Luke Carbis

I don’t know how working families do it.

This morning I have spent all morning cleaning up (mostly Pepper’s little surprises), and paying bills. There’s washing up to be done, our lounge room is a mess, and our office is worse. Not to mention our bedroom floordrobe.

Talia is currently at school 3 days a week, and I’m at uni 2 days a week, school on 1, and usually at work on 1 (total:4). That means that although we’re both usually out of the house, we do have 3 days between us each to clean and tidy.

Of course, those 3 days are usually taken up with school and uni work. But I won’t to know how families with working Mums AND Dads keep their houses clean!?!?

All that for this point:

There is definately a full time job in being a house-wife or a house-husband.

Does anyone want to do our housework?

This year I am involved with the church youth group.

One of my jobs as a youth leader is to be in charge of a small group of boys. It’s about building relationships with them, and mentoring them.

The guys I have are okay. I mean, there are a few of them that are a bit ratty. They’re still young (grade 8-9) and going through that whole ‘be cool in front of my friends’ stage. I guess when I really think about it, I got stuck with the ratty ones.

Here’s why I think it will be good though… (more…)

I read all my blogs once per day.

Often, I get quite annoyed when someone hasn’t updated their blog in a few days. It makes me loose interest in the blog, and I remove it from my list. Others only check their blogs maybe every second day, and might be too overwhelmed with blogs that are updated multiple times daily. With too much to read, the blog drops off their list.

My point is this: A key factor to retaining readers is knowing how often they check your blog for updates.

Here’s how to do it (It’s really easy).

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Those who know me know that I bookmark all my blogs, and read them everyday.

Some of my friends use a nifty little thing called RSS, which allows you to quickly view all the new posts from your favourite posts, conveniently arranged neatly in the one spot: your RSS reader.

I can’t stand to do this.

Why? I’m glad you asked.

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During the 5 minutes that I spend focusing and planning everyday, today I made a list of what kind of person I would like to be. I figure the first step to being more comfortable with who you are, is defining exactly what is is that would make you comfortable.

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