{"id":303391,"date":"2015-02-23T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-02-23T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/podcast\/%series%\/celebrate-their-delights\/"},"modified":"2015-02-23T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2015-02-23T17:00:00","slug":"celebrate-their-delights","status":"publish","type":"podcast","link":"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/podcast\/familylife-today\/celebrate-their-delights\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrate Their Delights"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Each person has been put here for a purpose. Unfortunately, many of us don&#8217;t know what that purpose is. 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Bill Hendricks says if they did, they\u2019re not alone.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bill:<\/strong> The assumption is that, when somebody graduates from high school, they go off to college and college will help them figure out what to do with their life. This is not a knock on colleges\u2014but I promise you\u2014colleges and universities have no vested interest in helping you figure that out. They assume that the student and their parents have already figured out what they want to do with their life, and they\u2019re simply using the resources of the college to figure that out.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> This is <em>FamilyLife Today <\/em>for Monday, February 23<sup>rd<\/sup>. Our host is the President of FamilyLife<sup>\u00ae<\/sup>, Dennis Rainey, and I\u2019m Bob Lepine. What can moms and dads do to help their sons and daughters know how to get pointed in the right direction for the rest of their lives? Bill Hendricks is going to join us to talk about that today. Stay tuned.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>1:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tAnd welcome to <em>FamilyLife Today.<\/em> Thanks for joining us. I have to admit\u2014you put this book on my desk and I thought, \u201cAre you trying to tell me something?\u201d It\u2019s called <em>The Person Called You: Why You\u2019re Here, Why You Matter, &amp; What You Should Do With Your Life.<\/em> I just thought\u2014[Laughter]\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong> \u201cI wasn\u2019t asking <em>you<\/em>.\u201d I think a lot of our listeners deal with this question, right here; and I think they\u2019re thoroughly going to enjoy our guest on <em>FamilyLife Today, <\/em>Bill Hendricks.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> I don\u2019t need to take this personally\u2014is what you\u2019re telling me. Okay, just making sure.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong> I don\u2019t think so.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> Alright.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong> But I think you\u2019ll enjoy it because I enjoyed it.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> Yes.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong> It\u2019s talking about one of our favorite people\u2014ourselves; [Laughter] you know?\u2014and helping us be effective. Bill Hendricks joins us again on <em>FamilyLife Today.<\/em> Welcome back, Bill.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bill:<\/strong> Good to be with you guys again\u2014also good to be with your listeners. Thank you.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong> Yes it is. I want to read a verse. I have all kinds of renditions of this verse\u2014better-stated <em>translations<\/em> of this verse. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>2:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tThe Living Bible is what I\u2019ll start out with\u2014it\u2019s Ephesians 2:10: \u201cIt is God Himself who made us what we are and given us new lives from Jesus Christ; and long ages ago He planned that we should spend these lives in helping others.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tYour work is one of being the President of the Giftedness Center. You\u2019re helping believers \/ followers of Christ\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bill:<\/strong> \u2014figure that out.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong> Yes. Try to found out how to be effective. Your book is trying to equip people to determine what their giftedness is.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bill:<\/strong> Yes. Everybody was put here for a purpose. But you know\u2014the Barna people did a study, just last February. They found out that 70 percent of American adults want more meaning in their life. In other words, they feel like they\u2019re not living a very meaningful life. They know there must be more, but they don\u2019t have it. But you know\u2014even among practicing church-going Christians, 40 percent said, \u201cOh, I believe that I have a calling, but I have no clue what it is.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>3:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong> People want to know how to best use their lives.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bill:<\/strong> Absolutely.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong> But most really haven\u2019t done a careful analysis of their gifts, and what they\u2019re really good at, and where their passions are. Because of that, I don\u2019t think they\u2019re hitting it on the bull\u2019s-eye. Do you, Bill?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bill:<\/strong> Well, it\u2019s actually just slightly more complicated than that. Even if they did an analysis\u2014for most people, it proves a bit elusive. The reason is\u2014they live inside their skin. So, there are three people, here at the table\u2014how many faces can you see? \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> I can see two. I can see you guys\u2014I can\u2019t see myself.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bill:<\/strong> Right. You can\u2019t see yourself. Yours is the one face it\u2019s a physical impossibility to see. Well, the same thing is true about our giftedness. We live inside our skin\u2014we see other people\u2019s giftedness at work\u2014but we don\u2019t see our own because, when we\u2019re using it, we don\u2019t think about using it\u2014we just use it\u2014it\u2019s natural \/ it\u2019s instinctive. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>4:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tIt\u2019s like breathing\u2014and so it doesn\u2019t seem remarkable. For that reason, it proves a bit elusive. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWhat I have the wonderful privilege of doing, in my consulting practice, is holding up a mirror and saying, \u201cHere\u2019s what your giftedness is all about,\u201d and then celebrating it: \u201cHere\u2019s the value.\u201d Now, we can begin to put it to work for what Ephesians 2:10 calls \u201cthe good works that God has put you here for.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> Yes. We should say this book is not your only interest in this subject. You have spent years\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bill:<\/strong> Well, my whole career in the intersection between faith and work\u2014that faith isn\u2019t just something we practice on Sunday.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> Right.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bill:<\/strong> Christ is Lord of all. Therefore, everything I do\u2014whether it\u2019s my work, my home life, my personal life, my involvement in a church, my involvement in the community\u2014Christ needs to be at the center of all of that. Well, when it comes to my own outworking of\u2014we ask the question: \u201cWhat is God\u2019s will? What does that look like for me?\u201d\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>5:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWe have to consider: \u201cWho am I, as a person? Who has God made me to be?\u201d That\u2019s where most people seem to stumble.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>You and I have known each other since you were in high school in Dallas, Texas. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bill:<\/strong> High school.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong> I was working with teenagers back then. This is a <em>life message<\/em> for you. It really comes out of, really, a period of time in your first 30 years of life, where you were grappling with finding out how this applied for you to do what you\u2019re supposed to do.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bill:<\/strong> Yes. I\u2019m 30 years of age; okay\u2014many years ago \/ but 30 years of age\u2014and everybody\u2019s coming to me, saying: \u201cOh, Bill. You can do anything you want. I mean, you went to Harvard \/ you have a couple masters\u2019 degrees. You can go any direction you want to go.\u201d \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI\u2019m like: \u201cWell, that may be. I just don\u2019t know which direction I really want to go.\u201d It was about that time that somebody very graciously introduced me to the process that I use today to help people discover their giftedness. It was like, honestly, the light turned on: \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>6:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u201cNow I understand what it is I\u2019m really trying to do with my life.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> I think there are a lot of young people today\u2014by young people, I\u2019m not just talking about teenagers\u2014I\u2019m talking about people in their 20s \/ in their 30s\u2014who kind of aren\u2019t sure what they\u2019re supposed to be doing. You know, in my dad\u2019s day, you graduated from college, you went to work for the company, you retired 40 years later, you got the gold watch, and you went home. It was kind of laid out for you. But there are people, hopping from job to job, still trying to figure out, \u201cWhat should I be doing?\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bill:<\/strong> Tens of millions of them. My heart really particularly goes out to Millennials. They\u2019ve graduated from college at a most difficult time in the economy. It\u2019s a very different game from when you and I graduated from college. In those days, the United States was the only game in town, economically-speaking. For these young adults, they\u2019re not only competing with the other 72 million Millennials\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>7:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u2014they\u2019re competing with the hundreds of millions of Millennials from places like China, India, Japan, Singapore, Malaysia, on, and on, and on. Now they are a workforce that\u2019s available for capital to invest in. Millennials have a real challenge on their hands. Unless they kind of know what their strengths are \/ what they bring to the party, they\u2019re going to have a hard time.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong> I\u2019m glad you mentioned this next generation that\u2019s coming up because I want to stop and turn to the listener and say: \u201cThis topic\u2014I\u2019m going to promise you something, Mom\/Dad, even grandparents, here\u2014you need to know how to help your children understand what their gifts are, who they are, what they\u2019re about. Help be that mirror,\u201d \u2014Bill, that you say we need to be in one another\u2019s lives\u2014\u201cto help our children figure it out,\u201d because we have a lot of young people today, coming out of Christian families, that are lost \/ they\u2019re in a fog.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>8:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bill:<\/strong> And just to underscore that point of why\u2014let\u2019s call it\u2014older listeners really need to pay attention here: The assumption is that, when somebody graduates from high school, they go off to college and college will help them figure out what to do with their life. I promise you\u2014 this is not a knock on colleges\u2014but colleges and universities have no vested interest in helping you figure that out. They assume that the student and their parents have already figured out what they want to do with their life, and they\u2019re simply using the resources of the college to figure that out. I can promise you\u2014of the two-and-a-half million students that we graduate from high school every year \/ of the million that go off to college\u2014frankly, of all two-and-a-half million\u2014they do not <em>know<\/em> what they really want to do with their lives.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> They don\u2019t know what they want to major in.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bill:<\/strong> And part of it is\u2014they don\u2019t even know what the options are. They have such a narrow slice of understanding of what the work world is all about. They know, maybe, what their parent did for work \/ possibly what their friends\u2019 parents did for work and, then, what they see on TV; but that\u2019s a very narrow slice of the literally tens of thousands of occupations that are out there.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>9:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tSo, they don\u2019t figure it out then \/ they don\u2019t figure it out in college. They graduate, and they may have a degree. They get two years into marketing because they had a marketing degree \/ three years\u2014and then they wake up one day, and they go: \u201dOh my gosh! I don\u2019t want to do this the rest of my life, but I don\u2019t know what my options are.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> I remember being in high school\u2014I took a vocational aptitude test.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bill:<\/strong> Yes. Sure.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> I remember it told me that I should be on a career path to be a worker at the YMCA. Now, over the years, I\u2019ve taken the Myers-Briggs test.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bill:<\/strong> Right.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> I\u2019ve taken the DISC test, the personality inventories\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bill:<\/strong> Right, strengths-finder.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> Right.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bill:<\/strong> There are thousands of them out there.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> So, what is this issue of giftedness; and how are you doing something different with the assessments that you\u2019re helping people through than what we\u2019ve all done on the internet over the last few years?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bill:<\/strong> And all of these assessments, including the one that I use, we\u2019re all looking at the same stuff\u2014which is a human being\u2014and we\u2019re trying to describe a human being. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>10:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tThat turns out to be a more difficult problem than it sounds.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong> [Laughing] You think?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bill:<\/strong> Yes. And what happens is\u2014almost invariably these things are\u2014first of all, they\u2019re forced-choice inventories\u2014like they have a set of questions \/ you have four answers, and you have to pick one. That assumes you know yourself well enough to answer that accurately. It also assumes that you don\u2019t have any sort of reason to make the test come out a certain way; right? \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tAnd even when you get the results, you\u2019re compared to a bunch of other people. Like in my case, I took the Myers-Briggs. I\u2019ve taken it a number of times. Every time I take it, I come out as an introvert. So, \u201cHave we really described Bill?\u201d \u201cNo.\u201d The question is: \u201cHow does Bill uniquely do life?\u201d It turns out that the best way to get at that is not really through a test, which is a self-appraised thing, but through story. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tEverybody has some stories from their life\u2014what I call giftedness stories\u2014activities that engage their giftedness. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>11:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tHow do we know what those are? The activity proved to be intensely satisfying\u2014they gained energy from doing it. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tThese can be simple things, like\u2014when you were seven years old, you built a treehouse in the back yard with your brother. You just remember that as a <em>really fun<\/em> activity\u2014you spent hours working on it. Or, in junior high school, there was one project in history\u2014and you didn\u2019t even like history\u2014but for some reason this battle in 15<sup>th<\/sup> century England just really captured your imagination. You went to the library, you poured hours into drawing maps and all this stuff, and then you had to go give a report. You dressed up like a knight, and you went in, and you got a standing ovation when you were done. You got one of only three \u201cA\u2019s\u201d the teacher gave. You just remember that as: \u201cBoy! That was a <em>fun time<\/em>.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tEverybody has these golden moments, when they\u2019ve gotten to do something that was intensely satisfying. If you tell someone the stories\u2014of <em>how<\/em> you did those activities, and what you actually did\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>12:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t--like what we would actually see you doing \/ the behavior you used if we were there\u2014<em>not why<\/em> you did it \/ just <em>how<\/em> and <em>what <\/em>you did. You get about eight of those stories\u2014you will discover there are all these dots that connect among the stories. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tThere is a very consistent\u2014what we call a motivational pattern\u2014that the person comes back to again, and again, and again\u2014that pattern points to the way God has made you. The reason you function that way, instinctively, is because God made you that way because (a) He sees a picture of Himself, in a finite way, doing what He does in an infinite way and (b) because He has specific good works, prepared for you to do, that He needs done in this world; and you\u2019re the perfect tool to go get those done.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong> You tell a story in your book\u2014I don\u2019t want you to tip off who this is about until you give the punch line at the end, but it\u2019s a guy who had a knack for making money.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>13:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bill:<\/strong> When he was a very small child\u2014and I mean like four or five\u2014he had a fascination with numbers. His biographer writes that it bordered on an obsession. He would go to church, for instance, and he\u2019d pick up the hymnal. He would do the math on how long the hymn writers had lived. For some reason, he thought that was really important. When he was a little older, he would sit on the curb at his house and watch cars go by; and he would memorize the license plates. He wanted to see how often certain plates would go by. His favorite toy was what was called a money-changer. This just continued into his teen years. Eventually, he goes off and he studies accounting. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWhen he was in high school, he came across this book that kind of introduced him to the time value of money and the whole concept of compounding. It was like a snowball in his mind. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>14:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tHe could see that money attracts money, and that it was like a snowball rolling down a hill that gets bigger as it picks up snow. So, he went and studied under the guy that wrote this book. Then, when he graduated, he went to graduate school. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tEventually, he mentored under the guy who was kind of his hero in an investment company in New York City. About a year into it, the guy retired. He said, \u201cI don\u2019t want to live in New York City,\u201d so he went back to the Midwest, where he grew up. He collected about five or six family members\u2014got, I don\u2019t know, $5,000, or whatever it was, from each of them \/ put in $100 of his own\u2014started an investment fund. The rest, as they say, is history. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong> He pushed the snowball off the top of the mountain.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bill:<\/strong> And gave it time.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong> Yes. And it\u2019s still rolling today.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bill:<\/strong> Today Warren Buffett\u2019s Berkshire Hathaway is a multi-billion dollar venture that people literally camp out on his doorstep to find out: \u201cWhat does the sage of Omaha have to say about numbers?\u201d \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>15:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tPeople say, \u201cOh, Bill\u2014that\u2019s a world-class example.\u201d Well it is, except that Warren Buffett was not world-class when he started out. That\u2019s the great thing about giftedness\u2014we all start out just who we are. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tIf we lean into our giftedness\u2014whether it\u2019s intentionally or what\u2014most people, unfortunately, don\u2019t lean into it because they don\u2019t know what it is\u2014but if you luck into it\/ if life cooperates somehow and you just happen into circumstances that fit that\u2014you keep practicing your giftedness over time, you become the best in the world at what you do. In his case, it just happens to be investments. We call you \u201cworld-class\u201d when you\u2019re the best at what you do.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong> So practically\u2014Mom is listening to our broadcast right now.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bill:<\/strong> Right.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong> What would you say is the place to start\u2014if you\u2019re coaching a mom, raising the next generation of Warren Buffetts or maybe the female version?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>16:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bill: <\/strong>I have two suggestions. Ironically, the place to start is\u2014not with your kids\u2014but with you. The most important thing a parent can do is to discover what their own gifting is because that gives you a framework, now, with which to begin to understand your children. You see, your children are <em>not<\/em> like you. Yes, they may look like you and, yes, they may have some traits in common and kind of\u2014but trust me. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tIn the humor of God, He often seems to put\u2014for instance, a little boy\u2014who is quite precocious, and very conceptual, and likes to do a lot of different things, and seems aimless, and doesn\u2019t really do life by goals\u2014with a father, who\u2019s very goal-oriented. Well, if you, as a parent, understand your own gifting, it gives you a lot more insight into how your child sort of is compatible with you but, also, how they may conflict with you. That\u2019s the first thing.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>17:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tThe second thing then is\u2014as you deal with your youngster\u2014always pay attention to the energy. Giftedness is really a motivational energy, and so you observe and you watch: \u201cWhat holds their attention for a long time? What do they get fascinated with? What activity do they engage in by the hour and, now, they\u2019re no trouble at all?\u201d \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI\u2019m not saying television, and X-box, and that sort of entertainment; but the better thing is: \u201cWhen they get engaged in a hobby, or they\u2019re out building forts, or they\u2019re outside playing football, or they\u2019re active \/ they\u2019re actually engaged in something, what holds their attention? What do they suddenly get energized about?\u201d If a parent starts to keep a journal of that stuff\u2014and it doesn\u2019t have to be lengthy paragraphs\u2014 it\u2019s just like, maybe, once a day \/ once every other day: \u201cI noticed today that when Susie\u2019s friend, Amy, came over, she had no problem being focused with Susie for hours on the task they were\u2026\u201d \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>18:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tJust make a note of that. Then, a couple days later, you make another observation. If you did that for ten or twelve years, you would have so much information about how your child does life and you\u2019d start to see some patterns within that.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> The thing you\u2019re describing\u2014I\u2019m thinking back to an interview that we have in our <em>Stepping Up<\/em><em><sup>\u00ae<\/sup><\/em>video series that we\u2019ve done for men, where we talk to Greg Harris. Greg is a dad of five boys\u2014I think it\u2019s five \/ five or six\u2014and his boys have flourished early in life.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bill:<\/strong> Right.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> We went to Greg and said, \u201cSo what\u2019d you do to help your boys become men quickly?\u201d One of the things he said was, \u201cI observed \u2018What were their delights?\u2019\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bill:<\/strong> Exactly. That\u2019s it\u2014exactly.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> He said, \u201cWhen I would see something that would delight them,\u201d he said, \u201cI would put fertilizer and fuel around that.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bill:<\/strong> That\u2019s what you do.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> That\u2019s really the same idea you\u2019re talking about here; isn\u2019t it?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bill:<\/strong> Absolutely. I love that phrase, \u201ccelebrating their delights.\u201d \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>19:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tLord knows we need that. I\u2019m afraid that we\u2019ve gotten into a culture where so many people identify themselves by their pathologies, their dysfunctionalities, and their weaknesses. What we need to do is celebrate true strength. This is <em>not<\/em> the same as, \u201cWhatever Johnny does is brilliant.\u201d This is\u2014when you see real energy expended and you see the delight in your child\u2019s eyes, that\u2019s the time to say, \u201cYou really enjoyed that; didn\u2019t you?\u201d \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tThat may be very different from the delight you take. My oldest daughter is a trumpet player. She\u2019d practice and practice, and loved doing it. That was a tough deal, as a dad, because\u2014[Laughter]\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> The hours of practice were not a delight for you; were they?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bill:<\/strong> No; and in the early goings, particularly, you know?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> Yes.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bill:<\/strong> But I\u2019ll never forget\u2014one night, after dinner, she\u2019s in there practicing. I\u2019m out at the table still. All of a sudden, she comes out and: \u201cDaddy, Daddy, Daddy! I hit the high \u201cD\u201d above C\u201d!\u201d or whatever it was. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>20:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWell, now, that doesn\u2019t ring my bell\u2014I don\u2019t leap out of bed in the morning, cheering over that for me; but I realized, \u201cFor her, that was a <em>huge <\/em>accomplishment.\u201d So, I said: \u201cMan! That\u2019s fantastic! Keep practicing!\u201d I have\u2014I tried to honor that gift. We paid for lessons, we bought trumpets, and we did all the things we could. Today, she\u2019s a professional trumpet player and is the Professor of Trumpet at Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana, and living her dream.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> Wow.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong> I can tell you\u2014from\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bill:<\/strong> Yes, you were there.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong> \u2014from a memorial service for your dad, trumpet solo\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bill:<\/strong> \u2014by Brittany Hendricks.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong> \u2014Dr. Brittany Hendricks, granddaughter of Dr. Howard Hendricks, daughter of Bill Hendricks. And the trumpet solo was <em>Be Thou My Vision. <\/em>I have to say\u2014I wept.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bill:<\/strong> A lot of people wept\u2014I was weeping. That\u2019s the gift that Brittany has\u2014not only to play the trumpet\u2014but to teach the trumpet. People can see that performance\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>21:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u2014it\u2019s online because I think you guys put the\u2014you certainly put a link to the video that the seminary has on Dad\u2019s memorial service\u2014it\u2019s on there.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> Yes. If folks haven\u2019t seen it, we have the link on our website at FamilyLifeToday.com. They can go to, again, FamilyLifeToday.com. Click the link at the top of the page that says \u201cGO DEEPER.\u201d You\u2019ll find a button there for the Howard Hendricks Memorial Service. You can watch it \/ you can watch Bill\u2019s daughter do her trumpet solo.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWe also, of course, have available, in our <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em> Resource Center, your book, which is called <em>The Person Called You.<\/em> I hope our listeners, when they go to FamilyLifeToday.com, will get a copy of your book as well. It helps you figure out how to figure out who you are, who God made you to be, and how you can invest your life as a wise steward of your talents and your abilities. Again, the title of the book is <em>The Person Called You.<\/em> You\u2019ll find it, online, at FamilyLifeToday.com. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>22:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tAgain, click the link at the top of the page that says \u201cGO DEEPER.\u201d You can order a copy of Bill\u2019s book from us, online. Or, if you\u2019d prefer, you can call to order\u20141-800-FL-TODAY is our toll-free number\u20141-800-358-6329\u2014that\u2019s 1-800 \u201cF\u201d as in family, \u201cL\u201d as in life, and then, the word, \u201cTODAY.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tMost of our listeners have heard us talk, at one point or another, about the fact that <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em> is listener-supported\u2014that we couldn\u2019t do what we do if it weren\u2019t for listeners pitching in to help make it possible with their donations \/ their financial support for this ministry. There is a particular group of financial supporters that we\u2019ve been focused on during the month of February. It\u2019s our Legacy Partners\u2014the people who support this ministry on a monthly basis. Honestly, it\u2019s this group that provides the base of financial support for the production and syndication costs of <em>FamilyLife Today.<\/em> \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>23:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tYour support, month in and month out, is so valuable. We are so grateful for those of you who are Legacy Partners. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWe\u2019ve had a lot of new families, this month, who have decided to make <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em> a part of their regular giving. Now, we hope that your first priority, when it comes to monthly giving, is to your local church\u2014that\u2019s where it ought to be\u2014but, again, a lot of families have said, \u201cWe\u2019re going to add <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em> to that list.\u201d We\u2019re thankful for those of you who do that.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tIf you\u2019d like to consider becoming a Legacy Partner\u2014helping make sure that <em>FamilyLife Today <\/em>stays on the air in your community \/ helping to provide this resource for your friends and your neighbors\u2014go to FamilyLifeToday.com. Click the link in the upper right-hand corner of the screen that says, \u201cI CARE.\u201d The information about becoming a Legacy Partner is available there. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWe\u2019ll send you a welcome kit when you sign up; and we\u2019ll keep you up to date with resources, throughout the year, to help strengthen your marriage and your family. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>24:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tAgain, sign on at FamilyLifeToday.com. Click the \u201cI CARE\u201d link; or call 1-800-FL-TODAY and say, \u201cI\u2019d like to know more about becoming a Legacy Partner.\u201d We appreciate you joining with us and helping cover the cost of this radio program with your financial support.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tAnd we hope you can be back with us again tomorrow. Bill Hendricks is going to be here again. 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Okay, just making sure.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong> I don\u2019t think so.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> Alright.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong> But I think you\u2019ll enjoy it because I enjoyed it.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> Yes.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong> It\u2019s talking about one of our favorite people\u2014ourselves; [Laughter] you know?\u2014and helping us be effective. Bill Hendricks joins us again on <em>FamilyLife Today.<\/em> Welcome back, Bill.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bill:<\/strong> Good to be with you guys again\u2014also good to be with your listeners. Thank you.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong> Yes it is. I want to read a verse. I have all kinds of renditions of this verse\u2014better-stated <em>translations<\/em> of this verse. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>2:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tThe Living Bible is what I\u2019ll start out with\u2014it\u2019s Ephesians 2:10: \u201cIt is God Himself who made us what we are and given us new lives from Jesus Christ; and long ages ago He planned that we should spend these lives in helping others.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tYour work is one of being the President of the Giftedness Center. You\u2019re helping believers \/ followers of Christ\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bill:<\/strong> \u2014figure that out.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong> Yes. Try to found out how to be effective. Your book is trying to equip people to determine what their giftedness is.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bill:<\/strong> Yes. Everybody was put here for a purpose. But you know\u2014the Barna people did a study, just last February. They found out that 70 percent of American adults want more meaning in their life. In other words, they feel like they\u2019re not living a very meaningful life. They know there must be more, but they don\u2019t have it. But you know\u2014even among practicing church-going Christians, 40 percent said, \u201cOh, I believe that I have a calling, but I have no clue what it is.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>3:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong> People want to know how to best use their lives.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bill:<\/strong> Absolutely.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong> But most really haven\u2019t done a careful analysis of their gifts, and what they\u2019re really good at, and where their passions are. Because of that, I don\u2019t think they\u2019re hitting it on the bull\u2019s-eye. Do you, Bill?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bill:<\/strong> Well, it\u2019s actually just slightly more complicated than that. Even if they did an analysis\u2014for most people, it proves a bit elusive. The reason is\u2014they live inside their skin. So, there are three people, here at the table\u2014how many faces can you see? \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> I can see two. I can see you guys\u2014I can\u2019t see myself.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bill:<\/strong> Right. You can\u2019t see yourself. Yours is the one face it\u2019s a physical impossibility to see. Well, the same thing is true about our giftedness. We live inside our skin\u2014we see other people\u2019s giftedness at work\u2014but we don\u2019t see our own because, when we\u2019re using it, we don\u2019t think about using it\u2014we just use it\u2014it\u2019s natural \/ it\u2019s instinctive. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>4:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tIt\u2019s like breathing\u2014and so it doesn\u2019t seem remarkable. For that reason, it proves a bit elusive. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWhat I have the wonderful privilege of doing, in my consulting practice, is holding up a mirror and saying, \u201cHere\u2019s what your giftedness is all about,\u201d and then celebrating it: \u201cHere\u2019s the value.\u201d Now, we can begin to put it to work for what Ephesians 2:10 calls \u201cthe good works that God has put you here for.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> Yes. We should say this book is not your only interest in this subject. You have spent years\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bill:<\/strong> Well, my whole career in the intersection between faith and work\u2014that faith isn\u2019t just something we practice on Sunday.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> Right.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bill:<\/strong> Christ is Lord of all. Therefore, everything I do\u2014whether it\u2019s my work, my home life, my personal life, my involvement in a church, my involvement in the community\u2014Christ needs to be at the center of all of that. Well, when it comes to my own outworking of\u2014we ask the question: \u201cWhat is God\u2019s will? What does that look like for me?\u201d\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>5:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWe have to consider: \u201cWho am I, as a person? Who has God made me to be?\u201d That\u2019s where most people seem to stumble.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>You and I have known each other since you were in high school in Dallas, Texas. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bill:<\/strong> High school.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong> I was working with teenagers back then. This is a <em>life message<\/em> for you. It really comes out of, really, a period of time in your first 30 years of life, where you were grappling with finding out how this applied for you to do what you\u2019re supposed to do.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bill:<\/strong> Yes. I\u2019m 30 years of age; okay\u2014many years ago \/ but 30 years of age\u2014and everybody\u2019s coming to me, saying: \u201cOh, Bill. You can do anything you want. I mean, you went to Harvard \/ you have a couple masters\u2019 degrees. You can go any direction you want to go.\u201d \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI\u2019m like: \u201cWell, that may be. I just don\u2019t know which direction I really want to go.\u201d It was about that time that somebody very graciously introduced me to the process that I use today to help people discover their giftedness. It was like, honestly, the light turned on: \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>6:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u201cNow I understand what it is I\u2019m really trying to do with my life.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> I think there are a lot of young people today\u2014by young people, I\u2019m not just talking about teenagers\u2014I\u2019m talking about people in their 20s \/ in their 30s\u2014who kind of aren\u2019t sure what they\u2019re supposed to be doing. You know, in my dad\u2019s day, you graduated from college, you went to work for the company, you retired 40 years later, you got the gold watch, and you went home. It was kind of laid out for you. But there are people, hopping from job to job, still trying to figure out, \u201cWhat should I be doing?\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bill:<\/strong> Tens of millions of them. My heart really particularly goes out to Millennials. They\u2019ve graduated from college at a most difficult time in the economy. It\u2019s a very different game from when you and I graduated from college. In those days, the United States was the only game in town, economically-speaking. For these young adults, they\u2019re not only competing with the other 72 million Millennials\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>7:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u2014they\u2019re competing with the hundreds of millions of Millennials from places like China, India, Japan, Singapore, Malaysia, on, and on, and on. Now they are a workforce that\u2019s available for capital to invest in. Millennials have a real challenge on their hands. Unless they kind of know what their strengths are \/ what they bring to the party, they\u2019re going to have a hard time.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong> I\u2019m glad you mentioned this next generation that\u2019s coming up because I want to stop and turn to the listener and say: \u201cThis topic\u2014I\u2019m going to promise you something, Mom\/Dad, even grandparents, here\u2014you need to know how to help your children understand what their gifts are, who they are, what they\u2019re about. Help be that mirror,\u201d \u2014Bill, that you say we need to be in one another\u2019s lives\u2014\u201cto help our children figure it out,\u201d because we have a lot of young people today, coming out of Christian families, that are lost \/ they\u2019re in a fog.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>8:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bill:<\/strong> And just to underscore that point of why\u2014let\u2019s call it\u2014older listeners really need to pay attention here: The assumption is that, when somebody graduates from high school, they go off to college and college will help them figure out what to do with their life. I promise you\u2014 this is not a knock on colleges\u2014but colleges and universities have no vested interest in helping you figure that out. They assume that the student and their parents have already figured out what they want to do with their life, and they\u2019re simply using the resources of the college to figure that out. I can promise you\u2014of the two-and-a-half million students that we graduate from high school every year \/ of the million that go off to college\u2014frankly, of all two-and-a-half million\u2014they do not <em>know<\/em> what they really want to do with their lives.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> They don\u2019t know what they want to major in.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bill:<\/strong> And part of it is\u2014they don\u2019t even know what the options are. They have such a narrow slice of understanding of what the work world is all about. They know, maybe, what their parent did for work \/ possibly what their friends\u2019 parents did for work and, then, what they see on TV; but that\u2019s a very narrow slice of the literally tens of thousands of occupations that are out there.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>9:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tSo, they don\u2019t figure it out then \/ they don\u2019t figure it out in college. They graduate, and they may have a degree. They get two years into marketing because they had a marketing degree \/ three years\u2014and then they wake up one day, and they go: \u201dOh my gosh! I don\u2019t want to do this the rest of my life, but I don\u2019t know what my options are.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> I remember being in high school\u2014I took a vocational aptitude test.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bill:<\/strong> Yes. Sure.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> I remember it told me that I should be on a career path to be a worker at the YMCA. Now, over the years, I\u2019ve taken the Myers-Briggs test.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bill:<\/strong> Right.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> I\u2019ve taken the DISC test, the personality inventories\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bill:<\/strong> Right, strengths-finder.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> Right.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bill:<\/strong> There are thousands of them out there.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> So, what is this issue of giftedness; and how are you doing something different with the assessments that you\u2019re helping people through than what we\u2019ve all done on the internet over the last few years?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bill:<\/strong> And all of these assessments, including the one that I use, we\u2019re all looking at the same stuff\u2014which is a human being\u2014and we\u2019re trying to describe a human being. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>10:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tThat turns out to be a more difficult problem than it sounds.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong> [Laughing] You think?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bill:<\/strong> Yes. And what happens is\u2014almost invariably these things are\u2014first of all, they\u2019re forced-choice inventories\u2014like they have a set of questions \/ you have four answers, and you have to pick one. That assumes you know yourself well enough to answer that accurately. It also assumes that you don\u2019t have any sort of reason to make the test come out a certain way; right? \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tAnd even when you get the results, you\u2019re compared to a bunch of other people. Like in my case, I took the Myers-Briggs. I\u2019ve taken it a number of times. Every time I take it, I come out as an introvert. So, \u201cHave we really described Bill?\u201d \u201cNo.\u201d The question is: \u201cHow does Bill uniquely do life?\u201d It turns out that the best way to get at that is not really through a test, which is a self-appraised thing, but through story. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tEverybody has some stories from their life\u2014what I call giftedness stories\u2014activities that engage their giftedness. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>11:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tHow do we know what those are? The activity proved to be intensely satisfying\u2014they gained energy from doing it. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tThese can be simple things, like\u2014when you were seven years old, you built a treehouse in the back yard with your brother. You just remember that as a <em>really fun<\/em> activity\u2014you spent hours working on it. Or, in junior high school, there was one project in history\u2014and you didn\u2019t even like history\u2014but for some reason this battle in 15<sup>th<\/sup> century England just really captured your imagination. You went to the library, you poured hours into drawing maps and all this stuff, and then you had to go give a report. You dressed up like a knight, and you went in, and you got a standing ovation when you were done. You got one of only three \u201cA\u2019s\u201d the teacher gave. You just remember that as: \u201cBoy! That was a <em>fun time<\/em>.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tEverybody has these golden moments, when they\u2019ve gotten to do something that was intensely satisfying. If you tell someone the stories\u2014of <em>how<\/em> you did those activities, and what you actually did\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>12:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t--like what we would actually see you doing \/ the behavior you used if we were there\u2014<em>not why<\/em> you did it \/ just <em>how<\/em> and <em>what <\/em>you did. You get about eight of those stories\u2014you will discover there are all these dots that connect among the stories. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tThere is a very consistent\u2014what we call a motivational pattern\u2014that the person comes back to again, and again, and again\u2014that pattern points to the way God has made you. The reason you function that way, instinctively, is because God made you that way because (a) He sees a picture of Himself, in a finite way, doing what He does in an infinite way and (b) because He has specific good works, prepared for you to do, that He needs done in this world; and you\u2019re the perfect tool to go get those done.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong> You tell a story in your book\u2014I don\u2019t want you to tip off who this is about until you give the punch line at the end, but it\u2019s a guy who had a knack for making money.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>13:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bill:<\/strong> When he was a very small child\u2014and I mean like four or five\u2014he had a fascination with numbers. His biographer writes that it bordered on an obsession. He would go to church, for instance, and he\u2019d pick up the hymnal. He would do the math on how long the hymn writers had lived. For some reason, he thought that was really important. When he was a little older, he would sit on the curb at his house and watch cars go by; and he would memorize the license plates. He wanted to see how often certain plates would go by. His favorite toy was what was called a money-changer. This just continued into his teen years. Eventually, he goes off and he studies accounting. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWhen he was in high school, he came across this book that kind of introduced him to the time value of money and the whole concept of compounding. It was like a snowball in his mind. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>14:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tHe could see that money attracts money, and that it was like a snowball rolling down a hill that gets bigger as it picks up snow. So, he went and studied under the guy that wrote this book. Then, when he graduated, he went to graduate school. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tEventually, he mentored under the guy who was kind of his hero in an investment company in New York City. About a year into it, the guy retired. He said, \u201cI don\u2019t want to live in New York City,\u201d so he went back to the Midwest, where he grew up. He collected about five or six family members\u2014got, I don\u2019t know, $5,000, or whatever it was, from each of them \/ put in $100 of his own\u2014started an investment fund. The rest, as they say, is history. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong> He pushed the snowball off the top of the mountain.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bill:<\/strong> And gave it time.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong> Yes. And it\u2019s still rolling today.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bill:<\/strong> Today Warren Buffett\u2019s Berkshire Hathaway is a multi-billion dollar venture that people literally camp out on his doorstep to find out: \u201cWhat does the sage of Omaha have to say about numbers?\u201d \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>15:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tPeople say, \u201cOh, Bill\u2014that\u2019s a world-class example.\u201d Well it is, except that Warren Buffett was not world-class when he started out. That\u2019s the great thing about giftedness\u2014we all start out just who we are. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tIf we lean into our giftedness\u2014whether it\u2019s intentionally or what\u2014most people, unfortunately, don\u2019t lean into it because they don\u2019t know what it is\u2014but if you luck into it\/ if life cooperates somehow and you just happen into circumstances that fit that\u2014you keep practicing your giftedness over time, you become the best in the world at what you do. In his case, it just happens to be investments. We call you \u201cworld-class\u201d when you\u2019re the best at what you do.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong> So practically\u2014Mom is listening to our broadcast right now.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bill:<\/strong> Right.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong> What would you say is the place to start\u2014if you\u2019re coaching a mom, raising the next generation of Warren Buffetts or maybe the female version?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>16:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bill: <\/strong>I have two suggestions. Ironically, the place to start is\u2014not with your kids\u2014but with you. The most important thing a parent can do is to discover what their own gifting is because that gives you a framework, now, with which to begin to understand your children. You see, your children are <em>not<\/em> like you. Yes, they may look like you and, yes, they may have some traits in common and kind of\u2014but trust me. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tIn the humor of God, He often seems to put\u2014for instance, a little boy\u2014who is quite precocious, and very conceptual, and likes to do a lot of different things, and seems aimless, and doesn\u2019t really do life by goals\u2014with a father, who\u2019s very goal-oriented. Well, if you, as a parent, understand your own gifting, it gives you a lot more insight into how your child sort of is compatible with you but, also, how they may conflict with you. That\u2019s the first thing.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>17:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tThe second thing then is\u2014as you deal with your youngster\u2014always pay attention to the energy. Giftedness is really a motivational energy, and so you observe and you watch: \u201cWhat holds their attention for a long time? What do they get fascinated with? What activity do they engage in by the hour and, now, they\u2019re no trouble at all?\u201d \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI\u2019m not saying television, and X-box, and that sort of entertainment; but the better thing is: \u201cWhen they get engaged in a hobby, or they\u2019re out building forts, or they\u2019re outside playing football, or they\u2019re active \/ they\u2019re actually engaged in something, what holds their attention? What do they suddenly get energized about?\u201d If a parent starts to keep a journal of that stuff\u2014and it doesn\u2019t have to be lengthy paragraphs\u2014 it\u2019s just like, maybe, once a day \/ once every other day: \u201cI noticed today that when Susie\u2019s friend, Amy, came over, she had no problem being focused with Susie for hours on the task they were\u2026\u201d \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>18:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tJust make a note of that. Then, a couple days later, you make another observation. If you did that for ten or twelve years, you would have so much information about how your child does life and you\u2019d start to see some patterns within that.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> The thing you\u2019re describing\u2014I\u2019m thinking back to an interview that we have in our <em>Stepping Up<\/em><em><sup>\u00ae<\/sup><\/em>video series that we\u2019ve done for men, where we talk to Greg Harris. Greg is a dad of five boys\u2014I think it\u2019s five \/ five or six\u2014and his boys have flourished early in life.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bill:<\/strong> Right.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> We went to Greg and said, \u201cSo what\u2019d you do to help your boys become men quickly?\u201d One of the things he said was, \u201cI observed \u2018What were their delights?\u2019\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bill:<\/strong> Exactly. That\u2019s it\u2014exactly.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> He said, \u201cWhen I would see something that would delight them,\u201d he said, \u201cI would put fertilizer and fuel around that.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bill:<\/strong> That\u2019s what you do.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> That\u2019s really the same idea you\u2019re talking about here; isn\u2019t it?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bill:<\/strong> Absolutely. I love that phrase, \u201ccelebrating their delights.\u201d \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>19:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tLord knows we need that. I\u2019m afraid that we\u2019ve gotten into a culture where so many people identify themselves by their pathologies, their dysfunctionalities, and their weaknesses. What we need to do is celebrate true strength. This is <em>not<\/em> the same as, \u201cWhatever Johnny does is brilliant.\u201d This is\u2014when you see real energy expended and you see the delight in your child\u2019s eyes, that\u2019s the time to say, \u201cYou really enjoyed that; didn\u2019t you?\u201d \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tThat may be very different from the delight you take. My oldest daughter is a trumpet player. She\u2019d practice and practice, and loved doing it. That was a tough deal, as a dad, because\u2014[Laughter]\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> The hours of practice were not a delight for you; were they?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bill:<\/strong> No; and in the early goings, particularly, you know?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> Yes.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bill:<\/strong> But I\u2019ll never forget\u2014one night, after dinner, she\u2019s in there practicing. I\u2019m out at the table still. All of a sudden, she comes out and: \u201cDaddy, Daddy, Daddy! I hit the high \u201cD\u201d above C\u201d!\u201d or whatever it was. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>20:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWell, now, that doesn\u2019t ring my bell\u2014I don\u2019t leap out of bed in the morning, cheering over that for me; but I realized, \u201cFor her, that was a <em>huge <\/em>accomplishment.\u201d So, I said: \u201cMan! That\u2019s fantastic! Keep practicing!\u201d I have\u2014I tried to honor that gift. We paid for lessons, we bought trumpets, and we did all the things we could. Today, she\u2019s a professional trumpet player and is the Professor of Trumpet at Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana, and living her dream.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> Wow.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong> I can tell you\u2014from\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bill:<\/strong> Yes, you were there.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong> \u2014from a memorial service for your dad, trumpet solo\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bill:<\/strong> \u2014by Brittany Hendricks.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong> \u2014Dr. Brittany Hendricks, granddaughter of Dr. Howard Hendricks, daughter of Bill Hendricks. And the trumpet solo was <em>Be Thou My Vision. <\/em>I have to say\u2014I wept.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bill:<\/strong> A lot of people wept\u2014I was weeping. That\u2019s the gift that Brittany has\u2014not only to play the trumpet\u2014but to teach the trumpet. People can see that performance\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>21:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u2014it\u2019s online because I think you guys put the\u2014you certainly put a link to the video that the seminary has on Dad\u2019s memorial service\u2014it\u2019s on there.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> Yes. If folks haven\u2019t seen it, we have the link on our website at FamilyLifeToday.com. They can go to, again, FamilyLifeToday.com. Click the link at the top of the page that says \u201cGO DEEPER.\u201d You\u2019ll find a button there for the Howard Hendricks Memorial Service. You can watch it \/ you can watch Bill\u2019s daughter do her trumpet solo.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWe also, of course, have available, in our <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em> Resource Center, your book, which is called <em>The Person Called You.<\/em> I hope our listeners, when they go to FamilyLifeToday.com, will get a copy of your book as well. It helps you figure out how to figure out who you are, who God made you to be, and how you can invest your life as a wise steward of your talents and your abilities. Again, the title of the book is <em>The Person Called You.<\/em> You\u2019ll find it, online, at FamilyLifeToday.com. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>22:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tAgain, click the link at the top of the page that says \u201cGO DEEPER.\u201d You can order a copy of Bill\u2019s book from us, online. 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Now, we hope that your first priority, when it comes to monthly giving, is to your local church\u2014that\u2019s where it ought to be\u2014but, again, a lot of families have said, \u201cWe\u2019re going to add <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em> to that list.\u201d We\u2019re thankful for those of you who do that.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tIf you\u2019d like to consider becoming a Legacy Partner\u2014helping make sure that <em>FamilyLife Today <\/em>stays on the air in your community \/ helping to provide this resource for your friends and your neighbors\u2014go to FamilyLifeToday.com. 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