If you are a parent there is a good chance you express concern and interest when it comes to who your kid’s friends are. Why is that? It is because you and I both know that who our children hangout with impacts their future. Here is a question for you. Are you as concerned with who you spend time with as you are who your children spend time with?
Would you like to make better decisions? If you are anything like me I am sure you would love to make better, wiser decisions more often. This is such a key area for us to live happier, healthier, more productive lives. What if I told you it was actually very simple?
Are you getting everything you want in life? Are you exactly where you always imagined you would be? If you are like most men and women out there I am willing to guess the answer is, “NO”. Unfortunately way to many individuals fail to get what they want out of life because they never take the time to first determine what they want out of life.
I have noticed some debates going on recently regarding minimum wage and potential consequences both good and bad if the minimum wage was increased. I have my thoughts about this issue, but that is not what I want to discuss here. A truth I learned several years ago from Andy Andrews is the quality of our answers is determined by the quality of our questions. What if the question, “Should minimum wage be increased?” is the entirely wrong question to be asking? What if we could ask a better question and help others to ask a better question that would remove the entire need to debate this issue at all?
As we continue to clean the dirt out of our glass and fill it with fresh water we will begin to change and grow our perspective. We will encounter situations that may have previously caused us to respond in a negative way, but as we renew our minds we will now approach them in a more positive manner. I would love to share a great story that demonstrated this very clearly for me last month.
In my previous post I discussed the value and importance of becoming a life speaker. Although it is extremely important to living the life we desire it is easier said than done.
You might ask, “How do I learn to speak life?” The answer requires us to tame our tongue. And how do we learn to tame our tongues? It starts by changing our hearts.
Do you want a happier and more fulfilling life? Would you like stronger positive relationships with your family and friends? Would you like less stress and drama in your work place? If so I want to encourage you to become a life speaker.
Do you speak words of life or death? This is a question I do not believe most of us think about during our day to day activities, but we should It is a powerful and important question for us to all be concerned with. I know for years I struggled with this and constantly spoke words of death without even realizing it.
Yesterday I shared Coach Richt’s
Love God
Love your wife
Show the way
I focused on changes we as parents need to make to help our kids grow into successful adults by showing the way. One of the most important areas we need to show the way in is by loving our wives. Now I know we all know this and if any of us were asked we would all respond, “I love my wife.” That is good, but loving our wives goes so much beyond just saying we love them. It really comes down to how we act each day. I am talking about actively loving them.
Andy Andrews says parenting is the most important job on the planet and I 100% agree with him. I realize not all of you who are reading my blog are parents yet, but hopefully you will be one day soon. I gained so much wisdom and insight from All Pro Dad Live this past weekend. Hands down the most powerful speaker to me was University of Georgia head football coach, Mark Richt
is a phenomenal leader who has his priorities straight. In the middle of college football season he left practice early on a Saturday to come invest in a group of men who desire to be better fathers. Coach Richt
shared a 3 point plan for fatherhood.
One of the most important lessons I have learned in leadership is the decision to seek wisdom.
Author, Andy Andrews, identified the 2nd decision that determines person success to be, “Today I Will Seek Wisdom
