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LYH74: 5 Practices to Protect Your Marriage from Ashley Madison

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Protect Your Marriage from Ashley Madison affair

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  • Featured Presentation: 5 Practices to Protect Your Marriage from Ashley Madison
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Faith in Focus:

“Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.16 For all that is in the world—the desires of the flesh and the desires of the eyes and pride of life—is not from the Father but is from the world.” (1 John 2:15-16)

Featured Presentation: 5 Practices to Protect Your Marriage from Ashley Madison

One visit to the home page of the AshleyMadison.com communicates volumes. The banner reads “Life is Short. Have an affair”. The visual of a women whose wedding band is prominently shown gives the universally understood sign for secrecy. The website boasts nearly forty million anonymous users. Except on August 18th, 2015 the secrets were revealed courtesy of The Impact Team, a hacker group, who cracked the Ashley Madison database and released the names.
Just a few days ago, Relevant Magazine reported survey results suggesting that four hundred church leaders will resign this Sunday because of this leak.

While there are no guarantees, I do believe that these five actions best guard your marriage from an extramarital affair.

Five Practices to Protect Your Marriage 

  1. Stay Best Friends
  2. Pray together daily
  3. Share all passwords
  4. Avoid fatal attractions
  5. Sexually stimulate Your Spouse

So, those are the five habits that I believe best protect your marriage from Ashley Madison. The married life is one of ups and downs that take an emotional toll. But, these five habits best position married couples to stay aligned regardless of life’s stressors.

I’d love to hear some of your examples of how you protect your marriage from Ashley Madison. Leave us some tips.

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LYH63: How to Develop a Listen Habit at Home [PODCAST]

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Listen Habit

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You can find the full blog post at haroldarnold.com/listenhabit

The Listening Habit
  • H – Honor Purpose: Helping each person in the home develop into the person s/he is destined to be requires a sensitivity to the gifts of each person.
  • A – Affirm Strengths: Families that successfully develop leaders within their ranks focus on affirming strengths. Pay attention to what each person does well. Then, cultivate that to a level of expertise. In other words, help their good get better.
  • B – Believe Bigger: Encouragement is fertilizer for the human soul. It is pushing one another to next level of performance through affirmation not guilt or other punitive measures.
  • I – Invest Emotionally: Listening is an act of empathy—an emotion. Emotional investment knits hearts around a shared goal—reaching one’s true potential.
  • T – Talk Last: Talking is overrated. When you are talking, you are less able to fully consider what is going on around you. Talking gets in the way. If you talk last, people will increasingly value what you say.
So, there you have the five tactical steps to develop the listen habit in your home. Leave me a comment to share your thoughts.
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The Listen Habit

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When you think of the greatest leadership development organizations in the country of what do you think? You might be tempted to name a company like Google that has re-defined what it means to search the Internet and is known for their out of the box thinking. Maybe a company like Apple will come to mind as you marvel at the steady stream of blockbuster devices they have engineered. Still others might think of the U.S military with its world-class training to prepare our troops for optimal performance. All of these, of course, are excellent organizations with proven leadership programs. However, none of them compare to the greatest place for leadership development in the world—your home. Family is supposed to be the training ground that equips you with the relational skills, character, and affirmation that you need for success in life. Developing this culture in your home demands one skill above all else. This is the ability to create a listening atmosphere in your home.

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LYH62: The 50 Things I’d Tell My Younger Self [PODCAST]

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Happy 50th birthday

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Happy birthday month to me. This month, June 2015, I am 50 years old. In celebration of my fiftieth birthday I have compiled a list of the fifty spiritual, psychological/relational, financial, and health-related things that I would tell my younger self if I could travel back in time.

Some of these things would have served me well as a youth and young adult in having self-confidence and being proud of my physical appearance. Other things would have helped me develop a stronger business orientation sooner.

I am very proud of what I have accomplished in my life. I have a beautiful wife who loves me without question. I have two amazing and talented children. And, I have achieved many of the goals that I have set for myself.

But, I believe that as I continue to tweak some things that I will become a better human being, husband, father, friend, and Christian. It is my hope that these fifty suggestions empower you to your next level as well.

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LYH59: Keys to Effective Listening [PODCAST]

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Keys to Effective Listening

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  • Featured Presentation: The Keys to Effective Listening
  • Guest: Marva Shand-McIntosh, Founder of I Love to Listen Day

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Listen to Marva Shand-McIntosh discuss:

  • What it means to really listen
  • The impact of listening on home and work life
  • The importance of learning to listen to God
  • How to truly listen to yourself
  • All about I Love to Listen Day (10th Anniversary)
  • And, much more…

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