Hi there! Many of you may not know this about me but I’m a recovering serve-a-holic.
I work full-time, I’m in ministry, I’m a blogger, an author, and I own my own indie publishing company. Plus I have four children who are now all growing young adults. So, I’m a pretty busy lady.
I’ve learned to manage my time, multi-task, and make time for rest and the ones I love best. However, I’m a work in progress. There are times when I get going so fast and I’m doing so much that I forget about the most important things and have to reconnect with the reality of present things.
Here is a list of four things busy but balanced women should be mindful of, otherwise the busyness of life may get the best of you very quickly.
1. Make time for to nourish your spirit and have fellowship with your heavenly Father. Life gets busy so we have to choose in the busy times to pull away and go into our secret place with the Lord to connect spirit to Spirit with Him because He is our life and our length of days, (Deut 30:20).
2. Don’t forget to care for yourself so you can care for others. If we don’t take the time necessary to take care of ourselves we can end up burnt out, run down, and unable to care for the other people in our lives that are dearest to us. We all need to make time to eat healthy, get the rest and exercise our bodies need to stay fit and go to the doctor to get regular check-ups.
3. Don’t allow your busyness to take control of your personal and family time. Sometimes when life gets really busy we tend to take our busyness into our personal time. We can get so busy that we’re distracted during our personal or family time – present in body but a million miles away in our minds, thinking of what we need to do next?
You really can’t enjoy yourself like this and it makes the people you care about most feel like they are not valued even if they know they are loved. The things you focus on while you should be focused on yourself or your family can wait.
4. When asked to help out or take on another commitment don’t say yes before you think things through and see if you can handle an added responsibility. When we say yes too soon we end up over-committing our time and energy, and then we’re not able to give our full attention to anything.
Know that it’s OK to say no or tell someone you will get back to them after you pray and have time to think about it. I had a hard time with this for a while but after I caught on to what I was doing to myself I learned not to open my mouth too soon. God would rather us give our full attention to a few things than to say yes to too many things and never be able to give our full attention to anything.
I hope these reminders help you to refocus and reconnect with your ultimate goals.
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