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Well, welcome back to Rising 365, a podcast committed to inspiring and supporting others

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to embrace the opportunity to rise with each new day.

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I'm Mike Pina and rising daily can be a challenge for many, including myself, and it is my hope

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that what you hear in these episodes will assist you in rising every day of the year.

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So yeah, this is two podcasts in one week because I am in the middle of performing in

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a live show called a kill a mockingbird.

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Earlier episode, episode 26, we started looking at the Atticus effect and this is the Atticus

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effect part two.

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You just got to try.

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So yesterday, Thursday, October, what day is it?

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October 3rd, we open a kill a mockingbird here in Cardi, Nebraska with Crane River Theater.

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If you're not familiar with to kill a mockingbird, press pause, go Google to kill a mockingbird

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and get familiar with it.

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It's one of the books that have transcended the time of decade.

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Nothing hasn't gone out of style.

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Yesterday cast members and I were talking about Atticus Finch, one of the main characters,

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the dad in this book, in this play who is striving to live a life that is the same in

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public and work and what his kids see.

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He's a widowed father to two young people.

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And one of my castmates shared with me that Atticus Finch is actually rated to be the

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number one hero of all time, beating superheroes.

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And then another castmate even said that the person that Superman even looks up to is Atticus

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Finch.

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He's important, he is the way he carries himself, the way he conducts himself.

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It affects him.

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I remember listening to this book, even reading this book when I was young in high school

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and just a few weeks ago my family and I were driving across Nebraska listening to the audiobook.

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I just got to thinking to myself, how awesome would it have been to have a dad like Atticus

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Finch?

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My dad is not in my life, but if I had a dad I would hope and pray that he was like Atticus

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Finch.

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And then being a dad of two kids, I want to be like Atticus Finch.

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I want to be like what we shared in episode 26.

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I want to be the same person that my kids see.

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I want that person to be the same.

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I want them to be proud of me because I treat them with love and joy and patience and kindness.

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I'm hospitable to them.

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Someone they would be proud to say, hey, that's my dad.

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I want that person to be the same when I'm here working in the ministry I work for, when

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I'm interacting with churches and people in the public and they get to know that, hey,

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Father's Mike Pena, he is a missionary and he strives to get the gospel out and live

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the gospel.

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I want that to be the same in every aspect of my life.

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We all should want that.

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We should not be trying to play different people at work with strangers and with our

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family.

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If you're doing that, you're going to feel yourself not being able to keep up with life

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as it comes at you.

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So we're striving like Atticus to be the same, be the constant in the community, the constant

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in his family so people can trust on you.

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But last night when we were performing, I was off the stage, stage right, just watching

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the show unfold and watching Atticus.

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He had a line.

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Him and Scout are having a conversation towards the beginning of the play and you know, Atticus

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is this lawyer who's been appointed to represent an innocent man, Tom Robinson.

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But because of Tom Robinson's ethnicity, being a black guy in early 1930s, he was automatically

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guilty.

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He was in town despite the evidence, saw him as guilty because, solely because of his skin

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color.

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And Scout doesn't understand why Atticus is taking the case and she ends up asking him,

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why are you doing this?

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Are we even going to win?

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And Atticus says, no honey, we're not going to win.

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And then Scout again says, then why are you doing it?

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The whole town says you shouldn't.

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And he has this powerful line.

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He says, honey, just because we're licked a hundred years ago doesn't mean we shouldn't

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try.

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And that hit me last night.

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It was such an emotional line that you've got to try.

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No matter what you're facing in your life, what other people are thinking about your situation,

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what you're doing in order to do what this podcast is setting out to do.

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And that's help people rise.

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You've got to try.

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So what else is there to do?

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If you don't try, you're stuck in the same spot.

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You're stuck in your house, in your bed, in your same situation.

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Cause you're afraid to try.

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I think why people are afraid to try, especially here in 2024 is because we have the virus

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of social media in YouTube and platforms where when you go on there, everybody is already

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perfect at things.

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Nobody captures the struggle it took them to get good at what they're demonstrating

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and sharing on social media and on YouTube.

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We're showing you them at their best already after spending years and hours of trying to

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get to that point.

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But because we are seeing the results of hard work of people willing to try, we'll set out

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to try and give it an hour, half hour.

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And if we're not good instantaneously and we're not good as the people we've seen and

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been watching instantly because of our instant gratification of our world, we don't even

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want to try anymore.

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So many kids like I've shared, we are in the lane of interacting with kids from elementary

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age kids.

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And we have an avenue of our ministry where we're with teenagers.

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And then I'm giving the avenue of even interacting with adults.

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And people are so stuck because they're afraid to try something new.

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They're afraid what people will think about them, but they don't even do it.

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But like Atticus says, that's not a good enough reason.

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You're going to be stagnant and stale in your position and nothing will change and all you're

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going to have before you is something to complain about because you didn't try.

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So Atticus sets out to defend this guy, Tom Robinson, despite knowing the likelihood

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of him winning is very small, but he's going to try and he's going to give it his best.

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And when you try, you can't give it a half-hearted attempt.

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You've got to go all in when you try.

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You've got to be patient with yourself.

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Who cares if it doesn't make sense to other people?

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It makes sense to you.

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What you're trying, you know, will lead to something new for you.

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If you just persevere.

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And this isn't a self-will, self-discipline type situation.

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It's knowing that I've got a chance to get a little bit better, a little bit stronger,

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a little bit freer from what's holding me back if I only try.

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And again, I like to give biblical references of it is biblical to try.

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Romans 828 said, God will work all things out for good.

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That verse continues by saying he will work things, all things out for his good when it's

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aligned with his will.

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So of course, I'm not encouraging you to go out and try something that's negative for

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you.

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I'm not saying go try the next drug or alcoholic beverage or whatever, a new relationship.

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I'm talking about things that are good for you.

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We know what those are is we don't have to unpack them.

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Because that verse is very important.

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A lot of people will stop at that verse, Romans 828, and says, God will work out all things

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for good.

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They stopped there.

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So they go out and do whatever they want to do saying, God's going to work this out for

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good because I want it selfishly.

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But that verse doesn't stop there.

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It continues to say, he will work things all out for his good according to his will.

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He'll never go against his will.

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He'll never go against his goodness.

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So if you're trying something that is blatantly negative, don't be naive enough to think that

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he's going to make that work out for good.

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There's more Bible references, Galatians 6, 9.

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It says, keep going in your faith.

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You've got to keep trying.

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Keep putting it to the test.

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Each new day you're given, that's an opportunity God is giving to you so that you can try new

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things to experience God's goodness, to share the gospel, to see him sanctifying you to

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strengthen you.

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And then another biblical reference is 2 Chronicles 15, 7.

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Your efforts don't go unnoticed.

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If you're a parent here listening to this, and you've got kids, don't you want your kids

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to see you trying new things, just not settling for what's normal?

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When you're out there doing your best and you're trying, you know, if you've never fixed

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a car, you're trying to fix a car.

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If you've never built something out of wood, you're trying your hand at carpentry or you're

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putting the effort forth to try something new, a new sport, even new food.

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You know, if you're a parent saying there, hey, you need to eat this, but then you have

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a whole litany of lists of food you won't eat, but you're telling your kid you need

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to try it, it's good for you.

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They see you not trying new things, they're not going to do it.

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And that's the example we want to set.

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Whether people are noticing what you're doing or not doing.

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If they see that you're in a situation that is making rising daily difficult, but they

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see you never taking the chance, they see you never opening the curtains to your room,

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they see you're not taking care of yourself.

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Healthy wise, you're not being active, you're eating unhealthy, you're not doing simple

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things as keeping your hygiene up.

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And they're going to think, does he really want to get better?

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And when people see you trying, they're going to come alongside you and they're going to

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notice that and they're going to encourage you.

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They're going to check in on you.

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They're going to say, how was your walk yesterday?

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I saw you out walking and it's been a while.

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Did you enjoy your walk or see you trying?

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What can I do to help you?

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And then people seeing you try is going to encourage them to try.

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It's a wonderful and pages thing when people see other people trying new things, they get

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excited.

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You know, if you just think about, you know, the track event of the one mile race, I remember

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back people thought you can only run a mile at a certain amount of speed, like seven minutes

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was it was the fastest anyone would be able to make it.

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And he people was like, well, you know, that guy's better than me and he could only go

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make a mile in seven minutes.

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And people say, I wonder if I could run it faster.

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And then people were running it in six minutes and five minutes and four minutes.

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And I've read lately, there's people like running miles and two minutes and some seconds.

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It's because they're not afraid to try.

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You know, crying.

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You never know what the result with will be when you try.

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So that's where we're at today.

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When was the last time you tried?

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When was the last what was the last thing you tried?

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How long has it been?

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Maybe it's time for you to get up and try.

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You may surprise yourself what you're capable of.

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You may see yourself getting stronger.

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And I just did some fact checking right now.

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The fastest mile ran is three minutes, 43 seconds.

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And like I shared before, they never thought a six minute mile would ever be broken.

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But because someone believed that they could do it and they're willing to try and then

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they got coaches and people there encouraging them.

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Three minutes, 43 seconds.

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They said people were are encouraged by people willing to try.

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One of my favorite other stories is the fastest marathon ran.

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This happened in 2018 by Kenyon Eliud Pipchang.

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It's a cool video to watch him run this marathon.

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You know, over 26 miles.

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He runs it in two hours, one minute and 39 seconds.

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But the beautiful thing about this run is he doesn't run it alone.

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He has pacers alongside him every step of the way.

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Helping him, encouraging him because he has the mindset to say I'm willing to try to run

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the fastest marathon.

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And people got behind him and pushed him to this fastest time.

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And again, when people see you try, they're going to be there to help you.

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You may not succeed.

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Like Atticus, he didn't win the trial, but he was willing to try.

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And the result with that, Miss Mottie, towards the conclusion of the show of that situation,

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he was like, he was appointed to take that case.

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And only Atticus Finch could keep a jury out that long.

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Because during a time when racial codes determined what was right and wrong, he got the jury

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to question that.

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Even though it still resulted in him not winning the case.

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Atticus Finch was willing to try.

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That's my encouragement to you, the listener, in this episode 27, the Atticus Effect, part

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two.

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You just got to try.

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Thank you for tuning in.

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