Morning and Evening Email

Jun 21, 2006 Print This Post

//MOOD: Exhausted

//NOISE: thshshshshsh

Here’s some great advice I need to head from PastorHacks.Net:

Avoid checking “work” email first thing in the morning and last thing at night.

1st thing in the morning is bad enough (something about priorities and hearing from God before I hear from a lot of other sources, you know? At least for me…)

But particularly bad is the last-minute-just-before-you-go-to-bed email check. Why?

There’s nothing you can do with the information you will receive but stew on it, so you might as well wait. If it’s good news, great… it will be wonderful to read it when you start your work the next day. If it’s bad news? Hello sleeplessness. Getting your mind working just before you attempt to go to sleep is, let’s just say, counterproductive.

Particularly dangerous is the Saturday evening email check.

Don’t do it!

I’m almost guaranteed to get a heart breaking or infuriating or puzzling email on Saturday evening. Yup- pretty much every week. And my head needs to be somewhere else Saturday night and Sunday morning.

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Growing up in the Lansing area, I wanted nothing more than to get out. My exit strategy included a complex mixture of schemes for an urban church plant, iProducts, and an elaborate Bollywood car chase scene with zombies and catchy techno music.

As a 40 year old man, I find myself entrenched in the Lansing area at a church I love (Riverview), with 4 kids I love more (a high schooler, a junior higher, a middle schooler, and an elementary schooler), and a wife I love the most (Grace).

Instead of planting one church, I dream of helping hundreds get started without ever leaving my home base. I still love my iProducts and use them as tools to help lead and teach the thousands who attend Riverview. And when no one is looking, I blare the techno music and send my unimpressive resume to casting agents for Bollywood zombie films.

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