our Sunday conversation this week is
with a well-known Houstonian Victoria
Osteen Victoria and her husband Joel
speak before thousands at Lakewood
Church every Sunday and millions through
their televised sermons but this Sunday
she's talking with channel two in a more
casual setting she sat down with our
Dominique Saxa for a conversation about
faith the link between attitude and
success and her new book exceptional you
so how exciting for you Victoria you've
got a book coming out next week
exceptional you tell us about it
well I wrote this book because first off
you know I I just feel like that God has
made every one of us exceptional
mm-hm and we're exceptional but we don't
always feel exceptional sometimes we
feel ordinary we feel like you know
we're just uncommon we don't we don't
have the gifts and talents other people
have and I just I believe that when we
realize that God has put everything in
us for the journey he's placed us on
then we can begin to stir up that
exceptional on the inside of us do you
feel it's a mindset is it a series of
choices is it a combination of both I
really believe it's a combination of
both and one thing that I want to talk
about in this book that what people to
understand is you you get a do-over
every day mm-hmm and it's very important
that we hit our reset button every day
it would be tremendous if we could put
all of our dials on autopilot me and my
family I got that right there my jobs
here and just to have our settings and
just go through life but that's not the
way it works and so I just think that
when we understand that we get a redo
every day we get to make those choices
every single day that we can step into
the that exceptional every day as a co
pastor at Lakewood you deliver a sermon
every Sunday your message is varying and
it's broad as an author how do you
decide what is it that I'm gonna focus
on what's speaking to me and what what
do I feel people need to hear how did
you hone in on this message for this
book well we we really try to lift
people up because you know even when
Jesus came he fed the multitudes and
first so sometimes we need to break
through this barrier of defeat break
through this barrier of discouragement
really we try to encourage people and
put them back on their feet mm-hmm so
then they
in their heart and they can receive the
things that God has for them do you
think it's possible to be exceptional
without some practice of faith well you
know I just believe that faith in God is
everything because I don't want to do
this by myself I can't do this by myself
I want to have arms to fall into I want
to have words to guide me I want to have
a truth that not an opinion but a truth
to live by and so you know I couldn't do
it without God so my answer in short is
no you don't want to do it without
without the Lord and the beauty is he's
not looking at what you're doing wrong
he's looking at what you're doing right
Joel's dad used to tell a story about
him going to a football game with a
friend of his and his son was playing
ball and the son began fumbling the
football and and he wasn't doing really
good and so Joel's father was sitting
there feeling rather embarrassed yeah
you know not really knowing what to do
or say until a few minutes his friend
nudged him in the in the ribs and said
did you see my son's two good moves well
you see it was how he looked at it it's
how you see it and I really believe that
isn't looking at our fumbling not
looking at our failures he's looking at
our two good moves yeah and when we can
begin to look at our two good moves and
begin to applaud ourselves just for
those two good moves then it sets us up
to win it sets us up to to begin to
believe that we can do this and that we
can be a better person and that we can
raise great families and we can have
successful jobs and so a lot of it has
to do with our winning attitude in fact
I read a Stanford study that said you
know attitude can be a great as great of
a predictor of success as you're a cute
hands down agree yes you can't do
anything about your IQ that's right
could you everything about your attitude
that's your attitude and so it does it
has a lot to do with how we see
ourselves and how we see other people
right and I believe what the
psychologists say about projection
how you feel about yourself you project
on other people that's right and so I
believe that this is a message that God
wants us to have is you've got to feel
good about yourself you've got to know
you're chosen
you know you've got to know you're well
equipped know not every day you're gonna
you're gonna feel exceptional but you
got to understand you are exceptional
we have Dominique's full conversation
with Victoria Osteen on our website that
and more at click2houston.com slash
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