Tough Times Never Last

TOUGH TIMES NEVER LAST TOUGH PEOPLE DO! -By

Robert H. Schuller

‘If it is to be, It is up to me…’

CONTENTS OF PRESENTATION The Perspective of Problems  MPE – Managing Problems Effectively  Taking Charge and Take Control  10 Commandments of Possibility Thinking  Counting to 10  Move the Mountain  Pray  The Alphabet of Success 

THE PERSPECTIVE OF PROBLEMS

THE PERSPECTIVE OF PROBLEMS 

If you have a dream, you have everything – including a lot of problems  Every

human being has problems

Every problem has a limited life span  Your problem is my opportunity 

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problem holds positive possibilities

Every problem will change you  Compose your response, if you can’t control the times 

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can choose what your problem will do to you

B +ve  There

is a negative and a positive reaction to every problem

MPE – MANAGING PROBLEMS EFFECTIVELY

MPE – MANAGING PROBLEMS EFFECTIVELY Don’t underestimate the problem – Or your ability to deal with it  Play it down and Pray it up 

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Patience is not a virtue - If you sit back and wait for your problem to solve itself  Don’t

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Wait

Nobody is defeated until he starts blaming somebody else  Don’t

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exaggerate

Aggravate

Get Smart – and then get Smarter  Illuminate

MPE – MANAGING PROBLEMS EFFECTIVELY 

It takes guts, to leave the ruts  Motivate

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How do you catch a Placement?  Bait

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Find a job the way you found a wife or a husband  Date

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Possibilities: Every problem is loaded with it  Sublimate

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Give it all you’ve got  Dedicate

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I need Help!!!  Communicate

MPE – MANAGING PROBLEMS EFFECTIVELY 

Insulate  Don’t  Don’t  Don’t  Don’t  Don’t  Don’t  Don’t  Don’t

`Take Care’ `Take it Easy’ say TGIF `see it before you believe it’ say `No Way’ say `Not too bad’ `hear that before’ think it’s Terminal

TAKE CHARGE AND TAKE CONTROL

TAKE CHARGE AND TAKE CONTROL 

Take chance, take charge and take control

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Taking chance implies reckless risk

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Taking charge means you are managing the risks

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And, taking control means you manage your problems

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Leadership: “Leadership is the force that selects your dreams and sets your goals. It is the force that propels your endeavors to

LEADERSHIP PRINCIPLES 

Don’t surrender leadership to outside forces  Never

give up hope and keep fighting till the end  Today’s decisions are tomorrow’s realities 

Don’t surrender leadership to faces, farces and fences  Negative

expressions and body language  Never believe anyone unless you are satisfied  Fences are limiting concepts influencing your goals and dreams negatively 

They cause us to lower our goals, with the result that we strive for and achieve far less than our capabilities

LEADERSHIP PRINCIPLES 

Don’t surrender leadership to your fantasies, fears, fatigue, faults Never indulge in negative fantasies

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The Bible says, “God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind” (2 Tim. 1:7)

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Biggest fear is fear of failure

Sit back and relax!!

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Limit the size of your goals and stifle your creativity

Healthy body means healthy mind

All plans ‘have’ problems . Problems call for polishing, not for demolition

LEADERSHIP PRINCIPLES 

Don’t surrender leadership to facts, frenzies, fates and forecasts  Attitude 

is more important than facts.

Attitude be positive and in control

 Fortunetellers

and others program people with negative self-fulfilling prophecies are dangerous people  Negative forecasts need not be right unless they are verified. One should always look at the forecast methodology to get to a decision

LEADERSHIP PRINCIPLES 

Don’t surrender leadership to foes, friends, fracturing experiences of life Critics hardly offer any worthwhile solution  Take advice from friends but do as you please  A bad experience should not let you stop and lose faith in future 

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“Believe in dreams. Never believe in hurts. Don’t let your fracturing experience shape your future.”

“DO” surrender leadership to one thing— faith Let faith be in control of every decision you make and every action you take.  You do that when you let the positive possibilities set your goals 

10 COMMANDMENTS OF POSSIBILITY THINKING

POSSIBILITY THINKING? Possibility thinking focuses not on the management of time, money, energy, or persons, but on the management of ideas  Differentiates the negative thoughts from positive thoughts  Transforms you from impossibility thinkers to possibility thinkers  Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing flawlessly 

COMMANDMENTS OF POSSIBILITY THINKING 

Never reject a possibility because you see something wrong with it! 

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“Beginning is half done.”

Don’t get the credit, get the contract! Convert impossibilities to possibilities. That’s success! Don’t make up your mind! Never reject an idea because it’s illegal! Commitment and not resources will achieve the goal! You can never make a commitment without producing some conflict! Learn to accommodate! Prepare to compromise! Failure is not a consideration! Success is also not a consideration! 

People imagine ego fulfillment through success and pull out

COUNTING TO TEN

COUNT TO TEN AND WIN Play the ‘ Possibility Thinking Game ‘  You won’t win if you don’t begin 

COUNT TO TEN AND WIN 1. Rent a school building  2. Rent a Masonic Hall.  3. Rent and Elk’s Lodge  4. Rent a mortuary chapel.  5. Rend an empty warehouse.  6. Rent a community club building.  7. Rent a Seventh-Day Adventist Church.  8. Rent a Jewish synagogue.  9. Rent a drive-in theatre.  10. Rent an empty piece of ground, a tent, and folding chairs. 

COUNT TO TEN AND WIN 1. Get 1 people to give $1,000,000.  2. Get 2 people to give $500,000.  3. Get 4 people to give $250,000.  4. Get 10 people to give $100,000.  5. Get 20 people to give $50,000.  6. Get 40 people to give $25,000.  7. Get 50 people to give $20,000.  8. Get 100 people to give $10,000.  9. Get 200 people to give $5,000.  10. Get 1,000 people to give $1,000. 

ATTITUDE CHARACTERISTICS OF PLAYING A GAME Risk – Running  Record – Breaking  Commitment – Freeing 

HOW TO PLAY POSSIBILITY THINKING GAME Begin by believing that you possess latent gifts of creativity.  Don’t play it alone. 

FAITH THAT CAN MOVE YOUR MOUNTAIN

FAITH THAT CAN MOVE YOUR MOUNTAIN Faith – greatest miracle-working power  Faith is like a seed  5 Phases 

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- Planting  Second - Sprouting  Third - Nourishing  Fourth - Bearing fruit  Fifth - Harvesting

FIVE PHASES TO THE FULL CYCLE OF MOUNTAIN-MOVING FAITH Nesting Phase  Testing Phase  Investing Phase  Arresting Phase  Cresting Phase 

NESTING PHASE Ideas  Un-hatched egg rots in the nest  Trust your brilliance and therefore your ideas and creativity.  The me I see, is the me I will be.  No idea is perfect. Trust the positive potential in an idea. 

TESTING PHASE Don’t plunge recklessly and irresponsibly ahead with every idea that moves through the brain.  Test the idea.  Everybody is an inspiration to somebody else.  Example of Patty Wilson 

INVESTING PHASE The point at which a public commitment is made  One commits Time, Money, Energy, Prestige and Pride  Patty’s story  Have you given your problem all that you have?  Faith moving the Mountain  Backup your ideas with Hard work  Many people fail in this phase 

ARRESTING PHASE   

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Problems and Trouble block your path. Defeat seems certain God’s way of testing us before the final victory Patty’s story Faith has mountain moving power if you hang on. Stanley Reimer’s story Think life, Talk life, Believe life Have faith like a Mustard seed

EDGAR A. GUEST When things go wrong, as they sometimes will, When the road you are trudging seems all uphill, When the funds are low and the debts are high, And you want to smile but you have to sigh, Rest, if you must—but don’t you quit! Life is queer with its twists and turns, As every one of us sometimes learns, Don’t give up, though the pace seems slow— You might succeed with another blow. . . . And you can never tell how close you are, It may be near when it seems afar; So stick to the fight when you are hardest hit— It’s when things get worse that you mustn’t quit!

SOME INSPIRING THOUGHTS      

Don’t trust the clouds—trust the sunshine Don’t set your compass by the flash of lightning—set it by the stars. Trust the sun—don’t trust the shadows Believe in your dreams—don’t believe in your despairing thoughts. Have faith in your faith—and doubt your doubts. Trust in your hopes—never trust in your hurts.

THE CRESTING PHASE 

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The Mountain is scaled and Success is achieved. Those who hang on ultimately survive Believe and you will achieve Be somebody! God never takes time to build a nobody. Everybody God creates is created to be somebody.

PRAYER: THE POWER THAT PULLS EVERYTHING TOGETHER SUCESSFULLY

JOURNEY TILL NOW  

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Put your problems in proper perspective Applied the twelve principles of managing problems positively Taken charge and control of your situation Tackled impossibilities with the Ten Commandments for Possibility Thinking Counted to ten and won Applied the faith that will move your mountain.

PRAYER God guides praying people through tough times  Holy week of 1981  Good news and bad news  How do you renew your strength and spirit during a brownout time? 

RENEW R – Review your Past  E – Examine all the Possibilities  N – Name the price you are willing to Pay  E - Elect the best possibility, no matter what the price  W – Wait and work 

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Brownouts do not have to be burnouts.

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People are unreasonable, illogical and self-centered. Love them anyway. If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish ulterior motives. Do good anyway. If you are successful, you will win false friends and true enemies. Succeed anyway. Honesty and frankness make you vulnerable. Be honest and frank anyway. The good you do today will be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway. The biggest people with the biggest ideas can be shot down by the smallest people with the smallest minds. Think big anyway. People favor underdogs but follow only top dogs. Fight for some underdogs anyway. What you spent years building may be destroyed overnight. Build anyway. Give the world the best you have and you’ll get kicked in the teeth. Give the world the best you’ve got anyway.

THE ALPHABET OF SUCCESS

PROBLEMS OF TODAY VS. OPPORTUNITIES OF TOMORROW

Need of the hour

Problems of today

Grasp the opportunities of tomorrow

CONCEPT OF IDEA

Idea

Inception of great acts

Idea =

-Tenderly -Gently -Respectfully -Protectively

-Nutritionally -Antiseptically -Responsibly

REACTIONS OF DIFFERENT PEOPLE TO IDEAS Kinds of people

Reactions

Insecure

Hibernate

Lazy

Luxuriate

Wounded

Commiserate

Foolish

Procrastinate

Wise

Dedicate

ALPHABETS OF ACTION I deserve to succeed and have the ability too

A ffirm I will achieve goals not myself but with the help of others

B elief Say no to fear of failure. Display 100% commitment

C ommitment Dare to take risks in life. To risk nothing is the greatest hazard in life.

D are Educate yourself and become knowledgeable through hard work

E ducate Find time, talent, possibilities and way. Matter is more exciting if it is hunted for or discovered.

F ind

ALPHABETS OF ACTION (CONTD.) Give your 100% to your goals.

G iving Holding on, praying expectantly and the belief that there is scope of betterment

H ope I magine

Imagine solutions to problems through creative thinking and eventually winning over them.

Junk the ill thoughts like fear, jealousy and “why is it happening to me?”

J unk K.O. fear, depression, apprehensions and predictions of gloom and doom

K nock out

ALPHABETS OF ACTION (CONTD.)

Loving by ability to laugh at your own self and keeping a good sense of humor.

L ove Make things happen for you through ability to manage them

M ake it happen Able to negotiate, to compromise

Overlook imperfections in others which will help you in overcoming hurdles.

N egotiate O verlook and O vercome Don’t give up….endurance

P ersevere Quit complaining. Quit remembering negative moments of life.

Q uit

ALPHABETS OF ACTION (CONTD.)

Reorganize yourself….after failures and success too.

R eorganize Share the power, credit and glory

S hare

Unlock hidden values like faith , hope and love to act as driving force towards success.

T rade off

Everything has a price. You need to give up in order to get

U nlock The me I see is the me I will be. Have a vision to give direction to your deeds.

V isualize Work …work …and work

W ork

ALPHABETS OF ACTION (CONTD.) X ray your motives, your abilities and know yourself well.

X ray Yield yourself to god.

Y ield

Z ip it up

Everything has a price. You need to give up in order to get