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🗓️ 28 October 2025
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Saying "yes," to too many things is really bad for your marriage. Greg opens up about how he's learning to try and pull back from too many commitments. Also, Jay and Laura Laffoon join Jim Daly to share why prioritizing your spouse and kids matters more than career accomplishments.
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| 0:34.8 | In our world, it's easy to say yes, and then how often does this happen? You find yourself |
| 0:40.1 | wondering, why did I say yes to this? Look at this. It's the worst time in the world. We're going to |
| 0:46.2 | talk about being hurried and how to slow things down today. I'm John Fuller, along with Greg |
| 0:51.6 | and Aaron Smalley. And Greg, over-commitment. |
| 0:54.9 | It happens. |
| 0:55.9 | Sometimes it happens, even though we have good intentions. |
| 1:00.1 | How about a time when you pulled back or realized, I need to say no? |
| 1:04.2 | Yeah, it's been recently that Aaron is in her doctoral program. |
| 1:09.2 | She's a dissertation away from being done. So she's |
| 1:12.6 | thickened to that. We thought that, since she's going to be in the evenings doing her homework, |
| 1:18.5 | how about I'll write a book. So when, yeah, that makes sense because misery loves company. So it |
| 1:25.3 | made sense. But I've been trying to do extra stuff around the house |
| 1:29.4 | just to give Aaron plenty of time to finish her dissertation. And then you add in travel. You just add |
| 1:36.0 | in everything. And children and now grandkids. And then we decided to start to kind of rekindle |
| 1:42.2 | our marriage small group, which meant that I would have to lead |
| 1:45.9 | that and find content every week to do that. |
| 1:49.7 | And somewhere in here, I'm sure you got a puppy. |
| 1:52.0 | Yeah, probably. |
| 1:53.2 | Oh, but we actually, yes. |
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