352. Three Standards Every Man Should Raise

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That's impossible.
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Let me tell you what I believe.
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That your weakness is not your technique. Yes!
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Yes! Don't think you are.
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Know you are.
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The Impossible Life Podcast.
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You're sitting on a winning lottery ticket. An idea that
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is fully formed, fully understood, that sticks.
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This is the Impossible Life Podcast. because Nick and I
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are attempting to live impossible lives. What we know is
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that nothing is impossible. So instead of using impossible as
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an excuse to not try, we'll use the pursuit of
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impossible as an accelerant for greatness. If something's never been
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done before, that just means it's unexplored. If they tell
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you it's too hard, it's just waiting to be simplified.
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Impossible is a default label, used by uncourageous people unwilling
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to take a risk.
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The real truth is this.
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The solution to any impossible task starts with this question.
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If I had to, what would it take?
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Welcome to another episode of the Impossible Life Podcast. I'm
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your co-host, Nick Surface, and I'm looking across at a
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man so trustworthy that his TSA check involves only the question,
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you good, bro? That's right, friends, the former Navy SEAL,
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Garrett Unklebach, a man who's never had a body scan
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in his life. Must be nice for you to get
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aboard the plane, son.
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Now, I fly so much, TSA scans don't include any words. Oh, really?
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They just merely nod to you?
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Yeah, well, I've got the whatever is the TSA touchless. Yeah,
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I just walk through. Get a nod and On the
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plane two minutes later. Well, good for you.
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I'd like to, I'm proud of you. Anyways, so G,
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let's dive into this because this is Tools and Tactics.
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We're short and sharp on here. On the episode that
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released on Monday, 351, we talked about being unreasonable. And
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I like that episode a lot, as I like all
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our episodes a lot. And I wanted to give people
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more on that very specific side. With so much of
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what we do, we can always go deeper and As
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much as our episodes are between 40 minutes to an
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hour on those Mondays, we could go way deeper. We're
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always cutting things. I feel like there's a lot of
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benefit to getting a little bit deeper into specifically one
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point because we talked about some things you should be
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unreasonable about. We said you should be unreasonable about your commitments,
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your standards, and about your possible. I want to go
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a little deeper into what it looks like to be
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unreasonable about your standards. Because I think standards, we've talked
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about this in episode 134, we actually gave seven standards
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of a godly man should definitely go back and listen
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to that. But so many people think that they're going
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to change their life just by like slapping a standard
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on something that's like.
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Boom, life changed.
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And we go into that about how to actually create
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them in episode 281.
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Don't do that.
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It needs to be from a place of your identity
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and having a clear sense of purpose. So we've talked
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about standards, but like, I want us to dive into
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what it is to have unreasonable standards in very specific areas.
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So that's what we're interested in. Standards play a part
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in your identity. And if you remember your identity, your visions,
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your values, and your beliefs, standards play a part in there.
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You can't just build your standards like you're writing out
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the attributes of your superhero character and you just are
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going to, now this is who I am. It doesn't
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necessarily work that way. Just a reminder on definitions for standards.
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Standards are clearly defined, non-negotiable. And one of the hallmarks
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is that there's never any value of breaking a standard.
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The one example I use most often that helps it
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make sense is me yelling at my wife. There's never
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any value that would come out of that. I can
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get my tone across. I can get my wife to
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hear my point. other than being in a loud place,
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there's no reason that I would ever need to yell
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at my wife. No value would come from that. It
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would be only negatives, right? Maybe you're angry and it
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feels good in the moment, but there's no value created there. Um,
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and standards are the minimum you're willing to accept. You know,
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that's the way they designed it, designed, defined them for
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us in the military. Your standards is what your minimal
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willingness is for any specific issue. task or object, like
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they made it very clear for us. If you do this,
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that's failure. Okay. And you should do your standards that
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way as well. But what I want to talk about
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today is we're just talking about being unreasonable and being
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unreasonable is really more about going above and beyond. And
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we're going to talk specifically about being unreasonable in three
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specific standards and And so this would go above and
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beyond maybe what you have clearly defined. This first example
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we're going to use makes that really easy to understand
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where you're going to go above and beyond what you define.
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But I want you to take that unreasonable mentality, have
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your clearly defined standard, but take that unreasonable standard, unreasonable
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mentality with your standard and go above and beyond, go
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further with it. So let's jump right in. Three standards
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you need to be unreasonable about.
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Yeah. So glad you said that, G, because I think
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a lot of times when you talk about the minimum
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you're willing to accept, I don't think people actually know
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what they have willingly accepted. And that's why I love
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this topic so much and I want it to keep
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us going. So very first one, number one, seek God daily.
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Now that sounds super obvious. And what the reasonable standard is,
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and I will tell you, A lot of people are
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not at the reasonable standard and they aim at the
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reasonable standard as if it would be a real accomplishment.
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And so understand we're going to elevate some thinking today.
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The reasonable standard is I read my Bible every day
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and pray.
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I go to church. I tithe.
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Like a lot of people would be like, man, you
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are killing it. There's a thought process that goes around
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that I understand is attractive, but I think in my
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opinion falls short and is not unreasonable and is missing
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it is people do the four F's. Faith, family, fitness, finances.
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Like if I get those things in place, I've checked
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the box, like I'm killing it and I'm doing great.
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And so this can look like you wake up, like
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you're the disciplined guy, you work out, you read your Bible,
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you pray, you go to church. And you know what?
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You are doing well.
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I don't want this to be like the it's not
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good enough podcast because that's not what we're at. But
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when we understand what God's called us to in wholeheartedness
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and in complete devotion, being unreasonable means that it goes
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way beyond that. Um, unreasonable to me, we find this
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in Jeremiah 29, 11 through 13 G and everybody knows
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Jeremiah 29, 11.
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We love that one.
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And keep in mind, he's speaking to the Israelites who
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have been exiled. Uh, they've been taken captive. They've had their,
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you know, just, yeah, they've been removed. They've been ransacked.
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The city of Jerusalem has been destroyed. All the stuff
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that was holy, like the stuff that they held most
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dear was taken away, uh, from the temple. It'd be
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like somebody going in and taking away the constitution and
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destroying the what we have, like the monuments in Washington.
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We would all be deeply hurt by this. And God
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says to them, for I know the plans I have
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for you, declares the Lord, plans to prosper you and
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not to harm you, plans to give you a hope
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and a future. This is after he said to them, hey, look,
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you're going to be there for 70 years and you're
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going to come back. We all love that scripture, but
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this is the whole point of why God was okay
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with wiping out all the things that they deemed sacred.
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He said, then you will call on me and come
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and pray to me and I will listen to you.
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And here's the key. 13, you will seek me and
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find me when you seek me with all your heart.
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We talk about the heart so much. And to me,
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this is where the unreasonable standard comes from. And we're
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going to get a very high level of this. When
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you are earnestly seeking God with all your heart, it's
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not to gain anything. It's not to solve a problem.
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It's not to have a blessing, but just to know him.
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And this is a deep walk with God when your
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mind is set on things above, like we hear about
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in Colossians 3. It's revelatory to me that Jesus, when
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he rebukes Peter, when he says, get behind me, Satan,
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he says, your mind is set on the things of man,
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not on the things of God. It's such a simple thing.
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But where does your mind go to first when you
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wake up in the day? And I'll put my hand up.
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I am a very busy guy. A lot of times
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I'm like, man, I got to knock stuff out today.
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Is your mindset on your finances? Do you go first
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to like, man, I got to get my to-do list done?
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Or are you getting drawn into all the business of
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the day that your mind is not set on kingdom?
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And I know you might be going like, well, that
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sounds harsh. But I'm telling you, man, whenever you are
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seeking God earnestly, you care about what he cares about.
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And anything that's not directly tied to him becomes meaningless.
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It loses its attractiveness. And what I'm not saying is
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you're only attracted to like church on Sunday or only
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your Bible. I think one of the great things we've
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tapped into a lot on this podcast is that when
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you start to realize that your entire life is aligned
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to your relationship with God, it's like, yes, I'm going
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to go work hard today. Yes, I'm going to love
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my family well. Yes, I'm going to do all these things.
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But it's all from a place of understanding the life
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that God's given you and the purpose he's called you to.
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Now your mind is set always on how do I
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honor God here? How am I faithful steward? And you
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know what? Sometimes stewardship looks the exact same as somebody
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who has no conscience of God. You look like you're
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working really hard, but your heart and your mind are
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set in such a different place of knowing that you're
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taking God with you all the time, everywhere, that he's
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never far from your thoughts.
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I think as men, a lot of times our lives
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get summarized into a task list of, hey, here's all
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the things that I got to do today. I got
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to send these emails. I got to run this errand.
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I got to have these meetings. I got to do this, this, this,
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and this. And God becomes a part of your task list.
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And I am glad that he is on your task list.
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But what Nick said there, it's supposed to be so
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much more. to earnestly seek God, not to gain anything,
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not to solve any problem, but just to know him.
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God's the most important relationship. And just similar to the
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relationship with your wife, there's a wonderful part of a
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marriage and the intimacy of a marriage. But if you
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think that that's all that it's about, You completely devalue
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the marriage. And if you looked at your marriage as
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like really the only object of your marriage is for sex,
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that's the same type as a relationship with God. All
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you do is pursue him because you want something from him.
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It's really about being together. It's about being with him.
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And God's so much more than a marriage. He's our creator.
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He's the one who made you with a plan and
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a purpose. He has all wisdom, all understanding. He's the
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author of righteousness and glory. you should want to spend
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time with them. So it's going above and beyond just
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making it a task and having that unreasonableness, which in
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this category is so much about the posture of the heart.
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Yeah. And practically for me, G, because I always want
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to be as practical as possible for people, for the
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people who are like, well, just what do I do?
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Here's what you do. Every time I open up my Bible,
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my prayer is virtually the same, but it is not
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an empty recital. I say, Holy Spirit, help me to
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see Jesus today, to know you, to be sensitive to
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your voice as I'm reading scripture, that I would see Jesus,
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I would know Jesus, and that I would know the Father.
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I never open up my Bible just to get through
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the text. It's always to know the author of the text.
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And I think that's the big difference. So here's what
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the unreasonable standard looks like. And this scripture, man, I
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will tell you, I do not feel like I am
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anywhere close to this. I'm 100% on this journey. It's
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Philippians 3, 8 through 11. And this is Paul talking.
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What is more, I consider everything a loss because of
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the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus, my Lord, for
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whose sake I have lost all things. I consider them
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garbage that I may gain Christ and be found in him,
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not having a righteousness of my own that comes from
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the law, but that which is through faith in Christ,
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the righteousness that comes from God on the basis of faith.
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I want to know Christ. Yes, to know the power
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of his resurrection and participation in his sufferings, becoming like
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him in his death, and so somehow attaining to the
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resurrection from the dead. That's unreasonable, man. And man, I
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don't think that that's just for an extremist like Paul,
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and the rest of us are supposed to just go like, wow,
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he's on the far spectrum. I really think that's a
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guy who knew Jesus, and the more he knew, the
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more he wanted, which is truly, as we always talk about,
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one of the hallmarks of purpose, and it's something that
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can only come from eternity. So- I hope that's elevated
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some of our thoughts about what it really is to
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walk with God.
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It's good, Nick. It's good. We need to be unreasonable.
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This is really about not being normal. Number two, the
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second step I want to talk about, and just a
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few practicals on these last couple standards. Number two is
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train for war. This is living with unreasonable preparation. And
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a different way of saying that is being a man
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who has at least an ounce. I'm not saying you've
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got to be a Navy SEAL, but have at least
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an ounce of danger to you. Maybe be a little
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bit more dangerous than you were prior. A lot of
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this would be in the fitness category, but I would
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encourage you and challenge you to step into some other areas.
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Go climb mountains. Nick just took his first foray into
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a shooting competition and learned a million lessons that, hey,
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it's not as easy as just getting on the range.
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Right.
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Train for war.
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OK.
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And what is what does that look like? And again,
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a lot of this is related to fitness, but I'm
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just giving this plug at the beginning. I challenge you
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and encourage you to step outside of just the fitness
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lane and what it means to train for war to
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be dangerous. Reasonably.
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A lot of people's reasonable standard here is being in. uh,
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good shape. And I put that in air quotes because
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it's a subjective definition that people will have training when
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you have time training for a specific goal. And I
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think the fact that they're not fat is, um, means
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they're doing good unreasonableness, unreasonableness in this standard of fitness
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and the standard of being dangerous is preparing constantly preparing
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constantly because you know, you don't get to choose when
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your tests are coming. Um, I have an expectation of myself,
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of what my minimum level of fitness should be at
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all times, of what my minimum level of dangerousness should
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be at all times. Because if I go back to
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where I was as a young man, when I went
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walk down the road, that I'm very far down at
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this point in my life, is I said from a
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very early age that I wanted to be useful. I
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wanted to be someone who could care for others. I
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wanted to be someone who could protect others. And there's
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a set of requirements that go along with that. What
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you don't want to do is, you know, hey, I
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have these aspirations of being this type of person. But
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then over time, you slowly bleed dry the very thing
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that built who you are. I have to live with
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that same level of standard. One of the things I
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took away from me from the SEAL teams is the
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SEAL ethos says, earn your Trident every day. And it does.
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There's no parentheses that says only while on active duty.
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I still live by that today. I have to be
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a representative of that community that helped make me who
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I am. So what does this look like? And again,
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more specifically in your fitness here, what does that look like?
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It means regardless of your motivation level, this is how
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I'm going to show up. Not because I feel like it,
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because I'm training for the test that I know is coming.
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This is developing yourself mentally, physically, spiritually, and emotionally. with
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the mindset of I'm getting ready for my tests. It's
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building strength in every single area of your life, removing
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any weaknesses that you have. I am very much someone
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who is about multiplying your strengths, like spend a lot
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of your time training there, but you don't want to
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have any major weaknesses in your life either. You got
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to round it out a little bit. Another practical example
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of what training for war looks like This is a
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practice I have. I drag some of my friends with
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me at least once every year. I go do something
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that's really, really hard. And we've somehow found our way
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into doing a couple of those every year. I wouldn't
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count the 50 for Nick and I since we did
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100 previously as one of our hard things, but we
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did a 50 this year. And then we went and
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climbed a great mountain this year. I'm doing hard things
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all the time. I don't want to let myself get soft.
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And that's really what it is to me. You could
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get to a place where it's like, well, I can
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maintain this level of fitness and it's not that hard. Well,
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I used to give myself beat downs that actually took
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me maybe a step backwards in my physical capability. But
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it was about being strong mentally, emotionally, and spiritually. You've
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got to do hard things in your life. Train for war.
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Don't just train for fitness. And the whole purpose... of
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this mindset, the whole purpose of this type of preparation,
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it's not about making your life easier. It's about making
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you more capable and you have to be unreasonable in
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your pursuit of that. If you just set us, if
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you set a small list of tasks for yourself and say,
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if I just do these things, I have checked this box.
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That is not someone who becomes dangerous.
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Yeah, I want to just add one caveat for people
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out there who are like me. And what I mean
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by that is that they'll hear something like what you
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just said, and it obviously doesn't sound that pleasant. So
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you're telling me I need to start doing things that
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are going to be very difficult all the time for
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the rest of my life? Yes, that's what we're saying
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with an elevated standard. What am I going to get
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from that? And here's the thing, you don't know. And
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that's when it's, you know, you can think you know
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what's going to come on the other side. I'm like,
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it's not worth it. And I will tell you, as
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someone who has that mindset, you're wrong. Like, I will
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just tell you, you're wrong. I just, the thing I
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did on Saturday, I kind of decided to do it
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hard by not bringing enough hydration. And I will tell you,
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there were plenty of points where I was just like
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ready for.
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It to be over.
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And I, and I, it's so good to get to
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a place where you're just like.
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You know what?
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I'm not enjoying this anymore. Good. You have no idea
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what it develops in you. And in the moment, all
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you want it to do is potentially be over. But
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when you're done, the takeaways that you get are not
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ones that you would have understood beforehand. You really do
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have to do it. So please don't bargain yourself or
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think you know what's coming because you don't. A yes
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mentality is so important to have because you never know
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what you're going to find or who you're going to
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meet or what God's going to teach you in a
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moment when you don't expect it.
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So important. Okay, last standard here. And these are just
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some good reminders for us. pushing you a little bit
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and what you thought was acceptable for your standards. Number three,
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grow with your wife. You have to do this. This
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is one of the ones very early on in my
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leadership of other men that I realized that it wasn't
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like guys were doing something wrong, but it's something right
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that they weren't doing. And you've got to be paying
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attention to your wife, not just, hey, my wife has
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a relationship with God. She's got to be growing along
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with you. and this process and a reasonable standard that,
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you know, some people live by in their marriages. Hey,
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if there's issues, I'm going to take care of them.
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Like I care about my marriage. So, and that's taking
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care of your car. Like, look, you know, it said,
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or do an oil change at this time. And it said,
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I got a flat tire. I fixed it. That's, that's
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a poor standard in my opinion for marriage, but that's
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where many people are. I'll work on my marriage. If
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there's a problem and unreasonable way to pursue your marriage
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is saying, I want to have the best marriage that
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I could possibly have, regardless of how good it is today.
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Maybe your marriage may be great already, and you're thinking about,
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how do I make this better? I'm going to do
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some things that I've never done before. I'm going to
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lean into the things that I've been doing for a
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long time. I'm not going to stop doing the stuff
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that I already did that works. You've got to have...
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If you remember where I've talked about the pyramid motivation
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pyramid before, there's all the different levels, but at the
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highest level, these are people who seek to defy the odds.
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These are people who seek to change the world, have
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that mentality, or at least attempt to get there in
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your marriage and say like, man, what would it look
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like if I had the best marriage I could possibly have?
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Like what is the maximum marriage that I could have?
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Everything that God designed for me, has for me in
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my marriage. I want all of that. And what is this?
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Let me give you just some quick practicals on this.
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One of the biggest ones I've learned in my life
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is my wife and I, our marriage isn't just about
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each other, right? It's not just, hey, I make you happy,
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you make me happy. My wife and I realized that
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God put us together for a reason. And the reason
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for that, remember that God gave Adam a purpose before
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he gave him Eve. And he said, it's better that
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you're together than that you're alone. He didn't just say, Adam,
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you look sad and you need a friend. That's not
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what he was saying. We're meant to be together for
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a purpose. And if you and your wife together are
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not pursuing something, you're not chasing after something, you're not
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building something, eventually your marriage is going to be you
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guys pulling each other apart. Because here's where you pull
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each other apart. Because there's times where neither of you,
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where neither of you feel very good. And because what
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most people rely on in their marriage is I'm having
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a hard time. You're going to help me or you're
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having a hard time. I'll help you. What about when
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you're both having a hard time? Because then you might
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start when people go through stuff like that, then they
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start picking each other apart and pulling each other down.
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Except if you're chasing after something that's more important than
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both of you, when you're both going through a hard time,
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it's like, you know what? Well, we're in this hard
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time together and we're going to get to this place.
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This is what we're believing for in our marriage. Right.
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So have a strong goal, have a life goal that
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you're building on with your wife. Never stop pursuing your wife.
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Pursue her like you're not even married. Pursue her the
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way that you did when you were dating. And if
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you struggle with this, honestly, I would tell you this
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is such a spiritual issue.
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Right.
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If you're if you're in the same place or if
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you're not in the place that Nick was talking about
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in his relationship and your relationship with God. where it's just, hey, God,
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I just want to be with you, you probably have
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the same problem in your marriage. I would challenge you
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that if that's where your relationship with God is, you
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probably wouldn't be in this place with your wife either.
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Another practical for you is really look at your marriage
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the same way you look at any other area of
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your life. Invest into it like it matters to you.
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One of the things that I've seen, I get the
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privilege of, and it's a challenge as well, but I
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get the privilege of being around very many extremely successful
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people by the world's standards. People worth billions and billions
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of dollars and represent massive spheres of influence. And one
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of the things I've recognized is that these people all
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either have mastered their marriage, right? They have really great
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marriages or they completely just shattered their marriage and don't
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care about their family life at all. I decided I
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want to be someone who's just as great. I want
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to be great in every area of my life. And
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I'm going to treat my marriage the same way that
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I treat these other things. Having a great wife, it
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is one of the most important decisions you ever make.
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And developing them, pouring into them, and creating that foundation
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that you both have, that's what sets you up for
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great success in life. So again, practically, invest in your
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marriage with the same intentionality you invest in any other
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area of your life. And here's just two more really quick.
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Take responsibility. for your growth in your marriage without putting
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an expectation on your spouse. This is the one I
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see so many people fall short in. They're like, well,
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I did this and they're not doing this. That's not
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the equation. The equation is you be your best. You
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be your best and keep loving, keep encouraging your spouse
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to grow, to do the same, but you've got to
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be your best and not with an expectation on, hey,
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I'll grow only if you're going to grow because then
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it turns into scorekeeping, right? You just be your best.
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And last one here, figure out how, like, as you
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grow with this person, they're your spouse. You should know
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them pretty well. Make growing together a lifelong pursuit that
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you guys can enjoy together. That's one of the great
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pieces of a marriage. And it's what scripture says, he
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who finds a wife finds a good thing. God put
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this woman in your life. I can tell you everything
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in my life is better because Lindsay's a part of it, right?
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And some of that is just like the fun and
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enjoyment that goes along with it. But make growing with
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your wife a lifelong pursuit, something that you guys enjoy
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doing together. You love spending time together. You love growing.
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You know, it would be, for an example, it'd be
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like doing yard work. You know what? Like sometimes, unless
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you're someone who's a green thumb and you love that stuff,
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Doing your artworks, it's like, hey, well, I got to
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get this done. But when you do it with your wife,
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you're going to have a better time. Find out how
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to do in your life all of this growth, all
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these things that you need that are going to help
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you build the life that you want to have, build
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the marriage that you want to have, have the relationship
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with God that you want to have. Do these things
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with your spouse and learn how to have a good
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time doing it.
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If you have any questions, if you want to get
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in touch and find out about Garrett's personal or business coaching,
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that's the way to do it. Thank you again for listening.
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Go out there, think better, and live the impossible. See
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you again soon. Yeah.