Of course, the opposite could also be true. Our culture isn ’ t good at endings, so when we need to end something in order to make room for the new, it ’ s a struggle for us. Necessary Endings focuses on our need to end some things to get to the good things we see in our future.
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That has led to a series of Boundaries books. He co-wrote the bestseller Boundaries with fellow psychologist John Townsend. I ’ ve been a fan of Doctor Henry Cloud for several years, since being exposed to him on CCN in the mid two-thousands. The book I read was Necessary Endings The Employees, Businesses, and Relationships That All of Us Have to Give Up in Order to Move Forward, written by Doctor Henry Cloud. Then as a parent, we move into the empty-nest phase, which is an ending of our focused parenting years and the beginning of our stage of parenting from a distance. Or when we become parents, we give up our freedom of our pre-children life for the joys and challenges of new beginnings with our children, just as our parents and our grandparents did before us. Or we leave our current job or position so that we can start a new position that has more promise of opportunity, a better fit, or more potential for growth. A seed falls into the ground and dies so a new plant can sprout, leading to a much larger amount of fruit than that one little seed. We see that in the seasons, in winter, spring, summer, and fall, those seasons, one ends and the next begins. Rhonda: We see endings and beginnings in many areas of life. Why don ’ t you speak a little bit more about that? I think we tend to view life in terms of seasons, but maybe not so much in terms of cycles of endings and beginnings. Funny that I use the word season, because we are constantly in cycles of endings and beginnings whether we realize it or not.Īndee: That ’ s so true Rhonda. I read a book that made a huge impression on me while I was in a season of endings and new beginnings. This is Rhonda Peterson, your Bold & Courageous Leader coach, along with my co-host Andee Marks. Rhonda: Welcome to the Bold & Courageous Leader Podcast from. The Bold & Courageous Leader Podcast: Episode 16 However, if we’re willing to go through the process, we can produce some beautiful fruit. We tend to shy away from pruning it sounds really painful. Removing these helps you be more productive in the space you're in today.
Pruning old outdated activities, connections, meetings and email lists can give you space in your inbox, calendar, and mind.
We need to view our strengths as the strengths they truly are, not weaknesses. Old limiting beliefs need to be replaced with the truth of honoring, valuing and living into your strengths. New growth has to twist and turn around old branches.
We have to evaluate relationships, activities, and obligations to determine which need to be pruned so we can thrive. Healthy buds and branches that aren't the best ones.Cloud says.This is the same process we need to go through in determining where we need to prune in our lives.ģ Kinds of Pruning Needed to Reach Your Vision “Pruning a bush means making hard decisions about proactive endings.” Dr. Henry Cloud and how that benefits us in life. In this podcast, Rhonda and Andee discuss the three kinds of pruning described by Dr.
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