Future You

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Hello and welcome to The Overflow Podcast. My name
is Craig Booker. The title of this episode is

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Future You. A lot of the material for this week’s
episode was inspired by Craig Groeschel’s book The

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Power to Change – Mastering the Habits That Matter
Most. Note: I will talk a lot about mental health

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but please note this is not a substitute for
therapy or mental health care I am not a counselor

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or a physician if you need help with mental health
challenges, please find a qualified mental health

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professional the title of this episode is future
you this is who will you be in 10 years this is

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what Pastor Craig refers to as the future you
instead of merely trying or wishing for change

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we should shift our mindset to that of an athlete
training for a competition an athlete engages

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in deliberate practice to engage in deliberate
practice we need a clear picture of our future

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you Hal hirschfield a psychologist at UCLA tells
us that having a future self a better version of

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ourselves that we plan on becoming will change
how we live today his research shows that seeing

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yourself as a different future person empowers you
to make decisions for the benefit of future you

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so the question is who do you want to become so
there are are typically two types of mindsets that

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we operate under one of those is a fixed mindset
and the second one is a growth mindset let’s talk

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about fixed mindset in her book mindset Stanford
psychologist Carol dweck writes about people who

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have a fixed mindset those who falsely believe
that who they are today is who they will always be

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Drac explains that unresolved
trauma is one reason people

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get stuck in a fixed mindset a negative
experience can become identity forming

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so let’s also talk about a growth mindset a
quote from Craig Rochelle’s book it says dweck

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also writes about those who have a growth mindset
who luxuriate in the power of yet people with a

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growth mindset don’t fixate on now because they
view themselves as always in a state of becoming

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they are confident they are going to become
something better so if they fail or find

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themselves in an unfavorable in an unfavorable
circumstance they view it as a stepping stone to

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what’s next depending on where you find yourself
and one of these two mindsets the good thing is

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you can change your mind dweck has discovered
through years of research that people with fixed

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mindsets can learn to have growth mindsets all
right so with all of this what does the Bible have

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to say about this topic if we look at Philippians
1 6 in the NLT it says and I am certain that God

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who began the good work within you will continue
his work until it is finally finished on the day

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when Christ Jesus returns see at First Peter 5 10
in the cev says but God shows undeserved kindness

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to everyone that’s why he appointed Christ Jesus
to choose you to share in his eternal glory

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you will suffer for a while but God will make
you complete steady strong and firm the verbs

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translated continue to work in the Philippians
verse is yeah I don’t know how to pronounce it in

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the book they provide the verbs in their original
form for continue his work and make you complete

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or they provide the verbs for continuous work the
verbs the verbs translated make you complete and

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make you strong and firm in First Peter and they
provide those I’m not sure how to pronounce those

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it says all three are written in the future
tense so the verbs that the original verbs

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that are translated in Philippians they are all
provided in the future tense meaning the action

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will be happening tomorrow and the day after
that and the day after that and all three are

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written in the indicative mood meaning the
action is not something hoped for or wish

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for but something that will for sure happen
the good work of transformation God began in

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you his activity of making you complete steady
strong and firm is something God is doing and

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will continue to do and will continue to do
until his work and you is finally finished

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and we have an exercise it says take a few minutes
to write about future you the hero you you’ll be

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in 10 years create a target for yourself engage
in deliberate practice tell yourself and God who

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you want to become and when you’re done pray and
Commit This New Vision to him and ask for his help

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the principle for this section is you will
change and you can become who you want to become

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Philippians 4 13 in the NLT says for I can
do everything through Christ who gives me

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strength. That’s all for this episode. Thank
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