MPF 309: How Busy is Too Busy?

Messy Family Podcast : Catholic Conversations on Marriage and Family

Mike and Alicia Hernon : Catholic Marriage Parent and Family

Parenting, Parent, Podcast, Marriage, Religion & Spirituality, Catholic, Christianity, Kids & Family, Family

5 • 739 Ratings

🗓️ 11 November 2024

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Show me your checkbook and your datebook and I will show you what you value

Summary

So much of what we talk about on this podcast really hits home when it comes to how we spend our time. Family dinner, date nights, prayer time, even mass comes down to making time to do it. Four things determine how we run our lives and our family - talent, money, energy and time. Every one has different amounts of energy and talent and money, but we all have the same amount of time! How we use it is what matters. In this podcast we discuss how to evaluate the activities in our home and what we need to prioritize. This is a re-release of the podcast “Busyness” originally aired in the summer of 2017.

Couple Discussion Questions

Where in our life are we too busy? Where do we need to make time for what is really important?
Where do we need better routines in our home to bring peace?

Transcript

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0:00.0	Family, all in this together.
0:08.2	Family, we're taking a chance.
0:10.8	Family, like birds of a feather.
0:13.3	Family, get off my shoes and dance.
0:15.4	Hey, we are Mike and Alicia Hernin.
0:17.4	We have 10 kids and grandkids too, and we are here for every parent. Because we are on a
0:22.2	mission to empower moms and dads to embrace their sacred calling. So join the conversation.
0:28.5	Family, we're taking a chance.
0:30.9	Family like birds of a feather. Welcome to the podcast. We're so glad you joined us today.
0:35.8	And I have to tell you right now,
0:37.8	uh, there's a transition between sports seasons where we're wrapped up football.
0:42.3	Ending football. And, uh, and we were starting up basketball. Yep. And, uh, and this happens,
0:47.1	uh, from time to time for us. I'm like, it's just in a few of our kids, not all of our kids.
0:51.4	Not all our kids. I'm like, really? They're going to make them practice six days a week. Seriously? We're not going to the NBA here. I mean, I know some
0:59.7	people in the NBA. Yeah. But our kids aren't one of those kind of people, right? There is something
1:06.1	about sports that I feel like sucks the life sometimes out of families. Yeah, I think I think it kind of
1:13.7	depends and it depends on how balanced that you can be. And how it how your child responds to that.
1:20.6	So some kids are going to thrive under that and some families thrive. But I think it's a matter
1:25.0	of having everything in alignment. I,
1:28.1	so and being a balanced question.
1:30.3	Knowing how much is too much.
1:33.2	Yeah,
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