Episode 128: Investing in the Stock of you!

Yeah.

Um, I'm actually gonna take this back to my parents one more time and just kinda give them homage for what they did with us, because I think-

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this, this was the- ... grounding mechanism that allowed me to be the person and implement what we do today.

And, you know, to speak in the language that might make sense to some of your listeners, my parents were really my first chief people officers.

Um, and why I say that is because they ran our family maybe somewhat like a board.

I used to say my parents were very, um, I- they had a huge discipline, right? Um, we had structure, we had accountability, we had vision.

You know, who's cleaning the couch? Who's doing this? It's like there were always tasks.

There was, um, no shortage of things to do [laughs] right in our house, and there al- there always was someone to help kinda keep the engine humming and running.

But I think what my parents did really well was beyond disciplining us and just making sure we had structure, um, is they saw us for who we are.

Um, there's a proverb I very much love.

It says, "If you train up a child in the way that they should go, when they're old, they won't depart from it." And my parents really saw who we were as individuals, even there were fi- there were five of us.

It confounds me how they did this.

They still were able to see where our gifts were.

Like I said, for me it was leadership.

For my brother, he's an engineer now, and they saw that his mind worked like that, and they just always encouraged us to explore wherever we were drawn to.

So when I say invest in the stock of you, it really starts in the roots of my family, and because my family invested in me to say, "Yes, you can accomplish everything," and, and so many people say you can be anything, but my parents really put action behind what do you want to be and where are your giftings, and how do I, how do we coach and counsel you to follow those things that you raise your hand and say, "I wanna do"? I mean, case in point, I remember, I'm gonna date myself, but when I was in high school, I was a, a junior and I was like, "I want to be on yearbook," and I, I think I was a f- I, I started the year prior, but I became kind of junior editor, and what that meant was a lot of responsibility, and my parents never thought twice of, "Okay, let's take home the big monitor.

Let's take home the side-"

[laughs]

"... console.

Oh, and the keyboard and the mouse." I mean, this took up the entire backseat of our car.

But I say that to say my parents were like, "What do you need? How can we be your support mechanism, and you keep following that thing," right? And so I was like, "I need to do this.

I need to work on nights and weekends on my mini school project," right? To make sure the school paper is, uh, or the yearbook is up and running.

So they invested in me, and I, I think I carried that through.

Yeah.

Um, I'm actually gonna take this back to my parents one more time and just kinda give them homage for what they did with us, because I think-

Okay

...

this, this was the- ... grounding mechanism that allowed me to be the person and implement what we do today.

And, you know, to speak in the language that might make sense to some of your listeners, my parents were really my first chief people officers.

Um, and why I say that is because they ran our family maybe somewhat like a board.

I used to say my parents were very, um, I- they had a huge discipline, right? Um, we had structure, we had accountability, we had vision.

You know, who's cleaning the couch? Who's doing this? It's like there were always tasks.

There was, um, no shortage of things to do [laughs] right in our house, and there al- there always was someone to help kinda keep the engine humming and running.

But I think what my parents did really well was beyond disciplining us and just making sure we had structure, um, is they saw us for who we are.

Um, there's a proverb I very much love.

It says, "If you train up a child in the way that they should go, when they're old, they won't depart from it." And my parents really saw who we were as individuals, even there were fi- there were five of us.

It confounds me how they did this.

They still were able to see where our gifts were.

Like I said, for me it was leadership.

For my brother, he's an engineer now, and they saw that his mind worked like that, and they just always encouraged us to explore wherever we were drawn to.

So when I say invest in the stock of you, it really starts in the roots of my family, and because my family invested in me to say, "Yes, you can accomplish everything," and, and so many people say you can be anything, but my parents really put action behind what do you want to be and where are your giftings, and how do I, how do we coach and counsel you to follow those things that you raise your hand and say, "I wanna do"? I mean, case in point, I remember, I'm gonna date myself, but when I was in high school, I was a, a junior and I was like, "I want to be on yearbook," and I, I think I was a f- I, I started the year prior, but I became kind of junior editor, and what that meant was a lot of responsibility, and my parents never thought twice of, "Okay, let's take home the big monitor.

Let's take home the side-"

[laughs]

"... console.

Oh, and the keyboard and the mouse." I mean, this took up the entire backseat of our car.

But I say that to say my parents were like, "What do you need? How can we be your support mechanism, and you keep following that thing," right? And so I was like, "I need to do this.

I need to work on nights and weekends on my mini school project," right? To make sure the school paper is, uh, or the yearbook is up and running.

So they invested in me, and I, I think I carried that through.