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Let’s assume you have an office with a door you can close. When you want to avoid interruptions, just put an appropriate sign on your door and close it. If necessary, clear the procedure with your superior.

Your note might be subtle such as “Please do not disturb until 10:00 a.m.,” or it might be more direct, such as “Upon pain of death, do not open this door until 10:00 a.m.” The nicer you are, the less others will be tempted to test your resolve. The note on my door reads “Please do not interrupt when this door is closed unless you have an incredibly great idea that will further the mission of CSM.”

Be sure to remove the sign when it is not applicable, or word it in such a way it is clear when you do wish it to be observed.

Handling Visitors Who Persist

If someone does knock, the easiest way to resist the interruption is to just not answer. All but the most fearless will give up at that point. If you do answer, you have just given up your greatest advantage. The door will open, and then you’ll have to take the initiative to avoid further intrusion.

Assuming your visitor either continues to knock until you answer, or even opens the door without your permission, you should immediately rise from your sitting position and walk toward them. The closer you can keep them to the doorway, the better off you’ll be.

Be friendly and don’t refer to the fact that they have just ignored basic human courtesy. Field the question or concern as politely as possible without indicating that you are not one bit interested in pursuing the matter any longer than absolutely necessary.

If you still can’t end the interruption, try moving toward the door and out of your office toward a neutral location like the water cooler or coffee pot. Let your guest follow you or even gently help them by placing your hand under their elbow and escorting them along with you. Believe it or not, the person fitting this description won’t even realize what you are doing.

Standing Firm

It won’t take long for everyone to understand that you’re serious when the note is on your door if you enforce your request for privacy when you are interrupted. Otherwise your notes will eventually be ignored. It’s okay to make exceptions, but they need to be just that — exceptions to the general rule.

If you can establish regular times that you wish to be uninterrupted, that’s even better. A great time to begin is with your planning and organization time or during your quiet time if you do that in your office. It will also help your reputation for efficiency and organization if you have a regular time without interruption. Others will come to you for advice and assistance on personal organization (at the right time), and you’ll get a lot more accomplished.

Next Week

Is it possible to avoid interruption when your office has no door? Next week we will take a look at how to maintain your privacy in the midst of a busy office.

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Applicants for both positions must have knowledge of the Bible, a clear understanding of John 3:5-7, intuitive computer, website, on line management and organizational skills, with the ability to multi-task, and enthusiasm for learning new skills and office procedures. This is an ideal position for a retiree or stay at home mom who wishes to return to the workplace and make a difference for God’s Kingdom on Earth. We are now interviewing qualified candidates. Email resume and qualifications to Ken@csmin.org or fax to 703-273-1795.

Part 6 of 10

How often do people drop in on you when you’ve planned to get something important done? When should you permit interruptions? What does God think?

Well, those are all good questions, and today we’ll take a look at how to handle a particular situation.

It’s 10:00 on Tuesday morning, and you’ve just established a schedule for your time. You’ve decided that 10:00-11:00 on Tuesday is when you’ll do the vacuuming each week.

The doorbell rings. It’s your neighbor, Sally, who often drops by to chat. In fact, you’ve never minded her dropping in before, because you never had a schedule to be interrupted. But now you do, and you really want to make it work. And Tuesday morning really is the best time to vacuum.

Avoiding Offense

How do you handle this interruption without offending Sally? That’s easy! Invite her in, but only far enough so you can show her your new schedule. Explain to her how excited you are to have a schedule, and how beneficial you feel it’s going to be in helping you get better organized. After you’ve shown her the part about vacuuming on Tuesday morning, let her down slowly. Ask her when you can schedule time to come over to her house or for her to come back to yours. Include her in the process of scheduling her into your life.

If you’re purposeful about your relationship with Sally, and put some thought into it, you can probably accomplish much more in the relationship and in her life. She will see that she is a priority. She’ll value the time you have set aside to be with her. You’ll be able to decide in advance how to spend that time. Does she know the Lord? If not, can you help her? If she does, can you include the Bible in your time together?

Scheduling Time

How much time do you waste permitting interruptions that could and should be avoided? What is God’s plan for you to translate those interruptions into opportunities for ministry — at the right time?

Begin to notice the interruptions in your life. Many of them may not be avoidable - maybe. When the baby cries, or when the stove catches on fire - now those are unavoidable interruptions. But what about when the older kids just yell for you? When hubby asks for something because he’s too lazy to get it himself? Or when your neighbor just drops in unannounced?

Next Week

Is it right to refuse to answer a knock on your office door? Or to ask someone to leave your office just because you want to be alone?

Next week we will discuss how to be the bad guy…while pleasing God in the process.

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Let’s complete our discussion of telephone interruptions by addressing the subject of telephone solicitors.

Telephone solicitation by charitable organizations is now part of the American way. It’s almost as common as breathing air, and threatens to overtake direct mail as a primary means of fund raising. While computer-driven calls are now possible, most solicitations still include humans because they’re more likely to produce a pledge or commitment.

For years I was frustrated by my inability to avoid secular telephone solicitors. Not only was the call usually an interruption to something I was doing of a higher priority, but the caller usually offended me before I had managed to end the conversation. I tried everything. I was rude. I was silent. I would lay the phone down and walk away. I would hang up. I would complain to the phone company. But mostly, I was just frustrated by my inability to prevent the calls.

One day I decided to apply my basic philosophy of problem solving to the matter of telephone solicitation. My philosophy is that what I can’t do anything about, I won’t worry about. With that decision made, I now set about trying to decide how not to worry about it, or more accurately, how to not let it bother me. Finally, God gave me the answer.

Now I look forward to receiving calls from telephone solicitors. I’m even tempted to answer the phone during dinner, which we never do, just to be able to receive their calls. Nobody ever calls us during dinner anymore, except telephone solicitors. When I get them on the phone now, I ask them for a commitment to listen to me if I listen to them. They always agree to that. When they complete their presentation I remind them of their commitment.

I then ask if they know Jesus Christ as their Personal Savior. If they do, we each share the pleasure of meeting another follower of Jesus. If they do not or are not sure, I present the Gospel. I invite them to go to church with Pat and me. I give my testimony. I offer to send them a Bible if I can have their address. I have actually led secular charity telephone solicitors to the Lord.

Now I no longer resent receiving those annoying calls. I see them as an opportunity.

Could God possibly want you to tell your neighbor that she’s not welcome to visit? How could she possibly recover? Next week we will be talking about how to handle interruptions by well meaning friends.

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One of the keys to time management and personal organization in the office is to designate a time for receiving telephone calls.

If you have a secretary or someone on the front lines to filter your calls for you, that’s great. Even if you are expected to field your own calls, you can improve the use of your non-telephone time by limiting or avoiding telephone interruptions.

Establish a Telephone Time

If you have a secretary, you need to decide in advance when you wish to receive telephone calls. In my case, I’ve designated 11:00 to noon, and 2:00 to 3:00 as the periods during which my staff knows I can be interrupted with phone calls. Unless I specifically request otherwise or I’m already on the phone, all incoming calls are announced. I give a priority to taking calls during that time. If any of you want to reach me personally, the best time to call is during those times. You may not get through, but it’s your best chance. At all other times during the day, I have other plans for the use of my time. I retain the freedom to take any call that comes in (my wife and Board members have the highest priority), but the chances are much greater that I won’t have time because I’ve given other things a higher priority.

Screen Calls

If you do not have a secretary or choose not to use voicemail, you will have to do the screening yourself, but the same principle applies. When you answer during a time that you have not established as telephone time, you can be polite but brief. Explain that you can’t talk right then, but that you will call them back at a time certain, either later that same day, or no later than the next work day. Do not explain why you cannot talk now. Your caller will form a satisfactory mental picture of why he thinks you’re busy, which will probably be much more acceptable than any reason you can give him.

Remember, you always retain the right to talk to anyone you want to at any time. But most of us need to establish the discipline of not talking just because the opportunity presents itself. If what you’re doing when the call comes in deserves the priority, then give it the priority, even though it means calling the person back later. It’s actually more efficient in the long run — sometimes even when the person is returning your call.

Do you look forward to answering the phone during dinner when you know the odds are it’s a telephone solicitor? Next week l will share with you the excitement I feel every time I’m interrupted by a telephone salesman.

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Let’s assume that you’re right in the middle of your quiet time, and the phone rings. It’s your next door neighbor, and she’s really upset because her husband has just told her that he’s leaving home. She is absolutely devastated, and you’re the only person in the whole world she can talk to about it.

How’s that for a pressure-packed situation? As a committed Christian, is there justification for not either spending the next hour listening to her or asking her to come right over? In fact, is there any way you can avoid the temptation of hearing all about it? She wants to talk, you want to listen, and the only sacrifice is your time with God.

What if, instead of your quiet time, you were just sitting down for tea with the President of the United States? How would you handle that interruption? Would you be more motivated to postpone it?

Assuming that you believe God wants you to complete your scheduled time with Him, how could you handle this emergency?

Scheduling a Better Time to Talk

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First, you would express your own devastation at the news. In a minute or two, you would assure your neighbor of your concern for her and her situation.

Next, you might set a time later in the day that you will come over to talk to her, or have her come to you. You could encourage her to spend some time with the Lord until the two of you can get together. You might tell her that you will stop everything and immediately begin to pray for her and her husband.

So long as you don’t tell her what you are doing, it won’t occur to her to be offended. It’s possible she will be temporarily disappointed that she can’t talk to you for an unlimited time right then, but as soon as you adjust her expectations and get her focused on the time you will be able to spend with her, she will begin to look forward to that.

Focus on Your Priorities

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It’s usually best to avoid telling the other person what you are doing with your time. If you do, you may run the risk of offending them. That’s because they will compare their need with your priority and feel that they are a lower priority. While that’s not necessarily true, it will seem so. The fact is, God has a best time for everything, and you’re just trying to be obedient to Him as you schedule when you will handle the interruption.

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Should you decline to accept return calls just because you’re doing something else? After all, you asked them to call you. That’s what we’ll cover next week. Join us then.

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When was the last time you let the telephone interrupt what you were doing? The answer is probably — the last time you answered it.

As convenient as it is at times, the telephone can be as destructive of God’s plan for our time as anything I know. No one would think of interrupting you in person at certain times, and yet telephone callers think nothing of waking you up, keeping you from getting to sleep and distracting you during any part of the day. The reason, of course, is that they can plead ignorance to what you were doing. And they’re right! It’s our responsibility to control the interruption, not theirs.

The next time your phone rings, and God has a plan for the use of that time which may not include your being tied up on the telephone, remember that you have a choice to not answer it, but to just let it ring. Most of us would never seriously consider exercising that alternative, but believe me, there are times when you should do exactly that.

Putting Family First

When Pat and I were married in 1981, her two youngest children, Kelly and Eric, were still living at home, and my young adult son was in and out. We all agreed that we should have dinner with everyone present, and that it should be a time to acknowledge God’s presence among us as a family, and to build good family communication.

One of the first challenges to uninterrupted quality family time was the telephone. Suddenly it seemed that every friend on earth had decided to call during dinner

So we gave the kids a choice. They could either take the phone off the hook, or they could listen to it ring. For some reason that I’ll never completely understand, they chose to let it ring.

Let it Ring!

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For the first couple of weeks, there was definitely some tension during dinner every time the phone rang. But after awhile, it actually became something that even the kids bragged about. Their family gave a high enough priority to the dinner meal that no one answered the phone during dinner. All their friends — and ours — learned that was the case, and before long, the only people who called between 6:30 and 7:00 were telephone solicitors and the occasional wise guy who wanted us to prove we wouldn’t answer. We would often try to guess who it might be, but there wasn’t even a temptation to answer it. We never discovered one time when we wished we had answered it during dinner.

Next Week

Can you imagine telling a person who has an emergency that you don’t have time to listen? Could God possibly be so callous that He wouldn’t want you to take the time to listen? Next week we’ll take a look at how that might be exactly what you should do.

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Have you ever thought of interruptions as destructive? They can be, you know. They may seem unavoidable at times, and some are definitely necessary, but they can be destructive. Interruptions destroy our train of thought or our course of conduct whenever they occur.

Sometimes our train of thought or course of conduct needs to be interrupted. But as often as not, interruptions are not desirable.

Many people, Christians in particular, believe that not permitting interruptions is bad or “un-Christian”. While there certainly are situations where refusing an interruption would be unwise or undesirable, we should all know how to limit interruptions when it is appropriate to do so.

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During this series, we’ll discuss when and how to control interruptions. We will look at telephone calls and drop-ins, both at home and at work. We will discover some techniques to help us better use our time in the midst of a very active world.

Do you ever resent being interrupted? I know I do. God certainly doesn’t want us to be resentful. But unless we take steps in advance to avoid the interruptions that God wants us to avoid, we will fall victim to them. Then, not only have we not used our time as God wanted us to, but we may have to spend more time repairing the damage caused by the interruption. Additionally, we may need to ask God’s forgiveness for resenting the interruption.

Preventing Interruptions

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Do you know how to tell people without offending them that you don’t want to be interrupted? Do you know how to avoid interrupting others unnecessarily? It is just as important to avoid causing unnecessary interruptions as it is to avoid experiencing them you.

Over the next several weeks we will tackle the frustrating subject of avoiding daily interruptions in a loving and inoffensive way. As you learn the techniques we’ll describe, you can then pass them on to others.

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Can you imagine just letting your phone ring because you decided it wasn’t a high enough priority? Next week I will share how our family broke the telephone interruption habit during dinner.

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This week we are going to complete our discussion of priorities by addressing the place ministry should have in our lives.

Let’s define ministry as your financially uncompensated service to others beyond yourself and your immediate family. Thus, ministry includes church-related activities, service to para-church organizations and secular charities, volunteering at your children’s school, neighborhood activities and the thousand and one things that the charitable underpinnings of this country are founded on.

When I was a practicing lawyer, what I now do for a living was my ministry. I helped people get their lives in order, and I did that through counseling, seminars, and the like. I still do that, but it is no longer my ministry. It is my work! Christian Stewardship Ministries pays my salary.

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All too often, the ministry priority gets confused with the God priority. Building our personal relationship with God is a first level priority. Doing “church work” is very worthwhile and desperately needed, but it is the fourth level priority.

Pastors and full-time Christian workers commonly refer to their work as their ministry. By the definition of ministry we are using, their “ministry” is their work. They are paid to do what they call “ministry.” Their ministry by our definition might be serving as a coach or umpire in a local youth sports league or volunteering for a community charity or a soup kitchen.

All too often, young eager beavers with young families volunteer far beyond God’s best for their ministry-related time, leaving older members of the congregation, who have fewer family responsibilities and more free time, with less demanding ministry work or none at all. If the younger members could see that God’s plan for them at that point in their lives includes more time for God and family, the older members could find greater fulfillment and contribute more at a season of their lives when they have more to give. Pastors would be happier and less frustrated, and God would be better pleased.

Maintaining a Balance

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Generally speaking, a person with a family and a full-time job has at most only about 6 hours per week for ministry. As the children get older and leave the nest and as people retire from full-time employment, they have more time for ministry. There’s little more fulfilling than to see a husband and wife, in their retirement years, engaged in a “full-time” ministry, doing what they both enjoy together.

Your ministry may include hosting a neighborhood Bible study or working for the Red Cross or serving as a volunteer for ministries such as Christian Stewardship Ministries. Your ministry may involve being a witness at work just by putting God first in your life and reflecting His glory. Just be sure that whatever God calls you to do as ministry, you’ve got it in balance. Be sure you have set aside sufficient time to be with God and your family- and that you have taken care of your job-related commitments before taking on over-committing “ministry” commitments.

If you are experiencing over-commitment, consider reevaluating your ministry-related activities. Will you hesitate the next time you are asked to volunteer for something; or perhaps ask your spouse or best friend before saying “Yes”? In fact, if you are feeling overcommitted, you probably should say “No”, or at least “let me pray about that” before making a decision.

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Do you believe God wants you to act in a self destructive manner? Of course not. And yet every day most of us do exactly that. Join us next week as we begin a ten week series on the destructiveness of interruptions…and what to do about them.

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This week we are going to talk about work related priorities and how to be sure they are in proper balance with our other priorities. We have already determined that God is first, and family is second. The question now is how to keep our jobs in perspective.

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First, let’s decide what our work-related activities are. It’s pretty easy to define if you’re working for a salary at a site away from your home. It gets a bit fuzzier if you are self employed or work from your home. And it gets really fuzzy if you are a homemaker, especially if you have small children.

Let’s take the easy ones first. If you are a wage earner and your spouse is a full time homemaker, you’ve got it made. All you have to do is go to work and come home. Just determine how much time should be devoted to your job, including travel time, and limit yourself to that amount of time. Don’t deceive yourself by bringing work home and doing it during time you should be spending with God or your family. It may be okay to have homework, but be sure it’s included in the total time you should be spending in work-related activities.

If you work from an office in your home, you need to establish a plan that enables you to distinguish work- related time from other time. Set up a schedule and a routine that is consistent with everything else going on at home. Husbands don’t try to make your wife into your secretary or gopher unless you have discussed it and agree on the job description.

If you are a homemaker, your work usually begins when the first person wakes up and ends when you go to sleep. But be encouraged! There is hope. Unless you are the mother of very small children, you should and can have a schedule that allows for time with God and quality time with each family member. If you are a wife, you need your husband’s cooperation, but it can be done. Depending on the age of your children, your quiet time may be during their nap time or before everyone else gets up in the morning. Your quality family time may be in the evenings or on weekends.

If you are a single working parent, you have a next-to-impossible task. I don’t know how mothers of small children who parent alone keep going. But even here, just remember that God does have a plan for your life, and if you will devote the time to Him that He wishes you to devote, He will show you as much of His plan as you need to know. You may have to relinquish some of your more immediate hopes and aspirations, but that’s really just another way of saying that you’ve decided to become more dependent on God.

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Whatever your job, just remember that it must remain subordinate to your God and family-related commitments and activities. Since jobs usually take the bulk of our waking time, we tend to let them dominate our other priorities. Just because your job takes more time does not mean it is more important. Be willing to run the risk of spending too little time at work. It’s sometimes easier to see God’s perspective that way.

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Next week we’ll consider the role of ministry-related activities in the overall scheme of things. How much “ministry” related time is too much for your age and station in life?

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This week we’re going to continue our discussion of priorities from God’s perspective focusing on family.

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If you are married and have children, and you knew that everyone in your family would be killed a year from now, how differently would you spend your time with your family members–your husband or wife, your children, your grandchildren, your parents, your siblings?

That’s not a pleasant thought, and I trust you won’t have such a terrible experience. The fact is though, that you may survive some members of your family. Too often we unconsciously assume that we will be the first to die, that they will be around to pick up the pieces. But what attitude and outlook does GOD want us to have? It is much easier to get God’s perspective on how we should view our relationship with each family member bythinking about looking back on that relationship after they are gone.

Focusing on Your Family

If you are single, your family includes your parents, your brothers and sisters and your closer friends. If you are a single parent, your children are, of course, your family. If you feel that you don’t have a family, ask God to show you who He wants you to consider as your family.

You can prioritize your family time in a way that is most pleasing to God by allowing yourself sufficient time for planning. You need to be able to see it from God’s perspective. Sit down regularly and determine what you are doing with your family, what you should be doing and what you are going to do. Then do it.

If you are married, set aside at least one evening per week for your husband or wife. Obviously, you will need your spouse’s cooperation, and often this is where the husband falls down. Husbands, ask your wife whether she would like to have a date night each week. Although it doesn’t have to be the same night each week, it generally works better if it is. Let her decide how you’ll spend the evening. Just be sure you’ve agreed on a budget and then let her set the agenda. She might even decide after awhile that she just wants to stay home with you. The main thing is you’ve shown her that she’s important to you.

If you have kids, you should decide how to schedule quality time with each of them, based on how many children you have, what their ages are, and other demands on your time. If you have 12 young children, you’ll obviously plan your time differently than if you have one or two. You may need to double up or schedule time on a weekly or monthly basis rather than a daily or weekly basis. If you have teenagers, your commitment may translate into letting them know when you will be available if they wish to spend time with you. There’s no use imposing yourself on a child who is too busy for you, but if they know you’re available to them, you’ve accomplished your purpose. If they choose not to spend that time with you, you can always use it for something else.

Spending Time with Your Parents

If your parents are still living, don’t fail to make time available to spend with them. If they live near you, that should probably translate into at least a weekly visit or time together. If they are distant, regular times to communicate by telephone and email can be part of your plan. Visits will involve more planning and budgeting for travel. Just be sure that when they are no longer around, you can look back and know you did everything within your means for them to know they were a high priority. .
Will you decide to give your family the priority God wants you to? Will you carve out time today for planning when you’ll spend time with each member of your family? Will you be able to receive God’s accolade when He considers how you treated your family? Will your family look back with pleasure on the time you spent with them?

Next week

Next week we’ll look at our work-related priorities. Have you ever heard of anyone who said at the end of his life… “Golly, I wish I had spent more time at the office”…?

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