Joseph F. Radosevich

I use kanban-type systems to organize my work in my office and thought I'd share about that here.  As I understand it, Kanban is a system developed by someone at Toyota for managing projects. I learned a version of it at a church planting training. The basic format allows you to see the parts of a project and what needs to be done for each part of every project. I use a type of kanban system, but I don't know the official method. I use two boards: one for sermon prep and one for church organization. They help me see at a glance what needs doing. Here are my two boards: This is my sermon prep board. Each week, I finish the main sermon for the current week and study the passage for the sermon 4 weeks out. I'm planning to write a post on this method someday. This is my projects board. I try to spend a little time each week preparing for events or projects 3 months out, 2 months out, and 1 month out. I learned the 3/2/1 method from Karl Vaters in his book Small Church Essential...

Every year I build several playlists. I thought I would link to some of them here and talk about some music highlights. Each of my playlists is done in reverse order so that newer songs show up at the top. I make a new playlist on YouTube Music each year for when I cook. I listen to it at other times, too.  https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLn_jAxBP__YK3Ce4H4rIQ_uU4ZtKaYbVr Our vacation playlists are intended to introduce my kids to pop music history. Our spring staycation playlist: https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLn_jAxBP__YLQAbgI0F6MgwnOsSjo_P7a Our fall vacation playlist: https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLn_jAxBP__YITg0i5Cu2OP1OdZfuOPypx I also update a worship playlist that I use when I get away for a day or an afternoon to pray and fast. https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLn_jAxBP__YKISjoVo-whqCQMcSL0gfPI A few of my musical highlights: I discovered Jon Guerra at the end of the year. I love his music. His music is both artistic, deep, and catchy a...

We have filled out "goal sheets" with our kids on New Year's Eve for the last 10 years. Our older kids read through them in the lead up to the New Year. There are four categories on the sheets along with frames and pictures to color. The four categories are: What I want to read, what food I want to try, what I want to learn, and what I want to do. We personalize them in different ways. Some people write down multiple goals in each category. Some write down a food like lobster, tomatoes, or buffalo. Others write down dishes or international cuisines. Some write down a book to read. Other write down a number of books to read.  What I love about these New Year goal sheets is that they focus on this we want to learn and do. Goals work better if they are about skills to learn. I've learned from 10 years of these sheets that I can learn new things and these sheets are best if I focus on skills not outcomes. Last year, I relearned to write in cursive. I learned all the notes...

My father-in-law makes amazing pour-over coffee. I can't find a coffee shop that makes drip or pour-over coffee that good. It took me years to figure out his secret even though he told and showed me everything. I married his daughter 17 years ago. It was right in front of me the whole time.  He gives me bags of coffee to take home from time to time. I couldn't replicate the flavor at home with the exact pour-over cone that he had, so I started asking questions.  First, I thought it was the water. Nope Then, we thought it was the amounts, or the temperature, or the speed. Still no. The entire time, I thought it couldn't be the grind. I use whole bean coffee and grind it fresh. All the guides and gurus say to grind pour-over coffee medium-medium fine. I found it always brewed too quickly and came out thin and acidic or it channeled in the cone. The taste was never right. It wasn't the rich, flavorful cup that he got. I gave up on using the cone at home and marveled at eve...