WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:08.440 Hey everyone! Hope y'all are doing good. I am just going to add Agile just in 2 00:00:08.440 --> 00:00:16.880 case anyone just happens to want to know that I am on. So, here we go. So, I hope 3 00:00:16.880 --> 00:00:21.480 y'all are doing good. I am on earlier today than I have been in the past while. 4 00:00:21.480 --> 00:00:28.680 I am gonna try to get to bed earlier tonight. I am just so tired and then I 5 00:00:28.680 --> 00:00:34.160 just got off a long client call and I wanted to jump on live today. I've 6 00:00:34.160 --> 00:00:38.160 had this on my mind to talk about all day today and I think I got the idea 7 00:00:38.160 --> 00:00:44.240 yesterday when I did our live. I mentioned that at 8 00:00:44.240 --> 00:00:49.600 some point I wanted to talk about the use of business goals while 9 00:00:49.600 --> 00:00:54.400 operating from a place of rest. So, I've seen business goals used in a variety of 10 00:00:54.400 --> 00:00:59.840 ways and I have a very interesting perspective on actually how business 11 00:00:59.840 --> 00:01:05.640 goals should be used because it's coming from a place of rest. So, this is how 12 00:01:05.640 --> 00:01:16.680 actually I do business goals. So, it is very counter, I suppose, to, well 13 00:01:16.680 --> 00:01:20.360 it is, it's very counter to what most people speak of when they speak of goals 14 00:01:20.440 --> 00:01:25.560 where, like say for instance, the really popular current law of attraction or 15 00:01:25.560 --> 00:01:31.960 they speak a lot about this where they believe that what you need to do and 16 00:01:31.960 --> 00:01:37.480 this is a really popular idea right now, that in order to achieve a goal that you 17 00:01:37.480 --> 00:01:42.240 need to focus on it really, really, really hard and you need to make sure that 18 00:01:42.240 --> 00:01:46.480 whatever happens, that whatever you do, you're not swayed from it. So, say for 19 00:01:46.480 --> 00:01:53.600 instance, that you have an idea in your mind that you want this and it could be 20 00:01:53.600 --> 00:01:58.920 any kind of a goal. It could be that your goal gets to a certain number 21 00:01:58.920 --> 00:02:06.680 amount of, I don't know, followers or a certain number of clients or it 22 00:02:06.680 --> 00:02:11.720 could be a certain dollar amount, whichever, but you have a specific goal 23 00:02:11.720 --> 00:02:14.720 in mind or it can be something totally different. I mean, we're gonna put like a 24 00:02:14.720 --> 00:02:18.280 little triangle here. It could be something like you want your business to 25 00:02:18.280 --> 00:02:23.100 look a particular way. You want it to provide a particular function in your 26 00:02:23.100 --> 00:02:30.120 life, whatever. So, and then let's say that this is you down here. So, you're trying 27 00:02:30.120 --> 00:02:37.840 to move yourself and move your business from here to wherever your goal is. 28 00:02:37.840 --> 00:02:44.400 Well, so typically people think, okay, well what you need to figure out what it 29 00:02:44.400 --> 00:02:50.480 is that you want. Get very, very clear on it and repeat it to yourself every day. 30 00:02:50.480 --> 00:02:56.040 Put it on your vision board. Is all this sounding familiar yet? Put it on your 31 00:02:56.040 --> 00:03:02.800 vision board. Remind yourself of it every day. Maybe write it in your journal. 32 00:03:02.800 --> 00:03:08.120 Repeat it to yourself. Always picture yourself in that place, etc., etc. 33 00:03:08.120 --> 00:03:13.120 Well, okay, so here's the problem with that, especially from a place of rest. 34 00:03:13.120 --> 00:03:21.880 So, and so what it is is you think, okay, well I've gotten a goal so now I have a 35 00:03:21.880 --> 00:03:26.320 direction. That's good. You got yourself a direction because otherwise you're 36 00:03:26.320 --> 00:03:30.360 like, I have no idea which direction I'm going. Where on earth am I going with this 37 00:03:30.360 --> 00:03:34.240 business? Am I going here, here, here? Am I coming out this way? Am I coming out 38 00:03:34.240 --> 00:03:38.440 that way? You know, where am I gonna head? Finally, you get a goal and you're like, 39 00:03:38.440 --> 00:03:42.720 okay, good. I've got a direction. That is huge for people when they feel, because 40 00:03:42.720 --> 00:03:46.680 everyone feels at sea when they're trying to move their business along and 41 00:03:46.680 --> 00:03:51.120 they're trying to make progress and yet they feel that they're directionless. 42 00:03:51.120 --> 00:03:56.320 So, so this gives you a direction and you start heading in this direction. 43 00:03:56.320 --> 00:04:04.560 Well, the problem if we stay, if we insist on keeping this vision looking exactly 44 00:04:04.560 --> 00:04:10.800 like this, very, very static, very, very structured, very, very rigid. You remember 45 00:04:10.800 --> 00:04:14.400 yesterday we were talking about the problem with rigidity in business. So if 46 00:04:14.400 --> 00:04:18.880 we keep it very, very, very rigid, well then it is not accounting for all kinds 47 00:04:18.880 --> 00:04:25.120 of things that could happen along the way that, all kinds of changes that maybe 48 00:04:25.120 --> 00:04:29.640 we hadn't anticipated, all kinds of factors that we hadn't anticipated. 49 00:04:29.640 --> 00:04:37.680 Perhaps we even, sorry I'm getting a message, perhaps we even didn't, had 50 00:04:37.680 --> 00:04:43.080 created this vision believing that certain things were going to be in our 51 00:04:43.080 --> 00:04:47.560 life by, that were in our life now or that we projected would be in our life 52 00:04:47.560 --> 00:04:52.080 then and we had to make that goal in relationship to the belief that that 53 00:04:52.080 --> 00:04:58.400 other thing would be there. So if we continue on this path and just insist 54 00:04:58.400 --> 00:05:02.240 with the Lord, okay well Lord this is 55 00:05:00.000 --> 00:05:01.440 the only thing that I want, 56 00:05:01.440 --> 00:05:04.780 this is exactly how I want it to look, et cetera. 57 00:05:04.780 --> 00:05:06.420 Then we've got a few problems, 58 00:05:06.420 --> 00:05:09.200 one of which is, again, we never know 59 00:05:09.200 --> 00:05:11.840 what kind of changes that life is gonna throw at us, 60 00:05:11.840 --> 00:05:13.800 and then we think that we're going, 61 00:05:13.800 --> 00:05:16.320 and then so whenever there does come a change, 62 00:05:16.320 --> 00:05:21.320 we see it as some kind of a measure of thwarting us. 63 00:05:23.600 --> 00:05:27.640 We take it very personally, we get extremely discouraged, 64 00:05:27.640 --> 00:05:32.400 we see it as kind of like as knocking us off course, 65 00:05:32.400 --> 00:05:35.440 as if it's attacking us, as if it's this problem, 66 00:05:35.440 --> 00:05:38.280 and you never know, it could be the Lord. 67 00:05:39.280 --> 00:05:44.280 And so if you keep yourself in this trajectory, 68 00:05:44.760 --> 00:05:47.800 you're gonna have to fight harder. 69 00:05:47.800 --> 00:05:50.080 So when people like, say, for instance, 70 00:05:50.080 --> 00:05:52.720 the law of attraction or other people, 71 00:05:52.720 --> 00:05:55.120 I'm trying to think of what other names are out there 72 00:05:55.320 --> 00:05:58.160 of the type of people that believe this, 73 00:05:58.160 --> 00:06:01.560 where you determine, I am the thing, 74 00:06:03.840 --> 00:06:06.880 and if I focus on it hard and long enough, 75 00:06:06.880 --> 00:06:09.640 it will come to me, or I will go to it, 76 00:06:09.640 --> 00:06:11.440 whichever they believe, which of course, 77 00:06:11.440 --> 00:06:13.500 the law of attraction believes that it comes to them. 78 00:06:13.500 --> 00:06:16.680 But the point is that you really have to do 79 00:06:16.680 --> 00:06:19.240 what is sometimes referred to in the spiritual, 80 00:06:19.240 --> 00:06:20.880 like the Christian spiritual world, 81 00:06:20.880 --> 00:06:22.920 is holding your confession. 82 00:06:22.920 --> 00:06:27.120 It is very, very, very hard work, 83 00:06:27.120 --> 00:06:29.400 because all kinds of things are gonna try 84 00:06:29.400 --> 00:06:34.080 to knock you off course, not necessarily, you know, 85 00:06:34.080 --> 00:06:38.040 because it's Satan or the enemy or anything like that, 86 00:06:38.040 --> 00:06:39.680 just life changes. 87 00:06:39.680 --> 00:06:41.760 Sometimes there are gonna be changes in your own life 88 00:06:41.760 --> 00:06:44.480 that you actually like, but because they mess 89 00:06:44.480 --> 00:06:49.480 with your vision, because they mess with your destination, 90 00:06:49.600 --> 00:06:51.360 you actually now see those things 91 00:06:51.360 --> 00:06:53.680 that are actually very good that you normally really like, 92 00:06:53.680 --> 00:06:55.680 you now see them as a problem. 93 00:06:55.680 --> 00:06:57.880 You're like, well, I like this, but. 94 00:06:57.880 --> 00:06:59.600 Well, there shouldn't be a but 95 00:06:59.600 --> 00:07:01.640 when a good thing comes into our lives, 96 00:07:01.640 --> 00:07:03.400 but if we have this idea in our mind 97 00:07:03.400 --> 00:07:05.880 that, well, this is exactly how it should be, 98 00:07:05.880 --> 00:07:07.560 then we just get frustrated and thwarted, 99 00:07:07.560 --> 00:07:09.680 and we don't see the good things 100 00:07:09.680 --> 00:07:12.840 that are trying to intervene, 101 00:07:12.840 --> 00:07:14.800 that are trying to come into our lives. 102 00:07:14.800 --> 00:07:17.620 We don't see them as the good things that they are, 103 00:07:17.620 --> 00:07:20.640 and it is very difficult to maintain this. 104 00:07:20.640 --> 00:07:23.280 It is extremely difficult 105 00:07:23.280 --> 00:07:26.000 because the winds are buffeting us from this direction, 106 00:07:26.000 --> 00:07:27.360 winds are buffeting, you know, 107 00:07:27.360 --> 00:07:28.560 change are buffeting us 108 00:07:28.560 --> 00:07:30.440 from all kinds of different directions, 109 00:07:30.440 --> 00:07:33.400 and it is very difficult to stay the course. 110 00:07:33.400 --> 00:07:37.720 So do you hear that we have to work harder? 111 00:07:37.720 --> 00:07:41.400 In other words, this right here, what is this? 112 00:07:41.400 --> 00:07:45.640 In order to maintain it, it's strife. 113 00:07:45.640 --> 00:07:49.800 In other words, striving. 114 00:07:49.800 --> 00:07:53.320 We have to work very hard to maintain that, 115 00:07:54.920 --> 00:07:59.300 and that makes the journey very difficult, very arduous, 116 00:08:00.840 --> 00:08:04.440 and we can finally, hopefully, we can finally arrive. 117 00:08:04.440 --> 00:08:07.740 If we push hard enough, we absolutely can arrive, 118 00:08:07.740 --> 00:08:12.120 absolutely, because our world is framed by our words, 119 00:08:12.120 --> 00:08:15.840 and if we continue to confess strong and hard enough, 120 00:08:15.840 --> 00:08:17.040 you know, in our soul, 121 00:08:17.040 --> 00:08:21.080 we can actually form into reality 122 00:08:21.080 --> 00:08:23.880 that which we have dictated. 123 00:08:23.880 --> 00:08:27.200 However, that is not operating from a place of rest. 124 00:08:27.200 --> 00:08:28.880 What God desires us to do 125 00:08:28.880 --> 00:08:33.679 in operating from a place of rest is, 126 00:08:33.679 --> 00:08:35.760 say, for instance, our God knows us 127 00:08:35.760 --> 00:08:38.480 and our hearts better than we do, 128 00:08:38.480 --> 00:08:42.539 and so we think, in our limited understanding, 129 00:08:42.539 --> 00:08:44.460 this looks like a good idea, 130 00:08:44.460 --> 00:08:47.060 but what it is that God really wants 131 00:08:47.060 --> 00:08:50.820 and that he knows that we actually really want too, 132 00:08:50.820 --> 00:08:54.940 him and I, both of us together in our relationship with him, 133 00:08:54.940 --> 00:08:56.980 he knows that actually this 134 00:08:56.980 --> 00:08:59.300 is what it is that we really want, 135 00:08:59.300 --> 00:09:03.240 so we actually would be happier with this number of clients, 136 00:09:03.240 --> 00:09:06.720 with this amount of money, 137 00:09:06.720 --> 00:09:10.020 or with our business looking actually like this, 138 00:09:10.020 --> 00:09:12.820 and the dollar amount might be different, 139 00:09:12.820 --> 00:09:14.380 the number might be different, 140 00:09:14.380 --> 00:09:16.140 or the business might look different, 141 00:09:16.140 --> 00:09:17.740 but regardless, the thing is, 142 00:09:17.740 --> 00:09:20.460 God knows that all the way around, 143 00:09:20.460 --> 00:09:23.080 the way that your business fits into your life, 144 00:09:23.080 --> 00:09:26.060 the way that you effortlessly flow through it, 145 00:09:26.060 --> 00:09:30.700 the way that you interact with your clients 146 00:09:30.700 --> 00:09:33.300 over here versus over here, 147 00:09:33.300 --> 00:09:38.300 all around, this, he knows, is what you're going to want. 148 00:09:38.940 --> 00:09:42.340 So, but if you have your eye only on this, 149 00:09:42.380 --> 00:09:44.220 and if you don't get here, 150 00:09:44.220 --> 00:09:47.340 all you see is that you didn't get here. 151 00:09:47.340 --> 00:09:49.980 You didn't see the beauty and the joy 152 00:09:49.980 --> 00:09:52.820 of the fact that God allowed you to get here. 153 00:09:52.820 --> 00:09:55.820 So, which I know that I just kind of 154 00:09:55.820 --> 00:09:57.380 blew through that really fast, 155 00:09:57.380 --> 00:10:00.140 but, so let me just say that in. 156 00:10:00.000 --> 00:10:08.120 Instead of holding your course and keeping that confession there, which you can only 157 00:10:08.120 --> 00:10:15.600 do from places of striving, the best thing that you can do is actually to allow yourself 158 00:10:15.600 --> 00:10:26.000 to get a goal and then we know, okay, I'm headed in this direction, otherwise we're 159 00:10:26.000 --> 00:10:27.000 just directionless. 160 00:10:27.000 --> 00:10:29.400 So hey, we got a goal, we got a direction. 161 00:10:29.400 --> 00:10:32.400 That is the whole point of that goal. 162 00:10:32.400 --> 00:10:34.400 That's the whole point. 163 00:10:34.400 --> 00:10:36.400 I need to repeat that. 164 00:10:36.400 --> 00:10:38.160 That's the whole point. 165 00:10:38.160 --> 00:10:40.600 The whole point of your goal is not the goal. 166 00:10:40.600 --> 00:10:46.160 The whole point of the goal is to give you a direction, to start out in something. 167 00:10:46.160 --> 00:10:52.520 Now what you want to do is let go of the goal because the whole point of the goal was to 168 00:10:52.520 --> 00:10:53.560 give you a direction. 169 00:10:53.560 --> 00:10:59.560 Now you start heading this way and then you allow the spirit and as you interact with 170 00:10:59.560 --> 00:11:03.360 the spirit, as life just flows, remember, it's not rigid. 171 00:11:03.360 --> 00:11:04.880 There's constant movement. 172 00:11:04.880 --> 00:11:09.200 A water in a river never looks the same and so you and your business are never going to 173 00:11:09.200 --> 00:11:10.200 look the same. 174 00:11:10.200 --> 00:11:15.600 So you think you're heading in this direction, but you allow yourself to be changed by different 175 00:11:15.600 --> 00:11:16.960 things that happen. 176 00:11:16.960 --> 00:11:20.920 The spirit hits here and the spirit hits there and then God brings all kinds of changes into 177 00:11:20.920 --> 00:11:25.680 your life and eventually you land here. 178 00:11:25.680 --> 00:11:28.280 You didn't even know that this was an option. 179 00:11:28.280 --> 00:11:34.440 You didn't even know that this was a potential destination, but God did. 180 00:11:34.440 --> 00:11:40.400 All you did is you took off in a direction with him and then together you journeyed and 181 00:11:40.400 --> 00:11:42.480 yes, it looked winding. 182 00:11:42.480 --> 00:11:48.360 It looks longer than the other one, but this one is effortless. 183 00:11:48.360 --> 00:11:52.200 It had relationship in it and it had life in it. 184 00:11:52.200 --> 00:11:58.640 The other that was so rigid, remember, that anything with a formula, anything with rigidity 185 00:11:58.640 --> 00:12:03.840 in it brings death according to the tree of knowledge of an evil, I am determined that 186 00:12:03.840 --> 00:12:08.640 I am going to do it myself and that just breeds death eventually. 187 00:12:08.640 --> 00:12:11.200 You can actually do it. 188 00:12:11.200 --> 00:12:12.840 Oprah Winfrey is very good at it. 189 00:12:12.840 --> 00:12:16.480 A lot of other people, people who wrote The Secret, they're very good at it. 190 00:12:16.480 --> 00:12:17.880 A lot of people are very good at it. 191 00:12:17.880 --> 00:12:24.680 A lot of very wealthy, very worldly, the way that the world would term successful, worldly 192 00:12:24.680 --> 00:12:27.160 successful people are very good at it. 193 00:12:27.160 --> 00:12:28.920 You can absolutely do that. 194 00:12:28.920 --> 00:12:37.440 The human soul is capable of a shocking amount of tenacity, but it can actually achieve all 195 00:12:37.440 --> 00:12:39.440 kinds of amazing things. 196 00:12:39.440 --> 00:12:40.440 Why? 197 00:12:40.440 --> 00:12:43.360 Because they were born of God. 198 00:12:43.360 --> 00:12:47.760 They're born from God. 199 00:12:47.760 --> 00:12:52.760 You absolutely can accomplish it, but it's not operating from a place of rest and it 200 00:12:52.760 --> 00:12:56.680 doesn't have life in it, life that's breeding life. 201 00:12:56.680 --> 00:13:01.880 If you just allow yourself to just flow with the Lord and make decisions with the Lord, 202 00:13:01.880 --> 00:13:08.440 as life changes come your way, as the wind starts knocking things about, don't think 203 00:13:08.440 --> 00:13:10.520 this shouldn't be. 204 00:13:10.520 --> 00:13:12.080 This shouldn't happen. 205 00:13:12.800 --> 00:13:17.920 Again, we're trying to start locking down and we're getting very, very rigid. 206 00:13:17.920 --> 00:13:24.040 We're thinking, I had an expectation and my expectation isn't being met. 207 00:13:24.040 --> 00:13:27.240 What is the problem when we're getting rigid? 208 00:13:27.240 --> 00:13:32.960 We've created resistance against the Spirit. 209 00:13:32.960 --> 00:13:34.360 That's the problem. 210 00:13:34.360 --> 00:13:40.480 We've created some kind of an expectation and we think, whatever is going on, it shouldn't 211 00:13:40.560 --> 00:13:44.560 be like this. 212 00:13:44.560 --> 00:13:50.280 We kind of lock down and then we start getting a stranglehold on something in order to try 213 00:13:50.280 --> 00:13:53.920 to regain control because we feel that everything is chaotic. 214 00:13:53.920 --> 00:13:59.000 We're like, hey, this is not heading in the same direction anymore. 215 00:13:59.000 --> 00:14:00.000 This is whatever. 216 00:14:00.000 --> 00:14:02.800 Well, this person kind of notices. 217 00:14:02.800 --> 00:14:06.800 This person notices, hey, I'm not heading in the same direction anymore, but that's 218 00:14:06.800 --> 00:14:07.800 fine. 219 00:14:07.800 --> 00:14:08.800 Why? 220 00:14:09.120 --> 00:14:15.360 He gave himself a direction and then he just allows himself to be moved with the Lord in 221 00:14:15.360 --> 00:14:22.120 a dance on a journey and then eventually the Lord ends him up here and he's like, oh, well, 222 00:14:22.120 --> 00:14:23.120 this is neat, Lord. 223 00:14:23.120 --> 00:14:25.200 I didn't realize that this was an option. 224 00:14:25.200 --> 00:14:26.560 I love this. 225 00:14:26.560 --> 00:14:35.040 This provides me with a greater balance of family and business and relationships and 226 00:14:35.040 --> 00:14:41.000 my finances than I knew that I wanted or that I knew were possible and I didn't know 227 00:14:41.000 --> 00:14:46.120 all of the things that I now know, now that I'm this far on the journey, that those other 228 00:14:46.120 --> 00:14:50.960 things wouldn't have satisfied, but God's like, yeah, but I knew. 229 00:14:50.960 --> 00:14:56.080 I know you better than you know yourself and we need to take this journey together. 230 00:14:56.080 --> 00:14:58.480 This business needs to be ours together. 231 00:14:58.480 --> 00:15:00.000 I don't want it to be yours. 232 00:15:00.000 --> 00:15:06.080 for you to think that somehow by doing the business you're going to fulfill a specific 233 00:15:06.080 --> 00:15:14.800 obligation or or um or uh or job or significance that you think you can turn around and either 234 00:15:14.800 --> 00:15:20.320 give yourself or turn around and give to me. It's like I don't I don't want that. I want us to do 235 00:15:20.320 --> 00:15:27.520 that. I want to do this together and he said and by the way remember the point was not ever the 236 00:15:27.520 --> 00:15:32.960 destination in the first place. The point was the journey and then whenever we have that destination 237 00:15:32.960 --> 00:15:39.520 over here and we're so rigid and we're resisting any kind of change in the journey any kind of life 238 00:15:39.520 --> 00:15:45.760 any kind of spirit fluid motion and movement but it's just it's just straight and it's just rigid 239 00:15:45.760 --> 00:15:51.280 and we're holding to it and holding to that confession no matter what's coming at us. We've 240 00:15:51.280 --> 00:15:56.640 always been taught that that was a really good trait but the thing is that with rigidity comes 241 00:15:56.640 --> 00:16:02.240 death and then God's like yeah but you did that all out of your own control out of the knowledge 242 00:16:02.240 --> 00:16:07.360 of the tree of good and evil. You didn't allow me to participate in it. You decided what you wanted 243 00:16:07.360 --> 00:16:14.240 and then asked for my blessing. I wanted relationship with you. I wanted to dance. I wanted a journey. 244 00:16:14.240 --> 00:16:20.800 I wanted a process and then we're going to end up here but then even ending up here isn't really a 245 00:16:20.800 --> 00:16:25.600 journey. It's more like this is like you hit one of these here and then you hit another one of these 246 00:16:25.600 --> 00:16:31.200 here and you hit another one of these here because it's a constant journey even beyond this point. 247 00:16:31.200 --> 00:16:35.200 Then we move to something else that'll manifest and then we move to something else 248 00:16:35.200 --> 00:16:42.560 that'll manifest in a different way. Our business is an extension of our 249 00:16:42.560 --> 00:16:50.720 spirits and so it's in constant motion. It's in constant movement just like our spirits are 250 00:16:50.720 --> 00:16:56.720 in movement with the Lord where we're undulating together. We're moving together. You see how that 251 00:16:56.720 --> 00:17:06.560 this journey isn't straight. There's movement to it. This right here is what God especially loves. 252 00:17:08.240 --> 00:17:14.319 The journey part. We get focused on these destinations because the destinations are 253 00:17:14.319 --> 00:17:18.960 kind of like standards of measure by which that we use in order to measure ourselves. 254 00:17:19.920 --> 00:17:26.560 Measure progress etc. Remember if we already have our identity back there's nothing that we have to 255 00:17:26.560 --> 00:17:34.400 measure to anymore. There's no standard that we have to gain to or anything. This is the difference 256 00:17:34.400 --> 00:17:43.360 of how to use goals from a place of rest versus the traditional way of viewing goals 257 00:17:43.360 --> 00:17:51.200 where the whole point of the goal was taught to us as if it was rigid 258 00:17:51.200 --> 00:17:58.720 and we were supposed to just confess it long enough and hard enough 259 00:17:58.720 --> 00:18:07.760 to carry ourselves there regardless of what tried to stand in our way. 260 00:18:07.760 --> 00:18:14.400 Regardless of what life changes or things that would come our way that everyone else 261 00:18:14.400 --> 00:18:21.520 told us. Those are thwarting you and trying to bounce you off the path and those 262 00:18:21.520 --> 00:18:26.400 things just are not true. Allow yourself to be moved by the spirit. Obviously if there's something 263 00:18:26.400 --> 00:18:32.720 that God wants you to hold to and something might seem like it's trying to 264 00:18:32.720 --> 00:18:39.600 knock you off course, well then obviously, hey Cheryl, then obviously the Lord because you're 265 00:18:39.600 --> 00:18:44.560 in tune with the spirit and you're taking this journey with the Lord he's going to reveal to you 266 00:18:44.560 --> 00:18:51.920 hey I want you to stay the course. I'm with you. I'm going to see hey I'm going to see you through 267 00:18:51.920 --> 00:18:58.400 this. We're going to do this together. I am going to provide for you in the middle of this. There's 268 00:18:58.400 --> 00:19:04.240 nothing you need to do. You don't need to worry about the wind and the waves of change that are 269 00:19:04.240 --> 00:19:10.320 coming. We don't have to worry that the business and you looks like it's being buffeted 270 00:19:10.320 --> 00:19:16.560 by the storm. Remember that I'm your provision. I'm your protection and everything's going to be fine 271 00:19:16.560 --> 00:19:22.000 and that's the same whether we're on this kind of a journey or a journey that 272 00:19:22.000 --> 00:19:27.760 that has like sections of it that look a bit more straight. I just kind of wanted to 273 00:19:27.760 --> 00:19:35.600 point that out. So that is the difference in how we should approach goals from a place of rest 274 00:19:35.600 --> 00:19:43.360 versus from striving. It's much more effortless and it focuses and we need to 275 00:19:43.360 --> 00:19:48.640 remember that the point of our business is not a destination. It's not a specific goal that we have 276 00:19:48.640 --> 00:19:56.560 in mind. It's actually the journey and the process that we take with the Lord to facilitate the 277 00:19:56.560 --> 00:19:59.840 movement of the Spirit. It is not... 278 00:20:00.000 --> 00:20:08.400 a specific place we're trying to get to. That is an exhausting, striving, very difficult way to live. 279 00:20:09.280 --> 00:20:14.560 So I just wanted to point that out. Let's see if there was anything else that I haven't thought 280 00:20:14.560 --> 00:20:20.000 about saying. I think that about covers it. If y'all have any questions, just let me know. 281 00:20:20.960 --> 00:20:26.880 Obviously, this operates a lot more from understanding that God is our provision, 282 00:20:26.960 --> 00:20:34.160 our protection. It's releasing our expectations of what exactly things should look like. 283 00:20:34.800 --> 00:20:39.600 And when we release our expectations throughout the entire process of what this should look like, 284 00:20:40.400 --> 00:20:48.400 then we're able to more effortlessly be led by the Spirit to co-create and co-dance with the Lord 285 00:20:49.040 --> 00:20:55.440 during the process. Because the goal of our business is not any particular destination. 286 00:20:55.440 --> 00:21:01.120 The goal of our business is the process of the relationship that is constantly undulating and 287 00:21:01.120 --> 00:21:08.320 unfolding with the Lord. The point is the journey. And a business is no different 288 00:21:08.320 --> 00:21:15.120 than any other aspect of life. The point is the journey. So anyway, I hope that is helpful. 289 00:21:16.080 --> 00:21:21.520 It's good to get to see you, Cheryl. And if y'all have any questions, just feel free to 290 00:21:22.480 --> 00:21:25.840 let me know. You can post them, you can add them in the comments below, 291 00:21:25.840 --> 00:21:29.200 and I will answer them. Anyway, hope y'all have a good night.