What I want you to do, this is like a whole new world
for many people of thinking and being.
I have coached pre-Christians and Christians.
So people who aren't there yet
and people who have hung out with God,
for some of them for 50 plus years.
And they've never asked God a question.
It's nuts.
It's like, what?
How can you have a relationship
with your father in heaven without talking with him?
I might ask him for things like he's a genie,
but we don't often ask back.
So we do this exercise with all of the year 13s
at Lindisfarne College.
And every single one of them can hear.
So this is super cool.
Whether you believe or you don't believe, it's all good.
I want you to tune into the right voices.
So this is where we're gonna open up the treasure within
and find your true and authentic self.
It's time to find your brilliant brilliance
and stop hiding.
So the first game that we're going to do
is to help you find a space.
So we're going to, actually, before we get into my exercise,
you just need to rate yourself out of 10
because what I'm looking at here now,
this is one of my little keys.
If we don't pause and put a line in the sand
of where we are at any point in time,
we can't measure it.
We can't measure growth.
We can't measure where we're at
because we've never put a line in the sand to measure by.
We've got nothing to go by.
So what we do here, right at the beginning of every week,
I'm gonna ask you to rate yourself
about how you're feeling and then a word.
So I'm gonna give myself an eight out of 10.
Whoops, I said here.
So I want you to just think for a moment.
You can pause me and just have a word.
So I'm feeling eight out of 10
because it's about halfway through my day.
And my word is I'm still excited.
So I'm still in that excited space after launching.
I'm so excited to be sharing this with you.
Like I'm 110 miles an hour.
So that's where I'm at.
An eight is for new beginnings.
So I'm quite happy with an eight out of 10
because that gives me new beginnings.
So put a pause button on me, ask God,
or just ask yourself, how do you feel?
And just write it down.
Okay, welcome back.
The next thing I want you to do
is we're gonna do a census check.
Now, beautiful Jan Billings,
who runs Kingdom Adventurers for teachers,
is absolutely amazing.
And she shared this game with me
when I went on one of her courses,
which is why we use it for the Lindisfarne boys.
And it's about, at the end of the day,
we have three voices in our heads.
We have the enemy's voice,
which is all about you don't wanna do that.
Keep yourself safe.
Oh no, that would be a bad thing.
Oh, don't talk to that person.
Oh, you know, and tells you all sorts of lies,
but you believe it
because it's a voice you've got in your head.
It's internal.
And then there's your voice.
Well, I can't believe he said that.
That's outrageous because we're just in our space,
in our time, in our thinking.
So it's all about me.
And I'm a shocker for getting in my own space.
Or we can go, oh, I hand to God.
What do you see?
What do you show me?
And you know what I love about him?
He's always uplifting.
He's always positive.
He's always encouraging.
He's always got a quiet voice.
He never judges.
He never condemns.
He never puts me down.
Bring it on.
Out of those three voices,
there's one that lifts me up,
that makes me feel better,
that boosts me and gives me a much better way.
So I'm gonna encourage you to tune into that voice.
And before you go, but you know,
no one's got, everyone's got voices in their heads.
We're not nuts.
It's how we're made.
It's our thinking,
it's part of our thinking process and being.
So what I want you to do right now is ask God
what game he wants to play with you.
All right, now, the first one he's given me is tennis.
So whatever the first thing is
that comes into your head,
interesting, because when I did this yesterday,
it was a completely different game.
Brick up.
So whatever was the first game that comes into your head,
just write it down.
And then when you've got that, ask God,
God, why, why do you want to play that game with me?
Okay, so, interesting.
So my case, he wants the backwards and forwards.
He wants.
to and fro he wants the you know and there's some running there's some energy there's
some relationship in there because you're playing together so that's kind of what i feel for the
tennis and then for you so you ask yourself and i'd love feel free to message me these these bring
me so much joy just quietly um and then the last one is what does he want you to learn in this game
so what does he want me to learn
okay so i've just got a few that say like healthy boundary structure tactics planning ahead because
you have to plan your shots ahead you don't you've got to see where it's going to go you've
got to see the unseen and to be a good sport so whether i win or i lose i've still got to be me
i've still got to hold my identity in who i am so i thought that was quite interesting so yeah
please message me with what your game is what did you know why he wanted to play it with you
and what did he want you to learn from that game and if you're open to me setting up a
whatsapp chat that you can be part of then please let me know and we can pop it in there because
then we'll know everyone's games and um why he wanted to play them and it's so exciting to have
that okay now i know you can hear the right voice i want us to move into like out with the old and
in with the new so it's time to dig deep and be this is some self-reflection and the more honest
you can be with yourself the more you will get out of this so we are digging deep i want you to
consider right now what holds you back so whether it's negative things or limiting beliefs or
unhelpful feelings whatever it is for you i just want you to take a moment right now and consider
what holds you back
you
okay so i've just put three things in the air um for me which is lack of planning um
not looking ahead for tomorrow next week or the month consistently so i'm a bit inconsistent at
the moment i've kind of fallen off the wagon with the um book launch i was doing quite well in
january and then it's sort of all gone off and then being unclear on what next because i haven't
done my planning so those are the things that will hold me back if i'm not clear and focused
on where i need to go so whatever it is for you for some people it's the fear of failure for others
it can be feeling like they're not good enough for others it could be the fear of what other
people say it could be worries about money it could be concerns about something else whatever
it might be it could be a sick child or a sick parent or whatever it might be so whatever it is
for you i encourage you and actually when we did this live with the live group there were two things
that came up one was not being good enough so feeling that they weren't good enough and another
was always needing to seek permission or acceptance so if that's something that bubbles for you
then we need to put that in because what we're going to do is we're going to flip it
so just pause and take time to think about all the things that hold you back
and then i've just got another one that's popped up not making a decision there's a quote around
once you've made a decision you never have to think about it again so once you have got to
the place right i'm not going to
sweet, you know, sugary foods.
Once you've made that decision,
you never have to think about it again.
And then you can start moving forward,
which is what we're gonna do right now.
So what we're gonna do is exchange the old for the new.
We're gonna exchange the pain for the promise,
because that's what God says.
Jesus paid in full, job done.
So take a moment to ask God to help you
exchange the pain for the promise,
as you reflect and write down any new thoughts
or promises that arise.
So what I want you to do is just sit and be in his presence
and whatever comes into your head,
whatever you're thinking about,
I want you to just write it down.
So, lack of planning, Father God,
what would be the opposite of that?
And just ask him for the replacement or the exchange,
the insteading, as Dion would call it.
We'll just take a moment to do that.
Okay, so just to give you an idea of what I've written here.
So lack of planning, so utilizing the 2025 planner,
because that's what God and I wrote last year.
So that we've worked on for the past year.
So we've worked on that.
Actually, that's the next one, just bear with.
Evening and morning routines.
So if I don't, so the Jewish calendar starts at 6 p.m.
and goes through to 6 p.m.
Now what I have been doing,
just get my wee thing out so you can have a little see,
a look-see, is, oh, that's not the whole day's worth
of stuff, just bear with.
There we go.
So I'm doing quite well in January,
and I was putting down all the things
that I was doing in my day.
So done lists, because winners have done lists.
And I was just writing down, I was tracking my hydration,
you know, how I was doing on my hydration each day.
But I would do that at night,
and then I would set my plan for the following morning.
And it's been so key.
We do some amazing things for the morning
and evening routine, but it's my evening routine,
how I end my day.
And if I reflect on that, if I, oh my goodness,
I've forgotten to send that email.
Oh, I must just do that, because it reminds me,
because I'm writing it down.
And because I've written it down, I then remember.
And of course, if I do it at six o'clock at night,
I've still got time to get that email sent,
or whatever it is that I might need to still do
before I go to bed, which is gold.
And I make sure, like for example,
when I've got early mornings,
I'll actually put my clothes ready in the bathroom,
because I don't want to wake my husband up
if I've got a seriously early morning.
So it's setting myself up the night before.
Have I prepared my lunches?
Have I got myself sorted so that,
do I know what I'm doing every hour of the following day?
Now, I'll still allow God to move within that.
So he might move my calendar for the day,
but I need to have a plan in the first.
first place so that he can then move my steps and make me do
what needs to happen or open my open it up for what needs to
happen. And then not looking ahead for tomorrow or next week
or next month. That's where I use my 2025 planner. Now
actually what I will be able to do if I was super clever. Let me
just see if I'm sure I put this in for you guys. It should be in
here. Oh, that's not what I want at all. Bear with one moment
caller. I have got you here. And we have got course notes
here. And so this is the 2025 great exchange productivity
planner. And I have, I believe, just emailed this out to you, we
will have the link in this thing. So Annabelle's kindly put
this together for me, we used it last year. So the first thing is
to have your values rules, some of you have coached with me,
they'll be in there or your new belief, your identity or your
priority order. And also to have your vision. Now, if you
haven't got all these straight up, don't panic about it, don't
worry about it. What I would say to you right now, is think
about where do you want to be in 10 years time? Or what if you
could do one to three things this year, that like fit,
perhaps in faith, family and finance, you know, fit in those
key areas? What would it be? What would those things be? You
don't have to have big sentences, you don't have to do
too much. But all I would put in here, like, you know,
obviously, last year, mine was to write my book. And I published
it this year. So boom, I've got the first thing off my vision.
And this year, I'm going to look to build the safest, most
beautiful, warmest community possible, where everyone is
here to give, but when we give, we get so much more. Everyone's
here to embrace and lift up and bring the best of who they are,
so that everyone can be their best. So that's my vision for
this year. And I will type it in, I shall do it for next
week. And here we've got evening and morning routine. So one of
the things that I need to do for my evening routine doesn't look
like bells, you have to print it off, because we can't type on
this. But for me is setting myself up, have I done my lunch
for the following day? Have I done my, you know, have I done
my laid out my clothes? Have I reviewed? Have I planned it?
Have I got my glass of water by my bed, whatever it might be,
that I need to do? And then in the morning, am I straight up?
Have I walked the dog? Have I listened to the word? Have I got
going before the day has even started? And then from your
vision, from what you really want to do, we often have a big
three. Now by big three come under faith, family and
finance. So under those three, you might want to put something
in there. So under faith, it might be, I want to grow in a
certain area, or I want to add value to the worship team, or I
want to make sure I'm listening to the word every day. And it
could be a physical fitness as well, because faith for me is
all about the whole our bodies are a temple. So it's looking
after my body as well. So I'm actually going to do a 40 day
fast in Lent. So that which isn't I've never done any of
those religious parts of the calendars, this will just be a
bit of fun. But actually, it's because I need to shed some
kilos again. So and then number two family, so I'm going away
Kevin, I've got a wedding anniversary in this quarter. And
we just we always have a month like once a month we go away for
a weekend. So we're just going to focus on that and building
that. And then finance will be growing, growing this movement
growing where we're going. And then also, in here, you can then
so key upgrades or your stretch. So what we're going to do is
we're going to look here and break those down to what I can
be doing this month or this quarter. So what are those
stretch goals that are really and then you've got a place
there to track your wins and learns. You can then take that
down to January, so February or whatever in your big three. So
this one's January's. So you break so you've got your
quarterly one, quarter one, and then you've got your into
months. And then we've also got is a little planner to go, I'm
going to do this on Tuesday, I'm going to do these three things.
So I have three things every day. And today, recording this
video was one of my three, because I knew that you are
going to need this tomorrow morning, where you can then get
started at the weekend. So that was just a bit of a sidetrack, I
actually need to share the screen, but just not that
particular thing. So we'll go back to here. And so that just
gives you an idea of the 2025 planner. And that is going to be
I'll give you the link so that you've got that having your
clear vision as I you know, God saying have a clear vision as I
work with you on what's next spend time with God and ask him
the questions. And it will be fun. It's always fun. It's always
engaged. It's like a journey that it's like being the look I
feel like a kid in a lolly shop, because I'm never quite sure
what's going to come up next. And then let's work together
with the Holy Spirit on what's right.
and what's not and put that plan into place.
So what's right for me is to eat really healthy food,
as in paddock to plate.
What's not right for me is eating all the cakes
that we've eaten for the birthday of the book,
all the other stuff that, you know, cakes, carbs, sugar,
whatever it might be, not helpful at all.
So once I've made the decision,
which is about making the decision, right, okay,
today's the day, and today was the day.
It was like, right,
that's the last piece of birthday cake.
When that's gone, that's it.
No more sweet stuff for the coming time
between now and Easter.
So the whole time I'm on this course,
I am going to be looking at staying focused,
not having comfort food,
not going and looking in the pantry for something,
and just actually being on track.
And I'm hoping that during that time,
I'll lose at least three or four kilos.
So that's the plan.
So that's working there.
So what I want you to do is just think about
what holds you back,
and then ask God for what to replace it with.
Because this, doing my morning and eating routines,
writing and reflecting on how amazing my day has been,
what I've done, not what I haven't done,
who I am, not what I'm not.
And so, you know, getting those planners in place
so I can go, yes, I've done this today.
Yes, I set out to do that today.
Yeah, ooh, I missed that.
I'll need to put it first thing tomorrow morning.
So doing those is really key.
Okay, and then this is a summary
of the concepts we've covered today.
So I'm really encouraging to embrace your journey
and self-development and personal growth,
because that's what we're going to be doing.
That's what we're looking at.
So well done for being here.
Embrace it.
You're going to have fun.
Some of this is going to be quite hard.
Some of it's going to be new to you.
So it takes a bit of practice.
We didn't all get on our bikes for the first time
and ride them without, you know, trainer wheels
or whatever they're called here.
They're not called trainer wheels here.
They're stabilizers or whatever the score is.
You know, we didn't just get up and do it.
It takes a bit of practice.
So don't be put off if this is hard to begin with.
You will get better at it
and you will get brilliant at it the more you practice.
Because practice makes permanent
and we want to permanently sit in a good space,
not sit in the unhelpful space.
Engage with the questions to uncover insights from God.
So that's what we're doing here.
It's listening, it's feeling, it's sensing,
it's working through the good stuff.
And identify and release limiting beliefs
and negative thoughts.
And it's amazing, you know,
I generally hang out in the God space,
but I coach a lot of people who don't hang out with God
and they can hear from him,
they can put the positives in, they're brilliant.
So it's exciting that we can do that.
And we can identify and release the limiting beliefs
and the negative thoughts and exchange them
for what we know to be true,
for the good, for the uplifting, for the positive.
And let's face it, what if negative things happened?
What if good things happened?
Like it's time to look for that.
Because what you focus on expands.
If you look for the good, you'll find it.
If you look for the bad, you'll find it.
So just make sure you're looking in the right direction.
And then we're going to exchange,
what we've done is we've exchanged the old baggage here
of things that are holding us back for new luggage,
what's going to take us forward into the future.
And that's taking it from problems to possibilities.
So that's what we're looking for.
And then remember that your key,
you saying yes is your key to freedom,
your key to freedom, prosperity and abundance.
You saying yes to this, this is time for my light to shine.
I'm ready to embark on a new journey.
So right now, having done that couple of exercises,
what I'd like you to do is just reflect on how you feel.
And so give yourself a number out of 10.
So I'm going to give myself a nine out of 10.
And I'm going to,
I feel more settled because I now know where I'm going.
I now have a plan.
I've got something in place.
I know where I'm going.
And then each week,
I'm going to encourage you to put a call to adventure in.
So my first thing is to do my evening
and morning routines each day.
So I need to be consistent on that.
So that's because that's helped me with my planning.
And I'm also going to write up my 2025 calendar to date.
Now that means that there may be some things
that I'm missing previously,
but I'm not going to stress over what I haven't done.
I'm going to look at what I have done.
So I need to be doing that for this week, for example.
And if there's some quarterly reflections I want to do,
that's great too.
I'm just looking at,
so you might need to go back and have a wee look.
And my third one is going to be around,
I'll just put healthy headache to plate food.
And I will let you know.
how I get on with that and many of you actually are in my personal life as well so you'll be
able to see. So what I encourage you to do is write your call to adventure and then stick it
in the chat. So I will set that chat up with everybody who has signed up to do this DIY course.
You are welcome to leave it, you do not have to be part of it, you do not have to engage in it,
but if I set you up because I know who you are and we put it in there and I welcome you,
we'll set that up for now. We are going to look at an app. Kev said it's all ready to go but he
hasn't shown me how to use it yet. So it might take just a couple of weeks for us to get the
app up and running and then you'll all be in there together and you can introduce yourselves,
you can say hello, you can go yeah I did this, I did that. Many of you won't know who each other
is which is great because it gives you that beautiful anonymity because no one knows you
and you can be honest and real because nobody knows you in that particular space. So thank you,
thank you, thank you, well done. You have now finished week one and next week I'm just thinking
oh yes next week we're exchanging confusion for clarity and unease for peace. So again it says
big exchanges we're going to be looking at I think it was it might even be chapter three and four
just let me have I'm just having a look at me at chapter three and four there we go my notes are
ready for next week so we will look forward to seeing you next week have an amazing week this
week flipping those upside down world the right way up getting rid of those negatives there's
things that hold you back and really walking in to what's brilliant about you and let me know
have an amazing god blessed week love you all take care bye