9 Oct 2011
Transition time,
I am coming to the end of my time in South Africa. In many ways the time here has been a gift.. The course I came to teach has turned out to be smaller than was expected which has meant I have had some time to think, read and write.
It has been good to have the space.
I realized this week that my prayer life has slipped a bit in the last couple of months.. Its been great to get back and once again pray for the people I am committed to pray for. Somehow it helps me get my life into perspective.
I am now entering an interesting time of transition. At out recent conference Fusion adopted a completely new structure which means the job I have been doing no longer exists. I am actually quite excited by that.
I am coming up to my 40th birthday and the last couple of years have been quite intense. As Leeanne and I talk there is a nice sense that it is time to breathe a bit and take time to work out what’s next. We are hoping to have a good long break over December/January as part of this journey.
As I have been journalling here I can see that in some ways I had moved into a kind of survival mode… Dealing with the things that were facing me but not having the bigger perspective. I actually made the choice to enter into that phase because of the Transition Fusion was going through and the sense that we had to hold on to get through a complex time. Crisis management is never much fun though and I am keen to move to a different way of operating.
I have been reengaging with the Getting Things Done system and with Good to Great. I find both of them helpful in refocussing the need for refocussing.
This year I adopted some of what I learned from Getting Things Done and for the first time in my life I have regularly cleared my email… There are many other parts to the approach that I now want to get in place.
I love times of transition. I love New Year. There is something exciting about the chance to pull back to a Birdseye view of your life and make sure you are heading where you want to be.
I’m not really expecting seismic change to what my life is about but it’s nice to have the space to reflect.
Have enjoyed your recent reflections Matt, more personal, sensing that as the next few months unfold you will rediscover a freshness to your faith, family and work life. Hand in hand with the sometimes unsettling aspects of change is the excitement of what is yet to come.
Di
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