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What Your Job Is Doing to Your Life, Your Business?<\/span><\/h2>\n

Caring For Our Main People – Part 3 <\/span><\/h3>\n

This is like opening the door to our closet or allowing someone outside of family to look in the trunk of our car. Saying what we do versus what we wish we were doing when it comes to our work would be a lot easier. In this web-post we’re discussing our work and how we use it to care for our people, our closest people that is.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Regarding our work, I’ll first share what we do to care for our family then some things I wish we were doing and our plans to get there. While it is more comfortable for me to share with you what I wish we were doing to care for my people rather than what we are doing. Sharing where we are in the process of improving our people care will be more helpful. So in order to get to the place that we wish we were requires a plan of action. What’s the point of the work we do if it’s not to better our main people?<\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"The Thought or Concept:
<\/span>How do we shape how we work with these people in mind? At the end of your life the last thing on your mind will be your job. So let it be the last thing on your mind each day. Put it in its proper place. Most of us (that means it’s normal) have it misplaced because it’s common. It’s easy to follow the crowd when it comes to over valuing a job or your responsibilities outside your home.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

First I’d like to make one distinction here that normal people don’t make. There is a difference between our work and our job. Normal people when they hear the word work think job. Your work is your life’s contribution to the world around you. Your work should include your job, but at the end of the day it should all help you care for your people. Having a proper understanding of this will help to ensure you don’t misplace where your job fits into your priorities.<\/span><\/p>\n

Our Work Is For Our Family
<\/strong>Here’s something I learned several years ago, actually over a decade ago, as it pertains to how we use our work to care for our people.<\/span><\/p>\n

“You work so that you can take care of your family.” – Sharon Buczek<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

In other words, the purpose for your job must not be confused with any other meaning. Your job is so that you can care for your family, not the other way around. There’s no other reason for your toiling.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThere was a man all alone;
<\/span><\/em>he had neither son nor brother.
<\/span><\/em>There was no end to his toil,
<\/span><\/em>yet his eyes were not content with his wealth.\u201d
<\/span><\/em>[He had money and no family to share his life.]<\/span><\/em>“For whom am I toiling,” he asked,
<\/span><\/em>“and why am I depriving myself of enjoyment?”
<\/span><\/em>This too is meaningless\u2014a miserable business!”
<\/span><\/em>– <\/span>King Solomon<\/span><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

Why are you working in the first place? Are you working for a job or are you working for your family?<\/span><\/p>\n

The Right Work
<\/strong>You might not know this, but we have work that comes from God. There’s something you do that you’re gifted at or drawn to that no else in your family is drawn to in the same way. Work represents what we’re here on earth to do and not a job we have while we’re here. This work keeps us planted. It eliminates distractions that normally aids in destroying families. When you have work to do from God, there’s little time for affairs, drinking excessively, doing drugs, or other non-productive activities. There’s no ideal time. When you have work, you have passion for life and completing the one thing you’re here for. Finding what you’re here to do is the best way to care for your main people.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Practice:<\/span><\/p>\n

What we’re doing…<\/strong><\/p>\n