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The Vietnam war was a long,
costly and difficult conflict.
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Thousands of lives were
lost and in addition people were
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destroyed physically and
emotionally. It took a heavy
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toll. Beginning in
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1954 and lasting 19 years
the Vietnam war spread through
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south and north Vietnam,
Cambodia and Laos until finally
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coming to an end in April 1975
with a North Vietnamese victory
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The conflict involved over one
and a half million troops from
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South Vietnam, the United States
South Korea and also including
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Australia and New Zealand and
others. The human cost of the
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war was enormous with over
three million deaths, countless
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wounded and over two million
refugees. In September 1967
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John Johnson and his army group
the 25th infantry division was
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landing in Vietnam during the
war. Before long Johnson came
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down with a mysterious
respiratory ailment and ended up
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in the army hospital. Johnson
felt sorry for himself and kept
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hoping that he was sick enough
to be sent to Japan to recover.
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Or maybe all the way back
home to the States. But he soon
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recovered and found himself
trudging back to his unit in the
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war zone. He suddenly realized
that this was one circumstance
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that he couldn't get out
of. Johnson had to decide if he
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was going to be a victim or
whether he was going to create
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his own positive destiny with
the power of his mind, his will
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and enthusiasm. He made a
discovery that changed his life.
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Johnson found that by changing
his attitude and choosing to
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bring the power of willingness
and enthusiasm to whatever
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confronted him and reaching out
for support from God he could
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move forward confidently.
The famous 19th century American
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philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson
also realized the power of
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enthusiasm when he said:
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Yes, enthusiasm, achievement
and success go hand in hand. But
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it's enthusiasm that always
comes first. Enthusiasm inspires
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confidence, increases vitality,
raises morale and builds loyalty
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It's easier, it's also
contagious and it's priceless.
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If you think about it,
you realize that you can feel
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enthusiasm by the way a person
talks, walks and acts. You may
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remember some enthusiastic
people you've met in your life.
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Why other people who seem to
have more interest, passion and
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purpose. In fact, they seem to
be unstoppable Others like to be
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around these enthusiastic
people because they are upbeat,
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generate energy and increase
the desire to be successful with
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their positive can-do attitude.
So even when we face countless
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challenges a positive attitude,
a willingness to achieve and
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enthusiasm can make a difference
Join me as we find out more
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about how enthusiasm is a habit
that anyone can practice and
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change their life.
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Charles Schwab, a wealthy and
influential steel industrialist
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was earning a salary of a
million dollars a year in the
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late 1800s. When he was asked
if he was being paid such a high
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salary because of his
exceptional ability to produce
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steel Schwab replied:
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Enthusiasm generates a positive
attitude. It helps us to look
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for solutions to problems,
to see the opportunity in a
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challenge and to perform a
task with energy, interest and
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vitality. Enthusiastic people
are far more likely to succeed
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in accomplishing a task because
they believe in what they are
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doing despite the pressures
around them. So let's find out
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more about enthusiasm. today I
have a special guest with me who
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extensively researched the topic
of enthusiasm. Don MacIntosh
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has worked as a former nurse, a
minister, a counselor, and as a
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teacher empowering people from
all walks of life to discover
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their potential and take charge
of their future through the
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Nedley Depression and Anxiety
Recovery Program. Don Macintosh
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it's a pleasure to have you on
our program today. We're talking
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about enthusiasm. What is it?
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Well enthusiasm is this intense
excitement and joy that's
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forward looking. It gives you
pep in your step, spunk in your
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trunk, your eyes are popping,
your jaw is dropping, you're
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you're, you're engaged, you're
focused. That's what enthusiasm
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is.
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How can enthusiasm
mold or remold our brains?
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Well you know they've studied
this. They've looked at someone
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who's enthusiastic. They've
done what they call functional
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magnetic resonance imaging, you
know MRIs. They can actually see
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what areas of the brain light
up when you have a positive
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attitude, when you have
enthusiasm and they know it's
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all related to the prefrontal
cortex, different aspects of...
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In fact, they've looked at
six different areas if I recall
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correctly and all these
things kind of light up like a
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Christmas tree and when
that happens actually your brain
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remolds itself, it organizes
itself around that enthusiastic
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site or that action.
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What is the exercise
connection for enthusiasm?
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Well the exercise connection for
enthusiasm is very interesting.
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They have studied people that
really are not that enthusiastic
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but if they can get them out
walking, if they can get them
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out exercising something happens
They seem to wake up, they have
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more vitality and more optimism,
they have more enthusiasm and
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they've done this numerous times
So actually exercise is kind of
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the seed bed of enthusiasm. When
you go out, when you hike, when
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you walk, when you jog, when you
run something happens that just
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lays the foundation for you
to be much more enthusiastic the
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rest of the day.
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How essential is enthusiasm?
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Enthusiasm is essential for
anything. There are researchers
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that say without enthusiasm
actually nothing happens. And so
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it's a key vital element.
Without enthusiasm nothing
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really is followed through on
and so you know they've actually
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done research with, of course,
rats and mice and they've seen
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that you get these rats and
mice exercising, you get them
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enthusiastic, their dopamine
receptor cells are enhanced and
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their able to then follow
through on many different things
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Now without enthusiasm nothing
really happens in the brain so
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they've studies teachers,
they've studied others and
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unless they can get people
thinking intrinsically instead
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of extrinsically there's really
no lasting change. So there has
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to be something that comes from
within; enthusiasm. It has to
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come from the inside out. So
it can't be excitedness from the
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outside to excite, it has to
be Enthusiasm. So enthusiasm is
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intrinsic. You have to
own things to really make a
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difference.
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So can enthusiasm be learned?
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Yeah, you know, people ask it
it caught or is it taught? It's
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kind of both. It can be learned
but it really can't be taught by
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someone who's not enthusiastic.
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So it can be learned though.
They've actually done seminars
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and teaching on how to be joyful
how to be optimistic, how to be
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enthusiastic and then they
followed up later and they had
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various groups that they looked
at. But they recognized that the
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group that was actually being
taught the strategies of being
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enthusiastic, being optimistic,
they actually did in fact
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improve. So yes,
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enthusiasm although it
can be caught actually also
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can be taught.
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And this is good news. Why is it
good news it can be taught? Well
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because you know enthusiasm
lays the foundation for healthy
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people, for instance to recover
from depression and anxiety.
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Maybe you get down in a
pit, in a hole, and you have no
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enthusiasm, you have no zest, no
vitality and so how can you come
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out of it? Well if you put
yourself in an environment with
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people that are enthusiastic and
we're going to come back to this
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later. Where does that really
come from? Then things radically
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can change. I'll give
some examples later of how that
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happens where I saw
clinically myself and the others
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maybe common stories
some of us know about.
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What is the
impact of enthusiasm?
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Well enthusiasm is kind of a
game changer. You have a teacher
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who's enthusiastic it can change
the entire classroom. If you've
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ever gone into a classroom that
was just completely dead. Then
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you have an enthusiastic
presentation and pretty soon
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people they were waking up,
things were happening. Or have
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you ever been to maybe a lecture
where someone just is a live
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wire. They bring everyone alive.
Maybe you've attended a church
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service where there's a pastor
who just you know on fire.
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Things just change. So you know
I'll give you some examples.
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When I was working in a hospital
years ago there was a lady that
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saw me. She said you are an
enthusiastic chap. I would like
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you to come and work with my
ailing father and I want him to
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stay alive until the holidays,
until Thanksgiving time. And I
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said, Well a, you know, that'd
be great. I'll come over. And I
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went over and I really needed
the job so I wanted this man to
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stay alive, maybe for the wrong
reasons, but I wanted him to
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stay alive. And I say what is it
that motivates this guy? What is
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it that makes him, I didn't
know even the word then in this
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context, but what makes
him intrinsically motived? What
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makes him enthusiastic. And I
could find nothing. He was just
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laying there. There was nothing
going on. Then I noticed one day
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there was a television on and
there was this man whose name
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was I think it was Harry Carey
or something like this and he
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sang a song before a baseball
game here. Take me out to the
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ballpark. He was singing
that. And everybody would start
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cheering and they would... Now
this team that he was following
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they always lost. But just
because of the way he sang, just
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because of the way he was,
people would watch this team.
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I mean they would watch it
for years, they were fans just
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because of this enthusiastic
broadcaster. So this guy, I see
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him, he's watching. He hears
that commotion. He goes Oh! my
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teams on and he sat up. He
started rolling over towards
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that. I said, that's it. This is
the intrinsic motivator, this is
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his button for enthusiasm. So
I began to move that television
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set to where I wanted him to
look. If I wanted him to roll
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over, I moved it to the other
side of the bed. And so he would
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look. Then I moved it back.
Pretty soon his sores started
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getting better on his back.
Then I said this is great but I
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needed him to be able to get up
so he went to sleep once and I
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moved the television down the
hall. He wakes up. He goes where
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look up, where are they. I said
they're down the hall. He says
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I got to get up. So he gets
up. I get him in the wheelchair.
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Pretty soon I'm getting him
up in the wheelchair. I'm taking
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him down the hall. He's sitting
in the other room. And the
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difference was enthusiasm.
He had seen you know this
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motivation, this motivational
broadcaster and that enthusiasm
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in that broadcaster even though
the team was terrible led him to
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do things he wouldn't have
otherwise done. And he actually
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lived several years after that.
Enthusiasm turned things around.
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It was a great impact.
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How can we learn to
be more enthusiastic?
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It can in fact be learned and
usually it is learned by being
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around people that are
enthusiastic. Let me give you an
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example from studies that
they did on teachers. They had
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discovered that students who are
in classrooms where the teachers
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are enthusiastic are more
engaged and do better with their
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grades and they have far
less cheating. They actually
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discovered that you know the
more enthusiastic the teacher is
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the more they remember concepts
but they also don't even want to
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cheat when they come to the test
because they have this bond,
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they don't want to let the
teacher down. So it's in those
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environments that you begin to..
your brain is changed, you gain
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information, but you're actually
learning how to be enthusiastic.
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There's a great video
clip sometimes I show when I'm
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teaching this of a teacher who
comes into a classroom. No one's
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listening at all. And then
he begins so say something and
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someone listens and then he
magnifies that and pretty soon
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everybody's engaged and he
starts to move his body around
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and different things and pretty
soon everybody's just focused on
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him and everybody gets involved
except for one student. And then
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he goes over to that student
and even that student becomes
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engaged. So there's this
cascade of enthusiastic you know
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influence and confluence and
unity that comes. So yes, it can
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be learned and it's usually
learned by watching someone.
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Now the word enthusiasm itself
we gave one definition and one
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definition was you know
this vitality and optimism, this
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forward-looking type of moment,
but another actually more
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accurate definition
of enthusiasm is Entheos.
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It means actually God within.
And I want to suggest that if
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God gets inside you he can teach
you things. You can learn things
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you never learned before.
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What are the
spiritual aspects of enthusiasm?
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So enthusiasm again, that word
comes from two Greek words, En
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which means inside, theos - God
within. So have you ever noticed
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that very religious or spiritual
organizations are usually very
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enthusiastic. Whether or not
you agree with them they're very
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enthusiastic like, I mean, let's
use some examples that might
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make us shudder, like ISIS or
al queda. Well you watch tapes
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of them you know maybe on the
nightly news or whatever, you
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don't get sense that they're not
enthusiastic about what they're
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doing. They're very into it. And
around the world you'll notice
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that are very highly into
their religion. And by the way,
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religion although in some
parts of the world seems to be
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diminishing, actually most
parts of the world it's growing
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rapidly. And these are very
enthusiastic people. Now you
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know the cultures where
they have lost their religious
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focus, their spiritual focus,
not as really enthusiastic,
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maybe at a sports game
but nowhere else. Not as
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enthusiastic. Much more
depression, much more anxiety.
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I work part of the year
sometimes in Scandinavian
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countries and they have a lot of
depression, they have a lot of
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anxiety. But this seems to have
skyrocketed as they've got away
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from their religious bearing.
In fact, a number of years ago
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one of these countries, they
said, you know what? We have all
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this influx of people that
are very almost militant in
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enthusiasm of their religion
but we don't seem to have any
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answer. We're not excited about
anything. So guess what they did
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in this country? They decided to
print a new translation of the
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Bible for the entire
country. And so they print a new
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translation of the Bible for the
entire country, they give it to
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everybody, it's very affluent,
so they can afford to do this,
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and nobody wants to read
it. So guess what they did? They
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brought the Bibles back. They
said let's put new covers on.
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We're going to put covers of
the bad girls of the Bible, so
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they're scantily clothed.
There's like you know the
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prostitutes like Rahab and other
things on the front. And then
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all the stories throughout the
Bible that were actually pretty
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interesting. If you actually
crack the Bible, it's actually
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fairly interesting because it
has very radical stories. And so
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they pictures of these and their
attempt was to say they get back
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to your spiritual roots, get
back to the things that really
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enthuse you. Because without
enthusiasm it seems like nothing
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happens. Another area for
instance: Science. Science did
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not develop in what we used to
call pagan cultures really that
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much where there were multiple
gods. It seems as though there's
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a real focus where there's just
one deity and in Judeo-Christian
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culture this is where science
developed. It's in that context
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that science developed. I'm
reading a fascinating book right
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now called The Bible,
Protestantism and the Rise of
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Natural Science. But people got
enthusiastic about the Bible and
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everything in that and that led
to the scientific revolution. We
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sometimes forget about
that today. So there is a real
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spiritual connection with
entheos, you know, God within.
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I'll give you another example of
this. You know there was a time
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in history in Great Britain
where they had what was called
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the enthusiasts. Enthusiasts
were those who were so
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enthusiastic about God they
couldn't help themselves. One of
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these guys was a guy
named George Whitfield. George
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Whitfield was a very famous
preacher. He was contemporary
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of the Wesley brothers. He
came to America and he preached
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all through America, you know,
various locations, sometimes
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5000 people, sometimes 25,000
people. And he would preach with
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such vigor and such gusto
that crowds would just come and
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they'd be spell bound for
however long he preached, might
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be an hour, might be two hours.
And every single thing he said
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just gotta grip their
attention. Now there was a guy,
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in American history. His name
was Ben Franklin who was kind of
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a deist, actually maybe not even
that, a sceptic, a rationalist.
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But he loved to hear Whitfield
preach. So he went one day to
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hear Whitfield preach. The
enthusiast right so he was very
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enthusiastic about what he was
preaching. And that doesn't mean
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that it was contrived. I
might say probably I mean it was
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literally entheos, God within.
He was actuated by the Holy
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Spirit you might say. And he was
preaching. And Benjamin Franklin
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came and he said you know when I
go I know he's going to ask for
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a collection. I don't want to
give any money to him. So he had
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in his pockets some copper coins
and he had some silver coins and
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he had some gold coins. He began
to listen to Whitfield preach.
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And something strangely changed
in his heart, in his mind
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as he was listening and so sure
enough he calls for... he knew
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he was going to call for a
collection. He said when he
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calls for it I'm going to just
give him the copper coins. At
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first he wasn't going to give
anything but he says I'll give
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the copper. Second he said after
he'd heard just a couple more
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lines he goes no I got to give
the silver coins. This is too
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good. Finally he ends with an
appeal. He said look I'm giving
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everything. And he gave not
only the copper but he gave the
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silver and he gave the gold.
And more than that when he left
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and he began to write about
it I says you know it's not just
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his enthusiastic preaching, I
don't know if he used the word
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enthusiasm, enthusiastic
preaching but he was called an
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enthusiast. It wasn't just that.
Look at what's happened in our
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city. The taverns are closed,
marriages are coming together,
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the entire society is changing
because of this enthusiastic
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preaching these other people
become enthusiastic. People were
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singing in the streets, you know
and they were singing hymns they
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were singing psalms. Something
changed. There was something
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transformed in the community
just because of that spiritual,
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you might say, enthusiasm.
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Do you have a
special message for us today?
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Well you know enthusiasm can
be looked at just with a lens of
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maybe a secular lens. I need
to exercise more, I need to be
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around enthusiastic people, and
all those different things. But
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you know this last concept
that I gave you in terms of the
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spiritual aspect, I think
that's what we need to really
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reconsider. All the cultures
that have kind of lost their
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grip on God, they start to just
lose their focus as a culture,
00:22:18.27\00:22:23.61
as a nation. They become ripe
for others that come in that
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have enthusiasm. So look in my
own life I lost all that, but as
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I came back, as I came back
from an atheist mind set, 10, 11
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years as an atheist, depressed,
anxious and everything, as I
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came back and I considered the
spiritual, just for myself, not
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for someone else. That's what
turned me off before. But when
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I looked at it for myself, man,
it totally changed my life. God
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came within. I became en theos,
enthusiastic. And now it's just
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great to see people's life
changed through the power of
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enthusiasm.
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John Macintosh thank you for
being with us today. It's been a
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pleasure to have
you on our program.
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You're welcome.
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Enthusiasm sure can make
a difference in our lives.
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But having enthusiasm
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for what you are doing does not
mean you won't face challenges
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or difficulties. The fact of
the matter is that we all face
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challenges in life, but if you
have a positive attitude then
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you are better equipped to deal
with all the problems that arise
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Your enthusiastic attitude will
also leave a lasting impression
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on those around you. It
demonstrates how your positive
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attitude helps you to overcome
obstacles, to see problems as an
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opportunity, to work toward the
solution and leave a legacy of a
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life well lived. Many successful
and famous people have
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recognized the power of
enthusiasm and I'd like to share
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with you some of their
comments upon enthusiasm.
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Our Creator God wants us to
enjoy a life that is filled with
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joy and boundless opportunities.
It changes a mediocre life to
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one filled with purpose
and meaning. Listen to what the
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Bible says in John
chapter 10 and verse 10:
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God wants us to experience the
very best in life. He wants us
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to experience an abundant
life. Enthusiasm is an extremely
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powerful quality that can bring
a sense of purpose and meaning
00:25:31.66\00:25:35.56
into our lives. God has wired
you for a life of purpose. If
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you would like to experience the
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00:25:42.67\00:25:46.44
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God's blessing on each of us.
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Dear heavenly Father, thank you
for the way your love can give
00:27:34.08\00:27:40.22
our life meaning, how it can
give us a purpose and show us
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the way forward. We pray
that you'll give us the power to
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choose a positive attitude and
to be enthusiastic in all that
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we do and have an abundant life.
In Jesus' name we pray, Amen.
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