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working primo we're back in the game now so welcome back I want to welcome you
all it is great to have you here and I want to launch into this session number
two on the processing failure template I want to take a moment to share with you
again I was about to I was about to tell you the story of what happened with my
finger all right so this finger here oh my gosh that's a little bit nasty but
that's what you get okay so that finger there has been completely chopped off
you can see gnarliness so I'm gonna get a little bit vulnerable with you in this
process because hey good to have you all here by the way I see Phil, Dot, Christine
Nita, Bex, Ords, Dot and who else is out there
oh primo so this is better Curie great to see you too Phil my man primo so it
was the very last log of the day the very last log of the day and we were
right here on the church property we're cutting up a bunch of logs and I was
loading the machine I was loading the log splitter so we had a log splitter there
it's on a hydraulic action and just goes and just pulverizes those locks pretty
much no log stands a chance against the log splitter of doom and so while I was
loading the machine one of my friends who was who was working with me is
actually one of our internships internship students he was daydreaming
while he was daydreaming just randomly pulled the lever while I was loading the
machine and released the hydraulic blade of doom which just instantly cut
right through my finger on the very last log of the day we've been working on it
for ages and then boom there it goes ah so cut it cut it off and he like he
wasn't real compassionate at all he was I was a little bit bummed out with the
level of compassion and it was anyway he's like oh oh my gosh so there I was
holding my own finger I'm looking at my bone it's bleeding and I'm like oh my
gosh and I said to him oh can you go and grab the end of my finger and he went
over and have had a bit of a boy look it was a pretty half-hearted attempt by
the way and he's like I can't find it it's the big chunk of finger sitting
over there on the ground somewhere you'll find it and so he went back and
he found this big chunk of my finger I ended up getting raced to well we kind
of did boost round pretty quickly to the medical center and we got to the medical
center they put they injected me right they wanted to put I was like yeah get
some painkilling drugs in me fast they put the needle into my finger but then
they poked the needle right through so I had a needle going right in and right
out and then they started pumping out the drugs and the drugs just dripping
out of the needle and just dripping onto the floor I'm like no I want that in my
blood I want that in my blood anyway then they raced me went down to
Invercargill Hospital didn't really race to be honest we raced down there and
then when we got there it was like in total slow motion so they I was hours
and hours in there and then the next day
it was the next day before they did too much they gave it a little bit of a tidy up the next day i
had this uh surgeon he was from somewhere in like somewhere like eastern europe sounding type accent
and he just did the roughest kind of butchery shop job on my finger that uh i think you'd probably
ever see it was so rugged i was looking at him i was going are you gonna do any trimming with that
and he's like yeah there's just a swelling yeah and i was like whoa dude that's not swelling i
can tell it's like a big lump of flesh so anyway i watched them check this out with um with just a
little bit of anesthetic and i watched them as they cut out my knuckle and flicked it and then
got rid of it so they cut out my knuckle that was remaining there i watched them they cut it out like
out comes the knuckle and they fold it over and boom and actually one gnarly thing is that they
actually left some nail bed in there so this is this is like this is me getting super vulnerable
with you but i've got a tusk that grows grows out there let's see if this will focus there you go oh
that get that autofocus going there so anyway there's a tusk there that little
bit of nail bed that goes up there so all right so now boom into the into the heart
into the meat of what we want to talk about in processing value sometimes you have an experience
right so that was a nasty experience with a log splitter uh you could also say it was a nasty
experience with uh so you know a student or an intern it was there was nasty experiences there
there was a nasty experience with the nurse there's a nasty experience with the doctors
there's no nasty experience with the hospitals uh you could you could take a lot of negative
moments in there in terms of like how you're going to process failure so
so let's focus in on the log splitter right because i live in fjordland where there's a lot
of snow it gets real cold we're not too far from antarctica and it requires we have firewood all
the time so big question did was i after that too afraid to use a wood splitter now
i want to just want you to think about this in the context of your own life we have different
failures that cause different reactions and different responses and the question that i want
to ask us for for all of us right now is have you had a negative experience that is now causing you
in some way to shrink back from life have you had a negative experience that is in
in some way causing you to just restrict yourself or hold back from
living your best life are there risks that you're not taking because of a negative experience you've
had in your past now if i decided that because i had this negative experience with a log splitter
i'm never going to use log splitters again you know i could i could i could do that
but i need i need firewood so i just i didn't but question was here's the question was i afraid
of log splitters after that time the answer actually is yes there was a there was like
something there's kind of like this there's something on the inside of me that had it was
just a little bit nervous around log splitters ever since there's been a little bit of nervousness
in me around log splitters but that hasn't stopped me using them i've gotten comfortable
with them i actually didn't stop me i was straight back in it uh the next firewood season but i love
something i love this thought that fear is not uh sorry courage is not the absence of fear
it's doing something even when you're afraid so is fear is the fear of failure robbing you
from any from taking any actions in your life right now is the fear of failure robbing you
from stepping into any opportunities that might be available to you in your life this is a really
important question so well the probably the big question that i want to focus on for this
particular session is are there any and if you guys have any you just feel free to chuck these
down right now are there any actions in your life that you're not taking right now
because of a fear of failure is fear restricting you from taking some amazing opportunities
i have a great quote from danny silk danny silk says that he has got zero room for fear in his
life he's got zero room for fear in his life he also says he's got zero room for hate in his life
what great quotes what a great mindset but do you have room for fear in your life do you have
a room for a little bit of fear
or a lot of fear, what's your relationship with fear? What is your relationship with fear like?
And have you come to that place where you are allowing fear to restrict you and you're allowing
fear to rob you of your destiny, you're allowing fear to rob you of your calling and rob you of
opportunities and rob you of your best life? I think that's a question that I want us to
really process. Is the fear of failure restricting us in any way? Do you want to be like Danny Silk
or are you like Danny Silk where you have got zero room for fear in your life? Interestingly,
on the topic of fear, the most common command in the Bible, the single most common command
in the Bible is, do not be afraid. There's no command that God gives us more than the command
of do not be afraid. How amazing is that? Do not be afraid. So Joshua 1 verse 6 is a great
example of this where it says, do not be afraid, be strong and courageous for you will lead these
people to inherit the land that I have promised to them. Do not be afraid, be strong and courageous
for you will lead these people to inherit the land that I have promised them. And I want to
say to you, as you're dreaming, as you're thinking about the call of God in your life, as you're
thinking about the Ephesians 3 20 life that you're called to, here's something I want to say to you.
You will lead these people to inherit the land that God has promised them. There is an inheritance
that you're called to break through into. You carry something phenomenal, something beautiful,
something that no one else can carry, something that no one else has access to. You're going to
release a measure of inheritance that no one else is going to release. No one can be you. You're the
only you, you're the best you, and there's an opportunity for you. It's the call of God in
your life. It's the invitation of Jesus Christ to step into your high calling and that high calling
on your life is to lead these people to inherit the land that the Lord has promised them. But
in order to do that, we're going to have to step beyond fear. We're going to have to step beyond
fear. So I just want to ask, is there anywhere that fear is restricting in your life? Because
if it is, it's robbing you or it's robbing me. Wherever there's fear, it robs us of our destiny.
Wherever there's fear, it robs us of that. So I hope you really, really enjoy this template,
and I hope you really enjoy looking as well. In this template, there is a lot of stories,
really awesome stories. There's amazing stories in this template, and these stories talk about
people who have been through failure over and over and over again, like Walt Disney and
Colonel Sanders and Steve Jobs. Some of these phenomenal leaders that have actually shaped the
world that we live in. They've been through failure after failure after failure. One amazing
thing about all these characters is that they did not let failure define them. They didn't let
failure stop them in their tracks. They didn't let the fear of failure bind them up and leave
them restricted from being who they're called to be. So as we just bring this into a close
for the session, as we bring it into a close, I want to ask you to think about this.
Is there an area in your life where the fear of failure has bound you up, has held you back,
and has restricted you from being who you know you're called to be, and doing what you know
you're called to do? The most helpful thing that I ever heard on this whole topic was so beautiful,
so simple, so powerful. 1 John 4.18 says that perfect love casts out all fear. Perfect love
casts out all fear. And the truth, John 4.18 says, is that perfect love casts out all fear.
832. You will know the truth and the truth will set you free. So I want to encourage you, take that
area of your life to Jesus. Do some processing with Him. Take it in there. Maybe get some,
get some help, get some perspective, get some friends, get some encouragement.
You know, the word encouragement, the very core of it, the very core of that word is courage. And
encouragement will impart courage to you in the process of breaking free from failure and
processing failure accurately in a way that you come to understand you're not defined by your
failures. They've got no ability to define you and get free from failures and get into that place
where you can risk again, you can dream again, you can dream big, you can risk big and you can
run into the opportunities and the high calling that Jesus has for you. Love you guys and may
the love of Jesus cast out all fear and have an amazing week. Remember, this week we're doing a
discipline challenge. Okay, so I can see some photos are starting to come into the group about
the disciplines that you're engaging. So why don't you take some photos? I'm aiming to take 21
photos and put them up in the next seven days of disciplines. Three a day is what I'm aiming for.
So I want to challenge you, jump on board with the discipline challenge. We've got the balance
sheet that we've already completed and in that balance sheet it shows 21 different disciplines.
Now I mentioned before in a previous video I said I talked about accountability and how
accountability is one of the last templates. It's part of the motivator template but accountability
is so powerful. So I want to encourage you, put it up there, let's get vulnerable, let's get
accountable, let's get intentional about sharing with each other the things that we're doing
intentionally to orient our lives towards success. Love you, have an amazing week. I'll see you again
on Wednesday but I'll be chucking up some more photos of my disciplines and I'll be chucking up
one more tonight of soccer which was a great night tonight and soccer is what I do for fun.
Bless you, see you soon guys. Love ya.