Live Today With Passion - Joel Osteen:"In 2002 we received word that the
Houston Rockets basketball team was
moving out of this building and the city
was thinking about selling it we needed
a larger auditorium when I heard that
something came alive on the inside I
knew it was supposed to be ours word got
out in the city that we were interested
in it there was all kinds of debate as
to what should happen to this building a
friend of mine was at a business
luncheon sitting with some high-powered
executives one of these executives a
very influential man found out that my
friend attends Lakewood he started
talking about the compact Center and
about how against us he was about what a
terrible thing this would be for the
city how no church should ever have this
building on and on some other people at
the table joined in kind of laugh and
making fun talked about how Lakewood
didn't have a chance in the world to get
it
finally this executive looked at my
friend and said very sarcastically it
will be a cold day in hell before
Lakewood ever gets that building my
friend called me afterward and told me
about the conversation said thanks a lot
for the good news
appreciate that encouragement but the
truth is that conversation was ordained
by the creator he was one of those
Goliath God had strategically placed in
our path when I heard about how against
us he was I was already determined but
something rose up in me I had a holy
determination I had a new fire a new
resolve every time things got tough look
like it wasn't going to work out I would
be tempted to get discouraged I could
hear that phrase a cold day in hell I'd
get my passion right back wouldn't take
me five seconds sometimes God will put
an enemy in your life to keep you
stirred up he'll allow critics doubters
discourage errs even some haters so when
you feel tired and think you want to
give up you'll keep pressing forward
shake
not because you feel like it but because
you don't want to give your enemies the
joy of seeing you defeated not out of
fight not out of pride it's a holy
determination God uses the negative to
keep us stirred up and that business
leader that was so against us
he doesn't realize it but God used him
more than he used my friends he was one
of the most instrumental people in us
getting this building the funny thing is
he wasn't for us he was against us God
used our enemies to bless us if I ever
see that man I need to buy him dinner
McDonald's probably some of my enemies I
feel like I need to write them a check
if they hadn't have been against me I
wouldn't have prayed so hard they had
the made fun I would have given up
sooner if they hadn't told me I couldn't
do it didn't have what it takes I might
have been complacent settled where I was
it was their opposition that pushed me
forward many times God will use your
enemies to catapult you to success more
than your friends David said God
prepares a table before me in the
presence of my enemies notice when God
brings you through the opposition he's
not going to do it in private he's going
to do it where all of those enemies can
see it this building is located on the
second busiest freeway in the nation you
can't drive in this city very long
without seeing what God has done in that
man that was against us I can only
imagine every time he passes by
something whispers in his ear it must be
a cold day in hell because there they
are
performing under pressure whether it's
me or anybody else is the same
you know I have the same pressures as
anyone else there's time there's
performance there's financial I mean
there you know there's deadlines my
pressures are not unique the situations
may be different or you know but but
everybody has the same kind of pressures
but what I found or what I find
fascinating is the interpretation of the
stimuli if let me let me explain so I
was watching the Olympics with Summer
Olympics and I was amazed at how bad the
questions were that the reporters would
ask all the athletes and almost always
they asked the same question whether
they were about to compete or after they
competed were you nervous right and to a
tee all the athletes went no right and
what I realized is it's not that they're
not nervous it's their interpretation of
what's happening in their bodies I mean
what happens when you're nervous right
your heart rate starts to go you're you
know you sort of get a little tense you
get a little sweaty right
you have expectation of what's coming
and we interpreted that is I'm nervous
now what's the interpretation of excited
your heart rate starts to go you become
you're anticipating what's coming right
you get a little sort of like 10 is all
the same thing it's the same stimuli
except these athletes these these
Olympic quality athletes have learned to
interpret the stimuli that the rest of
us would say is nervous as excited they
also the same thing no I'm not nervous
I'm excited and so I've actually
practiced it just to tell myself when I
start to get nervous that this is
excitement yeah you know and so where
when you used to be speaking from a
large audience
somebody say how do you feel I say a
little nervous now when somebody says
how do you feel like really excited
actually and it it came from just sort
of telling myself no no this is
excitement and it becomes a little bit
automatic later on but it's kind of a
remarkable thing to deal with pressure
by interpreting what your body is
experiencing as excitement rather than
nerves and it's really kind of effective
it makes you want to rush forward rather
than pull back and yet it's the same
experience the road to success is
is through commitment and through the
strength to drive through that
commitment when it gets hard and it is
going to get hard and you're going to
want to quit sometimes but it'll be
colored by who you are and more who you
want to be I definitely found that
wanting to be an actor stems from
wanting to be somebody and wanting to
say something to people
commitment shows up in your life through
action you can tell people who are
committed and those people who don't
feel worthy the people that are
committed are busy doing it the people
that don't feel worthy of it like a guy
I talked to last night we told me hey I
sure like to do what you're doing
however I just don't want the
responsibility the company I work for
they're taking good care of me I say let
me tell you something once you increase
your sense of worthiness you won't even
be able to open your mouth saying that
somebody is taking care of you you want
to take care of yourself to see because
he doesn't feel worthy he's intelligent
seventeen years from major corporation
they've spent thousands of dollars
training him he knows he has the book
knowledge but his attitude is his vision
of himself his sense of deserving it
says you can't have that so he will
fabricate all kinds of excuses on why he
can't have it Robert Anthony said
something Robert Hampton said that you
can only have two things in life reasons
or results notice reasons don't count I
like that folks will always point out
reasons or why they are not living their
dreams and why they are not manifesting
their greatness it will always be able
to quiet those things up but none of
those things down the only thing that
sounds the results and results don't lie
ladies and gentlemen they tell it all
jaja tree are the fruits that it's been
not the ones that is my talk about not
the ones that it might wish for
or think about or firm about but the
fruit that it actually bears so let us
look I think that all of us are
committed but I think that some of us
are producing results in our lives at
that level of commitment brings that we
particularly don't like or find it's
tasteful I don't think that as a
participant in life you cannot be
committed you either committed to
mediocrity or you committed to greatness
you either committed to being productive
or you're committed to being
non-productive you're committed to being
happy or you're committed to being
unhappy see whatever you're doing
however you spend your time that tells
you who you are
so think about what it is you like to
create your life experience once I look
at how you commit your time once I do an
evaluation on how you spend your time I
can tell you exactly what you're
committed to people that say they have
dreams that want to open a business or
want to do something differently than
what they're now doing they don't like
their jobs aren't happy they're
unfulfilled people say they want to
improve their income level look at how
they spend their time how they spend
their time the commitment of their time
how they use that that will really tell
the true people who said I'd like to do
better but you don't find them in
vocational or technical schools
upgrading their skills and their
knowledge how they spend their time that
will tell you what's going on people say
they want to normalize their weight they
want to be healthy but every time you
see them they're eating that will tell
you that they're committed to being
obese for the rest of their lives people
tell you they want to stop smoking and
they're lighting up at that time folks
say I want to stop drinking and every
time you're in their face they're
reeking with alcohol that will tell you
what's going on don't have to listen to
what they say just watch what they do
commitment shows up in your life in what
you do on the other hand you can make
the commitment to your life that you
don't like the results that you have and
that you're going to do something about
it see that power is available to all of
us people who look at life and decide I
want something different for myself
Carol Hatfield Carol lives in Detroit
single mother
decided that she wanted to go into her
own business did not have enough money
to do it you want to have a health food
store she sold her car and used the
money to start in a little storefront a
little hole in the wall she rolled to
work on a bicycle and then when she got
enough money she she bought a motor
scooter and did that for a long time
she is now a very successful person she
now has three health food stores she
said it was hard as the struggle less
she said but I did it she said I made
the commitment to do it and I did it why
do the people are frightened by
commitment because when you say the word
commitment that intimidates a lot of
people what because it means you have to
deliver
so most people you ask them hey looky
I'd like you to do this they'll say I'll
try I'll try means that is my escape
clause when I don't come through it's
really a polite no I don't have the
courage to tell you know so I'll tell
you I'll try and look I need to come to
this meeting I try said what do you mean
you're going to lean toward the meeting
try and sit down you either do it you
don't try and take this pencil out of my
hand you either do or you don't
it's no such thing as try so most people
like to use that language they don't
want to commit themselves because
commitment means among many things no
excuse is acceptable that's what it
means no excuse that if you decided that
you want to do this if it becomes hearts
and do it hard if it's difficult so what
if it's inconvenient so much they a lot
of people made a commitment to come here
tonight but they looked outside that
it's rainy the temperature dropped it's
cold outside and they decide to give up
on their commitment
and that's how people do about their
dreams they don't honor their
commitments of themselves let me tell
you what happens when you when you don't
keep your commitment number one it
begins to deplete your your self-esteem
and it erodes your self-image it weakens
your faith in yourself you don't feel
good when you don't keep your
commitments the other thing is that you
begin to develop weak relationships with
people people begin to realize they
can't depend upon you they can't rely on
you because you won't keep your word
you've established that kind of
reputation just think what would your
life be like if you decided to keep your
from it what will all of our lives be
like if we decided to keep our
commitment that we decided to do the
things that we said the rules going to
do but we wouldn't even speak it unless
we we're going to do it if we decide to
just go we yes and you see what you like
in deal I just but to put a commitment
to make make it a Stellan a commitment
that I won't say I will do anything
unless I'm going to do it and find out
what your life will be like let me tell
you what if you follow it through you
keep your commitment to the commitment
at the end of the seven days you'll feel
strong and powerful because by honoring
your commitment each time that you do
that empowers you whatever discipline
that is required whatever it is that you
must do so I'm suggesting number one
commit yourself to live in the present I
saw the movie um the dear port Society
Robin Williams and had a lioness seize
the moment many of us are not able to
move forward and develop and manifest
our greatness because we've spent so
much time looking back or worrying about
the future seize the moment see you
cannot go into the future and manifest
your greatness when you have various
things in your life that's blocking you
let's look at how we can begin
to keep our commitments remembering what
dr. Robert Anthony said about results
when you keep your commitments you're
able to produce some different kinds of
results in your life so how can we keep
our commitments and do we keep our
commitments no we don't you will not be
at 100% however you will have a greater
percentage rate of maintaining your
commitments to yourself whatever those
things might be if it's going into
business if it's if it's changing a
habit that you know that works against
you if it's overcoming self-destructive
behavior if it's retraining you're
thinking it was reinventing yourself if
it's trying to begin to design your
relationship differently all of us have
a possibility by focusing and really
harnessing our attention and
concentrating on it we really have
available to us the power to honor our
commitments in those particular areas so
number one make it priority see no one
would go get on an airplane if you
thought your chances of getting there to
your destination we're as good as your
luggage am I correct
see and I say the reason that you will
reach your destination more times in
your luggage will is because the airline
and I'm glad that they do has made it a
priority to move the human beings from
one point to the other safely not send
you off to Boston or someplace with your
luggage so I'm not really upset when my
luggage doesn't show up I'm glad they
delivered me
because they've made me a priority see
they have made delivering you to your
destination important so if you want to
honor your commitment whatever you
decide that you're going to do make sure
you make it important make sure it is
priority keep it before you the other
thing is whatever that you want to do
whatever you want to begin to created
beginning to manifest your greatness and
and strengthening your level of
commitment and it's really exercising
your will find something that you want
to do on your goal one action step but
make sure it stretches you that it
challenges you but it's doable that you
can do it this year I decided that I was
going to exercise so I started out doing
just ten setups and ten push-ups I know
I can do that and not get upset about it
I can do that without thinking so I
started out small now I'm up to fifty
but if I try to do fifty starting out I
wouldn't still be doing it so I started
doing it in manageable segments do that
and that that strengthens your will so
my commitment now it's stripping and
fortified by the activity of actually
doing it so now I can expand and build
from there
when I decided to begin to manage my
money differently and I started saving
5% of my money then I increase it to 10%
then to 15% so now I have disciplined
myself to live off 75% of my income I
took discipline to do that but I started
watching how I was spending my money I
start keeping a log and following myself
so you want to begin to find something
that is manageable that you know that
you can do the next thing and beginning
to keep your commitments to yourself
have some friends that will hold you
accountable that won't let you off the
hook that won't tolerate anything less
than the best from you people that will
support you in this new way of being in
this new state of consciousness the
other thing is that important is have a
contingency plan
see many times when you make a
commitment to do something there are
some other variables that will happen
that you can't control or you perhaps
did not think about so you want to have
some other plans going on you want to
become creative see most people don't
keep their commitments because when
something goes wrong they just stop they
don't have a contingency plan so they
don't know what to do next
stop being creative if you challenges
them many times they say I don't know
what to do and I always ask myself but
if you did know what to do less what
will it be that activates another part
of my mind I'll stop thinking about the
possibility and just experimenting but
many many months just stopped dead in
our tracks
I don't know what to do you do know what
to do you got genius in you challenges
have pushed yourself make yourself come
up with something use your imagination
and what you will find is that you know
more than you realize that you know that
you're more creative and more
resourceful than you realize that you
are and as you do that the more you do
it the easier it will become at first
it's going to be a struggle and after
you get into a certain level of
consciousness you will ask yourself how
is it that I didn't see this before at
the level that I'm managing my business
now they say consciousness is what we
are I literally look at myself and say
how is it that I didn't do this before
why is it that I couldn't see this
before and the reason that I didn't see
it before because I didn't challenge
myself I didn't put myself out here like
the reason that most of us go through
life never discovering our true
greatness literally walking breathing
corpses the uncommitted life isn't worth
living why because it doesn't produce
anything so you only make things happen
your life only counts you only make a
difference when you are committed when
you make a commitment with your life
that's the people that make a commitment
with their lives the people that make a
commitment to their customers the people
that make a commitment to their families
to their relationships are the people
that make the greatest impact in life
what is commitment commitment as the
salesman who says look here I'm going to
make a thousand dollars today and I'm
not going home you can turn the lights
out the generous could be your running
the vacuum cleaner I'm not leaving here
till I do it I used to be a door-to-door
salesman I had
X number of Kiwis I had a minimum amount
that I knew I had to sell every day in
order to provide for my mother who was
ill at the time who'd lost their job at
the M&M cafeteria because of arthritis
and I said I'm going to go door to door
and sometimes I would not come home
until one o'clock at night knocking on
people door people closing what do you
want would you like to buy a nice
working monk's television set no money
down no what about an emerson TV No
thank you very much
do you know anybody else that would be
interested no thank you very kindly not
going another hello would you like to
buy a nice working television set no
money down no get away from our door
thank you very kindly do you know
anybody else would be yeah my cousin he
lives two doors down thank you very
kindly I tell him you simply went ahead
your cousin told me that you want to buy
televisions had told me to come here and
talk to you got a special discount for
you yes come in I'm interested I would
just keep right on I would not go home
until I did it it's an interesting thing
ladies and gentlemen then when we put
ourselves in the situation where we say
we're going to do it it puts you in
another zone where the universe responds
to you when you have that kind of
consciousness see the universe responds
to the man or woman that refuses to be
denied because that is your commitment
that business that you want that book
you want to write that dream that you
have of controlling your destiny that is
yours that power to create there and to
manifest that that is your that's
available to you but you've got to be
willing to stand there and face
disappointment not have support be
lonely doubt yourself sometimes be
rejected again and again and again
become bankrupt if necessary again and
again and again and refuse to turn
around until life gives it up
nothing can resist a person that has
that kind of commitment the people that
have made a difference on the planet
when a John F Kennedy said we will go to
the moon and the next decade he spoke it
that was a commitment and people shared
that vision
people bought into that we've had all
kind of examples in history where people
have made declarations who have
committed their lives to bring about a
difference their people are taking a
stand today against hunger I guarantee
you it will be a part of our past at
some point in time someone took a stand
against polio it no longer plagues us as
it once hit because someone said it is
my commitment we eradicated from the
face of the earth
someone needs the mission the reason
that we're here and enjoying the
democracy that we have some one way to
commit whatever you can if it means that
I dive remember Paul Robeson here I can
talk I can do Noah that's not you must
be commitment means standing up for your
life
it means honoring yourself it means it
means beginning to say and to see and
recognize your alignment and oneness
with the universe and the to our channel
for life to express through and we
short-circuited with anger
we short-circuit it with fear we
short-circuit it with with envy we short
circuit it by being lazy or apathetic or
giving up easily why why why it's always
too hard it's too hard we don't
challenge our spirit ladies and
gentlemen there's nothing as powerful as
the human spirit you can't destroy it
just in pervert it but you can't destroy
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