Ep. 23 - Try Three Times

Excel Still More

Kris Emerson

Self-improvement, Increase, Jesus, Achieve, Spiritual, Health & Fitness, Best, Goals, Faith, Religion & Spirituality, Excel, Christianity, Education, Grow

4.9 • 766 Ratings

🗓️ 8 April 2019

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Send us a textI like the word "Try." I think it has gotten a bad wrap over the years. But if you are talking about genuine effort to achieve something, whether you succeed or fail, the diligence to try is noble and God sees that! But sometimes we try things, good things, one time and then give up on them. In this episode we look at the psychology behind effort, and discuss why it will take at least three tries to properly access the value of something. We don't mean it will ...

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0:00.0	Hello, welcome to the Excel Stillmore podcast.
0:09.2	I am your host, Chris Emerson, and we are here to talk about tips and strategies that you can employ to deepen your faith, improve your relationships, and just get the most out of your life.
0:19.9	Thank you for joining. Let's get started.
0:26.8	Okay, so today's show title is pretty straightforward. There's no imagery associated with it.
0:32.0	We are literally suggesting that a major key to getting into something new and seeing measurable differences
0:40.0	is being willing to try something three times. So we will be breaking down what that looks
0:46.7	like today. I'm going to be asking you early on, not late in the episode, but early on, to do a
0:53.3	little project on your own, write a few things down so that you'll know exactly what to try this week.
1:00.1	But before we dig in on all of that, I feel like we need to talk about the word try for a minute.
1:05.2	It's almost as if people look at that word negatively, like it's a failure waiting to happen.
1:10.8	Everybody's walking around in their
1:12.4	best Yoda voice from the Empire Strikes Back, do or do not, there is no try. By the way, that was
1:20.1	not even a Yoda attempt, but that is what he told Luke Skywalker. I've heard sermons, titled sermons,
1:27.2	preachers tell people that Christianity is not about trying.
1:31.0	You either do it or you do not do it. I'm here to tell you I do not buy in on practically any of that.
1:38.0	I believe that the Bible looks very positively towards effort, towards showing some diligence, striving to get better. You may succeed,
1:48.1	you may fail. You may need to modify that. Maybe you should have chosen what you wanted to do
1:54.2	differently or more wisely. It doesn't mean that your effort was without value or a failure or something. It means you tried. You made an
2:04.1	effort. You gave it a go. And I look at that as a very positive thing. In fact, I have some biblical
2:08.9	standpoint for this. There's this really cool word that's used a handful of times in the New
2:13.8	Testament. I'm going to give you the Greek pronunciation. Don't worry about digging in on this.
2:18.3	It's Strong's number 4704, if you want to take a look at it on your own. It's pronounced spudadzo,
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