Morning guys, welcome back to another episode of Preaching the Choir.

This week, despite this being the Sunday edition of the Mike Force podcast, I intend to migrate

preaching the choir to its own channel because I need discipline in my life.

I plan to do Bible study sessions talking about historical context, relevance, going down rabbit holes on

scripture of the 66 books of the Bible, the Old and New Testament, to hold myself accountable,

but hopefully by benefit, by proxy, you're going to learn as well. I hope you follow the channels.

I wildly disseminate that again across every platform I have so you know going to learn as well. I hope you follow the channels. I wildly disseminate that again

across every platform I have so you know where to go. Make sure you subscribe. And I'll continue to

have guests on Mike Forrest podcast. Next week, I have Randy from Present Fathers and intend to

double down on that in 2006. The topic at hand is control versus self-control. Because I think

a lot of us say we want peace. We want stability. We say we want loyalty, honesty, consistency, discipline.

And if we're being honest about ourselves and all those things that we want, it's actually

control that we want. Control. I like having control of circumstance. I remember as a young

E5 and primary leadership development course, which is PLDC, Sergeant School, going from a lower enlisted specialist, private, to becoming a non-commission

officer, a sergeant in the army. I was a 20-year-old sergeant in the army. I had my expert

imagery badge, my airborne wings, my ranger tap, and I had been a guard at the tomb of the unknown

soldier, so I had my

tomb identification badge. I was squared away as a 20-year-old E-5, but I didn't know much about

leadership. I was learning. I liked in situations where I had control because I trusted my

decision-making. I trusted myself. Often we want control over outcomes, people, timing, how

things unfold, whether or not we get hurt or not. And the problem is a lot of what looks like

standards in our lives is actually just fear wearing disciplines uniform. There's a massive

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