“I’ve Tried Everything!” | The Key To Getting Past Stuck | Steven Furtick & Brendon Burchard

Pastor Steven: Write in the comments. I’m
not stuck. And just put that in the comment,

even though you’re like, I am stuck. I’m
literally stuck. I’m totally stuck. I’m really,

really stuck. Okay. That is a challenging paradigm
for people because if you look in the Bible,

Paul and Silas seemed stuck in prison, but
they praised God and the chains broke loose.

Pastor Steven: Mm. You know, Gideon seemed stuck
in a wine press, but God spoke and he became a

deliverer. Moses seems stuck as a murderer,
running as a fugitive on the backside of the

desert, and then this burning bush. And God had
40 more years of amazing things for him to do,

and all of these people felt stuck. So
I want you to tell me, what were your

reflections on this first mindset?
Pastor Steven: I’m not stuck unless

I stop. Do you agree with it? How do you
see it? How do we summon our way through

that? And let’s really dig into this first
Brendon Burchard: mindset. I love it. I, I love

every section of this chapter because it reminds
you that everyone feels stuck. I think one of the

things you did great in the book is that people
see themselves in it constantly and go, I, I do

feel stuck sometimes in my relationships.
Brendon Burchard: I feel stuck in my head.

I feel stuck in my career. What am I gonna,
what am I gonna do? And a lot of people, they

feel like that stuck is permanent. Mm-Hmm. Like,
Hey, I’m working hard, but I’m stuck. So there’s

not lack of action for them. They’re like, I’m
going to work, but I feel. Stuck. Uh, you know,

I’m working hard, but I’m not earning more.
Brendon Burchard: I feel stuck. And what

ends up happening is the more you feel stuck,

the more you spin in doubt. Wow. And
Pastor Steven: so when you’re stuck, you spin,

write that down. Yeah. When you’re stuck,
Brendon Burchard: you spin. Yeah. And people

always mistake the signal for doubt
as a signal to stop. Tell me more. But

doubt is not a doubt is not saying stop.
Brendon Burchard: Doubt is a signal to

learn. And when you change that frame in your
mind, everything changes in your life. I’m,

I’m so doubtful. Doubt doesn’t say, well, stop
and don’t learn anymore. Doubt is literally,

I don’t know. So the only way to actually
figure it out is get in motion, try test, like

doubt is the entrance to the scientific process.
Brendon Burchard: Doubt is the entrance to faith.

Wow. And so when you realize that, like, oh, I’m
having all these doubts about this thing. The

next thought should be, well, I’m gonna have to do
something to discover the answer. I’m gonna have

to do something to discover the truth. I’m gonna
have to do something to test this hypothesis.

Brendon Burchard: Well,
Pastor Steven: let’s break your flow if I

ask you something about that. No, I love it. Yeah.
Go. Every religious person in the world is pulling

up James one right now going, but the Bible
says, let he who hath faith ask and not doubt,

for he who asketh in faith shall not receive
anything from the Lord. He is a double-minded man.

Pastor Steven: Unstable in all he does. Mm-Hmm.
And I always thought that verse meant not,

you know, don’t have doubts or don’t feel doubts.
I thought it just meant go through the door of

your doubt to get to the other side. Yeah. And
Brendon Burchard: find your faith. Right,

right. Well, I think a Lot of themes
of the Bible are, do not be afraid, or,

as you taught me, be strong and courageous.
Brendon Burchard: Uh, that presupposes Yeah.

Some doubt. Right. Most of the Bible
presupposes. We have doubts. Yeah.

Pastor Steven: If he says Be strong, I must feel
weak because I wouldn’t tell you to sit down. You

Brendon Burchard: already are. Yeah.
He didn’t start the story. We, we,

Gideon doesn’t start the story as, you know,
a mighty warrior, a champion and a warrior.

Brendon Burchard: Yeah. Yeah. He starts in the
wine press a wimp in a wine press. Yeah. Uh,

yeah. David doesn’t start the story with
the sling. I mean, so you have to go, oh,

each of these stories starts in a place often
of doubt. Yeah. Or discouragement, despair,

division between people. We have to cycle
through that. But the thing is, I always say,

well, that’s why there’s another verse.
Brendon Burchard: That’s why there’s another

chapter. It’s why there’s something more. It’s
like, it might, the story might begin in doubt,

but the story doesn’t stop there. And we have
to remember that in our own lives. And so what

I loved about this first chapter where you saying,
I’m not stuck unless I stop, is you unlock a

lot of reasons that people should not stop.
Brendon Burchard: And realize that they can

change. Uh, I love how you talk about, you know,
you can defy your default. Yeah. That maybe your

default was to stop or to do these bad negative
behaviors, but you can work your way through them.

You can change, you can shift. And I think that’s
a hopeful message for a lot of people because

they really do believe that they’re stuck.
Brendon Burchard: And stuck is a place of

permanence when what your book is teaching
’em stuck was a mindset. Mm-Hmm. And you can

change your mind. So you can change your
Pastor Steven: life. Yeah. You know,

when you say stuck, you’re probably thinking of
all the people that you’ve coached who basically

thought they had gone as far as they could go.
Pastor Steven: Mm-Hmm. You know, whether that’s

in their business or whether they
had wrecked their personal life,

building their business. And part of what
you do is to walk into somebody who goes,

and I’ve heard you say this phrase before. I
love it. You go, I’ve tried everything. Right,

right. Yeah. And you go. Oh yeah, everything.
Pastor Steven: Yeah, I’ve tried everything. And

then walk through it. Because you have
an exercise, you make people do that I

Brendon Burchard: love. Yeah. I’d say, well, I
tried everything. I’m awesome. I’m so excited.

And I get really encouraged for them and
they, I say, well, if you tried everything,

show me the list. And they go, what do you mean?
Brendon Burchard: I say, well, show me the list.

You tried everything. I mean, if you tried
everything, then you must have kept a list

really detailed of all the things you
tried, because of course you’d have to

know what’s mutually exclusive. You’d have
to know what you tried and didn’t work,

and you’d have to adjust and do it over again.
Brendon Burchard: So show me the list. And most

often people will go, well, you know, I tried once
or twice and I tried the same. Well, I asked my

boss for a raise on Monday. Asked him on Friday.
Asked him the same way every time. All the time.

But I’ve been asking, so you’ve been asking,
okay, but you haven’t been adding new value.

Brendon Burchard: So it’s like you tried
one strategy and you hit it 50 times and

you didn’t adjust it from another way. You
haven’t tried everything. You tried what you

knew. Mm-Hmm. You need to get perspective
or approach it in a different way. And I

think often too, people when they think of
stuck, they think of just negative things.

Brendon Burchard: I’m stuck in a bad marriage.
A lot of people are, are stuck in a very happy

marriage. And what I mean by that is they
don’t need to leave the marriage. They have

to learn to be different. Try a new angle
to find the happiness, the fulfillment,

or the intimacy in the marriage. So what I
mean by that is sometimes people, they’re

stuck is really, they’re just at a plateau.
Brendon Burchard: They’re actually successful,

they’re actually doing well. Things are good.
And a lot of high performances are going, oh,

you’re just, you’re doing well. You’re actually
high performing, but there’s this next level for

you. And I think that I actually got that
out of the book as much as I got out of,

oh, I’m in despair, I’m troubled, things are bad.
Brendon Burchard: What I also took from the book

was, I. Things are going well, but there’s
a new level for me when I’m in a more,

in a greater connection to my faith.
Pastor Steven: Yeah.

Brendon Burchard: speaking about plateaus, you
have this great statement in the book, don’t

Argue for your Limitations. Yeah. What do you mean
by that? Because I think a lot of people, they are

stuck, but they’re stuck in their own limitation.
Pastor Steven: I heard a motivational speaker say

it one time. He said, if you argue for
your limitations, you get to keep them.

Pastor Steven: And that convicted me
because I realized how many times I’d

do it. I don’t know if I’m arguing with God
like Moses did, God, I can’t speak, you know,

send somebody else. I don’t feel like I’m arguing
with God. I feel like I’m just arguing against

myself and I realize what I’m actually Agreeing
with in that moment is the enemy’s view of me.

Pastor Steven: Yes. And I don’t mean limitation.
Hey, you’ve never picked up a basketball, but you

could play in the NBA and you’re 54 years old.
That’s not the kinda limitation I have in mind.

I mean, the kind of limitation that is rooted in a
lie where you know God is calling you. To be this

kind of person and to make this kind of impact,
or you sense that he’s giving you a glimpse and

giving you a step to take, and then you start
building the case against yourself and gathering

evidence for why there’s a deficiency in you.
Pastor Steven: And so the, the quote just blew

my mind. If you argue for your limitations, you
get to keep them. Mm-Hmm. You live small, you stay

in that space. You actually begin to fulfill that
prophecy, not the prophecy of God over your life,

but your own prophecy. The you, you start to
fulfill the enemy’s prophecy over your life that

you’ll never be this and your dad wasn’t that.
Pastor Steven: So what I did, I took that quote,

and in the book, I take it a little further. I
say, if you argue for your limitations, you get

to keep them. But if you agree with God about
your potential, you get to grow into it. Ooh,

Brendon Burchard: that’s good. Grow
Pastor Steven: into it. That’s good. You know,

that’s a whole sermon. Put it into check,
grow into it, because growing into it means.

Pastor Steven: No, I’m not it right now. Like
any more than I was five-nine when I was five

mm-Hmm. But I get to grow into it, and I think
that first step of agreeing with God about your

potential is to go, God, you know what’s in me?
I don’t, and that’s why I’m very wary of just

the know thyself philosophy. Right? Mm-Hmm.
Pastor Steven: Like, know thyself is great,

but how about part two? Grow thyself?
Yes. Yeah. Because that’s the, i I, the,

the outgrow of reflection and awareness
and self-acceptance is that I’m going to

grow into who God knows me to be. That’s the
message of the book. I was writing this book

to myself in places going do the new you, the,
the you that you don’t know yet, but that God

already does the one that he
Brendon Burchard: chose.

Brendon Burchard: Yeah. And have faith in yourself
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you. A concept, which is a hard thing, a concept
to grow into concept. Well, think about this.

You’re growing in the faith of yourself, which
Pastor Steven: is very hard for people of

yourself because people will say, don’t
believe in yourself. Believe in God.

Pastor Steven: Here’s the problem I have with
that. Who made you? If God made me and I don’t

believe in me what he called me to be, then it’s
him. I doubt, right? And that really helps me to

get past this sticking point where I feel
like, well, I just don’t wanna hype myself

up and say that, you know, I can do great things.
Pastor Steven: Well, I can do all things through

Christ who strengthens me. Yes. So I think the
two go hand in hand. That’s why I was passionate

to get this masterclass going to get people out
of, and to get you out of this mindset that says,

well, God is great, but I’m no good. Okay?
Yeah. We’re all sinners. We all need Jesus.

Pastor Steven: We all need forgiveness. But we’ve
been redeemed by him. So what does that speak of

us? That he paid that price for us. And that’s
the limitation that I want you to grow beyond

this view of you that only sees you as flesh
and bones and mistakes and disappointments,

and to grow into the image of God
that you were originally created to be

Brendon Burchard: So good.
Brendon Burchard: I thought

of when I was reading it, the, the angle you
took on, don’t argue for your limitations,

which was also, you were saying be careful
about justifying all your vulnerabilities and

your challenges and what’s wrong with you,
because it’s easy to go, well, you know,

I’m not a good communicator because, and soon
you say, because you enter the world of either

blame or self-comfort to say, I’m not a good
communicator because my parents were mean to me.

Brendon Burchard: And so I always tell people,
listen on limitations. Always listen for the

word because wow, I’m like this because, and
you’ll often add a negative thing. My parents

were like this. They didn’t believe in me. She
mistreated me. They cheated, they stole. Or

we’re doing it for our own comfort because we
don’t believe we have empathy from the world.

Brendon Burchard: So sometimes when we share our
limitations and our vulnerabilities with people,

what we’re doing is we’re reaching out.
We’re saying, Hey, you know, I’m, you know,

let me just be vulnerable with you real quick.
What is doing? Could you please see me? Can you

recognize me? ’cause I’m not feeling like I
like myself, or I’m not feeling good, seen,

heard, or I don’t feel like the world is fair.
Brendon Burchard: So let me tell you this

thing that’s unfair for me. Could you see it
and acknowledge it and say to me, oh yeah,

that is unfair. Or, oh, I understand now why
you are like that. And the whole conversation

suddenly does something funny. It justifies
and sets concrete around the limitation. Well,

suddenly we have verbalized the reason because
we’ve verbalized the reason for the limitation.

Brendon Burchard: And now we coalesce around it
and we actually just made it stronger. And so

empathy can be like that, which we don’t talk
about in the modern world. Sometimes overly

placating to people’s, you know, vulnerabilities
or limitations and staying on it and stewing on

it all day doesn’t actually move them through.
Brendon Burchard: It’s often the difference in my

career of, as we’ll share the difference sometimes
between a therapist and a coach. Both absolutely

necessary. And I’m a huge mental health guy. Um,
but there is a difference. Sometimes we’ll spend

more time over here in a therapeutic context
and a coach is gonna try to move you through

that limitation a little bit more aggressively.
Brendon Burchard: Not that either is right,

both can be really wrong. But I think it’s just
a casual way to say to people, be careful of

just always talking about the limitation and
arguing for it, and seeking the empathy and

understanding and comfort because all of a sudden
you miss the ability to move through it. And I

thought that the movement through the book.
Brendon Burchard: You took people on was so

powerful because you didn’t let ’em sit there.
Pastor Steven: Well, thank you for saying

that because when I wrote the mindset,
I’m not stuck unless I stop. I thought

this could come across really callous to
somebody Sure. Who just found out like,

I’m never gonna be able to have children, or I’m

never going to be able to fulfill this dream.
Pastor Steven: Or I’m never gonna have my health

back like I did before. Or this person has gone
outta my life like I lost my dad. And in this area

of my life, I do feel like there is a limitation.
Well, there, there is a loss. Mm-Hmm. But I’m

trying to get you opened up. And anytime I talk
about this, I cannot help but think about Moses

and the children of Israel at the Red Sea, right?
Pastor Steven: And they’re like, okay, God,

help us. Help us, help us. And they cried
out and Moses says, don’t worry. Stand

still. And you will see the salvation of
the Lord. Right? Next verse. God says,

why are you crying out to me? Tell the Israelites,
move on. Mm-Hmm. So it sounds spiritual. They’re

crying out to God. The Lord will deliver you
and he will through you, moving through it.

Pastor Steven: Right. And I love that about
personal development. I love that about having

a coach to help us through these things and
bring our faith into motion so that we can

actually see Faith Without Works is dead and
that God promises to bring you through it.