So if you're still with me then I hope you find in this section relatively interesting over here in
this video.
I'm going to share with you an honest story about something that happened to me at one point in the
past because what I could do I could just share with you a definition the difference between fear and
faith and why this is important.
But I really want to help you understand.
So if I tell you a story I'm hoping that you're going to be able to see things from my perspective and
therefore understand what it is that I understand about this interesting little word because we've already
established.
Up until now that faith is actually the complete opposite of fear.
If there was a spectrum far left fears are one side.
And faith is on the far right.
Anyone ever comes to you know some point in the future for life coaching they got a problem.
They know what they really want to do.
They've got some gall some ambitions some dreams some aspirations or whatever.
And there's always going to be something that's holding them back and this something is always going
to be fear fear or fear we are fear of not succeeding.
Fear of the worst possible overcome fear of being let down fear of something.
And what these things would mean about them as human beings because of fundamentally not secure who
they are.
Faith on the other hand is is doing words I have already mentioned faith.
The reason I'm producing this course right now I'm doing so in faith I've said some swear words.
I've said some quite controversial things in faith that some people are going to be able to overlook
some of my little controversial realities and fundamentally grasp the lessons and the principles that
I'm teaching.
So therefore then go out there and practice all this stuff.
Are people so going back quite a number of years ago I was living in Australia in Perth in Western Australia.
And I was going through this phase of life.
I was quite lonely at the time and didn't really have any friends in fact I didn't know anyone.
I'd recently come out of a quite a long term very destructive relationship alright and I was heartbroken.
I was lonely.
I was sad but I had my three point sixty two years and I was driving up the west coast of Australia
doing a little a little bit of backpacking.
I admit a couple of the guys on the way back then this was way before social media came on the scene
so you didn't have Facebook to get people's names and other back stories.
All we had was a couple of nicknames that we had for each other and if you've ever gone back pack and
our own history we are travelling you know that people come and then people go you might meet someone
over there for a few days and they go on and you never hear from them or see them ever again and there
is all that's different no because social media is exempt but by then you meet someone you may spend
a day or two with them and then move on.
There were Seeleys.
I see this too because this is kind of what happened to me and many other three guys.
And for two days we travelled on the west coast of Australia from fremantle up to a place called Coral
Bay at this place coral be one of the most beautiful places either were visited in my entire life.
There was no fool beach just made of shells these tiny little shells and that you know you had Silver
Sands beaches crystal clear blue seas.
The third just for American culture is Australian culture.
This phenomenal it's solid.
And so warming.
If I make sense or I've met these guys und on the night that we got there we'd had a bit of a campfire
on the beach and we'd had some beers and some news.
Can you walk up the next morning.
I was a little bit hole over where the other guys apart from one because one of the guys we met was
amaldi a guy a South Pacific Islander and he had a bit of an idea for us for that day and this was to
Mr get a ball and go right out to sea.
But he'd been walking first thing in the morning and he'd met a local fishermen who suggested that there's
a really cool spot just a few a mile or so with a giant sea turtles had had some young.
No this was something that even the tourists wouldn't get to see in preservation preservation right
and all that sort of thing.
So this this modie guy Howard's managed to get his hands on this glass bottom boat.
So when he came into to the hostel in which we were staying and we said you guys wake up and I've got
a boat Let's go to see the sea turtles.
There was first thing in the morning and well to be honest with you I was still half drunk so we hiked
the snorkels or fenn's a.m. loads a drink drinking water.
I could have headache tablets and off we went.
So we got the boot.
We're going to see.
And after we'd reached kind of the edge.
Refined would put an anchor down so the orts was stationary and then we swam out to see the giant sea
turtles.
No bag.
Then again this was before all the smart phones and still cameras really got good.
I just had this old disposable underwater camera that takes terrible shots and you've got no idea whether
the shots you take in are actually going to come out good or are you just pointing in and hoping for
the best.
So I was taking photographs of all the new more flesh and dorry's and all that sort of thing.
When this dark shadow we must just swam right underneath me.
BOYLE Well.
Born Bob.
I was a bull shark.
I couldn't believe it.
No I had been a little bit of research because Google was about bug back then I did know how to do a
google search.
Sure wasn't dated.
Saw the bull shark.
With this kind of rounded flats of flat rounded face a reputation for literally just ripping apart its
prey with its razor sharp teeth and.
And my mom was like this.
Five pounds 50 pounds five pence pensive depends.
I was absolutely petrified I didn't know what to do.
I had an option.
No because the other three guys they were just a little bit ahead of me in the water.
Here we are back in the middle of the Pacific Ocean.
All right swimming off the west coast of Australia.
What on earth have absolute.
EDDIE Yes there are sharks in these waters.
So my options were swim back to the boards cries leave the guys every man for himself or sumo to warn
the guys.
So having been in the army and all understand camaraderie and all that sort of thing and no one gets
left behind.
So swing back and you know do my own thing just wasn't an option.
So some of the guys over here as we were in 0 4 of us bobbing in the water the other guys oblivious
to what I just seen and I was kind of panicking.
Pain with this funny unusual calmness as well as panic and fear but there was also I think a calmness
knowing that there was I had no way of controlling what was going to happen next.
Here was a little murn bobbing in the middle of the ocean.
Right.
Not my torain or ice.
Us human beings.
We have a chance to walk on the seas not I to play with horror.
So here we are and I and the guy says Will Cain what's what's the problem.
I said all looked over I saw a shark saw a shark.
And then the Aussie guy that was with us from the east coast of Australia.
He just went under the water and there were all bobbing away and then he came back up any weight has
goggles and he said look down and there was two bull sharks no circling us where we way down own it.
Cain just seemed so real didn't quite seem real.
Kind of like we were watching a movie or something like that you see this sort of thing in the movie.
And I just didn't know what to do.
So to say an Idea him I got a suggestion and then the modie guy said yes I agree we have we have options
we have options here and the rest of us myself.
The Aussie guy and a German guy who was with us we were all years as the mole he went on to say well
option one we have right.
Because we'd left the shore.
We'd gone out to sea on a board to see a giant sea turtles when they were here with three you know we
were bobbing about here.
In between a boy and a giant sea turtles.
So the man guy said right option one we swim back to the Bought a will may get an insurance on the way
back to the bortz.
He said Option 2 is because swim out to sea the giant sea turtle was originally planned but all might
get picked off by the sharks and that way over there.
Myself and the other guys I think we were just waiting to see if there was any option that didn't involve
getting in by sharks.
So he went on to say what.
Option 3 is we saw most and sea turtles.
We see them then swim back to the water on the way back.
The ball would get by the sharks.
No thank you.
We all said this is our any option doesn't involve giving in by sharks.
C'mon we need some help here.
And he said yeah there is option for us we swim out cinergi and see Turtle swim around them swim back
to the board get the ball then head back to the beach where we'll go to each house for a beer.
And at this point deep sea logic just kind of kicked in.
This was the only auction that didn't involve jenean by sharks.
So the Aussie guy said listen you know um I'm thinking it's probably going to be quite good.
Quite a bit the pre.
No me.
I'm not being a particularly religious man in fact nor religious men at all.
I didn't know how to pray as well as I do on all that.
I don't know what to say who say something so he'll actually just close his eyes and we can close the
rice bobbing up and down in the water.
And he said something along the lines off Dear God myself.
And the boys have got ourselves into a bit of a pickle.
Could you please give those egg Bloody sharks something else to eat so that they'll leave us the hell
alone.
Amen.
I myself hear that the other boys will out.
Yeah yeah yeah.
Amen.
And ironically ironically our senior moment.
Changed and became faith because foyles the luck point.
We were kind of petrifies.
We had no control as to whether we lived or died.
The minute we prayed that prayer our haub know was all lodged and focussed on the best possible outcome
that we were going to execute this plan.
So most see the giant sea turtles make it back to the port and get back to the beach.
All life all in one piece.
So our focus changed from away from the worst case scenario and on to the best case scenario of what
happened on our insides.
Also completely changed.
No I'm not saying this was the wisest options All right.
We were for young M. Young and daft guys.
I guess we fundamentally all realized that you know that.
The only thing that were actually able to control in life is hope is that we choose to react or respond
to the situations and circumstances that we find were self.
Whether we were even alive that day whether we lived or whether we died was not going to be determined
by us we were not able to control that.
And this dad gave us this ironic sense of peace.
It took me a couple of years to understand this whole experience but it's one that's absolutely right
the changed my life.
So what happened was we swam out.
We saw the giant sea turtles were around the back then we all made it back to the board.
All four of us got in the board.
And then turned on the outboard motor and we started heading back to the to the shore to the beach and
just to be honest here really just to be clear there wasn't much conversation going on in the board.
We were all pretty focussed on the shore line and none of us were looking back.
So as we got around the boats are about 20 or 30 meters from the from the shore outboard motor packed
end.
And if you've ever seen four fully grown men jump overboard and swim for the life.
What we did today.
Honestly I just try swam for it.
And long story short we all made it back to the beach that day.
None of us made it to the beach house for a beer because as soon as we were walking up there walk in
back of the beach pretty much all four of us collapsed.
Face down on the cerned with us exhausting adrenaline come down.
No.
Tell me this story it's not one of these psychological metaphors or anything like that it's actually
a true story.
The Rice may have made some absolutely ridiculous decisions and choices through my lifetime.
But even in the midst in the context of this ridiculous decision that I made I was able to put my faith
before fear.
And as I put faith before fère faith in the best possible outcome opposed to the worst mohole Internal
in say World Transformed for the better perspective.
Perception.
So I am wondering if you could take a few moments to consider times in your past where you have chosen
to put faith before fear and I'm hoping that by no we don't have any religious context applied to this.
No faith in terms of a practical choice a choice of maturity and character.
I do appreciate that it's not.
I'm not talking about this in the same way that many other people were and the world would talk about
it religiously leave religion aside faith in an action or a choice in expectation of the best case scenario
because it's people men and women who acto and step up and face to do things and accomplish things in
chief things in life.
So take a few more missed no and just reflect upon times in the past when you have stepped out in faith.
Some of these times things might may have worked out for you at times.
Things may not have worked out for you either way whether that or whether then what you learned are
uninteresting or a final life lesson regardless Slee.
So if there is a lesson to be learned from this write it down or fold a senior again in the next review.