TERRI: How you see a situation determines your attitude,
your action steps, your results, it's crazy. In fact,
I'm going to share with you a study done with
housekeepers and how when they changed their
perspective it literally changed their bodies.
TERRI: Hey, I'm Terri Savelle Foy, your
cheerleader of dreams. I'm also a flight attendant today,
and I want you to know that exit rows are on aisle 12 and seven.
Anyway, did you know that your perspective changes your
outcome? How you see a situation determines your attitude,
your action steps, your results, it's crazy. In fact,
I'm going to share with you a study done with housekeepers and
how when they changed their perspective it literally changed
their bodies. Well, what is perspective? It's how you see
things. I'm sure you've seen photos of the Eiffel Tower in
Paris. The Eiffel Tower is 1,063 feet,
7,300 tons of metal. They say it weights over 10,000
tons. Yet, a five foot three and a half inch woman can touch
the top of it. It's all about perspective,
right? How you see a situation or an object or a person. Now,
I thought this was pretty interesting about these
housekeepers and how they did this experiment on them. I was
listening to a Ted Talk by Dr. Alia Crum,
and she was saying how they tested 84 housekeepers in seven
different hotels across the United States. Now keep in mind,
they're on their feet all day long,
they're burning lots of calories just doing their job. But what's
interesting is they don't seem to see their work in this light.
In fact, they were asked, "Do you exercise regularly?" 2/3
said, "Nope, not at all." 2/3 don't think they exercise at
all. They said, "On the scale of zero to 10 how much exercise do
you get?" 1/3 of the housekeepers said,
"Zero. I get no exercise at all." So they thought,
"What would happen if we could change their perspective?" They
took these women and split them into two groups. They measured
them in a variety of things, their weight,
their blood pressure, body fat, satisfaction with their job,
on and on. They took half of them and gave them a simple 15
minute presentation. They showed them this poster that said,
"Your work is good exercise. In fact,
it satisfies the surgeon general's requirement of
physical activity." Then they told them,
"You should expect to receive benefits." This was all in a 15
minute presentation. Came back four weeks later and measured
them again. Get this, the groups who did not receive the
information didn't change at all. The groups who did looked
different, dropped weight, reduced their blood pressure,
dropped body fat and even reported to liking their job.
They thought, "What in the world?" Just changing their
perspective about their workday affected their health and their
wellbeing without even changing their behavior. Think about
that, they didn't join a sports club,
they didn't take on any more jobs. Science was just proving
that having a different perspective produces a different
outcome. You can take two people,
put them in the same circumstances. One is
complaining, enduring life. The other is joyful,
grateful, enjoying life. See, if you focus on the negative,
you will be a miserable person. Romans 8:28 says that,
"We know all things work together for good,
for those who love God and are called according to his
purpose." Well, think about that scripture. All things,
not some things, not most things,
except the divorce, the bankruptcy,
the affair, the child you put up for adoption. No,
God works all things together for your good. In fact,
real quick, I want to ask you to follow me right now if you need
to hear this kind of teaching, because the enemy has tried
convincing you that you've messed up too bad. "There's no
way God can work this out for your good." Well,
you need consistent teaching to keep your perspective right.
See, God has a way... We can't figure it out,
but he has a way of working all things together for your good.
Be sure and follow me right now. Recently,
I heard a story about a man who was so discouraged. He said he
went to his minister, told him how miserable he was,
and the minister said to him, "Let's just do a little exam."
He said he got out a piece of paper,
like a legal pad, and he drew a line down the middle and he
said, "Let's list all of your assets on one side. All the
things that are right in your life." He said,
"On the other side let's list your challenges,
all the things that are wrong in your life." The man laughed and
said, "I'm not going to have anything on the asset side." The
minister said, "That's fine, let's just go through this
exercise to help you overcome your challenges." The minister
started out by saying, "I am so sorry to hear that your wife
passed away." The man said, "What are you talking about?" He
said, "My wife didn't pass away, she's alive,
she's healthy." The minister wrote,
"Oh, has a healthy wife, she's alive. Put that on the assets."
Then he said, "Well, before we go any further,
I'm really sorry to hear about your house burning down,
you lost everything, everything you'd worked for 30,
40 years, you're left with nothing." The man said,
"My house didn't burn down, I got a nice house." He said,
"Oh," wrote down, "Nice house." Then he said,
"Well, before we go any more, I want to say how bad I feel about
you getting laid off. I mean, you put your life into that
career, and they just laid you off with no notice." The guy
said, "Where are you getting this information? I didn't lose
my job." He said, "Oh, has a nice job." The man caught on,
he said, "Gimme that list," and he said he wrote down a dozen
things that he had to be grateful for. But the point is
he walked out of there with a whole new attitude. Well,
what happened? His perspective was just a little off,
and we all go through this. He got a whole new outlook on life
by shifting his perspective. Well,
I want you to have the right perspective about your life,
and more importantly your breakthrough. In fact,
do you remember the story of Moses sending spies to go check
out the land? One group came back focused on the size of the
enemy. The other focused on the size of God. Only two made it to
the promised land. Who? The two who were focused on God and not
the challenge. See, your perspective about what you're
facing could be what's keeping you from your promised land.
What you focus on or what you magnify,
it becomes bigger than it really is. See,
when you magnify something, you're not changing the actual
size of it, you're changing your perception of it. I want you to
notice David's perspective. David never called Goliath a
giant. Everybody else did. They magnified how big and
intimidating he was, but David called him an uncircumcised
Philistine. He didn't deny that he was a giant,
but he also didn't dwell on it. David said to him,
"This day I will defeat you." Not,
"I hope, I might, I'm trying." I heard Joyce Meyer say,
"He defeated Goliath with his words before he ever released
the stone." Then she said this, "You can't defeat Goliath with
your mouth shut." Here's what I want you to see. Each time you
speak God's word, things are changing. David said to him,
"I will defeat you." You can talk yourself into being
defeated or being victorious. Again,
I want to ask you to follow this podcast right now,
and also take advantage of the seven power scriptures I've put
together to help you change your perspective. These are short
scriptures, you can read them out loud every morning,
every night before you go to bed,
to not only change your perspective,
but catapult yourself toward your dreams. Just click the link
in the description or go to terri.com/powerscriptures to get
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