4  BALANCE   –built on a personal relationship with God

5  OPEN TO CHANGE  –protecting your opportunity for spontaneity

Rule #1 - First things first – After your fields are plowed and you have sown the seed, then you can build your house.

DON’T BE TRYING TO BUILD UP WHEN YOU SHOULD BE TEARING  DOWN

As Solomon states is his view from retirement (Ecclesiastes) There is a Time for Everything and a season for every activity under heaven.

Eccl 3:1-8

1          There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under heaven:

2          a time to be born and a time to die, a time to plant and a time to uproot,

3          a time to kill and a time to heal, a time to tear down and a time to build,

4          a time to weep and a time to laugh, a time to mourn and a time to dance,

5          a time to scatter stones and a time to gather them, a time to embrace and a time to refrain,

6          a time to search and a time to give up, a time to keep and a time to throw away,

7          a time to tear and a time to mend, a time to be silent and a time to speak,

8          a time to love and a time to hate, a time for war and a time for peace.