH YOU 
  • Find out what other people are doing, GO JOIN THEM 
  • Ask the Holy Spirit to give you the HEART, MOTIVATION and STRENGTH to disciple people the way Jesus did 
  • Plan for your day/week/month with a CALENDAR 
  • PRIORITIZE the things that will help you meet your goals (making disciples) 
  • Use your BELLS: BLESS and EAT 

CALENDAR PLANNING

What to Include in Your Calendar

  1. Immovable Obligations 
    • Classes (yes you need to go!) 
    • Work 
  2. Sleep – a healthy amount for young adults is 6-9 hours.  How many do you need? 
    • What time do you need to get up in the morning? 
    • Add in time for morning routine (shower, dressed, breakfast, etc.) 
    • Then count backwards…that’s what time you need to go to sleep at night! 
  1. Jesus (Abiding Time)  Note: This is the most important thing, but we need to know the right place to put it which is why we put the other things on the calendar first. 
    • Start with 30 minutes a day 
    • Don’t forget to include time for church 
  1. XA stuff 
    • Your 1-on-1s 
    • Core Group 
    • Large Group 
  1. Homework time (Yes – you should schedule it!  Otherwise you may have too little or too much) 
  1. Physical Health 
  1. Sabbath & Fun 
    • Sabbath – a day of not working and where you do restorative things each week 
    • Fun – Yes, fun!  Plan for fun things to happen and/or free time where spontaneous fun can happen

What is the value of having your calendar planned?

  • Life with no boundaries or structure often ends up in chaos 
  • You cannot teach and model something you are not using 
  • Practice helps us grow and get better. You cannot get better at time management if you do not practice it!