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

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Hi, this is garland bands author of getting busy helping you to overcome overwhelm and be more productive. Dr. Brad Miller helps you to claim victory over adversity here on the pathway to promise podcast.

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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.

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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pathway to promise podcast with Dr. Brad Miller. Episode Number 86. Fix your mind to grow your mind.

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Hey, this is Scott Mayor from inspired stewardship calm and you connected with Dr. Brad Miller on the pathway to promise podcast where we are doing all the good weekend.

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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. And welcome to the pathway to promise podcast with Dr. Brad Miller. What an awesome opportunity it is for us to have a conversation together about things that matter. What we’re about here at the pathway to promise is about helping you overcome adversity in your life, to achieve your promise to life of peace, prosperity, and purpose, and learn the power of making a promise keeping a promise and celebrating the power of promise in your life. We do that by sharing some good teaching today we’re talking about but growing your mind, about your mindset about the history of fixed mindset, and a growth mindset. We do want you to know that we’ve got all kinds of opportunities at our website, pathway promise.com back episodes of the podcast with lots of great teaching from lots of great leaders who have overcome some adversity in their life to achieve success and we have a free gift for you there. So please go check that out. Let’s talk about your mind. What’s the difference between a fixed mindset and a growth mindset? Probably in one way or another, you have either experienced that yourself or you are one of these people who has a fixed mindset or a growth minded mindset. We almost all do. Perhaps you had a teacher or a boss or a parent or a sibling who seemed like they were perfect or who demanded perfection from you. That is a fixed mindset. That is there is a level of achievement. There’s a level of perfection that is expected that is expected and you go for it. Go for that achievement. Maybe it’s a sales goal in your company, maybe it’s a as an athletic goal that you have by a coach or by a parent or maybe it’s an academic achievement, for instance, trying to get all A’s or get a 4.0 when your report card is a fixed minded mindset. The problem with a fixed mindset is that it’s based on basically a understanding of the leverage of the negative over you leverage what you are not achieving, to what you can achieve, because it’s very, very hard to achieve perfection. So what happens to that student who is used to getting all A’s and all of a sudden in their sophomore year of college, they get a B, oh my god. For some people, that is a disaster. If they have a mindset, that’s Fixed that that is what their expectation is that they had that that be is simply unacceptable. It doesn’t lead to healthy living usually. However, if we have a growth mindset, a growth mindset has different parameters of how it works in our life is about understanding the circumstances we’re in, and then seeing how we frame that in our life. One of the things that I like to do is I’m a big basketball fan. And I like to study and follow the follow high school and college and pro basketball. And I like to study the teams and the coaches that have great success. And I happen to be from Indiana and one of the great successful coaches that came out of Indiana was a guy named john wooden, who went to college on the college level at UCLA in the 60s in the 70s. Won 10 national championships.

And he did so based on what he called his pyramid of success and then another episode of the podcast. We’ll get into that in more detail. But I want to talk to you today a little more about his mindset about coach Wooden’s mindset. But how he dealt with the circumstances that he was in and still was able to persevere and get through things in his life to have the most successful college basketball team dynasty of any era. A lot of folks that follow basketball know about his championships but they don’t really know that the first 16 years he was at UCLA, that they were had a terrible facilities. They didn’t have the best record in the world. Their place that that they played, yeah, and it was an old barn fat they called it the gym that they played in was known as the BO bar and BO for body odor. It was a terrible place. The atmosphere was sweaty and smelly and not very nice at all. And there was not a very good wasn’t very good atmosphere. And for for several years that coach you wouldn’t was at UCLA. They had to travel around and often had to borrow High School gems and things like that in order to even to practice. And then he’d the first group group of players that he had weren’t that great either. They had to recruit their different sets of players and help build up the players that he had. What did he do? that went on for 14 or 15 years before he had any real success. He said about going to work with a mindset of growth, growing himself and growing his players and He kept working on progress, making progress going on getting better getting better every day. Yeah, he gave them you know, training and, and coaching and he was not you know, he was tough on his players. He was a firm disciplinarian. But what he was about all the time was these two main elements that he talked to his players that I want you to get here today is with think about a fixed mindset and a growth mindset. And that was two elements that he had and what wouldn’t talk to his players and that is two things get these full preparation and full effort. I’ll say that again, full preparation and full effort. So he wasn’t looking for mistake free games when they played her mistake free practices. He was looking for being prepared and giving all giving your all giving your effort. He did not focus on the winning or the losing and his players will tell you about that. He focused on getting better all the time. And so he worked with some of the greatest players of all time. You know, Kareem Abdul Jabbar and all kinds of other great players that he worked with. But he was able to work with them and to help them to grow individually. he respected them individually. And then they came together as a team to grow. And this bias towards growth led to excellence. And that’s what I want to encourage you to be about friends has to have a bias towards growth, get your mindset, not on achieving perfection because that is just a standard that is not really realistic. Set yourself on a standard Dad sees things in a different way. See your life in terms of preparation and effort and look to make progress and persevere. You can do this. It’s very possible, it’s very doable. So if you want to win in the game of life, whether it’s your business or in your family or your marriage or your relationships, or in athletics or music or in your performance or your workplace, let’s think about how you can grow being a constant state of growth. In two things come into play here, preparation, and effort. If you do those things you’re going to grow. Here’s the key for what we like to teach here at the pathway to promise.

The key to this is to promise yourself, make it a part of your mindset. Not to be that perfect person, but to be the person who can be counted upon to be fully prepared. And to give full effort, make that promise to yourself and if you need to make that promise to the people you’re accountable to at your workplace or your spouse or your children or, or to your, to your health partner, your workout partner, make that promise. Full preparation full effort, then keep your promise. That’s the thing. That’s what he wouldn’t did in coaching. He he held the people up to the standard of making a promise and keeping their promise and excellence ensued. So be encouraged today, during the pathway to promise that you too can achieve great things. When you have a growth mindset, full preparation and full effort. We can be helpful to you we want to be head over to our website, pathway promise.com. There you can find lots of back episodes, other podcasts which could be helpful to you and some blog posts We have a free downloadable gift all for you. Because our mission here at the pathway to promise podcast is to help you overcome adversity in your life to achieve your promise, life of peace, prosperity, and purpose. So until next time, my friend, this is Dr. Brad Miller encouraging you to keep your promises because there’s power in our 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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pathway to promise podcast with Dr. Brad Miller, Episode Number 85. Decide and conquer.

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Hi, this is Tony Colson, author of unlocking your divine DNA, and I help people achieve excellence and live a life of greatness. Dr. Brad Miller does the same thing by teaching you how to achieve peace, prosperity, and purpose right here on the pathway to promise.

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You’re on the pathway to promise with Dr. Brad Miller. Brad leaves 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 profit Now here’s Brad. Hello again good people Welcome to pathway to promise podcast with Dr. Brad Miller What an honor privilege it is. to have you with me here today and to allow me into your world whatever you’re doing the day, maybe you guide me in the earbuds is you’re taking a walk, maybe you’re out doing some, some lawn work, raking leaves or something, whatever it is, thank you for the privilege of let’s have been able to be in, have a conversation together. Today we’re going to be talking about decide or conquer. Here at the pathway to promise podcast we’re all about helping you to make Decisions, decisions in your life by making promises by making promises, keeping promises and by exploring and, and generating power through your promises. We do that by teaching and by having great strategies from other great guests. And you can get to all that at our website pathway promise.com heading over there. We got a free gift for you as well decide and conquer. If you want to have success in your life, one of the things that you have to learn how to do is to make good decisions and to make them in a timely manner. You want to make your decisions based on good information and on being well informed, but you don’t have to wait forever to make a decision either. I’ve learned in my life that sometimes the best decisions I’ve ever made have been rather quick decisions. You know, I knew not too long after I met my wife. Just a few days really that that she was the one. This is for me. I didn’t have to search much longer. I know when I would when we picked out our dog, my son I went to Local kennel, you know the Humane Society. And there were literally a million dogs are barking and going crazy.

Just a nuthouse that of the Humane Society is with, I don’t know, probably 200 dogs in there, but our dog read was in a cage commas could be and just looking up at us really with those puppy dog eyes, as they say. And she was the one we knew that she was the one. How do you make decisions in your life? And what is the impact of that in the success in your life? The word decision means to cut off from their words when you make a decision. You leave whatever is behind you behind you, and you move forward. You cut off something like you cut off a piece of meat or something you cut off what you don’t want it you have what you do need. I have been informed a little bit about how to make good decisions by reading and by leadership of other people in my life. And that’s been helpful to me read some stuff recently by john Maxwell, a leadership author. And he talks about the power of making decisions to have success in your life. And he says that when it comes to decision making timing is the key is the key. When you Quit messing around and go forward, he says, that’s the key to having success. He will he go, he says that the wrong decision that the wrong time equals a disaster. The wrong decision at the right time is a mistake. the right decision at the wrong time is simply unacceptable. But what we want though, is the right decision at the right time. And that leads to success. What are some of the factors there? Well, let me share it with us few of the things here just to keep in mind about decision making in your life. See the choice to not change will determine our destiny to decide not to decide is really a decision. So why not take some control in your life and make a decision and then deal with whatever the consequences are. Another thing is to choose not to decide is really allowing others to decide for you, or to choose not to decide is to no longer take responsibility for our own life. And that really sets us adrift in some ways that is really not usually the way we want it to be. indecision is a mark of a fearful mind. And I want to encourage you to not live in fear but live in faith. So be decisive in your life. decisiveness is also the mark of a leader. People will follow someone who makes decisions, whether it’s in your family or on the corporate boardroom or in your church or in any other groups, you’re part of people follow decision makers. When you have a decision making, that brings clarity before decision is made, then that helps the course of action to be a successful one. So indecision is the same way that leads us into ways that our usual or oftentimes that indecision can lead us to a pathway, which is not successful.

decision. Decision is it is helps us to have courage and knowledge in our life, and to seek out the knowledge which we need to do in order to follow through with the course of action that we have. Really, if you think about it, great people that we know of in our life are people who are really ordinary People but who made some extraordinary decision. And a large number of people who are who are, deal with pressure in their lives can deal with pressure better when they are decision makers and decision making ad makes everything else in your life possible when you make a good decision. And those who make no decision usually get stumped by things that happen in their life. You see success as one of the things that that has been said is that success is not for the Chosen Few. But for the few who choose a few nuggets of wisdom there some of from john Maxwell, some of our pick of us and some other other places about decision making. It comes into play in every aspect of your life right now. My wife and I, for instance, we’re trying to make a decision about our health insurance for next year 2020 the fourth our employers for this year this upcoming year, all of a sudden, we have a whole new set of a health insurance plans before us, it’s really about a dozen different different options that are there. They’re quite confusing about what to do. But here’s what we do know, if we don’t make a decision for us, regarding our own health insurance, we will not have the control. And we do know this, that the decision that’s made on our behalf if we don’t just choose is the most expensive option that there is. So we need to make a good decision based on all the information before us what is the best health care plan for my wife and I and for our family, and it is cost effective? It’s using your head. It’s using your head. So let me encourage you to care enough about yourself to make good decisions. This is also about the promise making part of things. Make a promise to yourself to make good, well informed, timely decisions. That’s to make a promise to make a decision. To keep your promises to make good decisions and know the power of decision making is a part of keeping a promise to yourself which will give you power in your life. And what we’re here to do with the pathway to promise podcast is to give you the opportunity to understand that God has given you a life with a promise life of peace, prosperity and purpose and you can claim that in your life and go forward, not in fear, but in faith. Knowing when you make a good decision, it will help you to succeed. Until next time, this is Dr. Brad Miller with the pathway to promise podcast and I want to encourage you to keep your promises because there’s power in a 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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pathway to a promise podcast with Dr. Brad Miller Episode Number 84. The devil made me do it.

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I’m Bill McDonald from Bill mcconnell.me, author of conquer What’s next? Thank you for listening to the pathways to promise podcast with Dr. Brad Miller, living your life with peace, prosperity, and purpose.

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You are on the pathway to promise with Dr. Brad Miller. Brad leaves 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 the pathway to promise podcast with Dr. Brad Miller. That’s me glad to have you with me today as we have a conversation about things of value about making promises and keeping promises and the power of promise. That is to say, we really believe here that you can overcome any adversity in your life. Anything that happens in your life, if you make a commitment to follow a pathway, that you have a god given purpose in your life, a god given gift in your life, of love and power and bold action, and have discipline in your life and that’ll help you get through any adversity and to achieve what we believe is your God given promise, life of peace, prosperity, and purpose. And we’re glad to be here to help you to do that. You can always go to our website pathway promised calm, you can find some good insights there for some other guests which we have on our podcast and from some of the teaching and the things that I like to share.

One of the things I like to share is stories that happened in my life. And just some thoughts that happened. And I’m thinking today as we have the interesting justice juxtaposition between good and evil, which is indicated by today, I’m recording this on November the first 2019. It’s a day, then in the Christian world we call All Saints Day. Today when we remember folks who have passed away, especially in the last year, and we talked about the this the connection, the spiritual connection between those who have departed the dead and our earthly connection that we have here. We remember those folks and we remember that spiritual connection. But we also think about All Saints Day in terms of what happened yesterday. Yesterday was Halloween. Halloween. is a time of a lot of fun, isn’t it? I know in my neighborhood, it was rainy and cold and sleet was coming out but still a lot of kids are out Trick or Treating, there was one kid dressed up like a tuba toothpaste. There was another kid who was dressed up like a cloud formation. I’m sure how he did it. He had a whole bunch of white stuff that made it look like he was in the clouds. And there was lots of fun going on that way. And the weather didn’t keep the kids from Trick or Treat because it’s a lot of fun. But the whole thing about Halloween is is supposed to be you know, everybody dressed up like you know, kind of ghosts and goblins and witches and scary stuff. Because Halloween is all about of course, the last day before All Saints Day. Halloween stands for All Hallows Eve. And hallows. The word hallows means holy. And so it is basically kind of the time of mischief and a time when all the ghouls and the goblins would come out. They had their last kind of party before. This is All Saints Day. So the transition between October 31 and a Remember first is this, this point of intersection between good and evil. And I think in your life in mind, we’ve got some intersections of good and evil as well. And I like to what? Sometimes we may have heard the phrase, the devil made me do it. That’s all about temptation. And what I want to give to you about that is that there is a dominant show my age here. Now, there was a comedian back in the 60s and 70s, a guy named maim a Flip Wilson he had his own TV show, and he had a character is a black gentleman, and he would dress up like a woman character, Geraldine. And you know, and she would isn’t a high pitched voice. She would talk about her problems with her boyfriend and other things that she had in her life. And then she talked about some situation she had to do and then she would say, that devil made me do it. I didn’t say very good, of course, but that was the whole deal with her. The devil made her do it. And she don’t talk to him about all the trouble that she gets. And with with her boyfriend Fang and and all that kind of stuff, and that the devil made you do it. And that’s what Flip Wilson was known for that catchphrase, the devil made me do it.

What do you think about that for a minute, this juxtaposition between All Hallows Eve and All Saints Day, the day All Saints Day when We remember and celebrate and acknowledge that spiritual connection between those who have departed and those who remain. And All Hallows Eve we’re talking about to remember you know how the dead would kind of take over the evil kind of take over in our life, we got to make some decisions to one of the things I like to share here on the pathway to profits podcast is the power of promise. The power when you make a promise, when you keep a promise and the power of a promise kept. But what is a promise really, a promise as a choice of behavior is a choice of behavior to remain covenant with somebody or something or not? That means it’s up to us. Maybe you remember the image that comes to mind sometimes when we say phrases like the devil, maybe do it if you think about someone who may been images of a person who has a little devil on one shoulder, and a little angel and the other shoulder, and when there’s a decision to be made about whatever it is, you know, the little devils whispering in and do the bad thing. It’ll be fun. It won’t hurt you anything, that kind of thing. And the little angels whispering another year, you know, you need to do the right thing here. You didn’t want to hurt anybody’s feelings. You don’t want to mess things up. And but what’s in between the little angel on one shoulder and a little devil on the other shoulder. It’s your head. Yeah, the little devil, a little angel can whisper into your head into your ears. But ultimately, my friend, you have to make the decision. That’s the cognitive piece of this. That’s the choice that you make. And I want to encourage you to make a choice based on good stuff, putting good values in your life. Read good stuff, consume good stuff, pray, connect with others, be in service, serve your family, have fun together, do some things of value in your life and it will fill you up with a good stuff. When we choose oftentimes to go to bad places, when we are empty in our lives, when our souls are empty, or emotions are empty, or when we have we let ourselves slip off into depression and other things. We feel like a kind of a you know, nobody loves us or nobody wants anything to do with us. Or maybe we don’t even have a trick or treat or couch or house. Whatever it is that we have that breathless, that that that emptiness that is there. But it doesn’t have to be that way we choose and how we fill up our life or not. That’s our choice to make. biblically, if you think about Jesus himself was up on a plateau. And the evil one said, The whole world is yours. The temptation here is for you, and if you just will follow me. And of course, Jesus said, No, get behind me Satan. And he chose to follow a hard path, a hard path. You know the path that led to crucifixion and resurrection. And the Bible is full of stories of temptation. You’ve had your stories of temptation, your life, temptations, have to do something right or wrong to do something that goes against your value system, you know, was right, temptation to do to say some word that would have been helpful. And I just want to encourage you friends to use your head, but fill your head with good stuff. For us your heart, fill your heart with good stuff, use your body and fill your body with good stuff, to give you energy to in order to make good value based decisions. And when you make these two things,

It’s not the devil makes you do anything. It’s not even, you know, if we, if those of us who are Christians believe that there’s free will and free choice, God can’t force you to do anything either. It’s our decision whether we’re going to follow a pathway that leads to the saints, or lead to the evil one. That’s the power of making a promise. When you make a promise to somebody else, you’re saying to them, I value you. And I value being in covenant and connection with you. And I want to share my life with you. I want to share my values with you. Then you follow it up by keeping the promise taking the actions that is necessary. It means doing the hard work that’s necessary to keep a promise. And then the power of that comes in the fulfillment that you have in your life. Then you don’t have to worry about the devil making you do it or anything else. You know that you have good things in your life, and you have fulfillment. It’s almost like that kid who comes comes back with from circuit treating with that, you know with that Jacqueline or that bag full of candy, they’re happy as could be because they went, and they did the trick or treating and they got the treats. When you make good decisions, your life friends, you’re going to have a treat in your life. And the devil is not gonna make you do anything. But you’re going to have fulfilling your life because you have made a promise. You’ve kept a promise, and you’ve experienced the power of promise. That’s what we’re here to do at the pathway to promise podcast to help fill up your life with good stuff that will help give you fulfillment in your life in a world that is a lot of unfulfillment and it and if we could be helpful to you, we want to do just that. You can go to our pet to our website, pathway promise.com you can see some helpful things there are some free gifts for you, and some great interviews with some other folks and give you tips and give you strategies and how to have peace, prosperity and purpose in your life. So until next Time for and when you join me on the pathway to promise podcast with Dr. Brad Miller. I am here to encourage you to keep your promises because there’s power in a promise camp. 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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