Sharpen Your Decision-Making Pt. 1: The Blessing of Boundaries
The Emotionally Healthy Leader Podcast
Emotionally Healthy Spirituality
4.8 • 673 Ratings
🗓️ 13 June 2023
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
One of the primary tasks of spiritual leadership is the ability to make prayerful, wise decisions.
Yet many leaders find it difficult to invest the time and space necessary for sharp discernment. The result is that our decisions become dull, lacking precision and power. Over time, flippant decision-making inflicts tremendous consequences on us and those we lead.
In the first episode of this new podcast series, we discuss the importance of boundaries to keep us surrendered to God’s purposes. Why? Because any time God calls us to a specific work, the devil tempts us to live beyond our boundaries. This happens in every season of our life!
When we discern and yield to the gravity of God's purpose, life flourishes. This is the first step to becoming leaders who make sharp decisions.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, my name is Pete Scazzaro. I want to welcome you today to the Emotionally Healthy Leader |
| 0:09.4 | Podcast. So good to be with you. And our title, our theme for this week's podcast is called |
| 0:14.8 | Sharpening Your Decision Making, Part One, The Blessings of Boundaries. So actually, it's going to be a two or three-part |
| 0:23.5 | series around sharpening your decision-making. And this podcast actually came about in my |
| 0:29.3 | interaction with pastors and leaders again around the world and doing many case studies and |
| 0:35.3 | talking with folks and realizing, yes, decision-making is something |
| 0:39.4 | we're doing every day and carries quite a bit of complexity. |
| 0:43.2 | And what's surprising to me is how often we make decisions without a great deal of thought |
| 0:52.0 | or prayer, a bit sloppy or unaware of the enormous gravities |
| 0:58.0 | of our yeses and our nose. And when we make poor decisions or flippant decisions, without a |
| 1:06.6 | recognition of the level of gravity of some of those decisions in terms of how it fills our lives, |
| 1:14.5 | the consequences are just vast and there's a ripple effect and we end up cleaning up messes for quite a |
| 1:20.7 | long time. And then we find ourselves in one, three, five years, again, having made some poor |
| 1:26.0 | decisions, cleaning up messes and trying to get back to where |
| 1:29.2 | we started from. And so I've been doing a lot of thinking around this question of decision-making, |
| 1:35.3 | kind of like 201, pondering, studying. I'm still in my process. And if I could call it another |
| 1:41.1 | title for this podcast, it would be discerning the voice of God, |
| 1:45.1 | level 201. |
| 1:51.7 | And so I want to lay on this first part of this sharpening your decision podcast, I want to lay a foundation around Jesus' life in particular and around the temptations and testings that |
| 1:57.0 | he experienced, not just in the desert, but throughout his ministry, to seduce him |
| 2:01.7 | and get him off track, to make poor decisions. It comes to all of us. And the kind of boundaries |
| 2:08.7 | he had to respect in order to say a strong yes to God. So we're going to look primarily at Jesus, |
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