Clock & Compass

After I wrote the play and control journal posts I was thinking how contradictory they seemed. Play spontaneously but schedule cleaning.
I'm skimming First Things First by Stephen Covey and he introduced the concept of 2 time devices, the compass and the clock.
Some things we schedule and let the clock guide but other times we let our compass guide. We do what feels right like when we have a newborn - it's all compass.
Covey recommends we sit down once a week and look at the week ahead and figure out what matters most to us, what our mission is and make decisions about our clock/calendar accordingly. It reminds me of the good, better, best talk by Dallin H. Oaks (“Good, Better, Best,” Ensign, Nov 2007, 104–8).
Since we started homeschooling (this is our 3rd year) I sit down on Sunday and look at the week ahead and choose those things which are best as priorities then make time for the rest or bow out. Huge lesson for me! I don't have to do it all. Wow!
Sunday to me is a wonderful time to do this. Church lessons and studies fresh in my mind, the calm focus of the sabbath and the spirit to guide. If only I was so good to do it every week. The weeks I neglect don't go as well. I have my lapses but try my best.
I really like the lesson of the jar with the pebbles, sand and rocks - If you put the rocks in first, the big things, then you can have room for the little things. If you stack in the little things before the rocks everything will not fit in the jar.
http://www.synergyinstituteonline.com/detail_article.php?artid=319
One of my rocks is crying....