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- 0:01Hey everybody, welcome back to another episode of the Christian Agent podcast.
- 0:05I'm glad you've joined me today.
- 0:06And if you are watching this on video, which you probably aren't because nobody does, because I'm not that nice to look at.
- 0:12ah That's weird.
- 0:13ah Then you know that I'm outside and I've never recorded an episode outside and I've got my AirPods in and figured it was too nice of a day for me to come inside.
- 0:23So I hope that this works.
- 0:25The audio is good and you all enjoy any ambiance that comes from being out in the Lord's creation.
- 0:31But today we're going to be talking about this reality, something that I care very deeply about.
- 0:37You don't have to be like everyone else to win.
- 0:42The reality in this industry, and we're going to unpack this today, the reality in this industry is they tell us there's one way to win.
- 0:48This is what success looks like.
- 0:50You have to be like this person.
- 0:52You have to...
- 0:53do all of the things that they do, right?
- 0:55You have to code call door knock.
- 0:57You have to buy leads.
- 0:58You have to work by referral.
- 0:59You have to be on social media.
- 1:00You have to be on YouTube.
- 1:01You have to do all the things that success requires.
- 1:05And that's the only way you're going to win when the truth is that's not right at all.
- 1:09Your job, especially as a believer, what we understand is the Lord created each person to have different strengths, right?
- 1:16That's why in the body of Christ, there's arms, there's feet, there's...
- 1:19mouthpieces, there's legs, right?
- 1:21There's all the different pieces of the body.
- 1:23We're not all of those pieces.
- 1:25The reality is your job, at its truest sense, is to figure out who the Lord made you to be and just be excellent at that.
- 1:35That's your job.
- 1:36You don't have to be great at all the things.
- 1:38You don't have to do all the social media.
- 1:39You don't have to do the cold calling, don't have to do the door knock, you don't have to do the open houses.
- 1:44If that's not who you're wired to be, you don't have to do all of those things.
- 1:47What you do need to do is figure out who the Lord made you to be and go be excellent at that.
- 1:52That's who He created you to be.
- 1:54We honor Him by being excellent at exactly that.
- 1:58So we're going to dive into that today.
- 2:01Ultimately, for me, the big idea is that success doesn't come from mimicking the top producers.
- 2:05It comes from owning your wiring, your values, and your calling.
- 2:09and I'm excited to expose maybe some of the lies that the industry has told us as we as believers really try to figure out how do we walk that out in faith?
- 2:19What does that look like?
- 2:20Who the Lord made me to be?
- 2:22But before I do, let me read this joke to you.
- 2:25Now, huge shout out to my friend, Connie Shell.
- 2:28I texted her in a pinch and said, Connie, quick, I need a joke for the podcast.
- 2:32And boom, she hit me right back with multiple podcasts.
- 2:35Little did I know.
- 2:36That she said she was totally available because she was getting a pedicure and then she texted me and said now She's moving to a manicure and so can no longer give me any more jokes, but you did us proud Connie Thank you for that.
- 2:51So no, this is not a Christian joke, but I thought this was funny.
- 2:54Anyways, um, my wife asked me the other day where I got so much candy and I said I Always have a few twicks up my sleeve That's funny actually, I like that.
- 3:10know, Twix are terrible for you, but also delicious and I actually would like one right now.
- 3:18So if someone is listening to this and you want to mail it to me, send me a message.
- 3:24I will give you my address and you can mail a Twix and keep it cold in a cold bag.
- 3:32And so by the time it gets to me, it's not totally ruined.
- 3:34Okay, that has nothing to do with anything.
- 3:36Here's the point.
- 3:38We have to figure out who we are and be excellent at that.
- 3:41Number one, that's the way that we honor the Lord.
- 3:43We're told there's one right way to win in real estate, but that way might not fit how God made you.
- 3:50So that can't be true.
- 3:52Our job is to figure out who the Lord make me to be and go be that.
- 3:55Now I'm not saying there's not an avenue of us growing in areas where we need to grow.
- 4:01We absolutely do.
- 4:02Right?
- 4:02One of the challenges and mistakes that a Christian agent makes is that we end up less than excellent.
- 4:08And that certainly does not honor the Lord.
- 4:11You better believe it does not honor the Lord.
- 4:13However, another more common mistake is we just do what everybody says to do, right?
- 4:20Your gifts, your wiring, your rhythms matter.
- 4:22You need a business that fits you because that's who the Lord made you to be.
- 4:27it is, you know, we can dive into this all day, but here's just what I see so often in uh that happens.
- 4:35I've been a coach for a long time.
- 4:37an agent comes to me, I'll give you an example.
- 4:39I was coaching an agent out in California.
- 4:41And for those of you who've been listening, I'm in Virginia coaching an agent out in California.
- 4:46We get on the phone and she is one of the most uh energetic and outgoing extroverted people I've ever met.
- 4:53And that's saying something for me.
- 4:54You guys know, I like to talk.
- 4:55I'm doing an episode by myself and laughing.
- 4:59So clearly I'm one of those people too, but she surpasses me in every possible category when it comes to that.
- 5:07And so we're getting on the call.
- 5:09We're having this conversation.
- 5:11And she says, she's worked 100 % by referral.
- 5:14She does open houses too.
- 5:15Those were her two forms of lead generation.
- 5:17She gets on the phone.
- 5:18We're having a conversation.
- 5:18Garrett, guess what I just found out?
- 5:20I said, tell me.
- 5:21And she said, I'm the number one agent in whatever her zip code was.
- 5:25I honestly can't remember.
- 5:26I'm the number one agent in the zip code.
- 5:28A mortgage lender just called me and told me.
- 5:30I said, first of that's amazing.
- 5:32Congratulations.
- 5:33What does that mean?
- 5:35for you and she said you know what I think I probably need to start doing mailers to them right should I do geographic farming so if you're not familiar with that agent that just picking a specific area and sending them mailers essentially trying to get business from a certain area which totally can work all these things can work right it's the question of whether she should and she said I think I should start doing mailings and I said well tell me why and she said well I'm the number one agent in that zip code so I don't know shouldn't I do that And I was so glad she asked that question because we started to talk about what is her opportunity zone, right?
- 6:07What does that actually look like?
- 6:08What does that mean inside of her business?
- 6:11And so let me break it down for you.
- 6:12What that means is looking at how she has generated business in the past and how she is specifically wired, right?
- 6:20So she is highly relational.
- 6:22You can take all kinds of personality tests, disc profile.
- 6:25uh Now I can't, Myers-Briggs, right?
- 6:28All of these different personality tests.
- 6:31and you can try to understand that for yourself, but you know, if you're a people person, you know you're a people person.
- 6:37If you're an extreme people person, you know you're an extreme people person.
- 6:40So where has her business come from?
- 6:42Where has she succeeded in the past?
- 6:44Open houses and referrals.
- 6:45Why?
- 6:46Because she is great at connecting with people.
- 6:48Anything in that bubble that is going to be face to face, voice to voice, connecting with people, that's her opportunity zone.
- 6:54Anything outside of that is the distraction zone.
- 6:57Right?
- 6:58So that means, and she has seen that in her, in her career, right?
- 7:02When she's cold called before, when she bought leads before, when she went out and door knocks, she'd done all the things that the industry said, right?
- 7:10Like many of us have done.
- 7:11She did all those things and none of them worked very well.
- 7:14Why?
- 7:14Because that's not her skillset.
- 7:16It's not her personality.
- 7:17So of course it didn't work very well.
- 7:19So we look and we create this opportunity zone, right?
- 7:21Most of us don't know how to make decisions in this industry.
- 7:24We just say, yes, the things that sound good, right?
- 7:27These shiny objects that really end up just being distractions for us because we don't have any way to make a decision.
- 7:32Well, here's what we laid out for her that you can lay out for yourself.
- 7:36Here's your opportunity zone.
- 7:37How have I generated business in the past?
- 7:39Right.
- 7:39So for her, it was referrals and it was open houses.
- 7:43What are the commonalities there?
- 7:45Very, very, very relational activities, right?
- 7:48Being in front of people.
- 7:49She was great at that.
- 7:50So inside this small circle that is her opportunity zone.
- 7:54referrals, open houses, but really it's building relationships face to face.
- 7:59That's the opportunity zone.
- 8:00Outside of that is everything else.
- 8:03If it doesn't fall inside the opportunity zone, it means it's outside, which means it's a distraction.
- 8:08So we just looked at that.
- 8:09We built that out.
- 8:10And I said, okay, now you tell me if you're just mass mailing people, you don't know.
- 8:15You tell me is that inside or outside the opportunity zone?
- 8:18She said, well, it's outside the opportunity zone.
- 8:20Okay, great.
- 8:21So should you do it or not?
- 8:22No, I shouldn't.
- 8:23Right now, we had a way to make a decision.
- 8:26It is a seeking and finding and asking the Lord, who did you make me to be?
- 8:32How do you want me to show up in this business?
- 8:34Right?
- 8:34And a lot of that is, He's already shown us by the personality that you have.
- 8:38Every one of us is different and unique and praise God for that.
- 8:42Right?
- 8:42We don't need more of garrots in the world because we're loud and we talk a lot and no one would get a word in.
- 8:48Right?
- 8:48We need people that are more thoughtful, quicker to listen, people that are slow to speak, people that are more hospitable than I naturally am, people that are more humble than I naturally am.
- 8:59Now we need people like me too.
- 9:00I'm not, you know, totally discounting that as well, but we need all types of people and we need all types of skill sets.
- 9:07And so when we try to be something that we aren't, we are number one, ignoring the reality that the Lord created us uniquely and individually.
- 9:16And number two, we're buying into the lie that there's one way to succeed and it's to look like everybody else.
- 9:21It isn't.
- 9:22Figure out your opportunity zone.
- 9:24What have you done well in the past?
- 9:26What is your personality type?
- 9:28And if something comes to you and it seems like a good opportunity because everything does, then you look and you say, okay, well, is that uniquely in my skill set?
- 9:36Right?
- 9:36If someone came to me and said, we were talking about this, actually, I lead a faith and work call every week for our 210 Collective.
- 9:43And in the book, Traction, it talks about the core focus.
- 9:47Alright, so what is the core focus?
- 9:49What is, if you've the book, Acres of Diamonds by Russell Conwell, which you totally should, essentially the story is about this man who owned a farm.
- 9:56Excuse me, someone came to him one day, a priest came to him one day and said, look, here's gold and one piece of gold will buy this whole county.
- 10:04And so he said, okay, great.
- 10:06I'm going to sell my farm.
- 10:07I'm going to go looking for gold.
- 10:08Well, his name is Ali.
- 10:09Ali ends up uh dying penniless, never finds the gold.
- 10:13Well, that same priest goes back to the man who bought the farm from Ali.
- 10:16And he is telling him the same thing.
- 10:18Look at the gold is so valuable.
- 10:20And he notices up on the hearth that there's a little piece of gold.
- 10:23And he asked the new owner, where did you get that?
- 10:25He said, there's a stream that runs through this farm.
- 10:28And there is so much of this.
- 10:30It's all there.
- 10:31Right.
- 10:31So what happened?
- 10:33Well, there are acres of diamonds.
- 10:34uh Right.
- 10:36Now that I say that, it probably was diamonds, not gold, because that would make sense with the title of the book.
- 10:40But the point is, there's acres of diamonds right under your feet.
- 10:44We just get distracted.
- 10:46We lose focus.
- 10:47We don't stay in one direction long enough, of which I am guilty.
- 10:51And so we say, it didn't work.
- 10:53Well, is that true?
- 10:55Or did we not have a long enough runway?
- 10:57Right?
- 10:57Because most planes will take off if the runway is long enough.
- 11:02But when we give ourselves a short runway and we say, well, I tried for three months, it didn't work.
- 11:05So therefore my natural personality of X, Y, and Z of being in relationships, well, that must not work.
- 11:10So I better go find a way to buy leads.
- 11:13Right.
- 11:13And therefore that's the new normal.
- 11:15That's how I'm going to do this business.
- 11:18Instead of saying, what is my core focus?
- 11:20Meaning, Lord, how did you make me Lord?
- 11:23How do you want me to show up in this business?
- 11:26You all know my story.
- 11:27If you listen to the show in October, twenty, twenty two after my mom passed is when I started asking the Lord, who do you want me to serve?
- 11:33Right.
- 11:33Like, Lord, grant me a core focus.
- 11:36Where am I supposed to stay rooted and focused?
- 11:39And the Lord, in my opinion, made it very clear Christian agents.
- 11:42So now my core focus is how do I serve Christians in real estate?
- 11:47Because of that, I have very clear boundaries, right?
- 11:51And how to make decisions.
- 11:52I have a very clear pathway and how to make decisions.
- 11:55When an opportunity shows up in front of me, of which there are, right?
- 11:58All of us have opportunities.
- 11:59And a lot of them I create myself because I'm an entrepreneur and you guys know what that mind is like.
- 12:03When those opportunities exist, I just run it simply through a filter.
- 12:06Now it's more complex than this a little bit, but simply through the filter.
- 12:10Well, does this serve Christian agents?
- 12:12No, okay, then I'm just not going to do it.
- 12:14As good as it sounds, I'm not going to do it.
- 12:16It's not my core focus.
- 12:17That's not who the Lord called me to be.
- 12:19The acres of diamonds are right under my feet.
- 12:22Now, it doesn't mean that we're all going to go get wealthy, right, from a human perspective.
- 12:26I don't mean that.
- 12:26Now, maybe we could.
- 12:27Maybe that's the Lord's purpose.
- 12:28What I mean is the diamonds are the blessings that the Lord has for us right under our feet.
- 12:33Will we believe?
- 12:34Will we believe that the Lord has already put our feet on the field that he wants us to plow?
- 12:39Or will we always believe?
- 12:42that the Lord wants our feet to be somewhere else and so we should never be satisfied with where we are.
- 12:48We've got to ask those questions.
- 12:49Lord, what is my core focus?
- 12:51Who did you put me here to serve?
- 12:53How do you want me to show up?
- 12:54Right.
- 12:55And a lot of that again is already innately wired in you.
- 12:58Who are you?
- 12:59Anyways, you've heard me talk about my business partner and lead agent, Jesse loves to fish, right?
- 13:05Loves to fish just at all the time.
- 13:06In fact, as I record this, he told me today, texted me this morning, said, Hey, I'm taking the day off.
- 13:10uh and I'm gonna go fishing.
- 13:12I great, have a good time.
- 13:13I would never do that.
- 13:14Now, part of it sounds fun, right?
- 13:16Sitting there and trying to catch something that you can't do anything with anyways.
- 13:20I don't know if he eats it or not.
- 13:21I have no idea.
- 13:22But the reality is this, I don't like fishing.
- 13:25I'd rather go play pickleball, right?
- 13:26I'd rather read a book.
- 13:27I'd rather hang out with my kids.
- 13:28I'd rather sit in the sun and, you know, whatever, just enjoy that.
- 13:31I didn't choose that.
- 13:32He didn't choose it.
- 13:34That's just how we were wired, right?
- 13:35Why do you like certain foods and your spouse doesn't?
- 13:38I don't know.
- 13:38That's just how you were wired.
- 13:40You were made uniquely and we understand that but for some reason we come back to our business and we say no, no, no, no, no, no, We are all meant to be the same How was that true?
- 13:50It isn't it is not true Who are you meant to be in this industry show up and be that with excellence?
- 13:57That's how you honor the lord, but one of one of the um Last pieces to this conversation for me because you know I I just want you to understand that figure out who the lord made you to be and go be excellent at that, right?
- 14:09One of the reasons I think we often move our feet from the field we're on to the field next to us, or we go searching for another field, which I am totally guilty of, is because we look at the field that we're on.
- 14:18We look at the diamonds that our field is creating, or we never find the diamonds because we just don't stay focused long enough.
- 14:24But we find the diamonds on our field and we look and we say, well, Lord, I really appreciate that.
- 14:29But, his diamonds over there are much bigger and more valuable than mine.
- 14:34So clearly you must have wanted for me.
- 14:37bigger diamonds, right?
- 14:38So I'm going to try to get myself over there.
- 14:40I'm going to pursue what this person has pursued.
- 14:43I'm going to compare myself to them and say, you must have meant for me XYZ fill in the blank.
- 14:50And so because of that, I quickly let go of the field that I'm called and placed on specifically to harvest and reap and do the work.
- 15:01No matter where you are, it's hard.
- 15:03Running a business is just hard.
- 15:05There's no other way to do this.
- 15:09Will we honor the Lord by saying, Lord, this is the field you have me, I'll keep my feet right here and I'll keep doing the work.
- 15:15Will we honor him by saying, this is who you made me to be.
- 15:18And if I'm highly relational, which I am, and I'm wired to work by relationship, which I am, if that's going to take me to 50 deals a year and no further, praise God for that.
- 15:28If that takes me to 10 deals a year and no further by being excellent at it, right?
- 15:31I'm not saying being lazy at it, but if I'm excellent at it and it only produces 10 deals a year and that's enough?
- 15:37ah Praise God for that.
- 15:39That's okay.
- 15:39I don't have to be like everybody else.
- 15:41Right?
- 15:42Now, maybe that produces a lot more.
- 15:43Maybe that produces less, whatever it is.
- 15:46But just because I'm not getting what everybody else is getting, just because my field in acres of diamonds is not the same acre as my neighbor, doesn't mean I need to operate outside of the way the Lord wired me to be.
- 15:58Because he made me this way for a specific purpose.
- 16:02You know, in the book of Esther, Mordecai, who's Esther's uncle raises her, she ends up the new queen and go read it if you haven't, but she ends up the new queen.
- 16:13And come to find out Haman, who's this wicked counselor to the king says, we're gonna kill all the Jews and Mordecai is distraught.
- 16:18So Esther tries to send him clothes because he tore all his clothes and Esther tries to send him clothes, he says no.
- 16:23And then basically he says to her, I'm paraphrasing, go read it.
- 16:25Basically he says to her, hey, you need to go tell the king not to kill all these Jews, right?
- 16:29Because you're a Jew too, you need to save us.
- 16:30And she's like, well, if he doesn't pass out, the scepter to me, then I'm going to be killed.
- 16:35You know that.
- 16:36And he essentially says, you're going to be killed anyways, right?
- 16:38If he disorts the Jews, you're not going to escape that.
- 16:40But he says, what if you were put in this kingdom for such a time as this?
- 16:45Right?
- 16:45This honest question.
- 16:47What if you're here for this specific reason, Esther?
- 16:50If everything leading up to this was for this moment, what if, what if, he doesn't know.
- 16:57I love, I love the honesty.
- 16:58What if he doesn't know?
- 17:00What if this is why you're here?
- 17:02What if agent you were given that skill set for a specific reason for such a time as this?
- 17:09What if those clients that you're working with, you're working with them for such a time as this?
- 17:14What if those relationships that you're building, you are in those relationships for such a time as this?
- 17:20What does that look like?
- 17:21What could that mean?
- 17:23And I guarantee you what it doesn't mean is what the industry often says.
- 17:27You need to be counter to who you were created to be.
- 17:30The Lord gave you this.
- 17:32awesome.
- 17:33I don't want you to be that.
- 17:34want you to be something completely different.
- 17:35Right, Garrett?
- 17:36You're five, six and three quarters.
- 17:38That three quarters is highly important when you're as small as me.
- 17:41And so, Garrett, you weren't created to be a professional basketball player as hard as I might try.
- 17:47It ain't going to happen, right?
- 17:48It's just not going to happen.
- 17:50And so here's the reality.
- 17:51I could always look and say, well, I need to be something else or I could listen to everyone else and say, you need to be something else.
- 17:58Or I could look and say, no, no, no, no.
- 18:00Lord, who did you make me work from my identity, not for my identity?
- 18:05Who did you make me to be?
- 18:06And I'm going to try to be as excellent as possible.
- 18:10That's your job.
- 18:12The freedom in that, right, to not please man, but to please the Lord, the freedom in saying, what does it look like if I just go pursue excellence?
- 18:23That's the question.
- 18:25My encouragement to me, to you, to all of us is most of our day, The devil's job is to distract us, to pull you away from your own acres and make you look at the acres next door, to show you the diamonds that you might get and to convince you they're not enough, as if the Lord didn't provide what you needed and you deserve more.
- 18:50All day, the devil's job is to distract us.
- 18:55We need to be in community with one another.
- 18:58Why?
- 18:58Because we need to make sure that those around us are saying, hold on, hold on, hold on, on.
- 19:04You don't need to be somebody you're not because that's not who the Lord made you to be.
- 19:08You need to pursue who he has called you to be and do that well.
- 19:13Each one of us plays a role.
- 19:15Each one of us is part of a bigger, broader, grander story than we can possibly fathom.
- 19:21We want to show up and honor him by just staying focused in the direction that he has.
- 19:27I'm going to end with this.
- 19:29The War of the Worlds was a uh radio show that was played out and should have looked that up in advance.
- 19:36uh I don't remember when it was read on the radio, but it was before TV.
- 19:40So they read out this story about, you know, these weird alien robots coming in, totally destroying the planet basically.
- 19:46And then they did uh a remake movie of it with Tom Cruise and like the mid-2000s, I don't remember.
- 19:52But go check it out.
- 19:53Anyways, aliens, alien robots thingies coming and harvesting people and destroying everything.
- 19:59That's basically what happened.
- 20:00Well, there's this part in the movie where Tom Cruise is on the run with his son, who's I think maybe 17, and his daughter who's maybe 10.
- 20:08They uh are trying to escape these alien things and they run into this house and they dock into this house and they're trying to hide.
- 20:16Well, outside of the house is just chaos, right?
- 20:18uh plane literally crashes outside, there's destruction everywhere, all kinds of crazy stuff.
- 20:23Well, they survived the night and in the morning, Tom Cruise goes outside and he's looking around and he sees the complete destruction of everything and how terrifying it is.
- 20:34Well, they also have this van that somehow is untouched because, know, whatever, Hollywood, and they need to get to the van so they can leave.
- 20:40Well, Tom Cruise, now I'm not advocating at all that you look at Tom Cruise as any kind of spiritual example.
- 20:45However, in this uh scenario, Tom Cruise picks up his daughter.
- 20:50He goes to his 10 year old daughter and he says, whatever her name is, he says, look only at my eyes.
- 20:55Don't look anywhere else.
- 20:56He picks her up.
- 20:58He holds her and they walk out, right?
- 21:00And she is looking right in his eyes and looking nowhere else.
- 21:04All around them is chaos.
- 21:05This plane is burning.
- 21:06People have died, like just chaos.
- 21:09She just keeps her eyes fixed on him.
- 21:12He walks her to the van.
- 21:15They get in the van, buckles her up, they drive away and she's totally calm.
- 21:21in such a real way.
- 21:22That's what the Lord is asking of us.
- 21:25Just look right here.
- 21:27Let me hold you.
- 21:27Let me take you where I want us to go.
- 21:30And it's not into chaos.
- 21:31It's into peace.
- 21:33If your world is chaos, that's not the Lord.
- 21:37That's not what he desires for you.
- 21:40And the Lord says, come with me.
- 21:42I will take you where I want you to go, which is in peace.
- 21:45Doesn't mean life's going to be easy.
- 21:47Don't hear me say that.
- 21:48but it means that we're not gonna be operating outside of what the Lord desires for us.
- 21:51When we look around, which I do all the time, when we look around, we start to freak out because the world around us is crazy.
- 21:57And we think, man, look at all this stuff.
- 21:59I need to run, right?
- 22:01I need to run away because I'm scared.
- 22:02Or we look and we say, uh look how terrible that is.
- 22:05I need to go do this because I don't know everybody around me is doing it.
- 22:08I need to go be part of that.
- 22:10Instead of just saying, okay, Lord, please, this is what I love about the Lord's Prayer.
- 22:14Give me this day, my daily bread, right?
- 22:16Every single day.
- 22:17Come back to the Lord.
- 22:19carry me, keep my eyes fixed on you.
- 22:21Grant me this day my daily bread.
- 22:24Be who you were created to be, brother and sister.
- 22:27That's the only thing we can do.
- 22:30That's how we honor the Lord.
- 22:32Be who you were created to be.
- 22:35Figure out who the Lord wired you to be and go be excellent at that.
- 22:38That's your lead generation strategy.
- 22:41That's your strategy in business.
- 22:42That's what it should be in this industry.
- 22:47We're thinking in my world, right, the 210 Collective might have heard me talk about that.
- 22:51And I'm just going to share this briefly.
- 22:53what is it that our main focus is?
- 22:55Well, it's to pursue excellence, serve others, and to glorify God.
- 23:00What does it mean for us to pursue excellence?
- 23:02Well, it's to pursue who the Lord made us to be and go be excellent at it.
- 23:06What does it mean for us to serve others?
- 23:08How do we do that?
- 23:09Well, we do that well by showing up as who we're called to be and doing that selflessly, putting others above ourselves.
- 23:17using the skills the Lord has given us.
- 23:19am not a hospitable person by nature.
- 23:23I don't love people coming over to my house.
- 23:25Now I can grow in that.
- 23:26Don't hear me say I should just ignore it as if it's okay.
- 23:29But if I was going to do that all the time and try to be that person because I thought that's who I was supposed to be instead of letting my wife do it who is so gracious and hospitable, well that doesn't even make sense.
- 23:39If my wife instead thought she should be on this podcast because that's what she was supposed to do and not me.
- 23:46That wouldn't make sense either.
- 23:48We play a role.
- 23:49We play the role with the cards the Lord has specifically given us.
- 23:53We best serve each other by doing that.
- 23:56And that's how we glorify God.
- 23:57That's my hope.
- 23:59the end of all of this, every conversation we have, every time we talk about something different, every time we talk about business or thought process or have a guest on or whatever, the end goal is how do we pursue excellence to the glory of the Father?
- 24:13That's what matters.
- 24:15We're not building our own kingdoms.
- 24:16We're building His.
- 24:18A hundred years from now, no one will even know I existed.
- 24:21And they won't know you existed either, not in a morbid way, but they will know that the word of the Lord remains.
- 24:27So who are we trying to build?
- 24:30Who are we trying to please?
- 24:32That's my challenge for all of us.
- 24:34I hope that you will go out in pursuit to glorify the Father.
- 24:38And if you need help figuring that out and pursuing that, I genuinely hope you'll reach out to me, whether it's Set up a call to learn about 210 Collective, whether it's join my free school community where we go live every single Wednesday, we teach, we train, and we encourage one another.
- 24:53I hope that you will become part of the family in a deeper way because I genuinely have a heart to help you do this and I need your help to help me do this and stay on that track too.
- 25:03I love you Christianations, genuinely.
- 25:05That's why I show up every single week.
- 25:06I love you.
- 25:07I desire good for you, that you would go and glorify and honor the Lord.
- 25:11by being exactly who he made you to be and doing that with excellence.