The People Factor: How Building Great Relationships and Ending Bad Ones Unlocks Your God-Given Purpose Author: Van Moody | Language: English | ISBN:
B00DNBEB6C | Format: EPUB
The People Factor: How Building Great Relationships and Ending Bad Ones Unlocks Your God-Given Purpose Description
The relationships in your life will make the difference between happiness and misery.
The right relationship will launch you to the heights of achievement; the wrong one will tether you to mediocrity. Your relationships will be your sources of greatest joy and your venues of greatest pain. Van Moody says, “When people show you who they are, pay attention.”
We need to undertake the important task of evaluating our relationships intelligently. We need to recognize the people with whom God has called us to walk in mutually beneficial relationships and to identify those who will derail our destinies or hinder His purposes for our lives. It is high time we cultivate our Relational IQs, understanding not only how to build great relationships but also how to avoid or skillfully exit bad ones.
Van Moody saw this need every day of his pastoral life, but he could not find a concise, practical resource for people who need to become more relationally savvy. He needed a beyond-the-basics study guide for Relational IQ. The People Factor is his solution.
God works in our lives through our relationships. Yet, all too often, we get our relationship advice from the most toxic sources we can find. The People Factor is based on the most effective, trustworthy relationship book of all time: the Bible.
If you hunger for a richer, more fulfilling life, your Relational IQ is the place to start. If you put The People Factor principles to work, you will become stronger, happier, and healthier in all your relationships. You will be a better spouse, a better friend, a better boss, a better parent, and a better person.
- File Size: 613 KB
- Print Length: 292 pages
- Page Numbers Source ISBN: 1400205026
- Publisher: Thomas Nelson (January 7, 2014)
- Sold by: HarperCollins Christian Publishing
- Language: English
- ASIN: B00DNBEB6C
- Text-to-Speech: Enabled
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The People Factor by Van Moody is the best book on relationships I've ever read. That sounds like hyperbole, but this is the first time I've ever had a complete "Oprah Moment" and thought, I want to buy 1,000 copies of this book and give it to everyone I know. I can't think of anyone who wouldn't gain something valuable from this wise examination of friendship and professional relationships. (Lacking Oprah's resources, I'll simply suggest: it's worth your time to read.)
As I mentioned, the focus of the book is friendship and professional relationships (some of what he says applies to marriage, but he's clear that not all of it does, given the uniqueness of the marriage covenant). His points revolve around the the principle that the people you spend the most time with will have exceptional influence on the direction of your life. I've heard this before in various phrasings, but Moody is the first author I've seen break it down so practically. This isn't just "Go find the winners so you'll win too!" cheerleading. This gives you a biblical lens through which to view different relationships and see which ones are healthy and deserve more attention, which are struggling but worth the effort, and which ones are going to drag you down and suck you dry no matter how good your intentions.
One of the best parts of this book is how he draws some insights out of familiar Biblical stories that I hadn't heard before, rather than just reiterating the same seven or ten points you hear in every book on relationships. I appreciated the effort he made to dig deeper and offer something new. It adds to the edifying quality of the book, strengthening my perspective on Scripture, as well as my approach to relationships.
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