All right, so welcome to office hours, welcome to second quarter office hours, I'm excited,
like what a way to start the quarter.
Before I started the recording, I'm just loving that you're choosing to show up.
You are taking some bold actions, and I'm celebrating each and every one of those.
Some of you have gotten meeting rooms, and you're doing live events.
Some of you are doing a launch online, a soft launch.
Some of you are really starting to get clients, doing a lot of calls, just super, super excited
for the growth that I'm seeing and thrilled to come alongside of you.
So office hours is about answering your questions, celebrating your wins, working through your
challenges, it's when I make myself available.
So you can just in the reactions, you can raise your hand, I'll pull you up and one
at a time, we will go through those.
But let's start by inviting the Holy Spirit.
So Father, we just thank you for this time.
We thank you for the gift of this community that you called together.
And you said we are not those who fear, we are not those who draw back in fear.
And you showed us linking arms and going forward.
And I thank you how amazingly you've delivered that.
And so now Holy Spirit, we just ask that you rule and reign in this conversation.
We ask that whatever needs to come forth for each woman to fully and boldly, confidently
step into the fullness of all their goals, dreams and desires that you've placed in their
heart, their God given vision, ask that it come forth with grace and ease.
We ask for supernatural wisdom, discernment, clarity, direction.
And we just give so much thanks in Jesus name, Amen.
Okay, I see Barbara has her hand up first.
So let me spotlight you and bring you up here.
And okay, what's going on, Barbara?
Will you talk a little bit about customer journey?
So if you have a lead magnet, and you're doing a customer journey, how many touches should
they be?
And just kind of talk about that, if you would.
Okay, wonderful, wonderful, wonderful.
You know, touches are everything right now.
And I like to think of the cord of three strands that cannot be broken.
Because people learn differently, they take in information differently.
It's known as their sensory preference.
So not only how many touches, but in what form we want to look at, okay?
So your email is going to be incredibly significant.
And especially, I like an immediate, and I do mean, as immediate as possible.
So if it's set up automated, more and more people are going to bots to do it faster,
because speed of implementation right now is huge.
The faster you respond, the greater their chance of actually buying from you.
It's now really getting documented as a science.
So you want a very quick response in email form.
So I do that.
And then I do at least one more, preferably a set of three emails that kind of come every
couple days.
So over that first 14 days, you've communicated three, four times by email, at least, okay?
And there's a variety of that.
Of course, the first one is like any talk or like anything you do.
First of all, you're welcoming them, you're thanking them, you're reminding them why they're
on your list, right?
And what they can expect.
What are you committed, which is for them?
What are you committed to them experiencing?
So you want to communicate that and tell them what to expect.
Over the next few days, I'm going to be sending you.
And then within those, it's like getting to know someone.
And it's like plugging them into what's available.
available.
And so they should not be too long.
They should be very heartfelt.
People don't read a lot.
They skim these days more than they read.
So using bolding so that if they just skim the bold,
they get the gist of it.
Of course, video is huge.
And so if you can throw a video in the email,
the more times they can see your face, your picture,
your video, the more time they're
going to connect with you.
And then from there, I've told all of you
having a weekly newsletter is probably
the single most important thing for consistency
in your business and staying front of mind.
So you could have anywhere from one
to five of these intro kind of boom, boom, boom emails.
And then same time every week after that,
and you let them know to be expecting that,
is that.
So in those first few emails, you're
letting them know what's available.
So a free resource, if you've got Facebook group,
how you want them to be able to connect.
So that's the use of the email.
I would also have a welcome text.
Use text much more sparingly.
Try to think in terms of give, give, give, ask.
And so use that within.
Add them to your social media.
Have a list of warm prospects that have raised their hand,
so that you can really be documenting the follow up.
And so have them tied in with your social media
so they're also hearing from you there.
So the cord of three strands.
Text.
A phone call most effective.
So if what you're driving them to is a phone call,
then that's what would be.
And you could start with a soft PS with your call to action.
And then later, it could move all the way
to what would happen on a phone call
and really push for the phone call.
Or if you're selling a program, same thing.
Start soft in a PS and then get more detailed.
Does that answer your question?
It does.
Thank you very much.
OK.
Absolutely.
All right.
Who else has a question?
I may not be seeing you raising your hands.
So if you can use the reaction, it puts you up.
Or kind of just wave that I see you and notice you.
Oh, my goodness.
I got people waiting room.
I'm not even letting in.
My goodness.
I don't have my assistants here today.
I don't have my team.
So sorry.
I don't have my team.
I left you guys in the waiting room.
I'm so sorry.
You guys catch the beginning of the recording.
I went through how many touches when
they respond to your lead magnet and using
the cord of three strands.
So I'm sorry.
Those of you left in the waiting room,
I don't have my team here today.
OK.
Tracy, let me bring you up.
And you can use your reaction to raise your hand.
And then I see you because it puts you first in my vision.
And so Tracy, go ahead.
What's your question today?
Going back to Tuesday's call and the expectation,
to be completely honest, I'm struggling with that
because I feel like I want so much to live in faith
and to let God's will be my will.
And so it's like whatever he wants, that when it comes to,
and what do I expect from him, I kind of trip up a little bit
because what I expect from him is whatever he wants.
And so to.
That's a very good one.
I love that.
So that's a really good one.
I could spend an hour on that.
I do a teaching, and I should probably pull it up,
probably revisit it, on the types of prayer.
And only one of those seven, eight, nine types of prayer
is the prayer of surrender.
In other words, where you saw Jesus at the cross saying,
not my will, but thy will be done.
You don't see Jesus praying that kind of prayer, or Paul,
or any of the disciples.
So surrender is.
Surrender is our heart. Surrender is our posture. Romans chapter 12, you know, offering ourselves
a living sacrifice. So surrender is a posture. But that does not mean not standing on bold
faith on the promises of God. And so you didn't see like feeding the 5,000. Let's just
go through a bunch of examples as quick as I can. Feeding the 5,000, right? So the disciples
come to Jesus and say, send them away. You know, we don't have enough food. They're hungry.
It's late. And Jesus looks at them and says, you feed them. And of course, they're just,
because a God-sized vision is bigger than you can do by yourself. It requires partnership
with God. We're co-heirs, we're co-laboring. And so Jesus puts that stretch on them, like
you feed them. 5,000 men plus women and children, and they get into their logical head and say,
like, I couldn't even begin. A year's worth of wages wouldn't buy the food for all these people.
What do you mean me feed them? You see, because they're looking at the lack and they're expecting
Jesus to do for them. But instead, he put the focus on them. And then he models for them.
So he says, what do you have? Which is, I've taught you all, that's always what you start
with. What's in your hand? What do you have? That's the most common question. The widow with
the oil, the widow with the cakes, Moses with the staff. Always start with what's in your hand.
What do you have? Even if it's just your voice, even if it's just your time, even if it's just
prayer, you have stuff to start with. And we're expected to use it, parable of the talents,
and expect a return on our investment. So what do we have? We just got three loaves,
you know, and two fish, right? Okay, let's work with what we have, because God's in the
business of multiplication, but we've got to use what we have. So he begins with thanks,
and he begins with faith and expectation. And he says, I thank you that you always hear me.
There's the expectation right there. Okay, now take it and feed everyone. And
of course, it multiplied in the process, not before. And it always multiplies with overflow.
Now, I experienced that myself physically. I had a time, I've shared with some of you,
when I was leading a retreat, and I was way out near Bodega Bay in California,
where everything shuts down and rolls up and goes to sleep very early. And it's dark, and
everything is asleep. And all the retreat members have arrived, and our vegan chef and food truck
are stranded, broken down, and there's not going to be any food tonight. And I'm leading this
retreat. I don't know how God put the faith and expectation in me, because it came from me. It's
not something I would do in the natural. But I had about this much minestrone soup left over from
lunch, and I poured it in a pan. And I started serving from the pan into bowls to give.
And it multiplied until everybody saw it, and it fed everybody in the room.
So God is the same yesterday, today, and tomorrow. He will multiply your resources,
but it starts with faith and expectation. You have to make a demand on it. So you take God's
promises, and you say, you said, and you make a demand on it. And then while you're in motion,
because you have a heart of surrender, and you constantly ask him, and you're having your morning
routine, which your spiritual routine, which is my time to usually write out in my journal the
questions I have to God, and the things I'm praying, and asking him what he wants me to know.
And then in those answers, I walk that out to the best of my ability. He will show you things in
advance. Here's an example. I forgot I'd even done this. God had me save the domain, Total Soul
Prosperity. That's the name of my upcoming book.
saved the domain long before I knew it was going to be the name of my book.
And it's going to the publisher today.
And I went and checked my domains.
And sure enough, I had saved that years ago.
You see, God is going ahead of you.
He's preparing you.
And it's your constant obedience.
It's pinpoint obedience.
Who do you want me to talk to today?
What do you how do you want me to show up today?
What do you want me to do?
You're in constant submission.
But you expect a return on investment,
just like when you plant seeds in your garden, you expect plants.
There's no way that you would plant seeds and not expect plants.
We see in nature.
What we also need to see in the rest of our business, does that make sense?
And does that answer your question or did I get way off the mark?
No. Perfect. Thank you.
OK, awesome.
Thank you for asking that question.
And I love Tuesday.
We started with integrating.
Faith into our business, and I'd like to keep that conversation going,
and so always bring yourself because the formula says, let your prayers and
petitions be made known to God with Thanksgiving.
Right. And so always with Thanksgiving means
that we go over the winds and what we focus on expands.
So looking at we're starting second quarter, looking at first quarter.
What major things happened in first
quarter where you did step out, where you did activate your faith?
What were your wins first quarter when it comes to faith?
What what things did you partner with God and do that were scary that but you did it.
You showed up live, you did a launch.
I mean, each one of you are doing some really big things.
Look at those things.
How did you integrate your faith in quarter one?
And then how are you going to really
multiply that, use it, build it?
In this quarter.
And where do you need?
Courage.
Or discipline or boldness or patience or support.
Or help what what do you need to fully
birth?
What God's putting in your heart in this quarter to keep it moving,
where are you taking what you built in quarter one and integrated your faith in
quarter one, where are you taking that?
How are you building on that in quarter two?
So ask me questions about integrating faith.
I mean, ask me questions about anything.
If I can help, I will.
But it takes reflection of what worked really well.
What were my wins?
What didn't work so well?
What were my challenges?
Where did I chicken out?
Where did I not honor my word and do what I said I would say I would do?
Where where do I need more courage?
Where did I where did I chicken out one way or another, consciously or
unconsciously, where do I need to be more bold?
What areas what remember the success formula, mindset, skill set, action.
Where does my mindset still need to be renewed?
Where's doubt creeping in?
Where's where's fear, fear of lack?
Creeping in.
Mindset and then skill set, what do I need to be?
Improving and growing in my skill set.
To really birth this vision, carry it out to completion.
And where am I carving out the time
both to renew my mind daily and to grow my skills?
There's a lot of pockets of time, and this is why I've had many of you do
the time study where every half an hour for the day, you write down what you did
that.
half an hour.
And then looking at it, what was out of alignment?
What was wasted, unproductive, unfruitful?
What could you change?
Make that change, and then go do the time study again.
So I like the verse about redeeming the time.
There's a lot of time that can be redeemed.
So an example, driving time.
I was taught at a young age to make your car your rolling
university.
That has served me well.
My drives, I learn a lot during my drives.
I'm listening to an audio book, a podcast,
or typically, a Spanish lesson.
Redeeming the time.
A lot of times, after talking all day, coaching,
doing all that, writing, sometimes I just want to sit
and I want to chill.
And yet, I'm a person that does not
like to just sit and watch TV.
I don't have a TV, but Netflix, or Prime, or anything.
Careful what I watch.
And so a couple of years ago, redeeming that time,
I only watch programs in Spanish.
So between redeeming the time in my drive
and redeeming the time of watching maybe an hour
at night TV, I'm now speaking pretty fluent Spanish.
You see, it's not the big things.
It's the little things we do over and over and over
consistently.
A year goes by like a minute.
Two years goes by like two minutes.
By doing something consistently, this
is the concept of atomic habits.
If you've read Atomic Habits, it's creating these habits.
Another example, you guys have access
to a lot of stuff in the Prosper Leader membership.
Go through the series on partnering with God.
There's five, six-day series in there.
Go through the 90-day series of Manifest, Love, Health,
and Prosper.
Go through the health series.
Go through the God, money, and me.
Well, how do you do that?
Well, I'm writing my book right now.
It goes to the publisher at the end of this month.
And one of the series that I wanted to listen to
that I couldn't get to, OK, I'm going
to have that playing while I'm doing my makeup
and my hair in the morning.
Well, wow, I was able to get through like three units
this morning as I was just doing stuff, getting ready.
You see, that's what I mean about redeeming the time.
And all of that is integrating faith into our business.
Does that make sense?
So look at those pockets of time that you're not doing anything.
Like while you're cleaning the kitchen,
what are you listening to or cooking?
While you're doing your makeup, while you're driving,
lots of opportunities to renew your mind,
to grow your skill set.
And then you carve out the pockets
of time of specifically what actions when.
OK, who else has got a question?
I'm talking too much.
This is your time.
Just hit the reaction button on the bottom
there and raise your hand.
Little raise your hand button.
Where are you feeling stuck?
What questions do you have?
What steps are you taking?
What bold moves are you taking to build on the bold moves
from quarter one?
Or if you didn't take any bold moves in quarter one,
what bold moves are you going to do in quarter two?
This is the first half of the year.
OK, Karen, I think you're raising your hand, right?
Yeah, I'm fixing my hair.
Yeah, no, thanks.
You're fixing your hair and raising your hand?
Yeah?
Yeah, multi-tasker.
I wanted to check.
I wanted to check on that.
OK.
The planner really helps because my thing is time management.
And I told you I had to wait because I'm so type A.
I have to wait for the beginning of the month.
So I just started it.
And it really helps, the 20 minutes,
because that really, I can do things that I want to put off
or I'm a little afraid, like contacting the VA
or this or that.
And I'm like, let me devote 20 minutes.
And I can do 20 minutes.
And that's really working.
So my whole thing is just getting into action more
of the things that I was setting the foundation
for in the first quarter.
So now it's like, actually, in AA, we call it in the steps,
you set the foundation in steps one through three.
And the rest is action.
Now into action.
So that's where I'm at.
Yeah.
Same.
So good.
I love.
Yeah, I mean, the Prosper Daily Planner, I still use it.
I've used it for decades.
All my clients that use it.
Use it every day, get results.
The ones who don't, don't.
I mean, it's just everything there to organize yourself.
And in this year's one, if you've
got the one that's kind of the reddish color,
I added some things to look at on the bottom
to really be tracking, because that which we focus on expands.
And so it allows you to track the number of calls,
the number of leads, looking at your income,
looking at your expenses.
These are things you've got to mind your business.
You've got to mind your P's and Q's, right?
And so too many, it's just random.
You're not treating it as a business.
You're treating it as a hobby.
So of course, each of them feed the other, right?
If you're not doing any calls, you're not having any sales.
And if you're not doing any calls,
it's probably because you don't have any leads, right?
And if you don't have, so each of those things
are so important.
And then breaking the important things
that you do into 20-minute chunks.
Now, there are some things that I just
draw a line through all three of the 20 minutes,
meaning I use a full hour.
If you're in the flow writing, like if I'm writing on my book
or if I'm seeing a client, it's typically
50 minutes or an hour.
So in that case, I put the name of the client or book
and I just draw a line through all three of the 20 minutes.
But then by that hour, get up and move.
They say these days, sitting is even worse than smoking for us.
If you need to set an alarm, whatever you need to do,
get up.
This is another example of redeeming the time,
redeeming the time.
And that is to exercise throughout the day.
We want these big hours at the gym and all of that.
If I told you guys, you'll crack up some of the stuff I do,
but I'm always transparent with you, right?
So when I'm talking about redeeming the time,
when I turn on the shower, it takes a minute
for the water to get hot.
It takes a couple of minutes.
I'm running the water.
I don't like that.
It kind of wastes water, but it is what it is.
I'm not jumping in a cold shower.
So while that water is heating, guess what I do?
Right there standing by the sink,
I do a bunch of squats, activating the largest
muscles in the body.
Right there.
Took two, three minutes, and I did a whole bunch of squats,
and I'm getting stronger and stronger and stronger.
Takes minutes, but huge change, right?
Sometimes I'll do squats, and I'll do push-ups onto the sink.
I take breaks between clients.
Get up, go get a drink of water.
Or between writing, get up and get a drink of water.
I always have all my fluids next to me here,
so I'm drinking all day.
Not that kind, Karen, but water and nutritional supplements
when I say I'm drinking all day.
And it sounded funny.
And so I'll get up, and actually, I'll
do five or 10 minutes of my cardio.
I'll dance.
I'll turn on music, and I'll go practice my salsa dancing.
And then I come back, and I'm laser focused.
So do you see how this could make such a difference?
Obviously, once a day, at least, I
go take my dog for a walk in between.
So I'm building learning Spanish in little tiny increments,
driving here, driving there, and watching at night.
I'm building exercise, little tiny increments,
waiting for the water to warm up.
I'm growing my skill set and mindset,
listening to things while I'm doing my makeup,
while I'm cleaning the kitchen.
Do you guys see how we can redeem the time
to truly focus on what matters?
Anybody else have some ideas or success stories
that you're doing?
I'm giving you some of mine.
I'm looking at your chat here, too.
I do a, I call it years ago, Sonicare Shuffle.
So my toothbrush is 2 and 1⁄2 minutes.
I walk or walk in place or march or do the Sonicare Shuffle.
I love that.
See?
There it is.
You're getting steps in while you're doing something.
Or squats or whatever.
But my little three-year-old granddaughter,
now, when she's brushing her teeth, we're more.
marching up and down the hall while we're brushing our teeth.
I love that. Wish I'd have learned it at three years old.
Right? I love that incorporating movement. Movement is so
important, right? We've talked in this series that I've done on
flow, oxygen flow, blood flow, right? With flow is so
important. Movement is getting all those flows activated and
movement even moves trauma out, right? I mean, I've got
deliberate movement, I have a Pilates class once a week, I've
got dance class a couple times a week, you know, I've got
deliberate where I'm actually going to things. And that's
another thing is, you know, being deliberate, you're not a
slave, you're not slave driving, what sparks joy, what sparks
joy is that built into your calendar, because a life with
no joy is going to fizzle out, you're going to burn out. So
what sparks joy, you know, get out there and play tennis. For
me, it's get out there and salsa dance, take salsa dance
lessons. I'll salsa dance for a few hours. It's great cardio,
but I have a smile on my face the entire time. I mean, it's
just, it just sparks joy for me. What is that for you? And are
you allowing yourself to have that? All of that is part of
integrating faith in your business, by the way. It all
fits. It's that holistic approach. holistic, loving your
body, loving, loving your spirit, loving your soul,
loving your mind, right? It all fits. Okay, who else?
Brenda, I was gonna say, I used a lot of listening with my
headset, I got a little when the little iPods used to exist, you
know, those back in the beginning, that was amazing for
me, because I had kids, but I was always listening to
something. So I grew myself a lot. Yeah, just listening. And,
and initially, it was like, well, I'm not absorbing it. I'm
not keeping it. But surprisingly, when you continuously
do that, it sticks, eventually, the things that you're supposed
to get that Holy Spirit wants to put into your focus, they stick
in your heart. And so, for me, that has been huge. I still all
the time, before I go out to watch the dog, I'm like, okay,
walk the dog, Lord, what is it that I need to hear from you
today? What? And I go look, and I just allow a podcast or
something to come to me. And it doesn't matter, I've gotten over
that I always like to complete things. But I've gotten over
that I need to listen to the whole thing. Yeah. Sometimes
it's just a little bit. Yeah, Lord wants to spark in me that I
need for my next step. And so that's been a powerful thing. I
mean, even when I'm cooking dinners, I'm always listening. I
mean, that's the way I've gotten through a lot of this stuff in
in the prosper membership. Yes. And again, I don't like my
natural self doesn't like that I can't take notes, I can't write
it down. But that's my logical brain. And I know that a lot of
it I'm absorbing unconsciously. And I think that's part of the
faith process is leave that what we expose ourself to is going to
come into us because we know I know, when I do that in the
negative stuff, like I've also like you, like, I've stopped a
lot of things that used to impact me unconsciously. So I
have to believe that, yeah, if I expose myself to that is
healthy, and uplifting will also impact me in that same way.
I just love that. I love that you shared that. And I was
reflecting on that this week. Um, you know, there's a
scripture that says out of the heart, the mouth speaks. There's
also a scripture that says out of the heart flow the issues of
life. And there's scriptures about storing things in our
heart. Mary stored all these things in her heart, right? Um,
oh, what's her name? Um, what was the one that couldn't get
pregnant? Not Sarah, but the other one. And Hannah, Hannah,
Hannah stored these things in her heart, right? And, and so
it's so important. Um, that even if you don't have time to take
notes and do it the way you were taught in school, and all of
that, but you're storing things in your heart. And those things
are then readily available for the Lord to use. So part of
integrating faith is that as you're storing these things,
then it's really amazing the role of the Holy Spirit when you
read, like john things chapters 14 through 16. When it's really
on the dissertation of the Holy Spirit, it says that one of the
roles of the Holy Spirit
is he will remind you of the things that he's spoken.
So I believe that's both the logos word, the written word,
and the rhema word.
So when I am putting scripture in every day,
and then when I journal, God will often
remind me of those scriptures.
And when God speaks, I'm always going back
over what he has spoken.
So when I ask you the question about first quarter,
I got asked that question by my coach about where faith, what
was the big things where faith was integrated
in first quarter.
So fortunately, I journal.
So I thought, let me just look through.
And I go back over my journal often,
and underline, and highlight, and the big things.
I go back over it, over and over,
storing God's word in my heart.
And so I could look back at the highlighted things
for the first quarter.
And one of the things that he has taught me to say often,
and even repeat a few times, is all is well.
Of course, Romans 828, everything's
working together for good.
All is well.
So when chaos is coming at you, and you can just say,
all is well, when you're not sure how something's
going to happen, all is well.
So God, that was one of my lessons in first quarter.
Well, that could have just come and gone.
But because I noticed God repeated it all
throughout the first quarter, I actually
started highlighting it all the times
he told me to remember all is well,
and even count how many times he said that.
And so this is where you're honoring part of faith
integrated, is you're honoring God's word.
You're making God's word top priority in your life.
So you're hearing it.
You're doing it.
You're repeating it, that it becomes part of who you are.
And yes, you think you're not getting it.
But I'll tell you at the moment, there's
other scriptures that say that when you go to speak
and you don't know what you're going to say,
that God will remind you.
Well, he'll remind you of what you've put in,
what you've got to work with.
This is why the morning spiritual practice is
so important.
It's also why I'm doing what I've done for 10 years,
the Resurrect Your Spirit and Business series
on the 14th through the 19th to get ready for Easter,
every day, 9 AM.
Now, for everyone else, it's $97.
For you as prosper leaders, it's only $47.
So I'm going to give you, I'm going to email you
the special link for you.
But I'll show you the link to read about it.
And why this is important is God told me 10 years ago,
and he's had me do it every year,
he told me to take you in with me
and do a morning spiritual practice together.
And so we do this together.
It's me unveiling all of my spiritual practice,
actually doing it.
Several things are going to happen.
We're going to do very deep transformational meditations.
We're going to do the gratitude, the declarations, everything
of a morning practice.
At the end of the six days, you're going to have a habit.
So if you didn't have it already, you're going to.
If you did, you're going to pick up some really deep stuff
and improve it.
And you're going to go into Resurrection Sunday on the 20th
with really a lot of transformation.
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Okay, Lois, did you raise your hand again?
I did.
Okay, good.
All right.
I wasn't just calling you again.
Okay, go ahead.
My question, Brenda, is related to the scriptural concept
of dominion over time.
Yeah.
I feel like I come from a family of origin
that struggles with time,
and I understand these things that we've been talking about,
but I want to actually absorb this
and create major shifts in that,
and I feel like I still could use some support in that.
So if you could speak to that a little bit,
if you have any wisdom.
Yeah, I love that.
Man, there's so much to that.
I believe the whole thing starts
with the posture of stewardship.
We're called a steward.
I didn't know that word before I learned it in Bible studies.
It's kind of a biblical word,
and a steward is a wise manager, right?
And I believe and very scripturally believe this,
that we're called to steward our money.
Most people know that.
We're also called to steward our time.
We're called to steward our time.
This is the highest of stewarding our time.
I also believe we're called to steward our health, our body.
I believe we're called to steward our energy.
I believe we're called to steward our relationships, okay?
So how do you do this?
Well, the first step to any transformation is awareness,
and that's why I say do the time study, okay?
Just first become aware of how is it now.
How are you spending your time now?
Where are the gaps that are time sucks?
Like any of you start scrolling,
and all of a sudden you look up,
and it's been a half an hour.
I mean, that's deliberately designed to do that.
It's been an hour.
That's a time suck, right?
And there's so many.
It could be television.
It could be video games.
It could be social media scrolling.
It could be anything.
And so the first thing with awareness is to start to say,
where are the time sucks that I could transmute, right?
And that's the first big chunk,
and how could what we open the conversation with,
how could I redeem that time?
So taking dominion is using your God-given authority,
your God-given dominion to steward that time.
With ROI, there's a return on investment.
So we look at the returns, and we need to have a long vision.
Too many of us are a microwave society,
and so we have very short vision, right?
But it's the cumulative that is absolutely amazing.
So first, it starts with awareness,
and from that, you can make changes.
And the best way to make changes is to create a new habit.
And there's a lot of things in Prosper Leader membership
about how to create a new habit.
There's atomic habits.
It's tying it to something that you're already doing.
So like I taught you, those of you
that want to do a morning spiritual practice,
what do you already do first thing in the morning?
Most of you go get a cup of coffee or a nutritional drink
or something.
OK, tie it to something you're already doing.
So you train your brain.
As soon as I get that nutritional drink, for me,
I go make myself a big, you can see how messy this is,
green drink, right?
And when I make that green drink, I bring it back.
I've got a set place.
You can see this big chair behind me there.
That's my comfy worship chair in here.
And I bring the drink.
I grab my pens and my Bibles and my journal.
I sit in that big chair.
And so now I've started a new habit.
It's tied to something I'm already doing.
I sit and I do that.
And then it's good at the back end to reward yourself.
If you did it five days or you did something,
do something just until it becomes a new habit.
30 days, 60 days, it just becomes.
part of your life, right?
And so habit is the best way to take dominion
because our habits are what's running us, right?
Our habits are determining our whole future.
And the long-term cumulative of habits is so amazing.
When I think that I have been doing
in morning spiritual practice for many decades,
this is why the word comes so easily for me.
This is why my faith is where it is,
not that I've arrived and I've got a long way to go,
but it's that cumulative.
When I think about my health,
that at my age I dance at the level that I dance
and I do Pilates and I'm so thankful.
It's that I have since 17,
I have been 100% committed to daily practices
for my health, right?
And I was fortunate to learn late,
but still enough time the role of emotions
and my health and be able to make,
because we have habits, we have habits of speaking,
we have habits of doing, we have habits of being,
we have habits of thinking.
These are all habits we wanna change.
And so does that answer the question?
Really the dominion is taking authority over
in a committed, decided way
as an honor and a form of worship as stewardship.
Does that help a little bit?
Yeah, so what you're saying is it's gonna start
with like the intention and then the decision,
which is followed by intentional habit creations.
Yes.
And what you're saying is tied to some other something.
Yes.
So until it becomes permanent.
Yes.
Yeah, I just, sometimes I feel like,
because at least in the last number of years,
I've had a lot of disruption in my life.
Yeah.
And so I had many habits and many routines
and many practices that have just blown up on me.
Yeah.
And even when I sit like, and I use the 20 minute,
that's great, but it's like my brain
is a new brain in some ways.
And it's, I just hit the shut off
because I'm intensely focusing.
I don't reset the 20 minutes.
And then an hour later, I'm still working on the thing.
Yeah.
Without knowing how to break.
And so.
Yeah.
And it's the demands of like the dominion teaches me
to be in charge of what I consider priority.
Yeah.
And that's also perhaps.
And like I say, for some of you,
like focusing for an hour, if you're hyper-focused,
you don't have to break.
Like if I'm writing my book,
I don't have to stop at 20 minutes
if I'm in the middle of writing a chapter.
I'll go a full hour.
However, I have been known if I'm not disciplined
and I'm not using dominion and authority
that I could sit in this chair three to five hours
and not get up because I have the ability to focus
and I can end up back to back to back with things.
So there's a couple things about that,
whether it's setting your watch
or even if it's just standing up in place,
it's so important.
But we know as far as like getting things done
that doing in 20 minute chunks with that break
or maximum hour with that break,
you'll get more done in three hours than eight or 12
of distracted juggling, doing many things.
So it actually is a very wise use of time.
You're condensing a lot of things by doing that.
Then with distractions,
there's boundaries as to what is truly,
and this is where you can go back to,
Stephen Covey's square of urgent and important
and kind of review and think about that
because I'm learning, especially family members,
not to jump or let their emergency become my emergency
unless it's a true medical emergency or something.
I've learned now to not feel guilty
and to say things like I'm not available until,
and I give a time, I'll reach out to you then.
So that my day isn't all broken up,
I'm not getting a million,
I'm not answering the phone calls,
let it go to recording, I'm not answering every beep,
I'm not on social media,
I pop on in the morning to do something,
I pop on to post something,
but I'm not on there.
So you see, these are all time sucks that we look at.
And so when you're going through family crisis,
like some of the stuff you've gone through,
hey,
There's nothing, a crisis upheavals everything.
You just do the best you can to ride the wave.
When there's a tsunami, you're not using your timer
and trying to map out 20 minute questions.
There's a tsunami for goodness, you're trying to survive.
So this is in general, and then we have to learn
how to maintain our peace in the tsunami.
How can I just close my eyes where I am
in that hospital room and spend a minute with God in prayer?
How can I just take my Bible and read it
when I'm sitting in the car doing this emergency?
You know, it's again, redeeming the time, even in the chaos.
Does that make sense?
And then, I see you, you've come through the other side,
you're doing the right things.
Those habits will come back, they'll come back easier
because you've had them before.
Hey, is that helpful?
Yes, and I think what you just said is important for me to hear.
And that is, I actually have to be intentional
to reinstate the habit in these habits.
I think that's what I'm hearing because it used to be,
it had become habit and now they're not habits anymore.
So I have to like recreate these habits.
Yeah, just kind of like I had to train my children
to sleep again every time they got sick.
You have to, okay, now you're gonna go to sleep, right?
So I think I have to treat myself that same way.
Beautiful, beautiful, great, great awareness there.
I love that.
And a lot of them you have muscle memory for,
the habits will be easier to create this time around.
You've done it before, you build on those previous.
And so that's the concept of success stacking.
How did I build the habit before?
What worked?
What were the things that I did?
Oh yeah, I did this and then this and this.
I've just got like signals from my brain.
I've got the place where I'm gonna sit.
I've got the pens I'm gonna use.
It's easy to grab.
Like whatever it is, like there's these signals
for your brain.
So love that, love that.
I'm looking at the thing here.
What's, oops, nice Brenda.
What did I, what was that?
Oh, Karen, I got it.
It was an earlier thing I said, wasn't it?
That's funny.
Okay, so thank you, Lois.
And that was a great awareness.
I'm so glad and go back.
You know, anytime with anything,
like some of you that are dealing with initial sobriety
and you know what?
It's not perfect the first time.
You might make it a week, you might make it 30 days
and you slip, get back up.
Right, Karen?
And then next time it's a little longer, get back.
So like, don't judge yourself harshly.
Success stack on the wind, celebrate what's working.
And yes, decisively decide to go back to build
especially these faith integrating habits.
And just honoring of yourself,
honoring that your sleep matters,
honoring that you're eating and drinking water matters.
Like what are the things you're implementing
that really matter?
And that's where I said cumulatively, wow.
What I chose to do with my health since 17
has really paid off.
I went and got my blood work done.
It's completely flawless.
I'm over 60 ladies.
It's completely flawless.
But this is habits implemented.
And I praise God.
And I know many of you are doing the right thing
and it still doesn't work out perfect.
And there's genetics and there's stress
and there's all kinds of things.
So I don't ever, none of this is to shame.
It's only to encourage.
And what I would say is success stack.
What things have you done in the past?
Oh, I remember you think I used to juice every morning
that I had so much energy.
I'm going back to juicing every morning
or oh, I used to walk every day.
That's it, it's warming up.
I'm gonna go back to walking.
Like success stack, you have memory for it.
You've done it once, you can do it again, right?
When you were successful in getting things done
and finishing projects,
when you were successful in your prayer life,
whatever it is, build on those success stack, okay?
That's a tool, all right?
And then habits, our life is governed by habits.
We're just living by habits.
So the sooner you can make something a habit,
the more likely it's gonna become part of your life, okay?
Great, great questions.
I'm just thrilled.
Thank you so much for asking these questions.
I think we are at the top of the hour.
I'd love for you to popcorn as fast as you can,
just one thing that you're gonna apply,
one thing that jumped out.
Okay, wisdom is applied knowledge.
So just popcorn, just unmute, say boom.
It could be a word, a sentence, but popcorn.
for me. Go ahead. Rebuild habits. Rebuild habits. Love it.
Who else? Consider the various types of prayer. Good. Look at
the different types of prayer. Remind me Tracy. I'll send I'll
see if I can find it and send you some stuff. Okay. That was
great. Who else? Quick. Popcorn.
Remembering the habits just starting just because you stop
doesn't mean it's permanent. Love it. Great. Great word. Who
else? Yeah, I'm going to substitute like watching one of
your videos as opposed to two or one and a half hours of
watching Netflix like incorporate a video and then
Netflix. So love it. Love it. Great choice. Great choice. Okay.
Okay. Anybody else? unmute yourself. Maybe Bev. Who else?
I didn't. I think the rest of you said something. Okay. Love
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