This has been an age-old battle and it happens relentlessly throughout all stages of life.
I want to tell you one of the things that I think my parents did a wonderful job on. I didn't think so at first but once once I've gotten a little bit older I fully realized why my mom and dad took this approach when I turned 18 years old. I was still living at home and my mom came to me one day and she said. “Listen. starting today you're 18 years old. You're a young man, you're gonna start paying rent. We don't need the money but you need the experience you need to practice.” And I'm like man, “This is I don't like this like. This is a terrible thing.” But later in life I come to realize that there's a time to kind of cut the strings. There's a time that you go out on your own and you become the man that God called you to be.
Here's the thing that I see happening over and over and over. Parents today are enabling their adult children. When you are enabling your adult child, you're not doing them any favors.
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Chances are right now you are upset about something. It could be physically, emotionally, financially or relationally.
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Do you know what's the secret in learning and getting better? Set aside our pride or ego for the greater good. Surround ourselves with people who are better than you.
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It is not clarity you are looking for. It is safety and security.
I think many of you today know exactly what you need to be doing but you're like, "If it was a sure thing, if I was going to make money, if I wasn't gonna put my family in jeopardy, if I wasn't gonna do any of those things without a doubt I would do that." Well, really, don't you think it's the safety and the security that you're searching for and not necessarily the clarity?
There is no assurance out there. There's no sure deals out there at all.
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We need to be careful when we say someone is our friend rather than an acquaintance and the reason is because we want people to trust us long-term.
A friend to me is somebody that I've gone in the trenches with, that know my wife, that know my children, that know my grandchildren, people we've been on vacation with, people that we have multiple dinners, we go to movies, we get to know each other, people that borrow things from you and you borrow things from.
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