PTP:102. The Path to Greatness Part 2: How to Be Great

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pathway to promise podcast, Episode Number 102. The pathway to greatness. Part Two, how to be great.

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Alexander pile and the author of the power 10, a guide to living the 10 commandments and the golden rule and Matter of fact, you’re on the pathway premise podcast with Dr. Greg Miller, who is helping you implement the 10 commandments and the golden rule to help you find your promise like

Brad Miller 0:32
you are on the pathway to promise with Dr. Brad Miller. Brad leads 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. It is great to have you here with me today. And allow me the privilege to speak into your earbuds wherever you’re at today, and the car or working around the house, or whatever riding your bicycle. Whatever you’re doing today. I just thank you for the privilege of letting me into your life to today to talk about something great. Today we’re in part two of talking about the pathway to greatness. Last episode and path one on one we talked about what does it mean to be great. And today and episode number one or two, we’re talking about how to live as a great person or how to be great. Here at the pathway to promise we’re here to be helpful to you help you be great help you to achieve your life of peace, prosperity, and purpose by overcoming adversity. Things like death and divorce and debt and depression or diagnosis of a disease. Any number of things that can happen to your life that can put you in the ditch keep you from achieving your greatness. I want you and I believe God wants you to have a god given life of greatness, of peacefulness and prosperity and purpose. Our website pathway promised calm is a great place to get a great free gift. also find out about our past episodes of the show the podcasts which can speak into your life. That’s what we want to do today. The pathway to greatness, part number two, how to be great how to live as a great person. You see, friends, I really believe that God means for you to be have a great life and to have a great life means that you have to intentionally live as a great person. One of the books that has really informed me a lot over the last several years as I read it about dozen years or so ago is good to great by Jim Collins. And he has a supplementary book called Good to Great for the social sectors which is really geared towards nonprofits. Churches, they really talks about how and that one about Good to Great for the social sector about how the manifestation of good stuff of greatness for a church or a nonprofit is basically the reputation or the goodwill which is generated by the organization by the accomplishment that they do. How does that happen? That happens when they became no one has doing great things, not just good, because good is the enemy of great but great things. And that happens when people in organizations are intentional about moving through the difficult challenges that they have to be great. Last week in episode one on one, we talked about what it means to be great. Today we’re not talking about the application, or how to be great. Let me talk about a little bit think one of the first stages You can do to be great is to stop lording over people. And stop being a good listening listener. Stop trying to tell other people what to do and be a good listener. Stephen Covey talks about in his book The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People in order to be understood under understood, you must take time to understand. And that’s what I want to share with you here today. The first thing you can do today, good, good listener. The Bible talks about this great writings talk about this. And the Bible talks about the good shepherd who listens to the needs of the sheep, and goes to them and listens to them. So let’s talk about the characteristics of someone who dominates or lording over other people, and someone who is a good leader or a listener. The characteristics of someone who Lords it over the people would they would be really concerned about their position or the power that they have. Whereas a person who’s a good listener is much more concerned about principles about having a principled relationship with people in their life. Their character characteristics of one who Lords it over other people as one who really takes great stocking command, as in domination.

A person who is a leader who is a listener is one who takes into consideration others. They are able to make decisions, but they consider the thoughts and the intellectual power and the feelings and the contribution of other people. One who Lords it over the other people is one who manipulates others that is someone who wants to see change for their benefit, not for the benefit of others or for the organization. Whereas a One who is a listener or a good leader is one who is motivating. A good motivating person is one who listens and learns and then encourages, not manipulates, but motivates and the focus that everyone who Lords it over other people’s personal needs for their own personal gratitude, their own personal benefit. It has nothing to do with others because that’s what the, for the benefit of others is really what one who’s a listener and a leader is all about. This is how you become great is by learning to listen. Something else you can do to learn to be great is stop role playing, and start risking.

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Let me unpack that a little bit.

Brad Miller 6:51
Role Playing is when we put on airs, we try to be somebody that we’re not when we try to to play the game. positioned on for other people. We play a role of a dominating austere person. We don’t have to be that way. Stop role playing. Instead, start risky. That is be yourself. Be yourself. And in the context of being yourself, allow yourself the vulnerability and allow yourself the opportunity to impact others based on who you are not who you think you ought to be. Risk things. I love this quote by Theodore Roosevelt, and I just committed to you for you to think about, you probably heard it before. But let’s hear it again. Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States said this. It’s not the critic who counts not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who’s actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust. sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who airs and comes short again and again, who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions and spends himself in a worthy cause, who at best knows in the end, the triumph of high achievement, who and who at worst, if he fails, at least fails by Daring Greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls, who know neither victory nor defeat. Theodore Roosevelt, what a great thing to think about stop role playing, start risking Another thing we can do to be great is to stop counting and stop carrying. Counting is when we’re keeping score all the time. We keep score about who makes the most money or who does, who has the most. You know, good things going on in their life, supposedly. His about we start caring about other people and about the overall success of organization, then we be known as great. And guess what the counting will take care of itself. We cannot be scoreboard watchers, we have to be engaged in playing the game. I like to say that you’re good people because I love you as my listeners. And one of the reasons I call you the good people is because the influence of john Wesley on my life, a great leader of a Methodist movement, and a great church leader, but he said this, he likes to call people who are followers of Christ to good people. And so I like to call you the good people as well. And here’s what he said. He said, do all the good you can buy all the means you can and all the ways you can and all the places you can add all the times you can to all the people you can as long as you can. That’s good stuff, their friends from john Wesley. Just a couple of other things here friends for you to consider. That is to stop Seeking and stop start serving that has to do with stopped looking around for your gratification your greatness from some other place from some outside force, look at it from inwardly by how you serve others. It will be a good thing. Hidden it will be a good thing. If you serve other people, you will become known for your service you’ll become known for your greatness based on your servant hood. Not on how much you searched for greatness yourself. Albert Schweitzer once wrote, I don’t know what your destiny will be but one thing I know the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who have sought and found out how to serve. And the Bible it says this about King David. Day it says for it says for for David after yet serve the purpose of God and His own generation fell asleep and was laid among his father’s He had served a purpose of God.

I just want you to know friends that you are have greatness in your life. It’s there for you. It’s waiting for you to unearth it. I like to call it the promise life. That is the ultimate gift that God gives you have peace in your life. That’s peace of mind. That is the peace of mind that you could have prosperity in your life. That is having good things in your life. That’s having good relationships, that’s having good health. That’s having enough, enough money and enough good shelter enough places to be all your needs cared for. And it means having a purpose in life. Purpose has to do with serving something greater than yourself goes back to this being greatness thing. You’re great, you’re great out of your servant hood. And you’re great when you have a purpose in your life and you follow that purpose and invite you to do just that. Know that God has given You a way to overcome whatever adversity is in your life, and you can do it. We’re here to help on the pathway to promise. Go to our website pathway of promise. com we’ve got a free gift for you there, and other great episodes of the pathway to promise that can speak into your life. I’m here to be helpful to let’s be in contact, you can always contact me also through the Facebook page facebook.com slash pathway. Friends, we’re here for each other on the pathway to profits podcast. Until next time, this is Dr. Brad Miller, encouraging you to keep your promises because there’s power and a 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

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