1. Spend more time in prayer!
2. Since I tend to procrastinate…I am having my wife prioritize a list of 10 things she would like me to accomplish this month. Then she doesn’t have to ask twice and I know what she views as important. It does not even need to be a big task. It could be just making a phone call or paying a bill so she doesn’t have to worry about it. Gregg calls this the “honey do list”
3. Spend time scheduling my week on Sunday. Now that I have 4 children I seem to be falling behind which indicates my week requires some planning. Planning will help to communicate to my wife what I plan on during the week. I can also start planning to accomplish the 10 top priorities that my wife wants me focus on this month.
4. Get up earlier and have a more dedicated time in the Word.The last conviction came from a Book I started reading from Mark Driscoll called Pastor Dad. I highly recommend it. It is not very long and you can get a copy free at relit.org The following is a quote from it.
Lazy fathers are disobedient to God but want to have children who are obedient to them. Such fathers may speak good wisdom, but it is overshadowed by the loudness of the foolish hypocrisy in their lives. Proverbs 26:7 stands as a warning to such men, saying, “Like a lame man’s legs, which hang useless, is a proverb in the mouth of fools.” Wisdom is not merely what a father says, but also his lifestyle and the degree of congruence between his words and his actions. Foolish fathers say things such as, “Well, don’t do as I do, do as I say.” What they mean is, “I’m a complete hypocrite, but do what I tell you to do anyways.” Proverbs says that these men speak with no authority and so their children ignore them or mock them as funny and foolish hypocrites. Tragically,these children often face the most devastating teen years because they have no wise father to turn to in a culture of folly, and themselves fall prey to many sins and pains. While fools are consumed with the present, wisdom looks to the future.Proverbs 17:6 leans us into the future, saying, “Grandchildren are the crown of the aged, and the glory of children is their fathers.”
