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Hey what is shakin, time to shine today varsity squad. Welcome to our podcast episode number 32. Develop the art of the neutral stance. This is Scott Ferguson. Let’s level up.

Hey, time to shine squad and for you fanatics. Scott Ferguson here with everybody’s having an outstanding day leave tomorrow’s Valentine’s Day 2020 and I have to go to the store to make sure he’s taken care of. But I’m going to get this podcast out to you real quick that a friend of mine, we’re talking about being judgmental. And I found that you know, I’m a Christ follower, and I’m not ashamed to say that but I found that some of the people that I serve with are pretty judgmental, and it’s not a knock against them. But I I’m finding it can be an issue as you move

forward in life, people will judge everything about others, but they’ll also judge themselves and pretty much the same harsh way. So what I’m going to ask you to do is develop the art of the neutral stance, try to stay neutral and everything that you might have an opinion on before you speak it. I’ve been taught to become curious about situations instead of spouting off my opinions. Now, I’m not to say that they have not actually been pretty guilty about being opinionated in the past. Some things that I can’t change my mind about, but I’m not even going to mention those. But I’m becoming very, very more much more cognizant and more present and understanding to not be judgmental in Pretty much all situations in judging others is kind of natural.

But verbalizing it can lead to not so good circumstances, period. So you don’t know what is going on in that person’s life before you start to judge them. They might have lost a loved one they might their pet might have died, you know, they might have had to have just filed bankruptcy and you know, the person might be in a upset situation in here you are judging them when you meet them. Don’t do that. Be curious. Keep the neutral stance. You know, there’s actors like Kevin Costner that had awesome movies like Field of Dreams and Dances with Wolves. Then he makes movies like Waterworld and you know, other not so great movies. You know, he was interviewed back in the 90s. And he just said, Man, I’m living a life. I don’t judge myself. I don’t let what other people say about me really matter. He keeps The ultimate neutral stance and now he’s on one of my favorite shows Yellowstone if you haven’t seen it, go the Paramount network and watch it. It’s amazing life just so much easier when you don’t judge events that are happening happening to you remember, it’s all part of this huge big picture process, all of us as human beings,travel different paths to our ultimate this to our ultimate destination, which is death. You know, wouldn’t it be fun if we just face anything that’s bad happening to us any adversities and just have that neutral stance instead of fighting the flow. You know, Bruce Lee, I feel kind of said it best. Be like water. Water is formless, you pour water in the cup, it becomes the cup. If there’s ice cubes there, it flows around it. If there’s rocks there, it flows around it. It just he locked a flow every single day and he just

He never was really that judgmental of a person according to the stuff I read, I have people in my life right now that are the same way they are like water, nothing, nothing. And I mean, nothing can baffle them, period.

And I find that such an amazing thing that they can do. And I want to mimic and mirror that. And I’ve gotten a lot better at doing that. And I’m very proud of myself. So I’m going to ask you, again, develop the art of the neutral stance. You know, Robin Sharma, who I always kind of come back to, he said in his book, who will cry when you die, if you’ve never visited the valleys, the view from the mountaintop is not as breathtaking. Think about that. If you’ve never been down, you don’t know what it’s like when you’re at the top. So as you’re making your journey,

developed a neutral stance of anything that goes good or bad.

Develop the neutral stance of how you treat people. And you’ll find that life is so much more fun.

Because there’s no failures in life, there’s only results, period. Alright, so that’s our Knowledge Nugget. Today, guys and gals, let’s develop the art of the neutral stance. I appreciate you listening. Tune in, is I have a lot of interviews being dropped here in the next week or so, and you’re going to love them. So you’re not just hearing my voice. But I appreciate all the good feedback, whether it’s good or bad. If you have any comments, go to our Facebook group facebook.com slash time to shine today. Alrighty.

So let’s level up our health. Let’s level up our wealth, because it’s your time to shine level up.

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