You answer at home, at work, and at church.


October 15, 2026

Every person starts somewhere different. Find your room here.

Hey Reader,

At home, you answer the question about dinner, the question about money, and the question nobody should ask at 10 PM. At work, you answer the message sent after hours. At church, you answer the person who wants five minutes after service and takes thirty.

Three rooms follow one unspoken rule: whoever asks first gets your next hour. You never wrote the rule. You absorbed the rule from praise, from habit, and from the guilt after every no.

Here is the root. You have no written plan for your availability, so the moment someone asks, they set your priorities. A plan written on a quiet Saturday protects you on a loud Tuesday.

You want peace in all three rooms. You worry the first person who asks owns your next hour. Boundary knowledge gives you the first word about your own hour. On October 27th, I unlock your Rule code, and the one page you write works as the password to hack into your own week.

In Serving Without Losing Yourself, you leave with a one-page Personal Ministry Boundaries Plan. We build the plan live on Tuesday, October 27th, at 8:00 PM ET. The price is $47, and the replay lasts for life.

This workshop offers faith-based education and practical exercises. The session does not provide counseling or treatment.

Workshop details are inside the free DSFGM community here.

Dr. Shelby


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