It’s easy to hit your stress ceiling when it comes to the realm of emotions. And, whereas we can’t expect perfection from the people around us (nor from ourselves), we can create margin so that we can handle the oncoming trials and needs with greater ease.

In this episode of Advance-cast, we talk about emotional margin— and often-overlooked area of living well.

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The top two stressors in relationships, according to most experts and therapists, are sex and money.

When it comes to finances, we have a lot of strange ideas…

For instance,

💰We buy things we don’t need

💰We readily embrace debt

💰We confuse “standard of living” (read: nicer stuff) with “quality of life.”

The last one on the list is the we land on this episode…

Never, ever, confuser “nicer stuff” with a “nicer life.” Sure, we want to use quality items, and we want to do high-caliber work…

But, we want to be wise, especially when it comes to cash.

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There’s never enough time to do everything that COULD be done, but there’s always MORE THAN enough time to do what SHOULD be done.

The problem is… well… we tend to fill every bit of space with SOMETHING.

Throughout the Bible, God set an intentional buffer of rhythm, of pausing to take sacred space each week to step back, cease living by the false urgency of time, and step into the rest of eternity.

Yes, He invites us to do that during this present life… now.

In this episode of Advance-cast we discuss how to manage the grind of daily life without getting ground down.

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Margin is the buffer between what you have and what’s required to get something done. It’s the edge. The space. The gap between what you have and what you need.

When there’s little margin, we hit our stress ceiling…

When there’s a lack of margin, well, it might— or might not— show we’re not stewarding our resources well.

In this episode of Advance-cast we begin a new 4-talk series and talk about the importance of creating margin in your time, with your money, and in your emotions…

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The Advance is returning…

Soon.

In this episode of the Advance-cast we talk about:

👉 where the event originated

👉 what an Advance is actually like

👉 you’ll hear from past attendees

👉 you can register for the waitlist to be the first to know when we release details…

And…

👉 we talk about why we’re starting back with the 14.0

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Who you are is greater than what you do. The fruit of your life is an overflow of the person you’re becoming.

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💥 INSIDE-OUT

Work on you while you work on the dream. That is, do BOTH at the same time— it’s not “either-or” but “both-and.”

This matters…

A Yale study affirmed that:

👉 15% of the people who succeed do so because of their education or skill

👉 85% do so because of their interpersonal skills

Notice, the majority of people who “make it” do so because of WHO they are (or who they have become).

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💥 INTENSIFIED

Success doesn’t change people— as we often think. Rather, it reveals who we actually are— who we’ve been all along. It amplifies the things about us.

Success intensifies our:

🛠 Idiosyncrasies = the odd (but morally neutral) attributes that make us who we are
 

🛠 Issues = the things we need to work on… this includes our insecurities

🛠 Incredible uniqueness = the gifts and skills we have

All three can become exponentially more important, so we want to deal with each of them NOW, so that we’re ready when the time comes to share our gifts with others— because we never know when that time will come.

About the incredible uniqueness we all carry:

🔥Ephesians 2:8-10 = grace saves and also empowers us into a destiny and purpose

🔥Psalm 139:13 = God intentionally created David (and us)

🔥Jeremiah 1:5 = not only did God create Jeremiah (and us), but He also set us apart from our mother’s womb

🔥Isaiah 44:24 = suggests this happened even before time began

🔥Galatians 1:15 = Paul reminds us that God set him— and us— apart from the time we were born, even though he know Paul would persecute the church before he ultimately found his calling, and that we would also blunder before we stepped into ours.

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💥 INTERDEPENDENCE

If you look back at the dreams you penned in part 1 (WHAT), most of them are either:

* FOR others (to benefit your spouse, family, etc.), and / or
* WITH others

In other words, you won’t achieve your greatest dreams alone. So work now on being the kind of person that connects well with and empowers other people.

In addition, be sure you have a “bus” of the right people around you— including people who can speak into your life and even correct you.

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Note: circle back to part 1– to your dreams. Define what they are. They’ve been placed there by God.

(Own them, verses rent them— like John Maxwell mentioned on stage at the Young Living event.)

And, if that’s true, manage the daily grind… do the stuff.

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Relationships are the currency of those who live in the realm of their inherent greatness. Walking in healthy relationships with whole people is integrate to living your purpose…

🚌 BUSINESS example =

In the book Good to Great, Jim Collins studied the factors that made companies— working in the same time period with identical market conditions and opportunities— excel towards “greatness” while others plateaued at “good.” This was a change, because— until that time— most compared the great to the bad. He wanted to identify the determining factors that helped some companies “level up.”

Here’s what he discovered:

The “good” companies first charted their vision (the WHAT), their mission (the HOW), and even their values (the WHY). They evaluated organizational structure and titles…

… and, though these seem like the things they SHOULD focus on, the “great” companies did something counter-intuitive.

They first built a team. They got the right people together.

Collins likened the companies to a “bus.” He said that whereas most companies were enamored with the color an destination and seating arrangement of those buses, the great companies simply wanted to get the right people on the bus.

From that point, everything was easy…

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🚌 BASKETBALL example =

Bill Walton, quoted in “The Fifth Discipline” (Peter Senge) spoke about times in which the oneness of his teammates hit a level that was unsurpassed…

… such that it became “magical. “

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🚌 BIBLE example(s) =

Good to Great taps into something we see in the Bible. Namely, relationships matter more than the other stuff we can do. That’s because we were designed for relationship.

⭐️ In Genesis 1 we see that God is relational. Over and over, we see the refrain, “Let us…” during the creation account.

⭐️ In addition, we’re created in God’s image (Genesis 1:26). This means that we, too, are relational.

⭐️ Jesus was / is relational as well (see John 14:6). He says that He embodies truth (i.e., truth exists in a person— not proposition statements of right and wrong). And, He’s taking us to the Father, to a relationship in its fullest expression.

⭐️ We’re promised that God sets the lonely in families (Psalm 68:6), and that He binds us together in the “household of God” (Ephesians 2:19).

This fits with other stories we see in Scripture:

✅ Building the Tower of Babel, according to God, would have been possible— because the people were unified. In fact, He— relationally, the Godhead— declared that nothing would be impossible for them because they were one (see Genesis 11:6).

Notice: this was spoke by God about a people who weren’t doing something religious or even noble. They were building a monument to themselves.

✅ Psalm 133:1-2 tells us that “unity” is like the oil flowing down the beard of Aaron, conjuring images of the anointing of the priest to do a sacred service on behalf of God. In other words, unity— oneness— the “who”— is an anointing of the Spirit. It creates a supernatural super-power.

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Knowing your true internal motivation(s) for the life you’re trying to build empowers self-awareness (knowing who you are), as well as self-leadership (knowing how to move forward with faithfulness).

Here are a few things you need to know about “the why,” that is, the third rung of the ladder in the Advance framework.

💙 The HEART is never neutral (it may be numb, such that you don’t hear what it’s saying, but it’s always expressing its opinion about things).

Learn to listen to your heart, because one of two things will dictate the steps you make to move forwards towards your dreams:

❌ REASONS (read: excuses) you give not to pursue your call

✅ REALITY that God has called you to something more— and that those desires are placed in your heart by Him.

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Note: at this point it’s important that we understand our true identity.

⭐️ Your IDENTITY is based on what you think the most importance person or voice in your life says about you. ⭐️

This understanding of identity flows into our next point about HUSTLE. You won’t get that one right without a healthy view of your identity.

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💙 HUSTLE… but do so in the right way.

Jesus tells us not to “seek” over the things that the “gentiles” (read: pagans) seek after. He says they worry about the things they’ll eat, what they’ll wear, and the normal routine of life (see Matthew 6:32).

He then tells us, in the Sermon on the Mount, to “seek first His kingdom” (Matthew 6:33).

He promises that “all of these things” (read: what we’ll eat, what we’ll wear, etc.) “will be added to us as well.”

Notably, it’s not just the object of WHAT we seek that Jesus contrast here (i.e., “They seek lesser things, but if you’ll see the greater things those lesser things will seek after you such that you don’t have to chase them…”). Rather, He contrasts the MODE of seeking.

In the original Greek language, He uses two different words in this passage:

❌ The gentiles seek as a “striving and a desperate chase” (which sounds a lot like the hustle culture of today).

✅ You should seek as a hunger, as a desire… that is, as a yearning for God’s presence and power in your life.

This leads us to a position, first of all, of humble confidence, because the driving “why” is that THIS is what my Father has called me to…

💙 HOLD FAST to your call…

We used to talk about our career as a “vocation.” Notice the root word of “vocal,” that is, “calling.” The original way we viewed the work we do each day was that a VOICE actually chose us to do the work— and then directed us…

… and, this can affect every area of life…

Notice, when we see ourselves as sons (of the King) we realize that this affects EVERY dream we have. Those can ALL be ordained by God, with His voice directing each of them.

(And, as we discuss in this episode, we may have a different “why” (or inspiration) for each of our dreams. Furthermore, the reasons may change over time.)

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