I’d tell them this isn’t a get-rich-quick scheme, and it’s that short-range sacrifice for the long-range goal.

If you are working towards this dream calendar—if you’re a mom listening here—you have to make some sacrifices in order to gain what’s really important to you, and only you know what those sacrifices are. For me it was sacrificing tennis and sports. I gave up tennis for eighteen years, and I ran instead in the morning before they all woke up. I’m not a morning person so in order to have the schedule I wanted I had to do it early before they woke up, and I had to sacrifice tennis for that period of time.

I’ve met people who have been Christians for years who don’t realize that God loves you so much. And He wants to get involved with helping you. He wants to get involved in lightening your workload so that you are not internalizing that care about work or whatever burden it is that you’re carrying. That can end up being very unhealthy. God wants to take that care.