Fifth, face your challenge. In this episode, we are going to go over step number five of seven
answering the question. How to turn a negative experience
into a positive outcome? Get ready, this is going to be a powerful storytelling session to illustrate
my point on how to face the challenge take any challenge and turn it into an opportunity.
So, I'm Doug Andrew and I've been blessed in my life to have authored 12 books thus far and my
10th book was titled entitlement abolition. How to lead your family your employees whoever
you care about from me... to we together we're better. One of the concepts in this book that I
teach is how to take a negative experience because we all have them in our lives and
turn it into a positive outcome and so I created seven steps to empower you to be able to handle
any curveball life throws at you and transform it into a positive outcome. So we're in the middle of
this, I would strongly recommend if you have not watched the first four steps to do so.
This is step number five and I'm going to explain how to face the challenge head-on?
So, if you have not had the opportunity to watch the first four episodes addressing
this seven-step process. I have a 20-page document which I titled the negative experience transformer.
This is step number five and I'm going to show you at the end of the episode how you can get a
copy of this for free and also a copy of my book entitlement abolition it's over 200 pages free
of cost. You simply contribute a nominal amount towards the shipping and handling, okay. So, as
we go through this process of taking a negative experience and transforming it into a positive
outcome we've talked about the power of getting your mindset with an attitude of gratitude and
also keeping the big picture in mind and step number three it talked about how to deal with
crisis, deadlines, offenses or insults, with faith hope and charity. Step number four was to begin to
get out of yourself and begin to ask yourself how and why are other people feeling confused,
isolated and powerless? How can I give them clarity, confidence, and capability, by mustering up
LRC, leadership relationship and creativity? Now, once you have done the first four steps you're
ready for step number five and this is simply to face your challenge head-on and actually change
the viewpoint where you are seeing opportunities instead of challenges in life. Now, we all have
heard stories of different situations like Apollo 13 where you know failure was not an option and
what they needed to do was they began to become possibility thinkers. You don't think about all the
things that can go wrong or the domino effect. You begin to see the opportunities when you overcome
the challenge. So, I'm going to share with you one of my favorite stories that I have shared with
many troubled youth when I mentor them how to take the negative experiences in their life and turn
them into positive outcomes and they need to learn from going through this negative experience and
overcoming you become strong that way. So, here's the story and then I'll share it with you based
upon me paraphrasing what happened but you'll see why it's one of my favorite. So the first time
I heard this story it was at a PMA, positive mental attitude rally with Dr. Robert Schuller
and he told the story of Brett Livingston Strong. Now, who is he? He was a young Australian immigrant
artist who came here from Australia because he had learned and heard that America was the land
of opportunity and so he couldn't wait to get here in America and so he was living in a little
humble apartment in Los Angeles and he could only afford this little black and white TV set and so
he's trying to figure out how can I get a name for myself as an artist? Because artists sometimes are
like a dime a dozen out there and he's thinking, "Golly, how can I do this?", and he's watching the news.
He's very intrigued because of this unique country and State of California. Because the number one
story on the news every night was centered around a guy who had built this beautiful beach home
in Malibu and he had invested a ton of money on on this beautiful home in Malibu on the beach.
He realized that there was this rock protruding from the cliffs above where he had built his home.
Now, the rock had been there for what centuries. He knew the rock was there when he got his building
permit and chose to build a home beneath the rock and yet when he completed his home he began
to petition the state of California to pay for the removal of that rock and it was above Malibu beach
so it got the name the Malibu rock during these nightly newscasts. Well, he wasn't getting very much
success by himself so he rallied his neighbors got petitions. Long story short after three weeks
he finally convinced the state of California to take taxpayer dollars and remove the rock
because it was a threat. He was going to come down in an earthquake and destroy his property. Maybe
kill somebody and so forth and so he made a big to-do and of course California usually gives in
to those kinds of petitions if you haven't noticed. Brett Livingston Strong is watching this unfold on
the news every night and he's like, "Wow, this is quite the country", where you can actually force
fellow-citizens at taxpayers to pay for the removal of something that was there before you
ever chose to build your house below it. But he thought, "Well, okay, nothing else better to do
I'm gonna go down and observe this", so here's what happened. So, Brett Livingston Strong went
down to observe the demolition crews and they had choppers they had dozers they worked on removing
this rock all morning. Finally, in the afternoon, they broke it loose and it got away from them
and it rolled down and landed smack dab in the middle of U.S pacific coastal highway one.
Now, I'm not so sure if this was the exact rock that I searched on google but it was a hundred and
sixteen ton rock blocking traffic rush hour is gonna happen and the state engineer with caltran
is there going oh dear. This is where Brett looked at what everybody else saw as a challenge or a
threat and he turned it into an opportunity. In actuality, the geologist studied and found that
two-thirds of this rock was still embedded so deep in the mountain an earthquake of seven or eight
on the richter scale would have never broken the rock loose it was never a threat. But Brett turned
it into an opportunity. He walked up to the head engineer and said, "Sir, I would like to buy that
rock", and the guy said, "You can have it", he said, "No, I want a receipt official receipt that I
am the rightful owner of this rock. I'll buy it for a hundred bucks", but I don't have a hundred dollars
on me. I got a dollar on me and he says, "Okay, give me a dollar you know down payment or whatever", it's
your rock buddy and he gave him the receipt and he says, "Now, it's your rock you move it. You pay to
have it moved." Brett went down to a major shopping center and convinced them if they would pay
for a chopper to remove this 116-ton rock. He would lease it to them, rent it to them for six months,
to put in the center court of their mall that would attract customers people would buy clothes
ice cream everything else. It was already that the publicity was already done it's called the
Malibu rock. On one condition that he could go to work with a hammer and chisel on this
rock for the six months. That gave him income while he was working on the rock. So here are
pictures of him working on this rock. Finally, the day arrived when he was going to unveil the rock
all three major news stations were down there. He was going to unveil the rock and
pull the canvas off. But he invited a man dying of cancer to come down to view this in a and he
was in a wheelchair and as they unveiled the rock in the image of the rock was John Wayne
the western cowboy movie star. It's what orange county John Wayne airport is named after the
man in the wheelchair was John Wayne this was 1977. John Wayne leaned back and said, "I like it."
Brett sold that rock for 1.1 million dollars. Now some people say, "Well, he never got the full 1.1 he
only got 800 000", who cares? He never turned and looked back. He everybody wanted him to do art
he had more opportunities than he had capability but see he took what everybody saw as a threat and
he turned it into an opportunity. He took a hundred bucks and turned it into 1.1 million and he had
more opportunities the rest of his life because of how he viewed what everybody else saw as a threat.
He faced it and said this is an opportunity. So, if this is resonating with you be sure
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entitlement abolition and give you the ability to be able to learn stories like this to empower
you and those you care about to take negative experiences and turn them into positive outcomes.
So, let me give you a tool to be able to face the challenge. So whenever I teach this to my
own children and grandchildren. Sometimes I'll have them pick some type of a threat or situation
and see an opportunity that everybody else says, "Oh that's a problem, how do we overcome this?", and
so one of my favorite tools that I developed years ago is what I call the solution formulator
and in fact, when I give it to my children and grandchildren. I printed out on cardstock on
11 by 17. So let me quickly show you the power behind this and then at the end I'll show you
where you can have access to tools like this. So, the solution formulator is designed to take
you through critical thinking on how to face any challenge and come up with a solution. So I'm going
to just show you quickly here you start out by describing the problem or the situation and you
think about the big picture which is one of the steps here the step number two in this transformer
and how is this going to change once you overcome this situation and you see an opportunity here.
Now you see number three isn't on this part it's down on the bottom right because number three
what you're going to do is down at the bottom you're going to say the date. But as you begin
to fill out the form I usually give my children and grandchildren 20 minutes 30 minutes pretty
soon they would take an hour and they would begin to put down the situation, the problem,
to overcome. Our children did this on making choices on whether to go on another semester
abroad or to stay back home graduate sooner later whatever. This is extremely powerful. So, you begin
to list the three greatest benefits because the human brain can get around a list of three things.
The three greatest benefits when you overcome this negative experience and you transform it.
Then you go over here and you list the biggest dangers, roadblocks, hindrances, so that the things
that stand in the way of you being able to overcome this experience or the negativity
or the fallout from that and again I usually write down three, the top three. Then you go over
and you begin to list across each of the barriers challenges or dangers you need to eliminate
and I write down what are the best resources or opportunities to overcome each of those challenges.
Once I do that then I start going hmm... what new opportunities now arise because of this and when
you get to step number seven you're going to be blown away with an example of how this made me
millions of dollars. How one negative experience made me millions of dollars. So you begin to write
down the opportunities and this is down here the date that you want to list what that you want to
have it done. So, again, my daughter when she was out of funds to save to go on another semester
abroad she'd been to Israel in Egypt. She came back in all of her savings but she sold her car
because she wrote down here, "I can sell my car." "I have equity I get a new car when I get back."
I always require they had skin in the game. They come up with as much as they can and then they can
borrow from mom and dad and then they have to have a plan to pay it back. Instead of mom dad will you
pay for can I have? it all came about by giving them ownership and helping facilitate critical
thinking. That's called the solution formulator and then they write down what the new outcome
is the opportunity and then they go through a step-by-step process of how they're going
to now go through that solution formulation and the process to get to from point a to point b.
It is so simple and it's on one sheet of paper. This is one of my favorite tools out of the 20 in our
tool box that I talk about in the book entitlement abolition. So how can you have access to this?
I would strongly recommend that you claim your free copy of this book entitlement abolition. You don't
need to pay twenty dollars for it i'll pay for the book. Simply go to entitlementabolitionbook.com.
Click on the link below. You contribute a nominal amount towards the shipping and handling I'll
cover the rest of that cost. But also there's options there to listen and learn watch and
learn. There's an 18-hour master class and it's in there that you can learn about concepts like this
a seven-step negative experience transformer. So here's to your brighter future.