Well, Hi, and welcome to our last module. Now this is our conclusion module in our course dealing with how we overcome and conquer stress. And what I want to do during this particular session is have us think through again, where we've gone and then think through in the subsequent sessions in this module, how we live out a lifestyle, a habit, a way of life, of overcoming and conquering stress. So in this particular session, session one in this module, I just want us to review a little bit so review with me Well, you remember, we focused in on talking about stress at the very beginning and saying stress is not bad. In fact, hopefully you remember my point that the more successful you become, the more stress you're bound to experience. That's a challenge.

But the good news is, the more you apply the right perspective, and learn how to respond, use stressfully versus distressful Lee, in other words, scene, not catastrophe, but a challenge scene, not something that is just horrible and awful and a problem, but saying something that is a mountain to climb, a challenge to move forward to a possibility. That's the difference again, between distress and use stress. And of course, we've been talking about how to deal with stress, the use stressful way throughout the entire time. And then we after that introduction, Walk through the six perspectives we needed to have in six major areas. And you might recall I gave you a specific area where you needed to think rightly. And then I gave you a perspective, to think the right way.

The area started with having a right view of yourself by affirming and that is, realizing that you are special and unique beyond anything you can imagine that your life in fact is to be a masterpiece. And yet, on the other hand, you have soft spots and weaknesses, and challenges like all of us, and you need to learn not to be disabled by those. So you never want to be overly arrogant or proud in the wrong way or self serving. But you also don't want to be self hating. So we've talked about the two rails of a train track remember that, always realizing your significance, but also So always appreciating the fact that you have soft spots and keeping those in tension. So you live with a healthy pride based on a real honest, healthy humility.

And then secondly, we talked about the right perspective when it came to life. And the way we deal with life rightly is by thanking, and there we covered the whole attitude of gratitude. We talked about the importance of having learned optimism, we can choose to be thankful we can choose to be optimistic. And then we follow that up with a right perspective toward problems by learning to embrace them. That's the technology. So in various trials and tribulations and difficulties and challenges crowd into your life, you don't treat them as intruders remember, dismiss them or run away from them or kick them out.

Instead, you embrace them as friends. Because you're not asking, why is this happening to me, you're asking, What can I learn from this? What can I do differently? How can I grow? What can I control? What can't I control?

And how do I focus on those things I can control so I embrace them. Do you remember the equation problems plus embracing equals patience, and then patience plus time and repetition equals completeness. That's such a key one in this whole process. And then the fourth area where we need the right perspective is with people. And the way we develop a right perspective toward people is that we learn to build up people or edify like we build an edifice we build people up in our thoughts and our words, and in our actions, we don't tear people down. We don't undercut them.

We certainly don't communicate in an uncivil way. You can always disagree with people and still love them and be respectful for them and care for them. You can accept people but not agree, or particularly approve with a behavior or a mindset, but always doing it agreeably and with respect and honor, like you deserve. The fifth area was the right perspective toward time. And you might recall there the key is by focusing in on the important, that's how we develop it. So we learn to determine what we really value, what's really important.

And we focus in on those things that are important. And we talked about the dynamic of how we do that process. And then finally, we zeroed in on the area of a right perspective toward our inner life. And the key technology there is by getting centered, and you might recall we talked about a circle This is your life and in your life. There's a Control Center of a throne if you will. And something is on the throne of your life that becomes your boss or God.

Again, not necessarily a big G, but a small g the same word Boston God, someone that is basically controlling you or influencing you are directing you. And as I said, they're the most important decision you'll ever make is who or what is going to be your boss, what's going to be on the throne of your life? Well, you've grappled through all of these, you've gone through exercises through all of these. Now we're at the conclusion. And now that we've had a bit of a refreshment on where we're going, what I'd like to do in the rest of our sessions, under this module is talk about how you turn this into a way of life. So your action step from this one, this particular session, is that you memorize the six areas and the technologies related to them.

So right view tool Self by affirming life by thanking problems by embracing them. People by building them up time by focusing on the important. And then finally your inner life by getting centered. Remember those because I'm, I'm going to show you in this next session, how you can put those together in every time you're facing one major crisis in your life, how you can actually integrate them, because that's what I want you to do. As you turn this into a way of life, you got it. Okay, memorize those before you go to the next session, and then we'll talk about how we integrate it.