A Good Enough Attitude Affects Your Relationships

[hldude33]

"A Good Enough Attitude Affects Your Relationships"
By Zach Wood
Ephesians 4:29
Do not let any unwholesome talk come out of your mouths, but only what is helpful for building others up according to their needs, that it may benefit those who listen.


Your relationships with others can and will be greatly affected when you exhibit a mediocre life.  Your ways of doing things will not be such a great example and the ways you show others how to do things may not be taken with sincerity or be meaningful. 

It is quite easy, when we fall into the mediocre way of life, to let the things we say to others become less and less meaningful.  Before we know it, we have stopped giving encouragement to others.  We have stopped going that "extra mile" to help others out.  We just become melancholy.  When we are not trying our best anymore, people see that and wonder.

I struggle with the "good enough" attitude at my job.  I strugge with it during my family time.  I even struggle with it doing church work.  All areas of my life suffer when I have the "good enough" attitude.  I find myself thinking "This is good enough" when I could be doing much better.

If we possess a "good enough" attitude, then what is coming out of our mouths all day long while we work or when we go to church or when we are with our families?  Probably not the most encouraging and uplifting words.  If we are allowing words to come out that are not lifting others up and giving them positive thoughts to think about, we need to reconsider our attitude.

Our relationships with others will be strengthened when we have more than a good enough attitude.  People are listening to us when we talk.  Are they hearing positive things or negative things?  To be an effective witness in our relationships, we need to be positive and be a Godly role model.

[Carey]

I was reading your post, got about halfway through and said to myself, "well that's good enough."



Just kidding, there is much wisdom in those words.

God bless,
Carey

[hldude33]

Thanks!  That gave me a good laugh!  Thank you for your compliment and kind words.

[MeMyself]

I was reading your post, got about halfway through and said to myself, "well that's good enough."



Just kidding, there is much wisdom in those words.

God bless,
Carey

ohmygosh, Carey! You're KILLIN me lately! 

Manna for making me laugh

[MeMyself]

Thanks for the OP...as a melancholy personality (rather than a sanguine, choleric, phlegmatic SP?), I really have to set my face like flint on the joy of the Lord and let that lead me rather than my feelers.  This was such a good encouraging read to keep pressing on in that, and not just settle for living a "good enough" life like Eeyore.  Thanks 

[Bitter Sweet]

Great OP! One thing that we sometimes forget about good enough is that it's just agreeable, everyone is content.

Encouragement on the other hand pushes us to go beyond the good enough. We are supposed to encourage each other, not just agree. Sometimes that doesn't make us happy but we get over it and realize there is more happiness beyond the limits we set.