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Manufactured and Made: Moment by Moment · R.E.A.L. Talk for REAL L.Y.F.E.

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  Welcome to Real Talk for Real Life, where we're realizing everyone is always
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  learning and living your full experience.
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  I'm your host, Coach C, and this is Season 5, Episode 4, Manufactured and Made Moment by Moment.
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  We're continuing to discuss in Season 5, Being Made in the Middle.
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  And today's episode is called Manufactured and Made Moment by Moment.
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  Can I remind you of something today? You are not one moment.
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  You're millions of moments.
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  Sometimes we put so much pressure on one decision, one mistake,
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  one accomplishment, one failure,
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  or one season that we forget life was never designed to be defined by a single chapter.
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  We're manufactured and made moment by moment.
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  Think about it. Before you ever took your first breath, you were conceived.
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  Then came infancy, childhood, adolescence, young adulthood, hood,
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  midlife, and if we're blessed, our senior years.
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  Every stage introduces something new.
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  Every stage asks something different of us.
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  Every stage shows us in ways we often don't recognize until much later.
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  That's why I want to encourage you today.
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  Don't allow one season to define your entire story.
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  One bad decision doesn't define you. One failed relationship doesn't define you.
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  One layoff doesn't define you. One diagnosis doesn't define you.
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  One disappointment doesn't define you. They're moments, not your identity.
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  As we continue talking about being made in the middle, I think one of the biggest
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  middles many of us experience is midlife.
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  People joke about a midlife crisis, but can we be honest?
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  Sometimes it's less of a crisis and more of a collision.
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  Our children become adults, some leave home, and suddenly the house is quieter than we've ever known.
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  Our parents begin aging, and for the first time, we're caring for the people who once cared for us.
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  Our bodies change, energy changes, health changes, dreams evolve,
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  some careers plateau, others begin, friendships shift, priorities mature.
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  There can be grief mixed with gratitude, joy mixed with uncertainty hope mixed
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  with loss it's a season of becoming
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  and because so much changes around us it's easy to wonder
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  who am I now,
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  Here's the beautiful part. You're still being made.
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  God isn't finished because you're 40. He's not finished because you're 50.
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  He's not finished because you're 60 or 70.
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  And as long as there's breath in your body, there's still purpose in your life.
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  You are still under construction, still growing, still learning,
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  still healing, still becoming.
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  Maybe that's why life happens one day at a time Because we aren't manufactured
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  all at once We're made moment by moment.
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  Conversation by conversation. Decision by decision.
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  Prayer by prayer. Failure by failure. Victory by victory.
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  None of those moments alone define us.
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  Together they develop us. So wherever you are today, don't curse the chapter you're living.
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  It may be preparing you for the chapter you've been praying for.
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  The middle isn't where life stops. The middle is where life keeps making you.
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  Here's your fearless homework. Take a sheet of paper and draw a timeline of your life.
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  Label the major seasons. Childhood. Teenage years. Young adulthood.
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  Adulthood. where you are today. Then under each season, write one lesson that
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  season gave you, not what it took from you, what it taught you.
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  Finally, answer these three questions. What season has shaped me the most?
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  What season have I allowed to define me that I now need to release.
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  What kind of person am I still becoming? Write this declaration at the bottom of your page.
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  I am not one moment. I am being made moment by moment.
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  Remember, the greatest masterpiece isn't created with one brushstroke.
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  It's created one stroke at a time. And so are you.
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  Until next time, live fearless. Keep learning. Keep living.
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  This is Real Talk where we're realizing everyone is always learning and living your full experience.
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  This is Coach C. I'll see you in the next one.