“Many other people—even well-intentioned friends—have visions for your time and resources, but those other visions are often inconsistent with God’s vision for you… One of my core values is family. Therefore my mission involves spending a lot of time with my family. Other people have their own plans for my life and time. Come speak at this event. Have dinner with us. We need you on this important board. I say no a lot. Some people understand, and some get mad. But I refuse to sacrifice God’s Chazown for anyone else’s.”
What has been on my mind is that I have to start saying yes and no to the right things. I've made the mistake of saying yes to practically everything, and I've swung the other direction and said no to practically everything. I am coming to realize that in order to effectively live the life God has called me to live, I have to carefully choose what I will say yes and no to. What are my priorities?
I will say yes to my family, of course. I will say yes to spending time with them, loving them, taking care of them, nurturing them, creating a peaceful and comfortable home for them. And I will say yes to the things that help me move in the direction of the mission statement I wrote about in the last post.
Those things are so very important to me, and to give them the time and energy they deserve, I will have to sacrifice other things. I need to greatly reduce the amount of time and energy I spend on the things not listed above. I am specifically thinking of things I waste time on, and commitments I have that are not helping me in either of those areas. Some people will understand; some may get mad. I don’t want to make anyone mad, but it’s time to set some boundaries and say yes and no to the right things.
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