I set aside a little time each day to glance at the calendar in order to see what lies ahead in the coming weeks and months. It helps keep perspective of what can moved up or back depending on my ever-changing priorities. I have had the pleasure of a somewhat full social calendar the last few weeks, although many might chuckle at my definition of "full". Our increased involvement at church has contributed to a good bit of it, but I have always been a proponent of avoiding the wake-work-sleep rut.
I know that I need to make a better effort of extending invitations to friends that I have not seen in a while. It has been difficult in the last two years keeping tabs on when people are in Nashville. It is also tough to coordinate schedules if they have come into town for something else entirely. Still, I do not want to feel so out of the loop that it is as if I have to keep a paper checklist of people I have talked to in the last year to make sure we do not lose touch completely. I have an account on Facebook, but I believe that particular Web site has done more harm in interpersonal relationships than good; Just because I read your status message two weeks ago does not mean that we talked.
This is particularly important in times when my day job has me so wired into thinking about pixels, pages, bytes and budgets that I forget the whole "life" component of the work-life balance.