A Better You: A Forgiving You
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What should I expect when someone offends me?
Welcome back to the Ryan League Podcast, where we love to keep things short and sweet for you each and every week. Just want to give you a little nugget of inspiration that can add value to your day, your week, your month, perhaps a meeting that you're having at work, wherever you find yourself. We're always just trying to add value to your life. Over the past couple of weeks, just to kick off 2026, we've been doing a podcast series called A Better You. We've looked at week one, what it looks like for you to be a focused you, what it looks like for me to be focused and locked in in 2026. And really proposing this question of what would your life look like a year from now if you really locked in?
Like if you really focused, I think you would be a better you. Week two, we talked about what it looks like to be a courageous you, a courageous me. 365 days from now, if you had a little bit more courage, what would your life look like? And then our last episode. A better you, I believe, is an honest you. I don't think we're all liars, but I do think we all live with some level of reserve. And I can only imagine what our relationships and our lives, our careers would look like if we were just a little bit more honest. This last better you episode. in this podcast series that I made up. I didn't know how many episodes I was actually going to do on this Better You, but I think we've got some other things that I want to get to.
So we've had some fun with this. This is the last one for a Better You series. And then we're going to move into February. Who knows, maybe we talk about love and relationships and been getting lots of questions about that. So stay tuned for that. This last Better You episode, I think a better you and a better me would be a forgiving you, a forgiving me. A better you is a forgiving you. And let me just tell you what's going to happen in 2026. I can predict the future. I can tell you exactly what's going to happen this year. I can guarantee you That somebody in your life is going to say something, forget something, post something, like something, share something, assume something, misread something, interrupt something, leave you out of something, bring up something at the worst possible time.
And in that moment, you are going to feel it. Your chest is going to tighten up. Your mind is going to start building a case and your tone is going to sharpen. And all of a sudden you're going to find yourself standing at an all too familiar crossroads. Do I hold on to this or do I let it go? And here's the part that most of us miss. That decision, that moment, it feels like it's happening in the moment, but it doesn't. You actually decide long before that offense ever shows up what kind of person you are going to be. You don't decide forgiveness after the comment. You don't decide forgiveness after the post, after the email, after the conversation. No, you decide now what you're going to do later when offense inevitably shows up.
Because if you don't decide ahead of time, offense will decide for you. Here's the deal. I'm not just trying to predict the future. I'm just paying attention to patterns. My friends, we all know something is going to happen in the world, guaranteed. whether it be small and personal, loud and public, whether it's something tragic, whether it's a natural disaster, whether it's something political, something that will give us the opportunity to find ourselves on opposing sides of another person. And we need to decide now how we're going to respond later. You see, I think you and I have the opportunity Not to be shocked by what is going to happen over the next year. You should see it coming a mile away.
It's going to happen. You should prepare for it now. And dare I say, you should make allowance for it now. Decide now how you're going to respond later. I realize that a lot of people who... listen to the Ryan League podcast, are not people of faith. But if you listen to the podcast, you obviously know that I am a person of faith. And there is a scripture, whether you're a Bible person or not, there is a scripture that I think will add value to your life, even if you're not a Christian.
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