This is for someone today who’s just drowning in busyness.
You’ve got kids that are running all over, you can barely keep up with their sports schedules and gymnastics lessons and church activities, and you’ve got your *own* house cleaning and business running and marriage building things to do.
But there’s no time – barely even time to *eat* each night before running out the door.
Honey, this is not a life. This frantic chasing of the “show up by” time and the “get food in our bellies so we can be out the door” time is *not* living.
Just sit. Be. Get so uncluttered, so radical with your family schedule, that you *know* what is and is not a life for you. For all of you.
Skip the norm; just check out. For long enough to find out what *your* priorities are.
(And no, not everyone has to be happy. The family as a *whole* is your responsibility. There will be time for your kid to take those dance lessons – just not now.)
You can’t keep this rat race going and expect a whole, healthy family; wonderful closeness in your marriage; to avoid exhaustion and health problems; or to make spectacular progress in your business.
Not when it’s built on this foundation of frantic time-snatching.
What are you scared of dropping?
Listen to me. You cannot – you *cannot* – live this way and expect to see success.
- Expect to see God bless your marriage.
- Expect to see Him strengthen your relationship with your kids.
- Expect to see Him blow up your business.
- Expect to see Him keep you in the good health He’s promised.
You can’t! So why are you living like it?
‘Cause what your schedule’s telling me is that you believe you can keep cramming the sand and rocks and pebbles in your weekly schedule jar, and forcing them down and heaping more on top, and just hustle hard enough to get there.
When that’s never the right answer.
You know this.
What’s keeping you stuck here? What are you so afraid of that you’re unwilling to let go here? Why can’t you detach and let go from busy mode?
This is what you’ve got to get clear on *before* you can make any progress in your life. Whether that’s personal life, aka husband and kids (or just decluttering your house!), or CEO life (like selling out your next launch or nailing that guest interview).
You’ve *got* to get clear of the hustle mode, see what you’re scared of dropping, and find the courage somewhere to cut it.
Because otherwise you’re going straight downhill from here. Trust me. In your health, in your finances, in your business, in your kid-trust relationships, in your marriage.
And you don’t want that.
What are you more scared of – losing all those things, or losing that one thing you’re scared of saying no to?
Make the choice today. Face up to your actions, and own your choices moving forward.
It’s the only way to make a difference to this hustle cycle you’re stuck in.
