Growth: Buried Talent Attitudes

BURIED TALENT ATTITUDES

By Wade Martin Hughes, Sr. Kyfingers@aol.com (YouTube: Wade Hughes) (Two part lesson)

**ATTITUDE: the way you look at life, a settled way of thinking, the expression of how you feel, predisposition or tendency to respond positive or negative, mindset, A SETTLED WAY OF THINKING, mental state, mental position with regard to a fact or state, how you evaluate others.

How do you view things? It is said the average person has between 12,000 and 80,000 thoughts a day. Your attitudes, words and mindset are established by YOU! You choose what thoughts linger in your mind. It is up to you how your PERCEPTION and THINKING PATTERNS are. You decide to live: BAD, GOOD, BETTER, OR BEST

Grow your attitude to help? DO WE EVER EVALUATE AND HOLD OURSELVES ACCOUNTABLE FOR OUR WORDS AND OUR ATTITUDES? YOU CANNOT GROW WITH BAD ATTITUDES. Bad attitudes are like a flat tire. You can’t go far on a flat. You have to change the flat tire to travel.

GRANDPA AND GRANDSON: A LESSON OF ATTITUDES?

There was a beautiful farm in the mountains. An old man and woman lived on the farm acreage. Grandpa had the best handlebar mustache in the county. The grandson came to live with his grandparents. The boy loved the farm. As most boys are this grandson was a little mischievous. He loved to play jokes on his family. One day grandpa was taking a nap in the recliner. The boy went to the refrigerator and noticed the strong smell of the LIMBURGER CHEESE. So the boy grabbed some cheese and went in the front room and rubbed LIMBURGER CHEESE in both sides of his grandpa’s handlebar mustache. The boy went out to play and forgot about his little joke. Later grandpa woke up to the strangest smell. As he sat in the recliner Pa said: THIS LIVING ROOM STINKS SO BAD. So he got up and went into the kitchen. Pa sniffed in the air and be dog gone if the kitchen had a strange odor. Pa said: THE KITCHEN SMELLS TERRIBLE. So Pa went out to the swing on the front porch. All of a sudden Pa sniffed in real big and he noticed the porch smelled bad. So Pa decided to take a walk and get some fresh air. He was enjoying his walk when he sniffed real big and he had that horrible smell. So PA SAID: I GUESS THE WHOLE WORLD STINKS.

Life is about what you think about. Do you ever think about what you think about? We are habitual creatures. We establish patterns of communication, behavior and life choices. THE WHOLE WORLD DID NOT STINK. PA WAS CARRYING THE STINK WHERE EVER HE WENT. DOES THE WHOLE WORLD STINK TO YOU? BAD ATTITUDES CAN BE PERMANENT AND ADDICTIVE.

WHAT COMPUTER PROGRAM ARE YOU RUNNING? LIFE HAS 3 BASIC ATTITUDES:

*1. DO I HAVE TO… mean, cruel, trap.

*2. I GET TO… as a person gets to go to church, but … BUT…

*3. I WANT TO… living in joy and peace.

There is an old song: TWO COATS ARE BEFORE US… THE BAD ATTITUDE COAT IS WORN AND TATTERED. THE NEW COAT HAD NEVER BEEN TAKEN OUT OF THE BOX. THE OLD SONG TAUGHT: PUT OFF THE OLD COAT AND PUT ON THE NEW COAT… OFTEN WE NEED AN ATTITUDE ADJUSTMENT… THE BEST THING I EVER DID WAS TAKE OFF THE OLD COAT AND PUT ON THE NEW COAT.

Few things do we control. But there is one thing 100% up to you: YOUR ATTITUDES. GROWTH COMES WHEN I EVALUATE MY ATTITUDES. YOU CAN MAKE A REAL DIFFERENCE BY CHOOSING AND KEEPING THE RIGHT ATTITUDES. ATTITUDES ARE CHOICES. NO ONE CONTROLS YOUR ATTITUDES BUT YOU.

SAD WORDS: HAVE WE CONSIDERED WHERE DO WE GET OUR ATTITUDES? ENVIRONMENTAL? HEREDITY? PEER PRESSURE? LEARNED? INSTINCT? ACCIDENTAL? OR CAN WE MAKE PLANS AND CHANGE?

Psalm 137:1 By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion. 2 We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof. 3 For there they that carried us away captive required of us a song; and they that wasted us required of us mirth, saying, Sing us one of the songs of Zion. 4 How shall we sing the LORD'S song in a strange land?

HOW CAN WE SING IN A STRANGE LAND? I traveled many years playing southern gospel music. In my years I have known some great and talented people. Perhaps the greatest two musicians I ever knew have a sad story. They could have attained great heights in the music field. Both laid down their musical instruments and never played them again. They buried their talents. They could have blessed thousands of people but they quit. I was with one when he picked up the instrument to play. It had been 50 years since he touched the instrument. He had been a master and played for many. He could not play one song. The buried talent was dead. HOW SAD?