2025 Week 31 Review and Week 32 Plan

It's 1:01 PM Eastern on Saturday as I begin to write my way through this weekly review. Friday afternoons from 12:30 to 5 PM were starting to feel like an anchor for my time management practice - a role that could be even more central to my balance than prayer - but then I got thrown for a loop by an eldercare emergency yesterday afternoon and was obliged to delay this week's review until Saturday. Now I am wondering if maybe the eldercare emergency was a nudge from God to make Saturday afternoon, not Friday afternoon, my new weekly review session. It is the last day of the week, after all. The only problem is that I currently spend Saturday afternoon studying Torah. 

Last week, I talked about trying and failing to successfully implement a time management practice since the 1990s. Maybe this time around I can master some disability accommodations that make an effective system stick. I am not convinced that a high-fidelity Christian vegan eremitic time management system is beyond my capabilities.

In the late 1990s and early 2000s, I was a student of Stephen Covey's First Things First (FTF) methodology. The FTF system is centered on a weekly organizing session made up of the following elements:

• Step 1: Connect with Your Vision and Mission
• Step 2: Identify Your Roles
• Step 3: Select Quadrant II Goals in Each Role
• Step 4: Create a Decision-Making Framework for the Week
• Step 5: Exercise Integrity in the Moment
• Step 6: Evaluate

Applying this process to my current moment in time, I see that I have really drifted off course since I started this blog back in March of 2025. It's time to revert back to my original mission statement (Discerning a Christian Vegan Eremitic Vocation with a Psychiatric Disability). It's also time to replace my current vision statement ("Testing the Spirits as We Journey to Net Zero 2050, That Our Joy May Be Complete") with a new vision statement ("Testing the Spirits as We Journey to a Steady-State Nuclear Weapons-Free World, That Our Joy May Be Complete.") Okay, done.

Advancing to Step 2, my roles in FTF are basically the same as my Areas of Responsibility in GTD. Here is a second, simplified attempt at seven roles:

• Time Management
• Spiritual Direction
• United Nations Reform
• Home Economics
• Healthcare/WRAP
• Family Support
• Music of the Spheres

My next step is to assign a weekly Quadrant II goal to each of these roles. I think the best way to proceed here is by scheduling deep mind sweeps and project inventories for each of my seven Areas of Responsibility, as follows:

1. Saturday Evening: Music of the Spheres
2. Sunday Morning: Spiritual Direction
3. Sunday Afternoon: Spiritual Direction
4. Sunday Evening: Music of the Spheres
5. Monday Morning: United Nations Reform
6. Monday Afternoon: United Nations Reform
7. Monday Evening: Music of the Spheres
8. Tuesday Morning: Home Economics
9. Tuesday Afternoon: Home Economics
10. Tuesday Evening: Music of the Spheres
11. Wednesday Morning: Healthcare
12. Wednesday Afternoon: Healthcare
13. Wednesday Evening: Music of the Spheres
14. Thursday Morning: Spiritual Direction (Torah Study)
15. Thursday Afternoon: Spiritual Direction (Shabbat Question)
16. Thursday Evening: Music of the Spheres
17. Friday Morning: Family Support
18. Friday Afternoon: Family Support
19. Friday Evening: Music of the Spheres
20. Saturday Morning: Time Management
21. Saturday Afternoon: Time Management (Week #32 Evaluation & Week #33 Planning Session) 

This is my highly aspirational decision-making framework for Week 32 of 2025. I know that I won't be able to follow through with this plan at anywhere near 100% integrity. But even if I only hit 30% implementation, I should end up with a relatively complete project list by next week's review session. Rigorously distinguishing between essential active commitments and someday/maybe projects could be a challenge.

I am not sure how I feel about blogging during the week to come. At one extreme, I am tempted to try blogging my way through all 21 sessions proposed above. At the other extreme, I am leaning toward no further blogging until next Saturday afternoon. I don't know which is more realistic, frankly. If I have a really good mental health week, I might be able to crush 21 posts. On the other hand, a really good mental health week in the context of this deep project review could mean no more blogging until next Saturday afternoon. I guess my best bet is to commit to nothing but allow myself to blog as much as I want within this framework.

Alright, it's 5:01 PM, and time for me to WRAP with a little stretching, a light meal, my medications, some prayer, and a transition into my Saturday evening music block. 

Have a good week, world!