December 12, 2023 • 17 mins
Ready to FINALLY defeat those bad habits that are holding you back?
Today, we're going to knock those habits out of the park and navigate the art of SELF-CONTROL. We'll discuss simple, yet powerful steps that will help you regain control so you can head towards a more productive and successful life.
Our journey doesn't stop there; we are going to build a fortress of WILLPOWER and resilience. With HONESTY and self-awareness, we'll tackle temptations head-on and learn to say 'NO' when it matters the most.
Finally, we'll replace those bad habits with rewarding ones, ones that will lead you CLOSER to your goals. So, buckle up, and let's take actionable steps towards positive change.
*Remember, have faith and don't forget - a blessing awaits just around the corner.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
This is the Dream Chaser Show.
Welcome back to the show,everybody.
My name is Eric and today I'mgoing to be talking to you about
rushing bad habits.
Now I'm going to be upfront andhonest with you.
This doesn't sound extremelysexy, right?
Not a lot of people want totalk about their bad habits.
(00:23):
In fact, if you do anyself-development or research,
self-improvement, a lot of timesyou'll find the things what to
do to get there and how to makemore money and how to do this
and how to grind and hustle andblah, blah, blah.
Today's society is all aboutaction, action, action, action,
action.
Never stop, never stop, don'tquit.
(00:43):
And look, I'm all for hard work.
I think you need hard work.
We have to find something thatreally fulfills us.
That's important.
But just as important as thatis taking some rest and looking
inside of ourselves.
Because guess what you could bedoing?
All of these crazy awesomeaction steps waking up super
(01:06):
early, working out, doingovertime at work and all of this
stuff but if you're not takinginventory on the actions and
habits that you have behindclosed doors, the ones that you
have at your home, the ones thatyou have in your head, that
stuff can absolutely destroy anychance it can destroy all the
(01:27):
progress you've made in theother positive areas of your
life.
So what I want to do today isgo intrinsically and look at the
bad habits thing, the thingsthat are hurting us, because we
all have bad habits, all right.
So I promise you this will beworth your time.
Stick in there with me and I'mgoing to give you guys, action
steps, real things that you canuse today to start destroying
(01:48):
those bad habits and creatingbetter ones so you can achieve
success and prosperity, becauseI believe that's possible for
everybody.
All right, what we want to dois learn how to control our
minds when these certain urgescome up that compel you to do
something or repeat thatbehavior that you're trying to
quit.
All right, so you might evenhave something in your head
right now where you're like man,I've been trying to quit this
(02:09):
for a long time, and I'm goingto show you how to do that.
Okay.
So we want to control our mind.
We want to figure out thoseurges.
The following process I'm goingto talk about even helps
overcome addictions, compulsivebehavior.
It helped me overcome OCD thatI've had since I was a child and
other addictive habits thatI've been trying to quit.
(02:29):
For years, procrastinating wasa big one for me.
You know that doesn't soundlike a bad habit.
It sounds like a lack of doingsomething, but that is a habit.
Procrastination destroys ourchances for achieving something
that we want to.
I would waste time scrollingFacebook this was recently too
(02:50):
Waste time scrolling Facebook,video games, watching TV,
instead of doing the things thatI knew I needed to do or wanted
to do.
Procrastinating was huge for meand that was a bad habit.
And just as a side note, guys,keep in mind, if you have some
deeper, darker habits oraddictions like those deep, dark
(03:11):
ones that we don't tell anybodyabout which, by the way, most
of us have had those at one timeor another If you have these
deeper, darker habits oraddictions, it's going to take a
little more effort to overcomeit.
Those things usually come overyears and years and years and
years of repetitive thoughts andbehaviors.
(03:31):
I think of it like this thefirst time a thought passes
through your brain, it's kind oflike a car when it passes over
a patch of grass Right, a freshpatch of grass.
Picture this with me Car goesover it and it.
What does it do?
The first time it'll just leavesome marks.
But as it drives repeatedlyover that path, it starts to dig
(03:55):
ruts and eventually those rutsbecome so deep that they
actually steer the car and itcan't even get out.
Your thoughts and habits arejust like that, which is why
they call it getting stuck in arut.
You know it makes sense, andwith those deeper ruts that we
have those deeper, darker habitsthat we can't seem to get
(04:15):
control of, it's gonna take alittle bit longer to get out of
them, but I assure you it ispossible.
You might even need some divineintervention, because we know
through Christ anything'spossible.
So, with all of that in mind,let's get moving.
Let's start talking about theseaction steps that you can start
today to destroy these badhabits and these things you've
(04:38):
been trying to quit for years.
I'm gonna help you do that, andI know firsthand that they work
because I've used them in myown life.
So the first step is start bytaking a moment to think about
your bad habits.
You probably already know whatthey are, like I mentioned, but
if you're having a littletrouble figuring it out, think
about it for a moment.
(04:59):
What things in my life am Idoing that I know are not
helping me.
In fact, they're destroying me.
Maybe you've tried to quit themfor years and you just need to
let all extra help.
And so during this step, it'sgonna take an honest evaluation
of yourself, your thoughts, youractions and those habits which
we see that we're doing everyday.
(05:21):
The reason that I say honest isbecause we tend to give
ourselves passes.
We tend to compare ourselveswith other people and we give
ourselves a pass because we'renot as bad as that person.
Right, we do that.
We need to give ourselves nopasses or no excuses for
(05:41):
repeating these behaviors.
Don't compare your actions toother people's.
Just because you drink a littlebit and your buddy drinks a lot
, that's not helping you, right.
Just because you only read itsexually explicit books but
you're not watching porn likeyour husband, that's not a valid
excuse.
You're still doing it.
(06:02):
So we need to stop givingourselves passes to indulge in
our desires and those addictivebehaviors that we know are
harmful to ourselves.
Now let's move on.
So, once you've defined whichactions are hurting you and the
ones that you wanna quit, nowit's time to find out when and
where those trigger moments are.
(06:22):
So, if certain moments likebeing bored with nothing to do
and you're sitting around ifthat triggers it, if that
triggers your habitual TVwatching and you notice yourself
, your brain telling your handhey, just reach for that TV
remote, let's just watch acouple episodes.
That's procrastination.
(06:43):
By the way, when we're bored,that's usually when these
trigger moments show up, and so,once you recognize when those
triggers are, you've gotta learnhow to say no to your brain.
That's one thing that reallyhelped me.
A ton was I said we have tolearn how to say no to ourselves
.
We gotta look inside and say,nope, not today, I'm not doing
(07:04):
that today.
And keep in mind, guys, eachtime we say no, it's gonna build
willpower and we're gonna talkabout willpower in a little bit
but each and every time we sayno, it's going to get easier and
easier.
Okay, the temptation is stillthere, but it gets easier to say
no as you build that willpowerand just take it day by day, one
(07:29):
day at a time.
Each time you say no is onesmall victory.
Celebrate that victory and justsay, hey, you know what?
I'm not gonna do that for today.
We're gonna see where tomorrowbrings, but right now, in this
moment, I'm saying no.
And when you build thatmentality, you bring that with
you to tomorrow.
And then tomorrow, when thatthing pops up that says, hey,
(07:51):
you should really do this,you're gonna say nope, not today
, not today.
I don't know what tomorrowbrings, but I'm not doing it
today.
Okay, so learn to say no toyourself.
One that was really tough for meand you know this is a small
one in terms of how deep anddark it is but going to the
(08:11):
bathroom, I would bring my cellphone in there, and something
that should take I don't knowfive minutes to do go to the
bathroom, wash your hands andleave would take me a half hour
because I would sit there andstart scrolling Facebook, social
media, wasting time, evenchecking my emails, telling
myself I'm being productive whenreally I'm just wasting time.
So I've been learning to say noto myself.
(08:33):
Set the phone away from me.
In fact, I do that when we sitdown to eat with my family.
I say no, I'm not gonna betaking my phone with me, and I
set it far away, and that'simproved our relationship, our
family life.
It's just been so helpful.
The next thing is we need toreplace those poor habits with
(08:53):
better ones, for everyone.
This is gonna be a little bitdifferent.
But these better habits you'lldecide on by choosing what it is
that you actually want toaccomplish.
So sit down in a silent area,go on a walk without your phone
and think about what it is thatyou wanna accomplish.
Could be short term, could belong term, might be a few years
(09:13):
from now.
Maybe it's something big youwanna invent something, or start
a business, or pay off yourmortgage.
Those are big ones.
It might take some time, butmaybe it's something smaller but
still important, like gettingin shape, learning something new
, taking up a hobby.
You know, those things arerelatively attainable in a
(09:37):
shorter amount of time, and soonce you've established what it
is that you wanna do now youneed to figure out the action
steps on how to get there.
Okay, for instance, if yourgoal is to lose weight, you can
do a simple internet search onhow to do this.
And I say simple, guys, becausekeep it simple.
Keep it simple.
(09:57):
Oftentimes we use complexity asan excuse for not taking action
, and don't let that be youRight.
We design this huge, complexplan and here's all the things
that I need to do, and here'sall the stuff, the steps that
it's gonna take to get there,and this big, massive, complex
plan all of a sudden gets toobig.
(10:18):
It's like a mountain over usand we don't know where to start
.
So just keep it simple.
Establish small steps.
Right.
If you're trying to lose weight, find small ways to eat
healthier and exercise threetimes a week it's better than
zero.
And when you're tempted to eatjunk food or sit on the couch,
what do we do?
We say no to ourselves.
(10:39):
We get up, we get moving, takeaction, go work out or cook some
healthy meals for the week.
You know, that's just oneexample.
But establish action steps thatare gonna get you there.
Now, I know, at the beginning ofthis show I said today's
culture is grind, grind, hustle,hustle, hustle.
(10:59):
And we do need to take time toreflect inside of ourselves.
But this is important too.
Don't sit around taking toomuch time to decide, because
what do they say?
Idle hands are the devil'sworkshop, right?
Like I said earlier, beingbored is usually where these
trigger moments come.
When we're by ourselves andnothing to do, that's when the
(11:22):
trigger moments typically creepin.
Idol hands are the devil'sworkshop.
So, get up, get moving.
Okay, small action leads tomore action.
Remember the car in the grass.
What you're trying to do isdrive a new path until it
becomes your new rut.
You have to continue to driveover that path.
If you drive over it once, ifyou start this new habit and
(11:45):
this new, you try to improveyourself and you only do it one
time, maybe twice, it's notgoing to sink in.
You need to create a new rutand let that old rut grow in.
Let that old rut grow grassover it.
All right, by the way, guys,practicing saying no to yourself
leads to the final and bestpart of this whole principle.
(12:06):
It's this thing calledwillpower.
It's something that we don'thear a lot about in
self-development world.
The word willpower is obviouslymade by combining the words
will with the word power,willpower.
Both are crucial qualities thatyou need to possess to succeed
(12:27):
at your endeavors.
You need to strengthen andbuild your will so that you'll
have the mental fortitude tocontinue going when things get
tough.
Because, trust me, things willget tough, especially if you
have a large goal that you'retrying to attain, even if it's
smaller, a smaller one, stickingwith the losing weight, things
are going to get tough.
(12:48):
There's going to be times whereyou're going to be tempted not
to exercise or to eat some junkfood that you're not trying to
eat.
It's going to happen.
The key to this is building thewillpower to say no.
Building that willpower, youmight meet with defeat at some
point, especially if your goalis huge.
The bigger the aim, the biggerthe opposition.
(13:10):
Once your will becomes powerful, you become this sort of like
superhuman and I know thatsounds kind of crazy, but you do
.
You become capable of handlingalmost any situation or any
difficulty that arises withoutsuccumbing to the urge of giving
up and quitting.
Let me say that again when youbuild your willpower, you become
(13:31):
a sort of superhuman, capableof handling almost any situation
or difficulty that ariseswithout succumbing to the urge
to give up and quit.
These are those people that welook at, that say everything
they touch turns to gold.
Everything they take on, theyseem to just succeed and crush
it and move to the next thing.
(13:52):
They're doers, they're winners.
Why can't I be like them?
Well, I'm here to tell you youcan be like them.
You can.
I believe in you.
I know you can do it.
You can do anything they settheir mind to, but you've got to
be able to build that willpower.
You've got to be able to say noto yourself and you've got to
be able to say yes to yourselfon the actions that are going to
(14:13):
get you there.
So build your willpower.
One last thing, and this isimportant to understand You're
going to be tested and tempted.
It's going to happen as welearn to build our willpower.
This sort of strengthening ourarmor and our shield and our
(14:35):
sword, this sort ofstrengthening it does not come
without trials and tests.
You'll get stronger and better.
You don't build muscle withoutputting it under an enormous
amount of stress.
Right, we're going to gettempted and tested, but your
willpower will continue to growif you push back.
Have faith that you can doanything that you set your mind
(14:59):
to.
In this moment, where we'retalking about being tested and
tempted, it reminds me of in theBible, that's James, chapter
one, verse two through four.
He says consider it pure joy,my brothers and sisters,
whenever you face trials of manythings, because you know that
the testing of your faithproduces perseverance.
(15:22):
Now, I know I just said a lotof words here, but at the
beginning he says consider itpure joy when you face trials.
Who the heck does that, right?
Who the heck?
He says oh, this is great.
I'm going through tough timesin my finances.
(15:42):
Oh, my marriage is struggling,and this is awesome.
My marriage is struggling.
Oh, I'm depressed.
This is great.
Oh, I have a drinking problem,this is all.
No, here's the thing.
We don't usually consider itjoy when bad things happen to us
, but in this verse he's tellingus to consider it joy when you
face trials and temptations andtests, because you know that the
(16:07):
testing of your faith producesperseverance.
Testing you is going to producethat willpower.
It's going to build thatstrength within you.
My prayer for everybodylistening is that you're able to
overcome and destroy the badhabits that you've been trying
to overcome and destroy for solong.
You can do it.
(16:28):
I know you can Learn to say noto yourself and build that
willpower up and start takingaction on the thing that you
want to do the most and havefaith that you can do anything.
If this message to help you,please share with a family or
friend, and you know what?
I would love to hear from you.
It can get kind of lonely onthis side of the microphone
(16:50):
because I don't get feedback.
It's not like social mediawhere people can comment and
send messages and things, butI'd love to hear from you.
Reach out to me on Facebook.
You can find us atEricKateSpaceDreamChasers.
If there's something you wantto hear about, let me know.
You guys take care.
Have a great rest of your dayand God bless you.
This is the Dream Chaser Show.
Welcome back to the show,everybody.
My name is Eric and today I'mgoing to be talking to you about
rushing bad habits.
Now I'm going to be upfront andhonest with you.
This doesn't sound extremelysexy, right?
Not a lot of people want totalk about their bad habits.
(00:23):
In fact, if you do anyself-development or research,
self-improvement, a lot of timesyou'll find the things what to
do to get there and how to makemore money and how to do this
and how to grind and hustle andblah, blah, blah.
Today's society is all aboutaction, action, action, action,
action.
Never stop, never stop, don'tquit.
(00:43):
And look, I'm all for hard work.
I think you need hard work.
We have to find something thatreally fulfills us.
That's important.
But just as important as thatis taking some rest and looking
inside of ourselves.
Because guess what you could bedoing?
All of these crazy awesomeaction steps waking up super
(01:06):
early, working out, doingovertime at work and all of this
stuff but if you're not takinginventory on the actions and
habits that you have behindclosed doors, the ones that you
have at your home, the ones thatyou have in your head, that
stuff can absolutely destroy anychance it can destroy all the
(01:27):
progress you've made in theother positive areas of your
life.
So what I want to do today isgo intrinsically and look at the
bad habits thing, the thingsthat are hurting us, because we
all have bad habits, all right.
So I promise you this will beworth your time.
Stick in there with me and I'mgoing to give you guys, action
steps, real things that you canuse today to start destroying
(01:48):
those bad habits and creatingbetter ones so you can achieve
success and prosperity, becauseI believe that's possible for
everybody.
All right, what we want to dois learn how to control our
minds when these certain urgescome up that compel you to do
something or repeat thatbehavior that you're trying to
quit.
All right, so you might evenhave something in your head
right now where you're like man,I've been trying to quit this
(02:09):
for a long time, and I'm goingto show you how to do that.
Okay.
So we want to control our mind.
We want to figure out thoseurges.
The following process I'm goingto talk about even helps
overcome addictions, compulsivebehavior.
It helped me overcome OCD thatI've had since I was a child and
other addictive habits thatI've been trying to quit.
(02:29):
For years, procrastinating wasa big one for me.
You know that doesn't soundlike a bad habit.
It sounds like a lack of doingsomething, but that is a habit.
Procrastination destroys ourchances for achieving something
that we want to.
I would waste time scrollingFacebook this was recently too
(02:50):
Waste time scrolling Facebook,video games, watching TV,
instead of doing the things thatI knew I needed to do or wanted
to do.
Procrastinating was huge for meand that was a bad habit.
And just as a side note, guys,keep in mind, if you have some
deeper, darker habits oraddictions like those deep, dark
(03:11):
ones that we don't tell anybodyabout which, by the way, most
of us have had those at one timeor another If you have these
deeper, darker habits oraddictions, it's going to take a
little more effort to overcomeit.
Those things usually come overyears and years and years and
years of repetitive thoughts andbehaviors.
(03:31):
I think of it like this thefirst time a thought passes
through your brain, it's kind oflike a car when it passes over
a patch of grass Right, a freshpatch of grass.
Picture this with me Car goesover it and it.
What does it do?
The first time it'll just leavesome marks.
But as it drives repeatedlyover that path, it starts to dig
(03:55):
ruts and eventually those rutsbecome so deep that they
actually steer the car and itcan't even get out.
Your thoughts and habits arejust like that, which is why
they call it getting stuck in arut.
You know it makes sense, andwith those deeper ruts that we
have those deeper, darker habitsthat we can't seem to get
(04:15):
control of, it's gonna take alittle bit longer to get out of
them, but I assure you it ispossible.
You might even need some divineintervention, because we know
through Christ anything'spossible.
So, with all of that in mind,let's get moving.
Let's start talking about theseaction steps that you can start
today to destroy these badhabits and these things you've
(04:38):
been trying to quit for years.
I'm gonna help you do that, andI know firsthand that they work
because I've used them in myown life.
So the first step is start bytaking a moment to think about
your bad habits.
You probably already know whatthey are, like I mentioned, but
if you're having a littletrouble figuring it out, think
about it for a moment.
(04:59):
What things in my life am Idoing that I know are not
helping me.
In fact, they're destroying me.
Maybe you've tried to quit themfor years and you just need to
let all extra help.
And so during this step, it'sgonna take an honest evaluation
of yourself, your thoughts, youractions and those habits which
we see that we're doing everyday.
(05:21):
The reason that I say honest isbecause we tend to give
ourselves passes.
We tend to compare ourselveswith other people and we give
ourselves a pass because we'renot as bad as that person.
Right, we do that.
We need to give ourselves nopasses or no excuses for
(05:41):
repeating these behaviors.
Don't compare your actions toother people's.
Just because you drink a littlebit and your buddy drinks a lot
, that's not helping you, right.
Just because you only read itsexually explicit books but
you're not watching porn likeyour husband, that's not a valid
excuse.
You're still doing it.
(06:02):
So we need to stop givingourselves passes to indulge in
our desires and those addictivebehaviors that we know are
harmful to ourselves.
Now let's move on.
So, once you've defined whichactions are hurting you and the
ones that you wanna quit, nowit's time to find out when and
where those trigger moments are.
(06:22):
So, if certain moments likebeing bored with nothing to do
and you're sitting around ifthat triggers it, if that
triggers your habitual TVwatching and you notice yourself
, your brain telling your handhey, just reach for that TV
remote, let's just watch acouple episodes.
That's procrastination.
(06:43):
By the way, when we're bored,that's usually when these
trigger moments show up, and so,once you recognize when those
triggers are, you've gotta learnhow to say no to your brain.
That's one thing that reallyhelped me.
A ton was I said we have tolearn how to say no to ourselves
.
We gotta look inside and say,nope, not today, I'm not doing
(07:04):
that today.
And keep in mind, guys, eachtime we say no, it's gonna build
willpower and we're gonna talkabout willpower in a little bit
but each and every time we sayno, it's going to get easier and
easier.
Okay, the temptation is stillthere, but it gets easier to say
no as you build that willpowerand just take it day by day, one
(07:29):
day at a time.
Each time you say no is onesmall victory.
Celebrate that victory and justsay, hey, you know what?
I'm not gonna do that for today.
We're gonna see where tomorrowbrings, but right now, in this
moment, I'm saying no.
And when you build thatmentality, you bring that with
you to tomorrow.
And then tomorrow, when thatthing pops up that says, hey,
(07:51):
you should really do this,you're gonna say nope, not today
, not today.
I don't know what tomorrowbrings, but I'm not doing it
today.
Okay, so learn to say no toyourself.
One that was really tough for meand you know this is a small
one in terms of how deep anddark it is but going to the
(08:11):
bathroom, I would bring my cellphone in there, and something
that should take I don't knowfive minutes to do go to the
bathroom, wash your hands andleave would take me a half hour
because I would sit there andstart scrolling Facebook, social
media, wasting time, evenchecking my emails, telling
myself I'm being productive whenreally I'm just wasting time.
So I've been learning to say noto myself.
(08:33):
Set the phone away from me.
In fact, I do that when we sitdown to eat with my family.
I say no, I'm not gonna betaking my phone with me, and I
set it far away, and that'simproved our relationship, our
family life.
It's just been so helpful.
The next thing is we need toreplace those poor habits with
(08:53):
better ones, for everyone.
This is gonna be a little bitdifferent.
But these better habits you'lldecide on by choosing what it is
that you actually want toaccomplish.
So sit down in a silent area,go on a walk without your phone
and think about what it is thatyou wanna accomplish.
Could be short term, could belong term, might be a few years
(09:13):
from now.
Maybe it's something big youwanna invent something, or start
a business, or pay off yourmortgage.
Those are big ones.
It might take some time, butmaybe it's something smaller but
still important, like gettingin shape, learning something new
, taking up a hobby.
You know, those things arerelatively attainable in a
(09:37):
shorter amount of time, and soonce you've established what it
is that you wanna do now youneed to figure out the action
steps on how to get there.
Okay, for instance, if yourgoal is to lose weight, you can
do a simple internet search onhow to do this.
And I say simple, guys, becausekeep it simple.
Keep it simple.
(09:57):
Oftentimes we use complexity asan excuse for not taking action
, and don't let that be youRight.
We design this huge, complexplan and here's all the things
that I need to do, and here'sall the stuff, the steps that
it's gonna take to get there,and this big, massive, complex
plan all of a sudden gets toobig.
(10:18):
It's like a mountain over usand we don't know where to start
.
So just keep it simple.
Establish small steps.
Right.
If you're trying to lose weight, find small ways to eat
healthier and exercise threetimes a week it's better than
zero.
And when you're tempted to eatjunk food or sit on the couch,
what do we do?
We say no to ourselves.
(10:39):
We get up, we get moving, takeaction, go work out or cook some
healthy meals for the week.
You know, that's just oneexample.
But establish action steps thatare gonna get you there.
Now, I know, at the beginning ofthis show I said today's
culture is grind, grind, hustle,hustle, hustle.
(10:59):
And we do need to take time toreflect inside of ourselves.
But this is important too.
Don't sit around taking toomuch time to decide, because
what do they say?
Idle hands are the devil'sworkshop, right?
Like I said earlier, beingbored is usually where these
trigger moments come.
When we're by ourselves andnothing to do, that's when the
(11:22):
trigger moments typically creepin.
Idol hands are the devil'sworkshop.
So, get up, get moving.
Okay, small action leads tomore action.
Remember the car in the grass.
What you're trying to do isdrive a new path until it
becomes your new rut.
You have to continue to driveover that path.
If you drive over it once, ifyou start this new habit and
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this new, you try to improveyourself and you only do it one
time, maybe twice, it's notgoing to sink in.
You need to create a new rutand let that old rut grow in.
Let that old rut grow grassover it.
All right, by the way, guys,practicing saying no to yourself
leads to the final and bestpart of this whole principle.
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It's this thing calledwillpower.
It's something that we don'thear a lot about in
self-development world.
The word willpower is obviouslymade by combining the words
will with the word power,willpower.
Both are crucial qualities thatyou need to possess to succeed
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at your endeavors.
You need to strengthen andbuild your will so that you'll
have the mental fortitude tocontinue going when things get
tough.
Because, trust me, things willget tough, especially if you
have a large goal that you'retrying to attain, even if it's
smaller, a smaller one, stickingwith the losing weight, things
are going to get tough.
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There's going to be times whereyou're going to be tempted not
to exercise or to eat some junkfood that you're not trying to
eat.
It's going to happen.
The key to this is building thewillpower to say no.
Building that willpower, youmight meet with defeat at some
point, especially if your goalis huge.
The bigger the aim, the biggerthe opposition.
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Once your will becomes powerful, you become this sort of like
superhuman and I know thatsounds kind of crazy, but you do
.
You become capable of handlingalmost any situation or any
difficulty that arises withoutsuccumbing to the urge of giving
up and quitting.
Let me say that again when youbuild your willpower, you become
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a sort of superhuman, capableof handling almost any situation
or difficulty that ariseswithout succumbing to the urge
to give up and quit.
These are those people that welook at, that say everything
they touch turns to gold.
Everything they take on, theyseem to just succeed and crush
it and move to the next thing.
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They're doers, they're winners.
Why can't I be like them?
Well, I'm here to tell you youcan be like them.
You can.
I believe in you.
I know you can do it.
You can do anything they settheir mind to, but you've got to
be able to build that willpower.
You've got to be able to say noto yourself and you've got to
be able to say yes to yourselfon the actions that are going to
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get you there.
So build your willpower.
One last thing, and this isimportant to understand You're
going to be tested and tempted.
It's going to happen as welearn to build our willpower.
This sort of strengthening ourarmor and our shield and our
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sword, this sort ofstrengthening it does not come
without trials and tests.
You'll get stronger and better.
You don't build muscle withoutputting it under an enormous
amount of stress.
Right, we're going to gettempted and tested, but your
willpower will continue to growif you push back.
Have faith that you can doanything that you set your mind
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to.
In this moment, where we'retalking about being tested and
tempted, it reminds me of in theBible, that's James, chapter
one, verse two through four.
He says consider it pure joy,my brothers and sisters,
whenever you face trials of manythings, because you know that
the testing of your faithproduces perseverance.
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Now, I know I just said a lotof words here, but at the
beginning he says consider itpure joy when you face trials.
Who the heck does that, right?
Who the heck?
He says oh, this is great.
I'm going through tough timesin my finances.
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Oh, my marriage is struggling,and this is awesome.
My marriage is struggling.
Oh, I'm depressed.
This is great.
Oh, I have a drinking problem,this is all.
No, here's the thing.
We don't usually consider itjoy when bad things happen to us
, but in this verse he's tellingus to consider it joy when you
face trials and temptations andtests, because you know that the
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testing of your faith producesperseverance.
Testing you is going to producethat willpower.
It's going to build thatstrength within you.
My prayer for everybodylistening is that you're able to
overcome and destroy the badhabits that you've been trying
to overcome and destroy for solong.
You can do it.
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I know you can Learn to say noto yourself and build that
willpower up and start takingaction on the thing that you
want to do the most and havefaith that you can do anything.
If this message to help you,please share with a family or
friend, and you know what?
I would love to hear from you.
It can get kind of lonely onthis side of the microphone
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because I don't get feedback.
It's not like social mediawhere people can comment and
send messages and things, butI'd love to hear from you.
Reach out to me on Facebook.
You can find us atEricKateSpaceDreamChasers.
If there's something you wantto hear about, let me know.
You guys take care.
Have a great rest of your dayand God bless you.
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