Choosing to Cheat

I'm on a 50 books in 52 weeks new year's goal for this year. So far, so good. Been reading a book called "Choosing to Cheat" by Andy Stanley. It's built on the premise that everyone cheats somewhere because there simply are not enough hours in a day for everything.

The solution, strangely enough, is similar to the problem. Both involve cheating. Simply put, we must choose to cheat at work rather than at home.

It's a book about establishing priorities — those things we say “yes” to even when it means saying “no” to other important things. It is a principle that is already at work in our lives.

When we choose to cheat in accordance with God’s priorities for our lives, it is an invitation for Him to bless us and our family in ways we never dared to imagine.

One simple thing I've chosen to do is go home everyday for lunch and spend it with my wife. Can't tell you how many times I've been asked to grab lunch with others and would have said yes. It's made it easy to say no now that it's become a priority. We're saving money, but more importantly, we're cutting specific time out of our day to just be together.

Good read.