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Balancing Your Family, Faith, and Work By Pat GelsingerLearn the time-tested keys that will turn your "busyness" into meaningful priorities that will change your life and impact all those around you.

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Are You Working for God's Approval? Guests include:Pat Gelsinger Pat Gelsinger, Chief Technology Officer for Intel Corp., reflects on his boyhood and the work ethic he learned from his father. Hear Pat reminisce about his budding career, as well as his budding relationship with Linda, the young woman who captured his heart and eventually became his wife. More Workaholism broadcasts

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Are You Driven?

Stephen Arterburn and Sam Gallucci

Editor’s Note: During the October 6-8, 2008, FamilyLife Today radio broadcasts, author Sam Gallucci refers to the following inventory, excerpted from the book Road Warrior (by Stephen Arterburn and Sam Gallucci).

Being driven has a way of blinding you to what’s truly important in life. You become driven to succeed, and success becomes the end goal, regardless of what success actually looks or feels like. That quest for success will then override any and all relationships that matter most—your spouse, your kids, your friends. All begin to suffer under the driving force of success.

What does a driven person look like? Take this quick inventory to see if any of these traits fit your lifestyle. Answer “yes,” “no,” or “sometimes” to the following questions:

	Yes	Sometimes	No
You’re highly involved with your career.
Some would call you “obsessed.”
You desire success at every level of your work.
Your prime concern is satisfying whoever is in authority over you—your boss or supervisor.
Your main goals involve developing relationships with customers, suppliers, and partners involved in your work.
Most of your energy revolves around key people associated with your work.
Your (not-so-hidden) motto is “work at any cost.”
Family time fits into work time—not the other way around.
You’re eager to travel whenever work calls for it.
Work is the consuming fire within you.

We won’t score you on any of these questions; they’re just for your reflection. But chances are good that if you answered “yes” or “sometimes” to the majority of those questions, you’re on some risky ground with regard to your motivations while away from home.