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Is It Possible to Balance Work and Home Life?

How do you balance work and home life?

I don’t know if it’s possible😂. Great opening line for a blog post, right? You were probably wanting some hope. I will say it takes a lot of hard word and boundaries to balance work and home life. Many jobs will have you as a slave to the organization, and you will have to say no to some things. At the end of the day, family is more important. I’m not saying to neglect providing for your family. We are, however, in a day when you have more ways to do it legally. The mentality for years has been that everyone has to do the usual 8-5 job, come home, see their kids for a few minutes, then go to sleep and repeat the same thing the next day. People are getting creative now with developing new businesses and being the master of their own schedule. Rather than working strenuous jobs that may give them a week of vacation a year that they have to beg for, they can create a business and maybe even take a month or more worth of vacation time each year.

Let me just say that my balance of work and home life is in progress. I work two jobs, so it’s tougher. “Just say no” applies to more than drugs. You have to make priorities. There is only one chance at raising your kids. Don’t be the absentee parent! Leave them some memories worth remembering!

3 responses to “Is It Possible to Balance Work and Home Life?”

  1. True balance only comes through a relationship with our Creator!

    1. Exactly!

  2. Balancing work time and family time is difficult, for the first 5-10 years of our marriage I worked so much overtime that I didn’t really get to watch my kids grow up, then I had to watch my job move from my home town to the next big city an hour’s drive away, and drove back and forth for nine years, while my kids were growing up and graduating from high school, all the while believing I was doing it for them.
    We still have good relationships, but I know I can never get it back.
    Love your children, go to their soccer games, and eat with them in school, they’ll never forget it.
    My wife and I have been married for 34 years, and still going strong because of the Lord.
    Bless you pastor.

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