Do You Have the Capacity to Treat People Like They Want to Be Treated?

Over the last few weeks, I have had the opportunity to "be still" and hear what God has in store for me.

I needed this time after I experienced major changes on my team, yet my assignment/vision remained the same. I needed to make sure I was still on the right track.

During this period of reflection, I became aware of several things clogging up my flow, creativity, and impact. Thank God for the reset and realignment. One significant realization was that I was not treating someone close to me as they wanted to be treated and should be treated.

Side Note: We must be careful not to take profound universal precepts and oversimplify them to fit a campaign or agenda. The truth is that if we simply stayed with the deepest and original intent of divine precepts, then we would get better results and proven solutions.

Back to my lesson learned:

There is a basket full of delicious fruit that no one will refuse. The question is, can we continually fill our baskets with the fruit that others need? As leaders, we must ensure that the fruit we carry and offer to people is ripe and juicy.

What is this basket and fruit I am talking about?

It is the fruit that guarantees healthy relationships and interactions with our teams, clients, customers, vendors, colleagues, and peers.

Do you have the capacity to share love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control even when you don't agree with a person's choices or behavior? This is not so easy when you continue to pour into an individual, and they serve you something other than the fruit you must share with them.

Please don't allow an individual's approach or response to you to throw you off your highest level of performance. We do not get a pass because those we serve can't receive the fruit we serve. If you continue to serve the good fruit, it will eventually break down barriers, strengthen you, and increase your ability to reproduce more good fruit to share with more people.

Did you get that?

Harvesting and distributing love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control puts you in a more profitable position.

I was not loving, having patience, sowing peace, or exercising self-control in my relationship with someone very dear to me. I was letting the situation dictate my response. On the surface, it may appear that my response was warranted. However, the result of my response was blocking and clogging me up. I have far too much to do and accomplish to be slowed down or even stopped. I am grateful for the revelation and awakening that came due to my being still and seeking God's answers in a desperate way.

It is all related. You are a whole being. Anything impacting one area of your life will impact another area of your life, for the good and bad, depending on where you are and what you allow to flow out of you.

Leaders, please take the time to increase your capacity to treat people with love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. If you would like to pursue this concept as a part of your approach to how you lead, let's PowerChat. Could you do it for you and your team? I feel much better after acknowledging and committing to the changes I must make. You can experience the same. Let's PowerChat.

Yvette C Owens Business Ambassador, DestinySpeak Inc www.DestinySpeak.com