When Work and Family Collide by Andy Stanley | tasra mar

Um? when DON?T work and family collide?

Especially when you work from home and kids do home-work because they are home-schooled? It?s the epitome of a ?blended? family? blending life, home, work, education into one big mixing pot.

The results can be beautiful, baffling and downright difficult at times. So Andy Stanley?s book, When Work and Family Collide seemed like the perfect book for us. After reading it, I know it?s the perfect book for any home/work situation. Whether Mom works at home and Dad is at an office or both parents are at an office, or you?re a single parent working and raising kids.

The principles Andy shares about how to know when to work and when to quit are simple and profound. The strategies for changing your perspective about when and why you choose to do what you do could be life-changing.

Some of my favorite questions and quotes from the book are:

How can we be successful without sacrificing our relationships with those closest to us?

Cheating is choosing to give up one thing in hope of gaining something else of greater value? We give up certain opportunities for the sake of others. We invest in some relationships while neglecting others. We allocate our time the best we can, knowing all the while somebody?s going to feel cheated. Unfortunately, that ?somebody? is usually someone we care a great deal about.

Your mental willingness (to do what you are asked or have agreed to) can be overcome by your exhaustion.

Cheat at work. But don?t you dare cheat at home. (what Andy Stanley tells his staff)

Bottom line?

Don?t cheat the people who love you most. Don?t cheat the person who?s looking forward to spending the rest of his or her life with you. Don?t cheat yourself of the peace that comes with knowing you?re squarely in the will of the One who created you. Don?t cheat your kids of the security that comes from knowing that they?re Mommy and Daddy?s priorities.

Nobody gets to the end of his life and wishes he?d spent more time at the office.

Make up your mind.

Develop a plan.

Start today.

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