Healthy Leadership – Family Time
Do you give your family consistent, uninterrupted time? Leadership roles often require lots of time and energy, leaving little by the end of the day. How are you safeguarding your family from your leadership role?
As I’ve mentioned before, it is easy for me to slip into the role of a workaholic. During those times, I often neglect my family, preferring to spend time with my work and side projects than I do with them. Sad, but true.
The thing that I’ve realized most is that I never choose to neglect my family. It just happens over time. As with all selfishness and sin, we tend to let it slip in a little at a time. We spend an extra hour here or there, “just to wrap things up” or “get ahead.” By the end of it, we are fully neglecting our family.
Men, it is your responsibility to lead your family through serving them. I didn’t make up this rule – . Your family is looking to you for servant leadership. Your wife is looking for a partner and your children are looking to you as a godly example. If you are neglecting them by leading outside the home first, you are failing in your Godly role.
Don’t let your leadership role at work and church cause you to lose sight of your leadership at home. If you do, all of your leadership roles will suffer.
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What would you say the waterfall priorities are? 1, 2… If I want to just get started, what first?
Just listened to an amazing message by Andy Stanley entitled “Choosing to Cheat”. Powerful word from God about how we choose to use our time. If you haven’t heard it, find it and listen…(UPDATE) Just did a search online and found Stanley has written a book by the same title. Need to pick that one up.
Thanks Tim for the tip – I’ll check the message and book out!
Mike, what do you mean “get started”? Do you mean getting started to put family first as an existing leader that is overwhelmed and ignoring their family? Or are you asking how should first-time leaders get started putting family first?