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#51 - Is Being Obsessed Enough? The Key to Greatness! · Brandon Fogal Evolution

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  So is being obsessed enough, if you want to achieve greatness,
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  if you want to reach your goals, is being obsessed enough?
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  Now I'm talking to you, to you, the one that is listening to this.
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  Do you have something in you that is just, that you want to do more than anything
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  in your life and you have such a hunger for?
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  You are, you're, you're basically, your whole life is going towards that,
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  that one thing, but you don't know how to actually achieve it.
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  You don't know actually how to attain it. We're going to get into all that. All right.
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  all right so this is very fitting i've
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  wanted to do this type of episode for a while this type of just discussion over
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  obsession obsession because obsession really really fanatically drives me i
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  don't know if it drives you personally you could obsession can be a bad thing
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  but it can also can be a good thing that not everybody has about certain things.
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  It's what you direct it towards and what you can utilize it for.
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  And if we started off with obsession, if your obsession is over a sports team,
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  sometimes that can crush you because for me, I was hurt yesterday.
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  I mean, not deeply, deeply hurt. I mean, it hurt bad seeing the Chiefs lose.
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  Like I said on Friday, it would have been a lot tougher if they would have just lost by one point.
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  I would have had a lot tougher time sleeping if they would have lost by one point.
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  But losing by that, and we kind of saw the writing on the wall pretty early...
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  It was, it was a little easier to take. So if your obsession is geared towards and just directed,
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  concentrated in just a sports team and just something in your life like that,
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  you can be let down and you're, you're, you're going to be hurt.
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  You're going to be left brokenhearted.
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  And I believe, you know, that that's, it will happen, you know?
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  So if, and personally, do you, who's listen to this, do you have an actual obsession
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  towards something that you want to achieve in your life?
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  Something that you feel is that has been driving you to go out and get,
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  you know, is there something in your life that you were just,
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  you want to attain, you know, that you've been put on this planet for something.
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  And you may be you haven't even decided exactly what it actually is yet.
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  You don't you're not 100% sure.
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  But sometimes you might be you might know what you want to go after.
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  Do you have that obsession in your life right now for something,
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  for something, you know, you could say job, you could say career,
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  you could say what you want to do.
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  You know, I'm trying to get out of that mindset of thinking of people as in,
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  what do you do? What do you do?
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  You know, and just bringing and somebody down to just that element of their
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  life as what, what do they do?
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  But it also, it does say a lot about you, what you do.
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  But like, if you ask somebody that, like that, that can rub somebody the wrong way.
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  And it might, it's probably not the most appropriate thing to ask,
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  what do you do as like, just devaluing them, can I say that word,
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  devaluing them to that one element of their life. And as that is who they are.
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  I don't think that's who you are, but I believe that God has put every one of
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  us here on this planet for a purpose.
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  I believe that he's given desires in our heart for a purpose,
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  you know, and we can run with those desires and we can try to achieve what we're wanting to.
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  But I do want to actually just step back and let you all think,
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  is there something in your life that is propelling you and pushing you towards
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  that you know you have in you?
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  And you are, I mean, you don't even know, you don't actually might not even
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  know if you have it in you and that that's really what is driving me lately is of,
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  Do I know that I have it in me? Do I actually know that I have it in me to do
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  what I envision myself doing, envision myself accomplishing,
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  envision myself maybe working out and making a difference in this world?
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  Do I actually know that I have that ability?
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  You might not know that you have that ability, but you still have a vision of
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  what you're wanting to accomplish and your life is going towards.
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  And this is where a big part of obsession can be a great thing,
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  can be an awesome thing because the people that have done the most in this world, you know,
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  that it has left waves from their life of impacting other people in this world
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  and benefiting this world and bringing this world to a good thing.
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  I mean, of course, it can be a terrible thing if your obsession is over something
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  that is not good and is not going to bring about good things and is awful and
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  terrible, you know, obviously.
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  But if you can hone it in and go after something that is great,
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  I immediately think of like Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, you know.
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  Mark Cuban, you know, like people that are out there, business minded people.
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  And then also it can go into spiritual realm. It can go into people that have accomplished.
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  I mean, you think the Apostle Paul was not obsessed.
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  You think the Apostle Paul was not a person that was just like obsessed with what he did.
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  He was like it showed how much he was obsessed before he became a Christian
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  before Christ encountered him on the road to Damascus that he was wanting to eliminate destroy,
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  the church this new kind of this new uprising of the sect of believers that are.
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  Proclaiming that this man Jesus from Nazareth is the actual Messiah.
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  He wanted to completely remove that and get that off the face of the earth until Jesus appeared to him.
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  But then that obsession that he had, it was completely turned 180 and driven
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  towards doing something incredible.
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  And probably a person that has never done anything more for this world apart
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  from Christ could be said, argued for the apostle Paul, you know,
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  that he promoted the advancement of Christianity.
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  So, and I'm thinking also as a, as a business person, like bringing it back
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  and into like, you know, I, I immediately go to Elon Musk, you know, cause he is a hot topic.
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  He's, I don't know if he's ever not been a hot topic, at least for the last few years.
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  He's all, and he's especially in our face now with X and whether you love what he's doing or you don't,
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  I still think you could still glean that he is hyper obsessed with doing amazing
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  things and making things run and work functional,
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  figuring things out as, as who I am, I am completely driven by functionality.
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  I, if something works, I love it.
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  I don't care how a beautiful, how amazing it looks. If it doesn't work,
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  I don't, I don't, I don't really want anything a part of it.
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  You know, but Elon Musk, you could say Mark Zuckerberg, you know,
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  I just finished watching the social network. If you have, if you've seen that
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  movie, she could watch that again.
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  You know, I know it's just a rendition of his life and his biography or whatever.
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  And, but it's still, I love that movie.
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  He was a person that was hyper obsessed and he still is, you know,
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  with making Facebook, you know, connecting people, he kind of brought it to the table.
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  He took you and that's another thing. You can take a lot of great things that
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  are out there and just Just make it better.
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  Actually take it to a much higher level.
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  Because, I mean, Facebook wasn't the only thing on the internet when it came along.
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  There were other things that kind of brought something good and kind of got an idea of what it was.
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  But it sparked something that he was able to take it to the next level.
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  And do you have something like that in your life? I mean, it might not be to that degree.
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  But is there something in your life that you... I want, I like,
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  I mean, if you just like removed all layers, you just went down to the very core.
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  What are you wanting? What are you wanting to do?
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  What is like in your soul that it just drives you and gives you and, and just fuels you.
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  And no matter how many things go bad and go the opposite way and make it seem
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  like I'm not going to actually do what I'm what's in there.
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  And like something is just casting water
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  and throwing water all over your dreams your hopes what
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  you know you want to be doing but for some reason for
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  some odd reason inexplicable reason you
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  keep going you just keep
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  going and you can't explain it you don't understand it
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  you don't know what's happening you don't know is something
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  else driving you is something else pushing you like if
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  you have that if you found that do that
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  obsession can actually sustain
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  you can actually make you accomplish what
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  you're wanting to do it actually can be enough when all said and done and you
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  can't look everything in every like a an instant frame but you have to look
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  to the far future to what you envision yourself doing what you envision yourself
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  accomplishing whatever it is.
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  It could be just you want to have an amazing family.
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  You want to raise children that are godly and love the Lord.
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  Because really, I mean, that is something, if we step back and all that,
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  you can think of missionaries that go across the seas and promote Christianity, spread the gospel.
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  But your mission field could be your family, your husband, your wife,
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  your kids, that you are sending them out, you know, like rocket ships,
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  you know, to go do something incredible.
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  Like maybe that is your hyper obsession and focus that you want to do that.
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  Whatever it is, you, you know, what is in your heart, you know,
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  what is driving you, you know, what like gives you fulfillment.
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  And even though you, cause I mean, if I could get one thing across,
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  just maybe boil it down and really kind of self-evaluate and look in and look
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  inside and say, what am I wanting to do with this one life?
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  I'm putting two fingers up, But with this one life that I have,
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  what am I actually, what.
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  Because I mean, it's, it's not going to last forever, you know,
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  in a hundred years, people are just going to be looking at what we've left behind.
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  People are going to just be studying.
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  Now it's going to be, it turned into the digital, you know, and not just physical
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  artifacts that our civilization has left, but,
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  digital artifacts, things that we're putting on the internet for years,
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  you know, people will probably look back and try to understand that civilization,
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  how they thought, you know,
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  and what drove them, what was the ethos or whatever.
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  But it's like, what are you wanting to drive home?
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  What are you wanting to accomplish with your life? If you can boil that down,
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  harness everything, all the energy you have and just go after it.
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  You can, the obsession can be enough.
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  You just can't look at it just a near-term fulfillment. It has to be long-term fulfillment.
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  God is the one who is positioning and putting every step in front of the other that we take.
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  God is the one who is orchestrating providentially everything in this world that is happening.
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  Every mundane circumstance, happenstance that we experience that seems like
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  it is random, Coincidental, he is the one who is orchestrating it all.
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  But I mean, we also have to put this obsession we have into.
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  Is it going to have an everlasting effect? Is it going to reach beyond our own
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  life and maybe stretch out and reach out into eternity and have effects there?
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  And if you want to really boil it down to that, you could say,
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  even whatever this hyper obsession that I have,
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  can I kind of still align it and somehow be a mirroring reflection of pointing
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  people to the kingdom of God and pointing people to Christ,
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  because you can have all the desire you want, which are good things,
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  like say you want to create a social network,
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  create a way that people can interact across the world, across the globe.
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  That would be awesome, and it would have great effects now.
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  You say you want to go to Mars, like Elon Musk.
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  That could reach a little bit further into the future, but if you can even take
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  your desire, your deepest obsession,
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  and align it and hone it in towards what can I do that is going to drive people
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  to Jesus Christ and drive people to the kingdom of God,
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  that's going to have so much more effect.
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  What we do in life echoes in eternity.
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  I had to throw that one out there, but I wanted to throw that out there and
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  put that out there and let you all just think about that.
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  What are you obsessed about? Go after it. It is enough.
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  Just keep driving, figure it out first, and then just keep going. Just keep going.
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  So have a good one, everyone. Peace.