As you get more emotionally healthy, your relationships will shift. People might feel disappointed because you are no longer playing the roles you once played. This isn’t a sign you’re doing something wrong— it’s a sign you’re doing something right.
The education of the future will include: self awareness, communication skills, emotional intelligence, relationship skills, conflict resolution, leadership, taxes, and financial awareness.
Confidence comes from learning how to regulate our emotions. From learning to witness emotions come and go, rather than letting those emotions dictate your reactions.
Remember: the things people applaud in your life are the very things that will wreck your soul.
Do more, bigger, better, faster is found in the devil's ministry (See desert temptations), not Jesus'.
Gentle reminder: if you haven’t accomplished all you wanted this year, that is okay. You aren’t running out of time. You are still worthy, brilliant, and enough.
And: there’s always next year.
.@SouthwestAir your solo desk agent worked 16 hours, was asked to keep working because of canceled flights. They broke down crying at the desk. This employee treatment is not ok.
I can be chill about weather/computer issues, but abusing your workers will make me switch airlines.
Something I wish my white evangelical brothers would understand:
The ability to only want to hear “feel good stories from the Church” and tune out “tragic, abuse / scandal stories from the Church” is a privilege - one that survivors and people on the margins do not have.
The human ego, unchecked, will give up human connection in order to be right. This is why to have healthy relationships, it’s important to master (and understand) your own ego.