The Juggling Act Quotes

“I would challenge anyone to show where God suggests that people should retire.”
― Pat Gelsinger, The Juggling Act: Bringing Balance to Your Faith, Family, and Work

“his Word (John 1:1), his Spirit (John 14:15–17), and his church (Matt. 16:18). Throughout the mission trips”
― Pat Gelsinger, The Juggling Act: Bringing Balance to Your Faith, Family, and Work

“Job 31:1; Psalm 23:1–6; Micah 6:6–8; Matthew 5:1–16; John 1:1–18; Romans 3:21–24; 12:1–2; Phil 4:6–9; Colossians 3:1–13; 3:23–24; 1 Corinthians 13; 1 Peter 1:1–9; 2 Peter 1:5–11; and Revelation 3:15–16; 21:1–7.”
― Pat Gelsinger, The Juggling Act: Bringing Balance to Your Faith, Family, and Work

“have to pause and give great recognition to my employer, Intel. How many companies are truly merit based in their decisions on promotions and assignments? How many employers would take the risk of putting a twenty-five-year-old kid in charge of the crown jewels of the corporation’s future? Over and over, Intel has given me opportunities, challenges, and rewards of tremendous degree.”
― Pat Gelsinger, The Juggling Act: Bringing Balance to Your Faith, Family, and Work

“Satan doesn’t need to deceive us; he just needs to keep us busy.”
― Pat Gelsinger, The Juggling Act: Bringing Balance to Your Faith, Family, and Work

“outlined so far in this book: First, develop a plan for your life. Second, prioritize your personal relationship with God. And third, prioritize your family time. Now, that we’ve clearly laid out the scriptural priorities for your life, you should be ready to tackle the next priority: your profession or job. I”
― Pat Gelsinger, The Juggling Act: Bringing Balance to Your Faith, Family, and Work

“we can’t view our work as a compartment where the work personality shows up. No, as stated at the beginning of this chapter, we each need to strive to be an integrated person where the personality that shows up at faith, family, work, and play is in fact one in the same. When”
― Pat Gelsinger, The Juggling Act: Bringing Balance to Your Faith, Family, and Work

“As you will see, you are called to be a minister while in the workforce and living in the marketplace.”
― Pat Gelsinger, The Juggling Act: Bringing Balance to Your Faith, Family, and Work

“I recommend you do a detailed time study for yourself to see where you spend your time. Make an estimate of how many hours each week you take for the major activities of your life: work, school, rest, entertainment, hobbies, spouse, children, commuting, church, God, friends, and so on. Then, over a typical period of your life, take two weeks and do a detailed time study. Keep track of how you spend your time, using fifteen- to thirty-minute increments. After you have gathered the raw data, categorize them carefully into the major groups: rest, work/school, church/God, family, and recreation. Create subcategories as appropriate for anything that might consume multiple hours per week, like listing commuting under work or TV under recreation. Finally, with the summary in hand, make the difficult assessments about how you are using your time. Ask yourself: • Any surprises? Areas where I just couldn’t imagine I was wasting—er, uh, um, spending—so much of my time? • Is this where I want my time to go? • Am I putting as much time as I’d like into the areas I want as the priorities in my life? • How much time am I really spending with my spouse? Children? Friends? • Did I realize how much time I was spending at work? • If I wanted to spend more time on XYZ or ABC, in what areas would I consciously choose to spend less time?”
― Pat Gelsinger, The Juggling Act: Bringing Balance to Your Faith, Family, and Work