April 24, 2025 • 34 mins
In this episode, we’re diving into the power of action over answers and how to OVERCOME ANALYSIS PARALYSIS. If you’ve ever found yourself stuck in a cycle of overthinking, waiting for perfect clarity before making a move—this one’s for you.
We talk about what it means to walk by faith, not by sight, how clarity often comes after movement, and why progress doesn’t require perfection—just a small step in the right direction.
#ActionOverAnswers. #NoMoreOverthinking. #SmallStepsBigFaith. #AnalysisParalysis #TakeTheStep #StartSomewhere #SelfGrowth
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Well, hello everybody.
Welcome back.
Here we are hitting it wideopen.
Episode number 10.
This one is titled Action OverAnswers.
And so we gonna see what wegonna find out today together.
So I'll say welcome back to theChange Chasers podcast.
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And this podcast, y'all.
It's not necessarily where we'rekinda, we we're not sitting in
the slow lane on this one,right?
We got pedal to the metal, readyto drive and let's go with
whatever is coming next.
And so we're not sitting aroundand waiting on life to happen.
We're gonna be chasing down thegrowth, the purpose, and divine
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transformation.
And so with that said, I'mexcited to hit you with another
episode, a new one.
My name is still Mandy, and I'mstill trying to do this thing.
So I hope that it is blessingyou.
I hope that the content thatI've been creating has just
making your day better.
Some of it, maybe even as makingyour no, and just stop and think
a little bit and for you to beable to.
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Embrace that mantra of growingas you are going as well.
And so I truly believe that thisis gonna be a pretty good
episode.
I'm, I'm excited about kind ofwhere we're gonna go with this
one, but I do believe that it'sgonna.
Kind of help us out.
If you've ever felt like youhave been stuck in the muck, in
the middle of your mess, thenhey, this one is gonna maybe
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help you as the cool kids say,slay the day.
If you've ever been stuckthough, in all seriousness,
y'all, if you've ever beenstalling or if you've ever been
second guessing your next move,then I hope that this episode
blesses you and it'll be a wayto hopefully help you.
And so with it, we're going tobe talking about movement and.
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How do we move, right?
How do we kind of take nextsteps when we don't have all the
answers?
I am the type of person that Ilike to know.
I mean, I'm okay with mostthings.
I can roll with it and be justcool as a cucumber and be like,
okay, that's cool.
That's awesome.
But I just like to know, right?
And so if you are a dear friendout there who knows me, you're
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shaking your head like, yep.
She likes to know all my friendMandy Cook is like that.
She's like, oh girl, she hits mewith the truth of maybe I
shouldn't always have to knowwhat's coming next.
Right?
And so if we're just beinghonest together though, I will
say that clarity doesn't alwayscome before movement and it's
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not always easy.
But I do think that sometimesy'all, we've gotta be willing to
walk it out.
To work it out.
And so here we go.
Let's go ahead and kick off inwith our content and our
episode.
Our hot take number one isgetting out of analysis
paralysis.
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I love that.
Putting that together, analysisparalysis.
And so I think that so many ofus live stuck in our heads,
y'all.
Any other overthinkers overthere?
Raising your hand, air high 5cents your way, right, that we
may be overthinkingover-planning, over-explaining.
Maybe we're waiting for theperfect time, the perfect plan,
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or the perfect man, or evenperfect peace to move y'all.
That's called analysisparalysis.
Here's the truth.
Waiting for 100% certaintybefore acting is often just fear
in disguise.
And so when I think about fear,y'all, it will always find a
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reason to sit you down when Godis trying to raise you up.
And so when I think about aquote that attaches with that
really well is I thinkperfection is a liar.
Progress is the goal, right?
We don't wanna get.
Caught up whenever y'all we'rejust trying to grow as we're
going, right?
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And we're like, man, I feel likeI can do this and I am trying to
do the next thing.
But if we will allow fear tocreep in, then like I said, I
mean, it creates a reason to situs down when God is trying to
raise us up.
One of my favorite things that Ilike to say to people is, I'm
not calling you out.
I'm calling you up, and so Ihope in this episode that I'm
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calling you up as well and thatwe're going to be sharpened a
bit and thinking about, okay,I'm, I'm gonna, I need to change
a little bit here.
There's some things that maybeeven I need to put down so then
I can pick up into the new leveland the new divine assignments
and the entrustment and the waysthat I want to grow and be able
to use as a Christian, I say.
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As a believer for the upbuildingof the kingdom, and if you're
listening and you may not be aChristian, then maybe you've got
personal goals that you can evenapply these tangible experiences
or ideas to, you know, howyou're rolling out, like
whatever it is that you'retrying to accomplish, that
whenever you go through andyou're just trying to,
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absolutely 100%.
Have progress, right?
Because progress is the goal.
So I got a little mini challengemid episode here for you.
I want to ask you to name onearea where you've been paralyzed
by the need to figure it allout.
Now.
I said just one, right?
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I mean, I feel like here in thismid episode, little mini
challenge, that's easy,unfortunately, to stop and think
about probably 3, 4, 5 thingsthat.
I mean, we have been paralyzedand we've just been detained.
We've been held captive in ourthoughts because we thought, oh,
I gotta have this all figuredout.
And so I wanna say FYI, youaren't alone.
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You're not alone and enduringthis.
And so, even though it is kindof a challenge, whenever I was
thinking about why this happensto us.
Why do we overthink, right?
Why do we get stuck in the muckin the middle of our mess?
Like, why is it that we get heldcaptive in our own thoughts?
Why do we allow ourselves tohave stinking thinking?
Why do we, why do we getdetained?
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Why do we not continue to easilymove forward with progress?
And so in with that, I'mthinking about why do we get
caught up going 90 to nothing,right?
A lot of us living life thatway, and I'm not talking about
pedal to the metal out on theinterstate, you know, hauling it
out 90.
If so, then you're gonnaprobably get a woo woo woo.
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A little bit of a, a meeting, anew police officer kind of
thing.
But like that expression ofgoing 90 to nothing speed in
life, right?
Why do we over plan?
Then that leads me to why do weovercompensate?
Why do we oversaturate?
Why do we overestimate A, a,right?
I mean, all of the over and youfill in the blank things, right?
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Have you ever noticed that whenlife gets stressful, we all
become professionaloverachievers?
And I'm not actually reallymaking that point in a
productive way, but I am saying.
In an overthinking, overdoingover it, but still going kind of
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way.
Right.
Y'all, I'll say this for mepersonally, if overthinking was
an Olympic sport, your girl herewould be bringing home the gold
medal.
I mean, I unfortunately wouldprobably every day, every month,
every week, every year.
Maybe you are the same, youknow, maybe any.
Fellow over thinkers, goldmedalist in the making here.
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Right.
And I'll say that.
I mean, gosh, I'm even an overestimator when it comes to
trying to.
Simple little things.
Task such as earlier today I gotgroceries, bringing groceries in
the house.
I just have to ask, is anybodyelse also an over estimator in
your two hands, your two thumbsand your eight fingers?
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Because I am like I'm an overestimator and how much strength
and what's the ability for myhands, my fingers, my thumbs,
like for them all to worktogether to carry 17 bags in the
door at once.
I.
I don't know why I do this.
Like anybody else the same,like, yeah, I'm a pro champion
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bag carrier, you know, like, Idon't know.
Why do we do that?
Not real sure, but if you're thesame, then you're my people.
Thanks.
I'm grateful that I'm not theonly 17 bag, one tripper kind of
getting in the door, but in allhonesty, I like, I really
wonder, I'm like really?
Have no idea.
Like why not?
Sure.
I'm an over estimator.
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I guess it's just how I roll.
And so I'm guessing that youprobably, some of you're feeling
me on that and I'm not alone onit.
so thinking about that, I think,you know, a lot of times when
I'm thinking about, I'm makingthe points of all of the over
words, then, then I also throwin there for a now modern day
word as extra.
So I say that I, maybe there's alittle bit of extra in most of
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us.
And so not only do we overthink.
We overestimate, then I'll say,whew, y'all.
Lot of mercy.
I mean, whew.
God is good and he is faithful.
But sometimes I over commitAnybody else?
Mm-hmm.
Yep.
I bet I got a steering wheel.
Tap, tap, tap for driving downthe road.
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Yep.
We over commit, right?
We allow our schedules to getcrazy wild.
Active.
I mean, we're going here, goingthere, all the things, all the
days for all the people.
Some days I overwork.
Maybe you do too.
I'll say that.
Even some days my calendar needsa calendar.
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I mean, can you relate?
We are constantly going anddoing, and the expression in the
south here is burning themidnight oil.
And so when I think about.
The everyday hustle and bustlethat so many of us actively have
and that we have such fullcalendars and full agendas and
plans and expectations for ourday.
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Y'all, I, I can't help butoveranalyze y'all picking up
what I'm putting down on theover word, adding that in, but
in all seriousness, I can't helpbut overanalyze and ponder on
why our minds are so full.
And so in preparation for thisepisode, I, I did a little bit
of research and y'all, I wasabsolutely flabbergasted to find
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out that our ancestors madearound 2,500 decisions per day.
Now, when I first showed that, Ithought, well, that's a pretty
good amount of decisions a day,2,500, 2,500.
All right?
Okay.
But guess how many the averagemodern day person makes now in
present day?
35,000.
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Y'all in a normal day for us,35,000 is the average.
Now what about all of us overdoers, over thinkers, over
schedulers, y'all, it's gotta beeven more than 35,000.
I mean, isn't that crazy though?
it is absolutely just crazybananas.
I mean, it's like 1400% more.
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And just like daily decisionmaking.
So no wonder we have fatigue,right?
Mental exhaustion.
I do think that it is somethingreally real.
And so decision fatigue, I thinkthat's something else that we
don't always even stop andprocess and think about because
we're always burning and growingand doing and doing, next thing,
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right?
And so whenever, whenever, I'mjust thinking about.
Decision making.
I just think, gosh, y'all, it'srequired to survive.
It's required to thrive.
That was one of our recentepisodes of how do we thrive,
not just survive, but I will saythis, that with that high of a
percentage and thinking about35,000, 1400% growth from 2,500,
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it's like, wow.
Man, too bad.
That is not the numbers on ourinvestment account, right?
Like, I mean, gimme a Yeah girl.
That would be super fab tab.
We could go to Europe.
But, anyway, in thinking aboutour daily decisions, y'all, oh
gosh.
I think our daily decisionsdemand constant
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neurotransmitters in our brainsfiring away.
And I don't know if you'vereally ever stopped and thought
about that and I have a littlebit'cause my degree's in
psychology.
But when I go in and I justthink about our decisions, our
day in and day out ways ofcoping and doing.
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And so, I mean, so many of uswork full-time jobs.
So many people are parents.
Maybe you're a grandparentlistening, maybe you're a
college student, so whateverseason of life it is, I mean,
gosh, it, it, I mean, it takesdecisions in knowing how to be a
good friend, right?
How to serve, how to help out inan organization in your
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community, or maybe in yourchurch.
And so even decisions are madein maintaining the upkeep of our
homes.
We make mindless decisions onthat little device that fits
right in our pockets, AKA, yourcell phone.
And so some of those decisionsare, Hmm, which app am I going
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to open?
Hmm, okay, which message am Igonna reply to?
Which comment to read, whichitem to buy?
What song should I listen to?
Which email should I send?
What show should I watch?
And then y'all, before we knowit, an hour or more of our
evening is just gone.
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GONE gone.
We just got caught up in what Icall doom scrolling, and then
bam, there it is.
An hour of our lives iscompletely gone, that we'll
never get back.
And so as I was,preparing forthis episode, I learned about
glutamate.
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Glutamate y'all is a chemical inthe brain that acts as a
neurotransmitter, meaning ithelps nerve cells communicate
with each other.
It plays a major role in brainfunctions like learning, memory
and overthinking.
So all of us over doers,overthinkers or over analyzers,
there's a big time reason why weexperience feelings of being
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overwhelmed.
Anybody else ever beenoverwhelmed?
I'm guessing I'm not flying soloon this.
Our feelings of beingoverwhelmed or because of an
increase in glutamate.
And so in studying and preparingfor this, I found out that too
much glutamate in our brainthough can lead to something
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called, now y'all, I know I'mcountry's cornbread.
I'm gonna try to say this wordand I may butcher it.
So if you're listening andyou're a medical professional, I
know that I, I might have reallyjacked it up bad and so I'll say
sorry in advance.
But you can go Google this andyou can look it up.
You can study on your own.
For all of you good people thatare kind enough to listen to me
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on here, but it's XOC to talktoxicity.
Whew.
That's a$25 word right there.
And I, again, a reminder, I'mcountry's cornbread.
So again, so sorry.
He's kind of embarrassing to notbe able to say things.
But I will tell you this.
That, I'm guessing you picked upon the word toxic being in
there, and so you can gatherwith your stellar smarts that
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toxic y'all, that ain't good.
Right, so the increase inglutamate is where nerve cells
become overexcited and damaged,resulting in the increase of
negative issues such as.
Anxiety.
Restlessness.
Insomnia.
Which means having poor sleep.
Migraines, headaches, brain fog,trouble concentrating.
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Listening.
Y'all, I hope that you aren'tgoing well.
Snap, crackle, pop.
I've had all those symptoms orissues at those last week, or
Adam yesterday, and hope I'm nothaving'em tomorrow.
Right?
I mean, real talk though, thattoo much glutamate can
overstimulate our brains.
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And so with sharing thisinformation, I'll say that I
know that I'm not a doctor.
You know that I'm not a doctor,so we got that clear, right?
That, you know that I'm, I'm notintending to dish out any
medical advice, but I will saythat common sense tells me that
y'all, I need to be on missionto lower my glutamate levels.
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And maybe you do too.
I think that the fastest waythat I can think of in being
able to accomplish this is by,you might not like me a whole
lot for what I'm about to say,but detaching from our cell
phones.
And so, you know, coming at youwith that statement, I'm not
intending to throw shade.
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The good Lord above knows I needsome help detaching from my
celly telly, right?
That's what I call my cellphone.
But y'all.
In making this point, I really,I'm just, I'm being totally
honest and transparent.
I need to detach, but I think weall need to detach from our cell
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phones.
I don't know about you, but ifyou've ever been to a restaurant
and you just look out at thetables around you and start
counting like how many peopleare on their phones instead of
being present with the people attheir table, I mean, it's just
really crazy wild.
I've done it before and I alwayscount double digits.
And so, in any given restaurant,pretty much somebody at every
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table has their phones out.
And so again, not throwingshade, I'm just, I'm just real
talking, right.
And just thinking about how itwould be really beneficial for
us to not be on our cell phonesmore.
And with thinking of this, I'mreminded about some content that
I used to teach to some of ourlocal high school health
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classes.
And it was about the teen brainand how the influence of media
affects the teen brain and thedevelopment of, just all the
brain neuro transmitters and,chemicals and I, I'm just, all
the things.
It was absolutely fascinatingcontent.
I really enjoyed teaching all ofthat.
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And so media's obviously notjust social media.
I mean, it's the influence ofmusic, it's the influence of
movies.
it's so many different things,we have so many things that
oversaturate our mind and ourears and our eyes and all of the
things.
And so thinking about thatcontent though, one of the
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exercises that I would havestudents do.
Was that I would have them go tothe settings on their iPhone.
And so you may wanna do this aswell as you listen after the
podcast, but they would go totheir settings on their iPhone,
and then they would click onscreen time, and then I would
have them raise their hand ifthey had more than eight hours
of screen time showing that theyon average spend on their phone
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a day.
And so then I would increase,keep your hand up if you have 10
hours a day.
Okay, 12 hours a day.
14 hours a day and y'all, Iremember it, it would blow your
mind too.
Most students average 10 to 12hours a day.
Your minimum students were, itwas very rare to have anybody
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that had been on their phoneless than a couple hours a day,
and so I.
I do remember this one younglady though, that she averaged
23 hours a day on her phone, 23hours y'all, 24 hours in a day,
like what in the world?
And I said, well, what'd you dofor that one hour?
And she was like, oh, I can'thave my phone in the shower.
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So anyway, she literally neverput her phone down.
She said that she would have herphone playing music or she would
be on YouTube while she slept.
And so most everyone in theclass though.
Would, be crazy numbers on theirphone too.
But one of the other things thatI would have'em do, we would do
pickups.
And so what that means is youcan also find that in the
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settings of your phone of howmany times a day do you pick up
your phone.
And that might be something thatyou also might wanna go check,
but.
Most everyone in the class wouldhave 90 plus pickups on their
phone stats, and that meant thatthey had picked their phone up
for whatever reason and lookedat the screen 90 times or more.
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Now, this absolutely floored mebecause some of the classes I
taught would barely, it would bebarely be 9:00 AM and that was
their active stats.
And so I just shared this to saythat y'all.
I need to do better.
I need to lower my screen time.
And maybe you, maybe you do too.
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I think that it's a greatinvestment.
I really do.
And maybe I've never thoughtabout it that way, but I do, and
it just kind of came outta mymouth, so I'm like, Hmm, yeah,
that sounds pretty good.
But.
It's a great investment inourselves of being change
chasers, right?
With the whole mantra of growingas we're going.
Then challenging ourselves tostop doom scrolling, or maybe
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even add app limits, helping usto create limits on how long
we're allowing ourselves to.
Beyond Facebookers.
I like to call it the Book ofFace or Instagram, TikTok on x
YouTube, Snapchat, scrolling andwatching those reels.
You know, all of the things.
I mean, you fill in your appaddiction, I mean, most used
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one.
Um, I am shooting you straightand saying that.
I get it.
We don't want to label anythingan addiction, do we?
And so.
It might be though y'all, we maybe addicted to certain apps and
so I don't know if that's youand that's me, but I am gonna
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say that I'm gonna figure outwhat my goals are on this and,
and hey, maybe I'll report backon a future episode and kind of
share like whatever my growth isand thinking through that of,
Hey, what do I need to give upso that I can grow?
More.
Right.
Well we gotta give up to grow upI guess would be a good little
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zinger line on that.
But one thing for sure is that Iwanna do better and I need to do
better.
And so I'll say, Hey, wish meluck'cause I'm also sending you
good luck and some Atta boys andatta girls right back at you as
maybe you also are going to seekto lower your glutamate levels.
And get better sleep and to feelless overwhelmed.
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And so with that thought, itleads me to hot take number two.
Being a woman of faith, I'll saythat I lean towards faith led
decision making.
And so the word tells us in twoCorinthians chapter five, verse
seven, that for we walk byfaith, not by sight.
Love that verse.
It's a popular verse if you're aChristian.
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And so we walk by faith, not bysight.
And so that means that you'renot called to have the full map,
right?
Just the next step.
And I know that's not alwayseasy, but experience has proven
that putting this process intoaction, it works.
And so thinking about faith leddecision making, it doesn't
necessarily mean being reckless,I don't think.
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I mean, I think that it, itmeans being responsive.
It means being responsible.
I think that it's, uh, aboutchecking in with Holy Spirit and
aligning with God's voice andthen taking the step that.
He's highlighting maybe, I guessthat'd be a good way to put it,
is that, you know, kind of likethe next step that God is
highlighting, even if it doesn'tmake sense, because sometimes
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things just don't make sense tous.
Right.
I know that it's, um, not alwayseasy to rock out that mindset,
but I do know that, that it'sworth it.
I mean, I've lived through somany things that it was so worth
it with allowing God to be theone to lead.
And so when I think about makingdecisions or, or even if, even
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just trying to do better in onedecision at a time, right?
Leads me to thinking abouthaving one step at a time.
Then the good thing about givingourselves permission to kind of
have one decision, one step at atime, that I think that it'll
keep us from being bamboozled.
I love that word.
Anybody else like, that's such agood word, bamboozled.
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And so my next two words I wannaadd on this is that if we can
act with the one step.
One decision at a time, giveourself permission so that then
keeps us from being bamboozledby analysis paralysis.
That's good, right?
Ain't nobody wanting to bebamboozled by analysis
paralysis.
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I know country is cornbreadhere.
And so anyway, I.
In all seriousness, when I thinkabout my intrusive analysis
paralysis thoughts that y'all,they've, they've gotten me
before.
I mean, I have, it's had mefeeling so stuck sometimes, and
I before I could even, you know,currently be kind of in the
present.
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It's like I'm, I'm living in thepast and I don't know if anybody
else has that.
And so what I think about.
Some decisions that I've evenbeen, and I'm kind of making
light and kind of making fun, Iguess, say, of myself, but you
may also relate and might belike, oh, yeah, I, I connect
with that one.
Is that y'all, I've lived mylife in a way before that.
I've made a decision to thinkabout it some more.
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You know, we make decisionslike, Hmm, my decision is to
just keep thinking about it somemore.
Or why do today what we canoverthink for the next, Hmm, six
months?
Or maybe you might be like meand you might also be rocking a
PhD in sharing the pros andcons.
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But then you still can't decide,or maybe we're not indecisive,
that maybe we are just committedto exploring every possible
outcome of every possible optionforever.
I don't know.
But in all seriousness, y'all, Iwill say that when I stop and I
think about what it is thatmakes us have analysis
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paralysis, I believe that we'veall experienced fear of failure.
We've all experienced.
Perfectionism, different levels,right?
But I think we've also allexperienced a lack of
confidence, and we've allexperienced external pressure.
We've all experiencedoverthinking.
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And so as a result, I think thatwe can sometimes find ourselves
feeling stuck.
Oftentimes, I think that we canget ourselves hyped up on a lot
of what's coming next.
Thoughts, right?
I mean that, that we don'talways give ourselves the gift
of the present.
And so in realizing that I, Ifind some much needed comfort in
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this quote that I wanted tothrow in on this episode.
It truly is very reassuring tome, and so I hope in sharing it,
it will be reassuring to you aswell.
It says, obedience is yourresponsibility.
The outcome is his.
And so, okay, noted.
Got it.
Right.
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So the outcome is God, thefathers, but our obedience is
our responsibility.
All right friends, we're gonnahead on over for hot.
Take number three, and this oneis Clarity comes After Movement.
So here's the wild part.
You often won't get full clarityuntil you start walking.
It's kind of like you everwalked in like the fog in a
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early morning and, and it's likeas you walk, it's almost kinda
like the, the fog lifts anybodyelse ever.
I mean, if you live in a bigcity, you might not experience
fog in the same way that we do.
in, more rural areas.
And so I live in the, northGeorgia mountains and sometimes
fog just kind of comes and itdissipates down low in the
ground and then over time itlifts.
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And so just kind of making thepoint of thinking about when
you're in the middle of it, youcan't see as far out right.
It's, man, but when that foglifts, then it's really awesome
because then you can walk andsee.
I.
Without the uncertainty.
And so just kind of making thepoint of thinking that we gotta
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be active in action.
we gotta be willing to have thecourage to take the next step.
Or for some of us, it might evenbe the first step.
And so in thinking of a biblicalcharacter that took the first
step, took the next step was.
Under the directive of FatherGod, it was Abraham, and so we
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find in Genesis chapter 12 thatGod told him, go to a land, I
will show you.
Whoa, whoa, whoa.
Wait.
Now what?
I mean he says, go and then I'llshow.
God told Abraham that.
And how cool is it?
Is that Abraham?
He did go in obedience, which isawesome, and it ended up working
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out.
In his favor.
I know that there was somehardship along the way, but you
know, thinking about God saying,go, and then I'll show you.
Go and then I'll show.
And so thinking about that beinga kind of, in a sense of like a
faith blueprint for us to alsodraw some strength from, right?
Is that movement activatesdirection.
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Obedience though unlocks clarityand so.
I don't know, maybe that'll hityou wherever it's supposed to.
Maybe right between the ears,and it can be real life
application.
Right?
But I'm gonna say it again.
That movement activatesdirection.
Our obedience unlocks clarity.
A recent quote that I read, itsays, God rarely gives the
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blueprint.
He gives a word.
I don't know about anybody else,but maybe you're like me and you
want a full color print, likefull color print, connect the
dots, like right.
I want step by step directions.
And I'm also, you know, I.
Saying Yes, please.
And, and there might be some ofyou on the other side, you're
nodding your head like, yes,please sign me up.
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I want to know all the details,all the things, what time.
And so I trust that I'm notalone in this way of thinking.
And so with that, I wanna offeryou and I both, some
encouragement of thinking aboutthat y'all, we might not know
what's next, but we know what'snow.
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And so kind of giving ourselvespermission to start there, move
anyway.
You're not lost, you'relearning.
Or as us change, chasers mantrasays we're growing as we're
going.
And so I hope that that kind ofencourages you to just allow
yourself maybe even to hitpause.
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Kind of slow down a little bit.
Instead of having a 90 tonothing foot race, mad dash,
going here, going there whereyour calendar needs a calendar
that, Hey, you know what?
Maybe you need to allow yourselfthe permission to wait in into
having a little bit moreprogress so that you do not,
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unfortunately get caught up withanalysis paralysis, and so.
We're gonna close this episodeout now.
Hopefully I haven't been mouthof the south for too terribly
long for you guys today.
I wanna recap a few takeawaysthat I hope that you'll pull
down.
Take, stick it in your pocketand carry it with you.
Stop waiting on perfectprogress.
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Starts with small steps,progress over perfection, listen
to the Holy Spirit, not yourfears and movement and clarity
will catch up with you.
So now in our C3 time, our callto action, our change chasers
challenge for this week, I wannachallenge you to take one bold
step toward that thing.
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Whatever that thing is, thatthing that you've been sitting
on, I wanna say apply for it,start it, send it, say it.
And when you do, hey, let meknow.
Tag me, message me.
Let me know what doors Godbegins to open.
Because when you decide to moveand when you decide to do the
next thing, y'all, it might justbecome your best thing, or it
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may even be the thing thatchanges everything.
Until next time, I hope that youwill keep chasing change for
what you hope for your future.
But don't forget that we walk byfaith, not by sight.
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So let's not let ourselves bebamboozled by that old stinking
analysis paralysis.
You don't need all the answersto take action.
You just need enough faith totake that first step.
So with that said, I'm cheeringyou on.
Let's go.
Mighty, change chaser.
Until next time, let's keepchasing change and living with
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purpose.
Bye sweet friends.
Well, hello everybody.
Welcome back.
Here we are hitting it wideopen.
Episode number 10.
This one is titled Action OverAnswers.
And so we gonna see what wegonna find out today together.
So I'll say welcome back to theChange Chasers podcast.
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And this podcast, y'all.
It's not necessarily where we'rekinda, we we're not sitting in
the slow lane on this one,right?
We got pedal to the metal, readyto drive and let's go with
whatever is coming next.
And so we're not sitting aroundand waiting on life to happen.
We're gonna be chasing down thegrowth, the purpose, and divine
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transformation.
And so with that said, I'mexcited to hit you with another
episode, a new one.
My name is still Mandy, and I'mstill trying to do this thing.
So I hope that it is blessingyou.
I hope that the content thatI've been creating has just
making your day better.
Some of it, maybe even as makingyour no, and just stop and think
a little bit and for you to beable to.
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Embrace that mantra of growingas you are going as well.
And so I truly believe that thisis gonna be a pretty good
episode.
I'm, I'm excited about kind ofwhere we're gonna go with this
one, but I do believe that it'sgonna.
Kind of help us out.
If you've ever felt like youhave been stuck in the muck, in
the middle of your mess, thenhey, this one is gonna maybe
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help you as the cool kids say,slay the day.
If you've ever been stuckthough, in all seriousness,
y'all, if you've ever beenstalling or if you've ever been
second guessing your next move,then I hope that this episode
blesses you and it'll be a wayto hopefully help you.
And so with it, we're going tobe talking about movement and.
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How do we move, right?
How do we kind of take nextsteps when we don't have all the
answers?
I am the type of person that Ilike to know.
I mean, I'm okay with mostthings.
I can roll with it and be justcool as a cucumber and be like,
okay, that's cool.
That's awesome.
But I just like to know, right?
And so if you are a dear friendout there who knows me, you're
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shaking your head like, yep.
She likes to know all my friendMandy Cook is like that.
She's like, oh girl, she hits mewith the truth of maybe I
shouldn't always have to knowwhat's coming next.
Right?
And so if we're just beinghonest together though, I will
say that clarity doesn't alwayscome before movement and it's
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not always easy.
But I do think that sometimesy'all, we've gotta be willing to
walk it out.
To work it out.
And so here we go.
Let's go ahead and kick off inwith our content and our
episode.
Our hot take number one isgetting out of analysis
paralysis.
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I love that.
Putting that together, analysisparalysis.
And so I think that so many ofus live stuck in our heads,
y'all.
Any other overthinkers overthere?
Raising your hand, air high 5cents your way, right, that we
may be overthinkingover-planning, over-explaining.
Maybe we're waiting for theperfect time, the perfect plan,
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or the perfect man, or evenperfect peace to move y'all.
That's called analysisparalysis.
Here's the truth.
Waiting for 100% certaintybefore acting is often just fear
in disguise.
And so when I think about fear,y'all, it will always find a
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reason to sit you down when Godis trying to raise you up.
And so when I think about aquote that attaches with that
really well is I thinkperfection is a liar.
Progress is the goal, right?
We don't wanna get.
Caught up whenever y'all we'rejust trying to grow as we're
going, right?
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And we're like, man, I feel likeI can do this and I am trying to
do the next thing.
But if we will allow fear tocreep in, then like I said, I
mean, it creates a reason to situs down when God is trying to
raise us up.
One of my favorite things that Ilike to say to people is, I'm
not calling you out.
I'm calling you up, and so Ihope in this episode that I'm
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calling you up as well and thatwe're going to be sharpened a
bit and thinking about, okay,I'm, I'm gonna, I need to change
a little bit here.
There's some things that maybeeven I need to put down so then
I can pick up into the new leveland the new divine assignments
and the entrustment and the waysthat I want to grow and be able
to use as a Christian, I say.
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As a believer for the upbuildingof the kingdom, and if you're
listening and you may not be aChristian, then maybe you've got
personal goals that you can evenapply these tangible experiences
or ideas to, you know, howyou're rolling out, like
whatever it is that you'retrying to accomplish, that
whenever you go through andyou're just trying to,
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absolutely 100%.
Have progress, right?
Because progress is the goal.
So I got a little mini challengemid episode here for you.
I want to ask you to name onearea where you've been paralyzed
by the need to figure it allout.
Now.
I said just one, right?
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I mean, I feel like here in thismid episode, little mini
challenge, that's easy,unfortunately, to stop and think
about probably 3, 4, 5 thingsthat.
I mean, we have been paralyzedand we've just been detained.
We've been held captive in ourthoughts because we thought, oh,
I gotta have this all figuredout.
And so I wanna say FYI, youaren't alone.
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You're not alone and enduringthis.
And so, even though it is kindof a challenge, whenever I was
thinking about why this happensto us.
Why do we overthink, right?
Why do we get stuck in the muckin the middle of our mess?
Like, why is it that we get heldcaptive in our own thoughts?
Why do we allow ourselves tohave stinking thinking?
Why do we, why do we getdetained?
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Why do we not continue to easilymove forward with progress?
And so in with that, I'mthinking about why do we get
caught up going 90 to nothing,right?
A lot of us living life thatway, and I'm not talking about
pedal to the metal out on theinterstate, you know, hauling it
out 90.
If so, then you're gonnaprobably get a woo woo woo.
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A little bit of a, a meeting, anew police officer kind of
thing.
But like that expression ofgoing 90 to nothing speed in
life, right?
Why do we over plan?
Then that leads me to why do weovercompensate?
Why do we oversaturate?
Why do we overestimate A, a,right?
I mean, all of the over and youfill in the blank things, right?
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Have you ever noticed that whenlife gets stressful, we all
become professionaloverachievers?
And I'm not actually reallymaking that point in a
productive way, but I am saying.
In an overthinking, overdoingover it, but still going kind of
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way.
Right.
Y'all, I'll say this for mepersonally, if overthinking was
an Olympic sport, your girl herewould be bringing home the gold
medal.
I mean, I unfortunately wouldprobably every day, every month,
every week, every year.
Maybe you are the same, youknow, maybe any.
Fellow over thinkers, goldmedalist in the making here.
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Right.
And I'll say that.
I mean, gosh, I'm even an overestimator when it comes to
trying to.
Simple little things.
Task such as earlier today I gotgroceries, bringing groceries in
the house.
I just have to ask, is anybodyelse also an over estimator in
your two hands, your two thumbsand your eight fingers?
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Because I am like I'm an overestimator and how much strength
and what's the ability for myhands, my fingers, my thumbs,
like for them all to worktogether to carry 17 bags in the
door at once.
I.
I don't know why I do this.
Like anybody else the same,like, yeah, I'm a pro champion
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bag carrier, you know, like, Idon't know.
Why do we do that?
Not real sure, but if you're thesame, then you're my people.
Thanks.
I'm grateful that I'm not theonly 17 bag, one tripper kind of
getting in the door, but in allhonesty, I like, I really
wonder, I'm like really?
Have no idea.
Like why not?
Sure.
I'm an over estimator.
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I guess it's just how I roll.
And so I'm guessing that youprobably, some of you're feeling
me on that and I'm not alone onit.
so thinking about that, I think,you know, a lot of times when
I'm thinking about, I'm makingthe points of all of the over
words, then, then I also throwin there for a now modern day
word as extra.
So I say that I, maybe there's alittle bit of extra in most of
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us.
And so not only do we overthink.
We overestimate, then I'll say,whew, y'all.
Lot of mercy.
I mean, whew.
God is good and he is faithful.
But sometimes I over commitAnybody else?
Mm-hmm.
Yep.
I bet I got a steering wheel.
Tap, tap, tap for driving downthe road.
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Yep.
We over commit, right?
We allow our schedules to getcrazy wild.
Active.
I mean, we're going here, goingthere, all the things, all the
days for all the people.
Some days I overwork.
Maybe you do too.
I'll say that.
Even some days my calendar needsa calendar.
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I mean, can you relate?
We are constantly going anddoing, and the expression in the
south here is burning themidnight oil.
And so when I think about.
The everyday hustle and bustlethat so many of us actively have
and that we have such fullcalendars and full agendas and
plans and expectations for ourday.
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Y'all, I, I can't help butoveranalyze y'all picking up
what I'm putting down on theover word, adding that in, but
in all seriousness, I can't helpbut overanalyze and ponder on
why our minds are so full.
And so in preparation for thisepisode, I, I did a little bit
of research and y'all, I wasabsolutely flabbergasted to find
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out that our ancestors madearound 2,500 decisions per day.
Now, when I first showed that, Ithought, well, that's a pretty
good amount of decisions a day,2,500, 2,500.
All right?
Okay.
But guess how many the averagemodern day person makes now in
present day?
35,000.
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Y'all in a normal day for us,35,000 is the average.
Now what about all of us overdoers, over thinkers, over
schedulers, y'all, it's gotta beeven more than 35,000.
I mean, isn't that crazy though?
it is absolutely just crazybananas.
I mean, it's like 1400% more.
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And just like daily decisionmaking.
So no wonder we have fatigue,right?
Mental exhaustion.
I do think that it is somethingreally real.
And so decision fatigue, I thinkthat's something else that we
don't always even stop andprocess and think about because
we're always burning and growingand doing and doing, next thing,
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right?
And so whenever, whenever, I'mjust thinking about.
Decision making.
I just think, gosh, y'all, it'srequired to survive.
It's required to thrive.
That was one of our recentepisodes of how do we thrive,
not just survive, but I will saythis, that with that high of a
percentage and thinking about35,000, 1400% growth from 2,500,
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it's like, wow.
Man, too bad.
That is not the numbers on ourinvestment account, right?
Like, I mean, gimme a Yeah girl.
That would be super fab tab.
We could go to Europe.
But, anyway, in thinking aboutour daily decisions, y'all, oh
gosh.
I think our daily decisionsdemand constant
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neurotransmitters in our brainsfiring away.
And I don't know if you'vereally ever stopped and thought
about that and I have a littlebit'cause my degree's in
psychology.
But when I go in and I justthink about our decisions, our
day in and day out ways ofcoping and doing.
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And so, I mean, so many of uswork full-time jobs.
So many people are parents.
Maybe you're a grandparentlistening, maybe you're a
college student, so whateverseason of life it is, I mean,
gosh, it, it, I mean, it takesdecisions in knowing how to be a
good friend, right?
How to serve, how to help out inan organization in your
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community, or maybe in yourchurch.
And so even decisions are madein maintaining the upkeep of our
homes.
We make mindless decisions onthat little device that fits
right in our pockets, AKA, yourcell phone.
And so some of those decisionsare, Hmm, which app am I going
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to open?
Hmm, okay, which message am Igonna reply to?
Which comment to read, whichitem to buy?
What song should I listen to?
Which email should I send?
What show should I watch?
And then y'all, before we knowit, an hour or more of our
evening is just gone.
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GONE gone.
We just got caught up in what Icall doom scrolling, and then
bam, there it is.
An hour of our lives iscompletely gone, that we'll
never get back.
And so as I was,preparing forthis episode, I learned about
glutamate.
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Glutamate y'all is a chemical inthe brain that acts as a
neurotransmitter, meaning ithelps nerve cells communicate
with each other.
It plays a major role in brainfunctions like learning, memory
and overthinking.
So all of us over doers,overthinkers or over analyzers,
there's a big time reason why weexperience feelings of being
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overwhelmed.
Anybody else ever beenoverwhelmed?
I'm guessing I'm not flying soloon this.
Our feelings of beingoverwhelmed or because of an
increase in glutamate.
And so in studying and preparingfor this, I found out that too
much glutamate in our brainthough can lead to something
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called, now y'all, I know I'mcountry's cornbread.
I'm gonna try to say this wordand I may butcher it.
So if you're listening andyou're a medical professional, I
know that I, I might have reallyjacked it up bad and so I'll say
sorry in advance.
But you can go Google this andyou can look it up.
You can study on your own.
For all of you good people thatare kind enough to listen to me
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on here, but it's XOC to talktoxicity.
Whew.
That's a$25 word right there.
And I, again, a reminder, I'mcountry's cornbread.
So again, so sorry.
He's kind of embarrassing to notbe able to say things.
But I will tell you this.
That, I'm guessing you picked upon the word toxic being in
there, and so you can gatherwith your stellar smarts that
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toxic y'all, that ain't good.
Right, so the increase inglutamate is where nerve cells
become overexcited and damaged,resulting in the increase of
negative issues such as.
Anxiety.
Restlessness.
Insomnia.
Which means having poor sleep.
Migraines, headaches, brain fog,trouble concentrating.
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Listening.
Y'all, I hope that you aren'tgoing well.
Snap, crackle, pop.
I've had all those symptoms orissues at those last week, or
Adam yesterday, and hope I'm nothaving'em tomorrow.
Right?
I mean, real talk though, thattoo much glutamate can
overstimulate our brains.
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And so with sharing thisinformation, I'll say that I
know that I'm not a doctor.
You know that I'm not a doctor,so we got that clear, right?
That, you know that I'm, I'm notintending to dish out any
medical advice, but I will saythat common sense tells me that
y'all, I need to be on missionto lower my glutamate levels.
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And maybe you do too.
I think that the fastest waythat I can think of in being
able to accomplish this is by,you might not like me a whole
lot for what I'm about to say,but detaching from our cell
phones.
And so, you know, coming at youwith that statement, I'm not
intending to throw shade.
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The good Lord above knows I needsome help detaching from my
celly telly, right?
That's what I call my cellphone.
But y'all.
In making this point, I really,I'm just, I'm being totally
honest and transparent.
I need to detach, but I think weall need to detach from our cell
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phones.
I don't know about you, but ifyou've ever been to a restaurant
and you just look out at thetables around you and start
counting like how many peopleare on their phones instead of
being present with the people attheir table, I mean, it's just
really crazy wild.
I've done it before and I alwayscount double digits.
And so, in any given restaurant,pretty much somebody at every
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table has their phones out.
And so again, not throwingshade, I'm just, I'm just real
talking, right.
And just thinking about how itwould be really beneficial for
us to not be on our cell phonesmore.
And with thinking of this, I'mreminded about some content that
I used to teach to some of ourlocal high school health
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classes.
And it was about the teen brainand how the influence of media
affects the teen brain and thedevelopment of, just all the
brain neuro transmitters and,chemicals and I, I'm just, all
the things.
It was absolutely fascinatingcontent.
I really enjoyed teaching all ofthat.
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And so media's obviously notjust social media.
I mean, it's the influence ofmusic, it's the influence of
movies.
it's so many different things,we have so many things that
oversaturate our mind and ourears and our eyes and all of the
things.
And so thinking about thatcontent though, one of the
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exercises that I would havestudents do.
Was that I would have them go tothe settings on their iPhone.
And so you may wanna do this aswell as you listen after the
podcast, but they would go totheir settings on their iPhone,
and then they would click onscreen time, and then I would
have them raise their hand ifthey had more than eight hours
of screen time showing that theyon average spend on their phone
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a day.
And so then I would increase,keep your hand up if you have 10
hours a day.
Okay, 12 hours a day.
14 hours a day and y'all, Iremember it, it would blow your
mind too.
Most students average 10 to 12hours a day.
Your minimum students were, itwas very rare to have anybody
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that had been on their phoneless than a couple hours a day,
and so I.
I do remember this one younglady though, that she averaged
23 hours a day on her phone, 23hours y'all, 24 hours in a day,
like what in the world?
And I said, well, what'd you dofor that one hour?
And she was like, oh, I can'thave my phone in the shower.
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So anyway, she literally neverput her phone down.
She said that she would have herphone playing music or she would
be on YouTube while she slept.
And so most everyone in theclass though.
Would, be crazy numbers on theirphone too.
But one of the other things thatI would have'em do, we would do
pickups.
And so what that means is youcan also find that in the
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settings of your phone of howmany times a day do you pick up
your phone.
And that might be something thatyou also might wanna go check,
but.
Most everyone in the class wouldhave 90 plus pickups on their
phone stats, and that meant thatthey had picked their phone up
for whatever reason and lookedat the screen 90 times or more.
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Now, this absolutely floored mebecause some of the classes I
taught would barely, it would bebarely be 9:00 AM and that was
their active stats.
And so I just shared this to saythat y'all.
I need to do better.
I need to lower my screen time.
And maybe you, maybe you do too.
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I think that it's a greatinvestment.
I really do.
And maybe I've never thoughtabout it that way, but I do, and
it just kind of came outta mymouth, so I'm like, Hmm, yeah,
that sounds pretty good.
But.
It's a great investment inourselves of being change
chasers, right?
With the whole mantra of growingas we're going.
Then challenging ourselves tostop doom scrolling, or maybe
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even add app limits, helping usto create limits on how long
we're allowing ourselves to.
Beyond Facebookers.
I like to call it the Book ofFace or Instagram, TikTok on x
YouTube, Snapchat, scrolling andwatching those reels.
You know, all of the things.
I mean, you fill in your appaddiction, I mean, most used
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one.
Um, I am shooting you straightand saying that.
I get it.
We don't want to label anythingan addiction, do we?
And so.
It might be though y'all, we maybe addicted to certain apps and
so I don't know if that's youand that's me, but I am gonna
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say that I'm gonna figure outwhat my goals are on this and,
and hey, maybe I'll report backon a future episode and kind of
share like whatever my growth isand thinking through that of,
Hey, what do I need to give upso that I can grow?
More.
Right.
Well we gotta give up to grow upI guess would be a good little
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zinger line on that.
But one thing for sure is that Iwanna do better and I need to do
better.
And so I'll say, Hey, wish meluck'cause I'm also sending you
good luck and some Atta boys andatta girls right back at you as
maybe you also are going to seekto lower your glutamate levels.
And get better sleep and to feelless overwhelmed.
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And so with that thought, itleads me to hot take number two.
Being a woman of faith, I'll saythat I lean towards faith led
decision making.
And so the word tells us in twoCorinthians chapter five, verse
seven, that for we walk byfaith, not by sight.
Love that verse.
It's a popular verse if you're aChristian.
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And so we walk by faith, not bysight.
And so that means that you'renot called to have the full map,
right?
Just the next step.
And I know that's not alwayseasy, but experience has proven
that putting this process intoaction, it works.
And so thinking about faith leddecision making, it doesn't
necessarily mean being reckless,I don't think.
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I mean, I think that it, itmeans being responsive.
It means being responsible.
I think that it's, uh, aboutchecking in with Holy Spirit and
aligning with God's voice andthen taking the step that.
He's highlighting maybe, I guessthat'd be a good way to put it,
is that, you know, kind of likethe next step that God is
highlighting, even if it doesn'tmake sense, because sometimes
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things just don't make sense tous.
Right.
I know that it's, um, not alwayseasy to rock out that mindset,
but I do know that, that it'sworth it.
I mean, I've lived through somany things that it was so worth
it with allowing God to be theone to lead.
And so when I think about makingdecisions or, or even if, even
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just trying to do better in onedecision at a time, right?
Leads me to thinking abouthaving one step at a time.
Then the good thing about givingourselves permission to kind of
have one decision, one step at atime, that I think that it'll
keep us from being bamboozled.
I love that word.
Anybody else like, that's such agood word, bamboozled.
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And so my next two words I wannaadd on this is that if we can
act with the one step.
One decision at a time, giveourself permission so that then
keeps us from being bamboozledby analysis paralysis.
That's good, right?
Ain't nobody wanting to bebamboozled by analysis
paralysis.
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I know country is cornbreadhere.
And so anyway, I.
In all seriousness, when I thinkabout my intrusive analysis
paralysis thoughts that y'all,they've, they've gotten me
before.
I mean, I have, it's had mefeeling so stuck sometimes, and
I before I could even, you know,currently be kind of in the
present.
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It's like I'm, I'm living in thepast and I don't know if anybody
else has that.
And so what I think about.
Some decisions that I've evenbeen, and I'm kind of making
light and kind of making fun, Iguess, say, of myself, but you
may also relate and might belike, oh, yeah, I, I connect
with that one.
Is that y'all, I've lived mylife in a way before that.
I've made a decision to thinkabout it some more.
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You know, we make decisionslike, Hmm, my decision is to
just keep thinking about it somemore.
Or why do today what we canoverthink for the next, Hmm, six
months?
Or maybe you might be like meand you might also be rocking a
PhD in sharing the pros andcons.
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But then you still can't decide,or maybe we're not indecisive,
that maybe we are just committedto exploring every possible
outcome of every possible optionforever.
I don't know.
But in all seriousness, y'all, Iwill say that when I stop and I
think about what it is thatmakes us have analysis
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paralysis, I believe that we'veall experienced fear of failure.
We've all experienced.
Perfectionism, different levels,right?
But I think we've also allexperienced a lack of
confidence, and we've allexperienced external pressure.
We've all experiencedoverthinking.
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And so as a result, I think thatwe can sometimes find ourselves
feeling stuck.
Oftentimes, I think that we canget ourselves hyped up on a lot
of what's coming next.
Thoughts, right?
I mean that, that we don'talways give ourselves the gift
of the present.
And so in realizing that I, Ifind some much needed comfort in
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this quote that I wanted tothrow in on this episode.
It truly is very reassuring tome, and so I hope in sharing it,
it will be reassuring to you aswell.
It says, obedience is yourresponsibility.
The outcome is his.
And so, okay, noted.
Got it.
Right.
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So the outcome is God, thefathers, but our obedience is
our responsibility.
All right friends, we're gonnahead on over for hot.
Take number three, and this oneis Clarity comes After Movement.
So here's the wild part.
You often won't get full clarityuntil you start walking.
It's kind of like you everwalked in like the fog in a
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early morning and, and it's likeas you walk, it's almost kinda
like the, the fog lifts anybodyelse ever.
I mean, if you live in a bigcity, you might not experience
fog in the same way that we do.
in, more rural areas.
And so I live in the, northGeorgia mountains and sometimes
fog just kind of comes and itdissipates down low in the
ground and then over time itlifts.
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And so just kind of making thepoint of thinking about when
you're in the middle of it, youcan't see as far out right.
It's, man, but when that foglifts, then it's really awesome
because then you can walk andsee.
I.
Without the uncertainty.
And so just kind of making thepoint of thinking that we gotta
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be active in action.
we gotta be willing to have thecourage to take the next step.
Or for some of us, it might evenbe the first step.
And so in thinking of a biblicalcharacter that took the first
step, took the next step was.
Under the directive of FatherGod, it was Abraham, and so we
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find in Genesis chapter 12 thatGod told him, go to a land, I
will show you.
Whoa, whoa, whoa.
Wait.
Now what?
I mean he says, go and then I'llshow.
God told Abraham that.
And how cool is it?
Is that Abraham?
He did go in obedience, which isawesome, and it ended up working
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out.
In his favor.
I know that there was somehardship along the way, but you
know, thinking about God saying,go, and then I'll show you.
Go and then I'll show.
And so thinking about that beinga kind of, in a sense of like a
faith blueprint for us to alsodraw some strength from, right?
Is that movement activatesdirection.
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Obedience though unlocks clarityand so.
I don't know, maybe that'll hityou wherever it's supposed to.
Maybe right between the ears,and it can be real life
application.
Right?
But I'm gonna say it again.
That movement activatesdirection.
Our obedience unlocks clarity.
A recent quote that I read, itsays, God rarely gives the
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blueprint.
He gives a word.
I don't know about anybody else,but maybe you're like me and you
want a full color print, likefull color print, connect the
dots, like right.
I want step by step directions.
And I'm also, you know, I.
Saying Yes, please.
And, and there might be some ofyou on the other side, you're
nodding your head like, yes,please sign me up.
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I want to know all the details,all the things, what time.
And so I trust that I'm notalone in this way of thinking.
And so with that, I wanna offeryou and I both, some
encouragement of thinking aboutthat y'all, we might not know
what's next, but we know what'snow.
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And so kind of giving ourselvespermission to start there, move
anyway.
You're not lost, you'relearning.
Or as us change, chasers mantrasays we're growing as we're
going.
And so I hope that that kind ofencourages you to just allow
yourself maybe even to hitpause.
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Kind of slow down a little bit.
Instead of having a 90 tonothing foot race, mad dash,
going here, going there whereyour calendar needs a calendar
that, Hey, you know what?
Maybe you need to allow yourselfthe permission to wait in into
having a little bit moreprogress so that you do not,
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unfortunately get caught up withanalysis paralysis, and so.
We're gonna close this episodeout now.
Hopefully I haven't been mouthof the south for too terribly
long for you guys today.
I wanna recap a few takeawaysthat I hope that you'll pull
down.
Take, stick it in your pocketand carry it with you.
Stop waiting on perfectprogress.
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Starts with small steps,progress over perfection, listen
to the Holy Spirit, not yourfears and movement and clarity
will catch up with you.
So now in our C3 time, our callto action, our change chasers
challenge for this week, I wannachallenge you to take one bold
step toward that thing.
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Whatever that thing is, thatthing that you've been sitting
on, I wanna say apply for it,start it, send it, say it.
And when you do, hey, let meknow.
Tag me, message me.
Let me know what doors Godbegins to open.
Because when you decide to moveand when you decide to do the
next thing, y'all, it might justbecome your best thing, or it
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may even be the thing thatchanges everything.
Until next time, I hope that youwill keep chasing change for
what you hope for your future.
But don't forget that we walk byfaith, not by sight.
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So let's not let ourselves bebamboozled by that old stinking
analysis paralysis.
You don't need all the answersto take action.
You just need enough faith totake that first step.
So with that said, I'm cheeringyou on.
Let's go.
Mighty, change chaser.
Until next time, let's keepchasing change and living with
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purpose.
Bye sweet friends.
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