The Thing About Goals

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Welcome to The Overflow Podcast. My name
is Craig Booker. The title of this episode

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is The Thing About Goals. A lot of the material
for this week’s episode was inspired by Craig

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Groeschel’s book The Power to Change – Mastering
the Habits That Matter Most. Note: I will talk a

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lot about mental health, but please note this is
not a substitute for therapy or mental health

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care. I am not a counselor or a physician. If you
need help with mental health challenges, please

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find a qualified mental health professional. The
title of this episode is The Thing About Goals. In

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this episode we will start in a new part of the
book that is titled training not trying in past

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episodes we were covering the part of the book
called who not do each of the parts of the book

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is divided up into sections and so this section
is titled the thing about goals crico shell starts

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off with a quote that says defining your win is
how you begin he starts telling a story about

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how a problem or or Trend that he noticed in
his own personal life led to him defining a

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win he was noticing that his kids at various
times would come up to him and ask him to do

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stuff or things that they wanted to do together
with him and he was always telling them or he was

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often telling them no for one reason or another
he was either too busy or had too much stuff to do

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and so he was reading a book uh that’s called The
Power of moments this led him to to define a win

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in his personal life and so as we’re looking into
uh goals and this idea about goals why do we need

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goals and one of the reasons that we need goals
is goals give us direction another reason we need

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goals is goals give us inspiration so starting
off with goals give us Direction let’s look at

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at the story of Paul and Paul wrote a letter to
the Paul wrote a letter to inspire the Christians

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in Corinth Greece and in First Corinthians 9 24 in
the New Living Translation says don’t you realize

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that a race in a race everyone runs but only one
person gets the prize so run to win uh another

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passage uh that he quotes is First Corinthians
9 26 and the cev says I don’t run without a goal

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and I don’t Box by beating my fists in the air
in the book uh Craig Rochelle says after winning

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a gold medal in the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los
Angeles Morrow prosperi decided to compete in the

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1994 Ultra marathon in Morocco a week-long race
Morrow disappeared on the fourth day and he ran

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into a sandstorm which caused him to go 181 miles
off course he had no idea where he was going he

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was completely lost but still continued to run
for nine days a quote from Craig Rochelle says

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you cannot do what you do not define you cannot do
what you don’t Define so he says Define your win

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so in the story as I was saying Craig Rochelle
had a problem in his own life that he noticed

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and that he was always or he was often telling
his kids no when they wanted to do something for

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one reason or another he was too busy uh whatever
reason he was always putting them off and and not

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spending the time that he wanted with his kids
and so that led him to Define this win he said

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his win is to create moments of extraordinary
impact with my kids all right so that that was

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goals give us Direction and now we’re going
to talk about goals give us inspiration

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and there’s there’s a concept at least in you
know Western culture that’s called before and

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after pictures and simply what this means is you
know if someone is training maybe to get in better

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shape maybe they’re training for a marathon maybe
they’re trying to lose weight they will often take

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pictures at the beginning of their training and
they will take uh they will take pictures as they

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progress and then they’ll take pictures after
they’ve reached their goal and so they if they

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take the beginning picture and the the very last
picture and put them side by side they can see a

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big difference in their shape uh maybe you know
if they’ve been trying to lose weight they lost

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weight or they’ve gained a lot of muscle uh and so
if we take this concept and apply it to the Bible

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a Biblical before and after picture uh we can
look at the story of Paul and Paul was on the road

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to Damascus to persecute more Christians when a
bright light surrounded him and before this moment

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Paul had gone around killing Christians afterwards
he became one of the Christians he used to hunt

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God extended Grace to Paul so Paul’s wind became
sharing God’s Grace by preaching the word of God

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so what led Paul to Define his win

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we’ll look at Galatians 1 13-16 of the New
Living Translation it says do you know what

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I you know what I was like when I followed the
Jewish religion how I violently persecuted God’s

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church I did my best to destroy it I was far ahead
of my fellow Jews and my Zeal for the traditions

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of my ancestors but even before I was born God
chose me and called me by His Marvelous Grace

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then it pleased him to reveal his son to me so
that I would proclaim the good news about Jesus

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to the Gentiles when this happened I did not
rush out to consult with any human being Craig

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Rochelle says defining the wind is not how you win
but how you begin so there’s the question how do

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you win and Craig Rochelle says you win when you
quit trying in this episode we have an exercise

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uh it says what are the primary areas of your life
where you need to establish a win some examples

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might be career finances Health marriage parenting
relationship with God he gives us examples and uh

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you could say in this exercise you could say my
win is to and you fill in the blank all right so

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State your goal and who you will share it with
for support my goal is blank and I commit to

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sharing it with blank principle for this section
is defining your win is how you begin uh First

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Corinthians 9 24 in the NLT says run to win that’s
all for this episode thank you for watching if you

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