PTP:087. Developing an Active Positive Attitude

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pathway to promise podcast with Dr. Brad Miller. Episode Number 87. Developing an active positive attitude.

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You are on the pathway to promise with Dr. Brad Miller. Brad believes every person has a god given promised life of peace, prosperity and purpose, and that you must have a plan and a guide to get there. The pathway to promise podcast Not only is your guide through the wilderness of depression and disappointment that stand between you and your promise life, but also brings you insights and direction from inspiring successful thought leaders who have transformed their lives. Welcome to the pathway to promise now here’s Brad

Hello, good people Welcome to pathway to promise with Dr. Brad Miller. Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you for allowing me into your life here the day and let’s have a conversation. Just you and I about some things that matter. Thank you for allowing me into your ears today. And whatever activities that we’re involved with today, and let’s spend a few moments together, dealing with some with a with the issue of attitude, particularly about developing an active, positive attitude. We’ll get into that in just a minute. We did want you to know, here at pathway to promise we are all about you. We’re all about helping you overcome any adversity in your life to help you claim your God given promise, life of peace, prosperity and purpose. at our website pathway promised calm you could find out a lot more information about this. But some of the things that we have to offer, particularly some back episodes To the podcast, we have some great teachers will help you to develop strategies and ways to deal with any adversity that comes your way and succeed in your life. When the ways we do that, is by developing an active, positive attitude. One of my favorite passages in the Bible, live, you know that I’m a pastor of a church is when I’ve been able to teach or preach out of john 15th chapter, it talks about the vine and the branches about being fruitful, and how we’re all called that God is the father and we, and we are the branches and that we are to bear fruit, and that we are to be productive and fruitful in our life. And that when we abide with God, we’re with God, good things can happen. And if we’re not fruitful for not productive, they were not, you know, in alignment with God’s will. That’s where I want to be. I believe a lot of you of my good listeners here are in the same place where you want to be followers of something greater than yourself drawing a higher power and being alignment with that. And most of all, we want to be productive. We want to do something that is meaningful and purposeful in life. And one of the ways we can do that is by developing an active, positive attitude. What is that? That means where we actively are engaged and being intentional about being positive in our life and have an attitude then that’s reflected not only what we draw in and bring it to our life, but how we reflect and give things to other people. That’s what God wants, I believe. And when you do that in your life, you’re going to notice a big difference. It’s being very intentional, about being positive and being productive means thinking about it. The way I like to put it is with the BPLD that be It stands for boldness, take bold action, that P is for power, drawing on a higher power than ourselves that comes from our prayer life or meditation. And the LS for love that’s drawing on loving relationships with God and with other people. That’s the energy portion. And the D, the BP ELD formula is discipline that’s a daily discipline and the habits that we develop in order to do to have a positive attitude between ourselves and towards others. It is very intentional. So what happens when we develop a positive, inactive, positive, positive attitude in our life? Well, couple things can happen. When you do this and attentional way we do develop positive results. We do develop then positive relationships with others. We do receive positive reactions from others. In other words, you get positive to people where you’re more likely to get positive back. We do also get positive reinforcements from others. That is we give something positive others we will give them information back to us, which will help build up what we’re working on. And also we can have rejoicing in our life. We can have positive rejoicing in our life, that’s the celebration, peace, but you will have joy in your life. Then choose it, choose it over other stuff, choose it over the bad stuff. You see, this is where being very intentional about this. If we intentionally learn the right principles, and live the right principles, then we can love the right principles.

That’s what I want you to be about here. invest in things that are positive, invest in things that will fill you up in order to help you be resource in a proper manner in order to have a greater contribution to give to this world. So, this means that we have to understand that the source of this positiveness is not just within us, it comes from outside of us. Strong on a higher power. This is where our relationship with a higher power with God or meditation can come into play. And that’s understanding, definitely draw on a source greater than ourselves. And I just want to encourage you to do just that, too. If you’re a Christian folk person, get into the Word of God, if you’re from other, another faith tradition, draw it upon a source higher than yourself. When we do this, we understand that God really cares for you and really loves for you and wants you to be productive. And also what God does is also God will then help to prune you or take away the bad stuff. If you think about it, people really care for us also help us to understand there’s certain things that we do that are not helpful. That’s a negative attitude. That’s the things that are maybe good but not great. That’s the things that we can do. It also helps us know that we can be in partnership with others which helps us be productive. I think one of the best things you can do is have a partner in your business or in your faith walk, or your spouse, who you can work with to help you be productive, be useful and purposeful in your life. And one of the other things I think that you can do, friends is the power of promise. We talked about that a lot here in the pathway to promise, make a promise to God. If you need to make a promise to other people make certainly make a promise to yourself, to have a positive attitude and you will be more productive. And those of us who follow faith straight tradition, also know that a part of this productivity comes from being obedient. If it says here in john 15, that we are to be fruitful, then we are to do that to be obedient to that to that. You see, friends, if it’s going to be it’s up to you and to me, no one else is going to do this for us. We have to be responsible. That what’s what we mean by an active, positive attitude. The activity is on our place. What we do. So let me give you a little formula here that I think can be helpful to you. Just three words. If you take these three words and you put them together, it’s going to help you to develop an active, positive attitude. The first is to remain, remain means to connect up with this higher power than yourself. That might mean and let me give you a simple thing to do. Spend some quiet time every day, spend some quiet time in meditation and prayer, and journaling, whatever it needs to be. First thing in the morning is a good time but whatever is a good time for you. In the Bible, it talks about to abide or to remain with God in john 15 whatever that means for you to take your time to remain to go apart and to recalibrate and reconnect. So remain is the first part of the formula. Second part is to receive when you set apart this time, you can receive You have some power in your in your life that is receiving not only through this time that meditation, but it’s by what you consume, consume a good book, read for 15 minutes a day, listen to a good audio tape or a podcast, or something else can speak into your life or a good video on YouTube or something, then TED talk or something that puts good stuff into your life. There’s so much negative junk out there, that you just need to sort that out. And let the good stuff come in. absorb positive stuff, and that will fill you up. And the third part of this is to reproduce, that you when you share it with other people. It’s kind of you learn and then you teach. So reproducing means that you have some sort of a connection with some other person, that you share what’s going on in your life. This may be an accountability partner might be your spouse. It might be some people you teach, it might be some people into your co workers or Your children or our class, perhaps maybe a Sunday school class, whatever it be that you find someone to share what you’re learning, you learn best you transform best when you teach. So the parts of the formula is remain or to abide with his power greater than ourselves, to receive this power by putting good stuff in and then reproduce it by sharing with others, then you will be fruitful, then you will develop an active positive attitude, which will make all the difference in the world to yourself and to other people. That’s what we’re here to do here at the pathway to promise podcast, we hope we can be a part of speaking into your life, good stuff, to help you to know that you are valued, you’re a good person, you’ve got a lot of good things you would love to say you’re the good people. That’s what I like to call my tribe, the good people, the people who you know have chosen to be good and to do good in this world and to be fruitful. It starts friends in many ways by developing being very intentional with an active, positive attitude. That’s what we have to do here today on the athlete of promise podcast. We’re here to be helpful to you go to our website, pathway, promise calm, we’ve got a free gift for you there. We also got some other great episodes of the podcast that you can listen to and some other resources there at pathway promise calm. Until next time, this is Dr. Brad Miller encouraging you to keep your promises because there’s power in a promise kept.

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