I can stay busy all day and not accomplish anything of value. I've learned that busy doesn’t mean productive and it certainly doesn’t mean you are living a full life, just a life full of stuff and things going on. I’m here to tell you, I’m tired of it, not just metaphorically, I’m physically freakin' tired, life can be exhausting but only if we let it be. We try and one up our friends about who has the most going on. We strut around wearing our busyness as a badge of honor. What I'm saying is, that we shouldn't live a life were we have to fake positive, we should live a life were that's the real answer. Now I'm not saying we should ever be negative, I've always been taught you say positive things even when you are sucking on those lemons life just handed you. We say things like “We’re super busy but #BLESSED” or “We’re awesome, things are great, I mean you who needs to eat and sleep regularly?” Or we flat out lie and say “Awesome, couldn’t be better.” I'm guilty of always saying "Living the dream", even when it's a nightmare. When people ask the rhetorical “How are you doing?” I find we often respond with mantras that we use to try and convince ourselves that running ragged is not only normal but a good thing. We hurriedly shuffle around from work, to practices, to board meetings, dance and piano everyday in a dizzying dash. Now when Facebook goes down for a few hours, we lose our minds. Remember what it was like when you didn't have a cell phone? I'm what I'l call an elder millennial, I remember those days. Some of these technologies, instead of allowing us freedom, have truly tied us down. The very things that should allow us more freedom seem only to bind us down farther, (thanks to whoever thought putting work email on your phone was a great idea, I blame someone at blackberry). Yet it seems that with all this knowledge and technology we still seldom have the answers, we're overwhelmed, and at times beaten down. I can literally google almost anything and find answers. Since the dawn of the internet (big thank you to Al Gore) we have more information available to us than probably all of human history that has come before us combined. We live in a world that is more connected that ever before. This is the introduction to a series I'm going to call Faith, Family, and Finances. I think that it’s time to share some of it with others. It has to become part of our daily life, our routine, for it to work. The last few years I’ve really started to develop my thoughts on it much deeper than just as a simple saying. I can't honestly say that I've always done it right, there have been time I'm forgotten about all three for a bit and focused on other things and made a mess of it all. As we’ve grown businesses and our family I’ve found that it always rings true, but saying that is easy, it's the doing it that's hard. We always felt if you put things in that order, then everything else will fall into place. It was always a way for us to acknowledge our priorities and their order in our lives. Kaitlin and I somewhere along the way picked up saying the phrase, G.F.W, which stood for God, family, and work. The idea for the series has been on my mind and heart for a few years now. So that’s what this is primarily about, you'll hear about a whole bunch of mistakes I've made and what I learned from them. I strive to always be better than I was, to learn from my many mistakes. The one thing I am good at, is persistence, I don't give up and learn something every time I fail. I’m not always the best, I’m stubborn and bullheaded, I like a glass of whiskey a little too much, I swear more than I should and talk too loud. To be honest I fail and fail often, at times much more spectacularly than most. I’m just a follower of Jesus, husband, father, and an entrepreneur who struggles like everyone else to make sense of this daily grind that we call life. If you know me I don’t want you to think I’m one of those people who write about something and pretend to be perfect. I'm going to start this blog post off with the disclaimer that I am in no way an expert in any of what I’m going to write about in this blog series.
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