Why Workaholism Looks So Good: Tim Kimmel & Michael Tooker
FamilyLife Today®
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4.8 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 10 November 2022
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Workaholism makes a good attempt to fullfill your needs but what's the real cost. On FamilyLife Today, Dave and Ann Wilson host authors Tim Kimmel and Michael Tooker, who share their own stories and look beneath the luster of overwork.
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| 0:00.0 | There's three ways we can look up, we can look out, or we can look in. |
| 0:03.2 | And what I find many times is people that are really frustrated with their situation are |
| 0:08.4 | looking too much inwardly, and they're not happy with what they're getting from life |
| 0:12.9 | or their job or their marriage or whatever. |
| 0:15.6 | But if you start to say, I'm going to look up at God and pursue Him, and I'm going to |
| 0:18.7 | look out at others and serve them, that just changes things. |
| 0:22.7 | It takes the attention off yourself and it puts it where we should rightly be, and over |
| 0:26.8 | time, then that completely changes the trajectory of your life. |
| 0:32.3 | Welcome to Family Life Today, where we want to help you pursue the relationships that |
| 0:45.2 | matter most. |
| 0:46.2 | I'm Ann Wilson. |
| 0:47.2 | And I'm Dave Wilson, and you can find us at FamilyLifeToday.com or on the Family Life |
| 0:52.5 | app. |
| 0:53.5 | This is Family Life Today. |
| 0:56.8 | So we're talking about work today, how we operate in our workspace, and I did a little |
| 1:12.6 | research. |
| 1:13.6 | I did not know this, a 2021 Microsoft survey said that 41% of the current workforce is |
| 1:21.8 | planning to quit their jobs this year. |
| 1:24.4 | 41%. |
| 1:25.4 | I mean, that's, I mean, I was astounded. |
| 1:27.5 | I thought it'd be 10%, 20%, and then Gallup did a poll before the pandemic that found |
| 1:33.3 | it 85% of employees are unengaged at work. |
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