Well, Hey everybody, Jonathan Doyle with you.
Once again.
Welcome my friends to the daily podcast.
We are back on the horse.
I have been having a good long break.
Went down to the coast the other day and jumped off a bridge.
There's this cool little town of once a year, the police actually allow
everybody to jump off the bridge into.
The ocean into the title river there that leads into the ocean.
And so I did, I jumped three times.
And my children were there to encourage me to take the jump.
I went there a year ago and, uh, the kids, like, you're gonna jump dad and
I'm like, yeah, I'm going to jump.
And then the first time I ever did it, I sort of climbed over the railing,
looked down and went, what have I done?
What have I done?
As the hardest thing you there.
And like, you know, I like to think of myself as a bit of a man's man.
I'm standing there and.
The kids like, well, haven't you jumped dad.
Why haven't you jumped?
So anyway, I did it.
I had a few days off.
And, uh, and that leads into today's podcast because me being down there
led into the topic of today's podcast.
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Friends when I was down the coast.
I indulged my last real remaining addiction.
I gave up alcohol a while back and my only real remaining
addiction now is book purchases.
I figured if you're going to have an addiction, it's one
of the better ones to have.
But I do love books and I do buy them on a, walked into
this bookstore down the coast.
And I bought a, I like biographies is regular listeners know I
bought a great book called a solo.
By the wonderfully named Jenny tough.
I figure if you're going to run around the world sort of stuff, you
need a cool name and Jenny tough because she is she's interesting.
She just sort of loves running.
I've got into running and then decided that it would be cool to run.
Over across through the biggest mountain ranges in the world.
So each chapter's kind of devoted to her journey, running solo, completely
unsupported, nothing but a backpack.
Uh, through some of the world's most remote.
Challenging difficult mountain ranges, curves extend the 10
shin mountains in Kazakhstan.
She's been through the Atlas mountains in Morocco, and I'm currently finishing
the chapter where she's running solo, unsupported through the Bolivian Andes.
Where she ends up in hospital with high altitude pulmonary edema,
but then goes back and finishes.
Anyway, it's a great book and I love some of the lessons in it, but a
quote jumped out at me because often.
On in her expeditions, she was stuck with really complex decision making.
Should I do this?
Should I do that?
What about this?
What about that?
Often, you know, decisions that could have been very serious for her.
And here's this incredible quote, which I absolutely loved.
She said, Once you've made a choice.
Even if it's potentially the wrong one.
A weight is lifted.
Your mind is cleared to focus on other things.
Than constantly stressing about what you should do.
One more time.
She says once you've made a choice, even if it's potentially
the wrong one, a weight is lifted.
Your mind is clear to focus on other things than constantly
stressing about what you should do.
I loved this quote.
It's like she had read my mind.
You know, we don't get to see the future perfectly.
Of course.
So, so much of the time we can all suffer from paralysis by analysis.
We get stuck.
Just totally stuck on whether the thing we're thinking of doing is
the right thing, the wrong thing.
And you got to live your way forward.
Right?
You've got to live your way into life.
I'm somebody that's struggled with.
Decision-making.
A different point in life.
I just, my brain, I'm very analytical and very Haiti person.
So I get to, I just think about all the possible risks and permutations,
but her quote was reminded me very much at jumping off that bridge
sooner or later, you got to commit.
Sooner or later you've got to commit because as regular listeners know, I had
a really bad accident in 2019, I've got a ton of titanium in both sides of my body.
So the first time I ever jumped on my brain was going, what if, what if
you hit the water hard and you damage your arms and your brains going?
Yeah.
Listen to that.
And, uh, you know, you have to take the leap.
So I want to say to you today.
Take action.
Make decisions.
And in the video version of this, there'll be a video version
here too on YouTube and rumble.
You know, it's often hard to just take that first step.
We just kind of think, well, you know, what if it's, what if it's the wrong one?
And, and what I wanted to talk about was the difference between being frivolous.
You know, because sometimes people might think I'm saying.
You being frivolous, like you just doesn't matter, you know, you just go for it.
Whatever flip a coin.
And again, being frivolous means you're not really that
concerned about the outcome.
If you're frivolous with decision-making it's because
you either don't value yourself.
You don't care about yourself enough to value yourself enough to
make good choices, or you're not really invested in the outcome.
And that's not what we're talking about.
We're talking about valuing ourselves, wanting to build really
good, positive, happy lives.
So we are invested in the choices, but you know, you can't stay stuck.
You got to make them.
And I've been doing this lately.
I've been making decisions, taking choices, and it's quite liberating.
You suddenly kind of feel like you're back behind the wheel again.
So for everybody listening today, there's still a bit stuck in life.
Take action, make decisions, take action, make decisions.
They could be wrong, but this is life, right?
This is, you know, I've got kids and, and say your parent, you
kind of got to let them grow up.
You gotta let them try things.
And.
You know, you want to give them parameters and boundaries and fences
and wisdom, and you want to raise them.
Right.
But sooner or later, They have to make choices of their
own, have to make decisions.
And I think that's how God looks at us.
He's like, here's this life I give you.
Here's this great big wild world.
And it's all these things are possible for you to have be indu.
But to have and to be, and to do the things that matter to you.
Then you're going to have to make choices.
So that's it for today, friends.
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