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May 13 - May 13, 2022
How can you be more generous with your money?
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The secret of great leaders is they are quick to recalibrate. When they see a dip, they believe it’s temporary, that the overall trend line is up and to the right.
Talent Intelligence,
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This testing represents appetite. Always wanting more. More food, more booze, more cars, more clothes. This temptation is where you find yourself consuming things to make you feel better about yourself.
In times of stress and self-defeat, do you work late to make sure your career is progressing? Instead of spending time with your family, are you always working on the weekends?
The idea that we get our self-worth and value from others. Constantly wondering what people think of us. Doing things or saying yes to invitations because we want people to like us.
My secondary temptation is ambition. I want to achieve great things.
Appetite is usually centered around fear. You worry that you won’t have enough of something, so you consume. Money, food, alcohol, adventure, or information to feel better about yourself.
Ambition is usually centered around guilt.
Speaking out loud has greater power than just thinking a phrase. It gets us fired up when we say it out loud—like a rally cry.
Steal Like an Artist, by Austin Kleon.
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“We must embrace the present, because it is a gift from God.”
believe firmly that leaders need to address personal issues in order for work to be sustainable,
Strong marriages take intentionality, vision, forgiveness, and love.
The most important relationship in the home is the marriage, not the parent-to-child relationships.
Serve Your Spouse • Forgive Your Spouse • Pursue Your Spouse
It’s doing stuff you don’t want to, like going out to see a romantic
asking your spouse questions about their life and not always talking about your life.
One of the greatest examples of overcoming this is to think about Jesus washing the feet of His disciples.
We need to overcome our own pride and selfishness to love and serve our spouses.
But the key to a great marriage is the recalibration of getting back on track.
best way to grow in your marriage is through talking about each other and not just about the kids.
ups and downs, your goals and dreams, and also your frustrations and pain points.
microcosm of marriage communication in general is talking about work.
spouse asks you how your day was. If you start a habit of saying “fine” or “same ol’ same ol’,” this can lead to days, weeks, months, even years when you are never communicating about work.
“What happened today, and how did you feel?”
talking with your spouse about work travel can be difficult because it impacts the family schedule significantly.
the sooner I bring it up, the better, so she can mentally prepare and do any advance planning.
next week, how can you serve your spouse better?
there anything routine in his or her day that you can help with?
shift your mindset to ask your spouse questions...
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schedule changes or trips do you have in the future that you need to comm...
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How do they want to grow personally and professio...
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Lamentations 3:22–23: “The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases; his mercies never come to an end; they are new every morning; great is your faithfulness.”
Jim Collins in Good to Great
Forgiveness is releasing the past so you can focus on the future.
One extreme is the small events that happen to us and we immediately forgive
The other extreme is when something huge happens. A major act of betrayal.
The area of sin I want to address here is in the middle.
A snarky negative comment our spouse makes. Going against something you two have agreed on in your parenting.
Communication is a big part of the forgiveness process. Jesus tells us in Matthew 5:24 to go and “be reconciled with your brother,” and in Matthew 18:15 to “go and tell him his fault.”
In order to have a healthy and thriving marriage, dates should be a nonnegotiable.
a dateless marriage does last, it will be a lukewarm marriage at best.
Date night for us is now a nonnegotiable.
The best way to build stability in your marriage is through friendship.
Sometimes circumstances get in the way of having fun together, but even then, with intentionality we can pull it off.
you can’t do an evening date, then when can you do a Saturday morning breakfast together?
the real value for them is when they know we are taking time out of our schedule to be with them.
wanted her to know she is living from a place of approval instead of for approval.
