MYB101

Course Title: Mind Your Business

Course / Section Number: MYB101 / 12345678

Course Description: Basis in minding your business in relation to prioritizing your own mental, physical, emotional, and spiritual health

Credit Hours: A lifetime

Instructor: Imani B.

Class Hours: All week, all day

Contact: thegtgblog@gmail.com

Office Hours: You can catch me in the cut, chillin

Required Text: The Bible

Optional (but recommended) Course Materials: A devotional, pens, highlighters, a journal, the Abide prayer guide app

Course Objectives:

At the end of this course you should be able to:

1. Understand what the Bible says about minding your business (Prov. 26:17, Prov. 26:20, 1 Peter 4:15)

2. Successfully walk away from people who live for drama

3. Learn the difference between being concerned and being nosy

4. Make your peace a priority

5. Not be enticed by gossip

6. Identify triggers that could lead into someone spilling another persons, or their own tea

7. Stop someone from coming to you with he said, she said

8. Keep quiet when a situation doesn't concern you

9. Withdraw from making their problem your problem

10. Spend time on glowing spiritually, mentally, physically, and emotionally

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Believe it or not, classes actually start today, and I got the idea for this blogpost whilst browsing through some course sllyabi that were uploaded to Blackboard over the weekend. Although it's very satirical, I promise there's a valid point to all of this.

Minding your business is not easy, hence this blogpost. There are so many ways for you to receive information you don't need: social media, tv, radio, friends with big mouths... your big mouth. It's like every time we try and stay in our lane, the opportunity presents itself to switch. Now we're in traffic when just a couple of seconds ago the lane we switched into was flying by. We find ourselves stuck. Stuck behind people because everyone switched into someone else's lane. That's what it's like when we always want to know everyone's business. We don't know their full story. We don't know why their lane might be moving as slow or as fast as it is. And even if we did know, that doesn't make our lane go any faster than it did before.

The biggest thing I want you to take away from this is that by simply minding your business, you won't have to worry about other people's drama, gossip, or lamentations. They will no longer come to you with the unnecessary pieces of information because you no longer feed into their misery loves company trap. Now I'm not saying that you shouldn't care about people, because you definitely should. But I am saying if caring about someone equates to prying for information and a conversation that doesn't actually help them, but instead helps you get "one up" on them, then you should quit while you're ahead.

I look forward to seeing God work in the lives of people, more specifically young ladies, who previously had issues with what was discussed. I look forward to people actually being compassionate and sympathetic because they have a new frame of mind and heart. As stated in the course syllabus, class hours are all day-every day, so I'm confident that there will be nothing but continual growth.

With that being said,

WELCOME TO MYB101!

Peace, +GLOW Always,

"Make it your goal to live a quiet life, minding your own business and working with your hands, just as we instructed you before."

-1 Thessalonians 4:11 NLT

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