Business owners and executives tend to prioritize based on the crisis du jour, what's urgent, and deadline-driven projects. Meanwhile, they neglect things that are important but not urgent— like health check-ups, quality time with loved ones, quiet prayer time with God, exercise, and even something as small as filling up with gas. These activities are often pushed aside until they become urgent and turn into a health crisis, family issues, feeling distant from God, or even getting stranded on the side of the road without gas.
Often, the things that are most important in the long run get the least amount of time today. Several of you have children who are graduating and leaving for college in the fall, some of you have dealt with the loss of a loved one, and others are experiencing a major health emergency—all circumstances where you are forced to stop and take inventory of what you are placing first in your life.
I know we all have businesses to run and great work to accomplish in this world. But there's more to life than that.
"Life is like a coin, you can spend it any way you want but you can only spend it once." - Lillian Dickson
Don't let yourself get to the end of your life regretting how you spent it. Carve out time for what's truly important. Guard those hours with the same commitment you give to crises, what's urgent, and deadline-driven projects.
Nurture your spiritual, social, emotional, physical, and financial health so you can operate on a full tank. You'll be able to accomplish so much more!
If you are feeling empty today, take a moment and just fill your tank with praise and thankfulness.
"So then, just as you received Christ Jesus as Lord, continue to live your lives in him, rooted and built up in him, strengthened in the faith as you were taught, and overflowing with thankfulness." (Colossians 2:6-7)
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