Hey everybody welcome to your move I'm Andy Stanley on this episode better

relational decisions fewer relational regrets stick around

now the reason we call this series guardrails if you've been here you know this

is because the highway isn't the only place we need guardrails our greatest

regrets I would bet for most of us our greatest regrets would have and could

have been avoided if we'd had some financial guardrails some relational

guardrails some moral guardrails some academic guardrails maybe even some

professional guardrails and when we talk about a guardrail in this context

it's basically a personal rule it's kind of a personal law it's something that

I decide for me I don't decide for you because I don't have any right to tell

you how to live your life but a guardrail is something I established for

myself and it's essentially a standard of behavior that becomes a matter of

conscience a standard of behavior that becomes a matter of conscience I decide

that for me financially for me professionally for me when it comes to friends

and you know neighbors and relationships when it comes to my marriage for me

personally I have a certain standard I want to live by and when I begin to

drift toward that the edge of that standard when I begin to drift out of bounds

it's sort of lights up my conscience in fact that's the point of a guardrail

a guardrail the point of a guardrail is to light up our conscience before we

hurt ourselves and before we hurt someone else the point of a guardrail is to

make us feel a little bit uneasy on the inside and to make us feel uneasy

early so that's what a guardrail is it's a personal standard of behavior

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