5.21-How to develop a strong working successful family

5.21-

Enjoyed the Brief but Spectacular segment on PBS news tonight.

Patti McCord’s, the former chief talent officer of Netflix, remarks about how to build a great working group made me think of how Sheila and I are hoping to help our own family grow up and be all we can be.  To begin with they don’t need to be like us to be successful.  We are a diverse family and have a different path to success for each member of our family.

We make mistakes when we surround ourselves with people like ourselves.  If you want to build a group of people who are bold then we must be bold in front of them.   If we want a group, our family or other groups, to be effective with each other then we must honor them by showing up on time and being fully present.  If we want to have a great working family we must help them to learn how to learn from their mistakes.  We help people to learn how to make good decisions by admitting and sharing how we have learned from our own bad decisions.  We must show up and be the example of the change we seek.  We must help people to be bold truth tellers by being honest ourselves.

1 Timothy 4.

⁶ In pointing out these things to the brethren, you will be a good servant of Christ Jesus, constantly nourished on the words of the faith and of the ^[b]sound doctrine which you have been following. ⁷ But ^[c]have nothing to do with worldly fables fit only for old women. On the other hand, discipline yourself for the purpose of godliness; ⁸ for bodily discipline is only of little profit, but godliness is profitable for all things, since it holds promise for the present life and also for the life to come. ⁹ It is a trustworthy statement deserving full acceptance. ¹⁰ For it is for this we labor and strive, because we have fixed our hope on the living God, who is the Savior of all men, especially of believers.
^11 [d]Prescribe and teach these things. ¹² Let no one look down on your youthfulness, but rather in speech, conduct, love, faith and purity, show yourself an example ^[e]of those who believe. ¹³ Until I come, give attention to the public reading of Scripture, to exhortation and teaching. ¹⁴ Do not neglect the spiritual gift within you, which was bestowed on you through prophetic utterance with the laying on of hands by the ^[f]presbytery. ¹⁵ Take pains with these things; be absorbed in them, so that your progress will be evident to all. ¹⁶ Pay close attention to yourself and to your teaching; persevere in these things, for as you do this you will ^[g]ensure salvation both for yourself and for those who hear you.

Larry Wishard

5.10.18