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This thought is laying heavy on my heart today. I want to come to you as a pastor and friend who has genuine concerns for your future, not just as a leader, but even more than that, as a person, a father, a mother, a son daughter, an employee, a business owner etc…
We are at a critical point in our social landscape as a community. We are all re-emerging from 2 years of disrupted and dictated social interactions. So now we have a fresh sense of freedom to re-engage socially with our world BUT we are also presented with an extraordinarily UNIQUE opportunity. We can RESET our social lives….we have a free pass to choose a-fresh not just WHAT we will do with our freedom to socialise, but WHOM we will do it with!
This decision…this choice of WHO is what I feel to drill down on today.
Dr Henry Cloud - Boundaries for Leaders
It’s not enough to avoid toxic and negative connections; it’s critical that you invest in building positive ones. Positive emotions have been shown to broaden people’s range of thinking and responses, enabling them to become better problem solvers, more open to new inputs, and more efficient and productive. A positive emotional climate expands everyone’s intellectual repertoire and abilities. This is not happy talk, but neuroscience.
Jim Rohn - “You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with.”
We become, who we are with.
Proverbs 13:20 MSG
“Become wise by walking with the wise; hang out with fools and watch your life fall to pieces.”
Do the people you spend time with, revive your spirit?
Proverbs 25:25 TPT
“Like a drink of cool water to a weary, thirsty soul, so hearing good news revives the spirit.”
Are you hearing good reports from your closest relationships?
Proverbs 15:30 TPT
“Eyes that focus on what is beautiful bring joy to the heart, and hearing a good report refreshes and strengthens the inner being.”
Q: How is your “People Picker?”
We all choose individuals to be around us, and most of them are pretty good finds.
But it’s easy to also get a bit out of balance, and have a lot more “drain” than “gain” relationships…
QUIZ
Let’s do an individual HEALTHY RELATIONSHIP quiz….I will list the 7 kinds of relationships that John Townsend discusses in his book People Fuel, that from 1, are top fuelers to 7, are massive drainers….you write down after each kind of relationship, how many of these kinds of people you would say are in your world and/or how much time you spend with those kinds of people.
Check out the rest of the notes here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1sQ65o0_7Ywe8Q-1odZE4sVa4dI-SicTP/view?usp=sharing
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By Beyond ChurchThis thought is laying heavy on my heart today. I want to come to you as a pastor and friend who has genuine concerns for your future, not just as a leader, but even more than that, as a person, a father, a mother, a son daughter, an employee, a business owner etc…
We are at a critical point in our social landscape as a community. We are all re-emerging from 2 years of disrupted and dictated social interactions. So now we have a fresh sense of freedom to re-engage socially with our world BUT we are also presented with an extraordinarily UNIQUE opportunity. We can RESET our social lives….we have a free pass to choose a-fresh not just WHAT we will do with our freedom to socialise, but WHOM we will do it with!
This decision…this choice of WHO is what I feel to drill down on today.
Dr Henry Cloud - Boundaries for Leaders
It’s not enough to avoid toxic and negative connections; it’s critical that you invest in building positive ones. Positive emotions have been shown to broaden people’s range of thinking and responses, enabling them to become better problem solvers, more open to new inputs, and more efficient and productive. A positive emotional climate expands everyone’s intellectual repertoire and abilities. This is not happy talk, but neuroscience.
Jim Rohn - “You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with.”
We become, who we are with.
Proverbs 13:20 MSG
“Become wise by walking with the wise; hang out with fools and watch your life fall to pieces.”
Do the people you spend time with, revive your spirit?
Proverbs 25:25 TPT
“Like a drink of cool water to a weary, thirsty soul, so hearing good news revives the spirit.”
Are you hearing good reports from your closest relationships?
Proverbs 15:30 TPT
“Eyes that focus on what is beautiful bring joy to the heart, and hearing a good report refreshes and strengthens the inner being.”
Q: How is your “People Picker?”
We all choose individuals to be around us, and most of them are pretty good finds.
But it’s easy to also get a bit out of balance, and have a lot more “drain” than “gain” relationships…
QUIZ
Let’s do an individual HEALTHY RELATIONSHIP quiz….I will list the 7 kinds of relationships that John Townsend discusses in his book People Fuel, that from 1, are top fuelers to 7, are massive drainers….you write down after each kind of relationship, how many of these kinds of people you would say are in your world and/or how much time you spend with those kinds of people.
Check out the rest of the notes here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1sQ65o0_7Ywe8Q-1odZE4sVa4dI-SicTP/view?usp=sharing