IN today's episode it's time to talk about the way that we can use mindset to navigate these difficult times. No matter what you are facing right now this episode will help you consider some of the ways you can transform difficult situations into something better. You don't have to be a passive victim of circumstance.

Well, Hey everybody, Jonathan Doyle with you.

Once again, welcome friends to the daily podcast.

You can hear it in my voice.

I'm stoked to be with you today.

I've got something on my heart.

I want to share.

I want to move us all forward.

I want to just give you that bit of daily encouragement to get you moving forward.

We just got locked down extended here again.

Surprise, surprise, who would have thought.

That our overlords would have, uh, added more lockdown friends.

Interesting times.

And, um, I got a lot of opinions on this, which I'm going to try and keep out of the

daily podcast because this podcast exists.

To give you a good positive shot in the arm.

No pun intended.

And, uh, so let's just leave that aside for the moment.

I'm trying really hard to leave it aside.

The Lord helped me to leave it aside.

We're going to talk today about something related to this, uh,

Experience of lockdown and global stress and strain that's happening.

Look when things get difficult.

You got a few options, you can change your circumstance, but what do you do when you

can't really change your circumstance?

What do you do when you really can't do a great deal?

To change what's happening.

So for me today, like many of you listening in Australia at least.

And then of course there's many of you listening in the U S

and other parts of the world.

What do you do when you get out of the studio and you got to

homeschool three kids and run your business and all the other stuff.

And so many people listening are going through something, similar people,

losing businesses, livelihoods.

And if you're not in that boat, then you're probably just injuring

other forms of uncertainty and a challenge in this season.

So what do we do?

We're going to talk about mindset briefly.

It's one of those words that gets thrown around so often mindset,

uh, you know, you've gotta have a positive mindset, a strong mindset.

What is it?

I really mean, look, I guess essentially it means it's a filter

through which you see the world.

It's a, it's a series of cognitive schemers that you

use to interface with reality.

Is that confusing?

Possibly.

So I guess basically it is a, I want to talk about the concept of decision

here that a mindset is a decision.

I've been saying this recently, that if you choose to focus upon your

circumstances, Then you're probably going to end up down a dark alley now.

You know, everything in life is going incredibly well.

Like, you know, Over the last few years, we've been in a war

in Hawaii many, many times.

And when you're sitting.

On Waikiki beach with a cocktail.

If you focus on your circumstances at that point, you're going to feel great.

Okay.

You get my point.

There's times in life where we can be somewhere and our

circumstances are awesome.

But for many of us, that's not what's happening at the moment.

So the first thing we want to do is get our mind off of

circumstances, get, uh, you know, really control the controllables.

I've been teaching this to people for years, control the controllables.

If you can't control lockdown, then don't focus on it.

If you can't control.

Uh, you know, aspects of what's happening in your life, then don't focus on them.

Get your mind off the negative aspects of your environment.

And circumstances is a decision.

And I know many of you listening, like you seriously, Jonathan, just

saying that we shouldn't think about it and I go pretty much.

Yes.

If you can't change it.

And you know that it's going to pull you down, then you have to get the mental

discipline of not focusing upon it.

So let's talk about mindset.

I want to give you a couple of quick quotes here.

There's a great quote.

I came across from Albert Ellis.

Who says this the best years of your life.

Or the ones in which you decide your problems are your own.

You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology or the president.

You realize that you control your own destiny.

First point that if we want to build a strong mindset in these difficult

times, we have to realize that our problems are ours to deal with.

And I know some of you would say, as I would, as I have felt

that, well, what have you done create the problems, you know?

What if somebody else forced them upon you?

Correct.

But you still have to deal with the reality.

You still have to realize that, okay.

These things have been put upon me.

What I get to control is the response.

The response is my problem.

The response is what I get to choose.

So we begin to realize with a strong mindset that we are.

In control of how we see reality.

We really are that we are in control.

Of how we begin to think about what's happening to us.

So a couple more quick ones here.

Uh, there's one great one from John Maxwell.

Many would recognize him as the, uh, arguably the most well-known

leadership guy in the world.

Maxwell says successful people don't have any fewer problems.

Than unsuccessful people.

They just have a different mindset in dealing with the more time

successful people don't have any fewer problems than unsuccessful people.

They just have a different mindset in dealing with them.

So we all get the problems now.

Whether you're you're, you know, Whatever situation you're in,

in this current global pandemic.

Thing.

That we're all facing numerous problems.

I mean, you could have a small business and.

You know, had that business under a huge amount of pressure.

You could own a big business and have that same business under pressure.

So.

All sorts of people are experiencing similar kinds of things.

So what's the difference?

The difference is some people just have a different mindset.

And look, another possible thing that could be helpful for you around mindset

is to realize that when things are awful, when things are really difficult, you are

the buckle into depression, addiction, blame, rage, all that sort of stuff.

And we're all feeling it, right?

I'm not saying that anybody's immune from it.

But some of us realize that these things are, if we can injure

them, if we can get through them, if we can stay strong in them.

That we really emerge out the other side, much, much, much stronger.

So the last one here is from Winston Churchill.

He says only changes in mindsets can extend the frontiers of the possible,

only changes in mindsets can extend the frontiers of the possible.

You know, thinking about Churchill and that sort of ear in history,

let's go back a bit earlier.

I grew up with a, you know, a family that had a real interest in history and.

Look back at the Napoleonic era.

So the battle of Waterloo with was 18, 15.

And the kinds of warfare that they fought back then were all about.

Uh, you know, cavalry charges and, you know, large groups of infantry, basically

running at each other and shooting.

And when you come into world war one, one of the reasons that world war one

was just so, you know, Devastating in terms of death, toll was because.

They were fighting the same kind of tactics.

But the technology had begun to change.

And now there were machine guns.

But they didn't have a different mindset around the kind of,

you know, uh, infantry tactics.

They just kept walking towards machine guns.

So some of you go, hang on, what's this got to do with mindset it's

because if you stay stuck in an old mindset, as things around you change.

It can be really devastating.

So the great carnage of world war one was, you know, there's many factors, but one of

them was that they were using old tactics, old mindsets when everything around them

and shifted into new forms of technology.

So, if we're going to endure difficult new seasons in life, we can't come

at them with the old mindsets.

We have to come at them with really strong discipline mindsets and friends.

You can hear it in my voice, right?

The reason I'm passionate about this today is because I have been

terrible at this, or I used to be terrible at this in my life.

It took me decades.

To begin to realize that what my mind was serving up on a regular

basis was not necessarily reality.

And even if it was reality, the way I was thinking about it was rarely helping.

So you've got to get much better at going.

This is how I choose to think today.

This is the set of mind.

This is the mindset I will bring towards it.

And it's work.

It's like, you know, yesterday I went into this 12 kilometer.

Pack hike with 30 kilos in the backpack.

And it's just hot.

It's just really hard.

And it's, you know, I'm feeling it today, but the outcome of doing

hard things is that we grow that we get a lot of benefits from it.

So friends, I've got to stop myself because I like to keep

these short, but, uh, I hope that's an encouragement for you today.

Let's realize that.

No matter what's happening around us.

We do have the capacity, the strength, the ability to make the right choices

to come at it with a strong mindset.

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