All right, good morning, good morning, welcome to Office Hours, our every Thursday morning
experience to celebrate, celebrate what you guys are doing.
Oh, I better let some people in here, let me do that.
So it's the opportunity to celebrate, so we always love to do that because when you share
your wins, you know, what's the saying, the tide that rises, you know, raises all boats.
So when you guys share your wins, like you're doing, everybody rises.
So I love to always celebrate and let me let some more people in here.
Okay, hard to see when you guys come in.
So Office Hours is this opportunity to celebrate because in your wins, there's so much power
and especially when it glorifies God, when it's a testimony, this is so proven.
Like in every testimony, there is like testimonies, it goes out and it gets multiplied.
And so when one person gets healed of something, you'll see in a room, a lot of healings of
that thing.
And when you get a breakthrough in your business, you see a lot of people get a breakthrough,
right, in their business.
So part of us celebrating, A, we just want to celebrate you, B, the tide that rises,
you know, raises all boats that everybody else gets encouraged and even thinks, Ooh,
I should try that or Ooh, I need to get going on that.
Like it's so nice to see what's working.
So love to celebrate.
And secondly, is to answer questions and what you're working on.
And even opportunity to hot seat, you know, kind of coaching on the spot to showcase what
you're doing.
And again, if one person has a question or a challenge, usually everybody else does as
well.
And then of course, I'm always so full and ready to share with you guys, you know, what
God's putting on my heart.
So let's start with prayer.
And for those of you that came in while I was talking, welcome, welcome, Charla, welcome
Natalie and Bev and Karen and each and every one of you.
So let's start with prayer first.
So Father, we just thank you for this time in history that you chose for us to be here.
Like you said in Esther, for such a time as this, you've placed inside of us conviction
based on what we've learned, based on the experiences, based on what you've done.
You've placed in us skills that we can use to serve humanity and thus serve you.
You've placed in us creativity and ideas in abundance that we get to co-create with you.
So Holy Spirit, we just invite you into this space, flood this space with an atmosphere
of power and peace and creativity and wisdom.
And we just thank you for everything you've done, are doing, will do in each of these
amazing Prosper Leader members.
In Jesus name, amen.
Amen.
Again, so good to see you.
So let's start with some wins.
Bev shared a powerful win.
I'm going to use hers as a teaching moment, if she's willing, because I think everybody
can benefit from it.
But anybody else, how about, anybody have some wins you want to share?
I mean, Karen, you've had a ton.
You've got to share.
Yeah.
Thanks.
I'm really excited.
Well, I guess the big one came the other day.
I'm invited to, there's a 12 part series on addiction on the Shalom Network, which is
8 million viewers international.
So I'm going to be on the part 11 of the series interviewed for women, community, the importance
of community and support and recovery.
And I'm like, wow, that's really cool.
So now I'm busy losing 15 pounds by, oh, you're so cute.
That's amazing.
You know, we just, we just all touch in.
and greed that is going to be God's spirit that shines through you and that radiates
and the way that you've chosen to take your experience in recovery both all the wisdom
that you've gleaned and all the struggles because this is the power of your testimony
is that it not only shows hey here's what you can do here's how I did it which is so
powerful but it also shows how there's gaps and God placed you here for such a time as
this to fill the gap right we talked about like in recovery you go to an AA meeting and
it's mostly men or you know whatever it is so this is such an opportunity for God just
to shine through you so tell us the date and the time that you're filming and let us be
praying for you and and celebrating with you yeah i will it starts july 28th so it's 12
parts so i'm assuming my part will be like sometime the end of august or in september
something like that and then my workbook is really really solid with the return method
i'm really proud of it it's beautiful it's like gorgeous yeah thank you i think it's
really going to be helpful i really like i poured my heart into it um i'm getting and i love that
you took the counsel from last week and you're going to take the first part and make that a
lead magnet brilliant yeah it looks great thanks robert and linda said i'm giving a bit too much
away with that so i'm going to talk to you about that tomorrow okay okay no that's a way to give
parts and not give too much don't worry and and and by the way this is often a fear
and it's misguided and that is that i'm giving too much and because here's the truth this is
what i've learned okay and i see this from those that are most successful the truth is if you give
your best you know kind of the biblical freely you receive freely give not that you give all and
i'll tell you how to do it i'll tell you how to distinguish it but you give your best people say
wow if she gives this much for free i can't imagine how great it'll be to coach with her
right what's the first thing that happens or to go into women in the rooms okay so this idea that
you need to hold back um especially where we are in the market right now i see people still doing
that and you know what i i went to one yesterday and i just felt like it took my time and i left
going what a waste of my time i hate that he gave these little snippets that i could go figure out
on ai these little snippets that really didn't bond me to what they do and then spend it all
on a sales you know pitch yeah and this is the mistake that you old tactics is you rope them in
and you give them just a tiny taste and think they're gonna buy from you not in this day and
age no no no no no they have access to information remember i've said so many times information is
not transformation right and so when you give your best they say wow if i got that much for free
i'm working with this woman yeah they bond with you so please um stay with freely you receive
freely give don't worry about i mean look at my five seven day launches i'm just pouring it all
out you get it all girlfriend right and i get clients a lot from them okay so i i disagree
with that now where there's truth to that is if it's too long and it's not easily digestible
it might be a little confusing too so yeah i gotta yeah we'll we'll pick a small part of that
now the other way to do that okay is to give the principles and the why's and in particularly
the emotional stories why what you do is different but not the tactics yeah the exact how to's you
refer to that that's what you teach in the whole book or in the whole course yeah i have you know
what it was i was just rushed and i threw the whole first chapter so i yeah i definitely want
to talk to you about it okay good good but congratulations you've got it done it's beautiful
um it's it's aesthetically beautiful it's easy to understand it's clear
It's deep, I was just pulled in.
Oh, good, good, good.
It's very valuable content.
Oh, thank you.
All right, let's give Karen a snap.
I just love how all these things are opening up
and you're stepping up.
So, so proud of you.
Okay, who else has something to share?
I'd love to hear.
Victoria, I've been seeing you show up.
Charla's got great stuff going on.
Natalie, I'd love to hear from you.
And then I'm going to also have Bev share
and I'm going to use it as a teaching moment as well.
So who's got some wins to share?
Who wants to go next?
I'll go.
Asli, Asli, let me pan you so we can see you here.
There we go.
The new word that a friend of mine gave me
and it's emboldenment.
It's when God gives you courage and confidence
to speak out and speak up boldly.
So I feel like I've been doing that more easily
and I officially launched my five-day detox.
I'm really promoting that.
Awesome.
And being more consistent.
Awesome, awesome.
I'm so, so proud of you, Victoria.
And I think it's very powerful for you to share
the truth of your story, meaning,
hey, it took me forever to be willing to show up.
I didn't like showing up.
I didn't want to show up.
You know, share that part of your story
and then the emboldenment.
What made you finally say, hey, enough is enough.
I've got something valuable I need to share.
God's calling me to share.
I need to, you know, feel the fear and do it anyway.
So you sharing that story as well as all your how-tos
and all the other wisdom that you're bringing
will endear people to you
and make them really want to follow you.
And so, yay.
Let's give Victoria a snap.
Brenda, I'm sorry.
What is she doing?
I'm not clear.
She's doing a detox.
It's a five-day detox, Victoria.
Five-day whole foods detox.
So it's not like liquids.
It's just whole foods like vegetables.
And I give, you know,
I never thought about all these vegetables
and what they actually do in our bodies
to help purify the liver.
And just giving our bodies a reset.
We have no problem unplugging our printer
when it's going wonky, our computers,
but we have a hard time stopping
and letting our bodies reset for five days or seven days.
No, yeah.
Yeah.
Yay, all right.
Let's give Victoria a snap.
I just, I've been so excited
every time I see you showing up.
So, so awesome.
Okay.
Bev, do you, I know you don't have your camera on.
Do you want to just talk through this
or do you want to come on camera?
Well, I'll try and talk through it.
I don't have this sheet in front of me.
Oh, okay.
Okay.
Well, Cher, so earlier before you guys jumped on,
Bev said that she came up with an acronym,
which many of you have been doing,
and that's a powerful way to have your signature system
that we've talked about, right?
And so Karen, it's the return system.
And so Bev, as we've done her marketing,
we have done her packages
and we call her the shortcut queen, right?
And who doesn't want a shortcut, right?
So she has come up with an acronym for shortcut.
So go ahead, lay it on us.
What's your acronym, Bev?
Well, it's, I literally took the word shortcut.
And so I've got areas for each one of those,
but the interesting part is I've also come up
with what I would call kind of a short book or a pamphlet.
It's about 20 pages.
So I don't know if that should be a lead magnet
or if I should expand on that
and what that might look like.
I suppose I could morph that into a 150 page book
if I really wanted to.
Yeah, I was gonna say, we need to look at what it is
and how it fits in with your big picture.
So there's two ways to go.
If you want a little 20 page
and you wanna just use it as a lead magnet,
you certainly can do that.
I did that with like Time Management Secrets of Jesus,
right?
The other way, which I will probably do in the future
with Time Management Secrets of Jesus,
which is one of my lead magnets,
is you then start adding the meat,
which a lot of the meat,
the most powerful things you can share in a book is story.
story as the primary way of teaching, right? And this is
what endears people to you. It's what connects the heart and not
the head. It's what keeps them reading. And so part of that
would be to look at in those 20 pages, the main points, and then
what story represents it the best. So you know, I went
through a lot, but in the end, with my Total Soul Prosperity
book, which will, we're doing the cover reveal on the 27th,
the landing page will be up, I can't wait to share with you.
And then it's released on the 29th. As I created that it
originally was 300 pages. And my publisher said, we need to get
it down to 100 pages. She said this book is so perfect for
people in recovery, for people in small groups, for churches,
for study groups, and and they will read it and they can break
it into short chapters, and it'll actually get consumed and
change lives. So it was a massive undertaking to get rid
of 200 pages. That was the first, you know, several major
revisions. And then the second part, and I'm telling you this
for all of you as you're writing, and this is true for
crafting your books, it's true for crafting your programs, it's
true for crafting your talks. And that is, you know, facts
tell, you could write this down, facts tell, stories sell. Okay.
And not only do stories sell, but they endear, they are
remembered, people will remember a story forever. They will
retell a story, they will relate to you, they will feel
like they know you, they will bond with you. And those stories
could be yours, I have a mix. They're not just my stories,
also my clients. Okay, stories are in there as well. So
depending what what the topic is, it could be other stories
too. I mean, it can even be, you know, historical Jesus stories,
biblical. So I had done the first chapter, the story was so
compelling, that then what happened is I realized all the
chapters that followed. I'm a teacher, you guys know me, I'm a
teacher in the body of Christ a lot, right. And there was lots
of teaching. You guys know how I am, I love to teach. And in a
book, it can come across as blah, blah, blah. And they won't
turn the pages and they won't keep going. If you could teach
through story, you'll keep them every single page. So then the
challenge became to have every chapter be in story form and not
just teaching, very little teaching, mostly story. Okay. So
that was many revisions. And then, of course, with Total Soul
Prosperity, the story opens and I shared this with you guys like
a few weeks back, my story when I was in that small country
church, and God spoke the words to me decades ago, cast out the
slave woman. Well, the slave woman had so much personality in
the first chapter. And you know, so much definition, there's even
a quiz, you know, how much of the slave woman is running you,
right? And then she slowly got lost through the chapters. So
then the revisions again, for you guys is about consistency,
keeping the message consistent all the way through, and
repeating the message and applying it differently in each
chapter, but it's the same message being applied. So how
does the slave woman affect, you know, your self image? How does
the slave woman affect your money story? How does the slave
woman affect your bit, you know, and so then more revisions
and making sure the slave woman was all the way through the
whole book, right. And so I tell you that, that, you know, in an
age where people go, oh, just let AI write your book, please
don't do that, you'll lose your credibility. And you will not
get a second chance at it. If someone buys your book, and they
can tell it's just written by AI, you know, you're not going
to get another chance. So please don't follow that trend.
Okay, write your own book, you can get lots of help editing, I
use AI for a lot of ways, which I can teach you guys, that could
be a whole separate study. But make sure this is yours and make
sure the stories are rich, and they're using all their senses.
And I took a couple years from Kelly Morgan, she's one of my
book coaches. And I took a couple years of her class.
and I could hear her voice always saying show, don't tell.
And so whatever you're doing,
as you're doing any area that you're all doing,
you know, show, don't tell.
So Bev, in answer to that, it can be a short lead magnet.
It could be a fabulous book if you add those principles.
So let's get back to your acronym.
So shortcut for the shortcut queen,
tell us what the acronym is.
Oh, well, like I said,
I don't have this printed out in front of me
and I don't recall it from memory.
Okay, okay.
So you're gonna, to be continued, you're gonna come back.
Right, yeah, I'll come back with it.
Okay, because that's really powerful.
This can become your signature system.
Now, the reason I wanted to call you
as a wonderful example, okay?
Frankly, all of you guys are so, my clients,
this is just what I attract and I can say honestly
from the heart for each one of you,
you guys are so creative and so prolific
in your creativity and ideas and so brilliant.
And so Bev is no exception to that.
So, you know, not only is she a therapist,
you're also a nurse too, right, Bev?
Yes.
Yeah, so she's like a nurse, she's a therapist,
she's a coach, she's just got all these gifts, right?
She's got all these tests that she does that are amazing.
And so what happens when you're very multi-gifted,
multi-passionate and you've got a lot of interests, okay?
It can either make you or break you, okay?
The way it makes you and why I wanna use this
as a teaching moment is that you pull it into a system, okay?
And so as you guys see me,
I am very multi-talented and very multi-passionate, right?
I mean, I could teach forever God health in me
and I'm a vegan chef
or I could go all out Bible study and spiritual
or I could go all out in business or sales, right?
And each of you have that, okay?
It'll confuse your audience
if you just keep switching with the wind
as you feel about it and you just come up with an idea
and I got a new program and I'm gonna do this
and I got a new, this is the mistake happening
by so many out there right now
is they're changing their niche every week,
they're confusing their audience.
Someone, if I ask them, what does Victoria do?
What does Charla do?
What does Karen do?
What does Bev do?
What does Natalie do?
Like they should be, if I go to your,
especially if you've had it for a while,
if I go to your group, if I go to your page
and I say, what do they do?
And they can't answer.
A confused mind is not a buying mind, okay?
And so you wanna be very careful.
So how do you navigate that?
You don't wanna be in a box and you're creative
and you wanna rotate amongst your skills
and talents and passions exactly with this.
So within the return system, within the shortcut system,
within that each of you as you have a system,
you can keep coming back to it, right?
So you brand that way.
So if you notice, I purposely branded from day one,
my company in 2012, prosper in all things,
third John two, right?
I can, within prosper in all things,
talk to you about prospering financially.
I can talk to you about prospering physically.
I can talk to you about prospering spiritually
and I'm not weird or off-track or confusing, correct?
Because I'm on a subject, there's an umbrella.
You guys need an umbrella of prosper in all things
or same in my book.
It's a different version of the same thing,
total soul prosperity, right?
And so what is total soul prosperity?
It's prospering spiritually, physically, financially
in all your relationships.
You see how I've given myself freedom to tap into my gifts
and not get off topic.
Does that make sense?
Tell me if I'm helping you guys.
This is the way that you'll be able to hold the attention
of the people.
So if you create a signature system
and an acronym is just one way to do that.
It could also be the whatever system, okay?
If you create a system and you always keep referring
to that, but you build it in the directions that you want.
So I'd like you to be thinking about that, Bev, okay?
There's so many aspects that you do with relationships,
with the Colby test of knowing who you really are.
So make sure it fits into the shortcut.
shortcut queen and why each of those is a shortcut in their life.
Keep coming back to the shortcut system.
Keep coming back to how this shortcuts their life.
How does taking the Colby test shortcut them in their relationships, in their career?
It's the fast pass in their career.
Do you guys follow the train of thought that I'm teaching here?
Does this make sense?
Any questions about that?
Okay.
So I would like to continue.
Well, do you have any questions or things you want looked at or worked on?
Or I didn't hear from many of you.
I didn't hear from you, Natalie or Charlie.
If you guys have something to share, please raise your hand.
But any questions so far or things that you want worked on or you want to talk about?
This is your time.
I have a question.
I have something to share.
I learned yesterday about a terror barrier that people in sales have to learn how to
navigate through.
So I'm trying to do something scary every day that scares me.
And so I think that helps in sales and reaching out and again, following up, really reaching
out to new prospects.
That is a perfect segment to what I want to talk about.
I'm so glad you brought that up, but tell me your question so I'm sure that I answer
it.
Yeah.
Just about the terror.
How to get through the terror barrier.
Okay.
So that person, whoever taught you that yesterday, took a common knowledge thing that we all
deal with and gave it a unique coined term, which suddenly makes everyone pay attention.
In other words, it's a rebuild of having a comfort system or having what I'm saying.
It's a stretching, it's having a threshold is another way that it is explained.
And so it ties in perfectly and it goes all the way back to do it afraid or do one thing
every day that you're afraid of.
One of the presidents said that.
So if you notice the way that it caught your attention is exactly what I'm teaching here
is coined something that they haven't heard for something that's actually familiar.
We all have talked about crossing fear barriers or thresholds or comfort zones.
But if you only talk about that, they're not going to listen because the brain goes, oh
yeah, I already know that.
I know that.
But by doing a unique, it caught your attention and made you go, oh, I got to pay attention
here.
Okay.
Um, it's really perfect for the conversation that God was putting on my heart to share.
So it's a perfect lead in.
Thank you for, for bringing that up because I see this a lot.
Okay.
We have a certain line around us that is, we could call it a comfort zone.
We could call it a threshold.
We could call it a safety zone.
Our brain is designed to keep us safe, right?
So what happens, we talked a little last week and today and tonight, I want to go deeper
on the subject of capacity building about capacity, because what you're really talking
about is growing your capacity.
And so what happens is that threshold is coming up upon our capacity.
Okay.
And so what happens is you stretch and all of a sudden, whoa, I'm on TV.
I'm getting clients.
I'm, whoa, that's the biggest check I've ever gotten.
Whoa, I'm showing up.
Whatever it is for you, you come up against a threshold that's scary.
So picture like a wall and you're coming up against a threshold and there's two responses.
Okay.
One is you come against that and you're like, the brain says, radar, radar, red alert, red
alert, go back to safety, retreat back to safety.
That's what your brain wants to do.
You hit this threshold and you'll in one way or another, quit, sabotage, procrastinate,
do whatever to take you back to the center of this little comfortable playpen you've
been living in.
Does this make sense to all of you?
And the other is what you're talking about, which is pressing through this.
Okay, through this fear barrier, terror barrier, or whatever you want to call it, threshold,
comfort zone, whatever you want to call it, we're all constantly, and this I believe is
what the Bible talks about when, like the prayer of Jabez, about expanding my territory.
I don't believe this is just the territory of land that you own.
It's expanding your territory of capacity.
Am I like, pop in the chat, let me make sure I got my chat open, am I talking to anybody?
Are you relating to what I'm saying?
Yes?
Okay.
So, doing it afraid, doing something every day, and I've shared my story, I was so frightened
of public speaking.
I was so frightened to prospect or present to a man, especially in a suit.
I don't know why, I'm going way back to my 20s when I got in network marketing.
And I've shared with you the story that I would go to a restaurant, back then it wasn't
cool to say you worked from home, and I didn't have an office, and I had to find, well, I'm
going to be passing this way, I'll meet you in this restaurant, it's halfway, or whatever,
and come up with a reason to meet in a Denny's, right?
It wasn't even Starbucks back then, right?
And I would go, and I'd have my presentation in my folder, and I'd put it in the shiny,
what do you call those, like the sheet protectors, you know?
And I would hold it up, and I'd do the presentation from that, and I would flip it so fast I'd
be fanning their page, and I'd probably say something stupid like, you wouldn't be interested
in this, right?
And I would have sweat running down my back, and I would have to leave the meeting almost
walking backwards, almost Asian style, not showing how soaked I was in sweat.
If I spoke publicly, they said, don't lock your knees, you'll pass out, don't grip so
tight to the podium.
I felt like everything was spinning, felt like I was going to throw up, like I was going
to pass out.
So sharing, number one, those stories, that's the kind of thing, Victoria, for you to share.
Share your low, share your high, share why you were so scared to show up, and how you
felt, and what would happen for you, and why you're so convicted that no matter what, you
have to show up, and how you're overcoming.
That's inspiration and hope for everybody, it'll bond people to you, you'll appear real,
and then they'll really listen to what you have to say, okay?
So that's an example of that.
So we keep pressing through, so now you've been showing up, you've been pressing, you've
been expanding, okay?
Which is so cool.
So let me just share a couple things about capacity, as we go forward here.
Let me just share my screen.
Tell me if you're seeing this, seven keys to increasing your capacity, are you seeing
that?
Okay, perfect.
All right, so let me just make this so you can see me, and you can see that.
Beautiful.
Okay, so I want you to understand why increasing your capacity is so, so important, and I'm
going to build more on this tonight, but this is exactly what you're talking about, okay?
So when we start, what capacity is?
Capacity means the maximum amount that something can contain, right?
And so my definition that I think is so important biblically is your, this is an inner, right?
This is your inner.
I mean, it's mindset, skillset, and right action.
So we increase our capacity for our mindset, always.
We're stretching and growing every day.
We increase our capacity with our skillset, our sales, our speaking, our writing, like
we're increasing our skillsets capacity.
We're increasing our ability to take action capacity.
So I like in the personal and spiritual context, I, because you could say it's the inner ability
to perceive, receive, hold, steward, and multiply what God entrusts to you.
This is your vision.
This is blessings.
This is relationships.
This is finances.
And, and, you know, Jesus said, he who is faithful with little is ruler over much, right?
And so this is the biblical principle of increasing capacity.
God says, I'm going to, I'm going to give you a little, and I'm going to see how you
steward it.
And so how you steward a hundred dollars.
is how you will steward a thousand how you steward a thousand is how you'll steward a
million right so so i like this definition capacity is the god-given ability okay capacity
is the god-given ability to perceive we increase our capacity to perceive to know in our heart what
is god doing to receive you've got a capacity right now if i walked up and said karen i want
to donate a million dollars to what you're doing there's a good chance that many i don't know you
would say i can't no i can't take that no please don't do that right because we haven't increased
our capacity to receive and that's true of love it's true of so many things our capacity to steward
to wisely use and to multiply what god entrusts to me so this is spiritually emotionally mentally
practically it's not fixed it expands and so you know scripturally god gives according to capacity
matthew 25 15 to one he gave five talents another two another one is god you know like he's got
favorites or like how unjust like we could we could have a riot today because god gave this one
five talents and this one only one you need to take four of those and divide it up that's not
right god but it says he gave five talents to one two to another one to another look at it each
according to his ability you could replace that word capacity each according to his capacity
so god entrusts resources opportunities revelation based on the person's current capacity not as a
punishment not as favoritism but stewardship and so as you grow as you increase your capacity
you have the ability to receive more and that's the beautiful thing that as we co-labor with god
capacity can expand and so that's where i love the verse in isaiah 54 to enlarge the place of your
tent stretch your tent curtain tent curtains why do not hold back lengthen your cords strengthen
your stakes right and spiritual capacity begins with inner strength right ephesians 3 16 i pray
out of his glorious riches he may what strengthen you and and some of them say with might some say
power where in your innermost being this is where it starts it's not outer performance but it's
rooted in your inner being and of course it's linked to your identity it's linked to intimacy
with god and you know god does not pour into broken vessels this is why matthew 9 17 says no
one pours wine into old wine scans so often our current structures okay our systems in our business
many times when i coach someone has outgrown their systems it used to be okay to grab a google
document and and and and deliver that it used to be okay to make all the appointments manually it
used to be okay to charge it used to be okay to only work one-on-one but now you outgrew that
and you're maxed you're maxed in your capacity you can't take more clients and you're stressed
okay and so very often you know i share in my book you know one of the people that i coached
and she was doing everything manually and we got it all completely automated so that she could focus
on sharing her gifts and changing lives right so sometimes our structures can't hold growth
sometimes it's our mindset our mindset can't handle it right so increasing capacity means
upgrading your container okay so this is what i want to focus on and i'm going to do more tonight
and i'm going to open up for questions but real quick quick let's talk about seven keys to
increase your capacity okay obviously partnering with god right because capacity starts with
intimacy and um you know jesus was really clear i'm the vine you're the branches apart from me
you can do nothing so to truly increase your capacity you have to tap into the capacity of god
you have to be connected deeply deeply if you try to do this in your own strength you
will crash and burn, okay?
And so I love making sure, that's why in the Prosper Daily Plan, there's the morning spiritual
practice, okay, that you begin your day with stillness.
And even the question, God, what do you want to entrust to me today?
This is stewardship.
God, what are you and I going to do?
Who are you trusting me with today?
What assignment are you trusting me with?
What resources are you trusting me with?
This is so important.
And so you're shifting from independence to divine dependence.
Instead of trying to figure it out, I get so many clients and future clients and prospects
that say, once I figure out how to, I'm still trying to figure out, okay?
And you know the saying, I don't know if it was Einstein that said, you can't solve
a new problem with the same old mindset that created the original problem, right?
So instead of trying to figure it out, what are we building today, Lord?
And then of course, and this is working through the Prosper System, right?
Partner with God, renew your mind, okay?
Capacity grows when limitation is uprooted.
Romans 12 too is the classic chapter there.
Just think about that for a second.
Every time you uproot a limitation, you uproot a belief.
So for example, the belief in lack.
Being able to say every moment, no matter to walk by faith and not by sight, every moment
to say, there's no lack in the kingdom.
I have enough.
I've always had enough.
I will always have enough.
I'm not buying into the belief of lack, no matter what my eyes see, right?
That's an example of uprooting a limitation, a limiting belief, okay?
Makes sense?
So you got to identify the thoughts that shrink your ability to receive, like I'm not ready.
I can't handle more.
I just had this conversation lunch yesterday with a very mighty, mighty woman of God.
And she was just going, I can't do this.
I can't work this hard.
I can't.
I don't want to grow right now.
And I said, so what we're telling God is don't give me more.
Don't expand my business.
I just don't want to work this hard.
Okay.
So we're buying into an old story that the bigger I get, here's a value conflict that
comes in here.
The bigger I get, the less freedom I have.
That used to be mine.
The bigger I get, the less freedom.
I don't want to get bigger.
I want to stay.
I'm just going to stay a solopreneur.
I don't want any more clients.
I'm just, I'm going to keep my life simple.
Okay.
That's one way.
Remember, we talked about the threshold.
What if God wants to give you the nations?
What if God wants to give you kingdoms?
What if God wants to give you a billion dollars to be able to invest in his kingdom?
And you go, I don't want that.
That's too much responsibility.
That's going to take my freedom.
I don't.
Do you guys see what we do to what God wants to pour into us?
Because instead of increasing our capacity, enlarging our territory, we come up against
a threshold.
We go, oh no, no, that's scary.
Because we go to a past memory and we say, oh, when I did that, I can do that.
I can say, man, when I ran a multi seven figure company in the past, I worked six days a week,
seven days a week.
I traveled every week.
And no, no, no.
I don't.
That's what I did in the beginning of Prosper.
Going to keep it really tiny.
I don't want to do that.
No, that's not God.
So we got to identify what are these beliefs and thoughts that shrink, hear me here, shrink
your ability to receive.
I'm not ready.
I can't handle more.
It's too hard.
It's going to take too much energy.
I don't want to sacrifice my relationships.
It's going to pull from my family.
So I had to learn to rewire.
Instead of the bigger my business gets, the less freedom I have, I had to learn to rewire
it.
The bigger my business gets, the more freedom I have.
And the more freedom I have, the bigger my business gets.
Why?
You can hire teams.
You could multiply your efforts of a zillion ways and have even more freedom.
Okay?
So identify what are you saying that's limiting what God wants to do and limiting your
capacity to receive.
And so you replace it with a capacity building truth.
I'm equipped.
I'm prepared.
God expands me as I say yes, using daily affirmations, speaking.
to your future self, right?
So I'm gonna go through more of these tonight.
These are just the first two that I want you to think about
and let's talk about it.
How is this applying to you?
Where are you not allowing yourself
to prosper financially?
Where are you not allowing your business to grow
because we've come up against a threshold?
Does that make sense?
So thank you, Victoria, for starting that conversation.
Yeah, so I'd love to hear from you guys here
and I wanna open up for conversation
and then I'm gonna teach more,
go deeper with this tonight.
Yeah, no, this is great.
No, I was writing comments.
Like I really feel like, you know,
like when I look financially at my past,
I made so many errors and stuff.
And sometimes I'd be like, oh gee, too bad, you know,
I didn't have like a windfall or whatever.
God wouldn't allow anything to my life
when it was so chaotic.
And now I feel like my life is bountiful
and things are just flowing in.
And I wrote in the chat, I'm like, I'm really happy.
God trusts me so much.
So like if he does, you know, so it's really great.
This is really wonderful, thanks.
I love that.
And I'm reading your comments.
Thank you so much.
I was looking at the screen when I was teaching.
And so I love this.
You say, I didn't have the ability to steward
what I had in the past.
And think about this.
Would you trust your four-year-old
to go play in the freeway, right?
Or to play in the NFL football, right?
League or whatever, right?
He may play when he grows up, but not today.
And we're God's children and he's a father to us.
And so there's so much in scripture about this.
And yet, again, I wanna remind you
just like renewing the mind,
that when he freed the Hebrews from the Egyptian slavery,
it was instant, he gave it.
The promised land was already prepared.
It was ready to go.
The promise was in full effect.
God is required to fulfill his promises.
He is not required to fulfill your potential.
Must say that again,
God is obligated to fulfill his promises.
He is not.
So the truth is, when they hit the promised land,
actually only two of those made it into,
Joshua and Caleb made it into the promised land
out of millions.
And you're like, that could be really discouraging.
Well, the promise was for everyone.
But if the capacity, if the mind was not renewed,
if the potential was not developed,
if the minute Moses goes up the mountain,
they start making a golden calf
and worshiping a different God,
or the minute that they're going
and everything's been provided,
and they're like, I'm sick and tired of the manna,
and they started grumbling and complaining.
And do you see all those lessons
that kept them going around the same mountain,
and the seven day journey,
seven to 11 day journey took 40 years.
And even then,
so this idea of renewing your mind,
God can set you free, save you,
but renewing the mind,
he's calling you to do the daily work,
increasing your capacity.
Only you can get in the word every single day
and say, teach me.
Only you can say,
I'm going to discipline myself
to create the habit.
Only you can say like what Victoria's doing,
I'm going to feel the fear and show up,
or like Victoria's doing,
I am going to detox.
You know, each of you,
you know, Charla took some big fear stands
and, you know, in being willing to speak
and enter a competition,
a speaking competition and all kinds of stuff.
So I see you guys stretching,
and I recognize you
that you're increasing your capacity.
And I think this is one of the reasons
for the Prosper Leader membership.
As we grow with each other
and learn and stretch,
it's also the power of a coaching, right?
Because without it,
we just start going around the same mountain.
And, you know, I could pick on any of you there.
You're all so brilliant,
but you know, if I pick on Bev
and she wants to go off this way,
it's like, no sister,
what are we doing today?
To grow your business.
You know, a power of accountability with a coach.
We all perform better when we're accountable.
We all perform better.
We're so in the forest,
we can't see the trees.
When someone...
word says, oh, this would be perfect. Oh, let's take this, this way. That's, that's how we get
forward. And that's why I have a coach in every area of my life. You know, I've got a Pilates
coach, a writing coach, you know, a business coach, a faith coach, you know, because this is how we
grow. This is how we grow. Right. So, uh, let me just look, you guys are putting some comments in.
What you're saying. Okay. The daily work I did for the first three years
changed my mindset and eventually became the mindset. Yes. Yes. Yes. Exclamation.
Recovery. Like honestly, my alcoholism, my recovery is like the best thing that ever happened
because you know, like my mind was upside down way before I picked up that bottle. So no,
this is great. Thank you. Yes. I love that. And thank you. Repeat your quote. The God,
God is obligated to fulfill his promises. And I didn't, the second line I didn't catch. I like
the way you said it, but I didn't write it down, but he's not obligated to, um, things come through
me and that my editor was saying the same thing. If he doesn't write fast enough, he just regrets
it. Uh, cause things just come through me, but he's not obligated to fulfill your purpose, uh,
your potential. That's what it was. Potential. That was the word. Yeah. The potential, what you
do, how you steward, what he's given you. He's not, God is not going to sit there with a stick
to slap your wrist. If you don't spend any time in the word, if you don't know the word five years
after being a believer, 20 years after being a believer, God's not going to slap you. You just
don't know the word. That wisdom is not stored in your heart. God's not going to increase your
skillset. You're speaking like you've gotten good at speaking on podcasts, Charlie, cause you've
done it time after time, after time, after time, you get better and better and better at it. It
becomes natural and conversational for you, right? So that which appears so easy on the Olympics for
a gymnast or a, you know, pole vaulter or whatever, it just looks effortless, right?
I've been at salsa dancing for, um, you know, 10 years now. I mean, 10 struggling, two left feet
twirl into, you know, the neighboring dancers, uh, you know, can't catch it like 10 years.
So when I go out and what appears fun and effortless now was 10 years and that's true
for any craft. And that's what we're talking about when we talk about capacity. Does that make sense?
Okay. So, um, knowledge not applied is not wisdom. Uh, and only knowledge applied gets results. So I,
we've talked about a topic of overcoming fears of coming up against our threshold of increasing our
capacity. I would like in one sentence for you to share the one main idea that you got and you can
think about it. I'm going to give you a minute to journal the main idea that you got and how you're
going to start applying it today. In other words, how are you going to start increasing your capacity,
going through your threshold, facing your
terror barrier or whatever you said, your fear threshold, right?
Think about that. What's the main idea from today?
How are you going to apply it?
Okay.
The book of James talks about looking in the mirror and seeing a spot, whatever, right?
And then walking away and not doing anything about it. It's the same to attend a Prosper Leader
office hours or any other training and forget about it the next day.
All right. So I would love for you guys to speak up one at a time for the sake of everybody engage.
Those of you that are still muted, unmute. If you can turn your camera on even better,
but I'd like to hear from each one of you, your biggest takeaway and how you're going to apply it.
Okay. Something that I've heard over a thousand times, I'm sure, stories and, you know, stories
tell.
So that is something that I want to implement more.
I just started implementing the story instead of the facts,
the things that are so inspiring to me,
but the story about this new company.
So good, so good.
Stories are really, really powerful.
Facts tell, stories sell.
So one of the ways we increase our capacity
is to become master storytellers.
Jesus was a master storyteller, and he understood that.
That's the prime way to touch hearts,
to be remembered, to have something get deep in
and create transformation.
Jesus was a master storyteller.
All right, who else?
Yeah, the more connected with God, I just listen,
and I see the signs, and things present itself.
And so I kind of feel like your friend that you had lunch with,
like, I have this book I'm working on.
And that seems to be like, I have
people that are taking selfies with me at train stations,
like, oh my god, I love your blog.
And at the National Speaker Association,
I'm being introduced as this great writer.
And I'm like, wow.
So I got back at that, and I met with a couple of editors
yesterday.
I have the workbook.
I have getting the clients.
I have my website I'm working on.
I have so many different balls in the air, but I'm excited.
I'm like, oh, OK, just all right.
I feel like God gave me all these talents.
And I'm like, wow, they're finally,
I'm understanding why I have these talents.
And so I'm like, OK.
For me, I wake up with so much happiness in my heart,
and kind of like, OK, God, whatever your will is.
And I just go about doing it.
Like I said, I'm like, well, thanks
for having so much faith in me.
It's nice.
But I still have some, I have so many things to work on.
But I'm just like, I don't know.
I'm not overwhelmed most of the time, which is great.
That's a big switch from the time
we started working together.
You would get instantly overwhelmed
when we first started working together.
And now I see, and that means that you
are exactly what we're talking about.
You're increasing your capacity.
Yeah.
Yeah, thank you.
Congratulations.
I see the noticeable change since we started together.
Yeah, right.
So congratulations.
OK, who's next?
Speak up.
This helps everybody.
Yeah, I'm just doing one to two things that scare me daily.
Yesterday, I was afraid to talk to my landlord.
I don't know why.
I thought he would come in and see the next dog in the house.
And so I just went out anyway and just talked to him.
He was so happy I did.
I love it.
And I love that you brought it up.
OK, who else?
Who else?
Poor Natalie, she keeps popping in and out.
I think she's having a hard time getting in.
OK, let's see.
Let's try again.
Let's see if she can come in.
Come on, Natalie.
Let's all cheer her on.
She's been trying the entire time.
Sorry, I couldn't get my, this is bad.
I couldn't get myself off mute here.
Oh, good.
So one of the things that's powerful about the Colby A
Index is you not only get clarity
about your own strengths, but you
begin to understand who to partner with to help realize
those gifts into the world.
So another thing that I've got going
is my fascination with AI.
So yesterday, I was attending a group down
at Innovation Collective that's talking
about machine intelligence and artificial intelligence.
And so I've got this e-commerce site
that I want to develop in honor of my daughter,
but it's also going to be producing income for me
and then providing small business grants
for other women entrepreneurs.
But I just had this thought, wouldn't it
be cool if I just had all women developing that company?
Oh, wow.
And not that I have anything against men,
but I just thought, wouldn't that be really powerful?
Because I was, listen, the whole group yesterday
was all women, or all men except for two women.
And I don't know why that thought popped into my head,
but one of the other women that was there,
she was obviously really tech savvy.
And I didn't get a chance to talk to her afterwards,
but that was just a thought that kind of like you're
work with Prosper and All Things tends to be a women's group.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I love that. And again, it's, it's seeing a
gap. It's not that we don't love men. And many of us are called
to work with men. But it's the same thing, like what Karen ran
into and recovery, you know, and so when you I believe God shows
us a gap, and then he gives us an idea like that. And then
capacity is your ability to hold that idea and build it out,
you know, with God. So when we get I don't think they're just
random ideas. When we get a glimpse of things like that. I
think this is how God is speaking to us. And it's usually
we see something that we really want, we look around, and it's
nowhere to be found. And that's, that's how many of the books and
many of the programs and things get developed, because I looked
around, and I couldn't find that well, because you were called to
create it, right. And so it becomes your, your unique, and
that's USP, your unique selling proposition, right. And, and
right now, of course, there's lots of money available for
women owned businesses, there's lots of opportunity for women's
speakers. There's lots of opportunity for women board
members. I mean, there's a lot right now for that. And so it's,
it's the season. And it's not that, you know, men aren't
important, or we isolate them. But many of us are called to
work with women for that very reason, because they're a gap,
they're not being served, they're still underserved,
they're still earning way less, they're still in less, you know,
high positions, they're still I mean, there's still that whole
huge, huge gap. So, all right, I think looks like Natalie never
got back in. But I'm so glad to have this time with you guys.
And we're going to continue and really deepen this conversation
tonight in the prosper end of month call. So I will see you
then. Thank you. Bye.