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🗓️ 29 January 2020
⏱️ 39 minutes
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0:00.0 | Hey friends this is fun therapy and my name is Mike Foster and together we're going to dive into the messy and the brutal but |
0:10.0 | oh so beautiful parts of our not so perfect stories. We're going to do it with a smile. |
0:17.0 | I know it's easy to build walls around our heart. It's easy to give up on our dreams. It's easy to play small and not stand out. |
0:29.6 | The truth is this will keep you safe. Yes, and protected. Yes, you'll be protected and safe, but you will rob yourself of living a life of rich meaning and purpose, a life of vulnerability and |
0:46.7 | authenticity and powerful impact. So today, let's move beyond our hurts and into the fullness of life. |
1:00.8 | My name is Mike Foster, and this is Fun Therapy. So the third Monday in January is known as Blue Monday. |
1:29.1 | in January is known as Blue Monday. It's a mathematical equation that says that this day, the third Monday in January, is the most depressing day of the year. |
1:36.7 | The formula computes a bunch of different factors |
1:39.8 | like the weather, debt level, you know that Christmas shopping credit card bills that are now arriving in the mail. |
1:48.0 | This is also about the time we fail our New Year's resolutions and feel like complete and utter disasters |
1:57.7 | when it comes to goal setting and resolutions and maybe some of you are feeling that right now. You're |
2:04.6 | feeling blue. You're feeling down. Perhaps you're discouraged. And that's why I love this conversation that I had with my good friend Bob Gough. |
2:16.0 | Out at his new retreat center called The Oaks. |
2:20.0 | It's going to be so encouraging to you. It's going to motivate you to continue to pursue the dreams that are deep within your heart, to pursue the things that you really want in life. I'm so excited for you to hear from Bob today. |
2:36.0 | But before we get there, first a couple quick items. I've got several events coming up in the next month and I would love to meet you and see you. |
2:47.6 | This Sunday I'm going to be hanging and sharing with my friends at the church at Rancho |
2:51.3 | Bernardo. Let me speaking at all the services. I'll be speaking at the Think Better, Live Better conference coming up in a couple weeks. Also doing a date night event with my friends at Thrivent. It's going to be |
3:06.4 | dinner and music and then I will be presenting and speaking with my friend Kate Worman who's a relationship |
3:15.2 | expert. Also being speaking in Kansas City and in Phoenix, Arizona this |
3:21.2 | month on relationships and marriage and all that fun stuff. |
3:26.1 | Also, next week is a Strongness Workshop. |
3:29.5 | I can't believe it. |
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