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How a PLAN can change your life
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- The Nate Whitson Podcast
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- Dec 15, 2025
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Are you tired of getting blindsided by the same temptation over and over again—and losing the battle in the moment… again? https://www.getinthefight.club/7 — If you’re looking for help to break bad habits or build better ones and you want to be the man God made you to be, check out this link and our 7-Day Challenge — an email-based course absolutely free to help you learn how to change and grow and become more of the man you’re meant to be. In this episode, we start with one of the most iconic moments in sports history: Game 6 of the 1998 NBA Finals. Michael Jordan steals the ball from Karl Malone, hits the game-winning shot, and later says, “I never doubted the whole game.” Why? Because he had already seen the play before it happened. He visualized it, rehearsed it, and when the moment came—he simply executed. What if you could approach your temptations the same way? Instead of getting ambushed and relying on raw willpower, what if you had a clear, God-centered game plan before the moment of temptation ever showed up? That’s what we’re talking about today: using a simple If–Then Pause Plan to “see the play before it happens” and start winning the battles that keep taking you out. 🧠 Big Idea: You’re Not Weak… You’re Unprepared Most Christian men think their main problem is a lack of willpower. But the truth is, the reason we fall again and again often isn’t that we’re uniquely weak—it’s that we’re unprepared. When temptation hits and you have no script, no plan, and no pre-decided response… you will almost always lose in the moment. But when you’ve already seen the temptation and decided what you’re going to do when it shows up, you’re not scrambling—you’re executing. Just like Jordan studied his opponent and anticipated the play, you can learn to anticipate your own p…