PTP:093.The Battle Plan for Life

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pathway to promise podcast with Dr. Brad Miller, Episode Number 93. The battle plan for living.

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You’re 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 What an honor. While how cool is for you to join me today, as we talk a little bit about something special that’s happening as I record this message here today for you. It’s Veterans Day, Veterans Day weekend. And I prepared a message for you today called the battle plan for living based on understanding some military leaders, particularly General Douglas MacArthur and his strategy for winning. Here at the pathway to promise podcast we’re all about helping you win in your life, helping you to overcome those things that can get you down those things which we call adverse conditions, things like death of a family member or depression or divorce or breakup of a relationship, maybe getting a diagnosis of some terrible disease, maybe your debt. These are all things that can happen and we are here to help you head on over to pathway promised calm, we’ve got a free gift for you there. And we also have some great to back episodes, a pathway to promise with some great leaders, teachers, authors, and some teaching that can be helpful to your life today. Battle Plan for living, a commemorative edition for Veterans Day remembering some veterans have been pleased in my life. I’m not a veteran myself. But I’ve been pleased in my life to get to know some people who are military veterans, and they are awesome people. And they always have a sense of vitality and life and a sense of discipline and duty, which I really, really admire. One of the things that as I studied people who have been stressful situations, be it in business or education or athletics or anything else like that. People in military have almost always been in some stressful situations. And many times those who are successful and Situations understand that problems are a given that, that there is always going to be situations that are messed up. snafu as they call them in the military often, and the problems are to be understood, and then dealt with and overcome. And it oftentimes takes a battle plan in order to overcome those problems. And then to implement the plan but also know that a part of a battle plan is to adjust. So let me share with you a few thoughts today from some from things about having a battle plan for living in your life. But just say you got some big obstacles, some big adversity to overcome, maybe have a health issue, maybe you really want to lose 15 pounds before the first first of the New Year. You just did. That kind of thing just doesn’t just happen. You need to have a plan and then a process to get that done. Here’s some thoughts here. problems will never leave you alone. Problems adverse conditions are will always be there. In order to deal with that you need a plan, a battle plan, if you will.

Because sometimes problems are bigger than we expected. We can’t just let it slide. So here’s a couple of questions to ask ourselves before we enter into a battle. Let’s say we want to lose that 15 pounds. First question is, is victory achievable? And the second question is victory believable? So let’s just say you want to lose 15 pounds in two months time, is it achievable? Yes, more than likely it is it’s going to be a challenge. But it’s it’s a doable thing. Can you lose 100 pounds in two months? Unlikely. unlikely. You said I’m saying make your goals and this achievable range. And the second thing is is believable. This is the The inner, the mind games the mind the being mindful that we need to play with with ourselves our mindset, we need to believe it will make it a part of our fiber that we believe that we can do it we can believe that we can lose that 15 pounds and therefore victory is a an achievable Win It is also believable. So we have to ask ourselves that questions we have to convince ourselves of that. Digital Douglas martech Arthur, Gail outlined four or three actual strategies for winning his case for battle planning for winning. The first one is having a purpose for your battle. Is this a cause worth dying for? You need to assess that is losing that 15 pounds, super important to you? Is it a cause that can save your life in many cases it is you get your health together. It can help you with diabetes and heart disease, and other things that can impact the quality of your life, you need to ramp up the emotions of that. What is the purpose of your battle plan of the battle that you’re going after? And a second thing that there’s three P’s here, the first P is for purpose. The second P is for provision. What are your resources for battle? And are they adequate? And do you have the what you need to do this? What are your resources to get involved with this battle? With your resources you’re going to lose weight might be a diet regimen or exercise regimen or joining gym or getting a workout partner or consuming YouTube videos and other information about the various the diet plan or the eating plan that we want to take on. I use intermittent fasting myself with some success. What is your strategy? What is your provision? What are your resources that you need to do this? Do you Want to get some special, you know vitamins or a, our protein shakes or any other specific specific food items that you want to have? What are your resources? Ok. So the and then so the so you’ve got purpose and you’ve got provision. And the other thing we need is preparation. That is, is there any special training we need or any personnel we need to bring into your life, you’re gonna lose 15 pounds, maybe you want to hire a chef or maybe you want to go to the gym and hire a personal trainer. You might be you want to have someone you work out with a workout partner, maybe your spouse, or someone you get together with a friend or somebody at the gym. And you also then so you need that you need that resource that preparation but the other side of that another part of the preparation is kind of is to know your enemy, to know your enemy. For many of us the enemy is resistance. That’s the thing when we start to do something good resistance wants to do drag us down and prove prevent us from doing good stuff. We need to battle resistance because it will eat you alive if you allow it to. And there’s lots of good works and lots of good things about understanding this, this concept of resistance. So let’s unpack this just a little bit more. When we talk about purpose, what is a cause? worth dying for? What is your battle plan for a living? And what does it cause worth want or for worth dying for? A couple things to think about? What are your motives for doing this? Why am I doing this? Am I doing this for other people? Am I doing for myself? Why is simply question Why do you want to do this? Is it just a vanity thing? If so, that’s okay, too. But own it own? What are your motives for doing this? And the second thing we could think of in terms of a purpose or what are the values that are going to be enhanced or You need to employ when you want to go to attack this, this battle plan that you have the values weathers help others if you lose that weight for instance, whether it be an example to other people in your life, your children or your parents or your spouse, why am I doing this? So the motives is why am I doing this right motives are more important than the right moves in many cases. And the values have to do with this, how we, what we’re doing is indicator of our own personal values that we have and how we can then share those with with other people. So I want to encourage you to be about that values have to do with how will it help others. And the thing is, if you do what you do and helps other people, that’s a win for you, too. It’s a double win. Ziegler’s, the one who famously said in a lot of his training, you can get everything you want in life if you help other people to get what they want. So you got purpose and you Got, we give God the preparation. And the other thing is provision provisions. That is the resources that that we need. One of the resources that we can call upon is people, you know other people in our life, to speak into our life that might be a coach that might be a leader. It might be from a book or a tape or podcast, or YouTube videos, something we can understand about that help. Put surround ourselves with people who can speak into our life and give us good stuff into our life. This isn’t about just having people just to pat us on the back all the time, by the way, it’s having people who can coach us and hold us accountable and to help us to grow and to go on to defeat our enemy. Do you think and military leaders that they hold back if there is a true enemy to be to be defeated? They don’t just, you know, play nice all the time. It is about achieving the risk Salt of winning. And that’s what we want to do with the people another resource we might need as money when MIT other resources we need to understand what is it going to cost us to do this? If we do this diet thing for the weight loss thing, for instance, if that is our goal to achieve, what’s it going to take over again? Is this diet, we’re going to do want to join a gym? Do we want to have a coach, you want to have a diet system? You want to have an online system that you use? What kind of options does investing money in this process give you and what are you willing to invest that way? See it when you do this? It that’s understanding that what it’s going to cost to achieve things and many times we have to see if it’s worth the value, I would contend to you most most of time it is certainly military leaders need the resources monetarily and of the various things that they need to apply to the situation at hand. Another resource we have and this is where I want to get spiritual with you for a minute because we need to Call upon the resource of God or higher power, it can be at our life. That is another provision that we need. In the Bible it says and flip hands for God shall supply all your needs according to his riches, and his glory in Christ Jesus. And wherever you’re at in your life, my friends, whether you’re a Christian, a follower, Christ or not, I would invite you to call upon a power higher than yourself to speak into your life that will help you an awful lot. So it has to do with the purpose. The preparation piece of this has to do with getting the training that that that we need, we need to practice we need to do the things that we need to do and to the to use it as a part of our daily routine. If you want to lose that weight, you need to make your eating habits part of your daily life. You need to make your workout habits a part of your regular life. You need to make it a part of your team. Your habits that’s preparing to succeed. A lot of coaches will say that the games of athletic contest, basketball games, football games are won not on the field so much of the play, but in the time it takes a preparation and practice, I want to encourage you to be people who are winners, I having a great battle plan in your life, and then apply it any in your life. Here in this Veterans Day time, we can learn some things from other people, some military leaders, and apply it to your life. While we’re out here at the pathway to promise is practical, applicable solutions to help you to deal with adversity, adverse conditions in your life, to help you get through that time and achieve your promise life of peace, prosperity, and purpose. And we encourage you to do that head on over to pathway promise calm, you can see some back issues of the podcast there had some other resources for you, and some other things that we could do to be helpful to you. That’s what we’re do get a free gift for you there. We invite you to check out pathway promise. com.

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