Start Now: Harness the Power of Consistency for Personal Growth and Purpose

Embrace the power of starting now rather than waiting for the new year to transform your life. In today's episode, we're Danny Lee and Pierre, and we're celebrating our podcast's one-year relaunch anniversary with a message that consistency trumps perfection. We'll share how small, incremental changes can help you build deeper connections with God, others, and yourself, creating a life of purpose and meaning. Our cherished community means the world to us, and we invite you to join us on this journey—whether through a like, a comment, or even with a visit to Sanctuary Church in Orange County.

We'll uncover the keys to personal growth by setting realistic short-term and long-term goals that touch every aspect of your life, from relationships to finances. Think of us as your accountability partners, encouraging you to start working towards your dreams right now. Learn from those ahead of you, mentor those who look up to you, and build a supportive network that helps you realize your true potential. Waiting for a new month or year is unnecessary; the perfect time to refocus your vision and take action is always now.

Finally, discover how to embrace your gifts and talents, using them to bless others and fulfill the purpose God has placed within you. We'll reflect on the superficial nature of social media personas and emphasize the importance of authenticity. With a compelling "why" driving your goals, stay committed and avoid the pitfalls of abandoned ambitions. From starting our podcast with just a couple of microphones to growing a meaningful community, our journey is proof that great things can be achieved when you begin with what you have and trust in the gifts you've been given.

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Chapters

• 0:00 Preparing for the New Year
• 6:53 Building Relationships for Personal Growth
• 13:46 Refocusing Vision and Taking Action
• 26:52 Embracing Your Gifts to Start
• 30:05 Discovering and Developing Your Gifts

Transcript

Speaker 1: 0:00

What's up everybody? Welcome to let's Dig the Podcast. Yo listen, I have one question for you. One question Stop what you're doing, Stop scrolling, Stop clicking around, Just listen to me. I have one question for you. The question is what are you doing to prepare for the new year? I think most people don't think about that until that last week of the year and everybody's coming 26 through 31st.

Speaker 2: 0:21

That's the only time they think about it, bro.

Speaker 1: 0:23

Everyone's coming up with these whack, bogus statements of like 30 pounds in 30 days, new me detox. Here we go. January 1st, day one. Oh my word, I'm like bro. Day one out of 365 days. Stop doing that. I think the best. I'm going to give you your best advice right now. I'm going to give it to you right now. Matter of fact, we got a bunch of stuff we're going to say, but I'm going to tell you this right now this will change your life. I think for the new year, everybody needs to commit to consistency over perfection.

Speaker 2: 0:53

Something is better than nothing.

Speaker 1: 0:54

Something is better than nothing. The goal is not okay. I'm going to kill it this time. I'm going to go perfect this time. I'm going to change everything. I'm going to stop eating sweet January 1st. I'm going to stop eating bread. You don't need to go extreme. The first day of the year, matter of fact, start 10 days before it start. Seven days before it. Tell yourself, you know what I'm going to commit to, just something consistent versus trying to shoot for perfection. But I think we're going to talk about that in a little bit.

Speaker 1: 1:21

Let's, let's just introduce ourselves real quick.

Speaker 2: 1:31

What's up y'all? Let's dig crew. I'm Danny Lee, ldc baby LDC. I'm Danny Lee. This is my husband, pierre, and we are here to help you grow a deeper relationship with God, others and yourself. So if you're ready, let's dig so if you love the conversations, link like give some love, comment, all the things. Y'all know what to do.

Speaker 1: 1:49

Let's not give them all the things. Let's tell them one thing to do, because people get overwhelmed. They're like wait, wait what.

Speaker 1: 1:54

What do you want me to do? I just told you what to do, but some people they're just so basic, they just look. If you are liking these conversations, if you're new to the channel and you're looking forward to this conversation, I want to ask everybody, take a moment and just hit like, hit like. Why do you hit like? First of all, it lets us know that we're on track. It lets us know that you're liking these conversations and then it tells the algorithm that it's a good conversation and it'll push it through to other people that should listen to it. If you're really liking it, you can hit that heart button, shout out to everyone that's joining us right here on YouTube. We see you. We love the comments, we love the feedback. Talk back with us. But more importantly, man, we just want to hear from you. We want to know that if these conversations have been a blessing to y'all.

Speaker 2: 2:36

You know what I'm really loving right now, after we're like 11 months in to this relaunching of the podcast. Well, we're like 11 months in to like this relaunching of the podcast, but what I'm loving right now is that we are getting to a point where some of the people that are commenting are just like regulars.

Speaker 2: 2:52

They're like oh, that's so-and-so, oh, that's so-and-so, and I'm loving that we're getting to know people in our comments and people that just are consistently supporting us. So thank you to y'all who write in the comments and that we're writing back to you like, but thank you for just being the crew, the let's take crew, the ldc y'all are in the comments and I love y'all. Facts, facts.

Speaker 1: 3:11

I just wanted to say that I know some of you guys can see this hat that I'm rocking right now on youtube. If you're not watching on youtube, shout out to everybody that's listening to this on apple, spotify and all the other uh media, um, platforms, platforms. Well, like we love you guys, like seriously, man, it's been a really cool year. We're about to go in 12 months one year soon just since we relaunched the page, and so we've just really understood now our purpose, more now than ever before.

Speaker 2: 3:37

And it really is.

Speaker 1: 3:38

That is, we want to be able to help everybody grow deeper relationships with God, others and themselves man and so I believe those relationships are the biggest things that we need to make it through this life. And so if you guys are actually liking this hat right now, let me know, because we haven't printed these hats out yet. There's actually been two that's been printed, but this is the official one right here. If you guys really like this hat, let me know and we will make it happen. Matter of fact, we might print a few out, have them here and if you want to meet us in person, I mean, pull up at our church pull up at the church Orange County.

Speaker 1: 4:10

Let's take a moment right now, Honestly, let's do a shout out. If you guys don't even know, I don't think we've actually ever even invited people from the YouTube channel to church.

Speaker 1: 4:18

If you guys don't know we have the awesome privilege to serve a really good, solid group of people right here in Orange County, california Sanctuary Church. That's our home. I'm the associate pastor there. I've just actually stepped into that role this year. I've been the music director there for the last few years. God brought us there in 2020. And that's where you can find us every single Sunday.

Speaker 2: 4:42

Every Sunday.

Speaker 1: 4:43

So don't say we've never invited you to our church. Pull up, all right, it's in Costa Mesa St Juarez Church. We're actually meeting at the Hyatt right now, which has been really cool. But send us a DM, man, we'll send you the info. If you pull up, we'll give you one of these hats. It's on us, okay, no-transcript. Like what are you doing right now to prep yourself mentally to go into this new year?

Speaker 2: 5:25

right now to prep yourself mentally to go into this new year. Honestly, one of the things that I am doing is I'm already starting like little goals, little habits that I want to implement for next year. I am not waiting until January 1st. I think we talked about it in the last episode of with the holidays and here I said I'm actually working harder on my nutrition on December 12th more than I am any other month. Um, and that's because I wanted to focus on my nutrition, uh, before January 1st. I don't want it to be a new year's resolution no carbs, no sugar not not for me. No, thank you, I'm going to have carbs, I'm going to have sugar, but into the new year instead of waiting for day one like let the.

Speaker 1: 6:28

There's no better time than right now.

Speaker 2: 6:30

Literally just start now even before the holidays and your chances of continuing that habit If you start before January 1st is far greater If you start it now as opposed to if you started January 1st and also too, for everyone that's listening to this, even after we go live with this video like this is honestly a mindset that you can take moving forward anywhere.

Speaker 1: 6:53

Like if you get to a point where in the middle of the year, right you're you're frustrated with where you are with like, with your life, you're frustrated with where you are in your relationships, right In your mindset, you know your spiritual goals, your physical goals, your financial goals. Like just stop everything you're doing and write down your goals and start right there. Start right there. You don't have to wait to January 1st, you don't have to wait to the 1st of the month, you don't have to wait to the middle of the month. Those are nice, I like. I personally like doing stuff like 1st of the month because it's easier to really just count days and actually benchmark, to know, like yo, I started at the top of February or it was March 1st when I made that decision. Or I'm like preparing myself mentally, knowing that in 12 days is the first.

Speaker 1: 7:36

So, I'm going to go live with it on the first, but I start setting my mind mentally, knowing that that's where I'm going. I think too many people have. They don't have good long-term goals and short-term goals. That's that. Advice that I want to give to as well is, when you're setting up, like your resolutions right, when you're telling yourself, okay, these are the things that I want to do in this new year, I really do think that we even myself, need to get better at really connecting the short-term goal with the long-term goal. So the short-term goal is like, for example yo, this is the amount of money that I want to have saved up. Right, short-term goal, right, that's the goal. Okay, it's going to happen in six months? Okay, but why? How's it going to benefit you? What do you want to do to invest with that money years from now? A year from now? What am I going to do with that? When you hit that goal?

Speaker 1: 8:24

I think, too, it happens to a lot of times. People get these goals and it's kind of anticlimactic because they hit it and they're like well, now what? So you see, people hit their fitness goal and they hit it, and then they're like all right, cool, I hit it and then they it all comes right back because it's like yo, where's the next benchmark? Also, where do you, how do you want to feel, just mentally and physically long-term Like? You know what I mean. So I really think we need to get better at connecting our short-term goal with our long-term goal, even for me as a leader. Anytime I sit down with people, I always say, okay, short-term and long-term.

Speaker 1: 8:58

Always you do Like you know what I mean.

Speaker 2: 9:00

What is something that you want to implement for 2025?

Speaker 1: 9:07

I don't want to implement nothing, okay I'm good I'm just perfect. I'm not perfect. I'm just gonna stand right here and just watch you do your thing oh, okay, great I'm just gonna watch me, like dang she working hard on this new year what?

Speaker 2: 9:18

no, the people want to know. What is pierre gonna like? What do you? What is a goal that you've set for yourself for 2025?

Speaker 1: 9:24

um, whether, it's for you, for our family. Like what do you?

Speaker 2: 9:25

what is a goal that you've set for yourself for 2025? Whether it's for you, for our family, like what, what's the one for you Share?

Speaker 1: 9:29

with the people. Something that I really want to implement for this new year is I want to have people that are above me in all of my categories keep me accountable. That's a really good so, for example, as a podcaster like right now I'm seeking for someone that I admire in the podcast world. Yeah, to hold me accountable with my benchmarks. It's good like for me as a pastor right right, I'm working hard to make sure I have pastors that are ahead of me, like my pastor.

Speaker 1: 9:58

Yeah, he just gave me a book last week for me to start reading yeah okay, he's gonna hold me accountable, and that I have another pastor friend that I reached out, that I reached out to that's a musician, and that I asked him. I was like yo, how do you maintain that gift of a musician and a songwriter and producer while you're still a pastor, right, you know, um, and then even as a music producer? So I'm working right now currently finding two producers that I admire, that I look up to to hold me accountable, to help me reach my goals, and so that's really what I want to do in 2025 is that's the biggest thing that I'm working on Find those people that I can actually like hitch to.

Speaker 2: 10:38

Yeah.

Speaker 1: 10:39

And I can actually not just ride their coattail. That's not the goal, no of course not. But it's really to hold me accountable in my goals, yeah that's a really good one.

Speaker 2: 10:50

I would say I would even want that as well, like I think everyone should always it's what you used to say you should always be in a position where you are learning from someone and you're teaching someone. Like you should always have someone around you that you're pouring into, that you're teaching certain things that you've already accumulated and that you've already learned and that you've already added to your life, and, at the same time, you should always have someone in your life that you look up to and that they're doing the same to you.

Speaker 1: 11:17

Yeah, it's, there are three levels of. Let me say that. Well, let me say that. Well, let me process that.

Speaker 2: 11:22

Yeah, cause this is what I would say. Did I say it wrong?

Speaker 1: 11:25

No, you said it right. So there are three levels of people that should be in our lives. There are those that are above us or ahead of us, meaning like we admire them, we're inspired by them, we're influenced by them and we're learning from them. They're smarter than us. There's those that are alongside us. They're our peers. They're the ones that we may have healthy competitions with. They're the ones that we're like yo, holding them accountable and vice versa, because we're on the same path, the same journey, at the same level. And then there are those that are under us. They're the ones that we're pulling up. They're the ones that we're helping. They're the ones that we're mentoring.

Speaker 1: 12:02

I think sometimes in life, sometimes we are overloaded in some categories. I know for me, most of the time, that third category is where it's overloaded. I spent most of my time with people that I'm mentoring or pulling up or discipling, and then I feel depleted, I feel empty or I feel like no one's pouring into me. Every time I get to that season in my life, I'm like I don't have enough people in category number one, basically those that can pour into me. And then also I got to look at category number two and say who are those people that are alongside me that I'm like yo, we got this. That we're actually comparing ourselves to each other, holding each other's. Like yo, did you do that thing? Oh, I'm working on that too. Yo give me some tips, and so I'd really do think, if we can all have those three categories fulfilled, we can actually walk a really well solid, balanced life, never lacking.

Speaker 2: 12:51

Yeah, you know what I mean, which goes to why we believe that relationships are so, so important, because they literally craft you to be who you are called to be, who you're meant to be. It literally pulls the best out of you and then sometimes it those relationships that are real nitty gritty will show the flaws in you, like marriage, like it shows the flaws in you so that you have to grow through those weaknesses, that you have to work on the soft spots or the sore spots, and you have to grow through that.

Speaker 2: 13:20

So like it just goes to our purpose of how we invaluable relationships are in your life, and I will say this too, while we're even here.

Speaker 1: 13:28

We can probably make a note of it. I do want to do another conversation specifically on that topic, that topic of the three types of people that you should have in your life.

Speaker 2: 13:36

That would be a really good conversation.

Speaker 1: 13:38

Yeah, because I think I'd like to elaborate on that, because even category one, people may have a misconception on what that should look like. Like you know what I mean. I think some people have these superficial mindsets or these, or they're following people that are actually living pretentious lives, Like it was just like wait, you're trying to keep up with someone that actually does not exist.

Speaker 2: 13:56

That's so crazy. You know what I'm saying. You follow somebody deep, deep, deep.

Speaker 1: 14:00

That's what I'm saying, like, oh, I follow this person on social media. I love their life, I'm trying to, I'm learning from them. I'm like, hey, baby girl, they're not real, all that is fake.

Speaker 2: 14:07

Bro, there's a legit person on YouTube that I watch occasionally and her whole YouTube page is debunking how much social media people are fake.

Speaker 1: 14:16

Yeah, bro, it's crazy. So let's pause on this. Let's put a pin right here. We're going to pin this conversation Because I really do want to talk about that. Yeah, that'd be a good.

Speaker 2: 14:23

Let's go back to 2025. It's coming so.

Speaker 1: 14:26

I just a new year in general, a new year in general.

Speaker 2: 14:28

That's true, whatever new year it is. Um, I said that I'm going to, I'm starting things already, like implementing small changes already. Um, you said that you have a goal of getting people around you that can pour into you on all three levels. I think another one for me that I want to be intentional about is planning and taking action, because I am really great at taking plans. I am not great at taking action.

Speaker 2: 14:55

Um, I actually have even been considering, um, there's like these notebooks that specifically are checkbook, like check mark books, and I think that could work really well for me. Of like number one, I love checking things off and there are so many times where I struggle of like, oh, I wanted to post this more on social media and maybe I take the content and then I don't post it, don't finish it, don't edit it, it's all in my phone but I didn't do anything with it. So, having that goal of like, okay, I'm going to post this many times a week, but if I had that check mark to like, force me of like, hey, you didn't do this, yeah because Because I can make the plan, but then it like floats away somehow.

Speaker 1: 15:35

Well, because normally I'm your check mark, I know, and you just don't let me do my job.

Speaker 2: 15:40

What.

Speaker 1: 15:44

Just yo matter of fact today, remember what you was about said. You better not finish that sentence. You better not say what I think you're about to say.

Speaker 2: 15:51

I did. I said what you said I was going to say, because I haven't done anything about it, but I was researching. At least I was researching. But yes, you're right. So I want to emphasize not planning.

Speaker 2: 16:11

I want to emphasize action, like I want to put my feet to the ground and take steps and do things Like I have so many things that are sitting and like there's just so many times I get stuck or I get overwhelmed and then I don't do anything. So I really, really like this year I'm going to take action so y'all can hold me accountable. Let's say crew, hold me accountable, I'm going to take action, so y'all can hold me accountable. Let's say crew, hold me accountable, I'm going to take action.

Speaker 1: 16:30

Yeah, there's a difference from talking the goods and delivering the goods.

Speaker 2: 16:34

True that, and I got goods to deliver.

Speaker 1: 16:35

You know what I'm saying, well, you got a lot of good. You've been talking goods, ideas. You have ideas for days. I have ideas for days. You know what I mean, and so I, I do. Yeah, I do agree. I think some like something else. That um, that um, people really need to just get better at doing, especially going to new year, is, um, refocusing their vision. So, refocusing your vision going into the new year, like really processing and thinking about the vision. What does it look like? What does it feel like? Is it realistic, is it big enough?

Speaker 2: 17:16

I think also, even just, is that what you want? Like a lot of times, we kind of drift into certain things and you have to like stop, wake up and be like wait, is this even where I want to be? So, like refocusing that vision of like, are the things that I'm doing every day leading me to where I want to be, or is it leading me to another direction, which may not be a bad direction? Just, if that's not what you want, then why are we working to like refocus?

Speaker 1: 17:41

all of that and I think I think the biggest question, the biggest question that somebody should be asking is why do I want this?

Speaker 2: 17:49

That's a really heavy question.

Speaker 1: 17:52

Because if the why is massive, it will keep you up at night to fulfill this vision. If the why is little, you'll dump it overnight, you'll forget about it, and I think so many people, even all I mean all of us, even me. I think sometimes we have too small of a vision or we have too big of a vision, but, more importantly, the why behind it does not make sense, or the why behind it might be for a selfish reason or the why behind it may have an expiration.

Speaker 2: 18:27

Yeah, or it's just too shallow, it has no depth.

Speaker 1: 18:30

Yeah. So it's like why are you doing this? Well, like, I know a buddy of mine and I don't know if he's a listener of this, of of this channel, but he's telling me all the time he's like man, I want to just make more music, I want to write songs, I want to produce things like that, and I and I and I've. I remember asking him. I was like why? And he said well, I won a Grammy and I'm like which is fair.

Speaker 2: 18:51

Like a lot of people, won a Grammy.

Speaker 1: 18:54

Yeah, but most people who win Grammys weren't looking for Grammys, that's very true. They just wanted to write songs or make music because that's what's in them. They wanted to write songs because they wanted to change people's lives. They wanted to write songs because they wanted to change people's lives. They wanted to write songs because they had a gift that they were sitting on and that they felt a lot of guilt of sitting on it. They wanted to write songs for so many other fruitful reasons. A reason like that, like you said, is very shallow, very shallow.

Speaker 1: 19:19

Because then you mature and you realize, okay, I don't want, I don't just want to chase that anymore. And now you realize, well, I don't have a purpose anymore, like like what I'm saying. And so you dump the vision, you dump the goal.

Speaker 2: 19:29

I think a lot of times it. It can be defined by whether it's like if your vision is about you or is it about others. Right, like most of the time. If your vision is just about I want a Grammy, it first of all, if it starts off with I like most of the time it's probably selfish. But if your vision it like for us, it is for others to grow a deeper relationship with God, others in themselves. Like if it's outward focused, you're going to have so much more depth because it ain't about you, it's not about us, it's literally about helping others.

Speaker 1: 20:04

Yeah, the main reason why we keep showing up to this recording every single week and we put our conversations out there, it's because we want to help other people. Yeah, and that motivates us, that holds us accountable. Yeah, and there's some times I don't want to record. Today, I didn't want to record.

Speaker 2: 20:20

Yeah, we've had a sick child all week. I did not want to record today. There's a lot of times where we don't want to show up, but it is the text messages that I get throughout the week of like, dude, that conversation was everything I needed. Wait, you talked about is, if I called you and you knew what I needed to chat about, like those things. And and we tell y'all all the time, like the comments, the text messages, the DMs, the, the thank yous, like it really does keep us going.

Speaker 1: 20:50

Yeah, yeah For the new year. I want to encourage everybody to strengthen their relationships with God.

Speaker 2: 20:53

Yeah, that's a really good one.

Speaker 1: 20:55

Strengthen your relationship with God Like he's the source, he's the foundation, and I know there's been some years I've gone into some years where I just thought my relationship with God was just fine and I was okay with just fine.

Speaker 2: 21:09

Yeah.

Speaker 1: 21:09

And then you hit rock bottom or you go through a tough situation, or you have financial crisis, or you have situation in your family or something going on at work you know what I mean or something happening at home, and then you find yourself calling on God and you're getting frustrated because you don't like the pace or at the speed of which he's responding back to you. And if you realize he was there all along, you just lost your connection to him or you stopped listening to him or you became desensitized or you got distorted he was distorted with all the things of the world and you're not able to hear him. And I realized, like man, going into this new year, I really do think everybody should take time to write down what they want their relationship with God to be like. Going into a new year and taking a moment Like I do think like if we're going to make any vows or if we're going to make any like decrees or any declarations or any promises, like it should be to God. Yeah, god should be the only one that we're like.

Speaker 1: 22:05

You know what, lord, this year I want to commit my life to you, I want to devote myself to you, and here are the action steps that I'm taking to do so and show you how devoted I am to you. These are the things that I'm no longer going to be listening to. These are the things that I will no longer be watching. These are the people that I'm removing from my life. These are the places that I'm no longer going to. I'm going to commit to church. I'm going to commit to serving you and serving your people.

Speaker 1: 22:35

Listen, your talk is cheap. You know what I mean dead. So if you're not going to put in the work with your relationship with God, bible also says without faith, it's impossible to please the Lord. So what I'm saying is I think everybody should make a commitment before you enter into the new year, not at January 1st, not at February 1st, march 1st. Before you enter into the new year, you sit down and you think about your relationship with God. Is it strong Like? Has it been able to stand the test of time? Where is your relationship now? Do you want to go deeper? Do you want to get closer with him? I do think that's one of the number one things actually everybody should be doing.

Speaker 2: 23:17

Everyone.

Speaker 1: 23:17

I don't care if you're a pastor, I don't care if you're a seasoned saint. Yo, I don't care. I don't care if you've been saved your whole entire life.

Speaker 2: 23:25

It's true, like you know what I mean, there's always a deeper level.

Speaker 1: 23:27

Jesus is God, was God himself when he walked on this earth and he still stopped to sit with the Lord. Yeah, he still stopped to talk with the Father. Yeah, like you know what I'm saying, yeah, and so I think everybody needs to be doing that, all of us, even myself.

Speaker 2: 23:50

Like I'm preaching to myself right now.

Speaker 2: 23:51

Yeah, I think another really good thing to think about and to make sure it's mindful of when you're going into the new year is just like staying open to change, knowing that life changes every day, like this week we had our four-year-old super sick, high fevers and I will say the first day that I stayed home with her it was so hard for me as a self-employed hairstylist to turn off my work brain and just be mom and normally that comes very easy to me. But that day I was super motivated. I had a long list of to do things. I had a meeting, I had this, I had that and I was like ready to hit the gym and hit the ground running and with her waking up with a fever, that all went out the window and we were sitting at the table. I was trying to get my meeting on zoom and she was sitting at the table coloring and I was frustrated because the zoom meeting wasn't working. Some other things I couldn't figure out was trying to figure out something else for work.

Speaker 2: 24:45

And she literally just looked up at me and she was like mommy, I'm really happy to be spending time with you today.

Speaker 1: 24:51

That's crazy.

Speaker 2: 24:52

And it like broke me, cause I was like man, I'm frustrated, I want to get this work done, yeah, and my baby is not feeling good and all she is is happy that she's sitting at the table coloring with me. And so just knowing that, like, plans will change, life will change. We don't know what's coming, but as we're talking about setting up those habits already, start them now, because you don't know what's going to happen on January 1st or 3rd or April 17th or whatever day it is. Like don't wait for then. Start now and know that plans will change and you move with them, like knowing that, okay, today was different, but tomorrow I'm back to my routine.

Speaker 1: 25:31

Yeah, yeah. So the very last thing that I want to share, man, I think this really changed my life, um, as just a young leader, um, even as a parent, as a husband, um, I think everybody needs to really know in their heart what God has put in their heart and keep that close to their heart, like don't forget that thing.

Speaker 2: 25:54

Yeah.

Speaker 1: 25:55

But also along. Equally as important is really think about what's been given to you Like. Use what you have.

Speaker 2: 26:04

Yeah.

Speaker 1: 26:05

I think too often that people are always wishing they had had, had, had, had. And if they had had, had, had, had, they would do, do, do, do, do Like you know what I'm saying? Yeah, and I think you have what you have, so use what you have. Yeah, it's all you have. I know there's something in your heart. I know there's something that you see yourself doing down the road Step 10, step 12, step 20, step 100. Yep, but the only thing that's in front of you is step one.

Speaker 2: 26:35

So true.

Speaker 1: 26:37

And if I could say something to anybody that's listening right now that's really trying to think about how do I take the next step? You just take the very next step, yep, like it's what's in your hand. Whatever's in your hand is exactly what you need to take the very next step. Even for us launching this podcast, relaunching a podcast Like, we had access to YouTube, we had access to a few microphones, things like that, and we had some and we had funds available at that time so that we're able to just purchase the microphones and the cameras and things like that, right, but we were ready to go with just one camera. We was ready to go to just two, like just these two mics, yep to go with just one camera?

Speaker 2: 27:10

Who's?

Speaker 1: 27:11

ready to go to just two, like just these two mics. Yep, you know, eventually we got more lights, we got another camera, things like that. But you don't need all that stuff to get started.

Speaker 2: 27:17

Right.

Speaker 1: 27:18

That was just a dream. Even now, there's still some items.

Speaker 2: 27:20

There's still things yeah.

Speaker 1: 27:21

Yeah, there's still some things that I want to get right now. I still need some more light, so if you want to help us out with stuff, go ahead and donate what I'm saying is we had what we had and we use what we had yeah and if I can say anything to anybody, use whatever you have to get started. Yeah, the things that you have in your heart it's not in your hands yet. One day it will come. Yeah, like jesus said, like if you're faithful with those who are faithful with little, yeah will become rulers over much right.

Speaker 1: 28:07

like you know, I'm saying. So, whatever's in your hand, you just use it and it will multiply, like Like you know what I'm saying, and so I don't know. If Jesus said that we're in the Bible, I forget, like I was in Proverbs. People say aren't you a pastor? The word of God.

Speaker 2: 28:23

The word of the Lord, the word of the Lord.

Speaker 1: 28:26

The Bible says if you are faithful, those who are faithful with little will be rulers over much. I do think it, but those who are faithful with little will be rulers over much.

Speaker 2: 28:32

But now, I'm just like wait. Did Solomon say that? Oh, that's true.

Speaker 1: 28:35

I don't know who said it, or did Jesus say it?

Speaker 2: 28:38

Or did Paul say it?

Speaker 1: 28:39

Can somebody fact check me right now? And look, I'm just going to tell you I didn't know. Right now, I knew at a point in time and right now I just forgot. My mind is being fogged. Right now I have nothing to prove, I just know it's in the Bible. I just forgot who said it. I know it was words that was inspired by God and saying the word of God. Forget who said it. I'm telling you right now.

Speaker 2: 28:58

Why am I getting so frustrated with people? I don't know You're fighting with somebody, but I don't know who you're fighting with.

Speaker 1: 29:02

I'm fighting with the religious people out there that wants us to shut down our YouTube channel. Bible reference Like bro, relax, get a life. Yeah.

Speaker 2: 29:11

I will say, though, as you were saying that and encouraging them and we'll end with this, as when you were saying, like, just do something with what you have A lot of us, what we have, are our gifts. A lot of what we have is what God has innately given us the characteristics, the talents that are just inside of us, and the challenging part is, most of those things that come so natural to us are very hard for us to realize that they are gifts. And so, taking an inventory, taking a toll, and saying what are the things that I don't even have to think about to do and kill it? Those are my gifts and that's what I have. I may not have all the setup, I may not have all the setup, I may not have all the microphones, I may not have whatever I need to get to step 10, like you were saying, but what you do have are the gifts that God has already planted inside of you, and those are the things that you're going to be accountable for. Those are the things that, when you get to heaven, the Lord is going to ask you what did you do with what I gave you? Because what I gave you are gifts and talents. How did you use them? How did you bless people around them? How did you develop them?

Speaker 2: 30:18

And so I would just encourage anyone to say, like sit down, take some time and really think what are the things that I'm so good at that I don't even have to think about, because you actually have to think about those things towards yourself. Like you can sit here and say what things I'm good at, and I can sit here and say what things you are good at, but when they come so easy to you, it's like you don't even think, like what you can't do that easily. And so those are the things that you have. So we hope that this has been an encouraging conversation to you. It hopes to give you a lot of exciting things to look forward to, because this new year is going to be a great year. I said it to you today. I said next year is going to be a good year, and he was like it is. How can you not go into a new year not knowing? I have no other choice but to pray and hope that it is going to be a good year.

Speaker 1: 31:05

I was just joking. I know it's going to be a good year. It's going to be a good year, so we love y'all.

Speaker 2: 31:10

Thank you for digging with us, keep digging into these conversations and keep digging into the gifts that God's given you, because he has put wonderful talents and gifts inside of you and a purpose inside of you and you are responsible for what you have. Don't go dig it into the ground, like the people did with their talents, and they put it in the ground and did nothing with it.

Speaker 2: 31:31

What are you doing with the talents that God has given you? And if you have that in your hand and God will bless it, you could do a lot for him. So we love y'all. Hope this bless y'all, peace.