You're listening to The Game Changer Life with Dave Anderson, the show about how to thrive, take charge of your mindset, and be unstoppable in business and all

aspects of your life. This is the Game Change Your Life podcast with Dave Anderson.

Welcome to the Game Change Your Life. I'm Dave Anderson. In this episode, let's talk about

how to shift a room. How to shift a room. Let me tell you what I mean. Have you ever been in a maybe a meeting or maybe in a dinner table with a group of friends?

And there was just this mood of contention, this darkness, this mood of worry or despair or negativity. Or maybe there's like a spirit of anger, just a real critical sense,

sometimes really critical people that are shifting the room the other way.

Maybe there's even a sense of apathy or boredom or indifference.

And you get the idea.

It just doesn't feel good.

There's no positive energy.

It seems like there's no sense of hope or cheer or positivity

or unity. There's no air of excitement. So you kind of have a choice to make in that situation.

Are you going to become a passive participant in this misery or take the lead to shift it?

If even in a small way to shift that momentum, to shift the energy, to shift the room. And, you know, if you think about the four different types of

mindsets that we discuss in my book, Unstoppable, and that we talk about in these podcasts,

The Undertaker, Caretaker, Playmaker, Game Changer, and you look at the eight trades

that the game changers more consistently bringing effort, energy, enthusiasm, excellence, passion,

attitude, focus, integrity.

Those things, you bring them to the room.

I mean, these are the things that a true game changer, regardless of their title, titles

don't matter in this regard at all, can bring to a conversation,

to a meeting, to a dinner table, to whatever, to a grouping, and begin to shift the mood,

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