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I'm Patrick Miller. What would you do if I told you that every time you said

the phrase dog man in the next 24 hours you'd earn $1,000? Well if if you're anything like me, you'd get some Red Bowl and plan for a dog man marathon.

It might cost me my sanity for a day, but I'd be set for life.

Or what would you do if I told you that you'd get $5,000 for every time you cold plunged in the next month?

If you're anything like me, you'd be a master of the ice bout by the end of 30 days.

Or what would you do if I said I'd pay you $10 million not to drink caffeine for the next year?

Well, my guess is that while it might be hard, you'd go caffeine free.

As much as we might not want to admit it, most of us are at least a little bit motivated

by money.

We understand that money is valuable because it represents something more than money. It

represents safety, security, and stuff. There's a lot of valuable things we'll give up to

get money, whether that's our sanity or our comfort or even

caffeine. And on a different podcast we could evaluate whether money really does those

things and we could talk about what money does to our hearts but today I want to ask a different

question is there anything else besides money that you would sacrifice a great deal to get.

In Proverbs 2 verse verse 1, we read this,

my son, if you accept my words and store up my commands within you,

turning your ear to wisdom and applying your heart to understanding.

Indeed, if you call out for insight and cry aloud for understanding,

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