149. How to Keep Going in Challenging Times: 5 Thoughts on Perseverance
Spiritually Hungry
Monica Berg and Michael Berg
4.8 • 617 Ratings
🗓️ 17 October 2023
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
When we encounter challenges on our way to achieving our goals, we can get discouraged and feel the impulse to give up. The truth is the middle is often messy, and the process never really ends. Join us as we discuss how perseverance shapes us into the people we are ultimately meant to be.
“The natural trajectory of the human experience is to become more pessimistic over time. The reality of living longer is seeing more negativity. So we have to nurture a growing optimistic view of our lives.” – Michael Berg
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| 0:00.0 | Everything that is important to us, again, both successes and failures, are changing us. |
| 0:16.0 | And if we're not thinking it through, working it through, we will more likely change in ways we |
| 0:23.2 | don't want to be changed welcome to spiritually hungry yay we're back it's been a |
| 0:33.7 | while since we had a longer episode a longer episode yeah hope our I'll say this even before we start our hate, I hope our listeners are as excited |
| 0:42.4 | to hear a full episode as we are to record it. |
| 0:46.7 | It sounds sleepy. |
| 0:47.6 | I am. |
| 0:48.1 | I just fell asleep. |
| 0:48.9 | I woke up. |
| 0:50.8 | That's my deep voice. |
| 0:52.9 | So today's episode was inspired by some time we spent with a friend this summer, |
| 0:59.1 | and it sparked an interesting conversation among us, |
| 1:02.8 | and then you and I had a follow-up conversation about it. |
| 1:07.0 | So I don't tell you a little bit about our friends. |
| 1:08.7 | It's somebody we've known for a very long time. |
| 1:11.6 | But honestly, his experience is so common and relatable, which is part of the reason we wanted |
| 1:16.6 | to share this. |
| 1:18.6 | So this person I'm describing could be your friend too, anybody's friend. |
| 1:22.6 | He actually happens to be my friend too. |
| 1:24.6 | Okay. |
| 1:25.6 | He's more my friend. He's a very passionate and fun |
| 1:30.0 | loving person. The kind of person you invite to every gathering because he shifts the energy in |
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