New issues & advice for grads | 21 modern proverbs for young adults

Workplace growth

• How you respond to your boss is more important than clearing your in-tray;
  

relationships are the most important aspect of work.

• Choose a job to be a Christian, not to have a career;
  

a Christian mindset is all about your motives.

• Don’t go near Facebook at work;
  

holiness is about the things you don’t do that others do.

• Keep going to op-shops and packing your lunch;
  

being difference is about all the little things people don't notice. 

Financial growth

• Give a % of your income and increase that % the more you earn;
  

don’t go backwards in the grace of giving.

• Leave your credit card at home & clear it straight-away on every use;
  

credit is addictive and deceptive.

• Let your wife allocate & process your giving payments;
  

giving is a gift, so delegate it.

• Every time you treat yourself to a new bestseller, spoil someone with a recent favourite;
  

do something about your sources of pride.

Personal growth

• Expect more than a prang or two and a few parking fines;
  

you will experience significant difficulties and troubles ahead.

• Don’t spend time listening to yourself or looking at yourself in the mirror;
  

you are your worst enemy.

• Read authors you disagree with;
  

it helps to assume you've got at least 10% of everything wrong.

• Whatever you want to do at the end of your life, begin it now;
  

if it’s worth doing, it’s worth starting on it sooner.

• Get some ducks and draw more;
  

if you loved it as a kid you could do with it as an adult.

Relational growth

• Choose friends unlike yourself;
  

if you know only your counterparts you’re surrounded only by your weaknesses.

• Get to know your neighbours;
  

it's those in front of you that are hardest to love and who need you most.

• When you marry you will meet yourself and your own ungodliness;
  

God gives us spouses to help us grow up.

• Find a baby sitter and pay her well;
  

it’s better to invest in time and people than the stock market.

Spiritual growth

• Get the audio Bible and get really used to it;
  

use technology to make your life deeper, not more shallow.

• Put prayer into your early morning coffee ritual;
  

don’t let your top priorities compete – combine them and you’ll get both done. 

• Leave the TV off more often and don't turn up the music;
  

fighting through your nothingness is your best opportunity every day.

• Schedule time and reminders to think about the End;
  

being a Christian is harder than any job you will ever have.