PTP:098.Understand To Be Understood

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pathway to promise podcast with Dr. Brad Miller, Episode Number 98. Understand, to be understood,

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which really is geared to helping you unlock your brilliance and your greatest potential within yourself. I want to actually share something that you need to know about. Dr. Brad Miller has an amazing podcast called pathway to promise. And if you can get yourself on there, it’s going to help you live your life to higher levels and to reach the things that you want to achieve in life and also accomplish a greater unlocking your, your divine potential for I’m gonna encourage you to head on over and visit Dr. Brad Miller with happy to promise

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you’ll be glad you did. You were 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. Just thank you, I just want to thank you so much. I know that you’ve got a lot of things going on in your life. And you’ve taken a few moments to listen to what I have to share. So I just want to thank you for that right now. I believe that I have some good things to impart to your life I have confidence in my teaching abilities. And I also hear the pathway to promise bringing great teachers and leaders and authors to speak into your life to help you overcome adversity. To seek out your God given promise life of peace, prosperity and purpose. You can head over to our to our website pathway promised calm, we got some helpful things for you there. Check that out and pick up our free gift that we have for you there today seek first to understand, in order to be understood. This has to do with being a good listener. I mentioned that phrase seek first to understand others in order for you to be understood. That comes directly from some of the writing and the work of Stephen Covey and his seven habits of effective people. And it has to do with being a good listener. If you want people pay attention to you, then pay attention to them. Read this word, heard about this story. I read this little story recently. I want to share it with you about Mark Twain and about this the idea of listening. Find out what makes them tick and tell someone the time on their clock. That was one man’s solution for getting along with people. That is find out what makes them tick. Learn to understand, then tough time on their clock that is identify with them and speak their language. story that’s attributed to Mark Twain. It’s about a Missouri farmer who ran five times for the state legislature without winning. It wasn’t because he didn’t practice his speeches. He rehearsed his campaign talks every day. It’s said that he did it while he was making his counts. He would refer to himself to to the public as your humble aspirant, he referred to his audiences, my enlightened constituents. He talked about obtaining a mandate and about his legislative mission. All this eloquent language. They one day apparently his cabinet he was milk and got tired of his speeches as well and kicked him right in the mouse knocked out his teeth. And with that, the farm This this whole farmer who was running for office could no longer speak as well as he wants did certainly not as eloquently as he wants did. He basically could only speak in one syllable words. You know what happened. He won the next election. And he kept getting reelected. And he was no one over time as a very effective plain spoken legislature. However, Mark Twain felt about public of his day. This is the type of story that tells us about being a good listener and under understanding people, in order to be understood, as he says here to tell time on the clock by learning how people tick so that they, you know, highly eloquent and educated politician may not relate to his or her constituency because they’re pressing are many hard working plane folks who appreciate plane talk, straight talk, simple talk. And they may distrust even someone who kind of you know puts on airs or tries to be eloquent or feel like they might be somehow being manipulated or something like somebody trying to pull an overall them over on now.

People can relate to people who speak their language, whatever that is. And the Bible, the apostle Paul talked about, I need to be all things to all people to save some. That’s what I need you to do here friends, if you want to get over adversity in your life. Among the other things that you need to do is be a good listener and see how other people what, how they tick in order for you to be connected with them. Identify with the plight of others. This is a principle that’s not only for politicians and people in the public is for really for all of us. We have to learn what makes people tick If you have a relationship that’s going south going to bed way, have you really taken the time to listen to that person? If you’re having a fight with your spouse, listen to what they’re you’re saying if you’re in a really difficult go around with a child or a parent, or co worker, or somebody who’s in politics, Have you listened to what the other side has said? How do you know them? How do you know they’re different backgrounds? If you want to tell time with the clock, as the phrase goes, you need the alarm up, he helps make people tick. Here’s the thing friends, let people know that you understand them or at least that you’re listening, seek to listen to their language and then seek to speak their language. And you might be surprised how people will respond to you and listen to you here at the pathway to promise podcast we’re so Seeking the knowledge share with you but to be good listeners, if you want to share with us a good place to go is our Facebook page facebook.com slash pathway promise responses there and we’ll get we’ll get back to you. There’s also a comments section on our webpage pathway promise.com. That’s where you can find all the all the back episodes of the pathway, promise podcast, and some helpful tools for you there. My name is Dr. Brad Miller, here to be helpful to you and to listen. So until next time, friends, I just want to encourage you to keep your promises because there’s power, you know, promise kept. Thanks so much for taking the pathway to promise with 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

Thanks so much for taking the pathway to promise with 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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