跟读练习: Choose Your Pain: Discipline or Regret? - 通过YouTube学习英语口语
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What's the one thing you know you need to do, but you keep avoiding because staying comfortable feels easier?
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What's the one thing you know you need to do, but you keep avoiding because staying comfortable feels easier?
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You know you should initiate that honest conversation with your wife, but you keep telling yourself, now isn't a good time.
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You know your kids need more of you, just real, present, intentional time.
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But you know what?
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That next deal, the next project, next trip away, just always feels urgent.
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You know God has been nudging you towards something bigger or maybe nudging you to slow down,
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but sitting in the familiar grind feels safer than confronting what needs to change.
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You're not lazy.
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You're not checked out.
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You're not sitting on the couch doing nothing.
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You're a hardworking man, an achiever, a provider, someone who's used to doing what it takes to win.
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But sometimes the greatest danger for the high achieving man is comfort.
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It's staying busy enough to avoid the deeper work.
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It's choosing the pain you know over the change you need.
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In my conversation with Beau Parfait recently, he said, there are two types of pain in this world.
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The pain of discipline and the pain of regret.
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And one weighs a lot more than the other.
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In this episode, I'm going to help you overcome that resistance and make the choice you already know you need to make.
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Because you have to choose one type of pain, discipline or regret.
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You can't opt out.
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And the choice you make changes everything.
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It's no surprise that scripture has quite a bit to say about action, courage, self-control, and following what we know is right.
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Proverbs 14, 23 says, In all toll there is profit, but mere talk tends only to poverty.
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God honors action, not just intention.
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Proverbs 25, 28 says, Discipline isn't about perfection.
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It's about protection.
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God knows our lives will fall apart when we stop practicing self-control.
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And James 4.17 says, so whoever knows the right thing to do and fails to do it, for him it is sin.
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That's a sobering reminder.
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Avoidance is not neutral.
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Hesitation has a cost, right?
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These verses show us something and something very important.
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You know, God cares deeply about our willingness to step into the things we know we're called to do, you know, even when it's uncomfortable.
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Because yes, you know, discipline is uncomfortable, but it sure beats the alternative.
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Regret isn't uncomfortable.
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You know, regret is devastating.
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Regret is waking up one day and realizing your marriage didn't fall apart.
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You know, it just slowly withered away until there was nothing left to hold on to.
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Regret is noticing your son or daughter stopped coming to you with their questions, right?
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Not because they didn't have them, but because they learned you were too busy, too tired, or too distracted.
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Regret is building an incredible business while quietly losing the capacity to enjoy any of it.
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Regret is success that looks impressive from the outside and feels numb on the inside.
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Keep pushing, right?
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Throwing everything into your career, never getting around to all the things you keep saying you'll get around to someday.
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And this is the exact type of regret you'll wake up to and wish you hadn't.
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You already know this, but you keep avoiding doing something about it.
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At this point, you probably know exactly where you keep hitting the brakes in your life.
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You know which decisions you're putting off and which actions you're avoiding taking.
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But you may be bowing down to comfort more than you realize because it's rarely just one area that's affected.
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The problem may be a lot deeper than you first realize.
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Here are three extremely common areas where high achieving men often choose regret tomorrow over discipline today.
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Number one, the discipline of presence over distraction.
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For the hardworking man, the easiest thing in the world is to stay productive.
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Email, Slack, text, opportunities, it all feels justified.
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I am as guilty as anyone, but it's a cop-out.
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Discipline is putting work away, slowing down, and being fully present with your family in good moments, hard moments, and boring moments.
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You know, regret is skipping out on intentional time with your family
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because it requires a level of energy you don't want to give.
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It's working late instead of pitching in, right?
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It's, you know, sneaking an email on your phone instead of paying attention.
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And it leads to, you know, a wife and kids who don't try to engage with you anymore because they learn not to bother.
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You know, you're always too busy or too tired.
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Number two, the discipline of conversations over avoidance.
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At work, you handle tough conversations all the time, but at home, avoidance suddenly feels easier.
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You tell yourself, you'll bring it up later when things settle down, but that's not wisdom.
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It's comfort.
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Disguise as strategy.
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Discipline is leaning in instead of looking away.
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It's saying, we need to talk even when it feels awkward.
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It's asking your wife how she's doing and staying present for the answer.
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right?
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It's checking in with your child when something feels off.
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But regret grows in the silence you never address.
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Unspoken issues, assumptions, resentment, and just a slow drift that becomes a canyon.
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Avoidance doesn't keep the peace.
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It slowly dismantles it.
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Number three, the discipline of courage over comfort.
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Courage isn't always climbing a mountain or taking a business risk.
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Sometimes it's the quieter, harder moves at home.
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Discipline is choosing that vulnerable courage.
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I need help.
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I was wrong.
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I'm ready to obey what God is asking of me.
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Those moments redefine you far more than any achievement.
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Regret is the story that forms when you keep choosing safety, missed obedience, missed healing, missed growth.
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Comfort keeps life manageable.
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Courage makes it meaningful.
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And you already know which one God is nudging you toward.
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Let's get practical and clear.
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Number one, identify the one thing you've been avoiding and commit to doing it within the next 48 hours.
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Not next month.
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You know, not when things slow down.
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48 hours.
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Number two, tell someone you trust.
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Make it public enough that you can't escape it.
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A mentor, a friend, your spouse.
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Accountability isn't weakness.
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It's wisdom.
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Number three, trade one hour of evening productivity for one hour of intentional connection.
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Quality time with your wife, reading with your kids, a walk, a conversation, something real.
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Number four, write a simple question in your journal.
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What will I regret if I don't act this year?
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Sit with it.
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Don't rush past it.
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Number five, pray this one sentence prayer.
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Lord, show me where I'm choosing comfort over your calling.
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He'll reveal it because he loves you too much not to.
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Let me leave you with this.
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The pain of discipline lasts for a moment.
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The pain of regret can last a lifetime.
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And you get to choose which one shapes your story.
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You were made for more than comfort.
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You were made for courage.
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You were made to lead your family with strength, honesty, and intention.
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So choose the right pain today.
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Have the conversation.
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Take the step.
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Do the hard, holy thing.
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Your future self will thank you.
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Subscribe to the Courageous Men podcast so you never miss an episode.
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Will you share this with a friend who keeps putting off the hard things he knows he needs to do?
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You know, start by joining the Courageous Men community.
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Let's take action.
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Let's be courageous.
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上下文与背景
在这段视频中，演讲者深刻探讨了自律和悔恨之间的选择。他提醒我们，尽管我们常常因追求舒适而避免面对难以做出的决定，然而这些选择会对我们的生活产生重大影响。无论是与伴侣的诚实对话，还是投入更多时间关注家人，演讲者强调唯有主动行动，才能避免将来的悔恨。通过引用圣经的智慧，他鼓励我们采取自律的态度，面对内心深处的不安和期望，以实现更好的生活。
日常沟通的五大短语
- 选择你的痛苦： Discipline or regret.
- 避免并非中立： Avoidance is not neutral.
- 行动胜于意图： God honors action, not just intention.
- 成功与内心的平静： Success that looks impressive from the outside and feels numb on the inside.
- 不可拖延： You keep avoiding doing something about it.
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