Entrepreneurial Leadership

In an early post we talked about how not to sacrifice your faith for success, but today we are going to talk about the second most important thing not to sacrifice for success and that is your family. Family is the second most important piece of our life right behind faith, it is were we can have the greatest impact and influence on individuals.

What seems to happen many times once success starts rolling in is that we start detaching ourselves from family. We start spending more and more time at the office or even at home working on work stuff, just so we can be more successful. We do all this in the name of wanting to make a better life for our family. What starts happening is we start missing important dates in the life of our family; birthdays, anniversaries, kids sporting events, kids recitals, date night with our wife or husband, and you even stop attending church with your family. All of this pursuit of the money / success train will only produce heart ache if you do not keep your priorities in check and retain restraint and discipline.

One of the greatest missteps in life is sacrificing family for success. So in order to keep this from happening it is important that we grab hold of six things.

1. Success is never worth the destruction of our faith and family.
2. Prioritize time for family events and commit to them.
3. Love on our wife or husband and kids often.
4. When making decisions about our work situation we must ask ourselves if this will effect our family life.
5. When we are off of work switch gears to our family, do not let our work thoughts take over the time that is dedicated for family.
6. Success in our faith and family is more important than success in anything else.