Where Do You Spend Your Time?

I was driving to MOPS today and something hit me....what are we doing every day?  We all have goals in our lives but so very little of what we do drives us towards these ambitions.  Does spending 3 hours a day on Facebook help me to get my business growing?  Does it teach my kids to read well?  Does it even help me relax?  No to all of the above.  Where am I spending my time? 

MOPS helps me connect with other mothers and gives me a little adult social time.  I love it.  It's something I'd not give up.

Cub Scouts...well I do it for my kids.  I think the program will help them develop into strong and moral boys.  But this is a place I'm not investing enough time ON THEM!  I plan for my meetings but my boy's work isn't done.  How is that fair to them?  They're along for the "Mommy needs to volunteer" ride but the benefit I intended for them isn't there.

Facebook...or the computer in general.  Great tool for connecting to other people but honestly, do I need to be connected to those outside my home for HOURS every day?  Let's meet for coffee instead and catch up IN PERSON....but it's my guilty pleasure.

TV...I really don't watch too much TV but when something interests me I cannot pry myself away!  And now that we have Netflix (GREAT program by the way) I spend way more time than I used to watching TV.

I need to spend more of my time being intentional on reaching my full potential as a wife, mother, child of God, and future career woman.  Instead of being on Facebook while Kaylee naps I need to be getting a workout in to maintain my health.  Or in the kitchen CLEANING the never-ending mess for the health of my family.  I should be engaging one on one with my children more.  Going outside on snowy days (please snow today) and making snowmen and snow angels and snowballs with them.  Or being more intentional with helping my eldest son with his reading so HE can be more successful.  I need to be making the fullest of every day and making every day productive for my family.  That I cannot do glued to everyone else's lives via status updates on Facebook.  I need to find what I'm passionate about and pursue it...and it sure as heck isn't Jane Doe from high school's woes about her broken marriage or what she's having for dinner.  Sorry Jane Doe.

So where are you spending your time?  Are you happy where you are?  Are the things you're doing today going to help you be who you want to become?  Are you going to spend all day on Facebook reading random post updates?  Are you being INTENTIONAL with your actions?  A little "me time" is definately OK but all day "me time" every single day is a waste of precious "improve me time". 

I know this is long-winded but I absolutely HAD to get it out!