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Self Control
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Philip Ramsey delves into the art of self-control in parenting and relationships in this episode of the Uncommon Wealth Podcast. Discover insights on managing personal emotions and reactions in a world full of differing opinions. Emphasizing a faith-based approach, Philip shares how self-discipline can lead to more harmonious interactions and better financial decisions. He also opens up about the challenges and joys of parenting, highlighting the importance of letting children find their own paths. Join Philip as he encourages listeners to practice self-control and embrace an uncommon approach to life and relationships.
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The Essence of an Uncommon Life
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Everyone dreams of living an uncommon life and the best asset you have to achieve your dreams is you.
Introduction to Phil Ramsey's Podcast
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Welcome to the Uncommon Wealth Podcast.
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We're going to introduce you to people who are living uncommonly. We're also going to give you some tools and strategies for building wealth and for pursuing an uncommon path that is uniquely right for you.
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Hello and welcome everybody to another episode of the Uncommon Wealth Podcast where I'm your host, Philip
Parenting Challenges and Insights
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Ramsey. Today we're going to talk about a topic that I think is super important, mainly because I'm talking to myself.
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And what do I mean by that is parenting is real. And if you have kids, you know, if you don't, hang on. If you never have kids, let me give you a little insight of ah just parenting.
Self-Control vs. Controlling Others
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But also I think this can apply to you when you think about just the cultural cultural and just the day-to-day things.
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just ah tension and where we're at as a country and just a population and everyone has opinions and social media and all this stuff. But the whole premise of this podcast is that like we always are trying to, at least me trying to control other people, outcomes, we're trying control our own timing of things, circumstances, but we're always kind of like we're The world revolves around us. I don't know how else to say that. but um And I think if you've listened podcasts, my podcast in the past, or Uncommon Wealth Podcast, you know there's a strong faith theme throughout the whole thing. But um as I was thinking about parenting and just kind of going to scripture to try to figure out maybe some truth to be able to to glean off of, I just thought this... this
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This resonated with me of the only thing that the Bible tells us to control are to one, love God, love people. Right. But also it tells us to have um basically have self-control. That's the only thing that it really talks about um is to control our self, control our tongue, control our anger. um There's a lot of parables. There's a lot of scripture at that point to this. and it's not trying to point or control somebody else.
Self-Control in Daily Life and Parenting
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The scripture tells us we have to have good self-control. um And so that to me was really helpful when I was thinking about trying to parent our kids well, um and just trying to, I guess, govern the way that I was trying to handle situation. And so when I'm thinking about just life and even tensions about ah political views or this, that, and the other, we're really called to do is is control ourselves and really try to first understand where the other person's coming from. But then it's it's our turn to just control ourselves. And so in this day and age, when you're trying to, one, parent, I'm talking to myself, two, talk to somebody else that has different opinions than you, The first thing i think is really good is just to first seek to understand um and then try to control maybe your anger, speech, um impulsive reactions, all these different things that we need to try to be a good self-control over to be a loving um person.
Financial Behavior and Self-Control
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um But definitely when I'm thinking about parenting is we're all are on our own journey and I can't live my life for my kids. They have to take ownership and take responsibility for their own life.
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I get to be a steward of that or I get to have a front row seat. But at the end of the day, like I can't control them, which is comforting, also super scary. But the fact that I take comfort in is the Lord.
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loves them more than I do. And so to be able to give them up to them, give it up to the Lord, pray about it, um try to be the best steward as I can. um That's what we're really called to do is be good um and be self-controlling. So that's my thought for the day. Now, how does that parlay into finances? I feel like there's a lot of times where we can put this judgmental or ah maybe even like jealous nature of somebody else that has something different than you. And we're called to self-control.
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And so what does that mean
Practicing Empathy and Self-Control
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financially? That could be different for a lot of different ways and personalities. But for me, being jealous of other people and trying to understand that maybe the things that I have are just be grateful for them, be thankful and things like that. And so when I think about today's and today,
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specifically, i think about how how we all need to have really good self-control. So I hope this is helpful. I hope this kind of encourages you to, one, love other people well, to be uncommon in this very common world, and don't, I guess, go into the pressures of of losing yourself and losing relationships and this, that, the other. it's not it's not It's not worth it for me, especially parenting, obviously, um but also just relationships that have maybe different few points than you do.
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They're valid. There's a reason why they came.
Closing Thoughts and Call to Action
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And if you can try to understand that, maybe you have a little bit more empathy with them. So you've been listening to Uncommon Wealth Podcast. I'm Philip Ramsey. I just tried something new. um I'm in a new building. Obviously, the whole podcast room hasn't been set up yet. So the last time I did a podcast, I listened to it and i was like, that is just rubbish, hot trash. So I'm trying something new Hopefully this sounds good. If not, you guys always can give me feedback and I can change things up.
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I'm super grateful that you guys listen. I'm thankful for your time. um Yeah. So there you go. There's my podcast till next time. Go be uncommon and have self-control.
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Thanks for listening.
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