And good morning, good morning, good morning! I am so excited. Of course, it is our first Tuesday of the month call.
It is actually the first day of the month on this particular call, so I'm super excited to be with you.
And if you remember, the purpose of having this was to keep us on track.
See, one of the goals of this community is not only that it be a place of teaching and inspiration and encouragement,
but it be a place of community that you link arms together, you support each other across the finish line,
that we don't put off our goals for some future pie in the sky, but we begin to live them today.
We bring them to life this year, here, now.
And one of the best ways to do that is to keep our eyes on the ball, not be like the masses that set a resolution on the first of the year,
and by three, four, six weeks into it, they've forgotten all about it.
Not here, not now. Together, we're going to press through.
And of course, every month at the beginning of the month, you get an energizer to rethink, to refocus, to keep your eyes on the goal.
And then we do a little teaching. And so I'm going to do that now. We're going to start with prayer.
I'm going to share some thoughts just on that, on achieving your goals, on crossing the finish line here.
And then we'll have our community time, which, of course, is not recorded.
So it's important that you show up live for that. All right, let's start with prayer.
Father, we just thank you, Lord, creator, God, we just thank you.
You've given us another day of life. We woke up and our heart was beating.
Our lungs were breathing. Our blood was circulating.
All without any help from us. Because in you, we live and move and have our being.
And so we thank you for the gift of life. Life is precious.
And we know it's your gift to us. And how we live it is our gift back to you.
Lord, we treasure every moment. We treasure the ability to smell the flowers that are coming out in spring, to hear the birds, to see the sky.
We treasure the gift of freedom for those of us that live in free countries.
And we pray for those in the middle of struggle to preserve their liberty and their freedom.
Lord, we lift them up today. And we just pray that you strengthen them with my Lord, that you surround them with angels, that you bring healing, that you bring reconciliation.
Lord, we pray today here that your spirit will just so show up that we will be so aware of your presence, leading us, guiding us, speaking to us that you open our spiritual senses to hear what your spirit is saying to us today.
Lord, we want to live on purpose. We want to live with passion. We want to walk in love. We choose love above fear. We choose to live the fullness. You said you came that we would have an abundant life, Lord, a life of overflow.
And Lord, we accept that. We come open, receptive, willing.
We say, Lord, live through us, love through us, serve through us.
We ask that you grow us, you stretch us, you help us to hear what needs to be said today. I thank you for this community, Lord. I pray that the love will multiply every single gathering that we come together.
That they'll feel as you have declared that we are loved, that you never leave us, you never forsake us, we're never alone.
So in this community, may they never feel alone. May they never struggle in secret, Lord, but feel that this is a safe place to lift each other up, to pray for each other, to encourage each other, to realize as we realized last week that we're not so different
that most of us struggle with very similar things.
Lord, today we choose love over fear.
And we thank you, Lord, let the words of my mouth, the meditation of my heart be pleasing in your sight. Let whatever you want to be said, be said, Lord, whatever you want to be heard, be heard. We give you all honor.
for all glory, all praise in Jesus name. Amen. Amen. Amen.
All right, I am going to share the screen. And last month, we
started talking about achieving goals and what needs to happen
to achieve goals. And we've been talking about four C's. And so
I'm just reviewing it again to keep it fresh in mind. And then
I'm going to give you some more keys to really achieving your
goals, stepping into your goals, embodying your goals, living
your goals. And so just a reminder of those four C's, they
are commitment. They are commitment. So review, we a few
times ago, we made a commitment pledge, what are you absolutely
committed to? Committed to walking in love, committed to
your relationships, committed to completing some things? What is
it that you're committed to working a little bit on every
single day, you know, completing that course,
completing that book, completing that, whatever it is that plan,
what is it? So go back, review your commitment pledge, keep it
in a place that you see it all. Because you remember, I shared
with you the poem that until one is committed, there is always
the chance to draw back, always in effectiveness. But the moment
that one commits, providence moves to and all sorts of things
happen. When this was written, providence was their way of
describing God, the presence of God, that many people are
waiting on God, but God's waiting on them. And the moment
you stop being a house divided, the moment you stop being
double minded, which James, the book of James says the double
minded man don't expect to receive anything. And so we must
have clarity and we must have commitment that will no longer
walk in double mindedness, a house divided can never stand.
So you review your commitment pledge, you put it in writing,
you sign it, you post it. And remember, you schedule it,
nothing happens till it gets on your calendar, which is also the
fourth C calendaring. So commitment, consistency,
remember, consistency creates momentum. It's not what you do
once in a while in spurts. It's what you do every day. It's that
little, I don't care if it's 10 minutes a day, 15 minutes a day,
do it every day, watch the transformation change. I'd
rather see you exercise for 15 minutes a day than three hours
once a month. Okay, come commitment and consistency. And
then we talked about chunking, just for your brain's sake, the
ability to chunk like activities and break it into uninterrupted
20 minute chunks. So we those were four keys we talked about
I just bringing it back to the forefront commitment,
consistency, chucking, chunking, and calendaring. So today, I'd
like to talk about three steps, three really simple steps to
expansion, to enlarging your territory, three simple steps to
truly living embodying your goals. These are the three
things that must be in place. This is what we're going to talk
about in our community time. This is it. First of all, is
clarity and imagination for your goals, dreams and desires. You
have to be able to imagine them. You have to be able to feel
them. We actually live things many times before we actually
live them. You know, this works in the faith direction. And it
works in the fear direction. You remember in the book of Job, it
said that which he feared most came upon him. You see, he
dwelled and dwelled and dwelled and dwelled. What if I lose?
What if I lose all this? I I have all this? What if I lose
it? What if I lose it? He kept living it living it until he
lived it. Same thing with the faith. God had to stretch
Abraham, so that he would imagine and he took him up on
top of Mount Nebo. I've been on top of Mount Nebo. And he
showed him the promised land and
And from Mount Nebo, you can see the whole land.
Powerful place.
And he took him up because God understood.
He had to imagine it.
He had to live it and feel it.
Many times before he ever entered the promised land,
he had to imagine entering it.
He had to see it.
He had to feel it.
He had to live it.
That's why he took him out of his tent and said,
Abraham, count the stars.
He had to get into the feeling tonality.
And he said, that's how many will be your children,
your inheritance.
He said, count the grains of sand.
Because he had to get them to say, wow,
there's so much abundance.
It's so vast.
There's so much expansion.
When I asked to enlarge my territory,
this is part of the plan.
If you look at God's design,
just look at the universe is ever expanding.
New stars are being created every day.
There's no limit to the amount of stars, new planets.
It's an ever expanding universe.
We were created to be ever expanding.
So we have to use our God given image maker.
So you take time every day to just close your eyes
and you see it and you feel it and you speak it
and you imagine it.
And you literally go into your God given image maker.
And you just imagine every part of that.
So the first step to expansion is to be clear
on your dreams and your desires
and to live it before you live it, to imagine it,
to get into the feeling tonality of it.
Okay.
And there's, God will grant us these desires of our heart
if we know them.
You see many individuals,
especially women have spent a lot of time
caring for the needs of children, of aging parents,
of friends, of spouses, of coworkers.
And in the process,
they've lost sight of what they truly desire.
If I say to you, if God says to you,
what do you desire?
Can you answer it?
Can you answer it with clarity?
Can you answer it with passion?
Can you feel it?
If not, this is the first step to expansion.
Get back to that.
Do the tournament of desires.
If you haven't done that yet, just get back to that.
You see the word desire,
you know, kind of,
we've given it like a forbidden fruit kind of energy,
but that's not the true energy of the word.
Scripture says that desire,
it's D, it's of,
de, of,
desire.
The desires, when God puts those desires in your heart,
it's a clue to your purpose.
It's a clue to your divine design.
Once your heart's been renewed,
I'm not talking about the unrenewed heart
that desires alcohol or drugs or sex or whatever.
I'm talking about you who has a renewed heart,
who loves God,
whose heart is a new heart.
God says he gives us a new heart.
And in your new heart,
desires are your clues.
And so like any loving father,
our heavenly father is thrilled to see you
enjoying your heart's desire, right?
And there's all kinds of verses.
Psalms 37, verses three through five,
trust in the Lord and do good.
Dwell, that's a word a lot.
Dwell in him, dwell in the land.
Feed on his faithfulness.
Delight, delight yourself in the Lord
and he will give you the desires of your heart.
Commit your way to the Lord, trust in him.
He'll bring it to pass.
So you're feeding on his promises.
You're feeding on his faithfulness.
You're delighting.
And this is a clue if you're in the right place, okay?
This is a clue for you.
If it feels heavy, you're not there.
Delight, of the light.
If it feels light, if it sparks joy,
if you get that like excitement,
you know you're tapping into the right energy, okay?
Psalms 20, verse four says,
may he grant you your heart's desire
and fulfill all your plans.
Proverbs 10, 24 says,
the desire of the righteous shall be granted.
And guys, this is not something that is superficial.
This really matters.
Let me tell you, Proverbs, the book of wisdom,
the wisest king tells us when we don't do this,
when we keep putting off our dreams.
This is one of the reasons I created the Prosper Membership.
When we keep putting off our dreams, hope deferred makes the heart sick.
If that hope just keeps being deferred and put off and put off and put off and we're
not feeling it, we're not tapping into it, we're not in community, we're not taking action,
it makes the heart sick.
But when the desire is fulfilled, it's the tree of life.
Did you know that?
Desire matters.
It's actually the tree of life in you.
Woo, big deal, big deal, big deal.
So number one, you got to be clear, it's got to be in the imagination.
Number two, which is extension of that, you got to feel it, you got to experience it.
Now here's the key, don't put it off in the future.
The future doesn't exist.
It's a fantasy.
We don't know about tomorrow.
And the past is just a memory.
It's already gone.
We can't do anything about it.
We must live it now.
So when you get into that place of whatever that vision is, okay, it's that book, it's
that shelter for women.
It's that, you know, it's that course, it's that tribe, whatever it is, start practicing,
play dress up like you did when you were a little girl, start practicing now.
And you say, if I was already a multimillionaire, if I was already the founder of these homes,
if I was already the author of these bestselling books, if I was already the leader of this
tribe, how would I show up?
How would I speak?
How would I carry myself?
How would I live?
What would I read?
How would I spend my time?
What would be on my calendar?
You see, you start living it now.
You practice, you take practice runs.
This is the most powerful thing you can do.
So you get clarity, you get it in your imagination, and then you experience it, and then you take
consistent, small actions.
Remember, I've always given you this question to ask every day.
What is the single most important action I can take today to advance in the direction
of my goals, dreams, and desires?
This question must be asked every single first thing in the morning or last thing at night
for the next day.
You write it down, Lord, make it a prayer.
What's the most important?
If I can only take one action today to advance, we're always advancing.
If I can just take one action to advance in the direction of these goals, these dreams,
these desires, what is it?
What's the thing I can do today?
What's the action I can take today?
Can you imagine doing that five days a week?
That's 20 actions a month times 12.
I don't know what that is.
Do the math.
300 something.
Yeah?
Actions.
What would happen in your life if you took over 300 actions?
Yeah?
Think about that.
Again, it's not the spurts.
It's the consistency.
Take that action even if you don't do anything else.
I'm not asking you to complete your whole list.
I'm not asking you to be a maniac.
I'm asking you every single day to take one action in the direction.
You make that call.
You create that page.
You write those three pages every day.
Whatever it is, you do it every single day.
Just a reminder, you have in your files, in your portal, click on the files tab.
Go to the bottom of it.
It says updated prosper daily plan.
You can print that out.
You can complete it every single day.
That helps you keep this in mind.
There's a place for you.
You'll get this.
You know what are the desires of your heart.
There's some places for you to do some reflection on that.
That is what I want you to focus on.
Just three simple steps.
Three simple steps to be sure that you're staying on track.
All right.
We are going to stop the recording.
Go into community time.
Let's talk about this.
Let's build on this.