ITL223: Make Tough Decisions Simple by Answering These 3 Questions
In the Loop with Andy Andrews
Matt Lempert
4.9 • 614 Ratings
🗓️ 6 February 2016
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
On this week’s episode, I answer a listener question on how I come to a decision when there are many different determining factors to consider.
There are three questions that I ask to determine major decisions.
- Is this something that will be good for God?
- It cannot be in God’s will for me to do if it’s not good for God.
- Will this help people who are hurting?
- My mission in life is to help people live the lives that they would if they only knew how to do so. People who are not living the life they would like to are hurting, frustrated and stressed.
- Will my take on it be unique enough to make a difference for people?
Smart people can’t help but play a little chess when they are having a conversation or being asked for advice.
- Most times when I’m seeking wisdom from a person, I don’t ask the question straight out. I ask around it.
- I want to find out what they think about certain areas and give stories of their experience in ways they’ve used to make decisions like this.
- Your bottom line is you are seeking wisdom.
- Ultimately when you’re talking with other people, reading, or praying—you are seeking wisdom. And seeking wisdom is work.
In the full episode you’ll hear the very first teaser for Andy’s new book, the “most direct” book he says he’s ever written!
Questions for Andy
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- Phone: 1-800-726-ANDY
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Transcript
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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. Now here's your host, David Loy. |
| 0:12.9 | Hi and welcome to In The Loop with Andy Andrews. I'm your host, David Loy. Andy, are you there? |
| 0:18.7 | Can you hear me? I am here and I can hear. Fantastic. |
| 0:24.4 | That's really good. We are... You are easily entertained, David. I appreciate you very much. |
| 0:31.1 | Yes. Okay, I'm going to do something. You know that we always do special things for podcast listeners. |
| 0:37.1 | We try to make this, obviously, it's free. |
| 0:40.6 | It's great value, great content, a great discussion, but we also want to take time to appreciate |
| 0:46.0 | and recognize the fact that this is a unique group. |
| 0:49.1 | It's a different, it's a specific group that listens to this podcast on a weekly basis, and because of that, |
| 0:56.5 | it's a specific group. We call ourselves the island of misfit toys. But because of that, we try to |
| 1:04.1 | make sure that there are occasionally unique and specific to the podcast things that take place. |
| 1:11.0 | For instance, we've done a couple of things that you've never done, you know, on stage or in a book anywhere, |
| 1:15.7 | just certain topics you've talked about, stories that you've told. |
| 1:18.3 | We've done a couple of specific offers on products with amazing discounts that otherwise are not available to the public. |
| 1:25.6 | It's only available to the podcast listeners. |
| 1:29.0 | And here is going to be one of these situations where, and you don't even know this is coming. |
| 1:34.0 | You're right. |
| 1:34.4 | But even if I don't know what's coming, let me be the one who says, but that's not all. |
| 1:41.4 | Well, wait until I ask the question. |
| 1:44.0 | Okay. All right. Yeah, I don't know what you're doing. Well, I just wanted to see... There's something going on behind the scenes that I'm so excited about, and I know we can't talk about it. So let's pretend that we're not talking to anybody else except you and me. But if we were to be talking about it, I would be, I would want to tell our podcast listeners |
| 2:03.3 | that I am so excited about a project that you're working on behind the scenes. |
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