Loyalty to God and Family

This week in our entrepreneurship class, we watched a video clip entitled, "Loyalty to God and Family" presented by Jan Newman. In this short clip he spoke about how as entrepreneurs we should always maintain our loyalty first and foremost to God and our family.  Often in the entrepreneurial world the pressures of creating a business naturally lead to putting more important but often less pressing matters to the side in order to deal with the urgent, albeit less weightier matters of the business. In the long run it is the family and our devotion to God that ends up getting short changed because we reason that God and our family will always be there after the pressing problem has resolved.  But the reality is that there will always be one pressing problem after another when running a business and if God and our families are constantly shuffled to the side, we lose our foundation that brought the business opportunity into existence in the first place. Even though the temptation exists to put God and family on the backburner, we will be much more successful and happier in our business endeavors if we keep our loyalty to God and our family in their proper places. We will be supported in our efforts, have more inspired networks to solve our problems, and be able to receive personal inspiration and ideas for what to do when we focus on the right things first.

I have had a bit of a crash course in this over the past few weeks with my own family. My mother has been incredibly sick.  She has been in the ICU for a month at this point and been in danger multiple times of passing away. Even though my life is filled with responsibilities and obligations to meet, for this last month my family, my faith, and dependence upon God has really been the only thing that truly mattered.  As I have relied on the networks I have in place to carry on the responsibilities and obligations I have a stewardship over, things have continued to work out.  The work has continued in the volunteer committees that I am the chairman over as well as in my church callings.  I have been able to find pockets of time to complete my school work within the required deadlines and have even produced excellent work in the papers and assignments that I have prepared. Life has not stopped as I have focused on the needs of my family and the Lord has continued to move in my life to take care of the things that I can not.  That would not happen if I did not put my faith and trust in God first and place my efforts into serving my family at this time. 

I know that as I move forward with my life in whatever career aspirations that I have, that the Lord is in my corner.  Things will be difficult.  Sometimes incredibly so, but with God all things are possible.  So never put him in the back seat. Always keep him as the co-pilot and things will be ok, with business, family, and life in general. 

Location: Indiana, PA 15701, USA

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