Hey man of God,
Here is a quick thought today to help you get sharp and stay sharp in your relationships.
Are you living transactionally or relationally?
When we get busy or focused on a goal, it’s easy to go on auto-pilot with everything else, including our most important relationships; we become transactional.
Everything interaction and conversation is practical, efficient, and brief. We come to them focused on what we want and not what they need. Our wives and our kids become like check boxes to us.
This is a great way to treat a tool or even AI, but it’s not a healthy way to build rich relationships.
When you catch yourself being transactional, the best way to snap out of it is to begin investing relationally in them.
Be present.
- Put your phone down.
- Go to bed when your wife does, instead of staying up to respond to another email.
- Play a game with your kids or just ask them about their day.
- Call your mom.
- Take a walk with your family.
- Listen to your wife without thinking about all the things you need to do.
Being relational is not efficient. It is not productive. It’s not meant to be. But it the best way to care for those you love most and invest in long-term healthy relationships... knock, knock... You need those.
Who needs you to be less transactional and more relational today?
THIS WEEK’S TOP 3
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READ: Matthew 9
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THINK: Healthy relationships are never a means to an end, they are the end in themselves.
3. ACT: Take 3 minutes and write down three ways you can invest relationally with those closest to you today. Then, I dare you to do those things!
Stay Sharp,
Aubrey
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