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Brian McGuire

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For the past 30 plus years I set goals and tasks monthly in 7 life areas

FAITH

FAMILY

FRIENDS

FIRM

FINANCES

FITNESS

FUN

This concept I learned from Ron Jensen’s book: Make a life, not just a living.

One of the ideas in that book is the illusion of control that each of us has where we have unlimited willpower to bend our bad habits into good ones or we have absolute freedom or capacity to ignore distractions. This is completely absurd. This is why new year resolutions fail within weeks if not days. The secret I learned from Jensen was that life doesn’t “settle down”. Quiet restful life is the exception not the norm. We think we are like a marble inside a bowl that has been spun around, and eventually we will settle to the bottom and rest. In reality life is more like a marble on top of a bowl and we must A) accept that truth and B) be very intentional with our leisure time. Far too deep of a topic to do in this post. But I challenge all of us in 2026 to be more intentional with our greatest gift: time

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