Guardrails, Part 1 - "Proximity"
Your Move with Andy Stanley Podcast
Andy Stanley
4.7 • 3.9K Ratings
🗓️ 15 November 2024
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Friends influence the direction of your life, but what do you do when they’re leading you somewhere you don’t want to end up?
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everybody, Andy here. Welcome to Your Move, where we help you make better decisions and live with fewer regrets. |
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| 0:23.5 | Dot is forward slash give. Thanks for considering. And now back to the show. |
| 0:33.1 | Have you ever met someone that later you wish you'd never met? |
| 0:40.6 | Nervous laughter. |
| 0:41.7 | Yes, and no elbows and don't lean over and look, okay? |
| 0:44.6 | Have you ever met someone that you wish you never met? |
| 0:48.2 | Or maybe that's too personal. |
| 0:49.2 | How about this? |
| 0:50.0 | Did your wife or your husband ever met someone you wish they had never met? That maybe they wish they'd never met or maybe they're a little bit too happy that they met? I mean, you know what I'm talking about? Or maybe have your kids ever met people that you wish they had never met. And all of us have a story and the answer is yes. And this is such a strange dynamic, but we're going to talk about it for a few minutes. It's folks we've met, in this true, it's folks we've met that are connected to our greatest regret. |
| 1:13.6 | I don't know what your greatest regret is, but I bet you weren't alone, right? |
| 1:17.6 | I don't know what your greatest regrets are, but chances are you weren't alone, or if you were alone, it was still connected to a relationship. |
| 1:23.6 | And this is such a strange thing because our greatest regrets involve people oftentimes |
| 1:28.2 | and the people they involve, they're not our enemies. They're not people that we're hostile with. |
| 1:33.7 | I mean, we're on our guard around people that, you know, they have hostility toward us. |
| 1:37.8 | But they're usually with our friends. Our greatest regrets are usually connected with people |
| 1:43.3 | we've met and we considered those people friends. |
| 1:47.0 | That's something to think about. |
| 1:49.0 | Now, everybody knows what a guardrail is on the highway, but a quick review. |
| 1:52.0 | A guardrail is a system. |
| 1:53.5 | It's a system, a system, a system designed to keep vehicles from straying into dangerous or off-limit areas. |
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