Friday, November 16, 2007 8:23 AM
Jeekers17
FRONT SEAT
"FRONT SEAT"
Not
everyone is healthy enough to have a front row seat in our lives.
There are some people in your life that need to be loved from a
distance.
It's amazing what you can accomplish when you let go of,
or at least
minimize your time with draining, negative,
incompatible, not - going-anywhere relationships/friendships.
Release those to God.
Observe the relationships around you.
Pay attention. Which ones lift and which ones lean?
Which ones
encourage and which ones discourage?
Which ones are on a path of
uphill growth and which ones are going downhill?
When you
leave certain people, do you feel better or feel worse?
Which ones
always have drama or don't really understand, know or appreciate you?
The more you seek quality, respect, growth, peace of mind, love and
truth around you, the easier it will become for you to decide who gets
to sit in the front row and who should be moved to the balcony of your
life.
"You cannot 'change' the people around you but you can
change the people that you're around."
God Bless
This is worth doing. An easy quick thing I often tell my callers to do is make a list of all the people they spend time with or talk to ... divide the list into the optimists and the pessimists. Also listing activities is helpful... as there are draining activities and more fulfilling ones.
Spend more of your time with the ones that you are uplifted by and smaller doses or cut out completely, the time with the drainers.
Even pay attention to the time in virtual relationships or online communities which have their place at times of course ... but being around people is important. Real life friends, hobbies, and activites are key to a fulfilling life.