As we enter into the second half of the year it is a good time to do a quick evaluation.\u00a0 Most people have started to return to a level of normal and Covid restrictions have been lifted or reduced in many areas.\u00a0 That being said, I want to encourage you to be cautious of continuing to try to pull people out of \u201cpits\u201d (issues, problems, situations, or circumstances) when they do not want to be pulled out.<\/p>\n
As a dog that returneth to his vomit, So is a fool that repeateth his folly \u2013 Proverbs 26:11<\/p>\n
There are people who have a predilection to stay in their pit, no matter what you do, or how you help them; they will make the decision to go back. \u00a0(Note: I am not talking about people that are fighting big problems, addictions, etc., these are the people that have the ability to do right; yet they prefer to choose opposite.) \u00a0Some people have spent the last six months dragging people around, and six months later, you are still at square one.<\/p>\n
Carrying around dead weight is exhausting.\u00a0 If you have ever carried a child who has fallen asleep they are extra heavy because they are not putting forth any effort, they are just placing all their weight on you.\u00a0 There are individuals we have been carrying along for the last six months and they are not putting forth any effort and it is draining us.<\/p>\n
Consider this, a person who is drowning and a lifeguard has to save them.\u00a0 There is a specific technique that the lifeguard must use to help the drowning person.\u00a0 If the lifeguard does not use the right technique, the person who is drowning could injury the lifeguard or worst drown the both of them.\u00a0 There are some people we have been trying to help that if we are not careful they will harm us as we attempt to help them.\u00a0 When I say harm I am not thinking physical (though it could be), but more so derailing our potential or damaging our destiny.<\/p>\n
Lastly, it is ok to rearrange your relationships.\u00a0 In the book Good to Great, Jim Collins, uses the illustration of a bus and talks about getting people in the right seats on the bus in order to progress.\u00a0 Additionally, sometimes you have to put some people off the bus in order to go forward.<\/p>\n
This is not for everyone, but we all should take a moment and do an inventory of the people we are surrounding ourselves with.\u00a0 We need to assess are the people I am trying to help actually trying to do better, or are they dead weight?\u00a0 Some times it is not the devil slowing us down, it is all the people we are trying to carry. Think about it, pray about it, but just make sure they don\u2019t drown you.\u00a0 AME ON FIRE: don’ let us drown As we enter into the second half of the year it is a good time to do a quick evaluation.\u00a0 Most people have started to return to a level of normal and Covid restrictions have been lifted or reduced in many areas.\u00a0 That being said, I want to Read More…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13051,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[788,1],"tags":[1157,1158],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.nahtnow.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13049"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.nahtnow.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.nahtnow.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.nahtnow.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.nahtnow.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13049"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/test.nahtnow.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13049\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13050,"href":"https:\/\/test.nahtnow.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13049\/revisions\/13050"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.nahtnow.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.nahtnow.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.nahtnow.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.nahtnow.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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