I'm doing one thing really stupidly that I should stop doing it's like how long is it gonna?
Take you to figure out what that is?
It's about two seconds right you've known it forever, and you could even make it less demanding you could say
There are some stupid things that I'm doing that I know are stupid and wrong
That I could stop doing
that I would stop doing and
Then you can just start with that and you can just do that and maybe it's just a little thing although
It's not because it's it's a it's a step forward on the proper voyage
It's not a small thing and you think well what would happen you could say let's do this for a year even a month
Just try not to do things
You know to be stupid and wrong for a month and that means not to say things
You know to be stupid and wrong as well. Maybe that's the most important thing
Just do it as an experiment
See what happens and so fun because I have people writing to me from all over the world who are saying they're doing that
They're saying well. You know I cleaned up my room and and then I stopped saying stupid things and oh my god
It's like things are way better. It's like who would have guessed it. You know and so
It's low-hanging fruit, man
Because they're saying that's the only thing if there's a lot of things wrong with you then
It's it's really easy to start fixing it. You know you got so much. There's so much territory that you can inhabit I
Will make of thee a great nation, I will bless, thee that's good, I mean the whole nation thing
That's positive but to have God on your side. That's
You know you
Might want that when things get rough. That would be good and make that name great, and thou shalt be a blessing
wonderful
That's a good deal
Then I will bless them that bless thee
That's good, too, and curse him that curseth thee and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed
That's something
That's something it wouldn't be something if you could wake up and
Your day was composed in part of people thanking you for all the good things. You've done in the world
Wouldn't that be good
It's not impossible for that happen
so Abram departed
Yes, as the Lord had spoken unto him and Lot went with him and Abram was seventy and five years when he departed out of haran
That's old
Now Abraham lives a long time, but this is also part of this story, so he has a wife who can't have children
He has nothing obviously he's been hanging around dad's Shack for a little too long given that he's 75 right. It's time
It's time to get a fire lit underneath him a bit and so
He's not got much going for him, but he still decides to to move forward, and I've seen this too
You know like if you don't have your destiny in hand by your time. You're 30. It's it's rough you
Start hurting and if you don't have your destiny in hand by the time. You're 40, then you really start hurting and
forties a real
Fork in the road
The fork in the road
That's always where you meet the devil by the way
And that's because every time you have to make a decision
The possibility of evil beckons that's why that is I had a friend I've told you a little about him
And he killed himself just after 40 you know he had had a book published. It was a very small press
He was quite a good writer, but he could not get himself together and it hit him too hard at 40
And I'm not saying that it's hopeless at 40. I'm not saying that and
I'm not saying that partly because of these verses, but also partly because of what I've seen in my clinical practice
I've had people come to me who have had very chaotic and ill-spent lives
Let's say who were in that neighborhood of age, and and it's true for people who are older as well
Who then decided to make a real effort and to try to make where they were?
better you know instead of being bitter about where they weren't because
That's the bitterness that really does you in?
It's really not good. It's the opposite of gratitude. It's it's it's the manifestation of resentment. It makes you malevolent
It's very very bad to be bitter. It's not it's not
it's hell
to be bitter and
If you're 40 and you're not successful
Then you have to accept your lot and you have to start to improve what's right in front of you
And if you do that it doesn't take very long it's quite interesting to watch people
Things can be a lot better in six months and they can be way better two years like it's a struggle uphill struggle
But it's by no means
Impossible, and and I don't know again what the limit of that is I suppose it depends to degree to some degree on the degree
of your commitment, but anyway so its another
indication of the the real validity of this story God isn't setting this up to be easy right?
Abraham's old and and his and his wife is all too and more than that she's barren
How is he going to be the father of nations? How is he going to be successful well?
the initial departure point is
insufficient radically insufficient, and and that's very
Inspiring because it means that you can start from where you are