Hey guys, sorry about that, had a significant fail there, my internet ran out and I didn't
know that was going to happen.
So I hope you're doing good, we're back online, we're back online, it's going to be a little
bit lower quality than you are used to because I'm having to shoot this off my laptop right
now to save the day.
So one moment, okay, okay, we're there, we've got some people in, okay guys, sorry about
quality, it's not going to be quite as good as you're used to, but here we go, give me
a thumbs up, you're all good, you can hear me, give me a thumbs up if you can hear me,
give me a thumbs up if it's all good for you from there, yep, thumbs up, I see some people
there, hope you guys have had a great day and I was just about to launch into telling
you about the Chinese bamboo tree.
So we're back on, boom, we've got, yep, we're back, we've got thumbs up, sweet, okay, sorry
about that little blooper moment there and let me get straight back into it, we're talking
about the Chinese bamboo tree.
So the Chinese bamboo tree, when you plant that, you're going to plant it and you're
going to water it and you're going to feed it intensely for a whole year and at the end
of that year, you know what, nothing is going to happen, you won't even see a shoot come
out of the ground, you're going to have to water it, you're going to keep on watering
it and feeding it for another whole year and guess what, it's still, you're still not
even going to see one single shoot come up out of the ground, so that's two years of
intense watering and feeding, so you're going to have to keep on watering it, keep on feeding
it and you're going to have to keep on going for another whole year, oh my gosh, yes, that's
right, for now for three years, you have been watering and you've been feeding this Chinese
bamboo tree and it hasn't even popped one single shoot out above the soil and then you
know what, you're going to have to keep on watering it and feeding it for another whole
year, so that's going to be four years of watering and feeding the Chinese bamboo tree
and nothing has happened, not one single shoot has even popped up out of the ground and you
know what, you're going to have to keep on going even another year, so five years, after
five years of watering and feeding the Chinese bamboo tree, it finally, it finally pops one
little shoot up out of the ground, it takes five years for it to even, even to break the
surface, but once it has broken the surface, the Chinese bamboo tree, once it has broken
the surface of the ground, within six weeks, it grows 90 feet, that's over 27 meters and
in six weeks, it grows from this, from there's absolutely nothing there, not a single thing
popping up through the ground at all, but within six weeks, boom, it has shot up and
it has become an absolute giant on the landscape and that's, that's growing around two feet
a day, that is just phenomenal and so what I want to talk to you tonight about is about
the value of strategy, if you don't see the value in strategy, then you're probably not
going to steward the strategic planner, so I've actually already uploaded into the group
the strategic planner, you can check the announcements for that and at the end of this video, I'll
put that strategic planner on the announcements page and then I'll also send it out in the
messages, but think about that, how amazing is that the value of strategic planning, because
what happens for the Chinese bamboo tree is it's busy, busy, busy, where no one can see
it, it's working, it's hustling, it's getting very, very busy, putting in place the infrastructure
for success.
Now, your strategic plan is your infrastructure, it's your system for success, now, a lot of
people just have an idea and they just jump out, they just run with it, but they haven't
put in place the infrastructure for success, so your strategic plan is your infrastructure
for success, so I'm going to ask you, have you actually put in place a strategic plan
for your life, have you got a goal, but your goal doesn't have a strategic plan attached
to it, oh my gosh, so I want to share with you one more story as well, that just basically
adding value to you about the concept of having a strategic plan, put your thumbs up or a
high five or something like that, if you've heard of Alexander the Great, who's heard
of Alexander the Great, yeah, some people have heard of Alexander the Great, what do
you think Alexander the Great is famous for, maybe put in the comments.
you think uh alexander is famous for or give a thumbs up if you've um seen alexander the great
uh well like if you've not seen him in town you know not pop down town but who knows about
alexander the great because i want to talk to you about alexander the great tonight and i'll let you
know why he is famous why we know the name alexander the great um who's heard of him thumbs
up what do you know about alexander the great uh let's uh let's i'm gonna so let me tell you why
he's famous uh i'll start i'll start with giving you a story one of the stories of alexander the
great uh that illustrates why he is famous why we know the name alexander the great so alexander the
great uh invaded persia he took on the persian empire darius was the um the emperor of persia
at that time and he was a massive deal um darius commanded the largest army in the world and these
were battle-hardened troops that darius had just used to conquer pretty much the entire known world
so persian empire had expanded all over the world darius was the boss he was the man he had this
phenomenal huge elite army that had taken over the world and uh anyway alexander invaded persia and
began having these battles with him he actually ended up having this one battle which he won it
wasn't against uh it wasn't against darius's main force but it was still a significant victory
and in that battle alexander actually captured one of darius's wives and one of his daughters
and uh that was a that was a big deal for darius he actually sent a message to
uh alexander and said look let's come to agreement let's come to a peace agreement
and i tell you what you return my family and let's settle this peace agreement and i'll actually give
you up to half my kingdom now that is a pretty wild massive deal alexander he sent back a message
to darius that said everything you own is now mine come out and fight for it now that's some
serious confidence that's a massive confidence people would think well i mean this is you're
taking on the ruler of the world this is a pretty big deal what you're saying so anyway
uh what happens um oh here we go this isn't popping up automatically yep there we go
uh so people have heard of um alexander the great here's what happens is
darius chooses the battlefield darius summons all his guys and he gets one of the biggest
armies that's battled in that era darius gathers 200 to 250 000 troops at least at least 200 to
250 000 troops at least at least 200 to 250 000 troops uh that darius gathers he chooses the
battlefield he puts all these traps in place he has got the whole thing ready to go um so this the
but then alexander here's what alexander does alexander captures some of his guys he's watching
everything unfolding he's spying on darius he gets the these uh some of the troops of darius and gets
them to tell him where all the traps are gets them to tell him um all the things that darius
is planning for him and then alexander goes to meet him in a pitched battle now alexander has
only got 40 000 troops and 7 000 cavalry whoa so he's got 40 000 troops 7 000 cavalry and he's going
up against at least 200 to 250 000 elite battle-hardened warriors who've just taken over
the whole known world and uh most people would think oh my gosh we're outnumbered by 150 to 200
000 men maybe we should maybe we should just leave maybe this is not going to work out after all but
alexander is absolutely confident that his uh strategy is going to work so boom they end up
meeting uh in this pitched battle and uh darius has a secret weapon this the secret weapon of
darius is something called the scythe chariots and these side chariots were notorious darius had
200 of these side chariots that he would release and they had big blades sticking out of the wheels
and when they'd go through uh an enemy they would just cut the enemy to pieces and darius was famous
for just uh decimating our armies with these side chariots but alexander knew that was going to be
coming so he'd already developed something he had a troop called the phalanx now a phalanx was
a group of men that was 16 men wide and 16 men deep they had a small shield and they had a really
really long uh spear and so when the uh when the side chariots were released against alexander's
troops he sent the phalanx uh group out to meet them and when the side chariots were coming
charging at them they parted
And they created a gap and the chariots ran straight into that gap into a wall of spears
and then on the side, the men from the side got them with spears as well.
And just in a few minutes, Darius's big great idea was just completely wiped out and Alexander's
men didn't lose anything.
Anyway, the way that battle unfolded is that Darius didn't crush Alexander.
Alexander's strategy completely decimated this enormous army.
Alexander only lost around 1,000 men while Darius's troops lost somewhere in the vicinity
of 50,000 men in a short space of time.
That's over 50,000 men in one battle.
Oh my gosh.
So he got absolutely decimated by Alexander.
And here, check this out for a crazy thing, Alexander at that time, it was that battle,
the Battle of Galgamela, and that battle was on October the 31st, 331 BC, so we're
coming up to the anniversary of it.
And it was at that battle, after that battle, that Alexander got the title Alexander the
Great.
And he was only 26 years old when he did it, and it was basically a battle for the world.
It was a battle to take over the world, and at 26, he won that battle.
Now, there was a lot more fighting to go, but by age 32, Alexander had conquered the
whole known world.
Now, he never lost, get this, no other commander can boast this, but Alexander never lost a
single battle.
It's not reported of Alexander the Great ever losing a single battle, even if he was dramatically
outnumbered, every single time, Alexander's strategy absolutely dominated.
So here's what I want to, just this concept that I want to add and throw out there to
you tonight is the value of strategy.
Alexander died by age 32, but he'd already conquered the entire known world at age 32.
What a huge feat.
So you've got Alexander the Great, the most successful commander in the world, and his
number one strength was strategy.
It wasn't numbers, it wasn't wealth, it wasn't his weapons, although he did have amazing
weapons, which was a part of his strategy, but it was strategy, strategy, strategy.
You've got the Chinese bamboo tree, which spends five years developing a system for
success.
And here's what I want to communicate to you tonight, that your strategic plan is your
system for success.
So what I've given you tonight is another amazing template, and this template that's
uploaded into the group is called the strategic planner.
Now the strategic planner is, it's fantastic.
It's going to take you step by step, exactly through the pathway that you need to develop.
So you choose one of your goals, right?
Choose one of your dreams, one of your goals that you want to make happen, and so you're
going to choose that goal, all right, here you go, you've got your goal, and then you
take the strategic planner, and it's going to coach you through, step by step, how to
develop a SWOT analysis, go through and check your strengths, weaknesses, opportunities
and threats.
It's going to show you how to put smart goals in place.
Now this is so crucial, your goals, most people's goals are waffly.
Most people's goals are not defined.
Most people's goals aren't even goals, because they don't even have a date on them.
If you don't have a date on a desire, it can't be called a goal.
It's just a dream, or it's part of your wishlist.
It's not until it has a date on it that you can call it a goal, and you need goals, because
your goals are your stepping stones towards success.
Your goals are your systems for success, it's the infrastructure for success.
So the strategic planner coaches you through how to develop smart goals, and a smart goal,
check this out, you'll want this, but all the notes for this are in the strategic planner,
but a smart goal is specific.
Everything that the vision project is doing, all this vision training that I'm doing, is
helping you to get really, really clear on your personal picture of what success looks
like.
In terms of goals, why don't you chuck this out for yourself, what do you reckon about
goals?
Who has got some goals already laid out in their life?
Why don't you just list out for yourself, how many goals have you got at the moment?
So let me define a goal, a smart goal has got specific, it's measurable, it's achievable,
and an achievable goal is a goal that's got a strategy attached to it, all right?
So specific, measurable, attainable, realistic, and timetabled, or time bound.
Just chuck out there who's got goals, who's got smart goals in their life, and who would
say I've got one smart goal, I've got two...
two SMART goals, I've got three SMART goals,
why don't you chuck down how many SMART goals
do you think you've got and is this not something
that you've done?
Have you actually gone to the effort
of developing SMART goals?
Put a yes, I've got SMART goals,
or a no, I've got no SMART goals,
I've never heard of SMART goals.
Either way, you're gonna love the strategic planner.
Here we go, goal has to have a date on it.
So Jan's got two SMART goals,
that's awesome, anyone else out there?
No SMART goals, all right.
This is a major deal, we want to actually change that
for our lives, so let's think about some timelines
for a second and let me give you a challenge.
This course, the Online School of Sunship,
finishes on December the 14th, all right,
December the 14th.
What I wanna encourage you, what I would love to do
is I would love actually to do a bit of a review
with you guys and give you another template
called the review, and I'd like to do that
on December the 7th, okay?
So I'm gonna do a little bit more posting
about this date, but what I would love you guys to do
when you're going through the strategic planner
is I would love you to think about at least one goal
that you would like to accomplish
by the 7th of December, all right?
What's one goal that you would like to accomplish
by the 7th of December?
So you're gonna think about a goal
as a stepping stone towards your big dream.
Now, we've looked at the vision, the dream activator,
and we've looked at the motivator.
Oh, we've got a couple of smart goals out there.
This is very good.
So we are talking about smart goals,
and we're talking about who has got smart goals,
and a smart goal is a specific goal,
it's measurable, it's attainable,
it's realistic, and it's time-bound.
So all those details and more information
is there for you already in the strategic planner,
which I've posted in the group already.
I'm gonna send it out via messenger,
and it's also gonna be in the announcements.
What I'd love people to think about
is what do you want to accomplish,
what do you want to accomplish by the 7th of December?
Because on the 7th of December,
I would love to do a review,
I'd love to do a checkup from the neck up,
I'd love to get you just to assess
what you have done in order,
what you've done,
what you've accomplished,
how well you've done with your goal.
So check this out.
Jump into your motivator,
think about a goal that you would love to have accomplished,
think about something you,
oh sorry, the strategic planner,
think about something that you would love
to have accomplished by the 7th of December,
and use that goal that you have
that you want to accomplish by the 7th of December,
use that, fill out the strategic planner,
and let yourself,
as you go through that, you're gonna love it.
It's got just so many good tools
that are gonna help you put your goals in place,
help you put your strategic plan in place,
and then I've got another template
which I'm gonna share with you on the 7th of December,
that's gonna be our review template.
So I hope that you guys have gotten
some value out of that tonight.
So, oh great goal there, Renee.
Why don't you start having a think about that now as well?
Do you have, what would be your number one goal
that you would like to accomplish by the 7th of December?
Who can think about that now?
Has anyone got something that's like
right on your priority list right now?
If you haven't got a goal already that you can go,
yeah, I know this, I know my goal, there we go.
Yeah, so the 7th of December is gonna be
our checkup from the neck up.
We're gonna do a review day on the 7th of December.
I'd love you guys to start thinking about that.
I'm gonna put more posts up about that
and start getting your attention
because I would love to hear from you.
What do you want to accomplish in your life
by the 7th of December?
That means that we've got time to review it
and go over that before we graduate the school
on the 14th of December.
So, have a think about it.
Can anyone think of it right now?
Why don't you chuck up there, okay,
this is my smart goal that I want to accomplish
by the 7th of December.
Now, if you're like me, you're gonna have
way more than just one smart goal
that you want to accomplish by the 7th of December.
You might have goals that have got different timelines.
I have goals in my life that are different timelines.
So, I was planning out one goal this morning.
So, I'll give you an example of one goal
that I was working on this morning,
making it a smart goal by making it specific,
measurable, attainable, realistic,
and timetabled or time bound.
So, the smart goal that I'm working on this one,
it's.
For the beginning of 2022,
in the beginning of 2022,
I want to have 80 students,
I want to have 80 full-time students
doing the School of Sonship in Te Anau,
at our base at Revival School in Te Anau.
So that's a SMART goal that I was working on this morning.
Now, what you might find with your SMART goals
is that they're interlinked,
they're weaved in with other dreams,
and one goal accomplished enables you
to bring the next goal,
because they're stepping stones.
We've got, oh, look at this,
checkup, you like that, checkup from the neck up.
So people want to talk about getting bills paid.
Some people, oh, yeah, some study goals.
Phil, good stuff.
Running 25 kilometers to know where to move.
Okay, well, that's some really, really good stuff.
So remember, we jump on.
I just, I can't encourage you enough.
If you want to get the value out of this training,
grab a hold of that strategic planner.
You can either convert to an editable PDF
and write in it or print it off.
I actually like printing it off
and filling these things in by hand.
There's some drawing opportunities in there as well.
It's really, really high value.
And when you do that strategic planner,
oh my gosh, it's going to really start refining
exactly what you need to do in order to get there.
So, oh, look at that.
We've got Renee being intentional already.
She wants to book accommodation.
That is fantastic, that's great forward thinking.
So, I'm going to keep posting about this
because I want to see them.
And I'd love you to post some lives.
I'd love you to start jumping on with this about lives.
What are your goals that you would like to accomplish
by the 7th of December, okay?
7th of December, that is the big moment.
We're going to do a checkup from the neck up.
We're going to do a review.
I've got a great review template,
which you are going to love as well,
which you can fill out,
which will help you assess what worked, what didn't work.
And you will love that too.
So, what else do I want to say about that?
I just want to say, hey, love you guys.
Let's get some lives going on.
What are your strategic plans?
Want you to have it, because think about this.
The Chinese bamboo tree,
if we just go back to that story for a moment,
the Chinese bamboo tree,
it spends five years developing
the infrastructure for success.
And then the moment that it's time comes
for it to launch out on that, it is off.
And within six weeks, it spends five years
just building a root system
and storing up all the resources that it needs,
the infrastructure for it to support its growth,
everything that it needs.
It spends five years working on that
and without even one little shoot
popping through the soil.
But then when its moment comes,
it has absolutely everything in place
to explode on the scene.
And within six weeks, that's right,
it grows 90 feet or over 27 meters,
like 27.4 meters, about two feet a day.
And this is what I want to see happening for you.
I want you to start becoming like the Chinese bamboo tree.
I want to see you start becoming like Alexander the Great,
that your strategic plan,
it sees the challenges and the obstacles
and the threats and the opportunities
before they get there,
and it's already catered for them.
There's already a system for success in place.
That's why you know Alexander the Great's name,
because he was a master of developing systems for success.
That's why the Chinese bamboo tree explodes
and can grow two feet a day.
And so guys, let's be serious about our own dreams.
Let's be serious about developing the infrastructure
for success towards our own goals.
So the strategic planner is a system for success for you.
The strategic planner is like,
you filling out that strategic planner
is like you being like the Chinese bamboo tree
and putting your roots in place.
So download the strategic planner,
start filling that out,
start getting some smart goals going
and start getting at least one smart goal
that you want to accomplish by December the 7th.
Love you heaps and look forward to hearing lives
and look forward to hearing more of your comments
about exactly what it is that you need to do
by the 7th of September.
That is going to become a dream
that sets you up for success
and sets you up to have the life that you want
and sets you up to see your wildest dreams fulfilled.
Love you guys heaps.
Let me pray for you and then we'll call it a night.
Papa, thank you so much for everyone here.
I thank you for the amazing, amazing, amazing family
that we have here.
I thank you for everyone who's been.
Lord, everyone that can hear my voice. Papyrus, thank you for wisdom from heaven. I thank you
for strategies from heaven. I thank you that you released strategies to people right throughout
the Bible. I thank you that you released strategies to Nehemiah and to Joshua and to Deborah and to
basically everyone who's ever been in the Bible. You've just, Lord, you released strategies. And
so I thank you for a massive, massive, massive release of supernatural strategies, supernatural
problem-solving, supernatural wisdom and revelation. And I thank you for massive levels of
work ethic and grace upon people as they begin to plan and put the infrastructure in place for
success to see their wildest dreams come true. Papyrus, your blessing on them. I ask grace on
everyone tonight in Jesus' name. Amen. Beautiful, guys. I'm off to Gisborne tomorrow,
so I'm going to be getting up pretty blooming early. I will be on the road by 5 a.m. We'll be
on the road. Boom, hit the road, boost down to Gizzee. And we've got a couple of our students
down there in Gizzee as well, Bex and Danielle. So pumped, really pumped to see you guys. And
hopefully if I am able to see them while I'm down there, it'll be a treat. I know they've got
different things happening over the weekend, but I love you guys. And then after Gisborne,
next weekend I'm going to be speaking in Hamilton. And then I will also be, next week I'll also be
speaking in Auckland. The date's to be confirmed, but I think it's Friday. I'll get back to you on
that. And then boom, I'm off to India. I'll be coming and seeing some of you guys that are in
India. So excited to be seeing our crew everywhere we go. Massive love to you all. Boom, go be like
the bamboo tree. Go be like Alexander the Great and crush it. Love you. See you soon.