Steven Furtick on Breaking Mental Barriers, Working Out, and Embracing Your Strengths
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if you argue for your limitations you get to keep them but if you g agree with God about your potential you get to grow into it [Music] powerful pastor stepen fertic Pastor Craig gelle how are you I am fantastic did you cold plunge yet today I did not did you cold plunge today no did you eat grapefruit yet today I ate grapefruit with sugar yesterday protein powder yet today protein powder this morning with a um electrolyte additive do you ever do you ever put electrolyte powder on top of a protein bar and call it breakfast
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microwave it put it on top of a protein bar and it’s lunch so it melts a little bit like a little extra icing 10 seconds in the microwave I love that I’m going to try that so congratulations thank you you talking about we talked about this book for years and it’s here do the new you yeah six mindsets to become who you were created to be congratulations like sincerely it was kind of walking with you as a friend through the process it’s uh it’s a grueling thing writing writing a very personal book oh no no no we’re
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not going to oversimplify my first book was only ever written because of you you remember that uh I I would say I thought this book might have been written because I got in your face but I I don’t remember the first one so we have to go all the way back because for those of y’all that don’t know Pastor Craig is the most efficient human being alive so back when we first got to be friends you would call me sometimes on the way home and you’d be like all right I have eight minutes like you’d give me the clock that we had and one day you called me
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and I’m like probably only has seven minutes today so I’m like what up you’re talking real fast and you’re like like hey hey slow down I called you cuz I’m want to help you get your first book done and I’m going to introduce you to who you need to be introduced to agent all of that and then fast forward to the last few years where I’ve been saying I can’t write a book I don’t have another book in me I’m not an author I’m not literary I’m just GNA preach and that’s it and uh but you never made me feel bad it was just like as I watched you put
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out eight books a year whatever competitive drive and I’m like if I can’t out bench press him he’s not going to Out book me and out bench me so no but seriously thank you and you know thanks for having me on today to to talk about the book and whatever you choose to talk about I mean it means the world well it it actually holding this book is it very it makes me emotional because I think I think it was in the pound we we probably should talk about the pound at some point and I think once in my gym that we we had kind of a you got to do
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this thing conversation and so seeing it here I think the real conversation went down in Oklahoma I think it was I think it was in Oklahoma it’s like way of kind of like asking the question which is like a great leadership principle it’s very it’s very counsil it’s very therapy oriented it’s like so um you said so are are you going to have a book out this time next year or we still going to be talking about right the the book and why you can’t write it and um you know that’s that’s big man that’s that’s why
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I love being friends with you like I remember one time we had a similar conversation about taking more time off like I need to take more Sundays off and we both kind of pushed each other like are we going to talk about this until we’re you know 78 die of a heart attack in the Pulpit are we going to take more time off you know yeah well it’s true like you know there are so many different ways we pushed each other and um that’s one of the ways you helped me was to pull back some I think you said some something like you if there’s a
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