Defeating the Devil

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What's going on, ladies and gents? Welcome to the Warrior Soul podcast. My name is Chris Albert, and this podcast is here to deliver tools, tactics, strategies, and ideas to help the US military veteran community and anybody else willing to listen to live their absolute best lives. I've been doing this podcast for five years now, and it's been one of the great honors of my life to serve this community. I started this show in my home office back in California.

Literally didn't know how to do a podcast or anything like that. Just woke up with the idea and started by by speaking into my computer because I didn't have a microphone. I didn't even know that I needed a microphone. And so if you're new, what I want you to understand is that there are a lot of episodes here. There's a lot of great interviews with people like Robert Greene, the author of the 48 Laws of Power, people like Gary John Bishop, the author of Unfuck Yourself.

I've done interviews with people like Eddie Gallagher, the Navy SEAL, who went through being railroaded by the media and falsely accused of war crimes. And through each of those interviews, what I've been able to do is take lessons, hard won lessons that you can apply to your life. And when I'm not interviewing people, I'm here doing solo podcasts with pieces of advice based off of my experience. I'm I'm a bit older than most of you. I'm I'm about 42 years old, and I think most of you are around the mid twenties to to mid to late thirties.

And I've been around and the the reason why I do this show isn't because I feel like I'm better than anybody or or or because I know anything more than anybody else. It's quite simply because I've screwed up a lot. I've been through a lot of pain in my life. I've been dirt poor. I've failed so many times.

And through those failures, what I'm trying to do is I'm trying to impart lessons onto you. Things that you can do to avoid making the same mistakes that I made. Because I care about this community. I believe that the veteran community is a sleeping giant in this country and that if you don't like what's going on out there in this country right now, I know I am not a fan and I know that most of you are not a fan. What we need to be doing is we need to be stepping up.

And so that is also related to the subject matter of today's episode. You see, one of the things that I believe with all my heart is that regardless of the nature of your experience, whether it's positive or negative, you can you have a choice in how you use those experiences to guide your life. You can either use the positive and negative experiences in your life to build bridges and and roads, brick by brick through each experience toward a better version of you and bigger, stronger, crazy goals, or you can use those bricks that you make through your experiences to build walls for your own prison. The crazy thing about the human mind is that, you know, it's capable of so many things. It's capable of amazing works of art.

It's capable of crazy inventions, but it's also capable of building prisons, of of imprisoning you in a pattern of negative thought. And the reason I'm bringing this up is because I'm currently revisiting a book by Napoleon Hill. And you might be familiar with his most famous book, Think and Grow Rich, but this is another one. It's called Outwitting the Devil. This book wasn't published till about seventy years after Napoleon Hill wrote it.

And it's basically an interview between him and the devil. And I'm not sure what your religious beliefs are or anything like that, but in this in this book, Hill says that the devil's not, you know, some living being with a forked tongue or or cloven hooves or a pointy tail or horns or anything like that. It's formless. It it it doesn't have a form, and that makes the devil much more powerful because what it can do is invade your thoughts. It can invade every aspect of your brain.

And in the book, the devil's goal is just that, to to to invade your brain and to make you aimless in life, to make you fearful so that you don't take chances, so that you you don't think for yourself. Right? And we see a lot of that going on in today's world, people just not thinking for themselves, people just doing what the media tells them or what the government tells them or what anybody else tells them. We see people filling themselves with fear, you know, not taking any chances, not taking any risks, not straining themselves physically. And a result is that we have so many people here in this country who are out of shape, overweight, obese, unhealthy, who are facing this pandemic unprepared to deal with the disease if it invades their body.

We also have so many people who are not financially prepared because they spend their money on crap. And we have a lot of people who are aimless. They don't know where they're going in life. And the biggest thing I need you to understand here is that there is such a temptation in life as you go through your experiences, as you go through the things that that that you encounter to to build walls, to build prisons around yourself. You know, you you you go through something hard and you fail at it, and you tell yourself you can't do that.

That's you building a wall brick by brick that's restricting you, that's keeping you where you've always been, keeping you from moving forward, keeping you from improving yourself, keeping yours you from being the person you should be. Alright? As you go through life, if you're if you're filling your body with crap and and you're not eating right, that's you restricting yourself physically, you know, getting heavier and heavier, you know, building inflammation so that you can't move your joints. And then by the time you hit middle age or or later in life, you can't move and you can't exercise and you can't be healthy. And then after that, your brain starts, you know, malfunctioning because the inflammation is is so rampant in your body, it's affecting your brain and you can't get your thoughts straight.

And then there's also then there's the fear and uncertainty that invades our relationships, Right? That that keeps us from trusting our partners, that keeps us from being a friend to our partners, that keeps us from being good to our partners. And there's also the aimlessness that comes from, you know, doing things like constantly watching porn and not being able to give everything you can sexually to your partner. And, you know, the last thing I wanna do here is to get you to start thinking negatively about yourself. Right?

I'm not I'm not trying to judge you here, and I'm not trying to to to get you to judge yourself. But what I am trying to do is get you to wake up. You see, unless you wake up and you love yourself enough to trust that you're gonna make the right decision, to trust that you can handle it if you try to advance your life, to to love yourself enough that you're gonna put good fuel into your body. Unless you love yourself enough to to know that you deserve to be in a good relationship, and that you should take the opportunity to put your all into it if you truly care about the person you're with. Unless you love yourself enough to do those things, you're never gonna move forward.

And so what I wanna challenge you to do right now, whenever you encounter a negative thought, is to really think about where that thought comes from. Is it actually the reality or is it something you're making up in your own head? Because remember, that's how the devil enters our brain. He's there to keep you from your ambition. He's there to keep you from being the person you should be, the person you need to be in this life.

And, you know, I always have this belief that hell is being introduced to the person you could have been at the end of your life. Right? There's a scenario out there, right? You die and you know, you don't know where you are and all of a sudden you're introduced to this person who's had all these amazing accomplishments and that's a person you could have been. You know, and I think that we all need to understand that our time here is so finite.

Every second, every minute that we use, every minute that we waste, that's a minute that we could have been putting towards something that was gonna move us forward. Every dollar we use on a piece of crap that's either gonna rust, rot or depreciate, that's a dollar we could have used to building our future. And every time we sit there and we dwell on a negative thought, that's energy that we could have used to make our lives better. That choice on what you're gonna think about, that's up to you. Right?

You might not be able to control what enters your mind, but you can control what you're gonna dwell on. And you can control you can control how those thoughts are gonna affect you. So think about this guys. Think about how you turn those negative thoughts into something positive. Think about the actions you could take step by step to to turn whatever negative situation you're in around.

Right? If you're in financial problems, think about saving $50 a week. Right? Stop buying your morning coffee or stop spending money on whatever things that you don't need in your life right now. Start putting small amounts away, so you can start tackling that debt or start building your future.

If you're eating a bunch of crap, try just not eating out all the time. Try just preparing your food. Try to get a whole food meal in. Don't worry so much about, you know, the the the macros, the carbs, the calories, and all that. Maybe just start by cooking your own food or maybe you start by not drinking soda or anything sugary and just remove sugar.

Right? Start like that. If you haven't been exercising, start by walking. Right? Go out, walk a half mile, come back the next day, go out, walk three quarters of a mile, come back the next week, try and go out and run a half mile, right?

Then come back and keep building it up. Maybe try a jiu-jitsu class, Alright? Start slow. Jiu-jitsu is hard. I know that.

Alright? So these are all things that we can do just to to push forward, to not be in the same place that we're in last year and just live our best lives. That's all I got for you guys this week. If you guys have any questions, if you want to talk about this, if you ever want to reach out, you can always DM me on Instagram. I'm at Warrior Soul Agoge.

And with that, I'll be back at you next week with some more awesome content. This is Chris Albert, the Warrior Soul Podcast, and I am out.