Improve Your Marriage By Helping Others
Want to improve your marriage?
As I share in this brief (and quite personal) video, Bethany and I were recently reminded of how powerful it can be to help others with their relationships. When we spend a little of our precious time teaching, or simply talking to, others about the keys to having a great marriage, we’re often reminded of areas that need attention in our own lives.
If you can’t see the video, please click here: Improve Your Marriage By Helping Others
I’d love to hear about your experiences with this topic. When have you reached out to help others and found that you end up benefiting the most, especially in your marriage?
Take More Time to Get Less Stuff Done
Editor’s Note: This is a guest post from Kathleen Quiring at Project M. I really enjoyed reading her perspective on how best to use our time. It seems that our approaches sort of boil down to being intentional vs. being intuitive with our time, but I’ll let you decide that.
Kathleen previously contributed an awesome post called An Educated, Artsy-Fartsy Protestant’s Thoughts on Natural Family Planning that you should also check out.
Recently, Dustin had a post over at Simple Marriage where he suggested that time is like currency: you only have a limited amount of it (168 hours a week, to be precise), and you ought to spend it wisely, wasting nothing. In fact, time is actually more important than money, because “while money comes and goes, time only goes.” In order to make the most of your time each week, then, Dustin recommends making a time budget.
Time is linear, Dustin suggests with this model. It marches on in one direction, from point A to point B, never turning back, never to be seen again. In order to maximize one’s use of time, then, one ought to chop it up, make lists, make calculations, graph it, chart it, allocate tasks, and plan.
The 1 Percent Solution to a Happy Marriage (and Life)
What can you accomplish for your married life in 15 minutes per day?
A lot more than you think! If you haven’t yet signed up for our free Marriage Time newsletter, please take a few seconds to enter your name and email below.
When you sign up, we’ll send you a free 7-lesson e-course called “Marriage Mojo: 7 Simple Steps to Romance for Insanely Busy Couples.” The feedback on Marriage Mojo so far has been really positive and really exciting!
To help spread the word about our community here and the free resources available for busy couples, I posted another video on YouTube recently. I’m obviously a very amateur solo videographer, but I have fun doing these and think they’re a great way to let the world know about Engaged Marriage. I thought I’d share the video here on the site as well for your entertainment. 
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If you’re not frightened away by the video, please do me a favor and tell your friends about Engaged Marriage and the Marriage Time newsletter. It’s as easy as sharing this post on Facebook or retweeting on Twitter (easy buttons for both below)! Thank you for making this community so enriching and helpful!
The REAL Family Emergency
Editor’s Note: This is guest post from the fabulous Makenzie Kelly from the Freedom Venture Project. I love this post, and I’m anxious to hear your thoughts in the comments!
Maybe you can relate to this Family Emergency? At just five months old, I left my younger son and his three year old brother in the hands of a nanny when I decided to start a business. It felt like when I walked out the door that day, I wouldn’t be back for what seemed like the longest 5 years of my life.
The business was rough and tumultuous, complicated with trying to balance a household, a marriage and two young sons. I used to wonder if my sons would even remember me, and hoped my husband wouldn’t divorce me. I had rationalized to myself that I was building a Financial Empire and the monetary payoff would offset the time sacrifice.
After 5 years, the monetary compensation was fantastic, the company was a Multi-Million dollar success, but I continued spending a lot more time in the business and very little time with my husband or children. The worst part was even when I was home, I was always on the phone, emailing and spending my time stressing about what needed to be done.
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You spoke and I listened.
When I asked you about the biggest constraint in your marriage, the overwhelming response was TIME. I can definitely relate, and a lack of time would top my list of frustrations in my own marriage and life in general. Fortunately, my wife and I have learned many valuable lessons related to finding and making the best use of our time, and I am learning more each day.
I was inspired by your responses and our own experiences, and I started thinking of effective ways to help address this extremely important issue. Today, I get to share with you an awesome new resource that I am offering totally free of charge.
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