You're listening to the Brooks Snow podcast, conversations to help you look forward with faith.

Faith in yourself, faith in God, and faith in your own mission and purpose. This is episode 2, Building Temperance. I'm your

host, Brooke Snow. Welcome, my friends, it is so good to be with you. I am really excited about today's topic. In the last episode, we talked

about the power of small and simple things. We talked about the compound effect and how those

tiny habits compound over time into something

monumental. Today I want to talk to you about temperance. We're going to talk about what temperance is, how temperance helps you build the consistency

that you need in order to see this compound effect take place in your life. I'll tell you why I made the

fanatical goal to quit sugar for the entire year and how surprisingly it's

actually not about the sugar. Let's get started.

So what comes to mind when you hear the word

temperance?

You may be familiar with the term from the scriptures.

Both the Apostle Paul and the Apostle Peter

list temperance as both a fruit of the spirit

and also as a virtue that we must have to develop our own divine nature. In summary,

temperance is self-mastery and discipline. It's the ability to moderate one and bridle your appetites and your passions.

Back in December 2017, I was listening to an episode of Michael Hyatt's lead to win podcast and he talked about what he calls

frustration tolerance. This episode was a game changer for me and I'll be sure to link to it in the show notes for this episode.

Frustration tolerance is our ability to withstand frustration.

Now let me put some context in what type of frustration he's talking about.

We live in a society where we have very little frustration tolerance. We want things yesterday. We don't want to have to

wait for things. I remember back in the days when we had to wait 20, 30 seconds,

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