You Reap More Than You Sow

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Hello and welcome to The Overflow Podcast. My name
is Craig Booker. In this episode, we’re going to be

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talking about You Reap More Than You Sow. A
lot of the material for this week’s episode

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was inspired by Craig Groeschel’s book The Power
to Change Mastering the Habits That Matter Most.

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Note, I will talk a lot about mental health but
please note this is not a substitute for therapy

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or mental health care I am not a counselor or
a physician if you need help with mental health

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challenges please find a qualified mental health
professional in this episode we’re going to be

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talking about you reap more than you sow so last
week we talked about you reap what you sow this

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is kind of taking that one step further in last
week’s episode we were talking about habits and

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sewing the right habits to receive the results
that we’re wanting to see in our lives and so

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in this section of the book Craig Rochelle is kind
of continuing that discussion of you reap what you

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sow by visiting this concept of you reap more than
you sow for individuals that are familiar with

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maybe farming or agriculture are probably going to
have a leg up or an advantage here and understand

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ending these Concepts Jesus used this metaphor
of sowing seeds because that was something very

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familiar to the people in that time for our time
this is a little bit more challenging because a

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lot of people are are not familiar with those
terms a quote here it says from Craig Rochelle

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it says you don’t just reap what you sow you reap
more than you sow if you put a kernel of wheat

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in the ground it will produce a stock with three
heads of wheat a head can contain 15 to 35 kernels

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so this is reinforcing this idea that you reap
more than you so Craig Rochelle says this is true

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in agriculture and it’s also true in life so it
brings up the question why do you read more than

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you sow the first one is the cumulative effect
and the cumulative fact is the powerful outcome

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produced by an action that happens even if it’s
small over and over across a long period of time

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so he gives this example in this section of what
he calls the Magic Penny he’s presenting this

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kind of this a little bit of a maybe a riddle
it’s like if I said I would give you this magic

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penny that doubles every day for a month so on
the first day it’s one penny the second day it’s

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to the third day it’s four and so on or I could
say I would just give you five million dollars

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like which one would you choose at the end of
the 36 days that Penny would be worth 5 million

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368 709 unless it’s a 31 day month then double
the extra day and it would be worth 10 million

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737 418. you know if you’re familiar with these
type of questions sometimes they kind of seem

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they kind of seem like trick questions and they
kind of are so most people would choose the five

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million dollars right because you would never
think that this magic penny that doubles every

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day would amass to that much money says you’d be a
fool to take the five million dollars but so often

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we settle because we discount the cumulative
fact like this is talking about in our lives

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we settle because we discount the cumulative fact
the powerful impact of something happening over

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and over for a long period of time all right so
that’s the first one the cumulative effect and

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then he talks about The Compound Effect this is
typically called compounding interest it’s used in

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reference to finances this is the interest you get
on the interests grasping the significance of this

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these principles will change your life in fact
they have already shaped your life and it says

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who you are today is because of the cumulative
and compound effects in his special message at

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the beginning of Darren Hardy’s book The Compound
Effect Anthony Robbins writes decisions shape your

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destiny little everyday decisions will either
take you to the life you desire or to Disaster

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by default this he’s referencing this book uh by
Darren Hardy called The Compound Effect it’s a

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it’s an interesting read if you’re a person
that likes to read or listen to audiobooks

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but it talks about the power power of compact
pounding interests all right so in the book he

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Craig Rochelle breaks down these different
areas of life and he starts out he’s trying

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to apply these these Concepts to different parts
of life and he starts out with financial uh and

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uh he goes more into detail in this but I was
trying to pick out the high points from it

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um it says if you want to win financially start
now and consistently do the small right thing he

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also talks about physical right and so the quote
says if you eat just 100 more calories than you

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burn every day you will gain 10 pounds in a year
a quote from James Clear uh James Clear writes

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time magnifies the margin between success and
failure it will multiply whatever you feed it

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good habits make time your ally bad habits make
time your enemy another quote from Craig Rochelle

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it says a small difference each day adds up and
multiplies over time so he’s further you know

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emphasizing these Concepts that we’ve just covered
and really just highlighting the importance of

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the small things we do every day it goes into the
next section of spiritual it says you read about a

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spiritual hero like Billy Graham or maybe you’ve
met someone that you’re you know that’s in your

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life and they’re really close to God and they have
a powerful impact on people for him and this gonna

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cause a lot of people to want to be or to want
to have what they have you desire to be like this

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person there’s a reason those people are tight
with God and have become a spiritual Force they

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consistently do spiritual disciplines that connect
them to God so you know these individuals are you

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know spending time in the word they’re they’re
spending time praying and seeking God and they’re

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doing this consistently just like the habits we’ve
talked about and this is showing the results of

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those disciplines all right so we also have a
section that he titled the small stuff and you

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know I don’t know how internationally well known
this book was that he talks about but in the U.S

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I don’t know how long ago it was but there’s this
book that was titled don’t sweat the small stuff

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and so you know kind of the consensus of it was
that you realize that it’s all small stuff you

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know he says when it’s about when that’s about
worry that’s fine but when it comes to our habits

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there’s no such thing as small stuff because
of the cumulative effect and the compounding

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interest there there’s some examples here saving
two dollars a day and putting it in a retirement

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count is not small stuff eating an extra 100
calorie bag is not small stuff deciding to

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skip working out today is not small stuff telling
your spouse I love you again is not small stuff

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having one more drink is not small stuff
writing an encouraging letter to your child

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is not small stuff taking a couple of minutes to
pray before you start your day is not small stuff

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so these are just all these examples of little
things that we might do that over time if we do

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them consistently have a huge impact and another
quote it says what you do every day is turning you

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into the person you will become and leading
you into the life you will live what you do

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occasionally does not make a difference what
you do consistently makes all the difference

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so hopefully you can see cracker cells really kind
of diving deeper into this idea of you reap more

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than you sow showing us how the Small Things
Are small habits that we do each day or each

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week have a substantial impact on where our lives
go uh he provides an exercise for this section

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and we’ll go through it at a high level and then
as always I encourage you if you have time this

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week coming up to go through this on your own
so it says give some examples from your own life

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of when you have seen the effect of cumulative
and compound choices at work either positive or

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negative so he outlines different you know parts
of your life like Financial physical spiritual

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as part of the exercise so just trying to
write down some examples and recall examples

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that you’ve seen personally and then there’s
some other questions so it says what what

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was the smallest decision you’ve ever made
that had the greatest impact on your life

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uh then he goes into what was the greatest small
stuff act that impacted your life such as a word

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of encouragement an act of kindness or a simple
gift and then we have a last one that was what

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was the last small stuff Act of your own that
impacted someone else so this is our exercise

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and then we have a principle for this section
uh of course as you read more than you sow

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a small change can change everything uh passage
of scripture Matthew 25 29 of the New Living

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Translation says to those who use well what
they are given even more will be given and

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they will have an abundance that’s all for
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