🔖 Summary in 3 Sentences

How to be a Christian that firm in your faith, loves your family, and excellent in your work. It's tough to maintain a balance between them, and you got to keep on learning how to do it for your whole life. Prioritize God, your family, and then work, when you fail in your work, you know it's not the end of the world.

🧑🏻‍💼 Who Should Read It?

Anyone (especially Christian) who wants to balance your life between your faith, family, and work. And learn how to achieve long-term success in your life.

🔑 My 3 Key Takeaways

Prioritize family before work.

1st God, 2nd Family, 3rd Work. When you lose in your work, you know you still have God and family to back you up.

Many men put their work as their first priority in life. It's never wrong to work hard at your work, but it is not worth it if you have to exchange your success in your career with your faith and family. In Pat Gelsinger's book, he talked about an experience he had when he got to choose between an important launch event for Intel and his family trip. In the end, he chose his family trip.  He believes his family is more important because it provides the strength for him to constantly achieve high performance at his work.

Love your wife.

Is our kids more important than me?

One day, Pat asked his wife if is the kids are more important than him. He asked this because he realizes their conversation is always around their kids but not about each other. After the discussion, they decide to put their relationship before their kids because they believe a healthy relationship between husband and wife is the foundation of a healthy family. They decide to be more intimate in front of their kids and they will let their kids know they can't interrupt them when they are talking (sometimes kids think their needs are more important). After these adjustments, they are more close to each other, thus, a more healthy family.

Do offering.

Don't just aim at 10%, aim for more.

For me, I think it's hard to do tithe when you have a high income. But Pat Gelsinger, with a very high salary (he is the CTO and now CEO of Intel), does tithe and aims to do more. He said many families might have a tight budget. But he encourages us to start at 1%, then increases as we go. It's not just about the money, it's about training yourself to give back.

💭 Afterthought

Before I read this book, I think it's almost impossible to balance church, family, and work. You got to focus on one and sacrifice the other. After this book, I realize it's possible. He is an elder at his church, CTO of Intel, a husband, and a father of 4. If Pat Gelsinger, can do it, why can't I?

🛍 How to Buy?

I bought it on Shopee @ RM29. You can try this link (Chinese version), it's currently out of stock. You can contact the seller about the availability.

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