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Tomorrow can be different from today.
Our lives often leave us feeling hopeless—like nothing will ever change. But perspective is everything. When you know where to look, hope can be found in the spaces and places you least expect.
Join Jason Gore (Lead Pastor of Hope Community Church) for a fresh perspective, practical steps, and weekly encouragement that hope really is possible… even in real life.
It's not about perfection, it's about participation.
Yeah. So if you miss a couple days, jump back in. Yeah.
Like when, when you're, when again, when your resolution is
around discipline is around strategy then.
And as opposed to being around perfection.
And jump back in if you miss a day or two.
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Hope, real life, family. Happy 2025.
What's Up? Happy New Year to you. Who knows?
I think we're gonna roll this
probably right after the new year.
Yeah. Right around there. If it's almost, uh, party safely.
All right. Unless ease into the new year. Yeah.
In a healthy way. Hey, here we are.
We are talking this week.
I'm here with my good buddy Bradford Mitchell.
And we are talking about New Year's resolutions.
Some people love him, some people hate him,
but hey, it's a new year, so we thought let's spend a little
bit of time talking about Yeah,
certainly they can bring us some hope.
I'd say, you know, one thing I will say this about New
Year's resolutions, like the truth is
you do have a little bit of hope.
Even if it's day one
and you haven't broken your resolution yet, Uhhuh,
you still have hope that maybe you're gonna stick with it.
Yeah. So, Brad, what are your thoughts?
New Year's resolutions, pro con
forum against them? What do you think?
I, uh,
I've never been one who's been good at setting goals
and being self-motivated.
Everybody just turned it off right now. Yeah. Right click.
Well, I mean, so I, I think 'cause you
and I were talking beforehand, I think this is really,
You've been self-motivated.
You're self-motivated. What do you mean? I
Don't feel like I am.
That's the thing. You
Go to the gym just about every day.
You take care of your family. I, I guess you work hard.
I do. I do those Things. Does you work hard? Yeah.
Yeah. I do those things. You should, yeah. Mostly.
But I don't know. The idea of like, this kind
of thing has just never been like something I've done.
And so, like, I think some people you see,
tell these people turn it off.
Like, well, if you're somebody who doesn't like New Year's
resolutions, this may actually be the podcast for you.
'cause like, I'm, I'm like, why?
Like, we should always be working on ourselves. Right?
We should always wanna be Yeah. Making ourselves better.
Mm-hmm. But I just, I don't know. It's not my thing.
Well, I think they're great for others.
Okay. Well, I'll answer the question.
I mean, why, uh, this, I mean, no offense to anyone on this.
I mean, let's start at the, at the top.
We are maybe as unhealthy if we're just talking America.
Mm-hmm. Physically as we've ever been.
Obesity rates are way off charts. Child obesity. Obesity.
Okay. So Practic super high. Oh yeah. Well, I mean, yeah.
Practically speaking, that's why. Yeah.
I, I think mentally, have you seen Wally? Uh, no.
The Disney movie? I have not.
The whole thing right there is like, uh, these people,
they, they, they keep wanting to like, feed themselves
and engorge and they get lazy
and technology pushes 'em to a point
where they don't have to do anything on their own.
And so all this trash builds up on planet Earth. So they
Have Is this Wally or CNN Wally?
Which one? Okay. Alright. Sounds,
'cause it sounds like the real world right now,
But they, there's so much trash on the earth.
They gotta get on these massive cruisers.
Hollywood's really getting one over on us right now.
Let's make a movie about what's happening right now. But
We make it seem like it's not.
Yeah, yeah. Well there's, it's, it's a, it's a Pixar thing
and they live on the spaceship for like hundreds
of years while these robots clean
the trash up off the earth.
And all the humans get so lazy.
They have like no bones in their feet anymore.
They can't walk. They get, uh,
and so they, they like, they're too big.
They get hauled around on these
conveyor belts and whatnot. And
So you watch this movie and you still have no conviction
that resolutions are important.
It feels different. I'm not trying
to convince you of anything.
Your perspective is valid. Thank you. And I respect
It. Yeah. I appreciate it.
Yeah. Yeah,
Yeah. See, healthy
conflict, the world can't
Do it. That was, that was, that was what it made
me think of.
I'm sorry, keep going. You talked about obesity. Go, uh,
No, I I I don't wanna talk about that.
We don't have to talk about that. Okay. I'm just
saying mental health.
Emotional health. Yeah.
Um, we're, we're, we're doubting, uh,
leadership isn't trusted institutions
that we've had in place for a long, long time
that has really brought strength to society
or being doubted, police, government, church.
Um, I don't know.
I mean, I think some of us somewhere need
to do a little better.
Um, and, and so, and so here's why I like resolutions. Yeah.
Because clearly I'm, and I, again, I'm actually with you
and that I'm not the biggest New Year's resolution fan
because I do believe if it's worth doing is worth,
you should probably already be doing it. Yeah.
That's where I was getting at.
It wasn't, it wasn't like getting better.
I wasn't saying getting better is a bad idea. Even
Lent, I mean Lents like, oh,
I'm gonna give up X, Y, or Z for Lent. It's
Like lint is like the 40 day period leading up
to around Passover.
Leading up to Easter. There you go.
Traditionally in the Catholic church, you go
to give something up for 40 days.
That's right. And it's kind of like,
now it's a little different because you're giving that up.
It's sign of your faith as opposed Yeah. Yeah.
But it's still like, if it's worth giving
up, it's worth giving up.
Yeah. And I don't give up everything in my life
that I should give up, but I at least gotta
know that I probably should.
And so for me, the reason why I like New Year's,
uh, for resolutions is
because most people in my opinion, struggle with any goal
that they have in life because they just don't start.
Okay. And so
I, that resonates with me. It's
Always easy to say, I'm gonna start on Monday,
I'm gonna start tomorrow, and tomorrow never comes.
Or I'm gonna start, Or I'm gonna start
next year on the new year.
Yeah. And so it, it's like the perfect time.
It's a new week, it's a new day, it's a new year.
It's a, Hey, we can do this. Now.
The hard part is we don't really stick with them.
And this is why I don't necessarily like New Year's
resolutions because most people go with goals.
My New Year's resolution is to lose 20 pounds is
to lose 10 pounds is to,
Okay. I'm
with you.
Uh, atomic Habits great book. Have you read this book?
No, I have not. We'll put it in the show notes. Okay.
We've probably talked about it before on the show,
but what the author talks about.
And now Hailey, do you remember the author's name? Okay.
We don't remember, but we'll put it in
the show notes. I mean, that's
A pretty cool name. Atomic Habits.
Yeah. So the whole premise of the book is,
your goals are great,
but at the end of the day, a lot of people have goals.
What's the differentiator between people
that accomplish their goals and people that don't?
And really it's the small
decisions in between that you make.
It's the strategy. So the author uses the example. Ja James.
Clear. There we go. Uh, thank you Mr. Clear.
Uh, he makes this, this, uh, argument paints this picture
of, at the start of a hundred meter race,
everybody has one goal. What's the goal?
Get to the end. Take the first step to start. What's
The goal? If you're running
a hundred meter race
To Win, there we go to win.
Okay. Yeah. Everybody's got the same goal though.
If you don't have the same goal, if you don't have
that goal, you're probably in the wrong race. Right? Sure.
Yeah. But everybody doesn't win.
Everybody doesn't accomplish the goal.
And so what it comes down to is, I mean,
obviously who's got a little bit more gifting than some
other folks, but it's so much more than that.
At that level, everybody's gifted.
If you're really talking high level sprinting, it's um,
who trained the right way?
Who took care of their body the right way?
Who's ice bathing up? Who's taking the right supplements?
Who's dieting the right way?
Who's getting the right nutrition?
Who's getting the right amount of sleep?
Um, who is somehow managed to go through a eight to
eight week to 12 week training cycle without a family crisis
so they can stay mentally engaged in the training.
Yeah. And so, so much of it has to do
with the steps that you make.
And so what I would say, if you're setting a resolution,
make a commitment to a strategy.
Don't make a don't make a New Year's resolution
necessarily for a goal.
Have the goal, but then do the extra work of
what is the plan that's gonna be required to get me
to the goal and then stick to that come hell or high water.
Yeah. Well that, that makes sense.
And that actually resonates with me.
'cause right now I've feel like I've taken on a lot
of extra stuff and I, I have a reason for it.
Uh, I feel God's ordained these steps for me
to do these things in this way, provide
for my family, make stuff happen.
But it'd be real easy for me to look at
and be like, this has to get done.
Yeah. And I'd be like, oh, I got a list
of like eight things I need to get done.
And this isn't even talking about goals.
This is just like, this has to happen. Right.
And it's like I've had to tell myself
and how to train myself and how to get myself in the mindset
of you don't have to do it all in one fell swoop.
Because if I try to sit down, so for example, like I,
I make digital products for guitarists.
It is warm in here. It Is a little warm.
I'm going to take off my
Flannel shirt. I took my jacket off
with be between shoots. Okay.
Um, but we'll make sure the camera focused on it for now.
Stop it. Go ahead. Keep going. You're busy.
You're doing a lot of stuff. Uh,
I, I have, if I make a product for a digital,
a digital product for guitarist, it's real easy for me
to think that like I have
to devote eight hours to get that done.
And that that's can be hard
to find eight uninterrupted hours.
Yep. And so I have to tell myself, okay, first off, I,
you don't even need a plan.
If you're just fine with go spend 30 minutes on it,
like 30 uninterrupted minutes is better than zero minutes.
Yep. And so this is this similar thing
that I've actually been trying to remind myself.
Like, Bradford, if you sit here
and wait for the perfect day
to get it all done in one fell
swoop, you, you're gonna fail.
Like it's gonna be hard. You're gonna be worn out.
I'm not gonna give it my best either.
I've been working on some products that I've been working on
for three weeks and I actually really feel good about 'em
because I've been taking one small step at a time.
So it's actually in line with what you were just saying too.
It's like if you just have this goal to do X, Y, Z,
but you don't put strategy into it,
you don't put the small steps into it.
Like that's gonna be hard to figure out
because losing weight, like if that's the,
that's probably the biggest.
I, I'm pretty certain
that's gotta be the biggest goal anybody has.
I wanna lose 20 pounds, but if I just say that
and put it out into the ether, nothing's gonna happen.
Right. So you had to like concrete steps.
Yeah. So you've said this three times now
and this has been one of life's greatest mysteries to me.
And I wanna see if you can bring some clarity to it.
Uh, this has nothing to do with,
uh, a New Year's resolution.
One fell swoop one fail swoop one.
What's that middle word?
That's one fell swoop. Spell it.
FELL. I don't know. One fell.
I grew up, I grew up in the south.
That seemed like a southern colloquial.
Is that what it is? One fell, I don't know.
Research team is, the research team is currently our
Producers working at It. Working on
it at the moment
will come fell swoop one L-F-E-L-L-F-E-L-L one fell swoop.
Okay. So if nothing else, you've learned how
to pronounce the appropriate idiom.
One fell swoop.
But I, but I have a little bit of a southern twang.
So if you say fell just right.
It sound like you're saying fail or vice versa. Yeah.
So sometimes when I don't know exactly the right thing,
I'll just say it real fast and slur it on purpose.
Yes. I've done that. Right. Okay.
Hey, listen, let's talk about, um, I wanted
to add a little bit to this on resolutions
because I do, at the end of the day, it,
I think it is important to grow.
I think it's important for us to better ourselves.
I think if we're not moving forwards, we're moving backwards
and in life you wanna talk about having hope.
Sometimes we Okay.
The majority of the time we can't control hardly anything
that's going on around us in our lives.
Um, and,
and sometimes we have goals that are actually,
aren't completely up to us.
But man, if we can set small goals in place
and make progress in the things
that we actually can control,
it can keep us encouraged along the way.
It can lead to more hope. Yeah.
And so if there's somebody out there that's thinking,
what are the steps I need to take?
Because, uh, what do they say?
Like 80% of statistics are made up on the spot.
Uh, I think 80% of New Year's resolutions, uh, have been
failed to be continued by like January 10th.
Yeah. Which I'm actually grateful for
because at the gym, when I go to the gym Yeah.
On January 1st. Oh, why did I do this Mercy?
See the number of people I,
but then in about three weeks, um, it's kind of thin.
Give it time thin back out a little bit.
But here's the and one fell swoop.
They're all these one fell, fell swoop. They're all gone.
We're gonna retitle this, uh, this episode.
Uh, I would say if somebody, if,
if you're gonna set a resolution in place,
I wanna encourage you find your why.
Like what's the, what's the why?
Like, so let's just go with losing 20 pounds.
What's your why behind losing 20 pounds?
It, and it could be, um, hell, I want my wife to think
that I look better with my clothes on.
I, I don't know. I don't know what it is. I don't laugh.
I was going a different direction. That's important.
That is important. It's, that is important.
It's important that you look good
clothes on Wi across America.
Like thank you for encouraging. Yes.
But so, but you gotta remember your why.
Um, for me, I, I've got, I've got three kids.
I've, I've got a daughter. I want
to do everything I can do within my power to be able
to walk her down the aisle one day.
Should she choose to get married? Like that's important.
That's a, that's a bigger why for me in working out
than just being able to lift heavier circles than
I could lift last month.
Mm-hmm. And so like, what's your why?
And you gotta remember that.
'cause there's gonna be days that you don't wanna do it.
Um, secondly, I would say count the cost early.
Like know what it's gonna cost you
because something's gonna happen.
If you say, I'm gonna walk, it's gonna, I'm gonna
above everything else on top of everything else,
I'm gonna get 45 minutes of walking in every day.
Okay. Um, there's going to be days that it rains.
And so if you don't count the cost, which means every now
and then I'm gonna have to go for a rain.
For for a rain. I'm gonna have to go for a walk
after my kids go to bed.
'cause it's the first down moment
that I've had and it's raining.
Count the cost ahead of time. No, it's gonna cost you.
And then when you get there, you're not surprised. Yeah.
And you've already made the decision when it rains
and when it's late and when I don't wanna do
it, I'm gonna do it.
Yeah. So remember the why count the cost
and then if there's some way to hold some type
of visual in front of you, um, then, um, then I think
that's an added benefit.
Like a thermometer you color in like, like for a fundraiser.
I mean that could No, that could be good.
You know, I mean, what the 75 hard they have, you know,
you take a picture, they have a calendar Yeah.
Of yourself e every single day. Oh, okay. That too. Okay.
If you're doing that. That was one
of the things we didn't talk about in the last episode.
Yeah. That is a part of it. Forgot about that.
But you know, for me it, it's actually
as simple as a picture of my family.
Like I wanna be the best version of myself
that I can be for my family.
Yeah. And so that helps me stay motivated
even when I don't want to do it.
Or even when I have other stuff, it's like, well, I got work
that's backed up, but you know what?
Like work's gonna come and work's gonna go
and the sun's gonna rise and the sun's gonna set
and the work's still gonna be there.
I wanna make sure that when the sun rises and the sun sets
and the sun rises again that I'm still here for my family.
Yeah. And that's a bigger why. Yeah.
And so if you can remember the why,
if you can count the cost
and if you can have some kind of visual along the way,
um, that might help you.
You know, for a guy like you, it might just be a picture
of the rock that you look at every day,
you know, since I know you're trying.
That would do it. If I looked at the rock every time I
walked into the gym, I have a man crush.
No, don't. It's not the gym.
You gotta put it next to the Doritos.
You know, and I'm not saying
I need, I need to put it in the tub
of cookie dough that's in my fridge right now.
There you go. Because that's my problem. When
You see that, you're like, uh, I don't think the
rock would eat cookie dough
Right now. No, he would prob Well,
he has like a live-in chef
who makes him like dope.
Rock french toast. Yeah. That's the fourth.
If you have a gold. That's my fourth one
is buy a live-in chef.
That. And that'll all my
Problems would be solved if somebody made my
meals for me. Hope
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You said, you said the why and the cost
and that made me think of something.
'cause I know there're probably people thinking too.
They're like, yeah, but I don't have time.
And like, like you make time for
and spend money on the
things that are most important to you.
Yeah. Uh, if you want, you want
to like know what's most important to you,
just look at your bank statement Yeah.
And look at what you spend the most money on.
Yeah. Your bank statement and your calendar.
Yeah. Look at your calendar.
You don't, we, we all have the same amount of time in a day.
I, you have to, you just have to make time for it.
And, and what you tend to shift around and to give up on
and to make time for is, is what will be important to you.
And I know for me, I had to like, at one point I had
to just sit down with my wife and I just had to tell her.
I was like, I wanna make this gym thing.
Like, I want to be in there way more often.
Like I, I, I feel like I either need to quit
or I need to commit because I was like doing two,
maybe three days a week and I wasn't seeing like progress.
And like, I think I would get stronger
and I would like not be able to get past that.
Uh, and or I'd just be too tired to go.
And I was just like in the gym, I was like,
I'm wasting time if I'm not gonna commit to it.
'cause if I'm not trying to get better
and I'm not making time for it, then it's like,
why am I, why am I doing this?
Michael's not. And all I all that alone, my wife,
she knows, I mean, we've been married.
We just hit 10 years. She knows that.
Like now first off, if I'm cranky babies, what's that?
Babies. Babies? Yes.
Well, no, I'm just saying. Well, you have babies.
I have babies. I was just saying 10 years is Yes.
Yeah. Two babies. That's a decade.
That's a good, it's a decade Actually.
My, my little girl is 10 weeks old at this point. Now.
That's wild. My son's four and a half.
Um, but she, she knows that like if I'm getting cranky,
she's like, you need to go to the gym.
Yeah. But on top of that, she also knows that it's important
and like she partners with me in that
and like she knows that that's kind
of a non-negotiable for me.
Yeah. And I'm willing to drop it if it means that like,
it's just not possible.
Like my family comes first
and like the gym, like me being there all the time, same,
same idea as you Jason.
It's like my why is like to be healthy for my family.
And so like, you know, I'm not just dropping it
because I'm too tired,
but it's like, if it's gonna come in the way of,
and this is actually doesn't happen all that often,
but if it's gonna come in the way of me being there
for my family, like that's when I drop it,
it's like this is now becoming
a different thing at that point.
Yeah. Um, but like sometimes that means I wake up at 4:30 AM
to go to the gym to be able to come back
and help my wife get our two kids ready to get out the door
before she has to go to work.
Sometimes what that looks like,
and it's like, you wanna say you don't have time for it.
It's like, do you don't have time or like you just,
the sleep is more Yeah.
Like what you want. Which is fine.
Just, just be real with yourself though. Yeah.
So let's talk about, pardon? Let's talk about some tools.
Yeah. That can help folks that are looking to do resolution.
So mm-hmm. Um, like say you have one in, uh,
in your physical life, you have a resolution.
You know, I know like MyFitnessPal is a great app
for tracking calories.
Um, it can watch your macros for you.
Um, it'll track your weight.
I mean, you've gotta put it in,
but it'll show you, you know,
and how, how you're progressing
or regressing towards your goal towards it, away from it.
Um, so that's a great app.
We mentioned 75 hard before on the show.
Um, hope in real life.
We are putting something inside
of our app right now as it relates to physical.
And I'll talk about some spiritual ones in a moment.
But talk about what we've got going on. Yeah. Inside the
App coming up right around the time this is released,
we're doing a 30 day challenge.
It's, uh, we're gonna come with a better name for it,
but if you stick close to social media
and in the app, you'll see more about it. Um,
But is it gonna last 30 days? Yes.
It'll 30 days. And it's a challenge.
It is, it sounds like a really good name to me. Okay. I
Mean, we could leave it like that. I
Just, it's pretty, yeah. I mean, yeah.
It's just, you know, 75. It sounds so cool.
That sounds better than one fell swoop. Okay. It
Does. That's, that's,
I'll give you that.
But the goal here is like, 'cause we,
because we talked about seven five hard it is called that
because it is 75 days of some pretty hard commitments.
Yeah. Um, you know, know, especially if you're,
you've never done any of that kind of stuff.
So our 30 day challenge is exercise, exercise 30 days
or 30 minutes a day.
Uh, read the Bible
and read like 10 pages of a nonfiction book.
Something that like could educate you, you know,
and then like give something up that just kind
of like helps remind you of what you're doing.
If you're like a chocolate chip cookie at night. I am.
I like I mentioned the cookie dough, I like keep it in the,
uh, the fridge and I make like two fresh
cookies and like every night. And you're not
Help, you're not helping people. Yeah.
Well that's what I'm saying. My point here is like I'm
gonna give that up for 30 days.
Okay. That's what I'm saying. Okay.
Like that would be the kind of thing I would give up. Okay.
Because it's like, I like need a sweet
and it's like, honestly, if I ate a
strawberry, I'd probably be satiated.
'cause it's just that sweet nature. Yeah.
But that's what it is. It's like just 30 days
and it's like, if you need somewhere to start,
this is not easy, but this ain't gonna kill you either.
Like commit for 30 days to do this.
And so we'll have more info if you wanna do that.
That's just a great thing. We're gonna have some just,
you can communi, um, have some community in our app
and chat with other people who are doing it.
Yeah. Just keep up with people, which is kind
of the whole point of the app too, is community.
Um, so we'll have more info on that.
So that's like a real practical way Yeah.
Because it's like we're giving it to you. I
Know. And
then you've got like, say you want to grow spiritually,
um, you version has a bible app
that has different reading plans in it.
Yeah. Has different devotions.
You can go in and you can commit, Hey, for the next 60 days,
um, I'm gonna develop a new habit of engaging
with this content every single day.
And by the way, I think those are better resolutions again
than just goal oriented.
Yeah. It's a, it's a discipline orientation.
A strategy orientation as opposed to a goal orientation.
And so, hey, I'm gonna commit to 60 days of following along.
You can pick one of those devotions devotional.
I know our Hope in Real Life app has different tracks in it
and things like that as different Bible reading plans.
So, uh, the Hope in Real Life app is another Yeah.
We're doing the Bible in a year right now. Yeah.
Um, and we're just, it's like, it seems real daunting,
but you have 365 days to get through it.
Yeah. It takes like 20 minutes a day. Yeah.
It's not, it's not a huge commitment that can be part of
what you read during the 30 day plan.
There you go. You can walk out both at one time.
Uh, another another one that I've really enjoyed
and say you just want to grow in your, any area.
Like if you want to grow as a leader, if you want
to grow in the area of wealth management, if you want
to grow in the area of what does success look like?
There's an app out there called Headway. Mm-hmm.
Yep. And, uh, a few Ivy League guys got together and,
and put together this app.
And it basically, they take,
they've compiled an audio Cliffs notes version
of just about every book out there imaginable.
And then they've built different growth tracks
inside of their app.
And so it will build for you depending on the category
that you wanna see growth.
Maybe you just wanna grow in your knowledge
and awareness of how to be more physically healthy
or more mentally healthy or emotionally
healthy, how to be a better spouse.
Um, you can click these growth tracks
and it will populate for you, Hey,
here's your 15 days of reading.
And each book is broken down into basically a 15 minute
Cliff notes version audio file
that you can get the summation of the book.
And the way I use it is if I go through one, I'm like,
man, that was so good.
I need to download the entire audio book. Yeah.
I need to buy the book on Amazon or something.
And then go through the whole thing.
But it, that is a great resource for somebody
that has a resolution to grow in their knowledge
and awareness, or if they want to grow
to become more equipped so they can actually put a different
plan in place to handle their finances
or in whatever way that they wanna grow.
So just some resources for you
as you're listening to this and those are great.
Maybe you're listening to this
and it's, you know, January 5th
and you haven't started with a resolution yet.
That's okay. It's fine. Um, you know, Aaron Nelson, a friend
of ours around here, he says regularly
and he's usually talking about as it relates
to reading your Bible,
but this applies to just about everything.
It it's not about perfection. Mm-hmm. Right.
It's just about what does he It's Thank you.
I knew it was, I wasn't gonna say another P
word and I was like No, no, no. It is another P word. Yeah.
Alliteration. It's not About perfection,
it's about participation.
Yeah. So if you miss a couple days, jump back in. Yeah.
Like when, when you're, when you, again,
when your resolution is around discipline is around strategy
then, and as opposed to being around perfection,
you can jump back in if you miss a day or two.
Yeah. And, and, uh, in terms of starting,
the first best day to start was yesterday,
but the next best day is today.
There you go. So we're just throwing out more isms.
Look at all these idioms that we have. Idioms.
I think that's a good one to end on. So here's what we say.
There's an idiom right here with, with resolutions.
Know your why, right? We said that count the cost, let's
Deliver this in one fell swoop so we can Yes. There
We go. Count the cost
outta the gate.
If you can build a visual, if you can have a visual,
then that's gonna be motivating.
Accountability. You missed having somebody else,
uh, that's in it with you.
And then remember, it's not always about perfection, uh,
but it's about ongoing participation.
Mm-hmm. Uh, if we can do anything for you, if we can help,
we're gonna list all of the apps, all the resources,
all the tools that we mentioned, uh, in the show notes.
Uh, listen, we are grateful for you to spend some time
with us and give us an opportunity
to bring you a bit more hope in
the everyday moments of your life.
Bradford, as always, thank you so much for bringing all
of your isms in.
Many fell swoops great to have you here.
Likewise, Jason. Thank you, sir. Yes.
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