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People we’ve met, Greatest regret

Guardrail: A system designed to keep vehicles from straying into dangerous or off-limit areas.

Guardrails direct and protect

Guardrails: are always in the safety zone.

Guardrails: are designed to minimize damage.

Culture doesn’t encourage guardrails

Culture is content with painted lines.

Friends and Associates

Judgmental vs Using good judgment

Paranoid about your friends

“The more we study engagement, we see time and again that just being next to certain people actually aligns your brain with them.”-Moren Cerf

“If people want to maximize happiness and minimize stress, they should build a life that requires fewer decisions by surrounding themselves with people who embody the traits they prefer.”- Moren Cerf

“Over time, they’ll naturally pick up those desirable attitudes and behaviors.”- Moran Cerf

Proverbs 13:20 NLT
Walk with the wise and become wise; associate with fools and get in trouble.

Wisdom is contagious

Proverbs 13:20 NLT
Walk with the wise and become wise; associate with fools and get in trouble.

Friends who aren’t careful with their lives won’t be careful with your life.

Friends who don’t take care of themselves won’t take care of yourself.

The point of a guardrail is to light up your consciences before we veer into the danger zone.

1.Relational Guardrails, When it dawns on you that your core group isn’t moving in the direction you want your life to be moving...

2. When you catch yourself pretending to be someone other than who you really are...

3. When you feel pressure to compromise...

4. When you catch yourself thinking, “I’ll go but I won’t participate...”

5. When you hope the people you care about don’t know your whereabouts...

How did this happen?

Our friends still determine the direction and the quality of our lives.

Luke 7:35 NLT
But wisdom is shown to be right by the lives of those who follow it.”
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