Paper Walls, Part 1 - "Because"
Your Move with Andy Stanley Podcast
Andy Stanley
4.7 • 3.9K Ratings
🗓️ 5 September 2025
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Whether fueled by fear, insecurity, or a past event, many of us construct excuses that box us in and hold us back. But there is a way to move beyond the limits our excuses bind us to.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everybody, Andy here. Welcome to the Your Move podcast where we help you make better decisions and live with fewer regrets. Before we jump into today's content, I wanted to say thank you to all of you who support your move financially. It's the generosity of people like you who make this podcast possible. So if listening to the podcast has inspired you to make better decisions and hopefully live with fewer regrets, would you consider supporting your move with a tax deductible gift? |
| 0:26.3 | To give, just visit your move.is slash give. That's your move.is slash give. Thanks for your support. And now here's this week's podcast. Now, there are, and you know this, |
| 0:43.7 | there are a lot of things that are worth carrying forward in our lives from one season to the next, |
| 0:48.4 | one year to the next, good friends, good habits. And then there are some things that we should leave behind, things that |
| 0:57.2 | are not worth carrying from one season to the next, from one year to the next. And for the next few |
| 1:01.9 | weeks, we're going to talk about one of those things, because one of those things that all of us |
| 1:06.5 | should get in the habit of leaving behind are excuses. |
| 1:12.6 | Excuses. |
| 1:13.6 | Excuses are like paper walls. |
| 1:17.6 | That from a distance, they look like real obstacles. |
| 1:20.6 | From a distance, they look impenetrable. |
| 1:23.6 | From a distance, they look like we really don't have any choice but to do what we're doing or not to do what we're |
| 1:29.8 | not doing or to not try or to not try again in fact from a distance an excuse looks like an actual |
| 1:39.0 | reason now there's a reason i can't throw a 97 mile an hour fastball, right? But there is no actual |
| 1:49.0 | reason for me not to, well, I'm not sure I know you well enough to finish that sentence, |
| 1:54.2 | but there's some things that I need to do that, you know, I have reasons for, but if you were to push a little bit, you may discover that my |
| 2:03.3 | reasons aren't really good reasons. They're really, they're really just excuses. So excuses |
| 2:09.3 | get passed off as reasons, and excuses easily become, in the real world, becausees, because all of |
| 2:17.4 | us have some bees that we habitually |
| 2:19.8 | hide behind when certain things come up, right? I mean, why don't you, well, you know, |
| 2:25.8 | because, well, why haven't you? Well, because, I mean, why, why don't you just tell him? Why don't |
| 2:31.7 | you just tell her? Because, because, because, because we've got be causes, excuses, |
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