ITL080 : Andy's Tips for Prioritizing Your Family
In the Loop with Andy Andrews
Matt Lempert
4.9 • 614 Ratings
🗓️ 13 April 2013
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
On this week’s episode, Andy talks about how to make your family your number one priority…and keep it that way.
If you want to maintain a good balance between work and your life that enables you to spend more time with your family, you must start with priorities.
- If you say your family is your number one priority, you have to step back, observe your actions, and then determine if your actions match your words.
- It’s easy to “think past” certain aspects of your life that you think are certain and absolute.
- You may THINK your family is your number one priority, but have you really assessed whether that’s true or not?
One thing that can mess your family up is if you don’t set expectations for how you will spend your time.
- You have to communicate your priorities and the exceptions to your priorities to your family.
- If you are having family time, let them know it is family time and that it’s the number one priority.
- If there are certain phone calls you know you may have to take, let your family know in advance.
When you’re with your family, you have to make the decision to intentionally engage with them.
- This is something that’s easy to overlook.
- You have to be intentional about the purpose of the time you spend with your family. Don’t just let it pass by.
Questions for Listeners
· Give us a call and tell us know how you have shifted your priorities and found ways to spend more time with your family.
o Phone: 1-800-726-ANDY
o E-Mail: InTheLoop@AndyAndrews.com
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to In the Loop with Andy Andrews, a unique opportunity to see life from a different perspective with New York Times bestselling author, Andy Andrews. |
| 0:12.2 | Now here's your host, Andy Trobb. |
| 0:15.6 | Mr. Andy Andrews, great to be with you again, my friend. |
| 0:19.2 | A.T. How cold is it where you are? |
| 0:22.0 | Let's talk about something encouraging. |
| 0:23.8 | It's freezing here. It's freezing. |
| 0:26.0 | Oh, please tell me how cold it is. |
| 0:29.3 | I came out this morning at 5 o'clock to walk underneath the house to my office. |
| 0:34.0 | And it's like, I mean, man, it's the March or April or something whenever we are I don't |
| 0:40.9 | even know I haven't looked at the calendar lately but it's like 60 degrees man it's freezing |
| 0:45.8 | hey drop the zero ready that's me that's me today just a single digit just a single |
| 0:53.0 | it yeah it's stupid cold as in you're stupid if you live here. That's how cold it is. So how's your, do you have a nice couch? Because I might come hang out on it. Would that be cool? Yeah. I mean, is it really bad cold? I mean, you're Sue Falls, right? Sioux Falls, South Cold. Yep, it's ridiculous cold. So no mercy, no empathy. What is ridiculous cold? Six. |
| 0:55.5 | With... Sioux Falls, right? Sioux Falls, South Dakota. Yep, it's ridiculous cold. So no mercy, no empathy. What is ridiculous cold? Six. And then you add a wind chill and you get to negative. I mean, it's, it's, you know, that whole thing, two negatives equal a positive? Not true in South Dakota. Two negatives equals just stay inside. Oh, my God, six. I don't even, I don't even believe. No mercy for you. I thought of you when I got. Oh my God, six. |
| 1:27.6 | I don't even believe. |
| 1:28.6 | So no mercy for you. I thought of you when I got out of my car this morning to walk in my office and have these conversations with you, I thought Andy Andrews would just turn around and go home. He'd say, turn the plane around. We're going, we're going back. I would. I would. So I'll come to you. I talked to a lady not too long ago on a plane sitting next to me. |
| 1:27.4 | And she was now... I would. I would. I would. I'll come to you. I talked to a lady not too long ago on a plane sitting |
| 1:45.4 | next to me. And she was, now you're South Dakota, which that's like warm weather compared to |
| 1:51.1 | North Dakota. Yeah, yeah. She was from Minot, North Dakota. And I said, I was in Minot, North |
| 1:56.8 | Dakota one time at whatever that college is. And it snowed in June. And she said, yeah, |
| 2:04.7 | she said last July 18th, my garden froze. And she said that the weatherman in town goes to her church, |
| 2:14.4 | and she asked him, was this an early freeze or a late freeze? |
| 2:20.9 | But anyway, we invite you all down to the Gulf Coast. |
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