Category Archives: Balance

The other posts in the Balancing Balance series: Part I: Embracing the TruthPart II: Personal FiltersPart III: Do I Have the Right to Choose My Filters?Part IV: Personal Filters for Life ManagementPart V: What are Your Family’s Gatekeeper Filters?Part VI: Where Does Your Time Go?Part VII: Categorizing My Life’s Big Chunks, Little Chunks, and Nuggets […]

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In the last article, we talked about making a mind map to show the Big Chunks, Little Chunks, and Nuggets that make up your life. This is a graphic of what you do with your time. It can be sobering or exhilarating to see it all there in black and white – probably it is […]

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In the last article, we discussed three uses of personal filters – as a tool for time management, for non-time-related choices, and as gatekeepers to decide which things to allow into our lives. A gatekeeper is one who tends or guards a gate, one who controls access. This is where personal filters give their greatest […]

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Read Part I herePart II herePart III here Personal filters serve us as we make choices in life — from the vitally important to the trivial. There are at least three categories of decisions they help us make: non-time-related options, time management, and what activities will and will not be a part of our lives. […]

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In the last article, we defined personal filters and discussed the importance of choosing the correct primary filter so our lives go in the direction we want. We said that personal filters are a person’s conscience and wisdom working in tandem to direct her life. We observed that most of us live in a state […]

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If you find yourself with a to-do list longer than your stamina, you need personal filters.* If you find it difficult to say no to requests to organize the soccer tournament, bake fifteen dozen cookies for the bake sale, or teach Bible class for the next decade without a break, you need personal filters. If […]

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