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Um, all right.

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And this heart check in December 2nd, 2024, we hit record and we're

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talking about food right now.

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So if you're just joining us, uh, get with it.

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We've already talked about the Buckeyes.

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We're not talking about that.

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We're not talking about the team up north at all.

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I don't even know if I even want to watch the rest of the season because it's just,

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it's just all false.

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It doesn't matter whether they even go, you know, they're going to definitely

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get in the playoffs and uh, which I would imagine, but then it's like, I mean, for

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what record you, you lost two games and then you do well in that and then maybe

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even pull out a national championship.

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And then you have a, like two games that you lost.

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I mean, what kind of season is that?

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And they don't even get to play in your own Nash or, uh, your

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own conference championship.

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It's just, I don't know.

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It's just, I'm, I'm not done with it.

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I'm over it.

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Ah, why did I even bring this up tonight?

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I shouldn't even brought it up.

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You notice I'm not even wearing, I'm not even wearing anything that resembled.

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So, uh, anyway, so food, food, food.

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I have decided that I'm going to go no sugar.

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So, I mean, like I'm, if things have sugar in them, like, you know,

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they're like, it's very difficult to find things with like zero sugar in it.

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So I'm not going to like do zero sugar, but what I'm saying is no added sugar,

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no sugary foods, no foods that like sugar is the main substance, like cake

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and doughnuts and pancakes, and it's going to say to shoot for a no refined

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sugars and you're pretty well set.

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I'm shooting for that.

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So I did really good today.

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Very clean, very good.

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And, um, it's all good.

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So anybody else doing a health journey right now?

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Just curious, actually.

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Are you, I am.

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I always have my diet.

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I've been doing it for years now.

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DJ, I was just curious.

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What are you, what are you doing?

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What is it?

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I've been off the no sugar.

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I've been avoiding case cookies, doughnuts, pies, uh, candy bars.

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I've slipped a little bit lately on the candy bars, but still it's

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way less than it used to be.

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So, yeah, that's, I mean, that is like, for some of you guys that are like

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really good and disciplined and all that kind of stuff that you'd like.

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Why is that a big deal?

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It's a big deal.

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I mean, just like the cakes and stuff.

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Like, I can't, I mean, it's just hard.

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You need to get used to it.

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You want to reward yourself?

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You're like, oh, I've had a good day.

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I get to go get a little treat.

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And I was like, nah, I can't do it anymore.

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So, yeah.

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So if I could, um, I was watching a video the other day, um, like

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disappear for six months and like change your life type thing, you know,

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like, like just go under, underground for six months and literally just like

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revolutionize your business, your life, your whole thing like that.

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So, so I'm getting like all amped up on just like extreme thoughts

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and things like that right now.

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So this is why this is what led me to this.

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Like, that's it.

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I'm not doing sugar anymore.

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So I'm trying to be accountable to you guys.

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So you hold me accountable.

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Um, I will give you permission to like slap me in the face and, and

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call me up and say, what are you doing?

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And, uh, so that's what, this is what I'm going for.

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I'm trying to, trying to see what's going to happen the next 30, 45 days.

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I'm just curious to, I'm really curious to see what's, how my life's

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going to change through this process.

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So it's amazing how many people will, or how many men, can you hear me?

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It's amazing how many people or men, especially, uh, do not consider their

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health because, you know, the old saying is, I don't know what I'm saying or not,

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but anyway, I've always believed that.

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Why would I want to cheat my wife or my future wife on the years that she could

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spend with me if I die before she does?

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I mean, that makes no sense at all.

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Especially if I did look after myself.

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So that's why I've always looked out for myself to make sure that

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I was taught for him at all times.

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Well, and, and we even, you know, we, we touched on this last week, but, you

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know, we find that that's, you know, one of the biggest things in our community

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that women, um, are concerned about with men, period.

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It doesn't really matter whether you're older, whatever older is, you

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know, however you define that.

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Um, but, um, that is one of the main top concerns that women have.

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as far as finding their spirit mate.

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Is this gonna be a man that at some point

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I'm gonna have to take care of?

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You know, because he's not taking care of himself.

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You know, women already have their plans already made,

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like as in, you know, they're gonna change

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the way you dress, they're gonna change this about you.

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I mean, they're already thinking of all the things

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that they're gonna like, like, oh, I'm gonna change my man.

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I'm gonna make him into what I want.

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You know, da-da-da-da-da-da, all this kind of stuff.

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Women do that, they just do that.

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That's why he looks so good, David.

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They have all that stuff.

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But that's just another layer of worry and concern

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that they have with regard to the man

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that's gonna be in their life is,

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am I gonna have to take care of this man at some point

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in his health?

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And that's scary to them.

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And it's true, so I love how you brought that up

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because it is true, it's just like, it is unfair

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if you just completely do not take care of yourself.

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You know, for your spouse, men and women, you know,

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women do the same thing.

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True.

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You gotta begin with the end in mind.

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I mean, too often we're like, okay, I'm just,

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you know, I'm doing great.

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You're like, okay, I still got it, you know?

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But like, you know, but what, you know,

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people are like, I don't believe in diets,

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I believe in lifestyle changes, right?

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Because diets come and go and they're fatty,

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like there's a fad, right?

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But what one or two things can you do to change your life?

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Like the power of 100 days, you know?

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So I started working out and then I had to move,

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so I've been like moving.

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Yeah, I hate that.

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100 pound totes, so I don't know in the next 100 days.

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So David, just, sorry, just to confirm.

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So you said you were interested in some accountability.

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What's the specific thing?

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Do you want us to ask if you've had refined sugars

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or what would be the specificity there?

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Yeah, I guess I'm, what I, refined sugar, I guess,

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is that's what David was suggesting.

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My thought was that like no added sugar,

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like I'm not adding, you know,

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anything to whatever I'm eating.

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Trying not to, I'm not eating things with sugar

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as its primary ingredient, you know?

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Oh, there goes the special coffees.

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Yeah, I don't do the special.

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I mean, coffee, I do a little bit of like whole milk.

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And so I'm like, I'm not, I'm very simple on my coffees.

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I'm not, I don't like oversweet my coffee.

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That's not a big deal to me.

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But, and I don't even drink a full,

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probably coffee every day.

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I mean, like I get a coffee

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and I drink half of it type thing, you know?

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maybe if it's like social, doing something social

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where I'm like, you know, like out.

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and stuff, whatever.

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So that's kind of like my routine with coffee.

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and snack cakes and donuts.

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And just, I mean, I love it.

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And I'm just sick and tired of just being sick and tired.

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And so it's good.

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So, so I'm trying, I'm trying not to get like super radical

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like where I'm trying to like, really like,

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like, like harm, like not harm myself,

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but you know what I mean?

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Like, it's so extreme that I can't do it

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because I've tried that before as well.

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And it's just, it's so hard.

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So I'm just really just kind of like,

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kind of one rule, no, like added sugar, no sugar.

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I think it's a lot easier if you're forced into doing it

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like I am, because I have a digestive condition.

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And if I eat the wrong thing, I feel the consequences.

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So therefore it's easier for me.

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I, you know, I don't want to get to that point actually,

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though, that's the thing too.

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I mean, not, notwithstanding somebody's actual

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unique condition, but that's, that's where I,

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where I'm trying to get away from getting to the point

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where I'm forced to, because of this, you know,

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I can't move, I can't, you know, whatever.

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And the other thing is this, my, I mean, I really,

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I mean, speaking of like harmony in my relationship,

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it's really weird.

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You don't, you don't think like, oh, why is eating,

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you know, what you eat?

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Like, oh my gosh, I'm just trying to imagine like

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what changes would happen in my life

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if I had some discipline in this area.

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And it's not just about like looks or weight or like health,

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but I mean, it goes even beyond that.

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What other ways can I be more disciplined in the,

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what I do in worth, my productivity,

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all that kind of stuff to where, you know, you know,

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This is a big thing that I think will enhance

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not only my overall life, but my relationships

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with my wife, relationship with my kids, everything.

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David, have you ever heard of Exodus 90?

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Not Exodus 90, no.

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It's a really cool thing.

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Exodus 90 is like a super involved men's challenge.

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In order to even join it, you have to get a brothership

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together with guys doing it.

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You do cold showers, you do fasting.

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It's basically getting you back to the old days

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of Christianity when people did rigorous fasting

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and penances and stuff like that.

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It basically cuts a lot of stuff out of life

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so then you can focus on prayer more.

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I found it's a really beautiful and powerful thing.

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It's a way that men can even break addictions,

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and especially if people have a porn addiction.

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It's really good.

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There's accountability, you have to pray this much a day,

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you have to follow these disciplines,

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and it's for 90 days.

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That's why it's called Exodus 90,

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and you read through the book of Exodus.

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It's a really powerful thing.

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How many of you have been through

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life transformation seasons?

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Intentionally?

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I'm in one right now.

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Who's that?

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David.

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What's up, David?

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David.

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It's like Christmas morning.

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I know how that sounds,

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but it's basically like the second you start it,

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it feels like literally anything's possible,

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and the world is a great and wonderful place.

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And you just feel great to be alive doing it.

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Whether you fail or whether you succeed,

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it's just like, oh, this is gonna be fun.

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It's gonna be horrible, but it's gonna be fun.

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It's a new experience, it's a new me type of thing.

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However you wanna take it.

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I'm currently on day 53 of 75 hard,

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doing my second workout, walking backward for recovery.

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My first workout of the day is a Murph.

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The mile run, 100 pull-ups, 200 push-ups, 300 squats,

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another mile run with 20 pound pack.

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I just upped it this week to 25 pounds.

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And I'm feeling it.

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My diet right now is just no refined sugar,

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and I only eat for three hours a day.

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And especially with all the Thanksgiving leftovers,

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I can't wait to be done with that.

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I just feel sick from it.

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Yeah.

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But no, it's incredibly transformative.

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I think like one of the,

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I mean, obviously there's like a physical transformation,

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but for what happens internally,

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just my mind and my spirit,

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the time I've spent actually focusing on God

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and focusing on my heart work has increased drastically.

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Yeah, I think there's, I think it's an opportunity to,

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really to like give yourself a chance to really focus.

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Yeah.

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And I think that's gonna be like really, really crucial

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in these coming next season or two,

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especially for believers, I think.

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To be really like, to really focused,

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really have clarity, really advance.

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And I think the one thing that motivates me,

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like David was saying, as far as making it curious,

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like getting curious about it,

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rather than like making it feel like it's a put on,

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like, oh, I have to do this.

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And I'm gonna like, I'm not the guy

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that like gets excited about hard things.

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I just do not.

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I just like, if it's challenging,

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like I'm just like, well, I'm just, nah, I'm good.

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And so I have to get curious about it.

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I have to get like a curiosity, like what's gonna happen?

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Like be excited about new things.

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Like I've never done this, I've never been this way before

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or never been down this road or down this path before.

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So what's that gonna be like?

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I think, so the curiosity for me

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is probably more motivating than like the suck.

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Some people are just like motivated by it.

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Oh, suck, I love it, I'm gonna do it.

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You know, like, no, I'm just like, I can't do that.

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And so what are some other transformation moments

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of you guys?

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Mike, well, I mean, I just look at the end game like I have a goal and I'm giving this

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up to get to where I want to be, you know, like, you know, and like, it's OK, I want

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to I'm going to be 120.

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I told the Lord the enemy stole the first 40 years of my life.

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I want to act on the back end with the spirit of Caleb.

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Right.

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Like and I you know, but I'm going to do that.

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So to do that, I need to have muscle mass.

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I need to take care of myself.

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Right.

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So I encourage you in this journey, like giving up the sugar, go high protein, right?

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Because that satiates the cravings for, you know, like the high glucose spikes.

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It's long longevity.

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You know, so I do a lot of protein and I don't I'm not legalistic about it.

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But I and if I if I fall down, I get up and I hit the reset button and I go again.

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I mean, and then pretty soon, 21 days, you have new neural pathways.

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Your cravings are starting again.

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So what?

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It's good.

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Yeah.

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So.

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I love it.

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I just but I have to have a goal.

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You know, I'm going to be there to see my grandkids.

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I'm going to be there.

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You know, I'm going to be there.

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I'm going to I'm going to be there to support my bride, my future bride in the end.

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You know, I mean, I'm going to outlive her because that's my goal.

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Right.

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And and obviously I put it I mean, it sounds crazy, but it's like I mean it.

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You know, I mean, like and so.

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You can say a lot of things, but what are you doing to get there?

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Yeah, yeah.

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That's good.

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Thomas, you said super intense.

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What was the super intense part?

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Oh, the exodus, not the nation or when someone brought up exodus 90.

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Oh, oh, I see.

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Yeah, I got it.

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What other transformation moments in seasons have you guys been through?

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I'm just curious because somebody else, a couple other people raised their hands

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and they did.

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I'm curious, any testimonies of like life, your your life's situation, not changing,

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but not getting bogged down in it like things that work aren't changing.

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You know, but you've pushed through it and still had a breakthrough

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without like just like dumping life and starting over.

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You so I'm I was unclear, Chris, on like, what are you telling us that you've done this?

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Because I was asking for people that did like.

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I'm curious.

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I'm curious.

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Like, does it does that resonate with does what I just said resonate with anyone?

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Because that's what I'm kind of like, like, OK, like I can't I'm not I'm not called to

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just dump everything.

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And like, but it's I feel like just bogged down.

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So it's, you know, if things are going, but I was just like triggering,

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like anyone have any stories that relate to that?

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OK.

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Yeah, I mean, like who who like who feels either now or in the past like an overwhelm?

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Anybody with an overwhelm?

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What do you mean by overwhelmed?

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Like I'm overwhelmed right now, like too much going on.

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There's a lot of work.

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There's a lot of my.

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Oh, yeah.

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I'm like, I just I can't get to the end of my list.

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Yada, yada, yada.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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It's baby steps.

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Yeah, like take little steps.

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You know, that's the only way to get out of a hole is you start taking little steps

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and building on that.

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And if it doesn't build that day, then you do it again the next day to see how that goes.

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And pretty soon you're on the top of it and you're walking out of the hole you're in

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and you're in a new place in life.

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I mean, dude, I was in the deepest.

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It's it is it is a little bit of kind of like you like keep on keep going and so forth.

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There comes a point, though, where I feel like you do have to have a re-evaluative part,

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like like prior, like a re-priority, re-prioritization.

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We just like Jackie and I right now, we we've now entered into a season and it's difficult

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during the holidays because there's so many obligations.

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You feel like you have to do this and you have to see these people and you have to go

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here and do all this stuff.

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And but we're like we're like putting out all the distractions.

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We find ourselves getting constantly distracted.

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I don't mean with just like media or like just, you know, the common personal distractions.

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But I mean, just like things like a guy shows up my property today

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and wants to do work.

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And I'm like, I don't have any work for you.

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And I feel he's done work for me before.

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And he's like he needs work, you know, and I'm like, I feel for you.

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And I want to give you something to work on.

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But I don't I have to stop what I'm doing in order to.

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Find something for you to like, you know, that's a distraction.

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Here's some half an hour of my day

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where I have to deal with this guy who just shows up on my property type thing.

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And, you know, I was able to actually get some something done

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and it actually didn't take that long.

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But just things like that, it's like all the time.

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It's like every day is just like I got up today thinking I was going to be doing this.

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And then five other things came by a phone call,

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you know, some sort of like, you know, just out of the blue.

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A tire doesn't work on the car.

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Mike, I dealt with a tire issue last week on both of my cars.

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It's like, why both? Why two cars?

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Why does it have to even be an issue to begin with?

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And now it's just one but two cars like I don't have time for this.

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I do not have like like this.

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These are distractions after distraction of distraction.

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And sometimes sometimes they can be a spiritual distraction.

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If you guys if you're if you know that the Lord is leading you into a new season.

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Oh, the enemy also knows that.

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And in doing so, he's trying to distract you, keep you busy

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away from what the Lord wants you to do and especially your personal walk with him.

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That's the biggest thing we most men lose is they're in marriage or other.

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Otherwise, they get so busy that they forget

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that the Lord wants that relationship first and foremost.

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And then from that place, as many, many prayer warriors have said in the past,

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they spent an extra two hours because they know they got an extra busy day.

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But it all gets done

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in a matter that it's the distractions are taken out.

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I don't know what's going on with guys like yours and Jackie's right now

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for ministry wise. That's a possibility.

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I don't I don't I don't understand the last thing you just said there.

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Or just saying I don't know what you and Jackie are going through in the sense of

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your ministries right now, what's going on with them,

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but the Lord is taking you higher place.

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December is always a bad time anyway, because it is a super distraction time.

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Yeah, yeah, yeah.

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So, yeah, no, we're in and we're definitely are like thinking ahead

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to next year, thinking of, you know,

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all of the things that we're wanting to accomplish.

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And so we're taking the steps like we've minimized

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some of the regular distractions over the holiday season intentionally.

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So I think we're we're doing pretty good as far as like trying to minimize.

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Those distractions, but it's just becoming like like we're just funny

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because, you know, we were just saying to each other today about,

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OK, you know, we're in a season right now where we're no distractions,

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you know, like we're minimizing distractions.

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It's like got to learn to say no, you know.

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And for Jackie, it was, you know, this cat that showed up on our porch.

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And she's like, I'm like, it's just a cat.

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We live out in the country.

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I mean, like it goes away.

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Well, I've got to do something about it.

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I said, it's a cat.

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Nope, can't let it go.

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And I'm like, and so some people came and took the cat.

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But we were dealing with that cat for like six weeks

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because it kept showing up and.

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There was somebody that was living was living with us for a moment

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and actually initially fed the cat and then left.

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I'm like, why did you feed the cat and then leave our product?

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What what are you doing?

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Why did you do that?

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And Jackie's the kind of person that she cannot like.

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She cannot just walk away from, you know, defenseless.

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Things that are living organisms, you know.

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Don't kill it.

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Put it outside.

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I mean, it's a spider, like whatever.

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I think that these are real things.

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And I don't want to do their grief.

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And I don't want to I don't want to get into an argument

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just because I don't have any compassion for a cat.

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David, do you leave them?

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Do you leave moments of the day in which.

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Nothing happens.

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So that those odd things that come into your life, you could do with them.

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No, I don't.

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I'm constantly filled with just stuff that never gets done.

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And do you keep a calendar?

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It's getting better because I've accomplished some things.

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I've cleared some things off my plate.

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So, I mean, I'm in a little bit better spot, but a month or two ago,

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it was just like full court press and it was just crazy.

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Yeah, I've always helped my phone when I got a calendar in front of me,

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like my phone calendar.

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I know exactly how many hours I'm going to spend on a particular thing.

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And that's.

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over. It's over. And I move on. If something comes in

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distraction, which one I've learned how to say no. I says

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you're you're it's a it's a phone call. Say listen, I'm just

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in the middle of something here. I've got a spot I call you about

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two hours down the road, a vehicle that leave those empty

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spots in my calendar so I can do just that. So they know that

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that I'm not going to put my concentration into that one.

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Because they are distractions from what what are you're trying

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to get accomplished that they can become extremely

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frustrating, especially over time, and you start losing

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00:25:34.200 --> 00:25:38.120
control of your time eventually. Yeah, absolutely.

496
00:25:38.800 --> 00:25:41.360
One of the things that's kind of resonated in my heart, and I'll

497
00:25:41.400 --> 00:25:44.560
verbalize this quickly as a reminder to myself, I think

498
00:25:44.560 --> 00:25:47.400
we're a little bit familiar in the church with like a spirit of

499
00:25:47.400 --> 00:25:50.880
poverty, where there's just something that happens

500
00:25:50.880 --> 00:25:52.920
spiritually in people's finances, and they can never

501
00:25:52.920 --> 00:25:58.120
get ahead. And it, it just sort of wears on them. And one of

502
00:25:58.120 --> 00:26:03.960
the things I grew up my dad was in full time. Well, he was in

503
00:26:03.960 --> 00:26:06.120
full time ministry the whole time I grew up. So we grew up

504
00:26:06.120 --> 00:26:09.760
with not a lot of money. But everyone in our family, we've

505
00:26:09.760 --> 00:26:12.000
never walked in that type of spirit of poverty, there's

506
00:26:12.000 --> 00:26:15.920
always more than enough. But where we do walk in poverty is

507
00:26:15.920 --> 00:26:19.720
our time. And I've seen it, you know, it's probably more

508
00:26:19.720 --> 00:26:24.280
prevalent among me than some of my siblings. But, you know,

509
00:26:24.360 --> 00:26:27.280
getting back to that two hours a day in prayer, because there's

510
00:26:27.280 --> 00:26:32.440
so much to do today. It's, you know, that that tide, if you

511
00:26:32.440 --> 00:26:36.720
will, so I'm preaching to myself, like, if if life is

512
00:26:36.720 --> 00:26:41.120
just, you know, if a project on the work on the schedule work

513
00:26:41.120 --> 00:26:44.160
that was probably supposed to take like six hours takes two

514
00:26:44.160 --> 00:26:48.680
and a half days. You know, working in parallel with someone

515
00:26:48.680 --> 00:26:53.600
else, fully focused, you kind of have to ask yourself, Okay, like

516
00:26:53.600 --> 00:26:55.960
God, is there something you're saying to me as far as like how

517
00:26:55.960 --> 00:27:01.320
you want to multiply my time? And just bring supernatural

518
00:27:01.320 --> 00:27:02.200
multiplication.

519
00:27:05.760 --> 00:27:08.440
Prayer does work, there's no doubt about it, which is what

520
00:27:08.440 --> 00:27:10.040
the enemy wants to keep us away from it.

521
00:27:15.360 --> 00:27:21.440
Yeah, that's true. This is, this is amazing. This is something I

522
00:27:21.440 --> 00:27:25.160
haven't heard in a while, like Kent, both Kenton and Mike have

523
00:27:25.160 --> 00:27:29.920
this goal of living to 120 years. It's incredible. And

524
00:27:29.920 --> 00:27:32.840
that's, that's honorable. And it's scriptural, of course, we

525
00:27:32.880 --> 00:27:36.640
kind of know that. But there's not too many people that really

526
00:27:36.680 --> 00:27:41.840
like have that as a actual goal. And I think that's pretty

527
00:27:41.840 --> 00:27:42.640
fascinating.

528
00:27:43.440 --> 00:27:46.560
Well, we up in Canada have the fortunate pleasures of able to

529
00:27:46.560 --> 00:27:51.920
hunt our own food. So I love moose and elk. It's pure, pure

530
00:27:51.920 --> 00:27:56.400
meat. So yeah, it's things like that, eating well, doing a lot

531
00:27:56.400 --> 00:28:00.400
of exercises. I mean, I still haven't found somebody who can

532
00:28:00.440 --> 00:28:04.680
out walk me or out hunt me. In the sense of walking all day

533
00:28:04.680 --> 00:28:09.760
with me, I can travel easy 68 kilometers. And still, I haven't

534
00:28:09.760 --> 00:28:12.400
put anybody that keeps up with me. And it's just something that

535
00:28:12.400 --> 00:28:16.960
my child lives in my fat all my life. So yeah, going for 120. I

536
00:28:16.960 --> 00:28:17.880
think it's an easy goal.

537
00:28:18.800 --> 00:28:22.480
Wow, that's pretty cool. I'm gonna have to expand my thought

538
00:28:22.480 --> 00:28:26.080
on that. Because I've been thinking in recent years, I've

539
00:28:26.080 --> 00:28:31.320
never had these thoughts. But it wasn't until maybe like, I guess

540
00:28:31.320 --> 00:28:38.480
late 40s 50. I'm 53 now. And it has been a thought in my recent

541
00:28:38.480 --> 00:28:42.360
years that thinking about like, my life expectancy, my life

542
00:28:42.360 --> 00:28:46.240
plan, like, like, thinking actually thinking about like,

543
00:28:46.240 --> 00:28:49.320
how long am I actually going to live like, up until you're like

544
00:28:49.320 --> 00:28:52.600
40, whatever, you know, late 40, 50, whatever, I don't know what

545
00:28:52.600 --> 00:28:56.040
the age is different for everybody. But you actually

546
00:28:56.040 --> 00:28:59.600
never think about like, how long am I going to live until one day

547
00:28:59.600 --> 00:29:03.440
for some reason, whether it's somebody that's close to you

548
00:29:03.440 --> 00:29:06.800
that passes away or something, it gets you thinking or like,

549
00:29:06.800 --> 00:29:09.680
I'm, I'm dealing I probably a couple years ago, I started

550
00:29:09.680 --> 00:29:13.360
dealing with my dad and the end and the sort of like, in his

551
00:29:13.680 --> 00:29:17.360
older age, you know, and he's actually doing remarkably well,

552
00:29:17.360 --> 00:29:22.840
he's 84. And had I not intervened and moved him close

553
00:29:22.840 --> 00:29:28.280
to me, to where he is around family and around some some

554
00:29:28.920 --> 00:29:33.880
society, and he's not just a hermit. And now he lives in a in

555
00:29:33.880 --> 00:29:38.200
a place that there's tons of social things going on. He's

556
00:29:38.200 --> 00:29:43.160
like, living again, you know, he's like more young now than

557
00:29:43.160 --> 00:29:50.200
he's ever been. And so and I just found that fascinating. But

558
00:29:50.200 --> 00:29:53.480
I think probably because I was doing that, it started getting

559
00:29:54.960 --> 00:29:58.360
like, how long I really am I really gonna live? You know, how

560
00:29:58.360 --> 00:30:00.040
long do I have left, so to speak?

561
00:30:00.000 --> 00:30:09.660
And there was one of my mentors is going through a process.

562
00:30:09.660 --> 00:30:12.720
He just turned 50 this year, and he's

563
00:30:12.720 --> 00:30:18.000
going through a process of living his life

564
00:30:18.000 --> 00:30:24.480
from a perspective of you're ready to, how does it,

565
00:30:24.480 --> 00:30:26.800
I have to say this correctly.

566
00:30:26.800 --> 00:30:32.000
He's preparing for the end.

567
00:30:32.000 --> 00:30:37.760
So the thought is that you're preparing well for the end.

568
00:30:37.760 --> 00:30:40.640
And if you're prepared for the end,

569
00:30:40.640 --> 00:30:42.600
you're doing all the things that, I don't know,

570
00:30:42.600 --> 00:30:45.120
I'm not saying this well at all.

571
00:30:45.120 --> 00:30:46.280
But it's curious.

572
00:30:46.280 --> 00:30:52.400
So maybe it's something that we can get into it at some point.

573
00:30:52.400 --> 00:30:57.160
So any other transformational stories?

574
00:30:57.160 --> 00:30:59.520
Because I'm curious about, because I

575
00:30:59.520 --> 00:31:03.040
know there's somebody else that said they had a life

576
00:31:03.040 --> 00:31:04.920
transformation that they've done.

577
00:31:04.920 --> 00:31:07.360
It doesn't even have to be recent.

578
00:31:07.360 --> 00:31:10.760
Just at some point, there was this portion in my life

579
00:31:10.760 --> 00:31:13.920
where I was this, and I changed it.

580
00:31:13.920 --> 00:31:15.520
And now I'm much different.

581
00:31:15.520 --> 00:31:18.520
Anybody?

582
00:31:18.520 --> 00:31:21.760
I'm just curious.

583
00:31:21.760 --> 00:31:22.280
Yeah, George.

584
00:31:25.840 --> 00:31:27.760
Gentlemen, how are we doing tonight?

585
00:31:27.760 --> 00:31:28.480
Good.

586
00:31:28.480 --> 00:31:28.760
Good.

587
00:31:28.760 --> 00:31:29.960
Hey, sorry I hopped on late.

588
00:31:29.960 --> 00:31:33.200
I was running a little bit late from school today.

589
00:31:33.200 --> 00:31:35.280
I'm just trying to picking up on pieces here

590
00:31:35.280 --> 00:31:36.080
of the conversation.

591
00:31:36.080 --> 00:31:39.640
But I don't know if it's a life transformation.

592
00:31:39.640 --> 00:31:40.640
Maybe it is.

593
00:31:40.640 --> 00:31:45.400
But two and a half years ago, I was diagnosed

594
00:31:45.400 --> 00:31:48.160
with an anxiety disorder.

595
00:31:48.160 --> 00:31:48.800
I'm 50 now.

596
00:31:48.800 --> 00:31:49.920
I just turned 50 in August.

597
00:31:50.880 --> 00:31:53.280
I was always, there were some things just that

598
00:31:53.280 --> 00:31:54.720
always weren't quite right with me.

599
00:31:54.720 --> 00:31:55.760
I couldn't figure it out.

600
00:31:55.760 --> 00:31:59.480
And I always thought I had the adult ADHD and stuff.

601
00:31:59.480 --> 00:32:02.560
And I just dealt with that for much of my adult life.

602
00:32:02.560 --> 00:32:05.280
So anyway, I got on a wait list and went in

603
00:32:05.280 --> 00:32:07.400
and got some testing done finally

604
00:32:07.400 --> 00:32:09.240
after a year and a half being on a wait list.

605
00:32:09.240 --> 00:32:13.120
And I actually came out with an anxiety disorder

606
00:32:13.120 --> 00:32:16.560
with a slight case of ADHD.

607
00:32:16.560 --> 00:32:21.720
But what that did for me was I always,

608
00:32:21.720 --> 00:32:25.360
and it made sense because it answered a lot of questions

609
00:32:25.360 --> 00:32:26.960
I always had about me.

610
00:32:26.960 --> 00:32:28.800
And then it just everything else about life

611
00:32:28.800 --> 00:32:32.120
just then came into full circle, if that makes sense.

612
00:32:32.120 --> 00:32:37.960
Then I could really understand what was going on with me

613
00:32:37.960 --> 00:32:42.520
and why my OCD was always so bad and just always being anxious.

614
00:32:42.520 --> 00:32:46.360
And so I was just starting counseling at the time.

615
00:32:47.040 --> 00:32:49.800
And I can have continued counseling to this day,

616
00:32:50.680 --> 00:32:51.880
two and a half years later,

617
00:32:51.880 --> 00:32:56.240
but then just being introduced to Jackie's program

618
00:32:57.600 --> 00:32:59.960
just over a year and a half ago or so.

619
00:32:59.960 --> 00:33:05.080
And just really getting down and doing a lot of hard work

620
00:33:05.080 --> 00:33:08.760
as well in terms of just with my counseling

621
00:33:08.760 --> 00:33:10.640
and understanding the whole anxiety thing.

622
00:33:10.640 --> 00:33:12.680
But what I've noticed about myself is in the last,

623
00:33:12.680 --> 00:33:16.480
especially in the last year is it's really,

624
00:33:18.000 --> 00:33:20.080
I'm not the anxious person I am anymore.

625
00:33:20.080 --> 00:33:21.560
Like I'm really kind of,

626
00:33:21.560 --> 00:33:24.880
we talked about different attachment styles, right?

627
00:33:24.880 --> 00:33:28.840
And I really have moved from the anxious attachment

628
00:33:28.840 --> 00:33:31.400
over to the secure attachment.

629
00:33:31.400 --> 00:33:32.520
And it's just what it's done for me.

630
00:33:32.520 --> 00:33:37.160
It's just like my life is much more calm now.

631
00:33:37.160 --> 00:33:41.000
And I just, I do life differently and it's a good thing.

632
00:33:41.320 --> 00:33:45.120
And even my 14 or my 16 year old son

633
00:33:45.120 --> 00:33:46.480
and 14 year old daughter,

634
00:33:46.480 --> 00:33:48.800
well, she'll be 14 or actually later this month,

635
00:33:48.800 --> 00:33:50.800
had even just recently within the last few weeks

636
00:33:50.800 --> 00:33:53.120
have talked about, you know, hey, dad,

637
00:33:53.120 --> 00:33:55.560
you're like, you're not the same.

638
00:33:55.560 --> 00:33:56.920
You're like, you're a different person

639
00:33:56.920 --> 00:33:58.560
than you were two years ago.

640
00:33:58.560 --> 00:34:00.680
And that's not a negative, that's not like in a bad way,

641
00:34:00.680 --> 00:34:01.520
but they're just like,

642
00:34:01.520 --> 00:34:04.640
they can just completely see how the last two years,

643
00:34:04.640 --> 00:34:08.199
I guess it's a life transformation, if you will.

644
00:34:09.080 --> 00:34:12.920
But it just gets down to trying to understand

645
00:34:12.920 --> 00:34:14.040
like what's going on in your life

646
00:34:14.040 --> 00:34:17.600
and why do you do what you do?

647
00:34:17.600 --> 00:34:20.560
And just, anyway, it's just to get answers, right?

648
00:34:20.560 --> 00:34:22.800
That's why we do these things.

649
00:34:22.800 --> 00:34:24.080
And so it's been good.

650
00:34:24.080 --> 00:34:26.480
And obviously a lot of prayer and just a lot of hard work

651
00:34:26.480 --> 00:34:29.040
and dealing with childhood trauma and stuff.

652
00:34:29.040 --> 00:34:30.600
And so it's been really good.

653
00:34:30.600 --> 00:34:35.600
It's been a good journey and it continues to get better.

654
00:34:36.440 --> 00:34:38.520
Wow.

655
00:34:38.520 --> 00:34:40.040
Thanks for sharing that, George.

656
00:34:40.040 --> 00:34:41.400
That's powerful.

657
00:34:41.400 --> 00:34:43.880
Yeah, that's definitely a life transformation.

658
00:34:43.880 --> 00:34:45.679
You can get a key that, you know,

659
00:34:45.679 --> 00:34:48.280
basically unlocks, you know,

660
00:34:48.280 --> 00:34:52.480
sort of the, why am I the way I am and so forth?

661
00:34:52.480 --> 00:34:53.320
You're like, you know,

662
00:34:53.320 --> 00:34:55.800
like you have a light bulb goes up or whatever it happens,

663
00:34:55.800 --> 00:35:00.160
you know, obviously heart work is something that we do here.

664
00:35:00.000 --> 00:35:07.280
this program and in this community and I probably need to go back and do some of

665
00:35:07.280 --> 00:35:13.120
my heart work as well so I need to revisit some of that and it's a

666
00:35:13.120 --> 00:35:18.960
lifelong process journeys I've added some breakthrough a couple weeks ago on

667
00:35:18.960 --> 00:35:28.280
some some things that that happened when I was in my ministry years growing up

668
00:35:28.280 --> 00:35:32.240
some things and it had some discussions I'm just coming to mind right now so I

669
00:35:32.240 --> 00:35:39.280
probably should go back and do some of that but yeah we all need to have some

670
00:35:39.280 --> 00:35:43.440
more self-discovery as well so thanks for sharing that George that's pretty

671
00:35:43.440 --> 00:35:47.160
powerful it's definitely I would call that a life transformation like you were

672
00:35:47.160 --> 00:35:52.880
one way but now you know it's it's like yeah when other people recognize it

673
00:35:52.880 --> 00:35:58.400
especially your kids that's powerful if your kids recognize something like hey

674
00:35:58.400 --> 00:36:03.520
you're not you're different like in a good way that's yeah pretty cool yeah

675
00:36:03.520 --> 00:36:07.840
and I think for me to hear to hear them say that and I was just probably within

676
00:36:07.840 --> 00:36:13.600
the last three or four weeks really spoke volumes if you will and I'm a very

677
00:36:13.600 --> 00:36:18.880
humble man but you know I just I just kind of puffed my chest a little bit

678
00:36:18.920 --> 00:36:23.120
you know cuz it's cuz you never know right you just kind of wonder you know

679
00:36:23.120 --> 00:36:28.160
if it's you know but then when you get that confirmation right it's always it

680
00:36:28.160 --> 00:36:32.760
especially coming from your kids you know from from family that's always nice

681
00:36:32.760 --> 00:36:37.920
yeah the people that know you the most that know you the best your family your

682
00:36:37.920 --> 00:36:42.520
friends but especially your family your kids and your spouse people that's in

683
00:36:42.520 --> 00:36:47.800
your life yeah yeah that makes a big difference like what they think how they

684
00:36:47.800 --> 00:36:56.920
see you like super matters absolutely Thomas what's your story oh I'm uh I'm

685
00:36:56.920 --> 00:37:02.840
incredibly grateful for transformation and maybe another word being

686
00:37:02.840 --> 00:37:08.760
metamorphosis I just wrote down a quick list let's see here I went from not

687
00:37:08.760 --> 00:37:14.480
exercising to lifting five times a week and then doing a half-ironman I was a

688
00:37:14.480 --> 00:37:19.640
Calvinist cessationist and then became filled with the spirit I believed

689
00:37:19.640 --> 00:37:25.640
artists were evil people and now and any music with beats on the two and four was

690
00:37:25.640 --> 00:37:33.560
evil now I'm in a praise band artists were evil yeah absolutely look at all

691
00:37:33.560 --> 00:37:48.200
the bad things they do what I believe that dating and courtship now I'm

692
00:37:48.200 --> 00:37:54.200
dating and no one in my immediate family traveled that side of the United States

693
00:37:54.200 --> 00:37:58.200
growing up but now I've been to 23 countries Wow

694
00:37:58.200 --> 00:38:02.920
it's pretty so yeah I mean all kinds of stuff I think a change is very possible

695
00:38:02.920 --> 00:38:11.360
for all of us I'm very confident God God has a sense of humor and I'm just

696
00:38:11.360 --> 00:38:19.280
curious anybody not been out of the United States you mean nothing I'm

697
00:38:19.280 --> 00:38:24.360
sorry what no you said not but I said yeah anybody not ever been out of the

698
00:38:24.360 --> 00:38:30.440
United States or you know recently recently to Canada I mean I'm very

699
00:38:30.440 --> 00:38:38.040
briefly Canada but that's like it's almost you're saying that you haven't

700
00:38:38.040 --> 00:38:41.800
been out of the United States except for recently you just went to Canada is that

701
00:38:41.800 --> 00:38:45.920
what you're saying no not recently but like briefly like Oh

702
00:38:45.920 --> 00:38:55.120
briefly yeah briefly yeah Wow okay you're so close to outside I'd say

703
00:38:55.120 --> 00:38:59.520
aren't you in Michigan yeah I'm Michigan yeah I'm like Detroit area so like

704
00:38:59.520 --> 00:39:06.520
that's very close to um Windsor yeah that's like not out of the United States

705
00:39:06.520 --> 00:39:12.440
I mean it is but it's not if you live in well my family drove I have a really

706
00:39:12.440 --> 00:39:16.560
good friend who lives in Windsor that's freaking Michigan Wolverines fan like

707
00:39:16.560 --> 00:39:23.200
that's not like I'm just joking I'm playing around there

708
00:39:24.200 --> 00:39:29.040
okay that's okay yeah

709
00:39:29.280 --> 00:39:34.680
traveling is cool anybody not anybody not like to travel how many people do

710
00:39:34.680 --> 00:39:41.960
like to travel I like to travel nobody nobody hates anybody hate traveling like

711
00:39:41.960 --> 00:39:50.120
I don't hate it but I'm not like a super fan of it I mean like I could take it or

712
00:39:50.120 --> 00:39:58.280
leave it I guess okay curious okay I'm just asking I don't like planes I like

713
00:39:58.280 --> 00:40:01.640
getting to where I'm going but

714
00:40:00.000 --> 00:40:05.000
the whole airport and loads of people and noise.

715
00:40:06.440 --> 00:40:07.660
Planes wig you out?

716
00:40:09.840 --> 00:40:12.000
Yeah, I mean, honestly,

717
00:40:12.000 --> 00:40:14.000
let me try to find my garage light here.

718
00:40:15.040 --> 00:40:15.880
Here we go.

719
00:40:17.360 --> 00:40:20.040
I would prefer to drive across the United States

720
00:40:20.040 --> 00:40:22.820
versus take a four or five hour flight.

721
00:40:25.080 --> 00:40:27.660
Are you like John Madden, only take a train?

722
00:40:27.660 --> 00:40:30.460
It was a bus.

723
00:40:30.460 --> 00:40:31.300
Do you take trains?

724
00:40:31.300 --> 00:40:32.120
Do you like trains?

725
00:40:32.120 --> 00:40:34.560
Or is it just public transit that you don't like?

726
00:40:35.620 --> 00:40:36.780
I think it's public transit.

727
00:40:36.780 --> 00:40:40.740
I got out of the army with PTSD, anxiety, depression.

728
00:40:40.740 --> 00:40:42.060
Don't like crowded spaces.

729
00:40:42.060 --> 00:40:45.000
Couldn't put up with Costco for the first couple of years.

730
00:40:45.000 --> 00:40:45.840
I get it.

731
00:40:45.840 --> 00:40:47.600
Definitely not the parking lot either.

732
00:40:47.600 --> 00:40:48.440
Yeah.

733
00:40:48.440 --> 00:40:49.280
Yeah.

734
00:40:49.280 --> 00:40:50.820
But yeah, with the plane, it's, I don't know,

735
00:40:50.820 --> 00:40:55.820
like the last, this is last third weekend of October.

736
00:40:56.820 --> 00:40:58.460
Flew out for a cousin's wedding to Florida.

737
00:40:58.460 --> 00:41:01.020
I had like the most crippling back pain.

738
00:41:01.020 --> 00:41:04.580
I was like, man, I'm just driving to Florida next time.

739
00:41:04.580 --> 00:41:07.140
Well, there's not going to be a next wedding, so I'm good.

740
00:41:07.140 --> 00:41:12.140
But you know, I'd rather travel at my own speed

741
00:41:13.620 --> 00:41:17.220
and take care of my body versus sit.

742
00:41:17.220 --> 00:41:19.600
To be fair, it was a Spirit Airlines flight.

743
00:41:20.580 --> 00:41:23.160
Well, yeah, that's like horrendous for anybody.

744
00:41:24.160 --> 00:41:26.840
Yeah, that's not even really flying.

745
00:41:26.840 --> 00:41:31.840
That's just like, that's like being shipped.

746
00:41:31.840 --> 00:41:33.880
Like that's humans being shipped somewhere

747
00:41:33.880 --> 00:41:35.520
like DHL or something.

748
00:41:37.400 --> 00:41:39.120
It's like going grocery shopping,

749
00:41:39.120 --> 00:41:40.880
except you're in the cart.

750
00:41:40.880 --> 00:41:42.680
Yeah, exactly, exactly.

751
00:41:43.640 --> 00:41:46.880
Yeah, you're just part of the groceries.

752
00:41:46.880 --> 00:41:48.840
You're not even shopping.

753
00:41:49.560 --> 00:41:54.240
My father, my father and my stepfather

754
00:41:54.240 --> 00:41:56.600
both were Air Force pilots.

755
00:41:56.600 --> 00:42:00.760
And so I've grown up just with an affinity for air travel.

756
00:42:00.760 --> 00:42:03.200
And I love airplanes.

757
00:42:03.200 --> 00:42:04.720
I like it, you know.

758
00:42:04.720 --> 00:42:07.900
But there's also some weird things

759
00:42:07.900 --> 00:42:10.200
that happened a couple of years ago.

760
00:42:10.200 --> 00:42:13.320
I started having these like irrational fears

761
00:42:13.320 --> 00:42:15.480
about like when I'm on an airplane,

762
00:42:15.480 --> 00:42:17.680
when something would happen, I'm like, oh.

763
00:42:17.680 --> 00:42:19.520
I'm like, why am I thinking

764
00:42:19.520 --> 00:42:21.320
about the worst case scenario right now?

765
00:42:21.320 --> 00:42:24.520
I've never had that issue, you know what I'm thinking about?

766
00:42:24.520 --> 00:42:29.160
And so I would go ask my dads.

767
00:42:29.160 --> 00:42:31.280
I would say, hey, when this happens on the plane,

768
00:42:31.280 --> 00:42:34.220
what's happening mechanically, like on the plane?

769
00:42:34.220 --> 00:42:36.360
So I have that level of understanding.

770
00:42:36.360 --> 00:42:38.600
And so they would tell me, oh, that's just, you know,

771
00:42:38.600 --> 00:42:40.240
this and this and whatever is going on.

772
00:42:40.240 --> 00:42:41.520
It's like, oh, okay.

773
00:42:41.520 --> 00:42:43.720
So now I have these, I just educate myself.

774
00:42:43.720 --> 00:42:45.160
So this level of understanding helped me

775
00:42:45.160 --> 00:42:49.160
to not have these irrational, weird things

776
00:42:49.160 --> 00:42:52.160
about what's happening on the airplane

777
00:42:52.160 --> 00:42:54.960
mechanically or all that.

778
00:42:54.960 --> 00:42:57.760
The people thing, yeah, the people thing can be irritating.

779
00:42:57.760 --> 00:43:01.760
But I don't have the situation of the PTSD,

780
00:43:01.760 --> 00:43:03.960
which my brother-in-law does.

781
00:43:03.960 --> 00:43:06.240
My brother-in-law is a veteran.

782
00:43:09.200 --> 00:43:11.960
He was, his outfit, he was a Marine.

783
00:43:11.960 --> 00:43:21.880
Staff Sergeant and was a veteran of Battle of Fallujah.

784
00:43:21.880 --> 00:43:23.760
And that was a pretty gritty one.

785
00:43:23.760 --> 00:43:26.520
And that was a pretty, pretty tragic.

786
00:43:26.520 --> 00:43:31.520
And what he went through, I've never heard his story,

787
00:43:31.520 --> 00:43:33.000
but I can just only imagine.

788
00:43:33.000 --> 00:43:36.560
And yeah, if we're sitting around

789
00:43:36.560 --> 00:43:39.200
and we're in a crowded place and it's 9 o'clock at night

790
00:43:39.200 --> 00:43:41.920
and it's about to get lit because party people are

791
00:43:41.920 --> 00:43:44.360
coming around and it's just like, yep, time to go.

792
00:43:44.360 --> 00:43:48.760
Because the people, just the energy of just anything

793
00:43:48.760 --> 00:43:53.760
that would be like unexpected would just,

794
00:43:56.280 --> 00:43:58.360
probably is not healthy.

795
00:43:58.360 --> 00:44:00.560
And it's difficult, so.

796
00:44:00.560 --> 00:44:02.120
I mean, nowadays I'm a lot better,

797
00:44:02.120 --> 00:44:03.960
but it still feels like-

798
00:44:03.960 --> 00:44:04.800
I can appreciate it.

799
00:44:04.800 --> 00:44:06.360
Nails on a chalkboard.

800
00:44:06.360 --> 00:44:07.200
Yeah.

801
00:44:08.320 --> 00:44:11.680
I'd just rather not be around it if I could avoid it.

802
00:44:12.320 --> 00:44:14.880
I'm sorry, I'm sorry that's happened to you.

803
00:44:14.880 --> 00:44:17.040
And yeah, thank you for your service

804
00:44:17.040 --> 00:44:19.720
and all of that stuff.

805
00:44:19.720 --> 00:44:22.120
Yeah, thank you for your support, David.

806
00:44:22.120 --> 00:44:23.200
On multiple levels.

807
00:44:24.760 --> 00:44:25.800
It's good, it's good.

808
00:44:27.000 --> 00:44:28.520
Well, you guys, I mean,

809
00:44:28.520 --> 00:44:32.080
I kind of shared my sort of stuff with you

810
00:44:32.080 --> 00:44:34.600
and my angst with you.

811
00:44:34.600 --> 00:44:38.120
I mean, the sports thing and the Ohio State thing is funny,

812
00:44:38.120 --> 00:44:41.520
but at the same time, I was like really affected by it.

813
00:44:42.360 --> 00:44:43.280
And it wasn't good.

814
00:44:43.280 --> 00:44:45.160
And you can tell at the beginning of the call,

815
00:44:45.160 --> 00:44:48.200
I was getting a little bit animated.

816
00:44:48.200 --> 00:44:52.240
And it's just like, why, why is this?

817
00:44:53.280 --> 00:44:58.280
But what I'm trying to say is that this call today was,

818
00:45:00.000 --> 00:45:04.560
as you guys help me sort of like encourage me, lift me up.

819
00:45:04.620 --> 00:45:07.820
So normally we're doing that differently.

820
00:45:07.920 --> 00:45:11.720
So I appreciate you guys just kind of caring enough to,

821
00:45:12.640 --> 00:45:16.640
to, uh, to, uh, champion me, support me and,

822
00:45:17.440 --> 00:45:19.940
and hold me accountable. I'm doing this journey.

823
00:45:19.940 --> 00:45:23.040
I'm going to try to see what's going to happen the next 30 to 40,

824
00:45:23.120 --> 00:45:26.360
really 40, about 45 days. I'm trying to,

825
00:45:26.360 --> 00:45:29.640
but that's kind of like it's Jackie's birthday in 45 days.

826
00:45:29.880 --> 00:45:33.600
You don't know this. Her birthday is January 16th.

827
00:45:34.560 --> 00:45:35.520
So, um,

828
00:45:37.160 --> 00:45:41.540
if you're inclined to, uh, reach out, say anything,

829
00:45:41.540 --> 00:45:46.400
do anything, whatever like that, um, it would be really, really great. She,

830
00:45:46.440 --> 00:45:51.320
she always, um, just really appreciates just, um,

831
00:45:52.120 --> 00:45:56.640
she does so much for so many people. I mean, you have no idea.

832
00:45:57.720 --> 00:46:02.080
I mean, she serves and serves and serves and serves and over serves. And,

833
00:46:02.680 --> 00:46:06.880
um, even though we run a business and our business does well, and, and,

834
00:46:06.880 --> 00:46:11.240
and we run a community and we have a lot of people's attention

835
00:46:12.200 --> 00:46:16.160
that can be also very, very, very taxing.

836
00:46:17.040 --> 00:46:21.440
And, um, it can be very taxing in our life and our,

837
00:46:21.760 --> 00:46:25.600
our personal relationship, just our harmony at home and so forth.

838
00:46:25.600 --> 00:46:29.600
And so we're, we're glad to do it. We're,

839
00:46:29.600 --> 00:46:32.120
we feel like we're making a difference in the world.

840
00:46:32.280 --> 00:46:34.560
We feel like we're doing kingdom work.

841
00:46:34.560 --> 00:46:38.640
We feel like we're doing the work of the Lord in doing it, but it can be very,

842
00:46:38.640 --> 00:46:43.440
very, very never ending and exhausting. And so,

843
00:46:44.320 --> 00:46:45.160
um,

844
00:46:46.080 --> 00:46:50.000
if you feel like just giving a shout out or celebrating her in any kind of way,

845
00:46:51.360 --> 00:46:55.520
um, you know, definitely, um, do, do so. I would,

846
00:46:56.560 --> 00:47:01.240
she would appreciate it for sure. So her, but she's going to be 50 years old.

847
00:47:02.680 --> 00:47:03.840
So this is a big one.

848
00:47:05.240 --> 00:47:09.200
And she was been 30 for 20 years now, but like, you know, other than that,

849
00:47:09.960 --> 00:47:11.440
there is that, yes.

850
00:47:13.600 --> 00:47:14.440
True.

851
00:47:14.840 --> 00:47:19.280
But she has acknowledged that she is turning the big five. Oh,

852
00:47:19.320 --> 00:47:23.920
and she, she is excited.

853
00:47:23.920 --> 00:47:27.680
She's, um, she's,

854
00:47:27.760 --> 00:47:30.720
she's always been very aware of her, like,

855
00:47:32.160 --> 00:47:36.080
you know, existential, like future self, you know,

856
00:47:36.080 --> 00:47:40.400
she's very like cognizant of all that. She, you know, she's just like any,

857
00:47:40.920 --> 00:47:42.200
like most women are, but,

858
00:47:42.840 --> 00:47:47.640
and she's always been very aware of her mortality since she

859
00:47:47.640 --> 00:47:52.040
was a young child, you know? And so she just lives with that.

860
00:47:52.040 --> 00:47:56.520
But at the same time, um, turning 50 is like, she's really, really,

861
00:47:56.520 --> 00:48:00.280
really trying to embrace it and make it positive, but it's,

862
00:48:00.640 --> 00:48:02.800
it's difficult for her. Some people just don't like to get,

863
00:48:03.560 --> 00:48:08.040
like they have this moniker of like, like it does getting old.

864
00:48:08.040 --> 00:48:13.040
It's like wrong or bad or whatever, or it shouldn't happen. You know,

865
00:48:13.040 --> 00:48:17.840
like you should be young forever, young. And, uh, and they tell him, oh,

866
00:48:17.840 --> 00:48:20.320
you know, age is just a number. It's all in your head. And so,

867
00:48:20.360 --> 00:48:23.640
and they're like, yeah, right. Whatever. Like tell it to my, the way I feel,

868
00:48:23.640 --> 00:48:25.800
but tell it to my body, you know?

869
00:48:25.800 --> 00:48:29.120
And then she's trying to get her body in alignment. She's like,

870
00:48:29.120 --> 00:48:33.720
why don't I look like I did when I was 32? And I'm like, babe,

871
00:48:33.720 --> 00:48:38.360
you do, you do like, like when you're 32, like, I think you look awesome.

872
00:48:38.400 --> 00:48:42.480
You know, do I look beautiful? Yes, of course. Like, you know, I'm just like,

873
00:48:43.240 --> 00:48:44.080
I'm giving her all.

874
00:48:46.400 --> 00:48:51.000
I remember I put on the 50th for my wife and we put a big spiel on where I

875
00:48:51.000 --> 00:48:55.200
rented a church and we had everything going for it, but it was all about her.

876
00:48:55.240 --> 00:48:57.640
It sounds like that would be something Jackie would appreciate.

877
00:48:58.120 --> 00:49:02.400
Yeah, I'm definitely, well, we're, we're doing a party and I'm here in Austin.

878
00:49:03.240 --> 00:49:07.280
Um, on, um, at the end of the month,

879
00:49:07.280 --> 00:49:09.560
the end of January, but off for her birthday,

880
00:49:09.600 --> 00:49:13.360
we're actually going to Vegas because she just said, I want to go to Vegas.

881
00:49:13.400 --> 00:49:16.280
And I'm like, uh, okay. So,

882
00:49:16.480 --> 00:49:20.160
cause she just wants to do it that big. And I'm like, okay, come say hi.

883
00:49:21.680 --> 00:49:25.000
Where are you in Vegas, David? Yeah. Oh, okay.

884
00:49:26.720 --> 00:49:30.640
I actually found out about last year single from one of the pastors at my

885
00:49:30.680 --> 00:49:34.640
church. Wow. Cause I guess she knew Jackie from something.

886
00:49:35.560 --> 00:49:38.880
What's the church? Uh, crosswinds community church.

887
00:49:38.880 --> 00:49:43.800
It's a about 20 minutes Northwest of the strip. Wow.

888
00:49:43.840 --> 00:49:44.680
Okay.

889
00:49:46.000 --> 00:49:48.520
I'll have to come and see you then. I've got to get my next.

890
00:49:48.560 --> 00:49:52.360
So I figured I'm going to fly down there and fly back. It's cheapest flights ever,

891
00:49:52.360 --> 00:49:56.520
like $29. Yeah. You can get to Vegas sometimes pretty cheap.

892
00:49:56.960 --> 00:50:00.000
So I mean,

893
00:50:00.000 --> 00:50:06.140
We're not gonna go to gamble. We don't go to like do all that. Oh, there's great shows down there. Come on

894
00:50:07.860 --> 00:50:09.860
We're gonna see

895
00:50:10.720 --> 00:50:14.600
We're gonna see a show and it's gonna be good. Our kids are going and so it's gonna be great

896
00:50:14.600 --> 00:50:18.800
We're gonna awesome, but but the Vegas for us is like an in-and-out type thing

897
00:50:18.800 --> 00:50:20.820
We don't like you don't stay there for like a week

898
00:50:20.820 --> 00:50:26.800
You know, you go to Vegas for two and a half days and that's it like and do your thing that it up get out

899
00:50:27.320 --> 00:50:29.200
and because it's

900
00:50:29.200 --> 00:50:31.200
It's crazy

901
00:50:31.960 --> 00:50:33.960
Guys

902
00:50:35.520 --> 00:50:37.520
Anything else we need to

903
00:50:38.600 --> 00:50:42.560
Have a question. Yeah good. I got on way to apologize

904
00:50:44.040 --> 00:50:50.360
Andy how many people would you talk to this week? I'm just curious. Hey, that's good three. Let's go

905
00:50:51.440 --> 00:50:53.440
Hey, how'd it go?

906
00:50:53.440 --> 00:50:55.440
Oh

907
00:50:55.480 --> 00:51:01.960
Thank you, thank you for remembering that that's actually what I was just about to say myself. Yeah, how'd it go?

908
00:51:03.160 --> 00:51:05.040
Yeah, I mean it was it was pretty brief

909
00:51:05.040 --> 00:51:10.240
like the first two times was just saying hi and then the third one was complimenting and

910
00:51:10.920 --> 00:51:12.920
a dude with a cool jacket

911
00:51:13.640 --> 00:51:15.000
nice

912
00:51:15.000 --> 00:51:21.920
So awesome news Andy did they so they were receptive the people that you complimented and talked to?

913
00:51:22.440 --> 00:51:24.840
Oh, yeah, mm-hmm nice

914
00:51:26.640 --> 00:51:32.080
That's awesome, do you feel like doing it again to you did you did you feel excited about it like hey should do this more

915
00:51:32.080 --> 00:51:33.160
often

916
00:51:33.160 --> 00:51:35.560
Well, I mean, I felt good when I was doing it

917
00:51:36.760 --> 00:51:38.360
but

918
00:51:38.360 --> 00:51:43.480
It's definitely something that I still would have to push myself to do. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, absolutely

919
00:51:44.360 --> 00:51:48.760
But we encourage you to continue doing it if you didn't

920
00:51:49.480 --> 00:51:52.880
Know last week we were challenging Andy to

921
00:51:53.800 --> 00:51:58.120
three conversations with strangers to get his reps in to

922
00:51:59.440 --> 00:52:01.440
up his relational

923
00:52:01.960 --> 00:52:03.160
game

924
00:52:03.160 --> 00:52:04.920
so

925
00:52:04.920 --> 00:52:09.360
Continue to continue to encourage you to do that Andy. That's awesome

926
00:52:09.720 --> 00:52:13.440
Thanks Scott for reminding that and asking that that's that's so cool

927
00:52:15.480 --> 00:52:17.040
Anything else

928
00:52:17.040 --> 00:52:19.040
Yeah, quick question

929
00:52:20.040 --> 00:52:22.920
One is there a 10 o'clock meeting Monday mornings

930
00:52:24.920 --> 00:52:26.600
Temperaments

931
00:52:26.600 --> 00:52:29.840
Yeah under the event section was one Easter. Yeah

932
00:52:30.920 --> 00:52:32.920
It's one Eastern. Yeah

933
00:52:33.760 --> 00:52:41.400
The skin as a schedulers the the people that run our calendar not I mean, that's our team but our team

934
00:52:42.040 --> 00:52:45.520
They put a men's meeting on there and I think they were thinking that

935
00:52:46.080 --> 00:52:51.320
There were some men that couldn't make this meeting to make it as an alternative

936
00:52:52.440 --> 00:52:53.600
but

937
00:52:53.600 --> 00:52:56.840
Yeah, we've only ever had one person show up. I think

938
00:52:58.960 --> 00:53:00.960
Nobody showed up. Yeah last week

939
00:53:02.080 --> 00:53:06.760
Yeah, I showed up first time and I don't I was the only one there

940
00:53:07.160 --> 00:53:12.320
Okay, so I don't know that it's a great time because I don't think it's like, you know

941
00:53:12.320 --> 00:53:16.000
If there were if there were several people that was like, hey, that's the only time I could do it

942
00:53:16.000 --> 00:53:20.000
Then I think that probably we we would have that but um, so yeah

943
00:53:20.000 --> 00:53:24.320
I'll tell them to ask them to see if we can amend that so that it won't be

944
00:53:25.000 --> 00:53:27.000
like confusing

945
00:53:27.520 --> 00:53:32.800
And you don't look at the Sunday night prayer to it says 6 p.m. Easter and it definitely started at 8 last night

946
00:53:33.640 --> 00:53:36.920
So, I don't know if that was check your

947
00:53:37.720 --> 00:53:42.400
in the advent ad event is a third-party app that's like

948
00:53:43.520 --> 00:53:46.160
Okay, that's wired into our app

949
00:53:46.920 --> 00:53:50.120
Make sure that your time zone is that's important. Yeah

950
00:53:57.920 --> 00:53:59.920
Okay

951
00:54:00.720 --> 00:54:06.640
Notice that we're like, you know, basically if the time zones defaulting to something just me

952
00:54:06.640 --> 00:54:13.480
Yeah, that's every other every other time seems right. It was whatever. I figured it out. What is your time zone East East Eastern time zone?

953
00:54:13.480 --> 00:54:17.680
Oh, so yeah, most events were having in the evening Eastern time zone would be seven

954
00:54:19.040 --> 00:54:21.480
Most well, no, it's eight. It's always eight

955
00:54:21.920 --> 00:54:29.160
In fact, we thought Scott's idea was for us to come on at eight like normal and then everyone was there but it says six

956
00:54:30.280 --> 00:54:32.280
It's actually

957
00:54:32.440 --> 00:54:37.800
Type type is like a typo. Yeah, so like let me see if you might not be able to see it. No, you can't see it

958
00:54:39.240 --> 00:54:43.720
But I figured I thought like well, it says six I just got on there and I'll be well

959
00:54:43.880 --> 00:54:49.560
It's probably eight because everyone that was a regular Sunday night prayer. It was an act. Yeah. Yeah

960
00:54:51.640 --> 00:54:55.800
Okay, I'll I'll tell the tell the not that big a deal figure it out

961
00:54:55.800 --> 00:54:59.360
Yeah, just ask him and pay to double check that make sure that it's correct on there

962
00:54:59.920 --> 00:55:02.920
You

963
00:55:00.000 --> 00:55:07.020
Go ahead. Can I dumb question? I use Android.

964
00:55:07.020 --> 00:55:15.120
Is anyone or everyone else able to, like, click the meeting link in the app and get put through to zoom.

965
00:55:15.120 --> 00:55:18.300
It sends me into, like.

966
00:55:18.300 --> 00:55:24.480
Purgatory, and I just, you know, I'm like, sign in and in zoom and everything like that. I just.

967
00:55:24.480 --> 00:55:31.920
So, I have to go back. I have to go back to the email that I copied all the links into many months ago and pull it up from there.

968
00:55:31.920 --> 00:55:48.660
Like, just another email every time it's just 1 of the things that we, as an organization have against Android users. We just really try to make it difficult because they deserve it. They deserve it technology here. So this is how we do it.

969
00:55:48.660 --> 00:55:51.140
I will accept persecution for righteousness sake.

970
00:55:51.140 --> 00:55:52.140
Yeah, they deserve it.

971
00:55:52.140 --> 00:56:01.400
So, listen, you know, I've had questions like that before.

972
00:56:01.400 --> 00:56:03.400
It doesn't work on Android either.

973
00:56:03.400 --> 00:56:18.500
We found that being logged into zoom, the app sometimes helps too, just to make sure that, like, because I think sometimes, this isn't the only fix, but what I'm saying is that it's looking for

974
00:56:18.520 --> 00:56:24.380
to open up the app and if the app's logged in or whatever, that's a consideration, definitely check that.

975
00:56:25.220 --> 00:56:33.020
You guys are all technical enough to where I don't, I don't know what the troubleshooting on that is, but I have heard that issue before, but it doesn't happen all the time.

976
00:56:34.100 --> 00:56:39.980
Like, as in, if it happened all the time, then it'd be like a thing that we could find and we could know, and we could fix the bug and whatever.

977
00:56:40.580 --> 00:56:47.460
But if it's circumstantial, like the user, like just your setup, whatever, there's not much we can do about it other than.

978
00:56:47.900 --> 00:56:49.580
Well, yeah, I'm an engineer.

979
00:56:49.580 --> 00:56:54.660
I could be able to figure it out, but now that I know that it's not like persistent, I'll go figure it out.

980
00:56:54.980 --> 00:56:56.380
I've just been a little bit perplexed.

981
00:56:56.860 --> 00:56:59.140
It happens on my Android too.

982
00:56:59.140 --> 00:57:05.540
And there's other zooms that I go on with other things and it goes right through, but for some reason this one won't.

983
00:57:05.580 --> 00:57:07.860
So I don't know if it's your main setup or what.

984
00:57:08.340 --> 00:57:08.540
Yeah.

985
00:57:08.540 --> 00:57:15.700
I mean, just to make sure, just to make sure when you're, when you're basically bringing up the event tab and it's got the calendar on it.

986
00:57:15.860 --> 00:57:20.660
I tried every, every which way I finally did get through, but yeah.

987
00:57:20.860 --> 00:57:23.260
You hit the link and it doesn't go straight through.

988
00:57:23.260 --> 00:57:24.740
It just takes you somewhere else.

989
00:57:25.540 --> 00:57:29.700
It takes you to log into zoom and then it doesn't go into the meeting.

990
00:57:29.700 --> 00:57:31.700
It won't pull the meeting up like the usual.

991
00:57:31.700 --> 00:57:40.620
That's what I was thinking was, is that to be logged into your zoom app prior to hitting that link is a, is a tip.

992
00:57:41.620 --> 00:57:52.940
So make sure that, make sure that you're logged into your zoom app or zoom webpage or whatever, before you hit the link so that it connects.

993
00:57:53.420 --> 00:57:55.620
Oh, so you can do it with a browser that way too.

994
00:57:55.660 --> 00:57:57.140
Cause I don't want to get in the app.

995
00:57:57.580 --> 00:57:59.580
I want to like join on the browser.

996
00:58:00.380 --> 00:58:02.540
Um, but yeah, that's a good point.

997
00:58:02.780 --> 00:58:03.500
You log in.

998
00:58:04.900 --> 00:58:07.980
Somebody, somebody pray us out if you would.

999
00:58:08.700 --> 00:58:09.220
I will.

1000
00:58:09.580 --> 00:58:12.180
And just so you know, it does the same thing on Apple.

1001
00:58:12.180 --> 00:58:14.980
If you're not logged into zoom, like I had that same problem.

1002
00:58:15.180 --> 00:58:20.540
So, so Lord Jesus, I just thank you for all these men and all the ones that weren't able to make it Lord.

1003
00:58:20.540 --> 00:58:23.380
Would we, uh, begin with the end in mind?

1004
00:58:23.380 --> 00:58:26.180
Would you guide us to the destiny that you have for us?

1005
00:58:26.500 --> 00:58:34.180
Would you help us do the hard things that you have before us?

1006
00:58:34.220 --> 00:58:39.380
But Lord David and Jackie, and I just, you help them on their journey, um, and their ministry.

1007
00:58:39.380 --> 00:58:57.860
And I, Lord, I just pray you walk off the distractions and that you, um, watch over them and protect them, their minds, their, their schedules, their kids, um, their cars, their, their, um, pets, everything, Lord, anything that there would be no inroads that the enemy could use to, to sidetrack them.

1008
00:58:58.300 --> 00:59:01.180
And Lord, I just pray for peace and Shalom to flood their house.

1009
00:59:01.660 --> 00:59:06.900
And that, um, that clarity and wisdom and clarity of mind would be, they'd have such clear minds.

1010
00:59:07.380 --> 00:59:09.180
And Lord, I just thank you for every man on this call.

1011
00:59:09.180 --> 00:59:12.900
I pray for any PTSD to be broken and healed.

1012
00:59:13.580 --> 00:59:18.780
And I just, I just thank you for all these men that are struck, that are, that are in it to win it Lord.

1013
00:59:18.780 --> 00:59:22.980
And I just pray that you help them with their breakthrough and that you guide us to where we should go.

1014
00:59:23.020 --> 00:59:32.460
And, but most of all, Lord, will we just feel your love and your presence this week as we go and, um, help, help level on your kids that don't know you in Jesus name.

1015
00:59:32.500 --> 00:59:32.820
Amen.

1016
00:59:33.340 --> 00:59:34.020
Amen.

1017
00:59:34.740 --> 00:59:35.420
Thanks guys.

1018
00:59:35.420 --> 00:59:36.020
Love y'all.

1019
00:59:36.060 --> 00:59:36.700
God bless.

1020
00:59:39.180 --> 00:59:40.380
One question here before you leave, Dave.

1021
00:59:40.660 --> 00:59:45.780
Well, the question I have for you, um, that I was asking about, where can I find the answer for that?

1022
00:59:47.740 --> 00:59:50.100
I'm you're going to have to refresh my memory on.

1023
00:59:50.900 --> 00:59:55.500
I'm just not understanding these phases or stages that the men, women are talking about.

1024
00:59:55.500 --> 00:59:57.700
They're in stage one, two, three, or whatever it might be.

1025
00:59:57.700 --> 00:59:59.660
Is that a coordinator to the week?

1026
01:00:00.000 --> 01:00:01.700
that are in the training or what?

1027
01:00:02.700 --> 01:00:06.100
Are you talking about, oh, phase one, two, and three.

1028
01:00:06.100 --> 01:00:10.460
The women's program is designed a little bit more elaborately

1029
01:00:10.460 --> 01:00:12.340
with phase one, phase two, phase three.

1030
01:00:12.340 --> 01:00:14.260
Phase one is heartwork.

1031
01:00:14.260 --> 01:00:16.660
Phase two is love story accelerators,

1032
01:00:16.660 --> 01:00:21.660
sort of like best practices in dating,

1033
01:00:22.020 --> 01:00:24.220
relationship, that kind of stuff.

1034
01:00:24.220 --> 01:00:29.220
All that content is in, I think it's in the app,

1035
01:00:30.860 --> 01:00:35.060
somewhere, and then, but the men,

1036
01:00:35.060 --> 01:00:37.900
we pretty much just have it all together, I think.

1037
01:00:37.900 --> 01:00:39.340
Okay, all right, sure.

1038
01:00:39.340 --> 01:00:41.420
I can get you a better answer at some point,

1039
01:00:41.420 --> 01:00:43.540
but phase three- It is.

1040
01:00:43.540 --> 01:00:46.220
Ongoing community.

1041
01:00:46.220 --> 01:00:51.020
Yeah, it's under the PATH sessions.

1042
01:00:51.020 --> 01:00:51.860
Yeah.

1043
01:00:51.860 --> 01:00:53.780
It talks about, where is it at?

1044
01:00:53.780 --> 01:00:54.780
I just watched it.

1045
01:00:55.620 --> 01:01:00.440
Um, so it's relationship levels

1046
01:01:02.120 --> 01:01:07.120
that Jackie talks about in depth for like expectations,

1047
01:01:07.340 --> 01:01:09.280
I think, that you were mentioning.

1048
01:01:10.720 --> 01:01:12.920
Yeah, if you're talking about relationship levels,

1049
01:01:12.920 --> 01:01:17.020
there's, we outline five levels of relationship.

1050
01:01:18.200 --> 01:01:21.120
One, basically, basic outline is this.

1051
01:01:21.120 --> 01:01:24.640
Level one is you know of the person,

1052
01:01:25.460 --> 01:01:26.940
the person's in proximity to you.

1053
01:01:26.940 --> 01:01:28.460
You might know their name,

1054
01:01:28.460 --> 01:01:29.620
they might go to church with you,

1055
01:01:29.620 --> 01:01:32.460
you might work with them, you know this person,

1056
01:01:32.460 --> 01:01:35.140
some shape, form, or fashion.

1057
01:01:35.140 --> 01:01:39.540
Level two is you have identified this person,

1058
01:01:39.540 --> 01:01:43.300
they've identified you, and you might be going on a date,

1059
01:01:43.300 --> 01:01:48.300
you might be dating, like a couple times,

1060
01:01:49.180 --> 01:01:50.860
but it's not exclusive.

1061
01:01:51.440 --> 01:01:52.680
Yeah.

1062
01:01:52.680 --> 01:01:54.600
Level three is dating

1063
01:01:54.600 --> 01:01:56.640
and getting to know somebody exclusively.

1064
01:01:57.520 --> 01:01:58.360
Yeah.

1065
01:01:58.360 --> 01:02:02.480
Level four is engagement, and level five is marriage.

1066
01:02:03.560 --> 01:02:04.520
Thank you.

1067
01:02:04.520 --> 01:02:08.680
And there's some just, define the relationship

1068
01:02:08.680 --> 01:02:13.180
like as a big thing to, when you're continuing on

1069
01:02:13.180 --> 01:02:17.360
in relationship, to understand like,

1070
01:02:17.360 --> 01:02:19.220
levels just kind of help you sort of,

1071
01:02:20.920 --> 01:02:24.000
suggestively navigate, you know, where are we at?

1072
01:02:24.000 --> 01:02:26.120
Yes, yeah, I understand that, you bet.

1073
01:02:27.240 --> 01:02:28.880
Yeah, I understand the whole process.

1074
01:02:28.880 --> 01:02:31.760
I just couldn't, there was nothing explained to me

1075
01:02:31.760 --> 01:02:33.560
what those levels were.

1076
01:02:33.560 --> 01:02:34.680
Yeah, that's the basic. Thank you.

1077
01:02:34.680 --> 01:02:35.880
Yeah, no problem. Perfect.

1078
01:02:35.880 --> 01:02:37.360
All right. God bless, guys.

1079
01:02:37.360 --> 01:02:38.680
Bless you all.

1080
01:02:38.680 --> 01:02:40.520
Okay. Bye, thanks.

1081
01:02:40.520 --> 01:02:41.600
Have a great week, guys.

1082
01:02:41.600 --> 01:02:42.440
You too.