Adversity Obstacles Push Through

Hello all

  This morning in my main podcast Empower Your Pattern Radio I did a special episode about pushing through the obstacles of adversity. I likened pushing through adversities obstacles as an adventure period with that let me give you six tips to help you push through these obstacles.

1.  Association:. That's the deal people. Jim Rohn said "we become the average of the five people that we spend the most time with."

     I would like to expand this to what Dan Clark said at a BYU devotional. "we become the average of the five people that we spend as much time with and go any distance and pay any price to be with them.". Today I just had a phone conversation with my uncle and one of the things that we talked about is that people become who they hang around with.  Hang around with melodrama and drama you get melodrama drama and tragedy. Hang around with significant spiritual and successful people you get significant spiritually successful people. It's that simple.

2.  Bibliography.  By that I mean books. I say this over and over again as a podcaster. Get into books just veg out. Three or four days fast from social media no TV really learn. Let the people around you see the difference that that makes and the difference that you make by doing what I suggest.

3.  Creativity:. In my book The Winning Personality a Values-Based Approach to Entrepreneurship In This Economy I stress the importance of creativity. In my 50 years I have been around the block and I have discovered that creativity fills the lonely hours that you have when you're going through adversity . It could be a short story a blog a YouTube video or whatever God puts in your heart. I have friends in Toastmasters who design crafts, and I am thinking about following suit. Back in the fall of 1992 I had a caseworker for the blind in Texas who when she discovered I was going into the field of broadcast journalism said that I would never make it in broadcasting. Well for almost 2 years now ever since mid-september I have been podcasting like you wouldn't believe. Tennesseeers I would like to say how do you like me now that I've discovered the exits in my brain? (Laugh)

4.  Discipline and determination:. Some of you may be saying in your mind. "Oh no come on Jimmy period discipline and determination again?'. I meant it when I discussed it in my book The Winning Personality a Values-Based Approach to Entrepreneurship In This Economy.  My life and biography is replete with details of stories where I have had discipline and determination to make it through grade school and college! Especially in college I had to fight tooth and nail for my rides and my ability to succeed in college. So I say this if the obstacles of adversities knock you back, don't give up! Have discipline and determination to make it through. Get rid of I don't feel like it. Delaware McNeal Ii said"The world is ran by people who don't feel like it, but they do it anyway.". Back before covid-19 or shall I call it the devil virus I use that as a motivator to get out the door and pursue my passion.

5.  Edification you remember back in the section called bibliography in this blog that I suggested reading. I suggest you read the classics in success literature and other literature. Dale Carnegie in his book How to win Friends and influence People said that we should get people what they want, namely appreciation period back in the summer of 1997 when I first got married on a network marketing business voicemail I gave a daily devotional motivational talk about edification while waiting on a little pool board in the shallow end of the Texas Tech swimming pool. You do that be sure to hold to your cell phone tight.  You need to edify others so that you can be uplifted. and that goes back to what I talk about in associations in that you need to be around people that uplift you and not tear you down. You need people that genuinely care.

6.  Faith.  Okay now I may hear some of you say "come on jimmy! Religion again?". Listen to me period you need faith in something beyond yourself although the first rule of Empower your pattern is believe in and love yourself, but it's faith in something beyond yourself that allows you to do that so that you can topple the obstacles of adversity.

   Now you take me. I'm about freedom, opportunity, making an impact on people's lives. And as a single man if I find a female friend or companion of the opposite sex who is also single I like building them up. The world is full of good things like that. Don't hang out with people who are full core meltdown get with the right people. Life lessons are important here. You have got to take stock. Make that call before it's too late.

Now have a blessed day please