What's going on, pursuers? Welcome to the Pursuit of Calling podcast, where my goal
and purpose is to provide you with the tools and strategies needed to successfully discover
and pursue your God-given calling. I'm your host, Thomas Kearney. Today, I gotta say,
I'm tired. All right. Well, I guess in the intro, I am tired. If you don't know already,
this last whole month, I've been doing a month's challenge with my friend, Andrew, where we've
been reading five chapters a day, five chapters a week in a commentary on the book of Genesis,
which is a lot. And we have other things tacked on there, but that's the thing that honestly
takes the most time. And guys, I don't know, man. I don't know if you knew this, but doing
that is a challenge. Who knew this challenge was going to be challenging? And man, it takes...
There's so many other things I wanted to do, ideas for, for this episode. But I'm going
to be rude with you guys. I wanted to talk about just how I'm feeling right now. Because
this challenge, it takes time away from other things I feel like I need to be doing. And
at other times when I'm not reading, I feel like I should be reading. And I don't... Do
you ever... I feel like you probably feel like this too sometimes. You never... Sometimes
you just don't feel like you're ever doing the right thing. And I'm not trying to...
This is not a podcast episode about how hard my life is, because it's not. And I know I
did this to my... I know we're doing this. I'm doing this to myself. But it's... And
we're doing it for a good reason. We're doing this because it's hard. I'm recording this
pretty late on Sunday night because... One, because I had a really nice and a really busy
weekend with some friends. And I also had to read. I recently wanted to make an episode
on accountability. And I think I really want to someday soon, one of them next or maybe
the episode after that. But this episode, like I said, I want to be real with you guys.
Last episode, I talked about getting going or getting gone. And I don't know if you already
heard it in my voice, but there's definitely been some days where I just felt like getting
gone. I felt like quitting, guys. You ever feel like that? You ever feel like when you
just want to stop because something just feels like it's too hard? I can hear some of you
guys saying like, Thomas, reading isn't hard. Reading... If you're reading a book, that's
not necessarily a hard thing to be doing. And I just got to say, whenever you're already
doing a lot of things, and I know I'm not the only one, tacking another thing that does
so much, guys, it can get kind of rough. I think if anything, a challenge like this teaches
me about perseverance. It's been talked about on this podcast a lot in the past. It really
teaches like... It's honestly taught me... A lot of it is like how to keep pushing. How
to be like, okay, Thomas, this challenge one is only 28 days because we did it on the shortest
month of the year, which was not intentional. And at the same time, it's teaching me how
much I'm capable of doing whenever I have the right why behind it. Whenever I have a
big enough why behind what I'm trying to accomplish. And what I'm trying to accomplish here is
honestly just to show myself and also for Andrew and I to be able to show each other
that we can get through this book in a month. And that we can read it and we can retain
it and that we can learn more about Scripture and get more in tune with God's Word. And
we're willing to challenge ourselves to do it. We're also doing a carnivore diet, which
wasn't easy at first and has become easier as time has gone on. We wanted to do things
that were going to be hard for us because I think I definitely said in previous episode
where you do... No, I said on Brandon's podcast, Brandon Mage's podcast, God's Heart, You're
Apart, I said, you need to do hard things on purpose so that whenever the... You got
to do the hard things that you're ready for so that the hard things that you're not expecting,
you're better prepared. And so this is something I... I'm doing this so I can think back like
Thomas, you already did hard things. Thomas, you did a carnivore diet for a month. Thomas,
you read that book in a month. Whenever I'm reading a book that is going to accelerate
my growth in my business or accelerate my personal growth, I know I really want to get
done quickly because there's things I want to learn. I can remind myself that, yeah,
I read a book, I read that book, a very large book in a month. And I studied it and I retained
it. I can do that again if need be. I hope you guys are understanding what I'm saying.
I have some notes here. I'm definitely going off of them a little bit. I just wanted to
push at home that doing hard things is important. And sometimes it sucks. And I think I was
watching... Yeah, I was watching some stuff on Instagram of Russell Brunson doing the
cold plunge. No, I was listening to his podcast. And he even said like, the cold plunge always
sucks. He goes, I don't know other people, but for me, it always sucks. But every time
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
how I feel with this challenge. We didn't really think about what we were doing. We
didn't think too much about how we're going to get done. We didn't think about the logistics
of when we were going to read or how to optimize our time so that it can get done. We just
jumped in headfirst and did it without really knowing how we were going to get it done.
We just believed that we could. So, man, whenever you guys... Whenever you have a good enough
reason, like I said before, you'll do anything. That sounds very motivational. I kind of jumped
around, so I apologize. But honestly, guys, if you want to do something hard, just do
it. If you want to go on something from my past, if you want to go on a missions trip,
but you're not sure, just do it. If you want to change your jobs, just do it. Some people
say that's bad advice. I say life is... One, life is short and you never know what's going
to happen. God will use it all. Your life is not going to, hopefully, not get any shorter
because of a decision to change your job or to do a 30-day challenge, to decide to get
fit. Really is the one that's going to better you in the long run. But guys, I said this
is going to be short and it is. So until next time, pursuers, keep pursuing your calling.
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