All right, welcome, welcome, welcome to day four.
We've been working through the Prosper System, P-R-O-S-P-E-R, the Prosper System.
The first day, day one, was about partnering with God.
It was about bold faith.
Our whole series this time is stepping into the boldness, right?
And so it was about bold faith, bold prayers, bold action, bold mindsets, right?
That was the P. The R is about renewing the mind, right?
Psalms 23 says, he restores my soul.
The soul is the mind, will, and emotions, right?
Third John 2, which is what the name, my name of the company, Prosper and All Things, is
based on, Third John 2, that says, beloved above all, I pray you prosper in all things,
physically, financially, relationally, spiritually, prosper in all things, even as your soul prospers.
The soul is the mind, will, and emotions.
So you get this.
As we are renewing our mind, we're prospering, right?
And it's total soul prosperity.
So day two was about a bold mindset.
And day three is the O. It's about opening the flow, right?
It was about bold circulation, learning to understand how to circulate in order to create
big shifts, opening the flow where you've been coagulated, stuck, constipated, right?
So I'm so thrilled that you're back.
Welcome, welcome, welcome back.
So today is the S, is the S. And the S is about simplifying to scale, simplifying to
be able to grow, simplifying.
And that simplification is about clearing space, about clearing space for what really,
really matters, right?
It's about stewardship.
It's about stewarding our time, stewarding our energy, stewarding our resources, right?
Psalms 90, one of my favorite psalms.
It's a prayer of Moses.
And Psalms 90 says, teach me to number my days that I might have a heart of wisdom.
That's going to be our prayer today as I start with prayer.
Teach me to number my days.
You see, so often we don't do that.
We give up, we abdicate our God-given power of choice to choose how we will allocate.
It's a big word.
I love this word.
It's used in the financial sector very often, allocate.
Where am I going to allocate funds?
How much is stocks, bonds, you know, et cetera, precious metals, allocation.
It's a big word using our God-given choice.
How are you going to allocate what God has given you?
How are you going to allocate your time?
You're given 24 hours a day for as long as God gives, you know, breath in your lungs
and your heart beating.
How are you going to allocate the use of your time?
This is about intentionality.
This is about choice.
How are you going to allocate your energy?
How are you going to allocate your resources?
This is about, and write this down, it's about building by design, deliberate choice-making,
conscious choice-making.
You could write those words down as well, conscious choice-making.
And so how are we going to allocate?
And throughout this series, we've been breaking down the lies.
And so when it comes to simplifying, we've got to break a deeply embedded lie.
And it's the hustle culture lie that I, and I picked this up, we inherit this.
We inherit these beliefs that then we think about over.
and over and over to make them part of our life, that then we put feeling around them.
So we get these beliefs. Maybe we get the belief that I don't have enough money,
or I'm going to run out of money. Maybe you inherited the belief that money was very scarce.
Okay, let me know if you're going to mute, because if I didn't notice that,
I'd be talking to myself right now, team. Somebody muted me. Okay. It just says the
host muted me. I've been just going, it wasn't me. It wasn't me. I promise. Okay.
Anyway, let's start with prayer. I'm going to get off track already. All right.
Father God, I just ask that today you speak boldly, that we listen boldly, that you open
our spiritual senses to hear what you are saying for this season, for our lives. May we hear,
and may we apply. May we not be like the scripture of the man that looks in the mirror,
sees that there's something off in the mirror, and then walks away without doing anything. May
we never be like that, that we're just consumers, passive consumers. May we receive of this word,
may we meditate, may we apply, may we step into bold action, that there be transformation,
Father, that your kingdom be advanced, that lives be changed, that people be healed,
that businesses be raised, that glorify you. I ask Lord that you speak through me,
and that you speak boldly in Jesus name. Amen. Amen. Okay. So I don't know where I was before
I got muted, but let's go. So we're breaking down lies. We inherited these beliefs, like
money is hard. And nobody had to say anything. I just had to grow up every day and see my dad at
the crack of dawn in the office, and all his days in the office, sacrificing his health,
sacrificing his marriage. No one had to tell me, hey, eat this belief.
As children, that's what we do. And so I got deeply embedded that if you're going to get
something, you need to work 60, 80 hours a week. You need to work harder than the next guy. You
need to be a driver. You need to push. You need to be relentless. Money is hard. Money is scarce.
What if I run out? You might take it from a different standpoint. You might think that
because everything's scarce, money is scarce. I can't share. I can't give. We talked about,
I need to just breathe in. So I don't have enough. I got to hold on to. Whereas we saw scripturally,
the generous man prospers. The generous woman prospers. So we got these lines that we need
to sacrifice. My dad used to say, I can sleep when I'm dead. He would make me up as a kid.
I mean, crack of dawn, I'd be awake. And I mean, we're talking school age. I'm eight years old
or whatever. And he'd get up. You can't make any money sleeping. I wasn't making any money. I was
eight years old. But the programming, the programming. So the programming runs so deep
where we basically, what we're talking about today, we just fill, fill, fill, fill, fill.
Whether it's with stuff, whether it's with distractions, whether it's with clutter,
whether it's with worry and fear, but we, we fill, fill, fill, fill, fill. So there's no room
for what God has. Okay. So we're breaking down those lies today.
Now, awareness is the first step to transformation. So the first thing is to become aware,
how conscious are you using, how conscious are you of how you're spending, how you're allocating
your time, how conscious of you, how you're allocating your energy. And one of the ways,
I do this with the prosper leader members. One of the ways I do this is to have you do a time study.
time study. And yes, I love that. Thank you for writing that, Doreen. Awareness is the
first step to transformation. And so the key here is to become aware because only until
you know where you are and you have clarity where you're going, do you know the changes
that you need to make, right? And so we do a time study. Now, this is really simple.
You can do this yourself. We can give you the template. Hopefully we have that template,
Linda, in the Prosper Leader, in the Coach Accountable, that it just breaks down every
half an hour for a time study. And so you just carry it around with you every day. And
so you wake up and what did you do the first 30 minutes? You're just carrying this piece
of paper and you're writing down what you're doing every half an hour. And at the end of
the day, you're looking at it. And where did the time go? Do any of you have the experience
that you start to Google something or do something on your phone and or you go to post on social
media and do you ever get in the time suck where all of a sudden you look in your clock
and you're like, what the heck? I was just here for 30 minutes. I was just here for an
hour. Any of you write time suck in that if this happens to you, it's like a it's like
a vacuum and it just robbed you of 30 or 60 minutes. Right. OK. A whole bunch of you are
relating. So that's just one example is scrolling. It could be for you Netflix series. It could
be for you. You know, there's it could be anything. The key is conscious choice making.
So the first thing is awareness. Where am I spending my time and am I honoring God with
the very breadth of my life, the gift, the energy, the day that he gave me? And it starts
like Psalms 90, like Moses prayed, teach me to number my days. This is something maybe
because I've lost so many loved ones. I've lost so many. I've lost brothers, sisters,
nephews, nieces, you know, just on and on. Parents, grandparents. I have lost friends,
best friends, so many people. That I have a keen sense of the finiteness of life. And
so for me, I have a deep, deep, deep awareness. I hate waste. Anybody that knows me, I hate
waste and wasting time is one of the biggest that I hate. Now, that doesn't mean I don't
have fun or I don't relax. It means conscious allocation. Now, let me share how I came to
this story. Let me share a story how I came to this perspective and what I've really learned.
When I was a founder of a nutritional network marketing corporation, I was a bit of a maniac.
I have a lot of energy and I've learned to squeeze a lot in a day. I can do more in a day than many
people can do in a week. Any overachievers in the house, anybody relates to me. I like before
college days, my girlfriend that I was my college roommate reminded me that even in college, I would
have like everything down to 15 minute chunks, you know? And so I could pack so much that here I was
running an international multi-seven figure company and a non-profit and I was homeschooling
all three kids writing my own curriculum and I was running a homeschool speech and debate club
with all of that coaching and traveling everywhere, right? And I was running a Bible study and I was
focusing on staying in shape and going to the gym every day and I was spending time with the Lord.
I was like just putting in like, you know, they say burning the the candle at both ends,
burning the midnight oil, right? And so I would work all week and every weekend. I usually spoke
somewhere. I jumped on a plane and traveled and spoke somewhere every weekend. So literally 24-7
I was working on top of juggling all these other things and the Lord began to speak to me about
this topic.
and conscious choice-making.
I then said, I'm only gonna work one weekend a month.
This is about breaking down the lies.
I cut out three weekends a month.
The company income grew, my income grew.
And then I said, I'm gonna take a Wednesday off every week.
I'm gonna create margin, create space.
So I started taking Wednesdays off every week.
The company income grew, my income grew.
You see this lie that work is hard, that money is hard,
that you've gotta sacrifice everything,
that you've gotta strive, that you've gotta work 24 seven.
That's not true.
How many of you know somebody that works so hard 24 seven
and they're still broke?
Any of you know some of those people?
They worked so hard 10 years, 20 years, 30 years,
and they're still no further ahead.
Any of you know someone like that?
So after my divorce in 2012,
I said, I'm never gonna work that hard again.
I'm gonna work smart.
And since 2012, I have always worked
three and a half days a week.
If you go to my schedule,
you can only schedule Wednesday through half day Saturday.
And my income and my business has grown
every year since I started it.
So I want you to know that part of this
is breaking lies and beliefs that have been in there.
Now that creates margin
so that I can do other things in my life,
because today we're gonna talk about allocation,
about choosing the one thing,
about how to do this specifically, okay?
And so many times I've had people that say,
well, if you really wanna grow your business,
and I work hard on those days,
Wednesday through Saturday, make no mistake.
There's times I'll do two or three intensives
plus some clients, plus some teaching,
plus a Prosper Leader member.
I work hard in those days.
There's no joke, I do.
But half day Saturday, I shut down.
I'm off Saturday.
I'm off Sunday.
I'm off Monday.
I'm off Tuesday.
I can refresh.
I've got margin to breathe.
And I build the things in my life
that are important in those times.
Saturday night, you can find me dancing.
Sunday night, you can find me dancing, right?
Tuesdays, you can find me doing Pilates
and having lunch with a girlfriend.
So I'm working on my emotional and fun.
I'm working on my health.
I'm working, right?
So it's about creating margin
for knowing how to allocate your time, okay?
So I want you to reflect on something
and then let's work through this series together.
On page one of your study guide,
if you don't have your study guide,
yeah, Mary said, meet hairstylist.
You are a hairstylist or going to the hairstylist.
I'd love to get more details on that.
Loving your comments, by the way.
And Time Sucker, Google search Time Sucker.
That's the reason I'm so thankful
the Lord's teaching me to use chat GPT for research.
Yeah, in the Prosper Leader membership,
lots of teaching on using AI.
Instantly, you can save 15 to 20 hours a week.
Oh, okay, 26 years, not smart, working too hard.
Yes, okay.
So I want you to reflect first of all,
on day one, you set an intention.
Why did you join this series?
Let's be intentional about this series.
Why is it important for you to be bold right now?
Why is it important to get breakthrough
from these lies right now?
You set an intention.
Let's keep that intention front and center.
And then there's a reflection there.
What's one area of your life or business
where you feel overwhelmed or stuck?
And what would it take to boldly simplify
and create space for God to move?
When we're overwhelmed, distracted, or busy
with the wrong things, we crowd out room for God's best.
So bold moves often start with letting go,
simplifying, focusing on the one thing that truly matters.
Now, Gary Keller wrote the book, The One Thing.
And it's not that you're only doing one thing.
is that you're only doing one thing at a time,
and you're doing one thing at a time
in the different areas of your life,
but you have clarity to know what that thing is, right?
And so we're gonna talk about the one thing
and how to use that.
We're also gonna talk about 10X is easier than 2X.
Those are two books on this subject
that are really powerful.
The one thing and 10X is easier than 2X.
By Dr. Benjamin Hardy.
So the key thing is,
bold simplification isn't just doing less
for the sake of doing less.
No, that's not intentionality.
That's not conscious choice-making.
It's about intentionally.
In your study guide,
you could circle that word intentionally.
This is you taking back your power.
This is you choosing to do with your life
and to God's glory intentionally
making space for what's most important.
Making space for what's most important.
Simplifying our life takes boldness and intentionality.
So it's both of those.
It's courage, boldness, and intentionality.
It means releasing the expectations
of what others think we should be doing.
We talked about that before.
And courageously building our life
by design aligned with our values
and his will for our life.
And I like Matthew 537, a simple yes or no.
Let your yes be yes.
Let your no be no, right?
Okay, so we start looking at the one thing
and we start looking at some,
Gary Keller uses GPS.
It's a good little acronym, GPS.
Our goals, our priorities, and our strategies.
So we have to have clarity around our goals.
We have to have clarity around the desires of our heart,
our vision and mission.
We have to have clarity around our goals.
That's why we saw Jesus would always say,
what do you desire, right?
Elijah would say, what do you desire?
Like, where are we going?
What are we trying to create?
And it's a matter of taking the big picture,
the big goal, and then breaking it down
into little subsets that we can knock off
and it can be done.
So you say, what's the goal for this year?
Like, what's the goal for 10 years?
What's the goal for five years?
What's the goal for this year?
Okay, if I was gonna hit that in 12 months,
what's the goal each month?
Okay, if that's the goal for this month,
what's the goal for each week?
So you're continuously keeping the goal in front of you.
So part of this simplicity is to have a very clear vision,
have a very clear that you can see the goal
and it's in alignment with what God's calling you to
and it moves you.
The goal can be the way that your living space looks.
The goal can be the way your finances look.
The goal can be the way your relationships look.
The goal can be the way your body.
We need a vision for all of those.
We need a vision for our business.
This is where I come in as a business coach.
We need a vision for our health.
We need a vision for our relationships.
You know, when I started homeschooling my three kids,
which I did all the way till college,
I started with a vision, right?
You know, Stephen Covey says, start with the end in mind.
So I thought, okay,
after I've taught these kids all the way through,
what am I leaving them with?
I desired for them to have a strong foundation,
a biblical foundation of knowing God.
I desired for them to be very well-read.
Okay?
And I desired for them to be able to communicate
in writing, in speaking.
So I knew that if they left with the foundation of the Lord,
and they were well-read,
so they were not narrow in their thinking,
and they could speak, and they could read,
and they could learn,
So I started with that vision, and then each year had a goal, and then each month, and we would break it down.
and they could do all the things that they wanted to do.
I knew that if they left with the foundation of the Lord,
And that was the end fruit.
So you start with your business, and you start with the end in mind.
Why are you doing all this work? If you're just working for money, it's the worst reason in the whole world.
That's old, stinking thinking based on lack.
That's making your business your source.
God is your source. Your business is your opportunity to give of your gifts,
to steward your gifts, to create transformation, to bless the world.
And it should be fulfilling for you and transformational for whoever you're working with, right?
And so we're not working from a place of lack.
There's no lack in the kingdom of God.
God is a lavish, abundant.
My parents came out of the depression, and so there was this constant fear of running out.
And we get that. How many of you inherit that?
I have a fear of just running out. I'm not going to have enough money.
I'm not going to have enough time. I'm not going to.
And so what happens is we take that belief that we inherited about lack, right, about scarcity, not enoughness.
We take that belief that we inherited, and until we renew our mind, that drives our thoughts.
So then we think about it all the time.
How many of you have a belief? Let's just say a belief around scarcity and lack.
How many of you inherited money is in short supply, money is scarce, money is lacked?
Did any of you inherit that belief? Put scarce in the chat or in the Facebook group.
Scarce. Did you grow up that money is scarce?
Did you grow up with that?
Okay, so now watch what happens.
You grow up with that, okay?
Now watch what happens.
How many of you think those thoughts many times a day?
Do thoughts of how things are scarce come into your mind many, many times?
So we go from a belief, we think about it all the time.
Put thoughts. If you think multiple times about scarcity, I don't have enough.
I won't have enough. I'm going to run out.
There's not going to be enough.
What am I going to do? Put thoughts in the chat.
If you have thoughts of scarcity, this is where renewing the mind, what I taught you how to renew the mind, right?
So we have these thoughts of scarcity, okay?
And then what happens? This is, remember I taught you the mind, heart, mouth connection.
Then what happens?
You get the feeling.
Oh, how many of you know the feeling?
Can you tap right now that feeling of not enoughness?
I don't have enough. I'm going to run out. I can't pay.
I don't know how I'm going to, what happens if?
And we start getting into the anxiety and we start, then that drives our behavior.
I better not give. I better hold on.
I better strive. I better work.
I better not share. I better not.
You see how this builds out our life.
Do you see how this is working?
That's why this whole series is so important.
It starts day one, P. It's about partnering with God.
First of all, we got to get clear.
God is the source. Everything else is a resource.
And God has said so many times, you shall never lack.
The Lord is my shepherd.
That word shepherd also means best friend, by the way.
The Lord is my shepherd, my best friend.
I will always have enough. I will never lack.
I shall not want, by the way, is the original language.
I shall not want.
Hey.
So.
This is what's so powerful.
As you begin to shift.
That God is my source.
And I will never lack.
You begin to open the channels for the resources.
God is the source. Everything else is a resource.
If you think your business is your source, that's idolatry.
That's putting it above God. That's going to fail.
If you think the government is your source, or your spouse is your source,
or your job is your source, that's idolatry.
Your retirement is your source. That's idolatry.
God, there's one source.
Everything else is a resource. And guess what?
God can make resources, he can make water come out of rocks,
he can make manna come out of sky, he can bring people and resources.
I've experienced this time and time again, places you never dreamt.
It seems like it comes out of the rocks sometimes.
When we get our thinking right, we partner with God, we renew our mind.
We get to break down this this stinking thinking.
Right.
And then we learn to open the flow.
We learned yesterday, we learn to add value.
And by the way, I want to pause right here,
I want to congratulate those of you that are really applying.
I heard through the grapevine that some of you immediately after the call met
together and did your twenty five ways to add value.
I want to know anybody in the house is applying what I'm teaching.
You did your list.
Twenty five ways to add value.
I want to know anyone in the house is
applying because what we talked about is not just being a consumer.
God is moving you from being a consumer.
That's part of your programming, too.
You consume, consume, you consume information, you consume consumer goods.
That's why they're called consumer goods.
You consume too much food.
You consume too much sugar.
You consume too much media.
We've been programmed to be consumers.
We're shifting that up today.
We're not consumers, we're producers.
Out of us flow rivers of living water.
The spirit of God lives in us.
We have the mind of Christ.
We're called to release the gifts within us.
We're called to use these gifts to speak.
Let God speak through you to write.
Let God write through you to teach.
Let God teach through you to create.
Let God create through you to paint, to build, to.
We're called to be producers, not consumers.
Okay, so if we're going to keep our priorities straight.
Is I love this, how God's working on all this.
Number one, if we're going to start simplifying and clear space.
Number one, first fruit.
First priority.
Who's first in your life?
Does it show in your time?
That's the golden hour that is in the Prosper Daily Planner and team.
Put that link. This is the way to keep you on track.
The Prosper Daily Planner is the way to keep you on track.
OK, so in the Prosper Daily Planner,
which I've used for ten years, I've taught that.
OK, the beginning is the golden hour.
Your morning routine.
That's first, if we're going to clear space, we're going to clear clutter.
We're going to simplify.
It starts.
By be still and know.
That I am God.
God goes back into first place, including in our time.
Well, I don't I don't have time to read the Bible.
I don't have time to be reading.
I don't have time to meditate.
I don't have time to quiet my crazy mind.
You have the same 20 hours as everybody,
it's allocation, it's conscious choice making.
Are you going to choose to make God first before anything else?
And so that's the first thing as we begin to clear, OK,
then as we're going to allocate how we're going to spend the rest of our day.
Starts with awareness and then it gets into clarity.
OK, a couple tools for clarity.
OK, one tool is Gary Keller's book, The One Thing.
Now.
Even if you don't have time to read the book, let me give you the premise.
It's based on one question.
He's taught this to thousands and thousands,
I think over two million copies have been sold under like I don't know how many
countries.
This is the question.
What's the one thing?
That by doing so.
We'll make all the other things.
Easier.
Or unnecessary.
This is the domino effect, you ever seen dominoes, you ever play dominoes,
they're all stacked up, right, they're.
all stacked up, and you hit the first domino and boom,
it knocks the next one down, knocks the next one down,
knocks the next one down, knocks the next one down, boom.
This is a lifestyle.
So you do this in each of the areas of your life.
It's not that you only do one thing.
I mean, you've got parents, you've got kids,
you've got a business, you've got a body, okay?
It's that in each of the areas of your life,
you do one thing at a time.
So I like to structure.
Yes, ChatGPT can summarize everything.
It's really wonderful.
It can outline it for you.
It's a wonderful way to get the main concepts, absolutely.
So thank you for sharing that, Linda.
So you ask this question, what's the one thing, okay,
that by doing so can make everything else
easier or unnecessary?
You also can ask God this in prayer.
I will often ask God.
Now, I've taught you my journaling system, right?
I've taught you my journaling system
that each day I ask God, okay,
in red or blue, in this particular day, I was in blue.
So the left side is blue, I'm asking God questions, right?
I'm praying, I'm giving everything to God,
I'm asking questions, and then I change pens.
I was in blue in this journal, I'm back to pink.
I just had run out of pinking,
but I'll usually normally use pink.
And then I'll change to purple.
This is part of my morning hour, my meditation,
and I will write everything that God writes through me.
Don't know if you can see this, the color difference.
And that's God answering.
So I'm speaking out my prayers,
but I'm not looking at God as the Santa in the sky, right?
That God, please bless this, please help my kids,
please give me money, please get me this job,
please keep me safe driving, okay, amen.
That's not relationship, okay?
No, I love you, Lord, I worship you,
I offer myself to you, Lord God.
What is it you want me to know today?
What is it you want me to understand today?
What is it you want me to do today?
And Lord, I've got this question around this,
around my business, around a relationship,
around a struggle that I'm having.
Can you talk to me about that?
Can you give me wisdom in that area?
And then I write, and God writes through,
and it's very, very powerful.
That's part of the morning routine, okay?
So all of that is outlined in the top part
of the Prosper Daily Planner.
Then we have to get clear in these other areas.
So what's the one thing that by doing so
will make all the other things easier or unnecessary?
So maybe it's in your health.
What's the one thing, Lord,
if I just focus on one thing and I make a new habit,
I create a new habit around that one thing
that will make everything else easier or unnecessary?
Maybe it's walking, gonna walk every day.
Or maybe it's I'm gonna cut out sugar and refined foods.
That's it, that's your one thing
that I'm gonna make my own lunches and stop eating out.
Whatever, right?
Same thing with your business.
So when I would ask God, what's the one thing, God?
What do you want me focusing on right now?
God would say, write.
I want you to write your book.
And I kept putting it off.
I'm too busy, Lord, I'm too busy.
I got this, I got that, I got this and that.
Finally, with this one thing,
it's like I need to listen to the Lord.
I need to get serious.
The one thing for me right now is writing the book.
So watch how this works.
There's about four major areas of your business, right?
You've got sales and marketing.
I've got to generate leads.
So this is on your list.
If you're a business owner,
if you're not focusing on leads
or you don't have a lead generation system
or you don't have sales
or you're not having a sales conversation,
you're not in business, you're in an expensive hobby.
That's what I find.
I find coaches after a year, they don't have any clients.
And I say, well, how many leads do you have?
How many sales conversations did you have today?
None.
How many sales conversations did you have this week?
None.
This month?
One or two.
Well, okay, no sales conversation, no sales, no money.
impact, no growing a business, you're an inexpensive hobby. We need to change that.
So you've got to have leads. You've got to have a way of generating sales conversations, right?
You also have to create trust and rapport. They have to decide that they know, like, and trust
you. They want to work with you, right? They have to know you, right? And you're desiring to,
create awareness of who you are and what you do, right? And so you've got the sales and you've got
the acquiring of clients. You need to get new clients. And then you need the ability to serve
those clients and create transformation, right? And then you need the ability to create intellectual
property, right? What is it that you have, you know, that's your intellectual property? Is it a
course? Is it a system? Is it, you know, what is it? Books? Is it, you know, podcasts? What's your
intellectual property? So you're, you are in business, either hiring or juggling between lead
generations and acquisition of clients, serving those clients, right? And creating the IP,
right? The intellectual property. Well, interestingly enough, the Lord showed me,
write a book and guess what? People are going to know, like, and trust you. Guess what?
You're going to get clients. Guess what? You're creating IP. Guess what? You're creating
transformation for those clients. Guess what? Do you see doing one thing? It's like a domino.
So part of what I do in coaching is help you get absolute clarity. This being able to
structure your time and simplify always starts with awareness and then with clarity,
absolute clarity, okay? So step one, you've got to have clarity around your desires,
your God-given desires, your goals, your vision. Like, where am I going? Step one,
what do I want? Where am I going? Then you have to know, we talked yesterday, activating the flow,
how I can add value. Well, to know how to add value, you have to know who you work with.
You've got to be absolutely clear who your niche is. I'll get on the phone with clients or potential
clients. I say, who's your niche? And they say, women over 50. That's not a niche. That's half
the world. A woman over 50 that is 65, a CFO focusing on retirement is completely different
than a woman over 50 that's a homeschool mom with 12 kids is completely different than a woman over
50 that, you get it? And so they have totally different desires, totally different needs,
totally different problems. They hang out in different places. They speak a different language.
So you're just throwing spaghetti on the wall, hoping it speaks to them because you don't know,
you don't truly know your client and what their now problem is. So you've got to know your who,
then you've got to know your what, your value proposition. I say, what's your big promise?
What's your value proposition? What problem do you solve? And most of them don't know. And then
what's your irresistible offer? Well, I give five sessions for X amount of, that's, that's not an
irresistible offer. Okay. So step one is clarity. And if you have not had a breakthrough intensive
with me, that's where I always start. You've got to know your vision in writing. Scripture says,
the people fail for lack of vision. And Barbara said, life-changing. Yeah. Doing this intensive,
all of a sudden, everything falls into place. Getting clients, making money, knowing what to
work on, knowing, you know, what's unique about you, knowing what you offer, being able to get
on there confidently. So step one, if you're going to create space is to have clarity. Okay. And I do
that through the business breakthrough intensive. Then remember, we said goals, priorities. Okay.
The, the one thing is kind of the priority. What, what am I going to work on? Of all the
things I can work on, that's going to have the most impact. That's the priority. So you got the
goal. I desire to make seven figures or some of you at six figures. So I can have freedom. I can
pay off my bills. I can create the impact and leave a legacy. I can put my kids through private
school. Okay. I got a goal. I need to get to six figures, seven figures, whatever it is for you.
Goal.
What's the priority?
OK, what's the one thing I can do that by doing that makes everything else easier,
unnecessary, then you go into the S right goals, priorities, strategies.
OK, how how are we going to do that?
That strategy is different for each one of you.
That's another reason for a breakthrough
intensive that we decide what the strategy is.
OK, but even more, that's where I do 90 day
coaching's 90 day breakthrough and the 90 day breakthrough starts with a one day
intensive and then we do 90 days of implementation.
OK, because it's very different.
I had one woman.
She's part of the Prosper Leader membership, Antoinette.
And I do these 15 minute connect calls on on LinkedIn.
And anyway, I think she came to me through lead generation.
Anyway, I'm on the phone with her.
And she says, well, yeah, I've been a coach for over a year and I have a coach.
I have a coach for a year.
I'm like, that's so awesome. Congratulations.
I said, how many clients do you have?
What do you think she said? Put in the chat.
What do you think she said?
She'd been at it a year. She's got a coach.
How many clients do you think she has?
Put it in the chat. I'm so curious.
Five, no, one, no.
Let's see who gets this to no zero.
Yes, Barbara.
I have a concern with your allocation of time
that you spend a year out of business with a coach and you have no clients.
Something's off.
Something I said, what are you what are you doing?
I appreciate you have a coach, she says.
This is a true story. It's in the testimonies.
She says, I show up live every day online.
And she said,
my coach said, that's what I need to do.
And she says, I absolutely hate it.
I'm going.
She focuses on she's certified with heart math on the connection,
the mind heart connection, gifted woman comes out of corporate.
Great. She uses horses.
Very gifted.
She's been an herbalist forever.
And I'm thinking our mind coherence,
you're showing up online with an energy of hating something.
Anybody see that we got a problem here?
One size does not fit all.
I said, what is your husband do?
I never asked that, but it just popped up for me.
What is your husband do?
She says, oh, we own an event center.
Said you own an event center, you mean like you could do workshops and seminar?
Yeah. And are you doing that?
No. My husband says I should.
Yeah. Let's listen to your husband.
Long story short, I talked to the husband.
He agreed to take on yet another coach when he had said never again.
We're not spending any more money.
And I started working with her.
Got like three clients almost immediately.
We pulled her off the social media completely.
She loves networking.
We helped her find the ideal networking organization.
We got her trained to speak, to be able to speak powerfully.
She had the opportunity to do a table at like a trade fair kind of thing.
I used one of the coaching sessions to teach her how to set up a table for success.
We had that with flyers inviting to her doing some seminars,
and she had a stack of those and she went through those.
She had to call her husband.
There was people like three deep in line to come to her table,
and she had to call her husband who had seen no activity for an entire year.
And he came to bring more flyers.
And he said, you're absolutely in your element.
I said, ask him if he loves your coach. Right.
So it's a different strategy, right?
I have different strategies for people that are doing government work.
I have different strategies for different types of coaches.
And there are so many.
So you've got the goal and then you've got the priority and then you need the strategy.
And this is where the 90 days I have one yesterday already.
She went from a year.
She's brand new, just joined with me.
We did the one day intensive, cleared up everything.
She says, wow, this is working.
I'm getting people responding to my LinkedIn.
They're responding to my website.
She says, I've got five calls book this week.
This was from no calls.
And we got her doing what she loves.
She loves teaching health.
We got her in the community.
She did like a free health food, like making five kinds of soups.
through her list and booked calls where they can come
and they can get her coaching
and they can get her nutritional products.
You see, it's gotta be around clarity.
This creating space, you cannot do everything.
So I want you to think about,
as we go through this study guide,
you can do this study on your own.
There is Luke 2, 7, where it talks about
when Jesus came to earth,
there was, they had to put him in a manger
because there was no room at the inn.
And I wanna ask you,
how often do we fill our inn with unnecessary clutter?
Your inn as your home, your inn as your mind,
your inn as your calendar,
your inn as your business activity.
How often do we fill our inn with unnecessary clutter,
tasks, commitments, worries,
leaving no room for Jesus to fully enter?
So simplifying isn't just practical, it's spiritual.
If we're gonna be bold,
we're gonna be very bold in what we give our time to
and very bold in our no's.
No, in this season in my life, I can't do that.
I can't volunteer.
I'm unable right now to do that.
And I'm gonna have bold yeses.
You can't convince me not to dance right now.
God is using that for my mental health, my physical health.
It's turned into a ministry to women, right?
So you've gotta have your bold yeses.
My bold yes, I hired a publisher.
My book has a publication date, a book signing date,
and I'm already speaking before a global audience.
When I made the choice to do the one thing
above everything else, all the other doors opened.
The publisher showed up.
I mean, it's just incredible.
So bold no's, bold yeses.
I want you to do a time study, your homework.
Do a time study.
Discover the time sucks.
Look at what you are doing.
And then consider what your one thing,
what your goals and priorities are,
what your strategies are going to be,
and does your calendar reflect that?
And then you're going to choose to have bold yeses
and bold no's, okay?
So important.
Look at this.
This is amazing.
Luke 9, 59.
Jesus is calling us to be his disciple, right?
To follow after him.
And so he makes the invitation, be my disciple.
You've been invited.
You've been invited to the kingdom life.
You've been invited to the total soul prosperity life.
You've been invited to letting God flow through you,
to make the income, to make the impact.
You've been invited.
But look at their answers.
Someday I will, Lord.
Are any of you somedaying your life away?
Someday I'll get that house cleaned up.
Someday I'll write that book.
Someday I'll get my client.
Someday I'll get my business going.
Someday I'll lose that weight.
Someday I'll quit sugar.
Someday, do we have any someday people in the house?
That stops today, if you're willing.
Someday just became today.
What's the one thing you can do today?
Someday I will, Lord.
Let me just go do this and go do that.
And Jesus said, don't wait.
It was about the father's barrier.
Let those who are already dead wait for death.
As for you, it's time to get busy with the kingdom.
Then another one says, Lord, I want to follow you too,
but first let me go say goodbye to my family.
And Jesus says something so powerful.
Why do you keep looking back to your past
and have second thoughts about following me?
How many of you, you're being consumed
with your past quote unquote failure?
We talked about that under mindsets.
You're being consumed with your past business
that didn't work or your past attempts.
We've got to let go of what's holding us back.
Time, energy, money, belief systems, stinking thinking.
We got to let go, whether it's distractions,
whether it's a comfort zone, whether it's a bad habit,
whether it's fear of the future, whatever it is.
I want to ask you, write it down in your study.
guide right now. What's the one thing you need to boldly
release to step into what God's calling you? Let's do this right
now. What's the one thing you need to boldly release? What is
it? Is it being a consumer? Is it social media? Is it you know,
what isn't eating sugar? What's the one thing? Okay, fear? Good.
I'd love to do a session with you, Heather. Let's release that
fear. False evidence appearing real perfect love casts out
fear. Let's release the fear. Okay, we'll get to the root of
that. What else? What's the one thing? Talk to me, ladies.
What's gentlemen, what's the one thing you need to release? Let's
make this practical. We're not consumers here. We're producers,
we apply what we learn. We're not just soaking up, we've
already consumed consume, you've got enough knowledge. Knowledge
is not applied is not wisdom. It's just more clutter. Okay,
you've already read a lot. You've listened to a lot. You've
learned a lot. What is it? What's the one thing you need to
release? Number two. Number two. It's the story on the next page,
Luke chapter 10, where Mary is sitting at Jesus feet, and
Martha is consumed with activity. And Martha tries to
pull her in. And Jesus said, she's chosen the one thing and
it will not be taken from her. So what's the one thing we need
to let go of? And what's the one action we need to take today?
Have you scheduled a call with me? Have have you started on
your one thing? What is what's the one thing you need to let go
of? That's the no. And what's the one thing you need to say
yes to that's choosing what really matters? Is it
prioritizing your health? Is it prioritizing your income? Is it
prioritizing your mental health? Is it prioritizing decluttering
your space so energy can flow? We use the prosper daily
planner to get very clear. We write it down every day. We
write our intention every day. We write down our mission every
single day we write down our mark, which is our goal. We are
focused on our goal. We write down our plan or how and we
break it into 20 minute chunks. We break up our must do our
delegate and our delay so that we're only focusing on the must
do. Right? We take a look at our numbers. How many leads? How
many calls? How many sales? How much money coming in? How much
going out awareness is the first step in transformation. So today
when we're talking about creating space, for that which
you desire, we're talking about simplifying, quieting the noise,
quieting the battle for your attention, redirecting it first
to our source, second, to our vision, and our priority, and
our strategy, we've got a strategy, we're not just
spinning our wheels in business, we know how the money's going to
come, how the clients are going to come, we've got a strategy.
And we are ruthlessly allocating our time. You understand the
word allocate, we're not spending our time. We're
allocating our time, we're not spending our life force, our
energy, we're allocating our energy, we're not spending our
money, we're allocating, you have to understand with money,
the difference between an investment and an expense.
Coaching is an investment, it's got return on investment, your
time, ROTI, return on time invested, right? Return on
energy, Jesus always looked for a return. He always looked for a
return on investment. Look at the parable of the talents. He
was looking for a return. He had no problem if one returned
another or three return three more or five, he gave them more
authority.
pretty. He gave them more praise. He gave them more to work with. He increased them.
He only had a problem with the one that hoarded, that buried, that didn't use, that didn't
allocate and just played it safe. One said, I've got fear and I know that you're a scary
man and I've got fear of loss and I don't want to lose this money. I don't want to lose
this talent so I'm going to play it safe. That's the only one that Jesus said you wicked
slothful servant. Did you catch that? The one just got one. It was cool. The three got
three. It was cool. The five got five. It was cool. Jesus had no problem. He gave them
more authority, more to work with. That's why to whom much is given, the one who has,
he will have even more. But the one who has not, he will lose even what he has. Do you
understand this principle? It's what we talked about yesterday. It's a continuation of opening
the flow. It's how will I add value today? How will I allocate my life to make it count?
I feel personally that life is so short. It's so precious that I want every moment to count.
Now that doesn't mean I don't relax. I do. I love relaxing, but that's allocating. It was
deliberately, it was chosen. And sometimes I do double duty just the way I am, right? So I
allocate watching Netflix. I only watch it in Spanish. And that's how I retaught myself Spanish
over the last few years. So I'm relaxing, but I'm exercising my brain, learning a new language.
I'm opening up kingdom opportunities that I can speak pretty fluently now. Do you see how this
works? It's, I want you to write this down and just meditate on this. Conscious choice making.
Put it in the chat. Ingrain this. Conscious. Conscious choice making.
Conscious allocation. I love you guys. We got so much more to cover. Man, we are going to be
on it tomorrow. And also we have a two hour masterclass, super important on Saturday,
two hour masterclass. All right. So I will see you tomorrow as we work our way through
the rest of the prosper. And Saturday is all about bold identity. So those of you mentioning fear,
those of you mentioning not enoughness, we're going to really step into bold identity. I'm so
grateful for each and every one of you. If you have not yet scheduled a call with me
to get clear on your goals, on your priorities, on your strategies, be sure to schedule. If you
have scheduled and you don't have someone holding you accountable, you don't have someone giving you
a different perspective. You don't have someone giving you direction and you're just trying to
figure it out yourself. Part of bold allocation is multiplying what you're doing. Multiplying.
So I look forward to working with you, to talking to you. The prosper leader membership has enormous
resources, support, and community to be able to do this. So if you've not yet taken advantage of
the discounted offer for the prosper leader membership, that's another place that you can
take bold, bold action. Totally affordable. Get coaching with me a couple times a month. Be part
of a community. Get all access to all the resources. Be sure that you get the discounted. Put the link
if you could, ladies, for the prosper leader. Oh, there it is. You're on it already. All right, ladies,
we're over time. Gentlemen, I'll see you tomorrow. God bless you.