What Will the Carrot Cost
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Coming up on the Men at the Movies podcast, we share our first ever live recording. JB and I discussed Click at a men’s retreat and how Michael’s character is a lot like us. He has a lot of pressures to try to balance, but he feels like he’s failing at all of them. He keeps looking forward for what comes next, and misses out on today. It’s like chasing a carrot, but what will it cost him and us to catch it?
The Quotes
In a lot of ways, it’s safer to disappoint our wife and kids.
He’s justifying what he’s doing for the family he’s ignoring.
We try to build the Kingdom in our power and our image.
The thing that makes men heroes is that they don’t give up.
We need to find contentment in where we are versus where we want to be.
If you try to fill your heart with external stuff, it’s never going to work.
There’s so much value in the time that feels wasted.
The doughnut is the moment.
Themes
Michael is a man like us
Many pressures to balance, but feels like he’s failing at all of them
He had great intentions for his family, but he couldn’t follow through.
He’s always waiting for what comes next (like the promotion) for when his life will be good.
We want to blame the remote (the circumstances), but our life is the result of our choices.
We want to fast forward through the painful parts, but that’s how we grow resilience.
The world promises us stuff that seems like it will satisfy, but once we get it, we find it’s empty.
It’s like chasing a carrot, but what will the carrot cost?
We want to fast forward through the worst parts, but we need to present in the moment.
Resources
Questions
Where are you winning? Home? Work? Anywhere?
Where do you feel behind?
When was the last time you took a break?
When have you disappointed the one’s who matter the most? How?
How can you give yourself a break?
How have you shown persistence through tough times?
Where do you feel like your life is missing something? If you just had “this” (fill in the blank), then life would be good.
What is the carrot worth?
Where are you on autopilot?
What is the most important thing that you can change?
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Edited and mixed by Grayson Foster
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Audio quotes performed by Britt Mooney, Paul McDonald, and Tim Willard, taken from Epic (written by John Eldredge) and Song of Albion (written by Stephen Lawhead).
Southerly Change performed by Zane Dickinson, used under license from Shutterstock.
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