Hi everybody welcome to your move where we help you make better decisions and live with fewer regrets

I'm Andy Stanley and I'll be your guide and today we're talking about those people we try to avoid them

We don't always know what to do with them and we try real hard not to become like them

That's right today we are talking about mean people and what to do about them

So do you know any mean people stick around?

So today is part one of a two part series entitled mean people and what to do about them

mean people and what to do about them.

I thought about entitling this series bad people and what to do about them but you know

we hesitate to call anybody bad we say things like this.

You know he's really not a bad person and this what we say he's really not a bad person

he just does bad things like a lot which I think that's what it means to be a bad person

but so we're not going to do bad person we're going to do mean person we're going to stick

with mean people mean people and specifically what should we do about the mean people in our lives

and by mean I mean mean these are the unpleasant people these are the deceptive people

these are the people that control us with time or money or with our children these are

the users they're just they're just unkind it may be that person that you when you see

them coming you just don't want to interact with them because well they're just there's

just no other way to say it they're just mean and to be clear this isn't to say that

we're not often mean I mean all of us have been mean at some point in fact there's somebody

maybe who's going to see or hear this message and unfortunately we're going to come to mind

but generally what we talk about when we're together is how to live a life in such a way

and to live our lives in such a way that we're not the mean people so we're not discounting the

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