The Role of Faith in Building Unbreakable Resilience

In this episode of “Shooting It Straight,” hosts Randy Black and Coach Jim Clayton delve into the concept of resilience, exploring how faith and perseverance play crucial roles in overcoming life’s challenges. Broadcasting live from the Sports City Studio in Hurricane, West Virginia, they emphasize that resilience is not about never failing but about always getting back up. Through discussions on various scriptures, they highlight the importance of trusting in God’s strength and hope to endure hardships, drawing connections to previous episodes where faith was identified as a foundational element of resilience.

Randy and Jim also share personal anecdotes and insights, illustrating how resilience is a journey shaped by faith, perseverance, and a trusting relationship with God. They discuss how trials and adversities are opportunities for growth, leading to spiritual maturity and hope. The episode concludes with Jim’s “Wisdom of the Week,” encouraging listeners to find happiness in what they have rather than what they lack. Join them next week as they shift focus to the topic of productivity and explore the difference between being busy and being truly productive.

Transcript

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Coach Jim Clayton: Bam son!

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Coach Jim Clayton: This is Shoot It Straight, the podcast where life blessings don't come sugar-coated and excuses get bitched.

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I'm Randy Black, podcast guy, professional question ask, and apparently the only way

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here who doesn't yell pam son in public.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Well we're working on that Randy.

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Coach Jim Clayton: I'm Jim Clayton, coach, mentor, motivator, and the guy who still thinks a whistle may be the best motivational tool known to man.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Each week we're taking what

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Jims learn from the court, the drills, the discipline, the drive, and translating it into real-world success.

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Coach Jim Clayton: That's right.

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Coach Jim Clayton: This ain't just about basketball.

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Coach Jim Clayton: It's about showing up when life presses full court.

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Coach Jim Clayton: It's about pushing through when the clock's ticking down.

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And if you're looking for fluff, well, you might just want to ride the bench.

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Coach Jim Clayton: We're here to help you believe bigger, achieve louder, and motivate strong.

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Coach Jim Clayton: So buckle up and whatever you do, keep shooting it straight.

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Bam, son!

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Welcome back to Shooting It Straight.

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Now that we have those announcements out of the way, let's get started with today's episode.

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One of the recurring threads throughout our conversation so far on this podcast.

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It's about the idea that resilience isn't about pretending that everything's okay.

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It's about having something deep enough, solid enough to hold on to when things definitely aren't okay.

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And time after time, we've come back to one foundational truth in all that.

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Faith plays a crucial role in how we endure and how we rebuild.

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We saw this clearly back in episode two when we talked about Jim's four pillars of resistance.

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Faith was a central support beam holding things together.

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And in episode five, with Dr.

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Brad Miller joined us, he asked, he used it or he unpacked for us his axe plan.

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Again, faith stood out as one of the clear guiding forces

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That helps guide people move from adversity to purpose.

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Those weren't just surface-level mentions.

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Faith was the common thread, part of the undercurrent driving lasting resilience.

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So today we're kind of continuing in that same direction.

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We're digging into some powerful scriptures that shine a light on what true resilience looks like from a biblical perspective.

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We're not rushing through verses.

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We're taking time to unpack them, reflect on them, and explore how they apply in real life.

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Whether you're currently feeling pressed, pulled, or just plain worn out.

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These scriptures offer clarity, comfort, and challenge.

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And we're here to walk you walk through them with you, not as preachers, but as fellow travelers who believe there's something deeply grounded in God's word

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When the world around us shakes.

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So, Jim, let's get into it.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Let's go.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Let's go.

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We're going to start out with our first scripture from my list here.

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Uh, and all these scriptures are from the NIV translation.

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uh of the Bible.

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It's one of the most commonly used today, one of the most easily accessible.

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It's a little more accessible than the King James, and I love the King James version of the Bible.

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Uh it's very very flowing and and and colorful language the way it describes things.

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But the NIV is a little easier for for a lot of people to follow, so that's why we're using it here today as we go through these scriptures.

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So our first scripture

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is from Pa Proverbs chapter 24 verse 16.

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And it says, For though the righteous fall seven times

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they rise again.

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But the wicked stumble when calamity strikes.

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This verse kind of highlights that

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Resilience is not about never experiencing failure.

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It's never about experiencing setbacks, but it's about the determination to get back up each time that we fail.

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That phrase there seven times, it symbolizes completeness, indicating that even repeated failures do not define us.

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Instead, it is the repeated choice to rise that marks the righteous.

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This reminds us that perseverance is a continual process.

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It's a mindset that separates those who endure from those who give up when things get tough.

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We can relate this to everyday life, where setbacks are inevitable, but how we respond to them.

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is what shapes our character.

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What do you think, Jim?

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Coach Jim Clayton: Well, the one thing that sticks out with me in that right there, you used the word determination.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Okay, some people are just determined to get it done no matter what.

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Coach Jim Clayton: They're not going to look for excuses.

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Coach Jim Clayton: They're not going to look for shortcuts.

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Coach Jim Clayton: They're not going to look for bailouts.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Okay, when it going gets tough.

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Coach Jim Clayton: They're going to push through.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Okay.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Yeah.

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Coach Jim Clayton: They're not going to give up.

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Coach Jim Clayton: But again, you use this word, and I say this whole time.

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Coach Jim Clayton: I say it probably 15 times a day.

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Coach Jim Clayton: It's about your mindset, the ability.

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Coach Jim Clayton: You know, you might fall seven times.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Get up eight.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Yep.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Okay.

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Coach Jim Clayton: You know the old saying, if you can look up, you can get up.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Mm-hmm.

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Coach Jim Clayton: But do you want to get up?

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Yeah.

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Coach Jim Clayton: See there's the kicker to the deck.

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Coach Jim Clayton: You gotta have some kind of driving force that's pushing you forward.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Okay.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Some people don't have one.

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Right.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Because they don't know what their reasons are.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Okay.

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Coach Jim Clayton: They're just making excuses.

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Coach Jim Clayton: And excuses, you know, those are the exit ramps to failure.

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Yes.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Okay, you you start getting those babies, you know, you always have excuses, but you don't always have opportunities.

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Coach Jim Clayton: So, you know, is that it the experiences, those are lessons.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Everything you do is not gonna be perfect.

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Right.

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Coach Jim Clayton: It doesn't exist.

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Coach Jim Clayton: It doesn't exist.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Okay?

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Coach Jim Clayton: It's more like consistency.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Talked about that today with some of my students.

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Coach Jim Clayton: You're not going to be perfect.

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Coach Jim Clayton: There's only one perfect person.

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Coach Jim Clayton: I mean, that's the head coach up here.

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Coach Jim Clayton: You know, we can't compare ourselves to that

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Coach Jim Clayton: I mean, so you gotta be consistent.

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Yes.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Now you could be consistently good.

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You could be consistently good.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Whoa, you could be the opposite.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Okay.

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Coach Jim Clayton: And you probably know some that are a little bit of both.

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Mm-hmm.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Okay.

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Coach Jim Clayton: But you see, when it's w when you're in those good times, see that's when people don't pay attention

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Coach Jim Clayton: They're not reading what's happening.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Because you know the old saying, you're just one step away.

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Coach Jim Clayton: from something happening that you don't really want to happen.

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Coach Jim Clayton: You don't know when that's gonna come about.

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Coach Jim Clayton: You don't know when somebody's going to call you and say, you know, I mean, from the health problems, you know, down to personal problems to marriage problems to money problems.

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Coach Jim Clayton: I mean, there's a multitude of problems

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Coach Jim Clayton: But the thing you gotta remember in that is you always have more blessing than you have problems.

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Yes.

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Coach Jim Clayton: And sometimes we just forget that

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Coach Jim Clayton: Because it's all about me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me.

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Coach Jim Clayton: You ain't thinking about nobody but you.

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We're not seeing the big picture.

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Coach Jim Clayton: No, you're not seeing the big picture.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Okay?

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Coach Jim Clayton: And it's not that you can't.

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Coach Jim Clayton: It's just your train of thought.

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Coach Jim Clayton: And a lot of people, you know, the bottom line is they just don't know how to flip the switch to go from one train of thought to a complete different train of thought.

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Coach Jim Clayton: And that's something that you gotta want to do.

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Coach Jim Clayton: That's something that you can seek out.

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Coach Jim Clayton: That's something there are opportunities every day for you to learn and grow.

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Coach Jim Clayton: That's great.

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Coach Jim Clayton: What happens is people, they gotta grow.

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Coach Jim Clayton: And you can't grow when you come from something.

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Yeah.

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Coach Jim Clayton: And that's where people like to start.

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Mm-hmm.

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Coach Jim Clayton: And then that causes what?

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Coach Jim Clayton: That causes a lot of problems.

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Yeah.

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When you become complacent, stop growing.

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Coach Jim Clayton: That's a success disease.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Yes.

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Coach Jim Clayton: So that's how I look at that.

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Coach Jim Clayton: I like my determination.

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Coach Jim Clayton: I like my mindset.

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Coach Jim Clayton: I like things to be completed, not halfway done

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Coach Jim Clayton: Yeah.

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Coach Jim Clayton: And blame somebody.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Well I could I I've got not interesting.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Yeah.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Not as interesting excuses.

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Coach Jim Clayton: I'm interested in results.

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Coach Jim Clayton: You're not delivered then.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Mm-hmm.

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Coach Jim Clayton: So there you go.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Yeah.

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So just just to make everything may make everybody aware of this, Jim did not see these ahead of time.

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Like I handed him to him as he walked in the room.

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Oh sorry.

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He's he's he's he's hearing me read these scriptures and discuss 'em and and giving his actual reaction, what he feels when he hears this and and his what his his take is on it.

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So it's it's it's an interesting concept to for him to he just walked in blind on blind on this one.

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But you know, it's it's it's more fun that way.

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I like that.

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I like to get yes from the heart from the heart and it's his natural reaction and feeling

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So our second verse, our second scripture here is from Isaiah chapter 40, verse 31.

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And the way when you hear this one

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It's going to be a theme you pick up on that you've probably heard a little bit before some stuff with this.

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But it's, but those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength.

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They will soar on wings like eagles.

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They will run and not grow weary.

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They will walk and not be faint.

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So, what this passage is speaking to is the deep well of strength that comes from placing our hope and our trust in God.

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It acknowledges that human strength has its limits.

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But that God provides a renewal for those who lean on him.

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The imagery moves from soaring to running to walking, recognizing that resilience doesn't always look the same.

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It adapts to our circumstances and our seasons of life, to the changes we're facing.

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Sometimes we feel empowered to soar.

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Sometimes we could just keep putting one foot in front of the other and moving forward.

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The key is that this strength is not self-generated, but it is replenished by God's grace.

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What do you think, Jim?

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Coach Jim Clayton: Well, again, I I just look for key words in that.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Okay.

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Coach Jim Clayton: I like the word hope and I like the word trust.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Okay, because you gotta believe in that

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Coach Jim Clayton: You gotta believe that he's got your back.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Yes.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Okay?

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Coach Jim Clayton: And when I think about that, I think of, and you look at, you know, getting strength and, you know, human strength, it does have its limits, but God has no limits.

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Coach Jim Clayton: And I believe that the problems that I have and the problems that you have and the problems that anybody else has had.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Those are all unique problems that have been placed on us by God.

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Coach Jim Clayton: My problems aren't your problems.

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Right.

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Coach Jim Clayton: So how did he how did all these people get different stuff?

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Coach Jim Clayton: Well, you know why?

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Coach Jim Clayton: Because we're all different.

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Coach Jim Clayton: He only made one of us.

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Coach Jim Clayton: He broke the mold.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Okay.

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Coach Jim Clayton: You're born an original, you know, to stand out.

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Well, I'm a twin, so not completely original, but you know

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So I get the idea.

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Coach Jim Clayton: I get what you're saying.

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Coach Jim Clayton: But not to blend in.

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Right.

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Coach Jim Clayton: And see people do that.

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Coach Jim Clayton: They they blend in.

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Coach Jim Clayton: And so, you know, you talk about starting.

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Coach Jim Clayton: You gotta start somewhere with one step.

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Coach Jim Clayton: You know, you gotta keep moving.

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Coach Jim Clayton: And you know, for a lot of people, they fake it till they make it.

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Coach Jim Clayton: I answered faking it.

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Yeah

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Coach Jim Clayton: You know, you gotta keep going.

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Coach Jim Clayton: It's like a like a story about a gentleman I just read the other day.

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Coach Jim Clayton: He was diagnosed with stage four pancreatic cancer.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Well, you know anything about that?

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Coach Jim Clayton: That's not a good diagnosis

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Coach Jim Clayton: Those people don't survive that.

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No, they don't.

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Coach Jim Clayton: So the doctor sent him home.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Said, we can't do anything for you.

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Coach Jim Clayton: He could hardly walk.

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Coach Jim Clayton: So he started walking.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Started walking.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Might take him 30 minutes to walk 10 feet, but by God he did it.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Then he walked 20 feet, then 30 feet, then 40 feet.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Then he started jogging.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Next thing you knew, he was running

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Coach Jim Clayton: Now here's the kicker.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Thirty years later, he's still here.

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Coach Jim Clayton: He runs marathons, he runs triathlons, he runs Iron Man competition.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Now

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Coach Jim Clayton: We're talking about strength.

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Coach Jim Clayton: We're talking about limits.

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Coach Jim Clayton: He had no limits.

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Coach Jim Clayton: What he got to lose?

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Coach Jim Clayton: He put his faith where it is and said, look, here's what I'm going to do.

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Coach Jim Clayton: You know, it's my season

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Coach Jim Clayton: And I'm gonna run with it.

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Yeah.

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Coach Jim Clayton: I'm not giving up.

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Coach Jim Clayton: And guess what?

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Coach Jim Clayton: The answer hey, there you go.

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Coach Jim Clayton: It's still kicking.

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And still running.

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Yeah, and and to make it this number of years.

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With that is dramatic.

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Coach Jim Clayton: How does that happen?

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Yeah.

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Coach Jim Clayton: You know what I mean?

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Coach Jim Clayton: How does that happen?

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How does that happen?

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Because God found a purpose for him.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Oh yeah.

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Coach Jim Clayton: God went through with him

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Coach Jim Clayton: You know, God if he opens your eyes, he's not through with it.

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Yes.

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Coach Jim Clayton: He got something for you to do.

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Some sometimes, you know, it's it's about

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having the patience to see what he's gonna allow to happen.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Yeah we don't see the we we we we get blurred.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Because it's not the patience of what

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Coach Jim Clayton: He see it's what we want.

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Yeah.

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And it's not even not even just the patience, though.

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It's having the endurance to have that patience, to be able to hang on and and and not give up, not walk away.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Yeah, his God's time is not our time.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Okay, what God, I need you to do this for me right now.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Uh excuse me.

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Coach Jim Clayton: That's not how it works.

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Coach Jim Clayton: That's just not how it works.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Yeah.

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Coach Jim Clayton: And see a lot of people they only they only ask for God's word when they need something

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Coach Jim Clayton: I'm not digging that.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Okay.

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Coach Jim Clayton: You know, so he put you in these positions, Lord, he's put me in, oh my gosh.

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Coach Jim Clayton: So many of them.

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Coach Jim Clayton: But it is what it is.

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Right.

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And I like and I I know that I am in the position I'm in working with you because God opened that door for me.

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And you know, I you know, it's like we talked about previously.

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When I found out how sick you were, I came here and I stood in the middle of that courthouse.

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I remember that, like it was.

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And I hugged you and we prayed.

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Yep.

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And

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That was what I needed to do to show God, I'm opening this door.

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I'm gonna do what I can to be there for Jim.

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And then you immediately come back at me with, I want to do that podcast.

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I want to get started on it.

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Coach Jim Clayton: You know, if it wasn't for you, I'll if it wasn't for you, we wouldn't be having this conversation.

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It took us a while to get to that.

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Doesn't matter.

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But it's it's given us the opportunity, through his will, through his grace, to be able to do what we're doing.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Oh, there's no question about it.

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Coach Jim Clayton: And you just can't give up.

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Right.

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Coach Jim Clayton: I mean, people in my condition

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Coach Jim Clayton: That's their biggest thing.

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Coach Jim Clayton: They just get to feel sorry for themselves.

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Coach Jim Clayton: And you can't be a winner.

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Well, and our next scripture is going to play into that a little bit.

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Coach Jim Clayton: And you can't be a winner and a whiner at the same time.

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Yeah

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Coach Jim Clayton: And it's easy to do.

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Coach Jim Clayton: It is.

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Coach Jim Clayton: In this situation, when you get when somebody gives you something, you know, and they say, man, that's that's tough, man.

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Coach Jim Clayton: How you ever gonna yeah yeah

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Coach Jim Clayton: Oh, get out of my what?

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Coach Jim Clayton: Okay.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Where there's a will, there's a what.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Yeah.

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Coach Jim Clayton: And you know, some people just need to get a backbone, but they got a wishbone.

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Coach Jim Clayton: And I'm not interested in a wisdom.

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Coach Jim Clayton: They need to get a backbone and just get down and let's go.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Let's get it done.

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Coach Jim Clayton: We can make this happen.

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Coach Jim Clayton: People do things

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Coach Jim Clayton: The fur there's a first for a lot of things every day that turn out to be fantastic thing.

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Coach Jim Clayton: But somebody else should do it first.

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Mm-hmm

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Coach Jim Clayton: And then it's easy to be second, third, or fourth, but who's got the power to do it first?

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Coach Jim Clayton: Who's the ones that can step out, stand up, not blend in, not be afraid, have that competitiveness, that drive, that will, that determination.

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Coach Jim Clayton: And ambition, not a big chicken.

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Yeah.

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So we're gonna go to 2 Corinthians chapter 4, verses 8 and 9.

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And this is the apostle apostle Paul writing here.

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And he said

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We are hard-pressed on every side, but not crushed, perplexed, but not in despair.

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Persecuted, but not abandoned

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Struck down, but not destroyed.

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His words here are painting a realistic picture of suffering and of adversity

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Affirming that that hardship is part of the Christian experience.

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Yet he's emphasizing that these trials don't have to be the final word.

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Despite being hard-pressed or struck down, believers in Christ are not crushed or destroyed.

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It's teaching us that resilience

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involves recognizing the reality of pain while holding on to hope and God's sustaining power.

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It's encouraging us

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honestly about struggles while affirming the unbreakable spirit God provides even in the darkest moments.

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It's acknowledging hardship without surrender.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Oh, yeah.

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Coach Jim Clayton: And you know, people are gonna s you've had some kind of suffering.

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Coach Jim Clayton: I've had some kind of suffering.

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Coach Jim Clayton: I've had some type of all kinds of adversity.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Everybody who's listening to this in the world has had both those things.

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Coach Jim Clayton: But what'd you do about it?

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Coach Jim Clayton: What you doing about it?

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Yeah.

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Coach Jim Clayton: You gonna have a pity party?

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Your reaction has to have some type of of play in this, how you react to it.

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Like it's it's not a matter of

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uh giving up and walking away.

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I mean you can do that, but what's that ultimately going to prove?

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Nothing.

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Nothing.

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It's not going to do anything for you.

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Weak.

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Yes.

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Coach Jim Clayton: When the crap hits the fan, some people run and some people stuck.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Okay?

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Coach Jim Clayton: Well you know there's people in your life, in my life that have run.

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Coach Jim Clayton: They run, run, run, run.

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Coach Jim Clayton: You know some people that face the fire

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Coach Jim Clayton: Bring it on, okay?

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Coach Jim Clayton: Again, think about it, you gotta have thick skin.

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Coach Jim Clayton: You gotta be tough.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Yeah.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Okay, you gotta be tough.

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Coach Jim Clayton: You know, here's a funny one

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Coach Jim Clayton: My four-year-old granddaughter, Mighty Heidi, she's looking at me, she says, Pop up, how's your back?

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Coach Jim Clayton: Because I just had a biopsy on Tuesday.

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Right.

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Coach Jim Clayton: And they stuck a big needle in my back.

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Coach Jim Clayton: She says, Did that hurt?

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Coach Jim Clayton: I said

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Coach Jim Clayton: I'm sure it did, but I was knocked out.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Okay.

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Coach Jim Clayton: And uh she goes, Papa, she goes, you're tough.

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Coach Jim Clayton: And I said, well, Mighty, you're tough too

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Coach Jim Clayton: And she kept saying, You're tough.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Yeah.

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Coach Jim Clayton: You know what I mean?

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Coach Jim Clayton: And and I just kind of I was sitting there and I'm thinking, now that's a four year old.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Yeah

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Coach Jim Clayton: Okay?

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Coach Jim Clayton: I don't complain about.

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Coach Jim Clayton: She asked me, is it hurt?

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Coach Jim Clayton: Is it sore?

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Coach Jim Clayton: Is it this?

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Coach Jim Clayton: Is it that?

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Coach Jim Clayton: I said, no.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Everything's good.

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Coach Jim Clayton: I really, I mean, it's I you know I I'm not complaining

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Coach Jim Clayton: It's just something you gotta deal with.

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Coach Jim Clayton: But, you know, again, you gotta have faith over fear.

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Yes.

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Coach Jim Clayton: I mean, you know, fear is just

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Coach Jim Clayton: Fear is something that is gonna be with you.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Like I have a fear of snakes.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Oh yeah.

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Coach Jim Clayton: I don't like snakes.

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Coach Jim Clayton: I don't care if they're in a picture

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Coach Jim Clayton: I don't care and I don't and I'm not gonna get around.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Yeah if I see one I'm going the other direction.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Sorry.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Well, let's work on that, coach.

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Coach Jim Clayton: We can get I'm not as

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Coach Jim Clayton: I don't need snakes in my life.

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Coach Jim Clayton: And there's a lot of snakes that slither on like snakes, snakes, reptiles, and there's a lot of snakes in life that are not rep they're not the slithering kind, you know what I mean?

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Coach Jim Clayton: On the ground

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Coach Jim Clayton: But, you know, again, you just can't give up.

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Yeah.

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Coach Jim Clayton: You know, you just can't give up.

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Coach Jim Clayton: It's not the final word unless you say something.

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Yeah.

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It's about uh resilience here is about

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Um having emotional and spiritual perseverance.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Yeah, how bad do you want to overcome this?

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Yes.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Okay, that's the question.

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Coach Jim Clayton: So how bad do you want it?

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Coach Jim Clayton: Well, uh, mmm, you know, I'm thinking, okay, you know, I teach shooting.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Down here at work with shooting.

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Coach Jim Clayton: I said let me give you an example.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Who's the best shooter in the world?

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Coach Jim Clayton: Steph Curry.

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Coach Jim Clayton: No question.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Well, let me give you a breakdown of Steph Curry

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Coach Jim Clayton: Steph Curse sees 500 shots a day, seven days a week.

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Coach Jim Clayton: That's 3,500 shots a week.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Multiply that times a year, that's 168,000 shots a year.

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Coach Jim Clayton: He's been doing it for 15 years.

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Coach Jim Clayton: That's over 2.

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Coach Jim Clayton: 3 million.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Now, in his MBA career, he's only made 36,000 shots.

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Coach Jim Clayton: That's less than one-tenth of one percent of all the shots that he took to get there.

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Yeah.

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Coach Jim Clayton: But when you watch him, you go, oh, that looks so easy.

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Yeah.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Uh-uh.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Uh-uh.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Till you try it.

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Coach Jim Clayton: You know, and you know, people say, oh, I want to be like him

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Coach Jim Clayton: Well, you might want to be like him, but are you doing the things that it takes to be like?

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Are you willing to put in the work?

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Coach Jim Clayton: Well, no, I don't want to do that.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Well then guess what?

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You'll never be like him.

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Coach Jim Clayton: You're never gonna be like him.

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Coach Jim Clayton: He's gonna go watch him.

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Coach Jim Clayton: But there'll be another person.

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Coach Jim Clayton: But see, it it doesn't matter whether it's Death Curry or you're

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Coach Jim Clayton: You know, uh uh tennis Roger Federer, who was a legend in tennis, you know.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Or you can go back to any sport.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Jack Nicholas.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Hey, what those guys do?

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They all practiced.

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They all they all put in all the time they needed to hone their skills.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Everything in life comes down to one word.

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Coach Jim Clayton: RIP.

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Yes.

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Coach Jim Clayton: How many times do you do it?

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Coach Jim Clayton: Okay?

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Coach Jim Clayton: Look at your technology job.

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Coach Jim Clayton: You know how all those buttons, you know all they work, you know what you're I got no clue.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Yeah

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Coach Jim Clayton: Now you can teach me a few little tricks of the trade here, but I'm never gonna be you because that's just not what I do.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Right.

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Coach Jim Clayton: And that's okay because you're the expert in that, but how'd you get that one

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A lot of work.

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A lot of a lot of lot of tracking.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Somebody taught you just doing it over and over and over.

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Coach Jim Clayton: A lot of research, a lot of hands-on in.

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Coach Jim Clayton: How long are we gonna do this, Coach?

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Coach Jim Clayton: We're gonna do it so long, son, you can't get it wrong.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Yeah that means over and over and over and then over and over and over and over and over some more.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Yeah now here's the real deal who's willing to do that

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That's the big question.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Not very many people.

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Not a lot.

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Coach Jim Clayton: But the ones that are, guess what they are?

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Coach Jim Clayton: Ultra what?

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Coach Jim Clayton: Successful?

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Coach Jim Clayton: Absolutely.

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Coach Jim Clayton: And anybody can do it.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Yeah.

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Coach Jim Clayton: But was everything perfect for them?

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Coach Jim Clayton: They went this way, they went north, they went south, they went sideways, but they never went.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Stop.

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Coach Jim Clayton: And there's no elevator to the penthouse here.

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Coach Jim Clayton: There's just steps.

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Coach Jim Clayton: And it's called the process.

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Coach Jim Clayton: And everybody who doesn't give up.

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Coach Jim Clayton: They did two things.

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Coach Jim Clayton: They went through the process and they paid the price.

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Coach Jim Clayton: And if you don't do those two things, guess what?

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Coach Jim Clayton: You know, you can ask for help along the way.

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Coach Jim Clayton: You guys help me God.

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Coach Jim Clayton: I need I need no he helps oh you gotta help yourself.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Help yourself

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Coach Jim Clayton: Prove to him that you really want it.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Yeah.

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Coach Jim Clayton: It's a test.

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Coach Jim Clayton: How bad do you want it?

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Coach Jim Clayton: I know what you say, but you know, actions speak a lot louder than your words.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Yes.

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Yeah

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So let's go on.

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Number four.

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James, and James is my favorite book in the Bible.

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James chapter 1, verses 2 through 4.

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And it says here, consider it pure joy, my brothers and sisters, whenever you face trials of many kinds, because you know that the testing of your faith produces perseverance.

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Let Perseverance finish its work, so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything

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James here is challenging us to view the trials we face from a radically different perspective, not to see them as obstacles to avoid.

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But to see them as, and you're going to love this, Jim, as opportunities for growth.

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It doesn't mean that you we're pretending to be happy about hardship

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But recognizing that God uses these moments to refine our faith and build perseverance inside of us.

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Perseverance is portrayed as an active process.

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It can't be passive.

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It has to be active.

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Then it leads us to spiritual maturity and wholeness.

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And this passage from James invites us to embrace difficulties in our lives.

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as necessary steps in our development and it challenges people to reflect on how their own hardships have shaped their character.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Key word here I like trial.

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Coach Jim Clayton: I got another word for that I use every day.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Lessons.

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Yes.

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Coach Jim Clayton: They're lessons.

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Coach Jim Clayton: And you get your most growth.

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Coach Jim Clayton: In times of failure.

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Yes.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Not in times of success.

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Coach Jim Clayton: That's when the opportunities.

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Coach Jim Clayton: They're everywhere's what.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Because you're thinking a little bit more what?

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Coach Jim Clayton: Creative.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Instead of what?

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Coach Jim Clayton: Looking at it as what you said, an obstacle.

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Yeah

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Coach Jim Clayton: An obstacle.

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Coach Jim Clayton: That's something that's in your way.

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Coach Jim Clayton: It isn't stopping you unless you let it stop you.

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Yes, yes, yes.

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Coach Jim Clayton: That's on you.

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Coach Jim Clayton: It's always gonna be on you.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Whether you do or you don't.

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Coach Jim Clayton: It's on you.

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Right

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Coach Jim Clayton: It's not on your mom, your dad, your coach, your teacher, your boss.

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Coach Jim Clayton: It's on you.

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Coach Jim Clayton: It's a choice.

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Coach Jim Clayton: It's a choice.

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Coach Jim Clayton: And we are

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Coach Jim Clayton: Our choices.

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Yes, we are.

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Coach Jim Clayton: And that's when I look at that, you know, and again when you get to the part which says you're not lacking anything, that means, man, you are on your path to success.

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Coach Jim Clayton: You got the tool.

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Coach Jim Clayton: See the lessons produce the tools.

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Coach Jim Clayton: So I always say to people every year, this year when you start school, school's getting ready to start for a lot of people.

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Coach Jim Clayton: You do not want to be the same version of you this year that you were last year.

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Coach Jim Clayton: So if you can't count that as 2.

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Coach Jim Clayton: 0, we better be 3.

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Coach Jim Clayton: 0.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Or if you're 10th grade, you might be 10.

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Coach Jim Clayton: 0.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Okay, well you've got to be better than 9.

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Coach Jim Clayton: 0.

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Coach Jim Clayton: So in order to make that happen, here's what has to happen

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Coach Jim Clayton: And that's the growth part of it.

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Coach Jim Clayton: That's the lesson.

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Coach Jim Clayton: You have to put some new tools in the box.

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Mm-hmm.

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Coach Jim Clayton: There's just certain tools that will fix certain things.

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Coach Jim Clayton: And other tools just won't fix them.

Randy Black: 00:28:44

Right.

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Coach Jim Clayton: But if you got the same tools, guess what?

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Coach Jim Clayton: Same results.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Mm-hmm.

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Coach Jim Clayton: You know, if there's an old saying that says if you want to keep on getting what you're getting, just keep on doing what you're doing.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Things don't happen by chance.

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Coach Jim Clayton: And you gotta be the chance.

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Coach Jim Clayton: And again, that's lessons.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Those are God's lessons to you to see how bad you really want it.

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Yeah.

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It's to help, it's to help

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Build up to build up that that that perseverance inside you to be able to continue to push forward, to continue to do your best.

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And you said help, not hindrance, help.

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Yes

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Coach Jim Clayton: We don't see a tatwah.

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Coach Jim Clayton: So we don't see a dawah.

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There are so many people like the like perspective.

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Here here's an example

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We recently saw pretty devastating flooding take place down in Texas.

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Yeah.

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Down the Texas Hill Country, around Kerrville.

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And I know people who are there, people who live in the area

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And the devastation is just tremendous.

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But the first thing so many people say is, why would God do this?

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Why would God allow this to happen?

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Why would God, why are you questioning God on this?

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God didn't just necessarily allow this to happen.

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Sometimes things just happen.

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And we're not prepared for them, but they're there to test us.

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They're there to help us.

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They're there to help us build up our strength.

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To be a stronger person, to be able to do our best to help those around us.

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Coach Jim Clayton: And the key thing is, a lot of the things that went wrong in that Texas situation,

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Coach Jim Clayton: Those are things that should have been fixed a long time ago.

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Oh yeah.

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They talked about this as a once-in-a-lifetime flood, and it wasn't

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It had happened many times before.

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So what happened sometimes?

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Coach Jim Clayton: He sent a message

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Coach Jim Clayton: Neglect.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Okay?

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Coach Jim Clayton: It's like it's you know uh uh the longer you put off

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Coach Jim Clayton: Doing what you're supposed to do, less chance it's ever gonna happen.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Yes.

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Coach Jim Clayton: The law of diminishing intent.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Yes.

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Coach Jim Clayton: That's what that means.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Well see, we just put things off

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Coach Jim Clayton: Certain things in life have to take priority.

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They do.

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Coach Jim Clayton: They gotta take priority.

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Coach Jim Clayton: And sometimes they don't taper already because guess what?

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Coach Jim Clayton: It takes the focus off of you.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Everybody's about you.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Me, me, me, me, me.

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Coach Jim Clayton: What about me?

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Coach Jim Clayton: What about me?

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Coach Jim Clayton: Whatever happened, what about we?

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Yeah.

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Coach Jim Clayton: What are you doing to help somebody else?

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Coach Jim Clayton: So things like this happen.

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Coach Jim Clayton: And then

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Coach Jim Clayton: We get a different what?

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Coach Jim Clayton: Perspective.

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Yes.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Ah.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Well, if we know what the problem is, and we know what the solution is

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Coach Jim Clayton: Then we gotta have a plan to put that in play.

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Coach Jim Clayton: That might take a couple years to do it, but guess what?

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Coach Jim Clayton: We're moving towards it.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Some things in you can't snap your fingers and go like bewitched.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Oh, it's happening.

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Coach Jim Clayton: There it is.

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Yeah.

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Coach Jim Clayton: That's make believe.

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Mm-hmm.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Okay.

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Coach Jim Clayton: So on on things like this, uh

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Coach Jim Clayton: It could be fixed.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Everything could be fixed.

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Coach Jim Clayton: It just takes time.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Yes.

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Coach Jim Clayton: But why you gonna wait till it's broke to fix it?

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Mm-hmm.

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Coach Jim Clayton: While she's fixing Yeah.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Okay?

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Coach Jim Clayton: Well we're lucky.

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Coach Jim Clayton: You wanna be lucky?

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Coach Jim Clayton: You wanna be skilled

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Coach Jim Clayton: Luck happens when preparation meets opportunity.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Yeah, there's that word preparation.

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Coach Jim Clayton: There's that word opportunity in you.

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Coach Jim Clayton: So when what I look at when I say preparation, opportunity.

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Coach Jim Clayton: I was looking at it and break it down a little further.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Whatever you're ready for, that's what's going to show up.

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Coach Jim Clayton: And there's no saying, I saw this another day, I love it.

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Coach Jim Clayton: I'm going to use it.

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Coach Jim Clayton: When your feet show up.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Make sure your brain shows up with.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Yeah.

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Yeah.

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It's it it's it's an idea and it's an idea that I fully believe that that the Lord is not going to put something in front of us

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that we can't handle.

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Hundred percent.

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That we can't find a way to work through.

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Hundred percent.

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If we if we don't work through it, if we don't make it through it, it's because

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Something in his will said, well, we need to make change.

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We need this to happen.

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That's how I see it.

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Coach Jim Clayton: I agree with you 100%.

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Coach Jim Clayton: I agree with you a hundred percent.

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Coach Jim Clayton: But see, some people get thinking like

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Coach Jim Clayton: Again, hey what?

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Coach Jim Clayton: He puts it in front of you.

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Coach Jim Clayton: He gives his toughest assignments to his toughest soldiers.

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Coach Jim Clayton: How tough are you?

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Coach Jim Clayton: Okay.

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Coach Jim Clayton: So when I got my assignment

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Coach Jim Clayton: With this cancer situation, I didn't quite understand.

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Coach Jim Clayton: I oh I totally get it now.

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Coach Jim Clayton: But it took me a couple years, a year or so to figure it out.

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Coach Jim Clayton: What are you saying to me

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Coach Jim Clayton: What do you want me to do?

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Mm-hmm.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Well, look at what we're doing right now.

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Exactly.

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Coach Jim Clayton: And we're gonna take this to a whole nother level.

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This is this is, you know, what you've what you've had to go through with everything that's happened is what's

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helped in a lot of ways, most ways, to pull you and I together to do this and work together.

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Coach Jim Clayton: There's a reason.

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Coach Jim Clayton: There's a connection.

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We there something

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Above us.

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For me, that's God.

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For you, that's God.

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Oh, that's good.

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Other people may say it's something else.

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But for us, God has brought us together to share this message, this content, what it is we're putting together.

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Why, we may never know while we're here.

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But you know what?

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The first thing I can do when I walk into heaven is I can go, hey God.

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Why did you put Jim and I together?

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And he can tell me this was the purpose.

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I can tell you why.

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Coach Jim Clayton: I can tell you why.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Because it's to add value to other people.

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Coach Jim Clayton: That's the goal.

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Coach Jim Clayton: That is our goal.

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Coach Jim Clayton: You do that every day.

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Coach Jim Clayton: At the end of the day, when you park that head right on that pillar, whoo, that feels good.

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Coach Jim Clayton: You've had a what?

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Coach Jim Clayton: Significant day of significance.

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Coach Jim Clayton: So you don't go, well today did that matter?

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Coach Jim Clayton: Did that matter?

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Coach Jim Clayton: See your brains pro our brains are programmed in 24 hours.

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Coach Jim Clayton: So whether we've had the greatest day ever

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Coach Jim Clayton: Or whether we've had the worst nightmare, guess what?

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Starts over.

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Coach Jim Clayton: But you see, the great ones can learn from it, move on.

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Yeah.

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Coach Jim Clayton: The other people.

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Coach Jim Clayton: They didn't learn from it and they keep carrying it on and carrying it on.

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Coach Jim Clayton: It's not the load that that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it.

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Yes.

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Coach Jim Clayton: And some people the load is light because they never let yesterday affect today.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Live, learn, move on.

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Yeah.

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Well, and that that plays into what our our fifth uh scripture is here a little bit, the way I see it.

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So Romans chapter 5.

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Verses three through five.

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And it says here, not only so, but we also glory in our sufferings

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Because we know that suffering produces perseverance, perseverance, character, and character, hope.

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It provides a really powerful framework here in this scripture for understanding the purpose behind suffering that we face.

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It shows that pain, the difficulty,

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Are not necessarily meaningless, but they're part of a transformative journey that's leading us from perseverance to the formation of a godly character.

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And ultimately, it's leading us to hope.

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Hope is not wishful thinking.

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Hope is a confident expectation that's rooted in God's love.

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That by glorifying in sufferings,

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Believers acknowledge that through endurance they become stronger and they become more hopeful.

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That's what this scripture is putting out there for us.

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And it's a chain reaction.

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suffering to perseverance to character to hope.

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It is a a continuum that flows through there, that it has purpose

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Suffering has purpose in our growth to get to hope.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Well you can take suffering, bad times, whatever.

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Coach Jim Clayton: On the other side of bad times or what?

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Coach Jim Clayton: Good times.

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Mm-hmm.

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Coach Jim Clayton: You see, we're stuck in the bad times.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Okay, why does this happen?

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Coach Jim Clayton: Okay.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Maybe you can answer it, maybe you can't.

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Coach Jim Clayton: But you see, that's the thing I like about hope.

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Coach Jim Clayton: It gives people a post that something good, you believe something good is gonna happen.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Doesn't always you don't know when, but you know it's gonna happen.

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Coach Jim Clayton: And when it happens, you gotta be ready for it.

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Yes

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Coach Jim Clayton: And I mean that that's a big thing.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Perseverance, we all know.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Just can't have that give up.

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You just can't have that give up to Perseverance builds inner strength.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Oh no question.

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Coach Jim Clayton: And character

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Coach Jim Clayton: John Wooten said this.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Character is who you really are, while reputation is merely what other people think you are.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Yes.

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Coach Jim Clayton: And as long as you know

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Coach Jim Clayton: And they think you're always one step ahead of them.

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Coach Jim Clayton: They'll never win the race.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Man, I think about that.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Kurt, Kurt.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Oh yeah.

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Coach Jim Clayton: You know the old say true colors come shining through?

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Coach Jim Clayton: That's your character

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Coach Jim Clayton: So sometimes when you want to find out about a person's character, strength, perseverance, see how they react.

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Coach Jim Clayton: See how they react to the suffering.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Something bad happened.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Yes.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Woo!

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Coach Jim Clayton: Here we go.

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I 100% agree with you.

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Coach Jim Clayton: And you see it every day.

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And it's it you know, it's it's it's testing them.

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How are how are they going to survive that test that's placed in front of them?

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Which kind of goes along with the next one.

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Coach Jim Clayton: What's the word?

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Coach Jim Clayton: Overreact?

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Yeah.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Okay, sometimes you just need to not say anything.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Mm-hmm.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Bite your tongue.

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Yeah.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Okay, listen.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Listening is a skill.

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Coach Jim Clayton: You can't learn and grow if you can't listen.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Because when we talk, guess what we talk about?

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Coach Jim Clayton: We only talk about things we know.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Yeah.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Or some things we think we know, but we don't know.

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Coach Jim Clayton: We just act like we do.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Yeah.

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Coach Jim Clayton: But I mean when you think about that, that perseverance, that hope, suffering, that's just things you gotta go through.

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Yeah

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Coach Jim Clayton: Everything's not gonna be peaches and cream every day.

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No, never.

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Coach Jim Clayton: But when it is, eat the heck out of it, baby.

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Coach Jim Clayton: But when it's not

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Coach Jim Clayton: What are you gonna do about it?

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Coach Jim Clayton: How you gonna get over it?

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Coach Jim Clayton: What are you gonna do?

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Coach Jim Clayton: What are you gonna change?

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Coach Jim Clayton: What are you gonna do to make it different?

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Coach Jim Clayton: How you gonna I mean that's just gotta be your mindset.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Not feeling sorry for yourself and taking

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Coach Jim Clayton: You know what I mean?

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Perfect perfect example of this goes right on with this next quote.

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And it's from Job.

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And if you know anything about the book of Job, Job was tested.

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Job was put out there and tested and tormented, and things were done to Job that

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God allowed to happen because Job was the most righteous of the people.

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So this is from Job chapter 23, verse 10.

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And it says, But he knows the way that I take

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When he has tested me, I will come forth as gold.

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Job has a declaration here.

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It expresses that he has.

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An unbelieving deep trust in God's refining work in his life through the trials.

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Gold is purified by fire.

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That's how we make gold pure and more valuable.

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Believers are tested to remove the impurities and reveal their true value.

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This verse here reminds us that resilience is not only about surviving the hardships we face, but it's about being transformed into something stronger and more precious.

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It encourages us here to trust God's purpose behind our struggles, even when we don't understand the immediate reasons for pain or for the testing that's taking place.

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We are refined by the struggles to become something greater.

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Coach Jim Clayton: I hear these words here again.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Trust.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Trust in the Lord.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Trust in him.

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Coach Jim Clayton: I mean if you really stop and think about, everybody would stop and think about what has gone on in my life that I've done or has been done to me

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Coach Jim Clayton: That realistically I might not I I shouldn't be here.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Why am I still here?

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Coach Jim Clayton: Ooh.

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Yeah.

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Coach Jim Clayton: How are you still here when everybody else had had that happen and they're all past or gone?

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Coach Jim Clayton: Why you?

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Coach Jim Clayton: No, don't think like that.

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Coach Jim Clayton: See don't think they don't realize.

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Coach Jim Clayton: You know, hey, again, he puts that fire on your buddy.

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Coach Jim Clayton: I mean, like you said, gold

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Coach Jim Clayton: You don't build gold.

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Coach Jim Clayton: You discover it.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Where is it?

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Coach Jim Clayton: It's down where in the ground.

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Yep.

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Coach Jim Clayton: You gotta go find it.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Okay.

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And then what do you have to do with it?

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You gotta hit you gotta refine it.

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You've got to make it, you've gotta improve it.

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You've gotta build on it.

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And it's the same thing God does to us.

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He tests us to refine us to bring us

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To a new place, to a new understanding.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Hundred percent.

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Coach Jim Clayton: And guess what?

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Coach Jim Clayton: The gold ain't coming to you.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Mm-hmm

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Coach Jim Clayton: So if you want it, you gotta go find it.

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Coach Jim Clayton: You gotta be intentional to go get it.

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Yes.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Okay?

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Coach Jim Clayton: So some things in life

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Coach Jim Clayton: They don't happen accidentally, the great thing.

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Coach Jim Clayton: They happen intentional.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Yeah.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Okay?

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Coach Jim Clayton: Like you can intentionally make something happen if you want to.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Or

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Coach Jim Clayton: Well, I don't know how that happened.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Most kinds of things don't happen like that.

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Coach Jim Clayton: They don't fall out of the sky like that.

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Yeah

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Coach Jim Clayton: Okay, there's a reason.

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Coach Jim Clayton: And that reason might have been something that happened two or three years ago.

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Coach Jim Clayton: You don't know that.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Because you think your brain is thinking about that?

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Coach Jim Clayton: Not until somebody points it out to you.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Exactly.

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Coach Jim Clayton: You know, and again, uh believers, man, believers.

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The real idea here is that for believers, for those who believe in God, who who trust that God has a hand in what we're doing, resilience for them.

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has to include trusting the process that God is using to refine them.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Process.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Trust the process.

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Yes.

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Coach Jim Clayton: See, because if you know the process and you trust it

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Coach Jim Clayton: And you travel on that process road, not deviating off every every turn here and there, you're going to get there

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Coach Jim Clayton: See, all roads lead somewhere.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Some people just have better GPS.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Yeah, exactly.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Okay, well, God's got a GPS for you.

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Coach Jim Clayton: And sometimes we don't understand it.

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Coach Jim Clayton: And it's not our job to understand.

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Coach Jim Clayton: And it's definitely not our job to question.

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Coach Jim Clayton: So for me personally, I'm sure for you too and a lot of people, is I don't question

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Coach Jim Clayton: God things happen for reasons.

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Coach Jim Clayton: I know you know why.

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Coach Jim Clayton: You got something.

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Coach Jim Clayton: I might not understand it right now, but I know you're gonna tell me.

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Coach Jim Clayton: I'm gonna listen.

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Coach Jim Clayton: I'm just gonna sit here and you're gonna talk to me.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Silence.

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Coach Jim Clayton: It's like my little granddaughter.

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Coach Jim Clayton: She comes up day.

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Coach Jim Clayton: I'm laying up there.

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Coach Jim Clayton: She goes, Pop up.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Man, it's quiet.

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Coach Jim Clayton: I said, yes, ma'am, it is.

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Coach Jim Clayton: That's what I like.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Yeah.

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So the last scripture we're going to talk about here, Jim, is from the book of Philippians.

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Philippians, another one of those books that was written by Paul.

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And this is a very, very often quoted scripture out there.

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Philippians chapter 4, verse 13.

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I can do all this through him who gives me strength.

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King James version of that is, I can do all things through Christ who strengtheneth me.

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So a little bit of a different wording, but it means the same thing.

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It is very, very often used and quoted in the context of achievement, but it's actually speaking to endurance through all circumstances.

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Whether in plenty or in want, Paul's confidence here comes from relying on Christ's strength

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rather than relying on his own.

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Resilience therefore includes a spirit of contentment and dependency on God's power to sustain us

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regardless of the external conditions that we face.

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Strength to endure through Christ, not just to achieve

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Coach Jim Clayton: Bottom line, he knows you can do it.

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Coach Jim Clayton: He's not going to accept less than what he knows you can do.

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Coach Jim Clayton: So it's kind of like, don't look at somebody the way they are, look at somebody the way they could be.

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Coach Jim Clayton: He already knows what you're going to be.

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Yeah.

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Coach Jim Clayton: He already, he's seen the crystal ball, man.

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Coach Jim Clayton: He knows.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Yes.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Okay.

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Coach Jim Clayton: The problem is we don't know.

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Coach Jim Clayton: So why would you not?

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Coach Jim Clayton: Want to be side by side with somebody who trusts, believes in you.

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Coach Jim Clayton: It's going to push you.

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Coach Jim Clayton: It's going to keep you to where you man, you're going to keep that endurance.

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Coach Jim Clayton: You're going to keep going.

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Coach Jim Clayton: You're going to keep going.

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Coach Jim Clayton: I quit is not in your vocabulary.

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Yes.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Give up is not in your vocabulary.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Who doesn't want to be around somebody like that?

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It's those first few words.

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I can do all this

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Coach Jim Clayton: Anything.

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Coach Jim Clayton: I can do anything and everything.

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Yes.

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Coach Jim Clayton: There's nothing to hold you back.

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Another key part of that is that no matter what the circumstance is

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Contentment is key to being resilient in the circumstance.

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No question.

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You can't be upset.

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You can't be angry.

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You can't be

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Having those emotions that let you lose your control.

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You have to have that sense of commit of contentment to be able to handle it.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Yeah, you can't be the first one to the pity party.

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Right.

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Coach Jim Clayton: And a lot of people, man, they stay in that party.

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Coach Jim Clayton: They don't want to leave.

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Yeah.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Because everybody's telling them exactly what they want to hear.

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Mm-hmm.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Instead of what they really need to hear.

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Coach Jim Clayton: And excuse me, we've all been down that route.

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We have, yes, definitely.

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Coach Jim Clayton: But what happens?

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Coach Jim Clayton: You live and you learn.

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Coach Jim Clayton: And then when it happens again, which it will, guess what?

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Coach Jim Clayton: You're better prepared.

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Yes

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Coach Jim Clayton: Excuse me, because you're not by yourself.

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Yeah.

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And it's it it it plays into the the idea of what is strength.

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And a lot of people think about strength as

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Strength is is is physical.

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It's the ability to pick up things, to lift things, to do all these great feats.

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Strength is not just physical.

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Strength sometimes is spiritual, sometimes it's emotional, sometimes it's mental.

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It's not just about the physical.

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And with God, this verse is telling us.

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We can build that strength up and we can do anything that is put in front of us.

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Coach Jim Clayton: 100%.

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Coach Jim Clayton: And why would somebody not want to do that?

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Coach Jim Clayton: I cannot for the I cannot figure that out.

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Coach Jim Clayton: You know, because it kind of makes when you when you know that and he's right there with you and you know he's got your back, right?

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Coach Jim Clayton: You walk with a little pip in your stent

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Coach Jim Clayton: You know, I got you back.

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Coach Jim Clayton: I got you.

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Coach Jim Clayton: I got you.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Woo!

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Coach Jim Clayton: And when when you finally come to the realization that

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Coach Jim Clayton: That's trust.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Trust.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Trust.

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Coach Jim Clayton: What's everything in the world come down to?

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Coach Jim Clayton: Trust.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Can I trust you?

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Coach Jim Clayton: Mm-hmm.

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Coach Jim Clayton: I trust you.

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Coach Jim Clayton: As a coach, I go, I know you know what to do

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Coach Jim Clayton: Guess what?

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Coach Jim Clayton: I trust you, because you're gonna go out there and get it done.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Let's go go.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Let's go.

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Coach Jim Clayton: I didn't question him

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Coach Jim Clayton: I'm not sure if you could do it.

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Coach Jim Clayton: No, I gave him what?

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Coach Jim Clayton: Confidence.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Strength.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Power

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Coach Jim Clayton: Hey, no thinketh, no doeth.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Not physical, mental strength

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Coach Jim Clayton: Your mentally, you might be the strongest mind you might bitch 500 pounds, but your mental strength is that you couldn't bitch five pounds.

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Yeah

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Coach Jim Clayton: So you want them both.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Exactly.

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Coach Jim Clayton: I mean you want to be have a little bit of both.

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Not only do you want them both, you need them both.

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Coach Jim Clayton: It's correct.

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Coach Jim Clayton: 100%.

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Coach Jim Clayton: You need to have them.

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Coach Jim Clayton: You need physical strength, you need mental strength.

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Coach Jim Clayton: And if you have those things and you got the man right beside you, everywhere around you, 360, guess what?

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Coach Jim Clayton: Can't go wrong.

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Coach Jim Clayton: It's a no lose situation.

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Yeah.

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Coach Jim Clayton: No, it's like betting on a sure thing.

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Mm-hmm

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Coach Jim Clayton: That's really what you're doing.

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Exactly.

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Coach Jim Clayton: You're betting on a sure thing.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Who wouldn't want to take that bet?

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Exactly.

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Coach Jim Clayton: I just can't understand it.

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Right.

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Coach Jim Clayton: You know what I mean?

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Coach Jim Clayton: I can't understand it.

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Coach Jim Clayton: But I do know

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Coach Jim Clayton: that my personal relationship with God, you know, I'm not a big never been a big church grower, never been a big, I don't know, a lot of verses like you know them and stuff like that.

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Coach Jim Clayton: I know what they mean.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Okay, and I use them in my life every day.

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Coach Jim Clayton: But you know, since again, we've talked about this, something all of a sudden comes along that I didn't expect.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Yeah.

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Coach Jim Clayton: But that has opened doors of faith, strength, uh

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Coach Jim Clayton: All the things we talked about, perseverance, resist, resilience, bouncing back, not giving up, you know, toughness

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Coach Jim Clayton: That I don't, you know, I don't think I'd have had all that.

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Coach Jim Clayton: You know what I mean?

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Coach Jim Clayton: And I just feel so I I mean I feel so much better than myself.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Even though, I mean I feel good.

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Coach Jim Clayton: I told Lady Dad, I said, you know, she said, how you feel?

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Coach Jim Clayton: I feel good.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Little James Brown, I feel good.

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Coach Jim Clayton: No, no, no, no, no.

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Coach Jim Clayton: You know

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Coach Jim Clayton: I I you know, and am I supposed to feel bad?

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Coach Jim Clayton: She said, no, not really.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Yeah.

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Coach Jim Clayton: She says, I know a lot of people do.

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Coach Jim Clayton: And I said, well, maybe that's because they let themselves feel that way.

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Oh, yes, definitely.

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Coach Jim Clayton: You know, like they always say, man, you can make yourself sick.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Some people can make themselves sick.

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Coach Jim Clayton: I I've never bought into that.

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Coach Jim Clayton: You know what I mean?

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Coach Jim Clayton: I I don't

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Coach Jim Clayton: I don't really like to be sick.

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Coach Jim Clayton: I don't think anybody likes to be sick.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Why would I want to make myself sick?

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Coach Jim Clayton: You know, why to get out of something that I know I should have done?

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Yeah.

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A lot of people don't have the strength they need to make it past that.

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Coach Jim Clayton: And that that's why we're here.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Yeah.

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Coach Jim Clayton: We're going to be a vehicle to help deliver that strength to some some people that really need it and want it, they just don't know how to get it.

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Coach Jim Clayton: And the circumstances they're in, whether it be their home, you know what I mean, that kind of stuff, the people they're around, they don't know how to get it either.

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Coach Jim Clayton: And I'm not getting on anybody, but you you know it when you see it and you know it when you hear it.

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Exactly.

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Coach Jim Clayton: And it's like going to this

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Coach Jim Clayton: To go out to dinner and you order something off the menu and you like it, there's a real good chance when you go back to that restaurant.

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You might order it again.

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Coach Jim Clayton: You're going to order it again.

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Coach Jim Clayton: And vice versa.

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Coach Jim Clayton: If you hate it, you ain't ordered it again.

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Coach Jim Clayton: So we're going to give some people a menu of some things that they can order that's going to make them feel really good.

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Awesome.

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Coach Jim Clayton: And that's really what it's all about.

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Coach Jim Clayton: I know it is for you, I know it is for me.

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Coach Jim Clayton: And you know again, it's again we talk about in introduction, about life's lessons on the court.

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Coach Jim Clayton: It's the same thing.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Yeah.

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Coach Jim Clayton: You know stop.

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Coach Jim Clayton: I said, coach, why did you, when my coach, I went to see him the day before he died, I said, why didn't you take take me out

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Coach Jim Clayton: You told me you were going to after I've been in the cast for eight weeks and now you're trying to make me run up down the court.

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Coach Jim Clayton: He said, because you're tough.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Yeah.

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Coach Jim Clayton: I won't tell you what he he had a couple other things to it, but I said You might you might have said them on the last episode.

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Coach Jim Clayton: I might have said I'll never forget that conversation.

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Yeah.

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Coach Jim Clayton: It's powerful.

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Coach Jim Clayton: You know, because it's come from him.

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Coach Jim Clayton: And he ain't well he wasn't one guy who passed out a lot of compliments unless he meant him.

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Right.

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Coach Jim Clayton: He didn't sugarcoat nothing.

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Right.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Well, I'll tell you you did a great job, even though you sucked.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Not that guy.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Yeah.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Woo!

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Coach Jim Clayton: But I I didn't want him to tell me that.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Mm-hmm.

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Coach Jim Clayton: I knew it was a lie if he did

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Coach Jim Clayton: I know when I'm not performing at my best and my job is how am I going to fix it?

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Coach Jim Clayton: Preparation.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Yeah.

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Coach Jim Clayton: That's what it's all about.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Be happy.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Learn to be happy.

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So we've covered a lot today about resilience, about what really stands out is that it's more than just gritting your teeth and pushing through.

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It's deeply rooted in faith.

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in perseverance, and a trust in God that carries us through every trial.

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From the scriptures we discussed, resilience isn't about never failing.

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It's about always getting back up.

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It's about finding renewed strength when we place our hope in the Lord

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This ties back, again, to what we talked about in earlier episodes.

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Jim's four pillars of resistance or resilience.

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Uh Dr.

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Brad Miller's Axe Plan, where faith isn't just part of resilience, it's the foundation.

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Resilience is a journey, and God's word gives us both the tools and the encouragement to keep moving forward, even when the weight of life feels heavy.

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So whether you're facing setbacks, refining moments, or ongoing struggles, remember that resilience is about leaning into God's strength and hope, not just relying on your own.

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It's a process, and each step shapes a stronger, more mature faith

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But now it's time that we go to our own coach Clayton to share his wisdom of the week.

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Cheesy Announcer Guy: Now it's time for Jimmy's Wisdom of the Week.

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Cheesy Announcer Guy: This is where Jimmy shares one of his famous

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Genialisms to inspire the listener.

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Okay, so today's Wisdom of the Week quote that you gave me

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Is that happiness is not about getting.

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Oh, let me start again.

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Happiness is not about getting about all that you want.

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It's about enjoying all that you have.

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What's that mean?

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Coach Jim Clayton: Well, it's based on what we've talked about today.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Mm-hmm.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Okay, through all these things.

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Coach Jim Clayton: There could be happy on the under end.

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Coach Jim Clayton: And when you really think about it, we're all blessed.

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Coach Jim Clayton: We've got more blessings than we got problems.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Everybody does.

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Coach Jim Clayton: But we get stuck on that problem, not the blessings.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Okay?

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Coach Jim Clayton: And when you really think about what you have

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Coach Jim Clayton: If you're not happy with what you have, what makes you think you're going to be happy with more?

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Coach Jim Clayton: Yeah.

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Coach Jim Clayton: That's really what it comes down to, right there.

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Coach Jim Clayton: So learn to be happy

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Coach Jim Clayton: So the people that some of the happiest people don't have much, but they're happy with what they got.

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Coach Jim Clayton: They know how to express that happiness.

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Yes.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Instead of what?

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Coach Jim Clayton: Oh gosh, I need a bigger this, I need this, I need that.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Can't take it with you.

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Coach Jim Clayton: And that's just that's just my mom called it stuff.

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Yeah.

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Coach Jim Clayton: She said there's a lot of stuff in this world

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Coach Jim Clayton: There's good stuff.

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Coach Jim Clayton: There's bad stuff.

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Coach Jim Clayton: We get rid of stuff.

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Coach Jim Clayton: We look around.

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Coach Jim Clayton: We got more stuff.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Stuff, stuff, stuff.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Yeah.

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Coach Jim Clayton: I'm thinking like, hmm.

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Coach Jim Clayton: But what do you have that you wouldn't take anything for?

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Coach Jim Clayton: That's something that everybody has to answer.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Wouldn't take it you couldn't not enough money it would buy.

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Right.

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Coach Jim Clayton: You see what I mean?

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Coach Jim Clayton: I look at that.

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Coach Jim Clayton: And you look back at stuff.

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Coach Jim Clayton: I found this the other day

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Coach Jim Clayton: I was looking through some stuff.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Stuff.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Just stuff.

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Coach Jim Clayton: You know, from years past.

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Coach Jim Clayton: And I found this little penny.

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Coach Jim Clayton: And it had it was with a blue and right ribbon and the coach drilled a hole through the penny and the blue and right ribbon went through and we pinned it on our warmups.

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Coach Jim Clayton: That was a luck.

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Coach Jim Clayton: And I found and I held that sucker up.

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Coach Jim Clayton: I wouldn't you couldn't.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Uh uh-uh.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Huh.

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Coach Jim Clayton: What that meant?

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Coach Jim Clayton: What that means?

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Coach Jim Clayton: I don't know if that's the only one in existence today.

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Yeah.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Probably is.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Might be.

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Coach Jim Clayton: But in that moment, okay, that's what we got.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Now to get to that moment, everything we talked about today.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Ups, downs, over, unders, through, good times, bad times, hard times, tough times.

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Coach Jim Clayton: You know, great times, but guess what?

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Coach Jim Clayton: We kept on what?

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Moving forward.

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Coach Jim Clayton: And I'm happy with it.

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Coach Jim Clayton: I'm happy with the simplest things in life.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Not the most complex things.

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Coach Jim Clayton: My dog.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Yeah.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Oh, that's my and uh oh yeah, if it weren't for that one

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Coach Jim Clayton: Woo!

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Coach Jim Clayton: He's right there with me 24-7.

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Yeah.

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Coach Jim Clayton: He's in the gym with me.

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Coach Jim Clayton: He's in the car with me.

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Coach Jim Clayton: When I get home, he's laying right next to me.

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Coach Jim Clayton: When it finally when he makes it upstairs, I wake up in the morning, guess where he is?

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Right there, wait nine.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Right there there.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Oh yeah.

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Coach Jim Clayton: And you know, I mean I look at that and I just say, man, learn to be happy.

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Yeah, and it it it you know, I was a I was a history teacher, and you know, we look back at history and like we found these these tombs that were built for like the pharaohs in Egypt and all these riches and all these things that they put in these tombs that

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They thought they were going to take with them.

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And it's still there.

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It's still there.

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You can you could be happy with uh having everything in the world

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Or you can be happy with just being in the world.

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That's how I look at it.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Oh yeah.

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Coach Jim Clayton: And so I always look at this.

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Coach Jim Clayton: When you if you've led a lot

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Coach Jim Clayton: Of significance.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Not success.

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Uh-huh.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Significance.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Here's how you know.

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Coach Jim Clayton: They always miss you.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Yeah.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Even though you're not still talking.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Yep.

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Coach Jim Clayton: You never leave the conversation.

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Coach Jim Clayton: It's like you're still there.

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Coach Jim Clayton: They can't get it out of their mind.

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Right.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Well, that's you know significance.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Everybody doesn't look at that.

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Yeah.

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I had a uh I reached out to a gentleman not that long ago.

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Uh he used to have a recording studio out in Lavalette, and he recorded a lot of local gospel groups.

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And my grandfather, who was a gospel, Southern Gospel quartet singer for decades, um, I know that they had, you know, the last stuff they recorded, they had recorded there

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And I reached out to him to say, hey, is there a chance you might still have some of this old stuff?

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And he didn't, which was kind of sad.

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Uh, but we started talking about my grandpa.

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And the memories that he had of my grandfather and the man he was touched me tremendously.

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Because it it it helped me to continue to remember

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what his life was and what he did in his life.

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So it's the same idea.

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You know, it's what are you going to leave behind that people remember?

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And usually it ain't the stuff you had.

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It's what you did in your life.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Hundred percent.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Hundred percent.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Hundred percent.

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Coach Jim Clayton: And you know what some people call junk, other people call treasure.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Yeah.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Okay, because those things, those memories right there, they formed you.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Yes.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Through these trials, through these ups and downs, where you know you're being tested.

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Coach Jim Clayton: How bad do you really want that?

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Coach Jim Clayton: Yeah.

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Coach Jim Clayton: I mean I ask myself every day every day, how bad do you really want it?

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Coach Jim Clayton: Well, only I can answer that question.

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Coach Jim Clayton: If you ask yourself that question, only you can answer that question.

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Yeah.

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Coach Jim Clayton: So you gotta learn, you know, be happy.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Learn to be happy in what you have, not what you don't have.

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Right

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Coach Jim Clayton: Because you don't know.

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Coach Jim Clayton: And bigger's not always better.

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Coach Jim Clayton: You know, and uh, you know, I mean, I I just look at that and I just go, man, why can't people just learn

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Coach Jim Clayton: to be happy instead of always thinking they gotta have more.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Yeah.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Status quo.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Yeah.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Be like the Joneses

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Coach Jim Clayton: How about Erson Jones?

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Coach Jim Clayton: I'll be like me.

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Coach Jim Clayton: If you don't like it, that's your business.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Now go and worry about cause I'm not trying to please everybody.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Okay.

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Coach Jim Clayton: You can't please everybody.

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Exactly.

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Coach Jim Clayton: So you know learn learn those happiness.

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Coach Jim Clayton: 'Cause it's on it's

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Coach Jim Clayton: Happiness is always going to be on the other side of these trials and tribulations if you stick with it.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Yeah.

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Coach Jim Clayton: And that's what we're talking about.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Mm-hmm.

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Coach Jim Clayton: The glue.

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Coach Jim Clayton: The glue, man.

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Coach Jim Clayton: The glue.

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Thank you, Jim.

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Your your the wisdom when we do this segment every week always opens up a really good discussion.

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that I love having with you.

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You know, this I told somebody the other day when they asked me about doing the doing a show doing another show, because this I do several shows.

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Um, and I said the most fun I've had in the decade I've been in podcasting has been sitting across the table from Jim Clayton because the conversations are so good.

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It's not.

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This is this is our genuine discussion.

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Like, yeah, I've got tons of stuff written out.

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I've got notes on everything.

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You make notes on stuff and share them with me.

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And we look through them and everything, but

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It's genuinely a real conversation taking place, and it is so meaningful to me because you, you know, you are my friend.

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You have been my friend for for a long time now.

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And this is allowing us to keep building up that friendship further.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Oh, absolutely, 100%.

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Coach Jim Clayton: And uh, you know, one's a lonely number.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Yeah.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Okay, so you gotta share it with people.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Yes.

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Coach Jim Clayton: And you you you can't take it with you.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Mm-hmm.

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Coach Jim Clayton: So you gotta get it out there.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Yeah.

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Coach Jim Clayton: And you know, like I said, 20 years from now, that'll still be somewhere.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Mm-hmm.

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Coach Jim Clayton: You know, so that's how I look at it.

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Coach Jim Clayton: And like I said, it's for me, it's just stuff like things we talked about today are just things that happened in my life today.

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Yeah.

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Coach Jim Clayton: No, you know, you go in for that you go in for those biopsies, you don't know what's gonna be.

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Coach Jim Clayton: And the nurse calls you and says, everything's good.

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Coach Jim Clayton: They don't need to do certain I'm saying, thank you, Lord, thank you, thank you, thank you.

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Coach Jim Clayton: You know, about how to check it.

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Coach Jim Clayton: And you know, you can be thinking, oh I know this is gonna be bad, I know this is gonna be bad, but that wasn't my that wasn't my fault

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Coach Jim Clayton: Whatever it was, I knew he had my back.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Yeah.

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Coach Jim Clayton: And so guess what?

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Coach Jim Clayton: I'm at peace with him.

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Coach Jim Clayton: I was at peace.

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Coach Jim Clayton: And I was so calm.

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Coach Jim Clayton: What's he calling me?

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Coach Jim Clayton: You know what I mean?

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Coach Jim Clayton: Like, oh yeah.

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All right.

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Coach Jim Clayton: I say, yeah, baby.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Now we're cooking.

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Oh yeah.

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So let's let's wrap this one up.

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So just a preview, our next episode, we're going to shift our gears a little bit.

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We're going to move away from talking about resilience that we've been on now for eight episodes.

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And we're going to move toward the idea of productivity.

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Um, we're gonna look at the idea what it really means to be productive versus

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Just being busy, just being active, because there is a clear difference.

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And this is a topic Jim said.

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I want to talk about this next.

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I want to go into this one.

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And I said, awesome.

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We're on it.

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It's it's a conversation that in a way, I think, is going to challenge how we think about things and how we look at the efforts we're putting in daily and what our priorities really are, on whether we're just being active.

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Or we're being productive.

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So join us for that one.

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It's going to be awesome to follow up with what we talked about today.

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Just keep leaning into the faith.

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Keep pushing through and remember that you don't have to do this alone.

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Part of having that strength, as we talked about in the last episode, was being able to reach out and say,

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I need help.

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I need support.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Bam, son

The Role of Faith in Building Unbreakable Resilience

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