Word Filtration; Day249; Step1-SORTING; Dream-Stolen Bike

Jam 1:26  If anyone thinks himself to be religious (piously observant of the external duties of his faith) and does not bridle his tongue but deludes his own heart, this person’s religious service is worthless (futile, barren).

I was reading some LEAN notes today and found the following articles interesting. 
5S Game Handouts
5S-Philosophy

In the last few months, I’ve been helping a few friends go through a storm in life.  Many times I always requested them to get a notebook and write down stuff or sometimes I wrote down notes in my notebook and then we discuss the problem one on one.  I repeated that suggestion last night to a friend and I hope that she will listen.  I’ve been looking for reasons why I’m always doing that and I think I found the reason why with the illustration below from the 5S Game Handouts .  I am surrounded with technology at home and at work.  I have a Sharepoint Site at home and I have a Sharepoint Site at work and I have a blog for the rest of the world to collect/publish notes for my daily activities and I have a Treo800 with me where ever I go but I also kept a notebook at home and at work and I am always scribbling in my notebook of whatever things I do, my MIT’s and simple tasks.  My notebook (paper notebook, not the laptop) helped me in so many ways/times to get started with a difficult problem and 99% of the time, the information I wrote on it always get me to priority 1.

So here’s a simple exercise for you.
1. Download the document  5S Game Handouts
2. Print or view pages 3 and 12
3. Grab a timer and look for the number #1 on page3, record your time.
4. Then on Page12, look for the number #1, record your time.
5. Compare both times and see difference.

Lesson Learned:
Big events in our life or big problems may it be personal or emotional or calamity/disaster type or may it be a simple problem at work or at home, if the data (the problem space) is unsorted, it is really hard to find the first priority (or the top 5 priorities).  Have you noticed on the sorted picture how easy it is to look up any priorities?  I shared this exercise to my daughter and she is now 5S’d.  I explained to her how we accomplished her driver’s training in 6 months by first collecting all the task at once first and then sorting it out and documenting it. 

I do hope that you too will try out 5S in your life.

MIT (Most Important Task)
1. Celebration Church
2. Laundry
3. Read: LEAN book
4. Yard Work
5. 1K swim (if pool is fixed)

DREAM: “Someone stole my bike at the library”:  I went to the library building riding my bicycle and I left the bicycle outside the building with no locks.  When I was done inside the library, I left the building but I could not find my bike, it was stolen.  I did not even try to look for it, I just said, they can have it.

I don’t consider myself an interpreter of dreams (I don’t claim to be) but whenever I dream of something like this, I always ask God to give me at least a glimpsed of what it is.  Me and Brittney went to church today and as usual, she was driving mom’s car and I was at the passenger seat.  I told her about my dream and she said that she had the same dream but instead of the bike stolen, it was my truck (the Yukon) that was stolen while she was using it going somewhere.  Maybe this is irrelevant but I just want to mention that here for record purposes.  So during the Praise and Worship part of the service, I closed my eyes (as always) when the song is slow and people are worshipping God in the Spirit and then I ask the Lord to give me some hints about my dream.  It took a while but then the impression was this: The bike represents the event (the vehicle/transportation) the library (building) represents the Kingdom of God.  What leads me to the Kingdom of God was my bicycle accident that almost claimed my life and brought me into a new life-The life that I am in right now.. the Kingdom of God.  The stolen bike represents the same event is being used to bring someone to the Kingdom of God. In short, “He uses big events in our lives to bring us into the Kingdom of God.”  So whenever I see “big events” in someone’s life, that is my hint that that person is about to experience a very special invitation to walk into the Kingdom.

0000, Sleep
0100, Sleep
0200, Sleep
0300, Sleep
0400, Sleep
0500, Read: LEAN Enterprise
0600, Read: LEAN Enterprise
0700, Breakfast; journal;
0800,
0900, Celebration Church
1000, Celebration Church
1100, Grocery shopping
1200, Iron clothes
1300,
1400,
1500,
1600,
1700,
1800, Yard work
1900, 1k swim
2000,
2100,
2200,
2300,
2400, Sleep