Welcome to the sports motivation podcast.

This is your host, Niy Shobo.

I want you to think about the last time that you were in a crisis, in a time of stress, all right?

The last time you were in a time of crisis or time of stress, I can imagine how easy it was for you to run towards a vice.

And what I mean by that?

Food, phone, sex, television, family, the gym, music, reading.

And when I say a vice, I mean something that you run to a habit that doesn't really

serve you in any sort of beneficial way or even if it does you're running towards it for

distraction for comfort only I say this because during those times of stress during those times

of crisis it's actually really, really important

that we train ourselves to deal with the pain and get through the pain in such a way that can

allow us to then think clearly. But too many times we run too fast to comfort and we mask the pain because we don't like to feel

it, right?

Who likes to feel pain?

We mask it and then it doesn't allow us to effectively deal with the problem.

So here's what I'm putting you up on game on today.

If you think about even with Jesus, what happened with Jesus as he was stressed during the later parts of his life?

As he found out that he was going to be betrayed, he actually used that time as he was depressed to pray more, to refrain more.

Jesus didn't go to start eating more food and hanging out with more people. No, he went by himself. He went up into the mountains and spent more. Jesus didn't go to start eating more food and hanging out with more people. No,

he went by himself. He went up into the mountains and spent more time with God. Spend more time by

himself. I'm saying that because this is what you should try. When you are in a stressful time or

in a crisis, if you will, I want you to plan that during that time

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