And welcome, beautiful, beautiful prosper tribe. I am so excited for what we're going
to be doing tonight. So for those of you who are here live, thank you for showing up. It
means so much to everybody when you actually show up. And for those that aren't able, we
know you're watching the recording. So we're sending love. We miss you. Of course, the
community time won't happen, but at least you'll you'll get the main teaching. I want
you to know I'm incredibly blessed this month. And over this last week, the way you are showing
up for each other is truly beautiful. The prayers, the encouragement, the love and I
just want you to know you guys moved me to tears this week. Kristen, thank you for using
your gift of prayer and all of you your gift of encouragement. So super excited. I'm going
to start with prayer here right now. And I'll bring up a worksheet, we're going to be doing
something that I have really seen create powerful shift over this last couple of weeks since
we saw each other, there's been amazing things happening. And so we're going to work on it
here. And then you'll have time to work on it on on your worksheets. And we'll get back
together and and really talk about it. And I'll make some announcements about all the exciting
things for for September. So let's just start with prayer. Oh, Father God. So grateful. So
grateful that your mercies are new every day that your love never fails that you never leave us
you never forsake us, that we all have a future and a hope that you are the resurrected Christ
who lives in us and in you, we live and move and have our being. I ask that the words of my mouth
the meditation of my heart, Father, they'll glorify you they'll be filled with the anointing
and the power of heaven to bring transformation to every single woman listening here tonight and
in the future. Lord may it advance them may it advance their faith may it advance their income
and abundance may it advance their impact may it advance their joy may it advance their their
sense of peace and community Lord may your word go forth as it never returns void we give you the
glory and the honor in Jesus name amen and amen all right I'm going to pop up the slide here but
I need to share the screen first so let's do that and then I'll pop this up and you should all
somebody Tracy give me a thumbs up I can see your smiling face can you see the can you see the
the notes all right good all right beautiful uh what I want to share with you that has really
happened this week is God has been leading me to ask the women that I coach and I've been coaching
some very high power women this week and God has been asking me actually over the last two weeks to
say do you have your vision statement in writing and the answer has been no and uh we've done it
together and I'm going to give you the tools how I go about it and I'm happy in between we can be
sharing this and reviewing it together um give you feedback uh they did it they did the work
and with feedback they refined it and they came back and they refined it again and they ended up
with a written vision statement now I was hoping one of them would be on both of them would be on
tonight but they're not um one of them sent me an exciting uh voice message and I transcribed it
and this is what she said she says I've had so many breakthroughs and she was just going forward
she goes I've had breakthroughs in my business I feel like I have such clarity where I'm going
what I'm going to offer I also had a breakthrough in relationships a breakthrough in my personal
life a breakthrough in my spiritual life and she says once I got the vision down it just clarified
a lot of other things she said I look back at the time that we worked on my vision as the catalyst
so I want to thank you now this is um what begins to happen it spills over you know there's a saying
how you do one thing is is how you do all things right and um so so what you see is that as
you write a vision, be it a personal vision, a business vision, both of the visions, it spills
over into all the other areas. So I had another powerful business leader. She's a coach.
Her business does 2 million a year right now, positioned really to go to 5 or 10.
And as we developed her vision and actually got it out of her head and into writing,
the first thing she did was take it back to her team. Her team was thrilled. They had such a
sense of direction. There was such a sense of community. They literally were saying,
this is what we've been waiting for. This is what we've been looking for. So this happened,
you know, things kind of come in sequences with me when God's, you know, teaching things, right?
And so this happened several times. And so that's why you've probably noticed if you get my
newsletter and you've probably noticed in different places that I've been talking a lot
about vision lately and because it's really popping up. I feel that God is deliberately,
you know, bringing attention to this. And so of course I wanted to bring it,
wanted to bring it here. So in Habakkuk 2.2, it says, write the vision and make it plain.
So the one who sees it may run with it. There's a lot of components there. The first thing is,
it's not enough to be in your head. The first thing spirit, you know, told Habakkuk is write
it. You've got to write the vision. It's not enough to think, you know, it not enough to just,
you know and, and sometimes it's, it's very fuzzy. Like I have a lot of clients that have done,
you know, the different dream builder, you know, events and things like that. And so they've got
like these massive pages and pages of dreams. That's not what I'm talking about. When I say
your vision statement, I'm talking about a Habakkuk 2.2 vision statement, which means
you've written it and it's plain and those who see it are able to run with it. They get clarity,
they get direction, they get focus. And so the truth is that who's, when you look at Habakkuk 2.2,
write the vision, make it plain. The one who sees it may run with it. Who's the first person
that sees it? You, me. Yeah. Point at yourself, right? And so what happens is that as you see it,
you're going to start seeing a fueling and inspiration and excitement and a passion.
I literally watched, I do these, you know, I do breakthrough business intensives, right? And so
I'll spend three, four, five hours with a woman. And literally when we write the vision statement,
you can see the entire energy change. It's just like something, it's like, it's like the
electricity got put into the socket. You know, you can have a plug, but if it's not plugged in,
it's no good. It's just a plug, right? And so what happens is that as the vision gets put into
writing, there is neurocircuitry that happens in your own brain. And then there is interpersonal
circuitry. It's literally like plugging into the socket. And so there's new levels of inspiration.
There's new levels of inner excitement. There's new levels of passion that happen. And I'm seeing
it in every single woman. It wasn't a rare exception. And so one of the things that
happens when it says write the vision and make it plain is that there's this clarity.
There's this direction, make it plain. The idea of a good vision statement. It's not a,
it's not a five or 10 pages of dreaming. Okay. It's not that that's fun. Go ahead,
fill your journal with all the dreams. It's not that when, when you look at this, it should give
clarity and it should give direction. And it becomes like a North star to help you make good
choices and good decisions. So the first example that I read you, her testimony, she was really
trying to figure out, like, there was a lot of like, like there is right now. I mean, how many
of you have all kinds of like things coming at you? Like maybe things you could buy, maybe courses
you could take, maybe groups you could join, like, you know, raise your hand. How many of you have a
lot of stuff coming at you right now, people you could hire any of you, you know? And, and so what
ends up happening? Yeah. You guys do have a little reaction button on the bottom that you can show
your hand being raised. And so I see some of you giving me that.
response. So what was happening for her, she's like, should I just use this and promote someone
else's course? Should I write my own? Should I be joining this? Should I launch this now?
Is this the right time? Should I offer this? All this stuff that's kind of floating out there.
Well, guess what? When you have a kick 2-2, you write the vision, you make it plain,
then it becomes a North Star. Does it line up with the vision? And so I asked her after she
had written this particular one I'm talking about, after she'd written it, I said, okay,
now let's go back to the questions. Does joining this other company and marketing their stuff,
does it fit with the vision you just wrote? She goes, no. Does this one? No. She goes,
I have such clarity. And all the breakthroughs started coming. And then she started like
getting a release as to what she was going to offer and how she was going to do it and the
strategies. I mean, she's just like, you know, exploding this one, this one example. So,
so it inspires you first, it fuels you, and then it gives you a sense of clarity and direction.
And then it helps you make good choices and decisions. So you're not just like being driven
to and fro. There's too much of that going on right now. Everybody's just like, people aren't
going straight for something. And so it's going to give you this line. And then when times are
tough and things don't seem like they're working, or you wonder if you really have what it takes,
or you're feeling down, you go back to the vision and you pray back into the vision.
And you ask God to show you more about the vision and that vision will refuel you. So
the vision will also give you the stick-to-it-ness to persevere. If you saw the Sunday email that I
sent out to Sunday edition, I talked about Paul, like Paul of Tarsus was so clear his vision,
that it didn't matter if he got stoned and shipwrecked and snake bit. It didn't matter
because his eye was on the ball. It was on the vision, right? So first you get inspired.
And then second, if it's a family mission vision, the family gets inspired. If it's the team,
like I said, I have this big company and they're coaching businesses doing a couple million a year.
The whole team got inspired and they began to eliminate things and add things and really make
shifts so that everything lined up with the vision. You see the founder had the vision in her
head and she was a great leader, but it wasn't being spoken clearly to the entire team or to
the clients and customers. And so clients and friends and associates will be inspired. And by
the way, people will follow a vision. They will donate time to a vision. They will donate money
to a vision. Over the years with companies that I've had it and with Prosper, without ever asking
because people know the vision, I've had them bring me checks and they say, this is for
the vision. And I mean, I've had out of the blue, just $25,000, $50,000. This is for the vision.
The Lord spoke to us, you know, $500 here. This is for the vision. So, so your clients are going to
be inspired. You're going to be inspired. Your team's going to be inspired. And also what will
begin to happen is people will volunteer time. They'll volunteer money. They will follow a vision.
You get bigger than you just running around chasing. Okay. And so that's the kind of the
background. And so a vision should be like three to 10 years out. It's, and then you're going to
put it in present tense, but you're going to make it big enough. And I, I love what Bill Gates said.
I'm not a big fan of Bill, but he has wisdom here. And he says, most people
overestimate what they can do in one year. And they underestimate what they can do in 10 years.
So when you have a 10 year vision, you're, you know, where you need to be in a year. You're not
trying to shove everything that you want to accomplish this year. And then you're so disappointed
that things aren't moving so fast. When you have the big picture, you get a proper perspective.
George Barna defined vision as a clear mental image of a preferable future imparted by God
and based upon an accurate understanding of God, yourself, and
under your circumstances.
So what I love about that is that your vision
is a statement of a preferred future.
And it's a statement of I'm partnering with God
and this is what I feel God wants to do in and through me.
So remember some of the things
that we've covered here at Prosper.
The first thing we always remember is that God is in me.
Scripture says I'm the temple of the Holy Spirit, right?
Christ in me, the hope of glory, right?
I have the mind of Christ.
So God is in me, all right?
So we're coming from this place of God is my source
because God is in me.
I have access to all wisdom, all understanding,
all peace, all knowledge, all love,
everything I could possibly need.
It's coming from God who is my source within me.
This eliminates the striving of trying to get
and get and get and feeling like and so on.
So as this comes out through you, your prayer becomes,
Lord, I wanna be a channel for you.
Coach through me, write through me, speak through me,
love through me, heal through me.
So you are simply,
you're not trying to get something to you,
you're releasing what's already in you as a channel,
God being the source and the source being in me, in you.
And we are a channel where we release it.
Now I put in your worksheet,
you'll have this in your box.
I put both a personal and a business.
Not all of you have businesses.
Some of you may only be writing personal.
Some of you may really be wanting to focus
on the business right now.
So the personal vision statement, again,
it acts as the North Star.
The personal vision statement is basically
how you're committed to living your life.
Like what really matters?
As you're on the planet, what are you committed to doing?
And so your personal vision brings all of the areas
of your life, right?
It brings your spiritual, your faith.
It brings your physical, your health.
It brings your family, right?
Your legacy.
It brings your recreation.
It brings your relationship and it brings your career.
So it brings all the areas in your life.
Your personal vision brings all of that together.
And remember, I've talked to you
that you can have an inner locus of control
or an outer locus of control.
Having a personal vision statement is one of the ways
that you are having an inner,
you're being directed, inner directed.
Instead of reacting and making reactive decisions,
you're being led by principles.
You're being led by a vision.
You're being led by standards.
You're being led by purpose, right?
Because remember, you're either building your life
by design or by default.
There's only two choices.
Everything that you do, your day,
you're living your day by design.
It's been prayed out, it's been planned,
it's being walked out, it's being built by design
according to your values, your principles,
what God has shown you.
Or you're living it by default,
which is where most people are.
Whatever happens, they're like a pinball,
you know, in the pinball machine.
And they, you know, they get hit
and they bounce off of that and they get taken over here
and they bounce off of that.
Are any of you old enough to remember pinball machines?
And so, you know, that's how a lot of people
are living their life.
They just keep hitting this and then they go over here
and then they react and then, no, no, no,
that's not what we're doing here as Prosper Women.
We're committing together as we link arms,
we're committing that, you know what?
My life is gonna be built by design, not by default.
I'm not gonna be living in constant reaction.
So you're either making your daily choices
and your daily actions and your daily decisions,
you're either making them consciously,
that means you're choosing.
Remember I taught you how to say, I choose, I chose.
That's conscious or unconsciously.
You either believe that life's just happening to you
and you're a victim being bounced around
by the waves of the sea,
or you believe that life is happening through you
by the choices that you make and the actions that you take
and the words that you speak.
That's taking your power back and living consciously, okay?
And so when you have a vision statement,
you start having big picture,
you start having long-term.
term thinking as opposed to again, Oh, I got a problem. How am I going to solve it? Okay.
Now, how do I get out of this mess? How do I solve that? Okay. Now, now what I do, you
know, I was just listening to a kid today that was in this reactionary mode. Well now
what I do, just tell me what to do. Well now, how do I go? Well, how do I solve this problem?
I need to get out of this pain. Most people are like that. They're just trying to like
get out of the next pain out of the next problem, right? It's not visionary leadership, right?
And so that's why we're doing this, this exercise. And so you, you pray, you think about the
top values that are really important that you want to live by. I have that values worksheet.
If you haven't done that, um, you circle the main values on, on the page and you start
thinking about the difference that you feel called, you know, there's, it's that thing
that never leaves you. It's that, it's that thing that just keeps coming up that you know
you're supposed to do. It's the difference you're supposed to bring to the world, right?
And then you make sure that like Tony Robbins calls it a beehive, right? A big, hairy, audacious
goal, right? You know, uh, make sure that you stretch it, that this is not small because
God is not small. Stretch it just like God had to stretch Abraham and he stretches each
one of us. Okay. And then you can add the mission statement, which is the, how you're
going to accomplish. So here's one that, um, could be an example of a personal vision
and it's, it's just kind of thrown together a little bit, but some components that might
be in one that I, I just put together to give you some sampling all in one. So here would
be a personal vision. Love is my highest guiding principle. First Corinthians 13 one, if I
have not love, I'm nothing. Okay. So this particular vision, the, the North star would
be, I've got to look at everything through the filter. Is this, is this based on love
or is this based on fear? Right? Course in miracles. Everything's either love based or
fear based. There's only two tracks, right? And so that's how this vision opens. You can
see how that would already get clear. When you go to do something, you go, okay, am I
making this choice out of fear? Cause I'm afraid I'm going to run out or lack or this
or that, or am I making this out of love? Right? So love is my highest guiding principle.
I choose to see life as a precious gift and live with gratitude and wonder. So that's
a, that's a way of living. That's a way of showing up. I will strive to live and make
all decisions from a place of love instead of fear and abundance instead of lack. Right?
So, you know, I'm putting some of my personal things that are part of my personal vision,
right? So I always have said, I will not make any decision based on fear or lack, never
make a decision based on fear or lack. Right? So that you put that into your vision statement
as an example. Okay. I will live each day as an instrument of God, knowing he gives
me the wisdom, power, and understanding. I commit to being transformed by the renewing
of my mind and being a lifelong student of personal growth and developing my gifts and
talents. Okay. So again, that's a type of North star, you know, are you, did you finish
in high school or college and then you're done and you never read another book? That's
one way of people living. Others that say, you know what, I'm committed to reading 15
minutes every day. I'm committed to doing one book a week. You know, that would be part
of it. That's part of your vision. You keep yourself accountable. Again, how you're spending
your time. I will treat my body as the temple of the Holy spirit and only consume that which
is life giving. So that, that becomes another kind of North star. When you go to do something,
is this giving life or is it taking away life? Right? Um, I will look at my financial blessings
and possessions as a gift from God to be stewarded, including the regular practice of tithing.
Is that part of your vision is your vision to, you know, be able to tie the million dollars
or whatever, right? I choose to leave a legacy of love and healing for my family and make
a difference in this world. I commit to being the best wife and mother, as well as member
of my church community and world to have my actions match my words by discipline and the
grace of God, to seek first to understand before being understood and treat every person
I meet as unique, valuable, made in the image of God and worthy of respect. That, that sentence,
that last sentence could be the vision all by itself. Like the first sentence could be
the vision all by itself. Um, the second, the last one, I put a lot in this to give
you ideas of some of the things that could be in a, a vision statement. Okay. Um, all
right. So there's a place for you to, to do the work.
and do your own personal vision.
And then the next dynamic would be your business vision.
And those of you that have businesses,
this is super important.
This is, I mean, they're both important,
but this I promise will change your business.
So again, be very clear and succinct,
include the what and the who.
And some of you may be getting confused
between a vision statement and a mission statement.
So the vision statement is the big picture.
It's the preferred future.
The mission statement focuses
on how you will achieve the vision.
So we'll come back to a mission statement later.
I put some examples here for you of vision statements, okay?
So Amazon, to be the earth's most customer-centric customer,
where customers can find and discover anything
they might want to buy online.
Well, how are they doing it?
How's Amazon doing?
Have they become customer-centric
and are they making it so we can buy and get trained
to buy everything we could possibly want online?
You see how a vision becomes the guiding force.
IKEA, to create a better everyday life
for the many people.
Tesla, to accelerate the world's transition
to sustainable energy.
Well, you know, they're doing a lot more
than making cars, right?
They're in that process.
Nordstrom, to give customers
the most compelling shopping experience.
Disney, to be one of the world's leading producers
and providers of entertainment and information.
Prosper in all things, to be the premier coaching
and equipping company in the world
that empowers women to grow their faith,
income and impact and prosper in every area of their life.
Physically, financially, relationally and spiritually.
In other words, in all things, okay?
So you see, whenever anything gets produced with Prosper,
is it doing this?
Is it empowering women, okay?
Is it growing faith?
Is it growing their income?
Is it growing their impact?
Is it equipping them and empowering them to prosper?
Physically, financially, relationally and spiritually.
You see, everything that is in Prosper fits in this vision.
And then the mission, we'll do next time,
but that gets more specific.
How?
Through coaching, through coach certification,
through the membership site, through the Prosper TV.
The mission becomes how do we equip and empower women
to prosper in all things?
How do we equip women?
And if I was gonna put this short,
how do we equip women to live third John two lives?
That would be one sentence.
Equip and empower women to live third John two lives.
Okay?
The one I put just a little bit more specific.
All right?
So there's some tips here to help you really work on this
during, until we get together again, okay?
So there's instructions for prayer, for research,
for about timing, about location, about method,
just different aspects.
And then there is an exercise.
There's a place for you to do the rough draft.
And then I teach you how to edit it.
So go back and make sure you put it in the present tense
and then go back and make sure it's very specific
with the outcome.
Does it include the what?
For who?
You look at the Prosper.
Do you know what it is that they're doing?
Coaching and equipping.
For who?
For women.
For where?
For the world.
The outcome that they personally are growing these areas
and that they're prospering in every area.
You see, you can see the outcome.
You know who, who gets the outcome.
What, what are you?
See how that is very specific.
So like if I got proposed to say,
hey, why don't you get a Prosper race car
and put it in the races?
Okay.
That might be a fun investment on the side,
but it's out of line with the vision.
That's not equipping women to prosper
in any way that I can tell.
You see, do you see the difference?
You can, you're able to look at a decision
because I get asked to do a lot of things,
invest in a lot of things, represent a lot of things.
Does it equip and empower women to prosper
in every area of their life?
You see how that starts to become a North star for you.
Okay.
And so that's going to be the edit.
Do you have the specific outcome?
The what, for who?
And then go back, it's probably long
and see if you can say it more succinctly, short and clear.
And you can reduce it to one sentence, like those ones there.
Most companies have a very succinct one sentence, right?
And then they have more that they share, especially with shareholders within the company, within
the, you know, so it's okay.
Have one sentence that says it all, Hey, equip and empower women to live third John two lives
and then go into details when more details are, are needed.
Okay.
So that is the focus this week.
And until we, we get together again, you know, to really realize that let's get us all together.
I want to see everybody here and have fun here.
And so to, to begin to put this into place, so I'm going to go ahead and stop the recording.