Lately in my life I have been rather busy. I usually have something to do most of the time, but these days I really have a lot more that I want to do than I have time for in any given day. There are four main things I'm trying to do with my time: Study for/go to school, study the scriptures, spend time with S, and work. This week, at least, work has dropped out of the running on it's own. I only have two days on the schedule and I was able to pick up one more. I have tons of reading to do for school, and quite a bit of study I want to do for church as well. Generally I'm not able to complete as much as I want to of either because things come up. Recently there was a wedding, and today my mom needed a ride downtown to pick up her glasses, since she can't drive without them. Interspersed between all of those are laundry, keeping my room clean, making sure school is going to be what I want it to next semester, and occasionally seeing friends, though I generally don't have time for that unless it's planned for ahead of time. I get the feeling that I should just be trying to do less, but what would I drop? School isn't it, because I need to progress towards graduation. S is definitely staying a prominent part of my life because she's simply very important to me. I'm not about to quit my job either, I have things I want, like a trip to California with S to see my friends and hers and hit the beach for a day or so. Besides, who wants to hire a college boy who hasn't worked in 4 years? I'm not going to neglect reading the scriptures because that's inevitably tied to wanting S and I to be and have an eternal family. I have so much to read and understand about the melchizedek priesthood.
In the end I generally have a fair ammount of time with S and little time with friends. I'm generally at school when I'm supposed to be, except maybe the first few minutes on any given day. I'm at work when I can be but it's not often enough, and if it were it wouldn't leave enough time to keep up with reading for school, reading the Holy scriptures, and spending time with S. I could give up the hour or so each day that I relax, but I'm not ready to.
Stephen R Covey suggests that I should first figure out which things are important in my life, and then try to spend most of my time working on the things that are important and not urgent, so that there won't be so many important and urgent things because I'd have them done already. My problem is there doesn't seem to be any non-urgent important things in my life except the very important spending time with S. I can't give that up, so I hope she doesn't mind me trying to take care of reading during part of the time I spend with her, cause I really can't do it at work.
Maybe I'll figure something out. TTYL.
J
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