Trying Versus Training

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Hello, and welcome to the Overflow podcast.
My name is Craig Booker. In this episode,

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we’ll be talking about Trying Versus Training. But
it’s on The Power to Change by Craig Groeschel.

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This is all from his book, okay, I am taking this
and kind of adding stuff to it that applies to

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mental health, but it’s all inspired by his work.
I want to make sure and give him credit for that

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Alright so you know past weeks we’ve been
talking about uh last week we talked about

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goals and establishing goals and you know the real
importance about having goals uh in here in the

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notes I I talked about going through a quick
review on why goals are important goals give

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us Direction and they give us inspiration right
we need direction where to focus our efforts we

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also need to be inspired about what we’re doing
uh so just like Paul we must realize that having

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a goal is not enough we need to Define our win
like I was saying we need to know what it looks

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like when we’re being successful so uh it it
doesn’t necessarily mean that that is like the

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finish line and it’s over but that means we know
we’re doing well in that particular area so this

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week we are kind of taking that a step further
and we’re the title is trying versus training

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okay and we’ll go into detail here about what
the differences are between the two or the first

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question what do winners do differently
the people that are succeeding that in

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whatever area whether you know it’s leading
their family maybe it’s in their business

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uh maybe it’s in other relationships what are
they doing differently that works right so this

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quote is from Craig Rochelle he says winners
don’t try they train another quote from Pastor

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Craig’s book defining your win is how you begin
like it’s the starting point and they you know

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we say remember defining the win is not how you
win but how you begin the question is how do we

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win and his whole thing is we stop trying and
when I read over that about like stop trying

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I’m like okay like I’m not gonna quit but
what he is saying is that we don’t go about

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change or what we’re trying to do by trying we’re
going at this in a different approach and why it’s

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because trying doesn’t work if you look back at
all the things you’ve tried to do and failed most

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likely you failed because you were trying and not
training Craig Rochelle says trying is an attempt

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to do the right thing by exerting effort in the
moment so let’s let’s stop there again because

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it’s really important that we understand the
differences here trying is an attempt to do

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the right thing by exerting effort in the moment
if you think about you know significant things in

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history and people that made a really big impact
in history they didn’t just show up in the moment

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and try really hard no matter who it is they at
some point you know maybe they didn’t take this

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they didn’t have this whole concept of training
but they had some really intentional effort over

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time and it just didn’t happen overnight and it
was just all of a sudden I tried really hard if

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we want to create lasting change we need to switch
from trying to training so it’s a mindset shift

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about how we’re going to go about change when
we’re talking about mental health struggles if

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you struggle with mental health or someone else
you know and desire desire positive change in

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your life you will not get there simply by trying
hard let me tell you it won’t work trying hard is

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not enough when it comes to our mental health it
requires more so most likely you’ve already kind

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of taken that approach and we’re disappointed
with results if it were you uh or if it were a

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friend you’ve probably seen them try really hard
to make a positive change in their mental health

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and they just fail and come up frustrated
if we keep working to implement change in

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this way just trying really hard you’re likely
to end up depressed and defeated if you want

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different results it will require intentional and
deliberate practice over time so you can call it

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what you want but this is the type of approach
that’s going to yield results it’s going to yield

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fruit for you this approach is really important
I don’t want to move too fast through that but

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we also need to realize that we need more power I
would like to also note that just because you’re

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intentional and practiced deliberately over a
set period of time it doesn’t mean you’re going

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to succeed at this and you may be and Craig you
just told me that if I switch from just trying

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real hard to training then I will have like
positive impact on whatever I’m trying to do

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and you will right but a lot of times just doing
that just relying on your own human effort is

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not enough so changes to our mental health and
often involve trauma and other factors that I

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kind of talk about I call them layers right they
it involves other things so relying only on human

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power alone whether you’re a trying or training
often leads to defeat okay so I’ve introduced this

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new concept of okay we’re gonna train instead
of try right we’re going to intentionally do

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something over time trying to get better and
better at something to have a positive impact or

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a positive change in our life but we also need to
realize that we can’t do that alone and only our

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human power we are gonna need a power that’s
greater than us we’re going to need to go to

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God right and seek God as well while we’re doing
our training so we might us learn to acknowledge

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our limitations and understand the power that is
available as today the reality for us as humans is

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that our human power is limited and quickly dries
up we run out we get tired we get exhausted we get

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frustrated and we run out of motivation and that’s
why we also need to seek God for power that we

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don’t have so I want to read this it’s Ephesians 1
chapter 1 verse 19 and 20 and in the NLT it says I

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also pray that you will understand the incredible
greatness of God’s power for us who believe in him

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this is the same Mighty power that raised Christ
from the dead and seated him in the place of honor

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at God’s right hand in the Heavenly Realms we’re
going to need to approach us differently we’re

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going to need to shift our approach from just
trying really hard to a training approach but

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we’re also going to need to seek God for help for
his power so we’re going to dig into this in more

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detail later in future lessons I want I pray for
you guys and for anyone listening to this is that

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you’ll understand incredible greatness of God’s
power for us who believe in him if you understand

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the power that’s available to you you can realize
that anything is possible with God if we take this

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different approach and we’re seeking God for power
for the strength to do this and keep going it can

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yield positive results all right so I talk about a
training mentality no one in history accomplished

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anything great just because they try real hard
in one way or another they were intentional much

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like an athlete goes into training to prepare for
a competition all right so First Corinthians 9 25

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and the NIV everyone who competes in the games
goes into strict training then First Corinthians

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9 26 through 27 in the New Living Translation says
so I run with purpose in every step I am not just

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Shadow Boxing I discipline my body like an athlete
training it to do what it should otherwise I fear

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that after preaching to others I myself might be
disqualified this is Paul speaking and you can see

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his approach he acknowledges the need for training
all right and the next section I talk about these

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Greek definitions of discipline this is coming
from Pastor Craig Rochelle’s book uh the power to

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change and it says the word translated discipline
is the Greek word hippo piazzo literally meaning

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to hit under the eye Paul chose an intense word to
declare that he would he would do whatever it took

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to win and then the word training this is also
from Pastor Craig Rochelle’s book it says Paul

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continued trading his body to do what it should
the word training is from the Greek do do log

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go go I may have got that wrong which means to
enslave all right uh also says Paul entered into

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a life of training and encourage others to do the
same to do the same he told his ministry of Prince

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Timothy train yourself to be Godly first Timothy
4 7. all right another alternative definition for

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training that Craig Rochelle gave it in his book
is training is training is doing today what you

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can do today so you can do tomorrow what you
can’t do today right so we’re gonna do today

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what we can do today so that tomorrow we’ll do
what we can’t do right now today another quote is

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I do today what I can do today through strategic
habits we’re going to set up strategic habits that

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help us get to where we’re wanting to go all right
so a big point that Pastor Craig brings up it’s

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important to kind of reflect on this is can trying
prevent relying on God like if we’re just trying

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we’re relying on our own strength is that going to
prevent us from relying on God here’s a quote from

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his book as as I have lived this I I’ve wondered
if another more subtle distinction is that trying

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can prevent relying when I try I do what I can in
my strength trying can keep me from allowing God

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to give me his strength so that he can do in and
through me what I cannot alright so another quote

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from his book by trying I may be unintentionally
denying God’s gracious offer to to make his power

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perfect in my weakness second Corinthians 12 9
by training we’re going to invite God into the

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process and we’re going to be intentional we’re
going to set up strategic habits that help us get

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there and and we’re going to be relying on God’s
power not just human power so there’s an exercise

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here and we don’t have to do it now we’re just
going to go over it real quick but it asks people

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to write down like what have you tried to change
in the past but failed at like and to list those

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things at and then what are some strategic habits
you could Implement through training Okay so we’ve

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we’re acknowledging things that we’ve tried to
do in the past but somehow failed to do them and

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then we’re looking at strategic habits that would
help us maybe achieve that goal here’s the example

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that was given in in Craig Rochelle’s book it’s
to forgive someone who hurt you that is the goal

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we’re going to write out verses Jesus taught
on forgiveness uh we’re gonna also write out

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offenses God or others has forgiven you for
so we’re going to write out what Jesus taught

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about forgiveness and then we’re going to also
as a second part we’re going to write out things

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that we’ve potentially done that have offended
other people or hurt other people that either God

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or other people has forgiven us for that’s just
an example of how we might go about learning to

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forgive someone who hurt us okay so that was
the overall goal and the way we might have a

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strategic habit or an exercise that helps us
to forgive that person that hurt us it’s the

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same way no matter what we’re doing whether me
wanting to write a book or become a writer I’m

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gonna in private every day or on a schedule I’m
going to put in time to become a better writer

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and when I decide to publish a book that’s
going to be the public view of what I’ve or

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the public result of what I’ve done day after day
in private they don’t always see the struggle of

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I’m exhausted I have no more energy I don’t want
to do this God help me give me that power to

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keep going to be disciplined they don’t see them
seeking God and saying I need your help to keep

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moving forward and that’s what we’re bringing to
light in this lesson so here’s our recap of the

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lesson uh we’re we’re saying that trying doesn’t
work training does trying is an attempt to do the

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right thing by exerting effort in the moment
training is a commitment to strategic habits

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you do before the moment that equip you to the to
do the right thing in the moment the passage of

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scripture here is First Corinthians 9 25 through
27 in the New Living Translation all athletes are

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disciplined in their training they do it to win
a prize that will fade away but we do it for an

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eternal prize so I run with purpose in every step
I discipline my body like an athlete training it

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to do what it should that’s all for this episode
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