Have you ever had a bad day? Will you say, hey, bad day, a bad week or a bad month or it's just been bad? Well, we all have bad times, we all do. Life's filled with ups and downs. And what I want to share with you for a few minutes right now is that you can overcome and actually conquer stress. In fact, in the days to come, I'm going to be giving you videos, small little videos, so you can understand the six steps to conquering stress.

Now, you may go, Hey, that'd be great if I could do it, but I'm not sure I can do it. But well, test me as I share these things. You see if they work, they've worked with hundreds of thousands of people all around the world as I've spoken in over 50 countries of the world to many thousands of people and large conventions and leadership events. And we've done Train trainers to replicate these around the world. These will work. So I have a thesis I want to share with you right now actually too.

And then I want to share with you an overview of where we're going to go. The thesis is twofold. Number one, the more successful you become, the more stress you're bound to experience. And that fun, not. The reality is you have greater stress and stress is just pressure, the more successful you become, because the more you want to live a complete whole life. The more you want to win in the area of your family and friends and finances and fitness and faith and entire areas of your life.

You want to have some work life integration and harmony. If you're truly authentically successful. And beyond that, you're trying to have a life of contribution, you're trying to make a difference if you're authentically successful, all of those things bring with them pressure. We'll talk about those in the days to come. The second part of the thesis is this though the more you apply right principles of perspective. That's a key word.

Remember that underline it in your, in your mind. The more you practice, right principles of perspective, the lesser amounts of distress, you're going to experience or you're saying, Hey, wait a second, you just said I'll have more stress. I did. Stress is just pressure. I'm sitting on the seat, that's stressful. I'm speaking that's stressful.

You're listening to me, that's stressful. You have a lot of other things to do. stresses whenever there's deadlines, or you have things in pushing against you, they could be physical, emotional, mental, relational, financial, spiritual, occupational, they could be any number of areas, our lives filled with stress, and that's not going to decrease. The key is to learn to deal with distress. distress is worry, fear, frustration, anger, bitterness, hurt. Depression, can also lead to in devastating life.

Well, that's distress. That's the wrong response to stress. So when I talk about the right perspective, I wanted to teach you the perspective of use stress, not distress. Now, imagine a T bar here with a line down the center, you stress on one side, distress on the other side, over here, use stress, sees the possibilities. distress sees the problems. Use stress, sees the challenge.

Distress, sees the catastrophe. Use stress sees the opportunities. This stresses the obstacles, you get my point. This isn't just successful mental hype or success, motivation. These are foundational universal principles that are found in the literature over the years in the area of learned optimism. They go way back to the Greek fathers.

They're found throughout the Bible. The concept is learning to focus on those things I can change and that's my attitudes and my thoughts and my behavior. But it starts off with right perspective seeing things the right way. So I focus on things that I can change, not things I can't change. Well, we're going to unpack these in the days to come. In our next session, I'm going to introduce you to the six key perspectives you need to have to live a life that's you stressful not distressful, when filled with joy and peace and happiness and productivity, not filled with frustration, anger, hurt, bitterness, and so on.

So stay tuned. Now what you can do is get in your mind the most stressful day you've had in the last year. Think about that. And write down what did you think? What did you say? What did you feel?

What did you do? Get that in your mind? And then ask yourself, did I respond as best as I understand it in a stressful way or a distressful way? Was that a opportunity or an obstacle? Was it a problem or a possibility and so on, and I'm going to unpack that for you in the days to come. Hey, if you like this, share this in social media, share it through our YouTube channel, share our blog.

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