ITL169: How to Deal With "No One Wants to Be My Friend"
In the Loop with Andy Andrews
Matt Lempert
4.9 • 614 Ratings
🗓️ 23 January 2015
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
On this week’s episode, I answer a question on how to help a child when they’re having a tough time making friends.
How can you help when they say, “No one wants to be my friend?”
- It’s a focusing process.
- Our thinking is at the foundation of everything.
- It determines our choices, and everything about us.
When people are disgruntled or depressed, they’re thinking more about themselves.
- They aren’t thinking about whom they can serve and help.
- If you’re child is sad or scared about making friends or going over to a friend’s house, focus their mind on the fun activities or opportunities they have.
- I wouldn’t talk to your child about why no one wants to be his or her friend.
- Instead, direct their thinking to how they can be the greatest friend in the class.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to In the Loop, a unique opportunity to see life from a different perspective |
| 0:06.5 | with New York Times bestselling author, Andy Andrews. |
| 0:10.4 | Now here's your host, David Loi. |
| 0:13.0 | Hi and welcome to In the Loop with Andy Andrews. |
| 0:15.8 | I'm your host, David Lolloy, and with me, once again, is our good friend, Andy Andrews. Andy, how are you? |
| 0:22.9 | I'm doing great, David. How are you? I'm great. I thought I'd change it up a little bit, you know, give a little dramatic intro, something like that. I don't know. Yeah, it's kind of dramatic. That's kind of dramatic. That's about as much drama as I can bring. Sorry. You know he was the greatest at that dramatic thing? |
| 0:20.5 | It was almost, you know, he was the greatest at that dramatic thing? |
| 0:38.1 | It was almost, you know, you can't say it was overdone because he was the, like, the very best, and that's Paul Harvey. |
| 0:46.2 | Yes. |
| 0:46.4 | Remember Paul Harvey? |
| 0:47.2 | Absolutely. |
| 0:47.9 | And the boy, that drama, you know, is like, a woman standing at her sink. |
| 0:51.4 | She looked outside and out on her window pane was a raccoon. |
| 0:56.6 | A raccoon! |
| 0:59.1 | Page three. |
| 1:00.1 | You know, it's like, yeah, where is all this coming from? |
| 1:02.3 | But you couldn't wait to hear what he was going to say. |
| 1:05.6 | Yes. |
| 1:06.3 | And, you know, there's shades of Zig Ziglar in that. |
| 1:09.2 | I would love to hear you at some point do a conversation between Paul Harvey and Zig Ziglar. |
| 1:16.0 | That would be good, wouldn't it? |
| 1:19.1 | Conversation between... |
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