There will never be enough hours in the day to get everything I need to get done. My “to do” list for today looks something like this:

• Work all day till 6pm
• Lead Community Group 7-9pm
• Between Work and Community Group I have to find time to pickup/try on my tux for a wedding this week and stuff my face with some dinner…riiiight!
• Do laundry
• Pack for Phoenix
• Write a best man speech
• Sleep so I can wake up and get to the airport tomorrow morning

Obviously there is not much time in there for a few of the items on my list. But there is a great app that I use to schedule my life called Week Calender. It has really helped me get my schedule together. The $1.99 it costs is well worth it. You can download it here.

How do you keep track of your schedule? Digitally or old school?

Daylight Saving Time is a wonderful thing in the fall, but a terrible thing in the spring. DST is meant to give evenings more daylight and mornings less daylight. Every state but Hawaii and most of Arizona practice DST. Why they don’t I don’t really know.

I think most of us love DST in the fall because it means an extra hour of sleep. Losing an hour in the spring makes most people hate it. If you have to wake up early Sunday morning, you really hate it. And by the end of the day you want to spring forward another hour so you aren’t going to bed so dang early.

Do you like DST? Do you think we should or shouldn’t spring forward and fall back? Are any of you as tired as me?

Back in January, I posted the top 5 books I wanted to read. A goal I set for this year is to finish one book per month…12 books. So far that hasn’t happened, but it’s on my “to do” list.

I make a lot of “to do” lists. I generally make my to do lists in Evernote. They are normally broken down by today, this week, this month, and sometime.

Today – what must I do today? (sleep, read, book rental car for Phoenix trip, do laundry, make dinner, write tomorrows blog post, etc, etc)

This Week – what must I do this week? (work on sundays message, plan service, send thank you cards, grocery shopping, make doctors appointment, make dentist appointment, don’t let daylight savings time ruin my week, mail packages, drop clothes off at gospel mission, etc, etc)

This Month – what must I do this month? (pay bills, pay more bills, etc, etc)

Sometime – what must I do at some point? (do easy shifts, clean car, clean room, etc, etc)

When I look at my huge to do lists, I kinda freak out. But the part I love is when I start checking off all the different tasks and the 25 things becomes 5. It makes me feel like I am getting a lot done.

How about you? How do you organize or make your to do list? Or do you need to start making one?

How do you tip? Is there such a thing as too low or too high of a tip?

Last night I picked up some takeout from a local burger place in town. I had called in my order on my way home from work just like the lady standing next to me who was also picking up her to go order. She signed her credit card receipt slip and bolted out the door.

I looked down at her receipt to see how much she had left for the tip and saw a big fat 0. It made me wondered if I should leave a tip?(I generally do) But how much is appropriate to tip for takeout? I also thought that lady was kinda rude.

There was a single server working the counter, answering the phone, ringing up to go orders, basically doing everything besides cooking. She was obviously pretty busy and working hard. And this lady didn’t leave her a tip for her service.

I see the argument on both sides. She doesn’t wait on me during my meal so she doesn’t deserve a tip vs. she still takes my order, gets it ready, and rings me up so she does deserve a tip.

I tipped her what I feel is pretty decent for a to go order. It probably didn’t make up for the lady who gave her nothing, but it was still something. I don’t think you should tip 20% on a to go order, but how about you? Do you tip on to go orders? If so, how much?

I found this “tips on tipping” guide below, but it doesn’t include to go orders.

He might kill me for this, but I love my pastor. Andy VomSteeg has been a leader and a mentor to me. He has also provided me with plenty of entertainment. Like the video below. This took place mid afternoon during an all-day staff meeting. Enjoy!

My buddy Micah Foster (who sings and dances) just released a new eBook. It’s called “Social Media Tips for the Church” and if you work at a church, you should download it here. It’s free…come on!

Micah wrote this book after  having learned a lot about social media and how to grow a platform, specifically for churches and non-profits and he wants to share that knowledge with you.

If your church or a non-profit is looking for a little help with social media, I highly recommend you contact Micah. At least take 5 minutes to read this great FREE resource!

The video below is my buddy Micah singing this morning in large group for K-6th grade at church. It’s been stuck in my head all day…enjoy!

I love the weather. I love all different types of weather, in moderation of course. But if I could pick the weather, it to be 75-85 degrees all the time.

This winter has been a strange one here in SoCo. When it’s freezing and it starts raining after it was just 80 degrees two days before, I have to remind myself that it is still winter. One thing I am thankful for is not living somewhere that freezing cold and has lots of snow.

The above picture is a screen shot of my computer at work. Living somewhere where UPS pickups and deliveries get suspended due to weather would be terrible! How would someone get their Amazon packages??? That’s no way to live!

So what’s your favorite kind of weather? Rain, wind, sun, snow?

Several years ago I read Blue Like Jazz by Donald Miller. The book went on to become a New York Times Best Seller and I’ve followed Donald ever since. When funding to make the book into a movie fell through, a Kickstarter campaign was started. Fans of the book gave a record $345,992 to get the movie made and on April 13th, 2012 the movie will be in theaters nationwide. Check out the website here and the trailer below.