All right, so welcome, beautiful ladies, PROSPER leader members, for those of you who are not
here live, you're missing out.
We're having a fabulous time, but you'll get to listen to this part of the recording.
This of course is one of our two live coaching calls that I do during the month.
This is to kick off the month, and this is the way that we can keep our eyes on the goal,
not get distracted.
Someone said, I think it was Renee this morning said, we're only eight weeks away from Christmas
if you're listening to this in live time.
And so yes, it's a really important time to finish strong.
And so I like to start the month out with these calls, and then we come near the end
of the month, come back together on the third Thursday to kind of put a container on the
end of the month, give you still enough time to push for a week and make each month your
best month so far.
So I'm going to share the screen right now, and I'm going to be sharing some thoughts
to help you as we wrap up this last quarter.
And so someone want to just give me a wave if you're seeing the screen, I want to make
sure it's working.
Are you seeing the screen?
Beautiful.
All right, so let me just share some thoughts with you right now.
And the thoughts are on the power of expectation.
So the reason I'm bringing this is that we can have really positive expectation, which
is another word for that would be faith, and we can have negative expectation.
And where we're expecting the other shoe to drop, as the saying goes, or we're expecting.
And of course, a lot of times the media is feeding fear, and then fear creates the negative
expectation.
So always we're in a space and you can kind of evaluate yourself right now we're in a
space where we're expanding.
And so we're allowing more life to come through us and we're releasing more life and we're
expanding and we're expanding, we're growing, we're learning, we're trying new things, we're
we're expanding our comfort zone, right?
We're stretching our borders, right?
The prayer of Jabez, asking God to expand.
And so there's expansion.
And I have a principle, and I'm going to keep repeating this because I hope it really gets
in your mind.
And that is that when others, especially the world, the news, the economy, whatever, when
others contract, and we're experiencing a world contraction in the sense of economics,
recession, that kind of stuff, right?
When others contract, it's very important that you expand.
And if you follow this principle, you will have great success.
And those times of contraction will be your greatest times of expansion.
And I want you to remember that the wealthiest people, they were created during the Great
Depression in 2008, when we had the contraction in the real estate and all of that.
That was one of our, as a company, greatest seasons we expanded.
During this COVID in 2020, that's when all of this was born.
Prosper TV was born, the Prosper Leader membership.
Because I understand this principle, and I want to really give it to you so that you
are not responding or reacting to what your eyes see, but you're living from insight.
You're living from a deeper place that does not judge by what's in your bank account or
how many clients you see or whatever's going on in the economy or whatever the noise is,
that you are responding from a deeper place and allowing more life to flow through you.
So we're going to talk about the power of expectation.
So Romans chapter 10, I've got quite a few verses, because this is all the way through
scripture, it's all the way through science.
You know how I love to bridge those.
So it says, whoever believes in him, in other words, trusts in him, it's not a mental belief,
it's this leaning your whole weight on him, will not be disappointed in his expectations.
The reason I bring that up is that faith and expectation...
expectation go hand in hand.
And expectations matter very much
when it comes to your outcome.
As you kind of make this full court press
to make this a fantastic year, what you are expecting
plays a huge role.
And we've got to stay on top of that.
Because the mind, it's like a garden.
Weeds come, right?
And it says my internet connection is unstable.
But hopefully, you guys are hearing me OK.
And if anything happens, I will come back, I promise.
All right, so here's some examples of expectation.
The placebo effect, right?
We all know the placebo effect as far as it's
used in testing for drugs, medications,
all that kind of stuff.
The what the person expects creates healing
as much as the actual drug.
There's so much science on that, right?
And on the opposite side, the nocebo effect,
which is the opposite.
Nocebo is Latin for to harm.
In other words, if we expect a negative outcome,
then they're more likely to experience adverse effects.
So this is an example from science or from medicine,
the placebo or the nocebo, meaning
that what we are expecting.
And there's been so many.
If you've read Pygmalion in the classroom, where teachers,
they were given students.
And one was told that this is an absolutely extraordinary group
of brilliant students.
And the other teacher was told that these
are the worst of the worst of the students.
They have little hope.
And actually, they were both just random mixes of students.
That was not true.
But the teacher had the expectation.
And the result was the extraordinary kids,
the one that was told, I mean, they just excelled.
And the ones that were told that they were just terrible,
they did not.
So our expectations influence our results.
And this carries forth in with our clients.
What are you expecting with your business?
What are you expecting with your finances,
with your relationships?
So in business, having a positive expectation
will inspire you.
And this is why we just got done doing all the work with vision.
And if you have not done the work for your vision statement,
go back and do that.
This will inspire you, your team, your clients.
And so another example of expectation,
Pete Rose, famous baseball player.
He was being interviewed in spring training
the year he was about to break Ty Cobb's all-time hit records.
And a reporter blurted out and said, Pete,
you only need 78 hits to break the record.
How many at-bats do you think you're going
to need to get the 78 hits?
And without missing a beat, you see,
he'd already been thinking about this.
This wasn't a new thought.
Without missing a beat, Pete looked at the reporter
and very matter-of-factly said 78.
And the reporter was, of course, just shocked and yelled back,
oh, come on, Pete.
You don't expect to get 78 hits and 78 at-bats, do you?
And Pete Rose calmly shared his philosophy
with the throngs of reporters who were anxiously awaiting
his reply to this boastful claim.
He said, every time I step up to the plate,
I expect to get a hit.
If I don't expect to get a hit, I
have no right to step into the batter's box
in the first place.
If I go up hoping to get a hit, he continued,
I probably don't have a prayer to get a hit.
It's the positive expectation that
has gotten me all the hits in the first place.
So translate this to you and what
you're working on right now.
Before you get on with a client, do you already
think through the conversation?
Imagine it, because your God-given image maker
is so powerful.
And do you imagine that they're going to come in,
that they're absolutely going to love?
Do you already see them joining before you get on the phone?
This would be equivalent to Pete getting on the batter's base
there, right?
And so this is so important.
Because I see, um, some clients that they are expecting that nobody's going to
join, or they're expecting that, you know, they're going to run out of money,
or they're expecting that they're not going to have enough clients.
It's an easy thing to fall.
If your mind has not been conditioned, it's easy to fall
into fear and doubt and worry.
It's very easy.
It's just like, it's very easy to get weeds in your garden.
So if anything you get from this call is to start being mindful.
What is my expectation before you show up to speak?
Have you already imagined the audience responding?
Right.
And there's so many examples through scripture.
You'll be able to go through this and really give it some time.
Um, but I love, uh, Mike, Micah seven, seven.
Um, and it says, I will wait with hope and expectancy.
And you saw the man that came to Jesus to be healed and he had
expectancy, just speak the word.
And so expectations, when you want to really implement this
expectation, it includes your thoughts.
Remember the mind, heart, mouth connection includes your thoughts.
More importantly is your feelings, the frequency of it, as well as your words,
your words are like a sickle to kind of harvest it.
Right.
So I like the acronym faith that you feel implement the feeling tonality.
This is one of the most important practices for you to do on a regular
basis, feel whatever this goal is, whatever this one thing that you're
feeling led to do, you, you come from this place of living it.
Now you feel as if this thing has already happened, right?
This thing has already happened.
And so it's this frequency of already being done.
So you're not waiting.
You're not waiting on circumstances.
You're not having an external locus of control.
You're not waiting for something to change the economy, to change
the boss, to change the whatever, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
No, no, no, no, no.
You're activating the feeling now, even before it happens, faith
feel as if it's already happened.
Because our circumstances do not determine our destiny.
It's our choices.
It's our carrot, our character.
It's our habits, right?
And so when we plant a seed, we expect to harvest and we imagine it.
We start thinking about what we're going to cook with that,
how we're going to use it.
We, we nurture it.
We water, we fertilize it.
We keep weeding during the gestation period, because remember
everything has a gestation period.
And so this is this is just a principle of life.
And so we we don't dig up to seed to see if it's growing.
When you have a business, when you're bringing in clients,
when you're activating new marketing, there's a gestation period.
And you have to be patient.
You don't dig it up. Right.
Or you don't just, oh, it's not working.
Give up, you know, when you don't see the fruit.
And so it's very important.
And then, of course, our self talk.
I love the example, the woman that had the issue of blood for 12 years.
And I love that scripture gives us that lets us hear herself talk.
And she kept on saying, if I can just touch the hem of his robe,
if I can just touch it, if I can just get near it, I will be healed.
That's that's speaking it.
That's expecting it. Right.
And the opposite, of course,
is inside out faith, which is fear, false evidence appearing real. Right.
And so remember that this is a choice
whether you're going to focus on fear, what could go wrong?
Use your imagination to go down the negative.
You know, what if anxiety, worry, stress?
Keep looking at what you lack, talking about what you lack.
And then, of course, whatever we focus on expands. Right.
And so instead, you're activating your God given power to choose
and to choose positive expectations and to imagine it,
to get into the feeling tonality, to speak it, to create space for it.
Did you know that the language of money and faith, even in scripture?
Oh, Maine, where we get the word, Amen.
Equals business professional or man of faith.
Did you know that business requires faith? Right.
It's a form of co-creating.
If there's anything that requires you to stretch, take risks,
spend money where you don't know it's going to come from
and have positive expectations that it's going.
to work. If there's any place that you have to just create something with God out of nothing
and expect it to work, it's business, right? And yet you also have to understand chemically
what some people do. There's a downside to expectation. So when you have a really high
expectation and then it doesn't happen exactly the way that you hoped, if you don't jump on that,
it creates a hormone cascade that doesn't feel good. And so the dopamine drops and so on.
And so we don't like that feeling of disappointment. And so then many people stop
trying. They go, I don't want to be disappointed. So they set themselves up to not be disappointed
because they don't want to feel that. And so they set themselves up and they don't try as hard and
they almost start expecting the negative to keep themselves safe. It's kind of a human condition.
This is very dangerous for your business and for you. So if you understand that, yeah,
you shoot for the stars and you might hit the moon and then you practice reframing right away,
right away, instead of getting into a spirit of disappointment. What did I learn? What am I going
to do better next time? What was the biggest, what was the greatest lesson? What was,
what good came out of this? What was the good here I'm not seeing? What am I going to do different?
You want to just reshift that, but you don't ever want to not have expectations. On the contrary,
you want to amplify the expectations. So how do you do that? Gratitude. If you notice,
Jesus would give thanks before he actually saw it. So if you remember feeding the 5,000 and
he's got the loaves and he holds them up and he says, I thank you, father, that you always hear
me. He already created space for the miracle. He told them to sit down. He got people in
expectation, gathering groups. We're going to have a meal. With the eyes, they had nothing.
They had five loaves and five fish. Wasn't going to feed 5,000. So if he had relied on his eyes,
no possibility. When he relies on expectation, he creates space. Create the space with the
disciples' expectation. Okay. Gather them in groups. All right. We're going to feed them
right now. Right? Expectation. And then gratitude. You start thanking before you even see it.
And of course, that's what happened. So you imagine it. The greatest principle I can share
on this expectation is that you start living as if now. So start living as if you got five new
clients this month. So what are you feeling? What are you going to do different? How are you going
to celebrate? What materials do you have for them? How are you going to bless them? You start getting
into that place of imagination of expecting it. So there's some really great, in your worksheets,
there's some really great reflection exercises. So after the call, I'll put it in your coaching
portal. And I'd like you to just really do some real thought and reflection on this
and begin to create this positive expectation. Because I truly believe that this season,
I do not listen to the noise. Remember, there's a lot of noise. You've got a radio station
and you get to choose the frequency of the dial, what it is that you're listening to,
what you're allowing in. Right? I don't listen to, I won't allow myself to read it. All the
naysayers, all the, how horrible things are. I don't let my mind go that way. Recession, depression,
all that stuff. I'm constantly looking at how can I serve more? How can I add more value?
How can I expand? I've made this month in the, I lead by example for you guys. So in the
face of apparent contraction in the world, this month, I made my biggest business leap that I've
made so far in the last 10 years of prosper and all things. Okay. So I'm putting out greater,
massively like 10xing the amount that I'm spending right now in investing. Okay. So I'm leading by
example. And yes, it should, you should be expanding as such a place that you feel nervous,
but you're not meditating on what can go wrong. You're not meditating on lack.
You're not meditating on fear. You have a positive.
positive expectation and even excitement, even giddiness, as to what is possible.
So you expand in the face of contraction.
So few key thoughts as we start October, which I feel is one of the best months.
I feel we're in one of the greatest seasons.
Tune your radio frequency and surround yourself with people.
This is the purpose of Prosper Leader membership, right?
To to link arms, to surround ourselves
with people that are not going to go down the road of the masses.
OK, so I pray that blesses you.
I'm going to stop the recording and let's
have a little conversation for a few minutes.