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Well, hello there.

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My friend, Jonathan Doyle
with you once again, welcome

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aboard to the daily podcast.

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It is good to be with you this morning.

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I'm really looking forward
to doing this episode.

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It's going to be a good one.

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I'm glad you're here.

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You're in the right place.

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I, um, set my alarm today to be up at 4:00
AM and unfortunately discovered that, uh,

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I don't know, I woke up earlier than that.

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I woke up at 3:00 AM.

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I think it was three 17.

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I'm going to be honest.

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And, uh, I just, it's one of those things
where I thought, you know what, I'm not

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gonna, I'm just gonna toss and turn.

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If I try and get back to sleep, I've got a
5:30 AM zoom call with someone in Europe.

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So I sorta thought, Hey,
I'll just get into the day.

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I'll just get it done.

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Get started.

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So, so far feeling pretty good.

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I've got a.

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I'm hearing the studio
doing the podcast now.

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And then they've got this five 30 call.

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And then it's on the bike
and then it's the gym and a.

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And then straight into a bunch
of other stuff for the day.

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So I reckon by about 12.

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These are this little Energizer bunny
is going to need some new batteries,

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but, uh, it's good to be alive.

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It's going to be doing
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There's a there's many different problems
you can have in life, but boredom is

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not one of the ones that I experienced.

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Listen today.

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I'm going to talk to you about
something that is really been

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integral to my own journey.

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I want to share with
you a principle of life.

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That is going to be useful
to you today, possibly.

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Tomorrow, possibly some
point in the time ahead.

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Definitely.

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It's a principle around what you
do when things are difficult.

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When things are not
going exactly as we like.

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Or, you know, go beyond that and say times
when things are just incredibly hard,

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just really difficult seasons of life.

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I don't think any of us listening
to this would a, would ever say

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that life is completely perfect.

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It's a, this side of heaven.

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It's not going to be
exactly the way we want it.

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But it's worth remembering that.

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Um, yeah, we all have these
difficult seasons, right?

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We will have these times
when things are really hard.

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And, and what do you do?

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And there's so many strategies over
the years I've been doing this podcast.

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I've talked about a whole bunch of
different strategies that people use.

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Yeah, people use avoidance and there's
so many different forms of avoidance.

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You can avoid difficult experiences,
difficult emotions through alcohol or

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drugs or food or internet or distraction.

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Pick your poison, my friends.

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There's so many ways that this
moment in history, To avoid the

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difficult circumstances of life.

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And so many of the great writers have
understood that really, that the.

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The way through is to go through
the way through difficult times

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is really not to avoid them.

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It's to kind of, it's a guess it's a
mixture of acceptance and taking actions

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is weed balancing act, where sometimes you
have to accept that things are difficult.

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And take the action that we can,
and that's really what today's

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message is going to be about.

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It's going to be about.

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I guess if we were going to give it
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be this idea of keep moving forward.

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And I'm going to unpack this a little
bit because you know, when we're dealing

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with difficult times and you know,
whatever you're dealing with right now,

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I mean, I've got such a diverse group
of listeners, but my friend, you could

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be dealing with financial problems,
parenting problems, relationship problems.

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You know, there's going
to be people listening.

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You've got major relationship problems.

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They're going to be people
listening who are lonely because

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they're not in a relationship.

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It's this weird thing
about being human, right?

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Like where.

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We're unhappy in relationships sometimes.

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And we're miserable if we're
not in a relationship, right.

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We are.

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I think God looks at us and
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the complexity of our lives.

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But everybody's gone
through something right.

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It'd be big, could be small.

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It could be health could be Korea.

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Who knows.

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What do you do?

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Well, we've talked about avoidance
already, so you can avoid your problems.

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You can try and avoid them
by not thinking about them.

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You can try and avoid them
with the forms of distraction

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that I've already mentioned.

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You know, you can do the
rabbit in the headlights thing.

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You can just get kind of stuck and
just kind of freeze we're back to that.

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What is it?

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Fight flight freeze and fawn.

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I didn't know.

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Foreign existed.

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Foreign is where you kind of,
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threatening you, you kind of like.

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Um, try and ameliorate the
situation, try and make them happy.

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And so the problem goes away.

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You fawn over them.

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So that's, you know, the
freeze mentality, right?

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Like we just kind of.

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Let me kind of freeze.

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There's a known as we fight our
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It can be the right thing to do.

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Um, flight, which is avoidance.

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So we kind of boiled down to these
four major strategies when things

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are difficult, but I want to focus
on a couple of other options.

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Regular listeners know that
I've always been fascinated by.

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Uh, military special
forces around the world.

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I I'm fascinated by them
because I just kinda like.

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How they.

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I guess in stand C8 or demonstrate.

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The capacity of the human mind
and spirit to enjoy difficulty.

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I think I really, that.

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That's what it is for me.

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It's not a necessarily militaristic thing.

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It's more that what they, what
they demonstrate to us, what they.

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Bring into the, into
a sort of clear focus.

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Is the ability of the mind to.

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Press on and enjoy difficulty.

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So the us Navy seals, the elite
special forces of the us Navy.

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Kind of have this unofficial
motto of keep moving forward.

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Keep moving forward.

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You know, this is not a fancy message.

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It's you know, if you're, if you're
hoping to wait to the end, to over reveal

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some profound psychological principle.

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Well, I think this is profound.

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It's just that these days we're
often looking for the latest

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thing and some radical new idea.

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And I think we've lived long enough
as a species to sort of realize that

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there's not too many great new ideas.

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After, what we need to do is revisit
the ideas that have worked in the past.

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And so today I want to draw your attention
to this idea of keep moving forward.

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What does that mean in practice?

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It means some days you just got to
get up and you just got to execute

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on the things that you don't feel
like executing on doing the things,

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the practices, the routines that
sometimes you just don't want to do.

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And that could be making your
kids' lunches for school.

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It could be.

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Getting some exercising.

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It could be prayer.

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It could be, you know, Making the
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positive in difficult circumstances.

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And, you know, I guess the essence of the
keep moving forward modality is simply

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doing the hard things that you don't want
to do when you don't feel like doing them.

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You know, Plato.

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Of course said that, uh,
feelings are excellent servants.

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But terrible masters.

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We need to listen to our feelings.

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They bring us information.

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But if they become masters of
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So let's keep focusing on this.

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Keep moving forward concept.

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And to give it a bit more structure.

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I want to share something else with you.

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One of the cool things about my
kids getting a bit older now is

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that you start to watch the movies.

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That, uh, that you know, that you
liked yourself when you were younger.

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Really cool movies that obviously
they either couldn't watch or

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wouldn't have wanted to watch when
they were five, the now older, and

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they're like, cool, let's watch this.

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So the other day, my son who's 14.

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Put on the, uh, the movie
Castaway with Tom Hanks.

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I don't know if you're familiar with it.

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It was a big deal when it
came at many years ago.

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It was kind of a big deal because
look, if you haven't seen it.

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Um, Tom Hanks gets stuck on an island.

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And it's the story about how he
deals with being kind of cast

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away shipwrecked on this island.

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And it's, it was funny.

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When it came out because it's
like a three hour movie it's

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pretty close to three hours.

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But there's only like a few short
moments of dialogue in the whole movie.

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Like a lot of the time it's him on the
island and there's no one else there.

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So there's no dialogue and
look, he's a great actor.

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I got to give him credit.

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He really is quite a special talent.

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You know, there's not a lot of people
that could make that work and he does.

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But it really part of what you're
seeing in that film is what does

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somebody do when they're faced with.

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Incredible loss.

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And frustration and uncertainty.

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And, you know, one of the.

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The subplots is that he's, he's missing
his wife, you know, and, and also

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this tension because he realizes that
she probably assumes that he's dead.

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So there's this, how
does he get up each day?

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How do you, how do you get up
each day and keep going when you

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know, there's no one else there.

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There's nothing else to do every day is
going to look like the day before and.

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You don't know if anyone's ever
going to help you out or rescue you.

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And so.

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What happens?

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You know, towards the end of the film.

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I'm not, I know if you haven't seen it.

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It's hard not to do.

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I, uh, Uh, plot reveal here, but
there's a conversation at the end

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where he's kind of talking about how
he managed to get through each day.

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And there's a scene in the film
where he he's suffering so much.

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He's so miserable that he
plans to end his own life.

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And he.

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He sort of almost does it, but doesn't.

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And at the end of the
film is kind of unpacking.

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What stopped him after that
peak experience where he

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couldn't face living anymore.

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And he says these words actually, I
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you can't get it cause a copyright, but.

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He says these words, he says,
I know what I have to do now.

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I got to keep breathing.

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Because tomorrow the sun will
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Could bring.

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Now that's relevant because.

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So I'm struggling not to do plot reveals.

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Cause I know some of you might've
seen it and you're gonna be like

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John, and then don't tell us too much.

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But let's just say the tide
does bring an answer for him.

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Right?

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The tide brings an answer.

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And so there's this sense?

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I love this line.

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I got to keep breathing.

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So he has no power.

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He talks about in that dialogue
as well, being powerless, being

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absolutely stripped of all power.

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There's.

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Before he was shipwrecked.

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He had a really important
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A lot of power over people.

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He realized everything's gone.

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Everything's taken from him and all
that's left to do after he's finally

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figured out how to do the basics
of survival and keep himself alive.

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Is to keep breathing.

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Because if he stays alive,
Tomorrow things could change.

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So there's this profound kind of sense of.

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Keep moving forward.

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Keep breathing.

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Just keep going.

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Just keep moving.

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I said a few minutes ago that
there's not a fancy message

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and it's not a fancy message.

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It's not some profound thing
where you go, oh my gosh.

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Jonathan just revealed to me
the secret of existence that

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I didn't know who was there.

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I'm telling you that what we need
to do is not collapse in a heap.

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Were you allowed to collapse in a heap?

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But then you've got to get up again.

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So if you need to go and you know,
not today necessarily, but when

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things are difficult, there are
times when we need to close our door.

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And have a rant.

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Tell God exactly how we feel,
you know, shout at the sky.

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Shout at clouds.

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But eventually we have
to keep moving forward.

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Because the sunrises again.

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And the tide can always
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So you look at another film,
like, um, lone survivor, the

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story of Marcus Latrelle, who
was a Navy seal is a true story.

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They, um, they kind of got, uh,
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and he's basically on his own.

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The whole premise of his survival
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Motto of keep moving forward.

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Keep moving forward.

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If you're breathing, you
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If you're breathing, things could change.

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Anything is possible.

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Anything can happen.

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That's really my message for you today.

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So on a scale of one to a hundred, some
of you might be sitting at about a 20

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life is pretty good right now, you know,
like you're suffering scales pretty

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low you're you're at a 10 or a 20.

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He has a couple little niggles in your
life that you'd like to be different,

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but in general, it's a good season.

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Things are going all right.

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And there are some of you listening
to me right now who are not sure how

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you will enjoy the next 24 hours.

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Am I messaged to all of us
across that spectrum is.

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The magic.

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Is in the ability to keep moving forward.

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The magic is the ability
just to get up the next day.

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And press on and do it on more time.

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And hope and trust and pray
that the sun will rise.

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And that the tide of your
life may bring something new.

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And I hope you can hear the
sincerity in my voice because I.

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There's definitely been plenty
of times where I've felt

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this experience, this like.

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What am I going to do?

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Like.

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As I get older.

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I've sort of discovered that.

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The worst never happens.

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You've heard me say that before.

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We struggle with worry.

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And we were convinced that if God would
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we would run our lives so much better.

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Well, we'd run our life.

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We'd run our lives probably for comfort.

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I think that's what most of us
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is we would want comfort.

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We want predictability.

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We want ease.

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But I think.

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Sewn into the structure of reality itself.

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What God's done in this universe,
we inhabit is he's created.

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Or permitted, I would say not
necessarily created suffering

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in any sense, but allows it.

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That we strain and struggle
against that and grow.

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And I think I can prove that again
by, you know, being a parent.

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If my children have nothing
but comfort and ease.

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And all I do is reinforce
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They never grow and
they become narcissists.

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They would become selfish.

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They would become self-referential
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So you start to see that
what really matters here is.

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Not rejecting what happens to us.

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But finding a way to summon up that
courage and to keep moving forward.

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To keep moving forward.

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You know, We don't get to see the future.

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Right.

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You really?

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Don't, it's a platitude you get today.

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You get today.

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And you get today to grow, to move
forward, to press on, to try again.

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Tomorrow's not guaranteed.

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You just got to get
through these 24 hours.

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So, listen, I hope
that's a blessing to you.

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I hope that is a word of
encouragement because.

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Maybe there's someone in your
life that needs to hear that too.

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And you can share this with them.

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There is a certain magic that comes
from resilience and resilience.

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Isn't some secret life hack.

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It's the ability to believe that you
are in a story of your own development.

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You're in a story where it is in
some sense, you against the cosmos.

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I do believe that God walks with us
and supports us and sustains us in ways

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that we may not recognize at the time.

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But this is a big story that you're in.

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You know, you are in a drama.

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We know, we look at that movie,
lone survivor and Marcus Latrelle.

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The us Navy seal is against
insurmountable odds will.

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So you.

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You know, You're against a lot of
things, a lot of things against you.

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There's a lot of difficulty and
challenge and struggle and strain

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and complexity and problems.

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And you got to keep walking.

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You just got to keep moving forward.

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All right here's what i want you to
do i want you to go check out the new

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website@jonathandoyle.co dot c o jonathan
doyle j o n a t h a n D o y l e.co go

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check it out because uh, there's just
everything's there and you can sort of

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find About booking me to speak and a whole
bunch of other stuff And uh i'm trying

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to get back to do more daily Only on
instagram and a lot of people still using

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it so you can find me on instagram at Jay
doyle speaks j doyle speaks There'll be

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links here But for now that's it looked
let me know what you think Um, Reach out

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let pete let me know what you think of
the episode There'll be links here to the

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youtube channel as well go check that out
but for now I just want to encourage you.

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you got this keep moving forward keep
breathing because tomorrow the sun will

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rise And as tom hanks in castaway who
knows what the tide Could bring god bless

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you my friend my name is jonathan doyle
this has been the daily podcast and you

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and i are going to talk again tomorrow