Can we solve our schedules?

Life’s difficulties are often purported to be solved in easy solutions. 12 Steps to an Alcohol Free Life. 6 Ways to a Thinner You. 8 Ways To Create More Time. The 90 Second Cook.

I have subscribed to many of these formulas, looking a quick fix. I want a combo meal existence. I want one price to meet all my needs and wants. I want a drink because I am thirsty and food because I am hungry. I want something sweet to make me happy and a little treat in the box to give me goose bumps. I don’ want decisions, so instead I opt for combination number 1, 2, or 3.

Managers look for ways to organize their time. they spend untold funds on secretaries, personal computers, desktop calendars, pocket day-timers, and beeping watches. Yet with all these devices, they are still buried under papers and besieged by unexpected phone calls. Many a boss has flung his hands up in frustration asking “what more can be done?”

Our families are similarly besieged. Mom and Dad and the kids are running in opposite directions at conflicting times. One bumper sticker sums it up neatly. “I don’t know where I am going, but I am sure making good time!.”