New Year's Resolutions?

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2025.
Wow, you probably don't get

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inundated with math related
memes and.

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Reals.
The algorithm does not hit me

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for math like you know as much
as.

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This is, but 2025 is a very
interesting number.

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There's a lot of relationships
mathematically with it.

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It's like the sum of three
different squares and I, I'd

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have to look at it's like and
it's and it's a number that's

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it's a oh, I'll think of it when
you put the exclamation point at

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the end of it.
Oh, nice, yeah.

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You know, like. 5432.
Five.

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Yeah, Yeah.
Yeah, yeah.

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Oh man.
Yeah.

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What?
Do you call that factorial?

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It might be 5.
Factorial, yeah.

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There you go, I.
Don't know why I'm blanking I I

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mean it's.
Been a crazy new year, I think.

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Have you listened?
I know you were out of time.

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Have you listened to Pastor
Joel's sermon from Romans 12

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yet?
I have not yet, which is, you

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know, one of the reasons we
switched it in the in the order.

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But yeah, 'cause really.
Joel preached and then Danny.

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But we're gonna do we.
We you probably listened to

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Danny by the time you're hearing
this episode and we're we're

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putting.
Joel's wrong.

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I was just saying this.
Well, we can gloss over this in

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his sermon, too, but he gave
like the top four or five

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categories or top 4-5 New Year's
resolutions.

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Can you guess what the top 4-5?
You probably can.

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I think they all are pretty what
you would think.

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Fitness.
Fitness is up there.

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Yeah #1 probably relationships
like dating or marrying or

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finding a.
That's a good question.

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Definitely fitness.
It was like a weight loss 1 and

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hitting the gym.
Financial was on there.

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What is the other?
1.

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Maybe it was a relationship.
I don't think it was a

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relationship, but it was
something, something like if we

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said it, it would be.
Read more books or something.

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Like that?
Read Man.

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That's good.
I need to read more.

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Get off social media.
Get off social media.

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That should be that should be a
gold mine.

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I don't think I spend that much
time, but I spend more time than

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I should, you know?
Yeah, I got an app that makes me

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doesn't allow me to go more than
15 minutes.

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So it kind of breaks up
scrolling.

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So you're not doom scrolling.
So that gives me enough time to

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like kind of see people's
updates, maybe, you know, type

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an update and then, I mean, I
can always get another 15

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minutes.
But it's it makes it just at

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least be a conscious choice that
do you want to spend another 15

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minutes on Facebook or not?
Wow, now that that is good.

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And we're talking a lot about
New Year's resolutions kicking

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off the pocket 'cause this is
the new year and this podcast is

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gonna be filled with Michael's
New Year's resolutions, my New

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Year's resolutions, if we have
any.

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I haven't, I haven't talked to
Michael about what they were.

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So, you know, we'll kind of see,
see where this goes.

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But hopefully you have made
some.

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But if not, maybe you can use
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Not that New Year's resolutions
are the end all be all, but, you

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know, yeah, we.
Can do that.

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So let's go ahead and we will
take it to the next level.

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From the hearts of the Low
Country in South Carolina.

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It's the Take Two podcast where
we take theology to the next

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level.
New Year's resolutions.

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I talk to people, Michael, and I
feel like you get 2 sets of

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people, people that, well, we'll
say three sets of people.

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One category with two subsets
might be people that just love

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to make them.
Most people probably just love

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to make them and don't really
see them through.

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That's probably a lot of people.
A lot of people, you know, make

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them, keep them.
And some people are like, what's

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the point of your?
I don't it's like anti New

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Year's resolutions.
Yeah, I would say that I've

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switched categories since going
through Del Holt 'cause I used

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to think there's nothing special
about this time.

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You should always kind of be
about New Year's resolutions.

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We shouldn't be, you know,
spending.

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But I've come more towards, you
know, wanting to make them and

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at least, like I said today, you
may not meet it 100%, but I

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think it gives you a goal and
you meet more than what you

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would have otherwise.
That's true.

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If you don't set a goal, you
can't even, you know, get

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halfway or 1/4 of the way.
And so that's why I set my goals

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really, really high.
I'm going to read the Bible

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through 12 times this year.
So if I get there one time,

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they'll get there one time.
But that's probably, that's

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probably in the evangelical
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That's like AI feel like that's
a top of the list.

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I'm going to read the Bible
through or listen to the Bible

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through.
That's like a yeah.

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One of my sisters read through
the Bible, the 1st for the first

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I think for the.
First round last year and.

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So this year she's doing it with
a study guide that's like asking

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her questions and stuff, making
it be a little more intentional.

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So it's good.
Yeah, that that's real.

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Really good one to do.
But yeah, I think the crowds on

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other sides, like you were
saying, like they're like,

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what's the point?
But, and I, I would say I

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probably used to be that way too
'cause like, you're right,

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what's so special January 1 I
could do January 3.

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And I think that would be an
encouragement.

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Like if you haven't done them,
like just do, don't even do New

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Year's release, do January 10th
resolutions or whatever you want

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to, you know, you can always,
you know, set, set some goals

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and, and by the same measure,
you don't have to be legalistic

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to these goals.
It's not like you know

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everything so, but what I love
is that the Bible directly talks

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about New Year's resolutions.
Yeah.

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And it was at the first book of
opinions that that's that's in

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that's that's.
Exactly right.

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I'll tell you a passage that I
draw on.

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It's not a New Year's
resolutions passage, but it's

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something I tie into goal
setting and thinking about these

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kind of things.
I think of First Timothy 4.

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Paul is writing to Timothy, and
this is, I'm reading from the

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ESV, the pericope.
Yeah, yeah, get the good old

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NESP up there.
The pericope heading in the ESV

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starting at verse 6 is a good
servant of Jesus Christ.

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And Paul's really talking to
Timothy.

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Hey, these are some steps you
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And you will serve God well.
You will serve Christ well.

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And I'm going to pick up maybe
in verse seven.

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He writes have nothing to do
with irrelevant, silly myth.

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Rather, train yourself for
godliness, for while bodily

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training gives us some value, I
like that part as a physical

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therapist.
Bodily training is good and it

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is valuable.
It's a good thing.

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But.
And and some translations will

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say it's little value.
Still value.

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But it's still value.
Yeah, I think I, I don't think

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that.
I don't think Paul is trying to

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say it's tiny.
Don't.

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He's saying it is.
Of a comparison, it's not yeah,

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no, that that's a good point
'cause I think you can read it

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and be like, why should I
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Yeah, for while bodily training
gives us some value, godliness

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is a value in every way as it
holds promise for the present

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life and also for the life to
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I'm the saying is trustworthy
and deserving a full acceptance.

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For to this end, we and I like
these words.

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We toil, we strive because we
have our hope set on the living

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God who is the Savior of all
people, especially those who

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believe.
And if we were just to Scroll

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down, I won't keep reading
Paul's writing command and teach

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these things.
He's gonna say, don't neglect

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the gifts you have.
Practice these things.

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Immerse yourself in them.
Keep a close watch on yourself.

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Persist in this.
And it's like you got all these

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action verbs, toil, strivering,
persist, immerse.

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Train yourself for godliness
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important.
And so I kind of use that as my

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New Year's passage, a good, you
know, way to put that into

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practice intentionally now.
Here's the crazy thing.

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Yeah, because we picked a verse
for this year.

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Oh yeah.
And that was initially our

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verse.
Wow, it got changed, but then

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we.
Changed it.

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We changed it.
But that's but it's a that's.

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A good verse.
Yeah, I I like that passage a

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lot.
So I'm I am just what?

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What's the mots verse?
Yeah.

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So I think this is our third
year in a row where we have

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specifically picked out a theme.
We've talked about.

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I think the year before that we
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here's some places that we think
we want to improve.

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And then the year after that
we're like, OK, let's have like

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a theme.
So it was serve three years ago

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and then or two years ago and
then it was strengthen and we

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really want to strengthen.
You know, we said let's do focus

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on three categories, faith.
So our strength, our faith with

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God, like our walk with God, our
family ties, like relationships

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and our fitness levels.
And so those three FS and, and

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so we, we spent some time, we
also have a blessing jar.

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We got this idea from the Hawks.
And so throughout the throughout

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the year, we'll like put in any
time there's like a blessing.

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And so we read through those and
then we kind of Jill and I talk

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about kind of just like review,
like how do we feel like we did,

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you know, where are some places
we did good?

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Where are some places we didn't
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And we thought, like, especially
in faith and family, I think we

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did really good.
Like how we read through the

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Bible this year.
I feel like, you know, as kids

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move through different stages,
you know, you have different.

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And I feel like that's improved.
But we all kind of said we did

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these things in fitness, but we
could have done more.

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Yeah, yeah, yeah.
And so Jill and I were like,

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yeah, we agree.
And so we were gonna be like re

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strengthen, but we didn't really
like that.

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And Chloe was like, what about
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we probably should do like some
daily habits.

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So then like, OK, let's have the
word be discipline.

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Discipline.
That's a good word.

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Yeah.
Discipline.

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I like that.
So then, you know, this, you

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know, is is of little profit,
but you know, godliness.

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So, but we like, well, maybe
this one we'd be better.

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So this was our our verse.
It's Hebrews 12/11.

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It says all discipline for the
moment seems not to be joyful

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but sorrowful.
Yet to those who are trained by

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it afterwards, it yields the
peaceful fruit of righteousness.

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I like that.
Yeah.

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So it's kind of like, hey, we're
going to try to put in some

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daily habits of, you know,
exercise and, you know, looking

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at, you know, our food eating
healthier and that that kind of

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stuff.
And then and, you know, just try

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to discipline and and know that
in the midst of it, it it may

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not be, you know, the best, but
being trained by it, it yields.

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Well, I like that verbs that
that is good.

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I think that's a good good focus
and a little side about the

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blessings you are.
I was over at the Hawks for this

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like dessert cook off.
I don't think we ever talked

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about this on the pod that
Clayton and I were tag teaming

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and I saw it and I I snuck in a
blessing in there that was a

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compliment to the Hawks, but
also a backhanded compliment

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towards one of the kids was a
joke.

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And they, and they read it.
They were like, who wrote this?

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And they knew it was my family.
Yeah, we strangely enough, we

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had one from Anna in ours.
So.

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So it's.
Good, that's good.

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Great.
I was I'll pull up some and I'm

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still I'm behind the times.
You know, me and my family,

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we're still like putting some of
this together.

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Like I said, all the boys like
you need to think about these

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things.
I don't know how much I thought

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about it.
We did like, you know, we did

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talk about you last year.
What are some great things, you

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know, as a family.
So we've got to kind of kind of

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come back and refine some of
these things.

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I'll pull up what you know, I'm
trying to, it's just some simple

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ones.
I don't know if I've like made

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them totally measurable, but
some of my goals.

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Are not smart.
You know what smart is like.

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Specific, measurable,
achievable, reasonable.

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You know, you know.
All of that, yeah.

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So one of my big ones, there's a
book about eating healthier.

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I'm on the road a lot, like in
between different places

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throughout the day.
I'm gonna, I'm trying to eat a

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little bit a little bit
healthier as well.

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It's not uncommon for me to like
during a work week, like eat out

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like five times a week.
So I'm like, I'm going to try

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to, I'm down to if I can do it
one time a week on average or 52

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* a year, maybe there's a couple
weeks I'll do 2, but then I

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won't, you know what I mean?
So I haven't, I haven't done.

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That maybe some give and take.
Maybe some give and take and I

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was like, I haven't this first
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So I, I got a 2 for, you know,
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that's one of mine on the House
because like, we'll save some

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money and let.
Me.

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Let me.
Yeah, Because Jill and I were

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saying the same thing.
She's like, I just need you to

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like cook some proteins and not
like have them.

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Available in it so that it.
Can be easy and I was like, I've

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got a whole lot of venison.
She's like, but not venison.

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So yeah.
So I think I'm gonna like pre

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cook some venison for myself and
then some.

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That's the way to non venison
for.

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Her head make it easy way to way
to live life as a family trying

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to think.
I'm we're trying.

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I'm trying to think of you know,
we typically a time at dinner.

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I will read scripture, not every
night with my boys and it's it's

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impossible.
Probably not impossible, but

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we're not gonna be able to read
through the whole Bible in a

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year in that way because I read
slow and we like have questions.

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I can either have motor through
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We don't know.
So I've kind of got to pick and

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choose like where do we want to
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So we're still working through
that on where we want to want to

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do.
Right now we're just doing some

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like proverb stuff because
that's on my mind with like

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Sunday school.
But after that, I'm trying to

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think about what what we want to
do as a family with Bible

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reading.
This is I don't know if I'll be

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able to do this.
I'm in the middle of working my

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master's.
I would love to get that done

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this year.
That might be aggressive.

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It's definitely doable.
I just need to like buckle down

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and do it.
And then on the fitness side of

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things, I want to I count
everything as working out.

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I'm pretty liberal with it, but
I'm I'm trying to work out 100

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times this year, but I play like
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And then when I work out, I work
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Like half of my day.
I'll go and like go in my

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garage, exercise for like 25
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I'm not doing like these three
hours ruling work, but I'm like,

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if I can do 100, you know, a
hundred of those, I feel like,

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you know, that's sustainable.
I can be consistent.

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I don't burn myself out.
I used to like go hard and then

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I was like, I just can't keep
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Yeah, I think that's smart and
and cause like, well, I think

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kind of going back to a point
that you're a little bit behind

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the times, I think the calendar
fell a little bit weird, at

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least it.
Did it was a weird.

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Yeah.
So we are normally here in

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Charleston on the New Year's,
but we weren't, we were a couple

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days behind.
So we did all, we kind of did

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our family thing, you know, a
couple days after New Year's,

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which was fine, you know, But
then we were talking through

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some of the the specifics like
you said.

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And one of the things we were
talking about was Jill's like,

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well, I want to exercise and she
used to do these like in the

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20/16/2017, like she was like
hardcore doing these very heavy

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workouts.
And like she always has that

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standard infection.
I'm like, you know, you've had

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another kid since then.
Like you, you gotta, you know,

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make it achievable.
That's right.

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It doesn't have to be you.
Don't we?

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You know, at work sometimes
we'll say this phrase, don't let

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perfect be the enemy of good.
You know, so that you're

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shooting for perfect so much
that when you can't get perfect,

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you said I'm not going to do
anything.

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So really good.
Yeah.

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So we talked about, you know,
what does that makes you know,

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what are some reasonable steps
that you know we can take to and

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I think 100 that's a good goal.
That's under.

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I mean, that's pretty
frequently, but I'm like, you

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know, I, I can usually do it
once every.

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Three to four days.
Yeah, being in there

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consistently and usually I can
do that 'cause I'm just, you

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know, not not going super, super
hard.

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And then I what I tasked my boys
with, I need to follow up with

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them are think of one physical
goal, like, you know, I don't

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know, like last year, Jackson's
goal, he was five.

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He wanted to like make a
basketball shot on 10 foot goal.

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You know, he's gonna and he
could do as great as like one,

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one of the boys is like, you
know, run 5K with me.

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You know, we use that term
running loosely.

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We didn't, we're not like
running the whole time, but you

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know, we're going to complete
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Something like that.
I want to think about something

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physical, think about something
intellectual or mental.

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Jaden's at this age where he can
like start to read like little

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chapter books and stuff.
So we're like picking and we

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want to read like these ten
books like or whatever, you

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know?
The rings for first graders.

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I'll write.
I'll write something for him.

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And then one spiritual goal, you
know, how are we, you know, both

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Jaden and Jackson can read, you
know what, what are we going to

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read?
How do we want to, you know,

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kind of pursue that side of
things?

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I'm like, if you can pick one
goal, these are those areas be

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thinking about it.
Let's help you reach those

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goals.
So I don't know what those are

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going to look like, but
supposedly they've been thinking

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about it, which, you know, we
need.

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I need to revisit and help them
think.

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That's good, that's good.
And like, I think it's, it's so

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good that I think some people
can be like, if I don't have it

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by January 1st, then it's no
good.

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Or if by January 15th I messed
up.

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I'm just going.
To be done for the rest of the

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year, it's like, no, it's like
you got to pick yourself up and,

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and, and keep it up.
Great example.

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This was like 2 years ago.
One of my like more health

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related ones was going to be,
oh, I'm going to drink one soft

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drink a week or less on average.
So 52 soft drinks a year.

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And I was like like, OK, end of
January it's like like I've I've

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had like 15.
So I'm like I was like, I was

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like, I'm not on a good pace.
It was not it didn't I?

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I stopped tracking that one in
the past.

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What I have done and.
This.

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And would you count like if you
were at a restaurant and getting

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refills, does that count?
That's one.

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That's one.
Yeah.

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And I still was not doing great,
even if that was one.

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I was like, I used to back in
the day, even not that long ago,

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you know, four or five years ago
or whatever, I would make like

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too many goals, like 12 goals or
it's hard to keep up with all

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them there.
I'll get is like, hey, I didn't.

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So now if I try to squish to
like if I can make like three to

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five and even then I'll like run
with maybe 3, you know, once I

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get into, you know, something I
can focus on.

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I was kind of shooting too much
and I used to do the thing we

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talked about where it was like,
yeah, too, too much.

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It's just unrealistic.
I I can do it for three weeks,

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but I can't do it for 52 weeks.
Right.

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Yeah, yeah, yeah.
That's good.

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That's good.
Man.

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All right.
Well, anything else to say about

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New Year's resolution?
Send in your New Year's

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resolution.
I would love to, to get some

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ideas because I think sometimes
you can like fall into ruts.

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You hit the same.
I know for me, I kind of hit

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some of the same beats, try to
tweak them a little bit.

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But I'm curious what others have
done, I would think.

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I think I'll have to ask Stephen
Brinson.

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I think I saw him on social
media where he's like reading

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through scripture, like a lot
like his like daily readings

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like he was.
Going to read through the Bible

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in 120 days and try that.
So I think he's going to try to

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read through it in three times a
year.

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That makes sense.
And you got a couple.

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Yeah.
So I was going to ask him about

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that because that's that's great
for me to do that.

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I probably would have to like
listen to it, but I could do it

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would be hard to she always.
Flipping the script.

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Flipping the script sounds good
to me.

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Yeah.
Where, you know, she has gone

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through the Bible 3 or 4 times
and she's like a little bit

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like, it's not like exactly
lined up to the ear, but so

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she'll, I think she's in John.
So she'll probably by February

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and March she'll be done.
But then instead of reading

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through it again, she's like, I
think I'm just going to camp out

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in a book for a while and just
like read it over and over again

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and try to immerse myself in it.
So I I think both of those are

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good approaches.
Yeah, that, that, that different

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ways to do things.
I think I think it's great.

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So, yeah, show share with us
your New Year's goals or just

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goals that you do in general.
Love, love to hear it.

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Anything else you got as we
close out this podcast?

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No, I think that's good.
I, I think I'll because we

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haven't got some of the specific
things.

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So I think that 100 workouts a
year, I think that's good and I

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think I might take that on,
yeah.

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Because really it's like two a
week and you're already over.

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If you shoot out to do like 3 or
4 a week, then you have a couple

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weeks off.
It's like it's kind of, you

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know.
Yeah, I probably need to do a

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sleep related one too.
That was just like getting a

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good goal, getting in bed by a
certain time.

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Yeah, Michael, I haven't seen
one recently, but there was a

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time we're doing the podcast.
He was like, send me an e-mail

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like 2:00 in the morning.
I'm like, what is this guy

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doing?
But you know, some people do you

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not require a lot of sleep
generally?

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Well, I I I think my body would
be great on a 25 hour clock

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'cause when?
I.

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Right, because when I like,
let's say I go to bed at a a

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normal time and then I wake up
at a normal time, I never feel

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like I'm ready to go to sleep
again at a normal time.

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Like my body is like so like it.
Just needs that extra.

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If there was like a like an
extra hour or so in the day,

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then I could go and then sleep
for six and a half, 7 1/2 hours

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and then get up and power
through again.

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But it.
Happens.

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Over and over again I'll be
like, I'll get to bed, like at a

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good time, feel great.
I'm never going to bed later

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than, you know, 11:30 again.
And then it's without fail that

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night it's like 1230 or one.
I'm like trying to go to sleep.

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So yeah.
Yeah, yeah, that sleep goals are

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good.
Well, I have nothing else

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either.
So do some of these goals and we

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will be back with you next week.
Yep, that's our take.

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Thanks for listening to Take
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