Positive Mindset Monday | Ep 18: Value Everyone, Love Your Enemy
The Jon Gordon Podcast
Jon Gordon
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 15 September 2025
⏱️ 6 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of Positive Mindset Monday, I dive into the importance of valuing others, even those we disagree with. In a world filled with division and anger, I share how turning pain into purpose and focusing on love, not hate, can make a real difference. You’ll hear why acknowledging everyone’s inherent worth is essential, and how loving our enemies helps us become better, more compassionate people. Join me for an honest reflection on finding hope, building unity, and being the change we want to see. If this message resonates, share it with someone who could use a reminder of the power of positivity and connection.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, this is John Gordon with your positive mindset Monday. |
| 0:07.1 | When we look at events in the world, we often see challenges and struggle. |
| 0:12.3 | We see darkness. |
| 0:13.6 | We see evil. |
| 0:15.2 | Being positive doesn't mean that you sugarcoat the situation. |
| 0:19.0 | It doesn't mean that you look at the world and see sunshine, |
| 0:22.7 | unicorns and rainbows all the time. Being positive means that you actually look at the reality |
| 0:27.5 | of the challenge and you find a way forward. You believe in a brighter and better future. |
| 0:34.6 | You take the pain that happened and turn it into a purpose. You look at |
| 0:40.2 | the struggle and realize that it's all part of the stress that we're meant to go through in |
| 0:45.4 | order to learn, order to grow, in order to get better. It's been a very emotional and tough |
| 0:52.2 | week for a lot of people to see someone like Charlie Cook assassinated on TV. |
| 0:57.5 | To see that happen is very traumatic for a lot of people. |
| 1:00.4 | And whatever your political affiliation is, whatever you think, it's still very troubling and still very painful and still very sad and horrific to see someone |
| 1:14.5 | die like that. |
| 1:16.6 | And so I just want to say that whatever you're going through right now, one of the most |
| 1:21.5 | important things you can do is actually look forward towards the future in a positive way. |
| 1:28.3 | What can you do to make this world better? |
| 1:31.3 | How can you rise up within yourself, within your team, within your community, and bring |
| 1:37.3 | good to the conversation? |
| 1:40.3 | How can you add value to others and actually see the value in others? |
| 1:45.6 | There's a lot of heat going around now more than ever, a lot of hate, a lot of anger. |
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