Note: This is the first in a series of lessons that was originally sent via email. Just disregard the email references and enjoy!
15 minutes. What can you do in such a short time?
How about connect deeply with your spouse, take your marriage to a new level of fulfillment, enhance your intimacy, get out of a relationship rut and plan the married life of your dreams?
Of course, I’m not here to tell you that you can accomplish all of these things (and more) in a single 15-minute session or even over the next few weeks.
However, I am 100% confident that you can enhance your romance and meet many awesome goals in your married life by committing just 15 minutes each day to the cause.
And this mini-course will show you the way and get you jump-started toward success in your romantic life.
Find the Time
The first step in this fun little adventure in romance is to identify where you’ll find your 15 minutes.
Trust me, I know how busy the lives of today’s young married couples are (I am one of you, after all). With work, kids, family, school, extracurricular activities, exercise, cooking, household chores and a bit of sleep, it seems like there’s no time for anything else.
What if you found out that you had to spend 15 minutes each day getting a medical treatment that you needed to survive? Less dramatically, what if you could voluntarily give this time to help your spouse achieve a great deal of happiness? Or pump up your own happiness?
You can find the time. After all, we are literally only talking about 1% of your day here!
To get you started, here are some areas where you might be able to cut back a bit:
- Watch less television (this should do it for most of us)
- Cut out 15 minutes of mindless web surfing (this should take care of the rest)
- Check Facebook less often
- Focus at work so you can leave a bit earlier
- Only check your email twice per day
- Cut down on video games
- Exercise at home instead of driving to the gym
- Put the kids to bed 15 minutes early
- Wake up 15 minutes early
- Quit reading Engaged Marriage – this is an absolute last resort and is not recommended! 🙂
When we decided to make this 15 minutes of “couple time” a priority in our marriage, we simply made sure the kids were in bed at a consistent time each evening and spent our time together before we did anything else. We found that all of our other responsibilities can easily wait for a measly 15 minutes.
This is our sacred time for each other and the key to our “Marriage Mojo”, and we wouldn’t trade it for the world!
Pay Attention!
In our next lesson, we’ll talk about how to defend your couple time against all of the intruders you’ll face in your busy day-to-day life.
And I’ll start giving you some guidance on what to do during your 15 minutes to rediscover the romance in your marriage. You should receive Lesson #2 in a couple of days.
And please share this email with your wife or husband and ask them to do the same*. I can’t wait to talk with you again in my next email!
All the best,
-Dustin