Perspectives and amazing thing, isn't it? I mean, sometimes you see things that aren't going the right way. And it's very frustrating. Sometimes you see things that are going the right way. And that that becomes very exciting. And And isn't it amazing how your perspective can change just a few moments.

One moment, things are just great. You feel up next moment they're down, you feel down. Well, that's my perspective is so key in dealing with stress. And that's why it's important that you elbow right perspective toward yourself, by affirming the way we've talked about it. And then secondly, you have a right perspective toward life, by thinking by having an attitude of gratitude by constantly living a life of thankfulness. The third area where you need the right perspective, it's so key is the right perspective toward problems or challenges and the way you deal with problems is by embracing them.

Now, I know that sounds crazy. But that really is the key. This is the linchpin to dealing with stress. They use stressful way. Whenever you have a challenge or a problem, you learn to embrace it. Now I want you to get in your mind, a problem you've had, in the last 24 hours, just some challenge of difficulty.

Maybe it's something you're grappling with financially or personally or professionally, but get that in your mind. And then what I want you to do is think again, about how did you respond mentally? What did you think? What did you feel? What did you say? What did you do in response to that challenge?

Battle have a lot to tell you about how you deal with it in your perspective. Now, now that you have that in your mind, what I want to introduce you to now that we're going to unfold in the days to come and our our course is how to Deal with it the right way. And as you recall the right way to deal with stress overall is responding. You stressfully not distress fully. Remember distress is worry frustration, fear, anxiety, bitterness hurt. It's trying to deal with things you can't change and use stressful response is, having a positive viewpoint is seen as a catastrophe is a challenge and an obstacle is an opportunity.

It sees a problem as a possibility. I loved what the pastor Robert Schuller said many years ago, and that is easy to say it this way, every problem is pregnant with possibilities. He would just punctuate the words because that's true. Every problem in our life is pregnant. It's filled up with possibilities. That's a prospective issue.

It's not just success, motivational hype. It's seeing things with a perspective that I can turn this into a possibility, not a problem. Now, what I want to introduce you to right now is an equation that you can use again, this is something we're going to unpack and go deeply in, in our course, in the days to come, but the equation is this problems plus embracing them. results in Patience, patience, plus time and repetition equals completeness. Did you get that? Problems plus, embracing them?

Well welcome them as friends. I'll talk about that in a moment. embracing them equals Patience, patience, plus time and repetition equals completeness. Now, look, I can guarantee you this, where every one of us wants to be in this life is we want to be complete and whole we want to be people who are we want to be relaxed. We will Want to have a constant joy? We want to be content, don't we?

We want to have this lack of want. And though the way we get there is we have to be weaned from circumstances as a source of our joy, and learn how to get centered and have the right perspective, all the things we're talking about here, and especially learn how to embrace problems. So there's a scripture that talks about this. I love the JB Phillips translation that says this in James chapter one, two through four. He says when various trials and tribulations crowd into your lives, my brothers, don't treat them as intruders, but walk them them or embrace them as friends. Now, when you have intruders in your life, how do you deal with them?

Oh, sometimes we shoot them. Sometimes we kick them out, but we try to get rid of intruders, right. But when you have friends, how do you greet them? Well, if you're like me, I'm a hugger. I embrace my friends. I say so great to see a mark or Walter or Jim or Or Rick or any of these friends, and I embrace them as friends.

And, and that's the way we're to deal with problems. Let me ask you this question. Is that the stupidest thing you've ever heard? I mean, really, the way you deal with problems is here's a problem. Now, this is the worst things happen to you in the last 24 hours, maybe the worst thing that's happened to you in the last year. Get those things in your mind.

And what I'm suggesting to you in fact, I'm telling you this, this is the secret to dealing with stress. The stressful way, is you need to learn to embrace these as opportunities. Walk from them, literally embrace them as friends. Hey, problems so good. Come on in. I'm so thankful you're here.

You're welcome them as friends. Because what you want to experience is the fact that it's not really about why something's happening to you. It's what you can learn from what's happening to you is how you can respond. What's happening to you? So when you're welcome them as friends, you say I'm not going to treat challenges in my opportunities otherwise, our challenges as my enemies, otherwise you're going to have problems. Every day you're going to be frustrated every day you're going to be distressed every day.

Instead, you say, I'm gonna embrace challenges. I'm going to embrace problems actively aggressively assertively, embrace them, and say, Hey, I'm so glad these are in my life not because I like this. But because I know this is gonna allow me to grow and develop and mature and it will produce in me as I embrace them patience and patience over time and repetition is gonna cut resulting completeness. Now look, I know that can sound like it's crazy. But I want to guarantee you this. This is the secret to dealing with stress.

So use restful What is the secret to have constant joy and peace and love and hope And authentic success in your life. Because if you want those things, you need to be weaned from circumstances as a source of your joy and be willing, entirely to this perspective, and your view toward all of these areas that we're talking about as a source of your joy, and a constant belief that things are going to work out for good. What Seligman calls learned optimism, that we'll talk about more of the days to come. And as you do that, you're going to be free to live a life of liberty instead of just wanting to get more, more. I want to go more places, I want more experiences, I want more money, I want more jobs, I want more friends, I want more and more and more and more. Instead of that, you're gonna, I hope you get a lot of those things.

By the way, I enjoy. This is my home. I'm good, okay. But instead of that I want I hope you're going to say, Hey, I'm going to learn to be content and whenever I have, I'm going to learn to be thankful for whatever I have. I'm going to learn that even when challenges come It might be a sickness, it might be a financial problem. It might be a relational conflict.

It could be the death of someone near in your life. You're not going to live with resentment toward that bitterness, instead, you're going to embrace it, and turn that into an opportunity to grow and develop. Well, I hope. I hope this is coming home to you. There's so much more behind this I want to teach but I want you to get the core principle down first. And as as you get this down, we're going to keep basically peeling this, this onion away.

So we go deeper and deeper and deeper and you develop the core competencies to deal with stress the right way, in a liberating, free, healthy, use stressful way so that your life is filled with greater joy and peace and love and completeness and hope and expectation and authentic success. So you're making a life and not just a living. Well look at I hope this was helpful. If it is I want you to be able to pass this on to your friends, your family, those around you you love, who need this kind of thing in their life and let them get involved in the process of dealing with stress the right way and gaining that kind of liberty in their life. In the meantime, what I want you to do between now and our next tape is to think through. As we work through these oddities, audios and videos.

And this case, I want you to think about, again, this worst stress that you have in your life. And I want you to think, how have you dealt with that in the last 24 hours? Or it could be one that you've had for a while? How are you dealing with it? are you dealing with it by embracing it? Are you do you how do you resent it and treating it as a traitor?

Then I want you to think through how can I embrace this. By the way, embracing something doesn't mean you don't recognize there's a problem or a challenge that you don't try to deal with it. You don't try to resolve it. Embracing It simply says, Hey, I'm understanding now that this is going to be good for me. It's going to turn me into the right kind of person, if I respond rightly. So be sure you do And by the way, if you like this again, of course, pass it on to others.

And beyond that, certainly give us your feedback on what you're learning and thinking through this process as as you're learning more and more how to deal with stress the the right way. Again, you can follow follow me at ron johnson comm you can follow me on my YouTube channel, you can check out my Facebook page or follow me in any of the social media but I'm here and we as a team are here through high ground, our nonprofit to help you make a life not just a living run, signing off.