PTP:090.Elevate Your Attitude

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pathway to promise podcast with Dr. Brad Miller Episode Number 90. Elevate your attitude.

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You’re on the pathway to a promise with Dr. Brad Miller. Bradley’s 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 and welcome to pathway to promise with Dr. Brad Miller. It is

Awesome that you have chosen to spend a few moments with me today, as we have a conversation just you and I about some things that matter including your attitude and mind. We’re going to talk today about elevating your attitude, and how that makes all the difference in the world. Here at the pathway to promise podcast we’re all about helping you to overcome any adversity in your life, to achieve what we believe, is your God given promised life, peace, prosperity and purpose. We believe God has intentions for you which are nothing but good. Nothing but good. But we in our lives can sometimes be sidelined by an adverse condition might be a death in the family, it might be losing a job, it might be a breakup of a romance, it might be a financial reversal. It could be a diagnosis of a bad disease like cancer, all kinds of things can happen and they happen All of us but how you deal with it makes a difference, and a pathway promise. com our website, we’ve got lots of episodes of great teachers and leaders who give us insights of how to overcome some adverse condition to achieve success in your life. We like to call it the promise life, the promise life of peace, prosperity and purpose. So check us out we got a free gift for you there at our website, as well pathway promise.com attitude. I’ve been privileged on a number of occasions, to visit folks in difficult circumstances, including in prisons. I remember visiting and a juvenile center one time a juvenile detention center. And one of the administrators there said something to me to effective Well, all these kids in need is an attitude adjustment. Well, I took that to mean that there needed to be in their mind at least somehow Side forced to pressure them, I took it as a bit of a negative. Whereas I know that with a young person who I was visiting and other people need on not only a positive pressure from the outside, but they need to be encouraged to elevate their attitudes about themselves. And I want to encourage you to think now about raising the level of your personal attitude. Think about with me for a moment about somebody in your life who you admire. This might be somebody you know, personally, or might be an author or a leader. It might be a movie star or a musician, or might be a writer, or a podcaster. Or a pastor. Somebody that you admire. Why do you admire them? What is it about them that gets your interest? Is it their tenacity? Is that their talent? Is it their faith? Is it their commitment Is that how they explain things? Is it their countenance? Is it that they’re fun to be with? Or they’re transparent or they are inspirational? What is it about them? I bet a lot of it has to do with their attitude. I bet a lot of it has to do with the attitude which they exude from their life, which impacts all the people who they influence, which includes you, which includes you. So, think about that. The attitude of someone is influencing you and lifted up your life or else you wouldn’t admire them. And how now can we take that same thing and take our own attitude, it elevated in such a way to be fulfilled ourselves, which is what we’re talking about here, as well as be inspirational and helpful to other people. I think you can do it. I know you can. William James, a writer said this the greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitude of mind. This means friends, you can choose to alter or adjust, if you will, your attitude. If we want to do it,

if we think about it, our attitude affects our outcome. If we go into something thinking that we can do it, and believing we can do over are much more likely to succeed than to go into some endeavor, and thinking we can’t do it, but battle is one before the battle has begun. I’ve heard it said. So here’s what I want to give you a bit of an attitude checklist before you enter into an endeavor. Let’s just say you’re going to go into a new project or to start a new new job. So watch this attitude. You know what, I gotta wait and see, I guess. gotta see how this thing goes. I gotta feel it out. isn’t a negative attitude? I don’t really want to do this. I don’t want to do this. Are there certain new experiences that kind of automatically make you feel negative? If they are identified and you know, some people, I went to the dentist recently and we kind of joked around about how some people just don’t like go to the dentist. And there’s a fear of that. Well, what your attitude towards whatever it is, and then think about that and how you can maybe change that. Now does our attitude that affect us in what we feel about our job or about our family or about God? And if so, how can we fix it? How can we do something about that? You see, friends, I believe, if we fix our mind what is possible, not just on the problems that can be happening, or when we fix your mind on the facts, not just on our feelings that can have an impact on how things come out.

A second thought here is an attitude towards People perseveres are predetermine, or attitudes, their attitudes towards me. That is, oftentimes when we how we share about other people is reflected right back to us. I think that’s the case, don’t you? If someone greet you with a smile and a good high energy word, that we just react to them differently, then then we do otherwise are in this makes a difference. However, just this morning, one of the habits that I have is I address most people I encounter whether they be a child or an older person, as young man or young woman. And today, just this morning, I happened to be in a local place getting my car worked on. And there was a gentleman coming out as I was coming in, he was gray hair and a beard. So one night he just held the door for me and I said, Well, thank you young man. And he turned around and did a pivot towards me young I’m 70 years old. What do you mean young man? And I said to him, Well, you, apparently Do you feel offended by that? And he said, No, I don’t feel offended by that. I just feel surprised. And people often feel that way when we call them young. See friends, it makes a difference. He’s going to remember that. Also today, I got a phone call from somebody who just out of the blue, called me and just said they want to pray for me. And that made me feel so good that they wanted to pray for me. So already today, I have had experiences where my attitude has had apparently a positive impact on somebody else got their attention, and someone else’s attitude. upgrade for me has got my attention. Yeah, I heard it’s been said. The Stanford Research folks did a survey that talked about a person’s success at their job, but the work is 30% knowledge about the product, or the service and 87% knowledge about people about relationships. That’s important. Let’s talk about some ways that you can intentionally elevate your attitude, especially in regards to other people. Number one thing that you can do in regards to other people is be very intentional about remembering their name. If a person has a name tag, use it, read their name, if you hear somebody’s name repeated in your head a few times, or try to connect it with some other memory trigger that you can have. Also, another thing that we can do with with other people is request their help. You know, nothing makes the other person feel more important and to do something for you, that you cannot do for yourself. Think about that. Even in like a retail store, where someone helps you to shop for something to Christmas time. When I go shopping for my wife or my kids. I often especially if it’s a clothing item, I almost always ask someone to Help me with a selection or purpose in they are almost always, genuinely happy to be asked to help. A third thing you can do for with other people is to recognize them recognize their potential. And that is having a great expectation that they can do well. So, and then being introspective about who they are as a people. So recognize it, lift somebody up, and they’ll be recognized for who they are. Recently, I encountered a young person, a teenager, and I asked him to serve on a on a planning board that I’m working on in my local church, and they were thrilled about being asked and being recognized as a young person to take on a more adult responsibility. Another thing we can do is reward people for their efforts. Our reward might be the same Thank you, where it might be a card, where maybe a handshake, where might be something else more, more deeper than that. reward people show people their potential, encourage them, fulfill help them know that they are that they are appreciated. These are when we do these things for other people that will help us. You see, our attitude is the difference between success and failure for many of us, but also in the attitude we express towards others is often the difference between success and failure in the organization’s or the groups that we we are part of the guess where it starts starts with us. So our attitudes can turn problems into blessings and just how we look at it. When we have an attitude of how can I get this done? Instead of letting this block me, we can net we understand that the problem is not the problem. Our process is this needs to be adjusted. You see, we understand that there’s a problem. We recognize it. Then we need to break it down, kind of critique it. See what we need to do about it. Then we can choose what the next steps are to deal with it. And we can get good about it. So yeah, when you give, when you have a good attitude, France, it gives you an uncommon perspective, a perspective that looks kind of from the outside in and helps you see what is possible. And that way our attitude can be our best friend or our worst enemy. You see, friends, I just want to encourage you to have an attitude that makes a difference in your life, and the life of other people that can make a big a big difference. You see,

oftentimes, friends, ultimately, it’s our attitudes about things, not our achievements, which make us happy. And I will dwell on this for a second because I’ve been privileged to be around a lot of people the end of their life. I’ve preached probably well over 200 funerals in my life and my career. And one of the things I’ve often noticed about people when they talk about People at the end of their life is very rarely do they say that he or she became vice president of the company they were part of, or that here, she drove a Cadillac or he she made this much money, they would talk about how they treat other people. They would talk about relationships, they would talk about the things they did to serve other people, or how they would bring joy to other people, or how they would help improve the lives of other people. It’s not about achievement. It’s about attitude. And here’s the other thing, friends just want to kind of want to leave you with this. We choose what we do about our attitude, or attitude will change when we want it to change. And that just means we have to understand the importance of attitude and making that a part of our life. Don’t blame others. You know, we choose our attitude. And let me encourage you to be about that. Say our attitudes need to be good. Haley tweaked and adjusted because life happens does it circumstances happen. So we need to be constantly fed, fill yourself with Good stuff, good books, start with the Bible, if you will. But a good books good encouraging tapes, podcast, other things that help fill your life, and most importantly, encouraging people in your life that will help you when you have that. And I invite you to be just that if we can be helpful to you here at the pathway to promise podcast we want to do just that, to help to elevate your attitude to help you deal with adversity, Francis because adversity is one of those circumstances which can beat us up and bring us down and you need a process in order to get through that. We have a 40 day way process we’re working on we have a book coming out sometime the next few months about the promise given life which will be helpful to you. Meanwhile, on our podcast, your pathway a pathway to promise and pathway promised com you can hear great teachers from myself and from smothers great leaders and authors and teachers, who have something to say to your life, to pour into your life, to help you to elevate your attitude and make your life better, and help us to deal with those problems, those adversities that we have, we’re here to be helpful. We hope that we can go to our website pathway promise com, we got a free gift for you there that which will be helpful to you. And we got more episodes of the pathway to promise podcast upcoming with some great interviews with some folks who will speak deeply into your life. So until next time, friends, this is Dr. Brad Miller, I want to encourage you to keep your promises because there’s power in a promise kept. Thanks so much for taking the pathway to promise but Dr. Brad Miller as a subscriber, you’ll be a vital part of the pathway to promise community visit us on the web at pathway promise.com until next time, remember to stay on your pathway to promise

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