You guys probably know what I'm talking about, the giving tree.

There was this boy who would climb the tree and make a swing on the tree and carve his initials into the tree when he had a...

Found a love.

And then later he said, hey, I need wood to build my house.

And eventually he chopped this tree down.

And the tree was so grateful to give everything that it possibly could that it was no longer...

It was nothing. It was a stump

in the ground. And that little boy who grew and then took advantage of the tree, his friend.

And the tree let him do it.

Are you a people pleaser? Man, this is a hard one to figure out at times. Our goal in life,

as I've told you for the past 10 years,

is to protect, provide, and preside, to serve people, to protect people, to be valuable in their

lives. And what I'm realizing is that there is a cost. There is an extreme. There's a place where you might get where you are so vested in

serving other people, helping other people, leading other people, taking care of other people

that you might run into one of the most dangerous traps that I think we as men can fall into

and that is becoming a people pleaser. Now, I'm going to be

very straightforward with you on this one. I'm sharing this with you today because I've spent a lot

of time specifically over the past week thinking about in what ways am I a people pleaser. And I've

come to the conclusion, excuse me, that I am a people pleaser. And it's, it's weird. It's weird

because we tell ourselves that we're supposed to be strong and bold and independent and sovereign.

I mean, I literally wrote a book on sovereignty, which is the control over your feelings and emotions

and physical environment and

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