Aging Gracefully – Joyce Helps You Take Back Your Life | Joyce Meyer's Talk It Out Podcast | EP 56

hey friends before we get started on today's talk it out episode we have some super exciting news to tell you about we are going to do our second love life girls night in with joyce and we are excited we are and we need you to be with us because it's such a fun evening and we are going to have some other special guests lisa harper who is so great and then cece white is some wonderful music to share so much better than what i just did we're also doing a live talking out podcast and it won't be the same without you yes we want you to register today so go online and register today and guess what we have someone special on today's show so you're going to want to check it out [Music] hi everyone you are just in time come on in because this is joyce meyer's talk it out podcast where joyce teaches the word of god in her practical no-nonsense way and my friends and i talk about the real stuff of living it and we don't hold anything back i'm gingerstockie with jay and aaron cluley three friends who are all in very different places in life but we understand the importance of having honest loving women around you and when we need a little help miss joyce is here just like she is today to answer our questions for you so consider yourself one of us come on in here and let's talk it out here oh you're welcome you're welcome i got to come and see what you guys think of my teaching oh well i've got a list of notes for you here you said you listened to it they're all good [Laughter] well joyce has a new book that's coming out today actually as we're doing this and it's called how to age without getting old this is good stuff and you might think by by the title that this is for um people who are a little bit more advanced in years but it's not this book is talking about aging well yeah and doing now what matters later and and aaron you just said that this is a book free for your age group too right for everybody it's so good because i as i was reading it i relate to you and your work ethic and drive to get stuff done and so i can see if i don't pay attention now right i can very well end up in a not not the place i want to be so oh it's so good that's one of the main things i want to get across to people is it's not just it's not just for somebody that's 70 or 65 or who's retired but if i would have had this book and would have paid attention to it when i was let's say 40 i could have skipped over a lot of physical trauma that i went through because i i didn't i didn't have anybody teaching me yeah or telling me i mean the whole thing was do as much as you can you know yeah and i would talk to other ministers i haven't had a day of vacation in 12 years and i think that was really spiritual right yeah now i realized you know that was just yeah well let's talk to our 20 year old friends i remember what i was like in college and you know just that pace and that running our 30 year old friends who are raising their kids and can't keep up with everything so that we're going to talk also about just taking your life back yeah giving giving god the opportunity to do what he needs to do in our life instead of our life taking over us and when that happens our years will be better throughout i would say most people today let their lives run them yeah absolutely 100 a lot of you know like demands and everybody wants something and you think you got to keep everybody happy and you know there's expectations from everywhere and you know it's it it takes a lot of courage to really follow what you believe is the leadership of the holy spirit it does and be able to say no when you really feel like that you need to say no now i know we're all at different ages so i hope you're okay with this on air but how old are you aaron i believe i'm 34 you believe you are yeah sometimes i get i can't remember if i'm 34 35 but i'm pretty sure i'm 34. how about you i am happily 39 and i'm so excited about turning 40 this year and what about you ginger i'm 57 okay and i am 77. ginger have you felt changes in your body say in the last decade so no how much time do we have yes well i think we need to talk about that yeah absolutely nothing's in the same place that it used to be in honor of this topic today i wore a one-piece suit just to prove that um i could still handle it because we've talked about the fact that as you age that your your body's just different and it takes a while to get a jumpsuit off and so when you think that there's a possibility that you're gonna have to take a potty break i have to plan a good half hour out when i'm wearing a get up like this yeah so it's just one of those commands so many things that that change physically in your life yeah the way we look changes yeah but also what about like energy levels and i know you shared with me that like when you go on foreign mission trips now that's different for you that would you say the heat bothers you more tell us about that yeah yeah well when when we're on these trips in other countries we have a short amount of time and a lot of things to do you know a lot of people that we want to get to and help so we're just running and we try to get as much done as we can so quite often we're just eating jerky beef jerky out of our bags things like that and i would thrive on that i love that be long days be it's usually very hot where we go not always and i've never done well with the heat so now as i've been getting older i can tell a big difference and i hate to even say this because i don't like to admit it you know we all want to say no i'm good i didn't i wanted to be i think from being abused as a child and my mother not being strong enough to do anything about it yeah i grew up really just i didn't hate her but i hated weakness and i really disrespected weak people it was like oh come on you know don't yeah yeah don't give me the eye candy then that's too hard i've i've learned different now that we all have different abilities and you need to respect you know where people are at but i was like that it was like you weren't going to hear me say i couldn't do something right yeah and so i would push myself and the thing that i'm wanting people to really understand is that okay only a fool thinks they can always do what they've always done yeah and so what you could do when you were 30 and maybe even 40 now you're starting to feel it so that is your body it's really wisdom telling you you have to make a change now yeah and and i don't like it no well you don't like it but but the thing is too is when we need to change other people don't like it well that's true that's a really good point when i got to the point where i felt like i was needing to make some changes here and i mean i think you can verify this everybody thought well you know no you have to do that you know it's it's not going to be as good if you don't do it you know that's not going to be as good this isn't going to be as good and so i really felt like i was in a trap yeah you know like am i ever going to get to rest or am i always going to have to do everything and we found out that it's not about us it's about where god puts his grace and where god puts his anointing yeah and so it god doesn't want you to kill yourself and so like these trips you'll either stay gone more days so you can have rest or you'll take somebody with you that can do part of it or eventually we may have to send somebody else you know you can't you just cannot and i think the the younger the people are when they get that through their head yeah the easier it's going to be to make those changes i feel as as a youngish person that that the weight is on me that if i don't do it this won't happen at all and i am not the end of the world here i'm not the end-all be-all of whatever this thing is i bet god could probably fill in that gap but in my mind if i don't do it then nobody else is gonna do it yeah and i yeah i also i feel the same way and i remember when i first got married um at 20 and i had my daughter uh-huh i remember my body changing right like and i i was proudly five foot one and a cheerleader i was just that was who i was all through college even and then after i had my daughter in the c-section in my whole body just like and that's what triggered honestly my my first bout of depression you know and then i remember just going through that not being happy that my body wasn't the same and really didn't do anything about it because i was just grieving who i was and then i remember in my earlier 30s um i ended up having a hysterectomy and that hysterectomy triggered me into like pre-menopausal that's fun yeah like symptoms and so then all of a sudden my hormones are out of whack my my body like you know sweating and cold and not hungry tell me about it girl it was just a lot of things and so like when i was reading the book and i was just super grateful for you know for you sharing all of your wins and things that you've learned you know because you you say all this this statement of if i could tell my younger self you know what i know now and that's honestly what i believe this book is it's you telling our younger selves what to to do and not to do and how to process i feel like i wasted a lot of time grieving who i was versus saying what can i who can i be right now and not having to to do it all right now when you when you have to make a change that's not a bad thing it's wise to make that change yeah you know first of all our bodies are the home of god they're the temple of the holy spirit and it's really disrespectful to god if you want to look at it just from a spiritual standpoint it's really disrespectful to god to just run yourself into the ground to where you know you just are pushing yourself all the time because i made a statement because we think we're doing it for god yeah but you got to remember aphrodite's in the bible i mean he got sick from working too hard in the ministry so even though and that was me well i'm doing it for god but you're not really not if you're disobeying him in the process and people always want to know how can i hear from god how can i hear from god well listening to your own body is one of the ways that you can hear from god because we always think you know well i'll be the one that'll get by with it i know i probably shouldn't but i'll be the one yeah that will get by with it i i used to be the type that was like oh man i just got to keep going got to keep moving got to keep it's for jesus the people need jesus and as if i was the only one that could give him jesus i'm the only one that could bring the president no that's not true so um dispelling that and giving myself this the time to say i need to rest i need to heal i need to like get poured into for a while versus just continuing because i've always done that so and to be honest when i'll put it on myself a lot of it's our own pride yeah oh amen that's right it's like nobody can do it as good as i can if i don't do this it's not going to get done i don't want to say i can't because then i'm going yeah to look weak because i can do whatever i need to do yeah i can do what and you know we can that scripture philippians 4 13 i can do all things through christ you can't we can't take that out of balance we can only do through christ what he gives us to do right not just anything we want to do yeah but what he wants us to do yeah i love in your book when you talked about what some of how you've learned this recently when the doctor told you to rest and you said what do i do while i'm resting that was the first thing i said i had that thought too yeah you mean he told me he wanted me to rest 18 months and i thought the man had lost his mind i'm like 18 months ago what do what does one do for 18 months yeah it was like it was almost like frightening to me to think let's talk about that for a minute because there there were things that you began to deal with physically that that were um significant and you had to make some big changes yeah so it really came as a surprise and yet it also came from a long time of pushing very hard i mean you've accomplished amazing things and you you've been running and serving the lord for a long long time and how do you explain it finally your your body was just kind of at a point where it was going to make you rest well yeah i mean if you if you think about my life okay the first 15 years of my life or the from age three to about 18 i was abused sexually physically mentally emotionally and yes god heals us from that but it still does take a toll on you sure and so already by the time i was 18 i was having colitis and colon problems and you know issues like that and then i remember even in my 20s going to the doctor trying to tell them how i felt and they'd always tell me it was stress and that would just make me so mad because i my mother had had a nervous breakdown so i thought that stress meant you couldn't handle your life and nobody's going to tell me that i couldn't handle life and i thought you are giving me stress i don't have stress you are giving me stress telling me that i have stress and i didn't want to hear any other diagnosis and then i had hysterectomy when i was in my real early 40s because i was bleeding all the time and that was fine i was taking hormones all was well controlled the hot flashes the you know feeling like going crazy thing then i had breast cancer and it was a estrogen-dependent tumor and so then i couldn't take any hormones and i thought that was going to kill me because i was working so hard i mean i didn't go on tv till i was 50. i didn't start the ministry until i was 42. so i mean i didn't go on tv until i was 50. yeah and you know it's hard work to travel and i would do all these conferences and i would do everything in the conference i mean there was a time when i was doing 36 conferences a year and i mean there were like five sessions some of them and i would take every speaking engagement i could take i mean when i look back i just think you know that was just really stupid but i was strong god did make me strong and he did want me doing most of what i did the the thing is it doesn't take a lot of tweaking your life it's not like you gotta stop everything you're doing right it's it it doesn't take a lot of tweaking to get to where god wants you to be he's not asking you not to be fruitful and not to do anything he's just asking you to take those times to recover what would you say now looking back what would you tell yourself then now that you know what you know now what would you do differently because i what's interesting to me is you were building something and so there is so much hard work that goes into it and you you have you started from nothing to what god has done so there's a lot of work but how do you balance that like what would you do differently i think the things that i would do differently is i would really look at what was what i was doing that was bearing fruit yeah that's good and what i was doing that i was just doing yeah that really wasn't bearing any fruit and that's really what i tried and then then eventually i even had to get to the point where i had to look at what was bearing fruit for our ministry yep not i'm sure you know everybody wants a favor and i don't ever want to be the kind of person that won't do a favor for somebody i everything that i do doesn't have to have a monetary value for me i mean there's many times when i go and speak tell people i don't even want an offering that's that's a way that i can give but i finally learned that if if i'm constantly doing favors for other people then that's bearing fruit for them but then i still have everything that i have to do to make this work and so i really would have said no to more things a lot sooner than what i did but i really just didn't want to say no to anything i think there's such a mentality in our culture to push until you can push no more and you you just fight and you you grind and you do everything you can because especially as women we're strong and capable and independent and we can do anything we need to yes but also there's a price to pay if you do all of that right and when i started the ministry i had a baby and three teenagers okay i just don't even know how you got a baby in three temperatures wow a baby and so you didn't sleep either well you know actually i did sleep decently but i probably slept only six hours a night but i mean i just never i never quit i mean i worked from the time i opened my eyes in the morning until 10 11 o'clock at night and it was non-stop all the time and then i would do dumb stuff like come back from a conference and go to the shopping mall and shop the rest of the day and then go out the next day and shop you know i just i i didn't know how to be still i wanted to be doing something all the time and you know when i got real sick december of 2017 i can say it was a surprise but really if i look back and if i'm honest i had been having different things that i was ignoring yeah so i just wonder you know like talking to our audience what kind of things are you ignoring that your body is trying to tell you yeah that's a great question yeah because we do ignore things like i i don't want to go to the doctor you know some people like i don't like doctors i'm not going to the doctor yeah well you know good for you but your body is trying to tell you something yeah absolutely yeah and your body told you under no uncertain terms right i mean you just had to make major changes so for that young mom who's watching right now right she's building a family maybe she's working maybe she's trying to serve others along the way how does she balance that aspect of i want to do what god wants me to do and not just everything that that comes down the pike how does she kind of take her life back well different people have different means of being able to do things but let's just say that that you're a mom and you can afford it how about getting a babysitter once a week for you even if it's for you to go have four hours that's good by yourself to just relax to do something you like to get a pedicure get a massage take a walk sit in the park just be quiet and to also realize that i can just hear everyone at home over and over i'm out of here you know there may be people that can't afford that but maybe you know another mom that you could trade with oh yeah that's great you know maybe you know i'll do this for you this week if you do this for me there's one of the things i found out is if you want to do something bad enough you will find a way to do it yeah and a lot of times we use that as an excuse and i know that from working out i mean for years i just said there's no way i can work out i mean dave kept trying to get me to work out regularly you know with weights and i was just like i can't i don't have any time for that and so then i would decide to try and me i'm going to get in shape in two days i'm doing way too much and i hurt myself and i say see i can't do this every time i try hurt myself and then finally i look to myself like you said one day and everything that used to be up here was down here somewhere and i just god just had to speak to me he said you're not going to be around for the last 30 year journey if you don't do this and so people have to get some kind of exercise they have to rest they have to sleep they need to drink water not some sugary drink all the time you can i'm not saying you can't eat sugar but you can't live on candy bars and potato chips and you know there are there are changes that people need to make right but i thought there was no way that i could work out and now for 16 years i've been working out three days a week so let me just say again if you really want to do something bad enough you can find a way yeah to do it so that means you started working out when you were in your 60s 62. so that's so encouraging exactly we can start it at any time and it will make a difference yeah can we talk about stress a little bit sure yeah because there's just so much that people are dealing with and jay i think about all that that you've shared that you've been through and so many of our friends who have connected with what what you're saying who are going through really stressful times in their families and who who hasn't been through exactly exactly yeah so what are some of the things that you've learned through through different stressful times that you've been through that help you handle stress better well getting angry about things that you can't do anything about is really a huge waste of time and what is they said like one hour of anger is equivalent to eight hours of work like it may be easy to get upset but once you get upset it's much harder to calm down and so i have discovered for me that if i can do something about it when i first start feeling that i'm getting angry or upset yeah if i can put a stop to it early it's much easier for me to do it before i let it take roots and get real deep so not trying to change people who don't want to change and aren't going to change that's really true that puts a lot of stress on us and accepting people the way they are and i know some people are thinking oh you know my husband is my husband that there's nobody i can accept him the way that he is and i'm not talking about accepting sinful behavior i'm not talking that's not what i'm talking about but like dave has certain things that you know he's just not like i told him one time i said we never talk about anything deep it's always the weather and this and that and something else he said look this is as deep as i get take it this is what you got you know like i'm the type i i'd like to just sit here all day and just discuss all my feelings and my employees you know and he's not you know his answer to everything is cast your care well i didn't want to cast myself i wanted him to feel sorry for me and he didn't even tell me you just want me to feel sorry for you and i'm not going to and then i would just go [Applause] and so we're so peaceful now dave and i we've been married 54 years but i had to learn that this this is it yeah i mean you know he i can't and he accepts me the way i am which is not always great and so we we really we really should accept people the way they are there's nothing worse than feeling like that somebody never approves of you yeah and you constantly have to be trying to change yourself to make them happy and it god can do more in a second than we can do in 20 years so you save yourself so much stress if you pray about things instead of trying to make it happen yourself yeah aaron and i were just talking about that anger thing and really how it it does change the stress level so quickly yeah you just kind of feel it coming up sometimes yeah it's like all-encompassing of my body and i'm not used to that right so yeah you can feel that stress yesterday something had happened and uh i i passed the test um i thought about it but uh something happened where you know somebody sent me something and it triggered me and it took me back to when i wasn't here you know two year old show to my old sober i was like you know and i'm like okay okay okay okay like i would love to hear from you like when you see help me okay i don't know how many situations but no i believe i can make it but i barely made it like seriously no no joke i'm just being completely honest i got the i got the text i said and i had a whole nice paragraph and i deleted it and i said oh yeah good job oh we are so proud of you thank you because i yesterday got a text and didn't like it and i pushed send on that you did i did so okay yeah so i can say it just i just need i would love to hear from you on how when you get those things that are like if it's a lie or if you guys all want to hear from me what makes you think i do it at all you know i want to age grace [Laughter] help me i almost didn't okay well here's one thing first of all you need to celebrate the fact that even though you barely made it you did make it yeah praise the lord yeah see we always the devil wants us to always look at the part we didn't do yeah well like i i shouldn't have got angry okay but i got over it a lot faster yeah than what i would have i shouldn't have said that but at least now i know i shouldn't have said that yeah there was a lot of years where i just went i didn't even know that i you know that i'm still there shouldn't do it and you're still there and uh you you learn you'd probably learn more from your mistakes than you do anything else and we're not ever going to be perfect you know i mean i teach people not to worry but i'm not going to sit here and say that that i never have a day sir where i worry because i still fall into that trap too it's a lot less often yeah and i can get over a lot quicker and i do really believe that people they really hurt themselves by not celebrating their progress yeah and only looking at the fact that they didn't do it perfect yeah and yes you may have to keep taking the test until you pass it a lot sooner but the good thing about god is he'll never allow you to go through anything that's not going to end up working for your good if you let it yeah that's great so hypothetically speaking i'm not talking about myself or anything for my friend jay yeah when you are so overwhelmed with anger and it does feel consuming to you and you get a text or whatever it is that's happening what do you do right then before you do the other thing probably speaking right yeah i mean you got to get away from it i mean if you really don't want to just act bad and make a fool out of yourself yep you have to get out of the house go for a walk and then put the phone down where you can't get to it that's good yeah that's good you know if if you're gonna if if everything that goes on facebook is gonna make you mad then just don't be on it yeah that's something we read too much stuff and believe everything we read and we get upset about it and do you guys ever have a hard time with age milestones because i remember for me it's the fives it wasn't turning you know 30 or 40 or 50. it was the fives turning 55 because then i'm already on the downhill slope toward the next big change oh that's one i've never heard so i don't know why it's just the way i've kind of seen it but but i do know people at all different ages you're turning 40 and you said you're looking forward to it so that's great and i'm just wondering i didn't even know how old i was so no i don't that's a way to make it work nothing bothered me until the day i had to go sign up for social security oh and i could not believe i was i miss can do everything all the time i am in the social security office signing up for medicare i was just like that took me a while yeah but you you talk a lot in this book which is so helpful about the the fact that we're all we're all aging but we don't have to get old yeah and it's all in your mind yeah it's like you're going you're you're going to add a year to your age every year i don't care what you do i mean there's none of us that can stop that we're all going to die i mean that's two things you can't avoid this thing we're all gonna die thank you good news you're gonna die aren't you glad you had thanks for being here well you are but you can see i am 77 and a half but i don't think i am right [Music] i mean i really don't think i am when i realize i am i have to go no you know and that that can happen by taking better care of yourself even by the way you dress and when you're 70 you don't have to try to dress like you're 25 but you don't have to dress like you're 90 either yeah yeah you know you can do things like fix your hair you know i love that put a little color on your i mean even on days that i'm going to be home all day i will still i don't i don't put a lot of makeup on but i'll still get a few eyebrows on because you look kind of freaky without those eyebrows i've i've had mine you know permanently done but i got a few spots to get kind of so i fill in those spots and i look a little better with a little color on my cheeks so i'll put just a little bit of color on my cheeks and put on a little lipstick and i still fix my hair every day i'm not gonna get out of bed and go around because it makes it makes you feel bad about yourself that's the thing that people don't realize it's like you feel better about yourself if you take better care of yourself that's true i've seen this woman in her jammies and she looks better in her pajamas i've seen that yeah yeah it's just the snazzy as pj's really good at that leopard and all that good stuff but that's one thing that i love about even this this forum this uh that we're allowed to do um just how different we all are and we're all are and you know you say it all the time we're in different stages of life but that's what gravitated me towards ginger even like i didn't know how old she was i just knew she always wore cool shoes like you know and then being and being around you and seeing you and y'all can't see it but mama dress has a little cute flower on her toe so so like it's little things like look at those i got stones on she has she is the fanciest if you get down there and look at that tail i've got rhinestones on my toes she has a little she has a little diamond in between the flower on her toes but those are little things that they're not diamonds don't say that okay that the little lady put on her toe but um but at the end of that what i say is i'm saying is i surround myself with people of all different ages i don't like even with my daughter being 17 i don't like look down at her for being said i'm like tell me what you like i learned from everybody and i think that's something that didn't happen to like my mom's age group they only kind of stayed with their own age groups and so the fact that we're showing people like diversify your friend groups not just with ethnicity but also age you know like yeah it's it's it helps to see let each other say i'm too old to do that no oh that's good if i say if i say i'm too old for that they will say no don't say that you know and we do have to re we do have to not think if you don't want to do something then you you don't want to do it but you don't have to say i'm too old to do it because that's just really you don't have to creak every time you sit down and make the noise like oh yeah i mean my knees kind of start doing that when it comes out of your mouth you know that's the one my body's changing i mean there's things that you know i know that are there now that i used to not yeah know was there and it's i've had to lower the weights that i use in the gym because of different things and i've had two hips replaced and you know i've getting some kind of shots now my knees and my back and so but i'm gonna do everything that i can to keep going as long as i possibly can and i don't intend to start thinking i'm old you know you your your age really doesn't matter it's your attitude that really matters now this is important to god as well our attitude and finishing strong is really important on it on a spiritual basis as well this isn't all just about the outside this is about the inside and there there are so many scriptures that you have in the book that are so good talking about staying spiritually young and active too can i ask you about some scriptures and we can talk about those a little bit so this one i love because sometimes we have a little bit of fear of the future right a fear of aging psalm 48 14 says for this god is our god forever and ever he will be our god even to the end and so i just think about that as as you're getting further and further along in life and along in your ministry sometimes you feel like am i finished you know is this the end of the good that god has for me and you certainly haven't exhibited that in your life i don't feel that way and even this week i've been feeling led by the holy spirit to pray that i can always have a creative idea i can always start something new i'm not finished because i'm a a certain age i'm just not going to think like that i mean there are things that i can't physically do that wouldn't be wise for me to do you know i don't have any desire to go jump out of an airplane or you know bungee ju i know i know you do but you'll get over that eventually if you listen to people sometimes they just talk themselves into being old yeah i can't do that i'm too old well how do you know have you tried right yeah other scriptures from anybody that that have been important to you with well i love the one where paul says none of these things move me neither do i count my life dear if only i might finish my course with joy yeah he said the only thing that really mattered to him was that he would finish his course with joy and um i think it's john 17 4 jesus said father glorify me now for i've completed the work that you have given me to do and one day many years ago i read that and i just started to weep and i thought you know god that's that's something that's been really important to me yeah i want to finish yeah what god has given me to do and that's still very important to me i want to you know i mean i i'm at the point in my life where been there done that you know have that don't don't don't need another one and i understand what paul meant when he said as for me it'd be better for me if i just went to heaven i mean the way our world is today yeah who in the right mind if you knew you're going to heaven wouldn't want to be in a better place but he said for your sake it's better that i stay and so from for my part i'd be happy to to go but i know god's not finished with me yet and i don't want to leave my kids and and i'm i'm just i i'm gonna be humorous i'm not gonna be a complaining old lady yeah that just grumps around all the time and expects everybody to feel sorry for me my kids tell me mom you are so funny and i hope that i'm always funny i mean i i send some of the craziest texts i mean i don't know when i'm going to learn to read what i'm supposed [Laughter] and they'll just laugh and laugh and laugh what sticks out to me was as i was thinking about just aging and why initially i'm going to be honest when i was 35 i was not excited about so i guess that five thing i wasn't excited about 40 like at first because i was like uh what have i done with my life you know like you know it's just you know you just think about that jesus died at 33 33 was hard for me for real like so i'm like jesus completed everything at 33. you know like i was like i'm living the jesus year but um but i but the scripture that texts me it sticks to me for god's not giving us the spirit of fear but of power love i think of power and then love and of a sound mind because i understood at the root of that was worry like i was worried that i wasn't going to live up to other people i wasn't going to live up to the the idea that i had in my mind of what i would accomplish at this time like dismissing that and moving forward pressing towards the mark so that's what what to me something that i think really just wears people out is being so concerned about what everybody thinks yeah that's right i underlined that a lot in the book it's like well you know what are they going to think what are they going to think and we're not all alike we can't all do the same things you know i'm i really miss not being able to go on mission trips i did 67 out of the country mission trips and uh i loved it i loved the big crusades i i love india i love africa i love to go to those places i've done some awesome crusades out of the country but it's just too hard on me now the jet lag is just too hard on me so what i have to do is i have to give myself now to the things that i have to do which is only i can do my teaching yeah only i can write my books only i can do my tv you know but there's other things that i i don't have to do you know i may miss them and that's the thing you got to realize is even when you have to start giving things up you may not like it but you have to do what you know is wise and what's going to keep you around for the long run yeah that's really true and understanding now that there are things at whatever age we are that we have to start making the choices and doing things that matter now for the future and when i say the future i'm talking about the next hour sometimes yeah as well as you know 30 20 years whatever it may be down the road we've got a bible study that will be really helpful that goes right along with joyce's new book and i think you're going to love it we have it for you available for free online it's called how to stay young at every age who doesn't want that you know so go to joycemeyer.org talk it out and you can do that it's actually a 10-day online study that we're all going to be doing so this next 10 days we're going to be doing the study and maybe we'll post some updates on on things along the way so please do it with us go there right now sign up for this online study and do it with us and then we always encourage you when you're there you can sign up for our friends list because we love to give you some behind the scenes things tell you when new episodes are coming out tell you about things like joyce's new book coming out and then also you can catch up on old episodes so we just appreciate you being here with us take your life back it's all those decisions that we make one little bit at a time it's not like something big that you do that changes everything it's the little decisions along the way so joyce thank you so much thank you i had fun today i'm glad i got to come it's been so fun you really are funny oh thank you thank you thank you and you're all cute too so thanks for being with us we'll see you next time 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Length: 44min 3sec (2643 seconds)

Published: Tue Mar 30 2021