Feb 4

Written by: Clark Mitchell
2/4/2009 1:37 PM

If you could choose to be effective or balanced in life which one would win out? There is always great debate, passion, and conversation over how we need to live a "balanced" life, but is that what we are really after?

We had this conversation as a staff yesterday and it was a blast! It was decided that effectiveness trumps balance!

I know that absolutely tears some of you up, but here is the deal - if your goal in life is to be balanced you are never going to accomplish anything great.

A few of my goals are:

• To be the most effective follower of Christ possible!
• To be the most effective husband possible!
• To be the most effective dad possible!
• To be the most effective pastor possible!
• To be the most effective... (you get the idea)

My goal is effectiveness, not balance! What I have found is that if I want to be effective at everything God has called me to, I can't be balanced--but I can be healthy!

You can spend all the time in the world with your kids and they still might end up screwed up! You can spend every waking moment with your wife and it alone might destroy your marraige!

The bottom line is that effectiveness really does trump balance! And the key to effectiveness is being healthy!

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