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TERRI: Hey, I'm Terri Savelle Foy, your cheerleader of dreams.
I pray that as you invest in yourself today, you're
captivated and you're catapulted to live your dreams. If you've
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teaching tools and tips to help you live your dreams. Today, I
want to talk to you about why your attitude is everything. Why
your attitude is everything. You know, it's amazing how two
people can see the same situation from entirely
different perspectives. Well, my point is it's our attitude that
affects everything. Somebody said, a bad attitude is like a
flat tire. If you don't change it, you're never going anywhere
and you know, that's exactly the truth. How we see our
circumstances and how we respond to them affects the results in
our lives. I've shared on several podcasts about the
negative consequences of complaining and how complaining
is literally a trap that will keep you stuck in the same place
year after year after year. See, God does not respond to
complaints. He responds to a grateful heart, but it's not
easy, to maintain the attitude and especially when
disappointments happen, the tendency is to just sigh really
big and out come the complaints. Well, if we really wanted to
focus on how bad things are, we could magnify them to such a
degree that it appears and nothing is going great in our
lives, but when we do it prevents God from moving in our
lives. Like, I have a friend. This is really a wild story, but
she flies a lot. I mean like every week pretty much. She's
flying from New York to Los Angeles and all over the world,
but a lot of times New York to LA. Well, she's a very busy
business woman and she said every time she books her flight,
she always likes to get in a certain seat because she flies
so much, she knows her perfect seat. So she booked her flight
from New York to LA, which is a long flight and she got her
perfect seat. She's boarding the plane, as she always does, and
all of a sudden she sees someone sitting in her seat and they
said, "Ma'am, would you mind trading seats with us so I can
sit with my husband?" And she said, she was like, "Sure, I'd
love to," but inside she was going, "I planned ahead of time.
That's my seat. I always sit in that seat. There's a reason I
sit in that seat." She said, my legs are so long. I know this
seat. It's always where I like to be. Now it sounds bratty, but
she's just being honest. She said I always booked ahead of
time, so I get that seat and then here's someone saying,
would you trade with me? Which, I've been that person, who asked
to trade. So anyway, she trade and when she trades it's in a
horrible seat. She's in a window spot. She can't get out. Her
legs are long and you know, she just said she wanted to
complain. Well, then when they're taking the order for
food, they ran out of what she had already ordered ahead of
time. She ordered her food and they say, "I'm so sorry. We gave
it to the people up front." And so she was like well and just
sighed really big and just be so frustrated. And she said, while
she's sitting there, she got a hold of herself and thought,
"Change your attitude stopped being a brat," you know, she
said she wasn't a brat vocally, but on the inside she was just
huffing and puffing. Well, she changed her attitude and just
said, you know what? I'm going to concentrate on what I have to
be grateful for. She changed her attitude. The gentleman next to
her actually said, "You know what? If you want my meal, you
can have it." Then they start carrying on this conversation.
Turns out he's a very wealthy executive. Are you ready for
this? By the end of the flight, he was so interested in her
business that he is investing $10 million into her company.
Not only that, after they landed, he set up appointments
with his team. They've already met together and he's investing
even more in her projects. I told her, I said, "Do you
understand what could have happened if you had focused on
how bad it is, griping, complaining?" God could have
shut a massive door that he was trying to set up for you. Like,
he was opening that door for her and I'm so glad she seized it.
She got control and opened that door. Now I wish I could say
that's happened to me. I just keep a good attitude and
millions fall into my lap. That hasn't happened to me yet, but
I've seen what God can do when I force myself to not complain and
to keep a good attitude. It literally opens the door for him
to move in our lives. You know, my friend could have totally
missed out on a massive miracle because of a bad attitude. What
could we be missing out on. Because we want everybody to
know we're mad. We want everybody to know we're upset,
but God is saying "It's just a test. Pass this, move on,
because there's a blessing on the other side." So a grateful
heart is a magnet for miracles. The more gratitude you express,
the more abundance you experience. And we can see from
this our attitude in different circumstances, it determines how
much God can do in our lives. In fact, let me just point out this
attitude is a decision. It's not based on the feeling. We have to
decide to have a grateful attitude, but I'm telling you
from experience, it will open doors in your life that nobody
can shut. And all you have to do is read the story of Paul and
Silas, how when they chose to be grateful, it caused chains to
fall off of them when they were in prison and it caused the
doors to open up in their life that no man can shut, and that's
exactly what God will do in your life. Doors of opportunities,
doors of blessings, doors of favor, doors to success that you
have never had before. Winston Churchill said, "Attitude is a
little thing that makes a big difference," so I'm challenging
you to practice this attitude of gratitude. It will change your
circumstances. Well, let me just mention who our subscriber of
the week is .. Live Life Lovely. That's a cute name. Live Life
Lovely. This is what she or he writes: "Terri, I want to thank
you for your platform of cheering us on and our dreams.
Because of you, I have published a book that sat on my dresser
for six years." This is amazing. "You are a blessing to me. I
pray that your message goes to the end of the earth. Again,
thanks, Live Life Lovely." That is incredible. I am so proud of
you and I am continuing to cheer you on. You're making such
progress. Well, back to our topic. The bottom line is when
you complain, you remain. And I have found that it is so easy
for us to complain without even realizing we're doing it, so to
help you out, I've provided a free downloadable pdf that will
help you consciously be grateful. I even have challenges
in there for you to text like three people that you're
thankful for and tell them why, and you know it's been proven
that you will feel better about yourself after texting them than
they even will, so I truly believe gratitude will open
doors in your life that no man can shut, which is why I want
you to download this and apply it now. Just click the link in
the description to download your gratitude challenge and
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will continue to cheer you on to live your dreams.
Thank you for watching. I'll see you next week.
TERRI: Icing means something added to
something good to make it even better.
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