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What's going on, pursuers? Welcome to the Pursuit of Calling podcast, where my goal

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and purpose is to provide you with the tools and strategies needed to successfully discover

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and pursue your God-given calling. I'm your host, Thomas Kearney. Today, I gotta say,

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I'm tired. All right. Well, I guess in the intro, I am tired. If you don't know already,

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this last whole month, I've been doing a month's challenge with my friend, Andrew, where we've

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been reading five chapters a day, five chapters a week in a commentary on the book of Genesis,

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which is a lot. And we have other things tacked on there, but that's the thing that honestly

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takes the most time. And guys, I don't know, man. I don't know if you knew this, but doing

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that is a challenge. Who knew this challenge was going to be challenging? And man, it takes...

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There's so many other things I wanted to do, ideas for, for this episode. But I'm going

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to be rude with you guys. I wanted to talk about just how I'm feeling right now. Because

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this challenge, it takes time away from other things I feel like I need to be doing. And

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at other times when I'm not reading, I feel like I should be reading. And I don't... Do

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you ever... I feel like you probably feel like this too sometimes. You never... Sometimes

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you just don't feel like you're ever doing the right thing. And I'm not trying to...

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This is not a podcast episode about how hard my life is, because it's not. And I know I

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did this to my... I know we're doing this. I'm doing this to myself. But it's... And

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we're doing it for a good reason. We're doing this because it's hard. I'm recording this

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pretty late on Sunday night because... One, because I had a really nice and a really busy

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weekend with some friends. And I also had to read. I recently wanted to make an episode

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on accountability. And I think I really want to someday soon, one of them next or maybe

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the episode after that. But this episode, like I said, I want to be real with you guys.

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Last episode, I talked about getting going or getting gone. And I don't know if you already

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heard it in my voice, but there's definitely been some days where I just felt like getting

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gone. I felt like quitting, guys. You ever feel like that? You ever feel like when you

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just want to stop because something just feels like it's too hard? I can hear some of you

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guys saying like, Thomas, reading isn't hard. Reading... If you're reading a book, that's

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not necessarily a hard thing to be doing. And I just got to say, whenever you're already

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doing a lot of things, and I know I'm not the only one, tacking another thing that does

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so much, guys, it can get kind of rough. I think if anything, a challenge like this teaches

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me about perseverance. It's been talked about on this podcast a lot in the past. It really

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teaches like... It's honestly taught me... A lot of it is like how to keep pushing. How

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to be like, okay, Thomas, this challenge one is only 28 days because we did it on the shortest

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month of the year, which was not intentional. And at the same time, it's teaching me how

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much I'm capable of doing whenever I have the right why behind it. Whenever I have a

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big enough why behind what I'm trying to accomplish. And what I'm trying to accomplish here is

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honestly just to show myself and also for Andrew and I to be able to show each other

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that we can get through this book in a month. And that we can read it and we can retain

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it and that we can learn more about Scripture and get more in tune with God's Word. And

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we're willing to challenge ourselves to do it. We're also doing a carnivore diet, which

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wasn't easy at first and has become easier as time has gone on. We wanted to do things

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that were going to be hard for us because I think I definitely said in previous episode

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where you do... No, I said on Brandon's podcast, Brandon Mage's podcast, God's Heart, You're

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Apart, I said, you need to do hard things on purpose so that whenever the... You got

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to do the hard things that you're ready for so that the hard things that you're not expecting,

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you're better prepared. And so this is something I... I'm doing this so I can think back like

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Thomas, you already did hard things. Thomas, you did a carnivore diet for a month. Thomas,

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you read that book in a month. Whenever I'm reading a book that is going to accelerate

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my growth in my business or accelerate my personal growth, I know I really want to get

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done quickly because there's things I want to learn. I can remind myself that, yeah,

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I read a book, I read that book, a very large book in a month. And I studied it and I retained

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it. I can do that again if need be. I hope you guys are understanding what I'm saying.

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I have some notes here. I'm definitely going off of them a little bit. I just wanted to

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push at home that doing hard things is important. And sometimes it sucks. And I think I was

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watching... Yeah, I was watching some stuff on Instagram of Russell Brunson doing the

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cold plunge. No, I was listening to his podcast. And he even said like, the cold plunge always

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sucks. He goes, I don't know other people, but for me, it always sucks. But every time

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I get in it, I can't think about it. I just got to get in. I just got to do it. And that's

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how I feel with this challenge. We didn't really think about what we were doing. We

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didn't think too much about how we're going to get done. We didn't think about the logistics

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of when we were going to read or how to optimize our time so that it can get done. We just

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jumped in headfirst and did it without really knowing how we were going to get it done.

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We just believed that we could. So, man, whenever you guys... Whenever you have a good enough

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reason, like I said before, you'll do anything. That sounds very motivational. I kind of jumped

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around, so I apologize. But honestly, guys, if you want to do something hard, just do

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it. If you want to go on something from my past, if you want to go on a missions trip,

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but you're not sure, just do it. If you want to change your jobs, just do it. Some people

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say that's bad advice. I say life is... One, life is short and you never know what's going

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to happen. God will use it all. Your life is not going to, hopefully, not get any shorter

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because of a decision to change your job or to do a 30-day challenge, to decide to get

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fit. Really is the one that's going to better you in the long run. But guys, I said this

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is going to be short and it is. So until next time, pursuers, keep pursuing your calling.

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Thanks for listening to this episode of the Pursuit of Calling podcast. If you enjoyed

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really helps. All right. Keep on pursuing your calling and I'll see you in the next

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episode.