My wife Connie and I returned late yesterday from an amazing weekend in Dayton, Ohio. We attended a "Weekend to Remember" conference put on by FamilyLife, a ministry founded by Dennis and Barbara Rainey. If you have not been to one of these, I highly recommend it!

The experience was an extremely positive one for Connie and me in our marriage. In addition to the awesome content, I was extremely impressed with the way everything was done. One thing that really got my attention was the way after each session, we would have "homework."

These assignments were used to cement the ideas discussed. But they took it a step further. They asked us to each write down 2-3 items we could work on individually to improve our marriage in the area just discussed. We were then to select the one key idea we could implement and we needed to record that on the back flap of the booklet.

At the end of the conference each of us had 12 action items to implement in our lives. We were then instructed to prayerfully look over the list and select 3 that we would commit to doing this coming week. I thought this was very simple but extremely effective.

I think this is something we can apply to every area of our life. But the key is the last part - implementation. We must make it a priority, we must schedule it if it is truly going to happen. We are all busy people. If it is not scheduled, life will get in the way and the truly important stuff will get pushed aside.

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Make it a great week!