Do You Have A Closed Mind?

I was talking to a younger colleague who believes he has done all he could to improve his financial state without any results. The problem is that he has involved himself in things that are largely illegal and unsustainable. And when he attempted to do a legal and sustainable one, he has done it in his own way based on his previous experiences.
So, I became empathetic and attempted to make make him see alternative ways of doing things rather than holding on to a set way and limiting beliefs. However, he just was not ready to even consider the possibility of being wrong before, let alone the possibility of alternatives ways! He has a closed mind!
Do you have a closed mind? Do you see things based on your previous experiences and beliefs which in themselves may not be based on the truth? A closed mind will not allow you to get the best out of life be it in marriage, career, business, ministry and other areas of your life.
For you to get the best out of life, you must be open, inquisitive and ready to learn! You should be able to consider alternatives even if you have some biases against them in the past. Your bias may be unfounded and based on half truths!
To your success,

Dr KM Okonoda
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Speaking With Grace.

Let your speech be alway with grace, seasoned with salt, that you may know how ye ought to answer every man. Colossian 4:6

Have you sometimes had conversation with somebody in which you finished the conversation knowing that the person was saying the truth, but you were left emotionally drained, abused and deflated? You were probably thinking that you could have said the same things; pass the message across without attacking the ego (self-esteem) of the hearer!

Sometimes people are quick to quote scriptures to justify themselves. After all scripture says that ‘open rebuke is better than secret love’.  So, some have taken the moral high horse, become rude and crude in their approach, all in the name of speaking the truth and being blunt! And when people say that they are blunt, they are sometimes coming from the place of knowledge or success. So they sometimes look down on the less knowledgeable and less successful and talk down on people anyhow.

But our verse today says there is a way that you can pass that message across that will be with grace, seasoned with salt, in answering and talking with everybody. It is instructive to note that everybody has an ego (self-esteem), a sense of self-worth that helps them to function as an independent, confident entity. Whenever you talk to people and seek to attack and damage that self-esteem, you are doing more harm than good.