All right, welcome to Office Hours, and here we are, second half of the year.
And of course, Office Hours is our chance, your chance, as a Prosper Leader member, to
get your questions answered, to get encouraged, to network, to celebrate wins.
It's just a fabulous time.
I love it.
I look forward to it.
I hope you do too.
And I'm going to start us with prayer, and then we, of course, always have conversation
before I even start the recording, and it's too juicy not to come back to it.
We're going to talk about what we were talking about before the recording, and I think you're
going to like it.
And I've got some things to share with you as far as things to, you know, we've been
on the subject of summer cash flow, and we've been on the subject of capacity, and we're
going to dive deeper into that as well.
So let's start with prayer.
Father, I give thanks for every Prosper Leader woman that is here now, taking her time to
give and receive, and for those who could not make it, but are listening to the recording.
Lord, I pray blessings on them.
I pray the second half of the year will be filled with blessings and favor, great fulfillment.
I pray that you just strengthen them with might in their inner woman, Lord, that your
presence will just flood them, and that love, your love, your power, the gifts you've placed
inside of them will just gush out.
Those rivers of living water that you've promised flow out of our inner being, Lord, as you
strengthen us, our inner being, and flow through our inner being to touch the people
that you bring into our sphere of influence.
Let them just gush your love, your power, your presence, your solutions, and just bless
the work of their hands.
Bless them when they rise, bless them when they sleep, and may everything they put their
hand to prosper.
I ask it in Jesus' name, amen.
All right, some juicy, juicy stuff, and I want to bring you back and talk about it.
So Tracy, can I bring you back up and talk about what you just shared?
Is that okay?
And then Karen, you guys okay with that?
Yep.
Okay, let's start there.
And then if anyone else, raise your hand or put in the chat.
Let me make sure my chat is open.
I think it is.
Yes, so you can also put stuff in the chat.
Okay, so Tracy, let me bring you up here.
Okay, so Tracy, I love the story that you shared before, and I love it on a number of
counts, but probably the thing I love the most about it, besides your commitment to
consistency and you doing what needed to be done, even when you found out you hadn't done
what you thought you had done and all of that, which is just great character.
I celebrate that.
But when we talk about what's working right now in this world of super saturated words,
super saturated marketing, lots of AI, you know, lots of promises that are unfulfilled.
What's really working?
You know, I love being on the cutting edge.
I'm an early, early, early adopter, always have been all my life.
And so I love knowing where we're at and what's working.
And you knowingly or consciously or unconsciously or just God's spirit guiding you, which is
always the case, you tapped into something that is exactly what's working right now.
So I want to pull that out of what you shared.
So tell us in a nutshell, what happened and what you learned.
Okay, so I do weekly newsletter, and I thought that I already had one scheduled for this
week and I found out like the day before that I didn't.
So I thought, okay, well, I need just need to get something out here.
And so I just sat down and wrote just something like, okay, well, what's on my mind and on
my heart right now.
And so I just wrote the newsletter really quickly.
And as I was writing, I thought, you know, this might the people I share the practice
that I do, that's very helpful to me.
And I thought people might want a template for this.
And so I thought, I'll just, you know, I'll offer if anybody wants to wants me to send
him a template, I can do that.
Now, in the past, I've done, you know, many different lead magnets, and most of them were
things that I thought, okay, well, what do I think people are going to want to hear?
What do I think is going to be helpful to them?
And not so many of them just like, you know, crickets when I offered them.
So I just kind of last minute through this in this offer, I didn't even have these templates
created, it won't take me but you know, a couple of minutes to do.
do it. But so I offered this template and I got more response
to that than I have any other lead magnet that I prepared and
offered.
Love it. Love it. Love it. So, um, who knows in the chat? Why?
Why do you think that happened? Why do you think she went from
crickets to response? What was it about what she did? That's
working right now? If you were going to put that in the chat?
What would that be? Why do you think that is? I love you guys
is involvement. Why do you why do you think that was
successful? Rather than me just telling you? Okay, authenticity
and personal. Okay. Absolutely. That's what people are looking
for right now. Remember, I always say when others you know,
zigzag, I've always been very contrarian all my life. So if
things are very automated, things are very systemized,
which is great for a lot of things, your routine work. It's
the time for personal touch. Real, authentic human
connection. So I love that personal. Okay, tangible and
something needed. So good. So good. Love that, Karen. Okay.
From the heart. Yes, Charlotte. Yes. Useful. Yes. Okay. So, so
often, we put together things, because we think it's something
that we think they need. Right. So one thing is the old saying
of give them what they want. So you can give them what they
need. Right. So, you know, an example of that is, you know,
they need, you know, think about any coaching jargon, what
they need, right. And, but what they want is freedom from or a
break from or more of this or less of this, okay. So, and
what's working right now, these templates are really working,
because people really want plug and play. And just help me like
I'm overloaded. I've got decision making overload. Like
help me. This is why right now and I'm not saying that use
them, you know, the scripts are so popular, be careful, because
that just becomes another automated type thing. But it can
at least give you the direction to go in. Right. So I want to I
want to congratulate you, Tracy, on that, hey, you didn't say,
Oh, well, I'll just blow it off this week. And that you went
deep before you wrote. And this is something I encourage all of
you to do, you know, Holy Spirit, what, what do you want me
talking on right now? What's on your heart for the people in my
ecosystem? Right. And so that's so powerful. And oh, good. I'm
glad that you brought that out. Tracy, can I get your newsletter
with the template? So what is your newsletter about Tracy?
And how can people get the newsletter?
Well, the newsletter is, it's published every week on LinkedIn.
And then also on my email list, I send it out to my email list
every week. And it is on a broad range of topics about nourishing
our body and soul creating a life that really is the life
that we want that's aligned with our values.
Okay, do you have a link to subscribe to the newsletter?
Um, I have a
Okay, I don't have a link specifically to the newsletter.
But I'm asking that deliberately. Yeah, that's an
area that that you can you can add that will be super useful.
LinkedIn has that. And I would make that I would make a
picture that says subscribe to my newsletter. And also, um, you
know, they have newsletter subscriptions on LinkedIn, both
your email and LinkedIn, it's a great way to grow, you all want
to have. So one of the things and I didn't mean to put you on
the spot, Tracy, but I deliberately did that all of you
can learn from each other. One of the things you want to be
looking at, and I'm coming to you, Karen, next, it's similar
in in different way. And that is reducing friction in your
business. Okay, so friction, if you think of the science of
friction, friction is like I'm rubbing against this. And
there's friction, there's an opposing force that makes it
harder, right? And so we're on ice, there's like very little
friction, we just, right, and we're on, you know, gravel or
whatever, there's friction, okay. So friction in business
terms, are all the steps and hoops, they have to jump
through to get what
you offer. And so you're always looking at how can I reduce friction? Okay, I have a
quick question about LinkedIn, because LinkedIn is, I do have it on my profile, the, you know,
you can just easily click and subscribe to the newsletter. And I think I'm not sure that
when somebody connects with me that it automatically offers that is that something that LinkedIn
does. I'm trying to remember how I set it up when I said I can't remember if it automatically
offers. I don't remember that. Um, and unfortunately, I got booted off LinkedIn. And I've tried
multiple ways to get on. I've got a company page, but I do not have a personal page. Um,
so you guys can visit the prosper and all things company page, but I do not have a personal
page, no matter how hard I try. So working on that, that has a lot to do with all the
bots and automation and everything. Um, so I can't go in and look and I can't show you.
But what I can tell you that I did really well, and that I've coached people to do really
well is, um, if you've got the creator turned on, you should have featured a place for featured
content. And I would make a call one of your featured, I would make a lead magnet one of
your featured and I would make your newsletter a featured. Okay. And so, um, I got so many
subscriptions that way. In fact, I very quickly, I got over 500 subscriptions with that. So
I highly, highly recommend that you make it easy to subscribe. Can you use a CRM? Yes.
Okay. So can you, um, connect that and then it goes straight to a list and it's activated
through if through a lead magnet, I don't know if, if somebody signs up to the ideal,
okay. If you, if you have a CRM and we could do this privately, but just a concept for
starters, okay. Is that when they click on and, and if you need to use a zap to connect
them, you can, but when they click on them, it automatically goes on a list, okay. Or a
tag, whatever you're using. And if it goes on the list, then, um, you can have automation
set up on the list. And the automation of course should be a welcome first off the bat.
You know, what is this about? Why are they receiving? What can they expect? It's very
warm and it should be a series of three to five kind of welcome emails. Uh, and then
from that point on, um, the newsletter should go through that list, right? So they should
be subscribed to, to that list. That's how I would do it, you know, automatically, but
we could, you know, look at your case specifically, but at least I want to kind of give you that
thought. So I can through LinkedIn, if somebody subscribes on LinkedIn to the newsletter,
I can connect. Those are different. Um, so the ones that are subscribed on LinkedIn,
so you're going to have two lists. Okay. Yeah. Um, because you, you can't, what you want
on LinkedIn is those, those who subscribe to your newsletter on LinkedIn, go on your
top 1000 list that you're working on. Remember you've got that list and you now begin conversation
with them as you've been taught. They're in your miracle hour. You're going in, you're
liking their stuff, you're engaging, you're commenting, and you're getting to where you're
DMing and building a relationship and having a coffee chat and offering them something
that they get on your regular email and get them off LinkedIn and onto your email as quickly
as possible. Right. So, so remember those of you that are building, you know, your top
1000 list, it's people in your ecosystem. So that's in your ecosystem. If they subscribe
to your newsletter, they're interested, build a relationship. Boom. That's warm, warm, warm
leaves. Okay. That helpful. Yes. Thank you. What you're doing in your miracle hour. That's
the people you're going to that you're liking their stuff. You're commenting on their stuff.
You're DMing, you're adding them as friends, whatever it is. That's, these are your top
1000. Okay, good. All right. Thank you for sharing Tracy. That's so useful and, um, really
appreciate that you did that. Okay. So next I want to bring Karen up. Um, Karen, she went
and put her red, white, and blue up. So I got to bring her up, see her red, white, and
blue here. And, uh, let's see if I can see you. Where are you, Karen? There you are.
Look at you, your chairs and your shirt and you're looking so good. Okay. Um, talk to
me what you shared before and let's continue that conversation because it was good. Yeah.
Um, thanks. I had a big realization and it was about, um, sales and you know, what things
I have to work on. So I was talking with a woman the other day who goes to my weekly
zoom meetings for women in recovery and she was stuck down in South Carolina. I was talking
off the ledge because she was very upset.
She was stuck there literally for like almost four days
trying to get home.
And they are put anyway.
So we were talking for at least a half hour.
And finally it got around.
She's like, you know, I just have to tell you
I really love the meetings.
And she's a social worker.
She's like, I think you're one of the best
that I've seen in the field, blah, blah, blah.
Then she's like, and so I'm getting praise.
She is a regular.
And I thought, oh boy, this is really good.
But I wasn't mentally prepared.
I hadn't been practicing like you suggested.
So I was caught off guard and I saw the opportunity
and I thought I made an offer.
And I thought like I hooked that worm and everything.
And in retrospect, I really just was like,
well, it would be nice if we did and blah, blah, blah.
And I thought I gave enough,
but like, I feel like I held a worm
like a few feet from the fish.
Like I didn't really make the offer that I could have.
Yeah.
And I love that you brought that up.
The reason I called you forward
is that's more common than not, okay?
And so many people, and it's one of the reasons
that I specifically ask you to track
the number of offers you make every day and every week.
Track them, actually.
And I do that two ways.
One, and this is in your portal, you can download it,
is they're on my list.
Look, I don't teach anything that I don't do.
They're on my list, okay?
So that's one of the ways I track the number of offers.
See those orange dots?
Those orange dots are people
that I specifically made an offer to.
And so I put an orange dot there to go back
and I put an orange dot on my calendar next to their name.
I've got a big desktop calendar, okay?
And so again, they're in your top 1000,
but the reason is that that which we measure gets done.
It just opens awareness.
It adds energy to it.
And it's that which we focus on expands, right?
And so when you're focused on making offers,
you're gonna make more offers.
And if you're making more offers,
you're gonna get more sales.
And if you're getting more sales,
you're impacting more lives, right?
And so, oh, okay.
So that's just a sheet.
So thank you for the question.
So let me show you, I'm gonna share the screen, okay?
And when I say your coaching portal, it's this.
This is where you get everything.
And so let's pretend that I'm you, Karen.
So I'm gonna go in like I'm you, okay?
I mean, it's in my portal, but it's you, okay?
So I'm gonna find, where'd you go, Karen?
There you are, okay.
So when you're in, yours looks like this,
and you've got all this stuff.
And when you click on files, okay?
And in the files, oops, I didn't mean to add plus.
That means I'm adding a file, but I could do it that way,
but I did not mean to do that.
That's when I wanna add a file to yours.
So you'll see all the files,
and you'll see the tools and templates in there.
And so one of them, things to get you thinking
how I add value, the 25 ways to create income,
the low-hanging fruit sheet,
and this is your Prosper Prospect follow-up sheet, okay?
And this is where you wanna just print out a bunch of these
and you want your top 1000,
or you could take this top 100 list.
This one has just got the names like this,
and if you just wanna have your list,
there's top 100, which do 10 of those, so it's 1000.
Or if you're doing the follow-up, this is what I use,
because then, where'd it go?
I was just showing you,
is that then I can put the name
and the date that I contacted,
and when I'm gonna follow up next.
Now, you could do this in your CRM.
You could do this in a lot of ways.
I personally have both.
I just like to see it.
I like picking it up, touching, looking at it
as just who I am, okay?
You don't have to, but it works for me.
And then I put the offer.
What offer did I make?
You've got a number of things, or you're running a special.
I put what the offer, I put what the action,
what the result, and so you're able
to continuously go back to that,
and of course, within that,
you could be using it to remind you who to go in,
and LinkedIn, and all of those things, okay?
So let me come back to where you are.
Okay, so being clear,
the difference between an invitation and an offer.
offer. An invitation is, hey, it'd be really great to have you on my call, or did you know I have
these every Thursday night? That's not an offer, that's an invitation. And those are great.
Inviting's great. An offer is where you are very specific about a very specific product or service
that you offer that solves a very specific problem, creates a very specific result that
has a price that they can say yes or no to. If they doesn't have those things, it is not an
offer. If they can't say yes or no, if they don't know the price, if they're not clear the results,
it's not an offer. And if you're, let me be so super clear, if you're not getting sales,
if you're not getting clients, which means you're not getting the income or the impact,
making the transformation, if you're not getting clients, it's because you're not having sales
conversations, right? Or you're having sales conversations, but you're leaving out the offer.
Or you're having sales conversation and you made an offer and you're leaving off the follow-up.
You got it? That's where the magic is. So thank you for bringing that up, you know,
in an effort because we carry this old baggage, right? The baggage of wanting to be liked,
the baggage wanting to be accepted, the baggage of not seeming pushy, the baggage of not getting
rejected, the baggage, all of that is keeping us from the income, the impact on the transformation.
It's all of these crazy stories that we're carrying around, okay? And so when we can
surrender all of that and say, I'm here, God has me here, he's put gifts in me, he's given me the
ability to impact, to serve, to bring transformation, I'm here to do that. And I'm not going to be
driven by the fear of man or driven by, you know, opinions of others or the need to be liked.
I'm going to show up and by God's grace, I'm going to serve. And the only way I can truly serve,
unless you're a non-profit and you're just doing it for free, well, yeah, you can serve,
go volunteer in the homeless structure, go do all of that. But if we're talking about your business,
the only way you can create transformation and serve and stay in business and hire a team
and truly make the impact and show up is that you've got to be making offers. And so you've
got to unhitch from the opinions, don't dance around it, skirt around it, it makes it looks
like you don't believe in what you're doing, it makes them not clear and understanding.
And so, yes. Okay, is that helpful? And thank you for sharing that because it's more often than not.
So let's talk about it. In this place with you beautiful women, we get real, we share what's
happening, we celebrate what we did right and nothing what we did wrong, but what lesson did
we learn to improve? Okay, Charlotte, you're raising your hand. I just want to ask a question
about that. And so she feels like she kind of blew it. What's the next? How does she recover?
Follow up, follow up. And let me tell you, what are the greatest sentences?
You guys, I want, you know, I've given you a lot of really good sentences. One of them is
what's the possibility or what's possible? Another favorite good, good sentence.
I remember that you said, when we spoke, I remember that you said.
So what does that say? You're important. I was listening. I'm still thinking about you. You matter.
Right? I have an email regarding the talk, and I'm going to talk with her after, beautiful Karen,
you're on it. Follow up, portions in the follow up. So in that, I love, I remember that you said
when we spoke, and I realized, I got so carried away talking about this and that, that I did not
offer you the name of the program, which I believe would be perfect and would help you to
name of the results. Right. And I would really love to have a conversation with you about that.
And so if it's a small ticket and you think she's ready to go, you could just give the link.
Otherwise, I would have another conversation, a sales conversation. And can I go over that?
Can I go over that program and why I think it'd be just perfect for you right now?
And so another, we could do it in 15 minutes. Right.
So now you have a very specific sales conversation.
Hey, I thought of you because I believe this program
will really help you accomplish results.
Yeah, you know what?
And thank you.
And thank you, Charlotte, for bringing that up.
I do have the letter email.
I didn't send it yet.
I want it to get tight.
I want to send it out either this afternoon or tomorrow.
I'll see her Saturday.
I already said, let's circle back to this,
because I said to her,
oh, we were just talking as friends.
Let's circle back to this, and so I'm gonna
put the email, I'm seeing her Saturday,
so it'll be reinforced, and I'm gonna like tell her to,
you know, so anyway.
So thank you.
Don't wait too long between.
The studies show that the greatest buying
happens with follow-up within 24 hours.
In fact, there's a lot of studies
that the quicker you follow up,
the more likely they are to buy,
and that the longer you take,
it just like drops off a cliff.
So 48 hours, it's way down,
and you know, within a week, it's like off the cliff.
So quick with follow-up.
My goal is usually within an hour or two
after the conversation, but maximum 24.
If I'm super busy and I've got coaching clients all day
and I can't, you know, within 24 hours.
Good, that is such good stuff.
Okay, all right.
Anybody else have anything else?
Otherwise, I'm gonna share a few thoughts.
Any questions that you're working on,
comments not sure about?
So the key is,
have you all listened or re-listened
to the summer cashflow secrets?
And have you identified which of the seven ways
or the top three ways that you're going to be getting sales
and cashflow, right?
So, and are you clear on those?
And do you have any questions?
So if you remember number one
was the ask for the sale activation.
This was the most personal, the most warm.
It's perfect for some of what you guys
have been talking about.
And we looked at the places that that could be used,
the people in your ecosystem, right?
And then number two,
we talked about the client upgrade offer, okay?
Number three, the help me test this or beta launch approach.
Number four, the three-day flash offer.
Number five, the what's working now workshop.
Number six, the DM to discovery flow.
Number seven, the email cash infusion series.
So go back and watch the masterclass.
I sent the replay out.
Choose, you don't need all seven,
but choose between one and three
that you're going to be working on.
So, if you've got past clients, use the upgrade,
use the ask for the sale approach, right?
If you're launching something new,
use the beta test or the workshop.
If you don't have a list,
use the DM flows or the flash offers, okay?
So I gave you a lot of scenarios
to be able to generate cashflow.
Again, carving out that time, first thing in the morning.
So you have your golden hour with God.
You get filled up and your tank is full.
Then you've got your miracle hour
where you're pouring from that fullness, okay?
And reaching out within your top 1000 list, okay?
And if you're not clear what to do
during that miracle hour, ask that question.
If you'd like to do it together,
if you want to do like a co-working session,
I could put that on the calendar where I'm just,
every five, 10 minutes telling you,
okay, now you're doing this.
This is what we're working on.
And we just all work on it together.
If that helps you, we could do something like that as well.
So we've been talking a lot.
And in the last call, we talked about capacity.
I've been talking a lot about capacity.
And capacity is your ability to contain, to hold, okay?
The idea, think about it like electricity, okay?
The idea is that God source is infinite,
infinite love, infinite wisdom, infinite power,
infinite good, infinite blessings.
And they all exist.
right now.
In other words, when a blessing comes to you,
it's not like just falling from heaven out of nowhere.
It's not being created on the spot.
It exists.
It's always present.
So it's your ability to recognize and receive.
So a great analogy is to think about electricity.
It always is.
It always has been, but we've been able to tap into it.
So there's electricity, correct?
Everybody understand electricity?
When I plug in a light bulb, let's say,
if it's a 60-watt light bulb, that's the capacity.
It's going to have that much capacity
that it can burn at 60 watts.
If you plug in 120 watt, it has that capacity.
And so we have kind of gotten the programming or the thinking
that it's effort, that it's grind, that it's push.
It's actually the ability to plug into what already exists.
Everything you desire is already here.
It's already here.
It's already yours, in fact.
The question is your capacity.
So most people are chasing.
We've talked about this a lot.
I need to get, get more clients, get more money, get more leads,
get more, get a man, right?
It's this chasing.
The minute you enter into a chasing mindset,
you are declaring and living by lack.
You're chasing by declaring, I don't have.
It's very different than, it's already mine.
What God has for me, the clients God has for me
are already right here.
The abundance God has for me is already right here.
And so I don't have to chase.
I don't have to strive.
I don't have to stress.
I don't have to sacrifice.
Those things are saying, I don't have confidence
that it already exists.
I don't have confidence that God has that for me.
I don't have confidence that I deserve it.
Or I don't have confidence that God's going to give it to me.
Does that make sense?
So what comes up for you when I talk about capacity?
We talked about all the ways to increase capacity.
We're increasing capacity in our mindset.
We're increasing our capacity to love.
We're increasing our capacity and our skill set to serve.
We're increasing our capacity, which
is the ability to recognize and contain more and give more.
So what comes up for you when I talk about capacity?
Can you put in the chat before I go a little bit further,
what comes up for you?
Because then I want to talk about circulation and leaks.
But first, I want to make sure that the understanding is
there.
Put in the chat what comes up for you
when I talk about increasing your capacity.
What comes up for you?
I think we did an exercise where I asked you in the master class,
where is God asking you to increase your capacity right
now?
OK.
Charla, capacity like a balloon.
I love that.
OK.
Tracy, excitement at God expanding me.
Capacity so I can serve him even more effectively.
Love it.
Beautiful.
Karen, the better my mindset, the more people are drawn to me.
I'm becoming bigger.
Beautiful.
So understanding that this is a lot of our role.
OK.
There's two things.
I've talked about in the area of flow and opening the flow.
It's the O in the prosperous system, opening the flow.
And I've talked about two things that we need to consider.
OK.
One is where, well, really there's three things.
Where's the leaks?
Where's the bottlenecks?
And the bottleneck is really tied with the third thing, which
is, where am I not circulating?
OK.
So number one, I think we need to be
So number one.
Where are the leaks?
So you are, in biblical terms, you're a vessel.
The Bibles use that word.
You're a temple.
The Bibles use that word.
You're a container.
And if you think about Ephesians,
where God says he wants us to be a body wholly filled with God,
you think about that.
How incredible.
The God who created the universe and the infinite galaxies
wants to fill you.
Like, wow.
Right?
Wow.
And so one of the things with our capacity,
and it's interesting that you, Charla, mentioned Balloon.
In my Time Management Secrets of Jesus e-book,
and it's on the membership site if you haven't read it
or if you haven't gotten it, the Time Management Secrets
of Jesus, I said, this is going back
almost 30 years ago, that I felt like a balloon that
had leaks in it.
And so it's like, because I was trying
to be everything to everybody.
And so I felt like if I would plug the leak of keep
the homeschooling really moving and my kids moving forward,
the leak of the house, housework wasn't getting done
or my husband wasn't getting nurtured or sales were down,
and I was trying to put my finger on all these leaks,
right, like things that weren't working.
Well, when I think about you as a container,
we want to be this whole container that it's not a sieve.
It's not leaking.
It's not leaking energy.
It's not leaking strength.
It's not leaking, right?
And so the leaks in our capacity are fear, doubt,
and a lot of often the wounding, right?
So a leak, a leak in the wounding is I need approval
or I need validation or I need permission.
So my strength, my vital force is not just powerfully
coming from me and transmuting to other people, right?
Because I've got the gas and brakes
and I'm like leaking energy.
What if they don't like me?
What if they think I'm pushy?
What if they think I'm a salesperson?
What if they reject me?
What if this doesn't work?
What if I run out of money?
Can you feel the draining, the leak?
It drains your mental energy, your spiritual energy,
your physics.
Can you feel those leaks?
And so what plugs those leaks?
Which if you think about the capacity,
think about it also as the state, your state of being,
how you're being, right?
So what plugs those leaks is a sense of certainty.
And where do you get the sense of certainty?
It's a sense of trust in God, a sense of confidence,
a confidence in Romans 8 28, that every single thing
is working together for my good, that this too
is going to work out, that nothing that's mine
can be taken away, and that everything that is mine
is already here.
And there is no such thing of lack.
Do you see?
Those are like the opposite, right,
when you believe that everything is working for you.
It's working for you, not against you.
The Bible says, if God before us, who can be against us?
Romans 8 28, all things are working together for good
to those who love the Lord.
So plugging the leak is that thought comes, and no,
this is working in my favor.
Even when it appears to have gone all wrong or not
the direction you plan, even and especially then,
then it's like, wow, God, what's the good here
that I'm not seeing, that I'm not understanding?
Show me the good here.
Because there's something so powerful here,
even in the hardest circumstances.
Like I just went through a very hard circumstance
of watching my dog's 11-year-old best fur friend, right,
that has been with her through thick and thin
since she was 21 years old, pass in her arms.
It was very, very sad.
But it was also incredibly beautiful what God did.
What God did was so beautiful.
And you talk about capacity.
Her capacity had to rise to the occasion.
and she'll never be the same again.
So the capacity was this dog was suffering
and I knew the dog was staying alive for her.
I knew she was a fighter just for Kristen.
And I said, honey, love is give her permission to go
if she wants to go.
It's the most amazing thing I've probably watched in my life.
She held this dog up and looked it in the eyes,
thanked it for its years of service, thanked it for its love
and said, it's your choice if you're tired
and you wanna go, go, I bless you, go.
This dog looked at her, blinked twice like it was crying,
laid its head on her chest and breathed its last.
Closed the eyes, the most beautiful,
I caught it on photo, the most beautiful, peaceful look
you've ever seen.
The angels came and took this dog, no kidding.
And I share this story because this,
us talking afterwards, I said, honey,
you loved so powerfully there.
It took so much courage and so much love.
And she says, it's the hardest thing I've ever done.
And it took the most courage that I've ever had to do this.
And what I saw is that her capacity to love,
her capacity to surrender and let go,
her capacity to trust, her capacity to trust God,
it grew, she's different.
One of the hardest things in her life,
but she's softer now.
There's a love, there's a freedom
that I did not see before this happened.
So I share this from the standpoint of,
even when things appear that they're going wrong,
they're going right.
And if you can have that certainty
that there's nothing in my life out of order,
and we all can look at it, Karen,
the hardest experiences you went through
are the greatest gifts that you're using
to serve right now.
So even the things,
I'm not saying that God makes them happen.
I'm a product of domestic violence and alcoholism
and abuse and all of that, right?
I'm not saying God's making that happen,
but I'm saying he turns everything into beauty
when we surrender it.
And so the capacity increases when you stop fighting
so that you don't have the energy leak of fighting,
of arguing, of struggling, of complaining.
Complaining, oh my goodness,
this drains energy more than anything.
Complaining just to yourself or to God or to others,
now you're even adding life to what you don't want, right?
And so knowing that everything is working,
everything exists,
and it's also identifying where is the constriction?
Where is the block in my life right now
so that that can be healed?
Where is the block?
Which I'm gonna wrap up with the final thing,
and we'll talk about it in upcoming calls,
but the final thing is understanding circulation,
flow, everything is about circulation,
everything God has made,
oxygen circulation, blood circulation, right?
I breathe out and the trees breathe it in,
the trees breathe out and I breathe it in, right?
Everything is circulation, okay?
And it's the way God made it.
So constriction happens when we hold on
because we don't have that sense of certainty.
I better not spend because I might run out of money.
I better take that, I bet, right?
And we hold tight, okay?
And that's a constriction that is actually keeping you
and blocking your capacity, okay?
And so don't say I spent money,
and I'm not telling you to be careless with money,
you ask for wisdom, you ask God to direct you,
but don't say I spent money, say I circulated money.
I invested money.
And so every time, even play that game,
you go to the store and you pay,
and the prices of food or gas or whatever
went through the roof, don't get into lack
and all constriction and everything, go wow.
I just blessed, I blessed this cashier, she's getting a check going home, I blessed the
store that it can stay in business, I blessed the growers of this fruit, I blessed, I circulated,
I blessed all of the people that made the packaging and the design.
Like you see, like you see your money going forth doing great good in everywhere that
it goes.
And you understand that everything is present all the time, everything you're circulating,
it's always going to come back to you.
And the Bible is so full of that boomerang approach that everything you circulate comes
back to you, okay?
And so that we're not blocking, constricting, leaking, but we're becoming a vessel that
is able to hold all God has for you and be able to circulate all God has for you.
Is that helpful?
Oh yeah.
Thank you.
All right.
Lots of love.
I've got to jump on the next call.
So keep circulating.
Circulating is activating the flow.
Circulating is you having your top 1000 list and getting on there and engaging with them
and thanking them and liking and inviting them and having, you know, having the coffee
chats, having the, giving the lead magnets, giving is, is circulating, right?
Writing that newsletter from your heart is circulating.
Writing that post is circulating.
Charla, sending that video is circulating, right?
Bev, getting out there and giving that test and speaking is circulating, right?
So just look at where have I stopped circulating?
Where am I leaking?
And how can I increase my capacity?
All right.
We'll see you all soon.
Blessings.