So, welcome, welcome, welcome. Day four. Woo! Congratulations, all of you that have been
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on it as to how to really generate cash flow. And because we talked yesterday about flow, right? The
health of your body is your oxygen flow, your blood flow, right? The health of your business is your cash
flow. And so many coaches, there's, there's just literally gold on the streets, there's money all around them
with what they have, and they don't know how to pick it up. And so we're going to be talking about generating
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upgrade, all that to say, great deal, good to get it. Let's start with prayer. Let's jump right in. And I'm so
excited for today, day four, which is about simplifying and creating space. So let's pray. Oh, Father God, we
just thank you for this time, we just invite your presence. We open up the space, we open our minds. We open our
hearts. We open up our lives for you to inhabit us. Christ in us the hope of glory. We're the temple of the Holy
Spirit, we have the mind of Christ, we just ask, live us today, Lord, coach through us today, speak through us today,
right through us today, mentor, whatever it is you're calling us to do, do it through us today. Live us today, Lord. We
love you, we invite you into this presence, that whatever needs to be spoken in this call, for each and every woman or
man listening to this live or in the replays, for them to advance boldly into all that you've called them from a rooted
place, being deeply rooted in
you rooted in Christ, rooted in love. We ask whatever needs to
come forth, it'll come forth with grace and ease and great
clarity. Speak through my mouth or think through my mind, live
through me today. In Jesus name. Amen. Who's excited? Say
excited. Who's been growing? Put in the chat. Who is having
shifts? Write the word shift. Who is having shifts? There we
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you a review for this series. Please share so that you can
help more women know about this. But I'm loving it. Shifts.
Miracle yesterday. Loving it. Shift. Okay, so excited. All
right. So quick, quick review as it applies to today. So day
one was about partnering with God. And I'm writing my book
right now, Total Soul Prosperity. And I tell a story
in there about a client when she very first started with me. And
one of the things I do with my coaching clients is I asked
them about their morning spiritual practice. Because I
believe the way that your morning goes, your entire day
goes, which is, I like to say, we all want to have a great
life. But a great life is just made of great years. And great
years are just made of great months. And great months are
made of great weeks. And great weeks are made of great days. So
you make each day a great day. And you do that by having a
morning spiritual practice. First fruit goes to God. So I
was talking to a woman and I say, How's your morning
spiritual practice, which by the way, in the prosper daily
planner, there's a checklist on the top for an awesome
spiritual practice, and it will really help keep you on track.
Everything in one place, organize your time, organize
your business, check your finances, review your leads,
keep your appointments. I mean, it's like, it's so compact,
it's so beautiful. And it can keep you just really moving and
you can get the prosper daily planner on Amazon. So the whole
top half is dedicated to the spiritual practice. And so I
said, How's your morning spiritual practice? And she
matter of factly said, I don't have one. And I haven't had
someone say that I've had people stumble or it's a little or
it's not that great, or I'm working on it, or I miss some
day, you know, I get those kind of answers. Because none of us
are perfect. We're all arriving, right? But I don't have one. And
I'm like, no, even short meditation. No prayer. No, no
reading to grow. No, no, I can't. And nothing, even 15
minutes before you get started. I'm at the gym by 530. And I had
to just really think about that. And it ties in with both what we
said in day one, that with the premises, we're going through
the prosper system, p r o s p e r, the P is the foundation, we
start there, which is partner with God. And it's about not
doing life alone. And when you think about who God is
omnipresent, all knowing, all loving, right. And we have
access to infinite creativity, infinite wisdom, infinite power,
infinite, you get what I'm saying, we can tap into the
mother load, like the creator of the universe has given us
permission to be intimate, and partner scriptures filled with
the co's being co heirs being right. And, and so we have
access to that. And we don't do it. And then we wonder why we
keep hitting our head against the wall. And we wonder why
we're burned out, and why we're overwhelmed, and why we're
stressed, and why we're dealing with anxiety, and why we don't
have peace. And, and why is taking a toll on our body,
because we're trying to muscle through alone, what we were
never meant to be.
alone. And we talked about God's role and our role. And there's a lot of ways that God tries
to teach us about his role. He teaches us as being a loving father. And maybe some of you didn't have
that. And so that's got some battle scars. I get that. But he's the good father. He's the infinite
loving father. And maybe you don't relate. Maybe from other countries you relate that he's the
good king. Whether you look from father or you look from king or any of the other angles,
they have a similar thing. It's God's job to provide. He says to us, if you,
as humans that are dealing with sin and confusion and separation and all kinds of stuff,
scarring and battles and all that, if you know how to give good gifts to your kids and you
love to see your kids thrive and you love to bless your kids, how much more your father in heaven
wants to provide for you? And yet there's two big things that keep us completely stuck.
One is the belief in separation or living out separation. We're not truly separated.
Like David learned, where can I go that God is not? I can go to the ends of the earth. God is
there. I can make my bed in hell. He's there. I can make my bed in heaven. He's there. Like,
you know, David had to learn that in Psalms. So we're not truly separated. But when we're
separated in our mind, we might as well be separated, right? Because God doesn't leave us,
but we leave God. And so it's two things. It's that belief in separation. And then when we're
in that place of separation, then there's constant striving because it's like, I've got to get to God.
And most religions are built on that. Christianity is built on God getting to us,
but all other religions are works. Christianity says not by works, okay? By grace, not by works.
So you can't boast. You can't be good enough to make God love you. You can't make him love you
anymore. You can't make him love you any less. So if you grew up with parents that were very
conditional in their love, you may be putting that on God. And so we create this separation,
okay? And then the second thing that we do, then we're always striving, trying to get. I've got to
get. I've got to get clients. I got to get money. I got to get man. I got to get so I can be happy,
healthy, prosperous. All of our joy, all our peace, everything is out there somewhere. And I
just got to be able to get it. Christianity, faith, biblical faith teaches you it's in you.
And we taught that shift in the day three on flow and opening the flow.
So separation and the second is the belief in lack, okay? So the P in partnering with God,
we're going to see what keeps us from that today, okay? The R was about renewing the mind.
And we talked about God's part and our part. So God is the good king, the good father,
all of those things he provides, he protects, he leads. There's all the parts he did. He got them
out of Egypt. He created the promised land for them. He gave them enough provisions that even
when they got delayed by 40 years, their shoes didn't wear out. They had food to eat every day.
Like he's a provider, a protector. We can rest in him, right? But there's one thing he can't do,
and that's change our mind because he's made us with free will. That's the work that you do
with him. And you're doing that by letting the word wash you, by being every day in the word.
If you're new to the word, I really recommend the Passion Translation because it's just like a
giant love letter. It's just so nice to read and it's just very warm. So if you're new,
it's just, if you're not new, I've read the Passion Translation for years now all the way
through. Okay, if you want to go deeper, I use the Amplified Translation because it lets you know what
each word means. But anyway, you're being washed by the word, the Logos word, and you're learning
to have the Revelation word, okay, which is the Rhema word, which is what we talked about where
Jesus said, My sheep hear my voice, and the voice of another they will not follow. And so
this was part of what Jesus was teaching us that when he goes, we have the Holy Spirit,
and the Holy Spirit guides us into all truth, and the Holy Spirit shows us things to come. And so
you get this Rhema, you get this Revelation knowledge, right? So you've got the P, you've
got the renewing the mind, you've got the opening.
of the flow. And today, we're going to talk about simplifying
because we have escalated to a pace of busyness and fullness of
our schedule of distraction that is unprecedented. You know, it
used to be there could be a distraction of a television
blaring in the background or a radio. That was sounds that was
the noise that was and it was a lot of noise. Like my parents
kept the TV on 24 seven. My mom slept with it on. I hate that.
But anyway, um, you know, that was the noise not now. You got
phones binging and dinging and computers binging and dinging
and little series all over the place and little machines go in
and the television and you know, YouTube and Facebook and
like there's just right. And the biggest thing keeping you from
the fullness of peace of prosperity of building a faith
integrated prospers business is this chaos and noise. So today's
very important as we step into creating space for what really,
really matters. Okay. And so it sounds counterintuitive to
actually do less and accomplish more. And let me see you guys
are writing all kinds of notes. I highly recommend Yeah, turning
off unnecessary notifications. Absolutely. It makes such a
difference. It's huge. In the prosper daily planner, and I
didn't see if you put the link there for people that don't have
that, Linda, but maybe you could in the prosper daily planner.
There is a section where, first of all, it starts by having your
mission. And if you've done an intensive with me, you're very
clear on your vision, you're very clear on your mission, and
you're writing that mission every day. And from that
mission, this is where we're going line upon line from that
mission, you're going to your mark, which is your, your goal.
And you could make it the daily goal, the weekly goal, the
monthly goal, whatever works good for your brain, but you've
got the goal right there in the mark. And then you've got the
method, how are we going to do that? And so there's so many
methods, and I teach and in your breakthrough intensive, we come
up with the best method for you, because one size doesn't
fit all. Okay. And I've had people I had, I had a client
that when I first met her, she had had a coach for a year. And
she says, I've already got a coach. I'm in my last month. And
I oh, that's awesome. A year with a coach. I go, how's your
business doing? How many clients do you have? None. Okay, after a
year, that's concerning. And so I said, Well, what are you what
are you doing? What does your coach have you doing? And she
said, she has me showing up live on Facebook every single day.
Now, what's interesting is her specialty. She'd gone through
heart math, and it was really understanding the mind heart
connection, the coherence, having your mind and heart in
coherence. She was doing something that she absolutely
despised. So how do you think the coherence was? What do you
think was radiating inside of her? What do you think was
radiating, doing something that she disliked every single day,
because her coach told her that's what you have to do. And
it's like, I had another call yesterday, I'm not sure if she's
she's here, but um, she was telling me that she hired a
coach, and she had a niche in her head, because that's one of
the things I do get really clear on your niche. And she
had a niche on her head. And she really had consulting in her
mind, based on her experience. And the coach said, No, we're
not doing consulting, we're doing coaching. And no, that's
not a good niche for you. This is going to be your niche, just
completely took the air out of her balloons. That coaching
never did anything. You know, it's been a five year waste from
the time that that happened. And I said, I will never I will
pull out of you, because this is what God does. But you can
this is yours. This is your business that you love. This is
your niche. This is your vision. This is what God has given you
right. And so, um, what we do is we take that mission, we take
the goals that we set together and
And then we come up with the method that's right.
And in her case, that was not the method.
And the Holy Spirit had me ask some questions,
which I found amazing things about her.
And one of them was that she and her husband
own an event center.
So we got her off of social media.
We got her face to face using her resources,
her event center.
And then I taught her how to network.
She loves it.
I got her set to do signature speeches.
They get great results.
I taught her how to create a table.
She went and did a display table at an event.
And people were like five deep.
She went through all the flyers promoting the workshop
that we had in her event center.
Her husband had to come and bring her more flyers, right?
Because I talked to her husband
and I told him what I thought would be a good way to go.
And he said, if you could get my wife to do that,
you're hired.
So they hired me as the coach, after the coach.
She got clients.
She got moving.
She got invited on every kind of podcast,
every kind of speaking and doing live events.
She's rocking it.
So it's important to have the method.
But then below that,
you see something that has to do with today
about creating space,
which is you work in 20 minute chunks.
So scientifically,
if you can work in 20 minutes
and then take 10 minutes off and go get a drink of water,
move, come back and work in 20,
but those 20 minutes are only one thing.
They're completely uninterrupted.
You're not checking your phone.
There's no notifications.
You're not having multiple tabs open.
You know what you're gonna do
and you're gonna do one thing in that 20 minutes.
And sometimes there's things that are an hour long.
So it's kind of stacks of three lines,
three 20 minute lines in there.
And so sometimes like if I've got a 50 minute
or 60 minute coaching,
obviously I'm just gonna draw a line
through all three 20 minute chunks.
I'm not gonna take 10 minute breaks in that case.
But when you're doing creative work,
it's working on one thing with no distractions, okay?
So that's what we're gonna talk about.
Let's go real practical and real deep today
on working through this so that you can really apply it.
So on page one, it says,
what's one area of your life or business
where you feel overwhelmed or stuck?
What would it take to simplify or create space
for God to move?
When we're overwhelmed,
when we're distracted
or busy with the wrong things,
if you remember when I gave you the success formula,
it was mindset plus skillset
plus right action equals results.
And the results are the clients, the income,
the impact, the fulfillment, all of that, right?
But you notice it's not just action, right?
It's M for mindset plus S for skillset.
That skillset can be sales, technology,
lead generation, all of that, right?
Plus it would have been A for action
because mindset without action, nothing's happening,
skillset without action, nothing's happening,
but it's right action, right action.
You can be doing the wrong action for a long time,
not getting any results.
Equals, equals the results, okay?
So it says that when we're busy with the wrong things,
we crowd out room for God's best plans.
So much of what today is about is about letting go.
It's actually about less, okay?
But the key insight there,
simplification isn't just about doing less
for the sake of it.
It's about intentionality.
It's about intentionally making space
for what's most important, okay?
And this comes from being rooted.
It comes from what we've done in the first three days, right?
So that we're building our life by design
and not by default.
And I love the verse in Matthew 5, 37
that says a simple yes or no will suffice.
Anything beyond this springs from the deceiver.
When we get too wordy, when we get too complicated,
when we get too over anything, it's not coming from God, okay?
God is not the author of confusion.
So on the inspiration, let's start at the bottom.
verse there on the first page it says in Luke 2 7 and she gave birth to her son
her firstborn and she wrapped him in swaddling clothes and laid him in a
manger you all recognize the Christmas story Jesus birth laid him in the manger
because there was no room or place for them in the end so infinite love
infinite creativity infinite wisdom shows up on the planet in the form of a
baby and there is no room how much of our life is that true so the reflection
on the next page page 2 says how often do we fill our in our body our mind our
home our business our calendar how often do we fill our in with unnecessary
clutter tasks commitments worries leaving no room for Jesus to fully enter
simplifying isn't just practical it's an act of faith to create space and make
room for his presence so you can reflect in that first box there where do you
desire where are you just craving it where are you feeling I need space
here's here's one classic one are you working entirely in your business or are
you working on your business okay many people that are entrepreneurs small
business owners become really in another job they get so busy working in their
business they never back up to work on their business on their businesses where
you're pulling back you're not doing the tasks but you're talking to God you're
getting downloads you're creative you're brainstorming you're you're getting big
picture you're looking at the vision you're strategizing you're you're
working on your business not just in your business okay and I think in this
day and age the biggest danger is the clutter of our mind anxiety well let's
go past if we're if we're stuck in the past then your mind is cluttered with
woulda coulda shoulda if I'd only with blame with condemnation with judgment
with shame none of these are moving you forward creating profit creating peace
creating health the past is already gone you can't change a single thing about it
it's over in fact all you're doing you're not even in the past you're going
and grabbing from the past you're grabbing baggage like picking up a
suitcase from the past and bringing it into this beautiful moment called now
which is where miracles happen where God is and you're like no I'm not gonna live
now I'm gonna stop the blessing of right now what God is doing what Holy Spirit is
saying I'm gonna stop the blessing of right now I'm gonna go back here with
resentment with unforgiveness with blame with shame I'm gonna go grab that
suitcase put it in my brain put it in my focus and completely ruin today
or we go into the future not in a visionary positive way of taking the future and
bringing it today and living it now which is a healthy way of doing it right but instead
we go into the future and we go into what if we go into anxiety fear doubt worry
what if I don't get clients what if I run out of money what if I can't pay the bills
what if my body doesn't sustain what if I get sick what if what if what if so then we're
borrowing from an illusion because the future's not yet it doesn't even exist we're creating
this in our imagination we grab a suitcase and we bring it in now and we say no I'm not
going to enjoy the blessing of today I'm not going to have peace joy I'm not going to have
the power of the Holy Spirit I'm not going to have miracles I'm not going to have a sense of
wonder I'm not going to have the ability to just enjoy everything God has given me I'm not going
to walk in gratitude instead I'm going to borrow from imagination and create a problem that hasn't
even existed most of the things we worry about never happen and I'm going to carry and I'm
going to put it in am I talking
to anybody. This is the space that most of us are spending
time. And so being able to not only be remember, this is rooted
to rise, not only being rooted in the truth, but the way that
we rise is to let go of those things. Okay. And so for the
past, we know it's already done, we bless it, we forgive it, we
glean it like a field for any of the lessons that we can bring
today and be better and stronger. But beyond that,
nothing you can do with the past and the future. None of us know
tomorrow, we don't even know what's coming tomorrow. It's a
waste of energy. Okay. All right. So look at the second
page there. Luke 9, 59 to 62. There's an interesting thing.
Jesus is making invitations just like he is to you. He's saying
my daughter, my son, let's partner up. Oh, he's excited.
He's like, if you only knew what we're going to build, if you
only knew what I have in store for you, if you only knew what
we could do, come, come daughter, come son, come on,
let's co-labor. Come on, that's the invitation. Well, in this
verse in Luke 9, he's making the invitation when he was here on
earth. So Jesus turns to one and says, come be my disciple. And
that person replied, someday I will, Lord. Someday I will,
Lord. Do we have any someday people? You're putting off life.
Yes, someday when I'm making money, I'll do that someday, I'll
get healthy. Someday I'll invest in my relations. Someday
I'll go take those trips. Someday, right? And so that's an
example. Someday I will, Lord, but allow me first to go
fulfill my duty as a good son and wait until my father passes
away. I can't go with you, Jesus. I got to sit here and
wait till my dad dies. That's an interesting thought. Okay,
the more I read these, sometimes I get amused in a bad way, I
guess. So Jesus tells him, don't wait for your father's burial.
Let those who are already dead wait for death. As for you, go
and proclaim everywhere that God's kingdom has arrived. Then
there's another one. And now another one said to him, Lord, I
want to follow you. Do you know how many people say I want to
build a business? I want to make more money. Of course, if you
don't know the word want means extreme lack. By the way, try to
replace that word in your vocabulary. I try not to say
want, I use the word desire. I love that a lot more. Death,
which means of the sire, the father. Okay. And the Bible
says, God gives us the desires of our heart. Okay. But anyway,
he's wanting here. And he's like, Lord, I want to follow
you. Intentions, you know, got a good intention. But first, I
want to build a business. But first, I want to spend time with
God. But first, want to grow. But first, let me go home and
say goodbye to my family. And Jesus responded. Why do you keep
looking back to your past? And have second thoughts about
following me? What a question. Why do you keep looking back?
So to be able to rise the way that we're talking requires that
we let go of what's holding us back. Okay, whether it's
distractions, whether it's our comfort zone, some of you are
uncomfortably comfortable. You're not starving. And you
know, you're not you're not going to bed hungry, you have a
roof over your head for the most part. And yet, you're not so
uncomfortable that you get out and do the hard things or the
things that stretch you and grow you and all of those things, the
things that require disciplining your mind and your life. So
distractions, comfort zones, fear of the future. And so
there's a place here for you to write about what's the first
thing you need to release to step into God's best for you.
Now there's a
great book called Future Self.
Hey, there's two books that kind of go hand in hand.
They're by the same person, Dr. Benjamin Hardy.
One is called 10X is Easier Than 2X.
And the other is Future Self.
And so it's really, really powerful.
And what I really admire about Benjamin Hardy
is that in this 10X is Easier Than 2X,
it's based on that 80-20 rule,
that 20% of what you're doing
is producing 80% of the results.
So if you could eliminate even the 80%
or delegate or delete or delay,
and you could give your attention and focus to the 20%,
you're going to 10X, okay?
And I watched him do it over the years.
He led by example.
We were talking earlier about giving permission.
I watched him.
Oh, Tracy's stuck in the waiting room.
Let me let her in.
So I watched him do this.
He had one of the most successful blogging sites,
very successful.
He'd been blogging forever.
And he had amazing YouTube,
and he had a coaching consulting business
with all high ticket that was full.
But the 20% God was showing him
was to be a best-selling author,
to write, to write books.
He stopped those things and focused on the books.
He was doing those things, the blogging, the YouTubing.
He had a very successful YouTube channel.
He was doing all those things to grow,
to grow his business, grow his income.
He stopped doing those things and focused on his books.
And he ended up with, I don't know,
how many extreme bestsellers,
selling millions and millions and millions of copies,
changing lives, and all the things he wanted,
the popularity, the impact, the influence.
It all happened in doing the 20%.
Well, even before I read these, I had learned that.
You see, I had that kind of frenetic pace
when I was a founder
of an international nutritional network marketing company.
I worked seven days a week.
I traveled and spoke on the weekends
on top of homeschooling my kids on top.
Like it was insane.
When I started this business, initially in 2012,
I had on Mondays, Motivate Me Monday.
It was like one of the original podcasts back in 2012,
Motivate Me Monday.
I had Tuesdays, Bible-based spiritual equipping.
I led a Bible study, you know, all everywhere on Tuesdays.
And anyway, on and on and on.
I had coaching.
I was doing live events.
I was coaching in person.
And I was really starting to work as hard
as I was working in my old company.
And I said, no, no, no, this won't work.
I let go of Motivate Me Monday.
It wasn't just the hour doing it every Monday.
It was the hours of prep before.
And it was the hours getting it out after.
And I said, is this in my 20%
that's producing 80% of results?
No.
It was great inspiration, but no.
And I loved doing the Bible study.
I mean, I created 36 Bible studies in my first six months,
you know, with Prosper and All Things.
I loved doing them.
But the hours and the days I was spending,
not just teaching, but doing it.
And was God calling?
Was this the main 20%?
The answer was no, I let it go.
I was doing beautiful live events.
They were gorgeous in resorts.
I mean, I had catered huge buffets
and I had massage therapists coming in
and the decorations and the staging and the sound.
And you had to book it six months a year in advance
and put the down payment in and I let it go.
So I went totally online.
2000, it's like six years before COVID.
That was 2014.
I went totally online.
All my coaching, all my events,
stopped the Monday, stopped the Tuesdays.
And I went to working three and a half days a week,
which I have continued from that time,
I think it was 2014 until now.
I work Wednesday through half day Saturday.
That gives me half day Saturday.
day off, Sunday off, Monday off, Tuesday off.
I can travel, I can be writing my book, I can garden.
And each decision that I made like that, my business grew.
So a lot of times, as you start looking at what really matters,
and I'm loving your feedback, you guys there.
OK, so we saw this with Martha and Mary as well.
And it's such a powerful verse that these
were Jesus's closest friends.
They were very wealthy.
And it was Martha, it was Mary, it was Lazarus.
And he would go to their home a lot.
It was his closest friends.
And so it says, while they were on their way,
Jesus entered a certain village.
And a woman named Martha received and welcomed
into her house.
And she had a sister named Mary, who seated herself
at the Lord's feet and was listening to his teaching.
Verse 40, this is Luke 10.
But Martha, overly occupied and too busy.
This is in the Amplified translation
where it shows you with all the words what they really mean.
So Martha was, see if you can relate,
overly occupied and too busy was distracted.
We got overly occupied, too busy, distracted.
Can you relate?
With good things, with much serving.
You can be doing good things, and they're not great things.
You can be doing good things, but they're not God things.
Because at that moment, the God thing
was infinite love, infinite wisdom,
infinite power was sitting in their room.
Mary says, I recognize it.
I'm sitting at his feet.
I'm not moving.
I'm soaking.
Everything else can wait.
Martha was, somebody's got to be making the sandwiches.
And Martha is trying to pull Mary into that.
It says that Martha, overly occupied, too busy,
and distracted with much serving, she comes up.
She tries to get Jesus involved in this.
It says, Lord, is there nothing you can do?
My sister's leaving me.
Here comes the victim.
I got to do all the work all by myself.
Nobody's helping me with the sandwiches.
Can you see what I got to do?
I got to feed all these people.
These people got to eat.
Can't you see?
You can picture a Jewish mother accent around that one, too,
can't you?
Tell her to help me.
Lend a hand and do her part.
So she got to tell Jesus what to do.
Never do that.
And the Lord replies to her and says, Martha, Martha,
you're anxious.
You're anxious.
Supposed to be for good things, serving.
Weren't the right things, missing the God things,
the great things.
You're anxious and you're troubled about many things.
Verse 42, there is need of only one or maybe a few things.
That's this 80-20.
There's also a book that goes with that called The One
Thing.
It's a different author, The One Thing.
Fabulous little tiny book.
And the premise of The One Thing is,
what is the one thing that, by doing it,
can make all the other things easier or unnecessary?
In the case of Benjamin Hardy, the one thing
was having a best-selling book.
Made the YouTube unnecessary.
Made the blogging unnecessary.
Made the high-ticket coach.
The one thing.
What's the one thing?
Yes, written by Gary Kelly.
Excellent book.
Thank you, Leslie.
What's the one thing that, by doing it,
can make everything else easier or unnecessary?
So like Mary, us being rooted and grounded
starts with knowing, deliberately choosing.
It's about intentional choice-making.
God has given you one of the greatest gifts, free will
and the ability to choose.
Even if it's created all the pain and that havoc
in the world, he's chosen that way of running the universe
because he values your freedom to choose that much.
So your God-given ability to choose.
Intentional choice-making, what matters?
We talked yesterday about stewardship when we were talking about opening the flow.
We steward our time.
Your time is your life.
Every minute or hour I spend with you is an hour of my life.
So I'm very careful who or what gets my life.
I won't give it to social media.
I won't give it to binge-watching TV.
I'll watch a tiny...
It's conscious choice-making.
Even driving time, conscious choice-making.
For me, conscious choice-making, I wanted to learn, I desired to learn Spanish a few
years ago.
So conscious choice-making, I switched two things.
One, if I do watch anything on Netflix, I only watch in Spanish.
And two, I converted my drive time, made my car something I learned years ago at Rowling
University.
I'm doing a Spanish lesson when I'm driving here or there.
Didn't take any extra time.
I'm pretty fluent in Spanish these days.
You see?
It's conscious choice-making.
And so we've got to simplify boldly saying no to the good so you can say yes to the best.
All right.
So we don't run out of time.
There's some steps.
Skip a couple pages, and there are my favorite five Ds, or four Ds of decluttering.
The first is do.
What aligns with your purpose and calling?
What do I need to do?
What can only I do?
And don't be confused.
You're going to think in the beginning, if you're teaching people or delegating or anything
like that, you're going to think that, oh, I need to do this.
I can just do it faster.
I can do it better.
And often coaches make a mistake.
I'm going to save money.
I can do it.
I'll make my website.
I'll be the social media person.
I'll be my copywriter.
I'll go ahead.
And you're never going to get big trying to do everything ever.
You're going to be stuck.
You will be your own bottleneck.
So what is it that only you can do that God has called only you to do?
Only you can lead the vision.
Only you understand there's things that you must be doing, and there's things that you
can train, mentor, teach.
So what do you need to do?
What do you need to delegate?
Someone else could free you up.
What do you need to delay?
It could wait for another season.
I started desiring to learn to play the piano.
I had the keyboard, and I bought some programs, and I realized this is too much.
Let me stick with Spanish and dance.
That's the two things important to me right now.
That has to be delayed.
It's not for this season, okay?
So delay, and then delete.
What is no longer serving you?
What's consuming your time that doesn't bear fruit?
What's no longer?
So this is working on your business where you take a look at it, and you identify right
there the core.
What's the one thing?
A lot of times I do this in prayer, and I've been asking God, what's the one thing?
And he's been telling me, write.
I want you to write.
I was still doing a few things, wasn't getting the writing done, and I felt like God came
along and just cleared the table, and just cleared it.
So my LinkedIn was just gone.
Everything was just gone.
That led to me not having my lead generation.
That led to me not doing a bunch of calls.
Oh, God, I guess you want me writing this book, don't you?
I've got the time.
God create, help me create the time, right?
So it's very important that you figure out what's your 20%.
Now the best way to do this is to, because our mind exaggerates so many things, do a
time study.
So you just take a piece of notebook paper and lined, and you write down what you do
every 30 minutes.
You're just kind of keeping track, just write it down.
doing it, and take a look at it, and see what's fruitful,
what's bogging you down, what's happening here.
And you'll be amazed at things that you
didn't think you were spending that much time.
And a lot of times, our mind exaggerates.
We think we're spending more time in lead generation,
or we think we're spending more time in sales.
And you're like, actually, it was way less than I thought.
So you look at it, and then with the one thing in mind
and the 80-20 in mind, then decide some changes.
I think I'm going to delay that.
I'm going to delete this.
I'm going to delegate.
Make some changes.
And then do it again.
And do this for a few times to where
you can get yourself dialed in, like now,
of doing the important things that really, really matter.
Here's the fundamental understanding.
It starts inside.
Remember, we said biblical reasoning starts on the inside.
So the first thing we've got to simplify
and the first space we've got to clear is our mind.
If you have nonstop chatter, and you can't shut your brain up
even when you're trying to sleep,
you haven't learned to create space in your mind.
That's step one.
Perhaps you haven't learned to meditate yet.
You haven't learned what the Bible says, be still
and know that I am God.
It's a spiritual practice of learning to be still.
The breath, the breath of life, the ruach, breath of life,
is the Holy Spirit, is God's breath of life in us,
to become aware of our breath.
So there's a 10-minute meditation that I like a lot.
And I'm going to pull a couple of things for our prayer
right here, right now, just to let you experience and feel it.
Part of your morning routine needs
to be learning to create space in your mind.
That comes from creating new habits.
It comes from discipline.
Discipline is the root of disciple.
You need to disciple your mind, because your mind is either
running you or you're running it.
We're three-part beings, like God is, in the sense
that we are spirit, soul, and body.
The soul is the mind, will, and emotions.
The proper order is that our spirit, which
is what we want to have that time to focus on growing
our spirit through worship, through the word,
through meditation, through prayer.
The spirit is meant to be connected.
The little spirit, our spirit, little s,
is meant to be connected with the big S, Holy Spirit.
And your spirit is designed to rule over your mind.
And your mind is designed to rule over your body.
So it's like a snowman.
You've got three parts.
And I would ask if your parts are in divine alignment.
In other words, for some people, the body is running the show.
I've got to have a cigarette.
I don't feel like doing that.
I've got to have some chocolate.
The body is ruling over the mind and the spirit.
That's called being driven by the flesh.
We're called to disciple.
We're called to crucify.
We're called to love and take care of the flesh.
But we're to crucify.
It's not meant to run the show.
Some of us are more intellectual,
and we've relied forever on our mind.
And so our mind is ruling over our spirit and our body.
But proper alignment is that your spirit, under God's spirit,
is meant to rule over your mind, which
is meant to rule over your body.
So I want you right now, just put your feet on the ground.
Kind of sit up straight.
Relax your hands on your lap.
And I want you to take a deep breath in.
And that can be a count.
of two, for example, and then I want you to hold it for a count of two,
and then I want you to release it for a count of four or more.
Now, that order where you're breathing out like a sigh longer than you're breathing in
will move your body from the sympathetic, the fight or flight that we're in most of the time,
to the parasympathetic, which is the rest, okay? And so you'll begin to see a change right away.
So let's do that first. Breathe in, hold, and let it all out.
One more time. Breathe in, hold, breathe out.
Now, doing that a few times a day alone will begin to create some shift for you.
Now, here's how you can go a little deeper. I like, I learned this from Justin Abraham,
I really like it, the name of Yahweh. So breathing in is yah, breathing out is way. So we say,
do that with me.
Let's do it again.
So many of you can already start to feel a shift. Now you can go a little deeper. Remember I said,
one of the challenges is separation. So get back into the oneness. Scripture says,
I'm hidden in Christ. In him I live and move and have my being. And he lives in me. I'm the
temple of the Holy Spirit. So lean in, like you're leaning in toward God and say, I'm in you.
And then breathe in and feel the Holy Spirit and God being in you and say, you're in me.
We are one. Let's do that again. I'm in you.
You're in me.
We are one. Again, I love you.
You love me.
We are one. Lean in toward God. I love you.
Lean back. Let God lean into you. You love me.
We are one.
Be still.
Even for a few seconds, be still.
Still.
Be still and know that he is God.
Be still and know he is God.
Be still and know that he is God.
Thank you, Lord. I ask that you seal this conversation. I ask that you
impart into them the wisdom, the courage, the understanding to create space, to simplify,
to stop scurrying and currying and running and fretting and to step into.
Your joy, your peace, your goodness.
To be still and know you are God. In Jesus name.
Amen. How many of you could feel that? How many of you could feel a shift?
Practice that. Put that into being to quiet that crazy noisiness.
All right. I love you. Tomorrow, oh boy, we're going to really hit it. It's going to be rooted.
and grounded in who God says you are in your identity.
We're gonna bring all of this almost full circle.
Can't wait to see you tomorrow.
God bless you.