ITL076 : How to Choose Your Friends with Care
In the Loop with Andy Andrews
Matt Lempert
4.9 • 614 Ratings
🗓️ 16 March 2013
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
On this episode, Andy tackles the question—how do you find and keep truly great friends?
There are three things you need to do in order to have great friendships:
· You have to make an increasing effort to be a great friend.
· God’s grace—they have to be able to forgive you when you mess up, and you have to be able to forgive them.
· The biggest factor of all is the ability to narrow your focus and become intentional about what a friend actually is. That will enable you to seek and nurture that relationship. You have to know what a friend is in order to recognize a great one.
The people around you affect the person you become.
· Would you rather be around someone who is constantly negative?
· Or would you rather be around someone who is positive and keeps you moving forward with your life?
You have to be intentional with the way you budget the 24 hours you are given each day.
· Are your friendships creating value in your life, and enabling you to create value for others?
· Are they pushing you forward…or dragging you down?
Questions for Listeners
· What would you like to hear Andy discuss on future episodes?
o Phone: 1-800-726-ANDY
o E-Mail: InTheLoop@AndyAndrews.com
o Facebook.com/AndyAndrews
o Twitter.com/AndyAndrews
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to In the Loop with Andy Andrews, a unique opportunity to see life from a different perspective with New York Times bestselling author, Andy Andrews. |
| 0:12.2 | Now here's your host, Andy Trob. |
| 0:15.5 | Mr. Andy Andrews, great to be with you again, my friend. |
| 0:18.2 | A.T. How are you, brother? |
| 0:19.9 | I'm great. I'm absolutely fantastic. So part of that is that you're my friend. I've gotten |
| 0:26.4 | to know you and I get to call you my friend. I'm going to say client. I say my friend. |
| 0:31.2 | I'm not just buttering you up, but I am staying on task. We're going to talk today about |
| 0:35.1 | great friends because you have great friends, |
| 0:39.6 | not just me, but other people. And we're going to talk about that. A lot of people have written |
| 0:44.1 | in the show and just talk about relationships. And so I want to ask you to start off the show today. |
| 0:49.8 | What do you attribute your massive group of great friends to? |
| 0:56.3 | Like, why do you have good friends? |
| 0:59.5 | Well, I believe, you know, you trip me up there at the last there |
| 1:07.7 | because you see you're a massive group of great friends. |
| 1:09.7 | I don't know that I have a massive group of great friends i do i do have um i have a massive group of great acquaintances |
| 1:19.6 | and then i have my great friends in my life and then i have i have some few probably more than most people have but very |
| 1:33.9 | very incredible friends people that I would dive in front of a truck for that that I feel would |
| 1:43.9 | probably you know do the same for me. |
| 1:47.6 | And so I do have probably a larger group of those, even though that's not, you know, you wouldn't |
| 1:53.8 | look at that and say that's a massive group. |
| 1:55.2 | But I think a couple of reasons that I would, probably three reasons that I would that I would probably three reasons that I would |
| 2:04.7 | probably three reasons that I would attribute my |
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