All right, welcome to the Prosper Leader Office Hours.
This came by request.
And while I'm sharing this few thoughts,
if you don't want your camera on,
you can turn your camera off for a second
and then we'll go into Q&A and so on.
So the main topic that many of you
have been asking questions around
is around the subject of scheduling.
How do I arrange my days?
How do I get things done?
How can I organize all the craziness and all the things?
So I know most of you have your camera turned off.
If you have it on, it may show up on this final video.
I'm not sure, but I'm gonna start with prayer.
And we are then gonna come back
and dive in and discuss this.
So let me share a few thoughts after we pray.
Father God, I thank you for the gift of life,
which means the gift of today,
which means the gift of this moment.
And I ask, like Moses prayed in Psalms,
I believe it's 90, teach us to order our days
that we might have a heart of wisdom.
That's my prayer for this conversation
as we talk about ordering our days.
I just pray that the Lord will give you the insights
you need to use your time wisely.
Time is so, goes by so quick, right?
Like a blink of an eye, time just flies by.
And there always seems to be more to do
than there is time for many of us.
And so it's interesting
because time can really stretch and contract.
And I'm sure you've experienced that
because time is on this 3D earth
and it's not based in true reality, right?
With God, there is no time, there's timelessness.
And yet for us in this 3D,
we live in these constraints of time
and we've divided our time often between work
and between family and between hobbies
and all these things, responsibilities
and caring for loved ones and all these things.
And sometimes it's really difficult to balance it.
And you all have probably experienced
that when you're having a great time, time just like flies.
And I feel like time is accelerating anyway these days,
maybe because I'm getting older.
And on the other hand,
when we don't have purpose and we're feeling lost
or we're feeling, I don't know, destitute, stuck,
then time seems to like slow down, right?
And you'll hear people saying things like,
I'm just killing time.
So I don't know where you are in that continuum,
but I pray that what I have to share today
will bless you as you order your days.
Okay, I am going to share my screen
and I am going to share a tool
that I use with my coaching clients.
And it's a tool that I have used
for many, many years successfully.
I really haven't had to change it over the last,
I don't know, 10, 11 years, especially.
It is pretty tried and true
and people that use it get great results
and the people that don't often struggle.
So this is called the Prosper Daily Plan.
And I like to say a Prosper Daily Plan a day
keeps the squirrels away.
What I mean is the distractions like squirrel,
shiny object, squirrel, right?
And so this is a way of organizing your day
in a meaningful way.
And it goes so far beyond making lists.
Some of you have learned to make lists
and I'm a list maker too.
And that's a whole different subject.
I actually use lists differently than scheduling or to do.
I use them as a form of brainstorming.
So I make a list of everything.
Like I just opened one,
ways to make the Prosper Leader membership site
top in the class and the hugest blessing, right?
So you could put anything down here, masterclass ideas,
ways to improve my home.
books to read. So that's how I use lists. I use lists as a form of creativity, expansiveness,
opening to possibility. I do not use lists for scheduling because the brain does all
kinds of funny things. We'll check off a lot of things off the list and we will not do
the most important things. We might do the urgent things, we might do the easy things,
but we don't do necessarily the things that are going to most move the needle forward,
often the hardest things. So the problem with using a list as some type of scheduling or
organizational tool is that unless you attach some kind of system of prioritizing, it doesn't
have any rank or priority. And so the other thing is it just tends to just never end.
It gets more and more cumulative as we just keep adding to the end of it. So with the
Prosper Daily Plan, I have solved several of these issues, bringing priority, organizing
your time for maximum efficiency around what's important. So at the top of the Prosper Daily
Plan, you will notice that there is a morning routine. I call this the golden hour. Okay.
I got that when I was on Brian Tracy's television show. And I really truly believe that there's
a principle in the Bible of first fruits and the first fruits of each day, the morning,
how we use that and how we offer that to God, um, shapes the entire rest of the day.
So if you start your day by pushing on the snooze alarm four or five times and you get
up and you start talking lack, I'm so late. I don't have time. I'm not going to get everything
done. I blah, blah, blah. If you, if you like start your day in that place of lack, it's
going to be a, a, a stress filled day at minimum and probably unproductive day. So
if we offer up the beginning of the day to God and to gleaning wisdom and growing in
our mindset and our skillset and opening up possibilities, um, everything will change.
So if I, uh, when I was on Brian Tracy television show, he said, what's the most important
advice you could give? And the thing I would put above everything, top priority, if I only
get you one bit of advice, it's have a morning spiritual practice that is growing. You personally
is growing your intimacy with God. Um, that deep connection that ties in with your purpose,
with your identity, um, with your divine design, you know, with your direction, all of that
cannot be relegated to a very quick, quick, quick, um, you know, 15 minute devotional on the run,
you know, regurgitated looking at someone else's revelation. This is the single most
important thing is connecting with God for this day. Okay. And so in my opinion, if you did
nothing else every single day, but establish your spiritual practice, you would be way,
way, way ahead. I think I've read for some of you, um, the book, the ruthless elimination
of hurry. And he has got a very powerful whole section on when we don't have a spiritual practice,
what happens now, the way I phrased it here, the way I positioned it is I put sample times
so you can expand or contract this based on your needs. So these are just the components
to get you thinking about how could I organize my spiritual practice so that I get the most
out of my day and out of my spiritual practice. So of course the most obvious is prayer and
meditation. Okay. Um, and I'm lumping those together because I really believe that there
is, there is prayer that is us pouring out to God and there is prayer that is us learning to listen
and receive. I think the second is probably more important. Um, so this would be part of your
morning spiritual practice. I also believe in the mind, heart, mouth connection for manifesting
your goals, dreams, and desires. It's the biblical method.
of success. You've seen it many places in scripture. If you believe in your heart, confess
with your mouth, you shall be saved. So it's even built into our relationship with God.
And so what are some of the things we can do with our mouth that will really add power?
And so daily affirmations are incredibly powerful. Let me let you know that your brain listens
to you and your voice above all else. And I am is the most powerful words in the language.
It's actually the name of God. When Moses asked God, what is your name? He said, I am.
And Jesus began all his powerful statements with, I am. I am the living word. I am the
living water. I am the bread of life. I am the resurrection and the life. He would always
start with I am. And so I encourage you to start building some I am statements. This
is really important as you are stepping fully into your God given identity. Like, who are
you? Because we get really confused and we think I am a role, right? No. Yes, you are
a teacher or you are a mother or you are a wife, but that's not your identity. So when I'm talking
about I am statements is tapping into your God given identity, not your role. And you are not
a body. You have a body, right? And so these I am statements, as you start stepping into, I am
a daughter of the most high God. I am co-heir with Christ, with full access to the kingdom of God.
And you could just come up with anything that you want to really root and ground in. I like to say,
I am love. That's a really powerful. So as we're grounding into our identity with our spiritual
practice, this becomes one of the most, and Natalie, we have our cameras off for just a minute
while I'm teaching, then we'll come back. And so as we're doing, using this prosper daily plan,
and we're establishing like Psalms 90, that we've asked God to order our days, that we may have a
heart of wisdom. We're taking the first part, the first fruit of our morning to have a spiritual
practice and have a successful spiritual practice. So this includes communication with God,
communing, and it includes really getting rooted and grounded in your identity with your I am
statements. Now I use a journal template in addition to this. So I actually create pages
in my journal that are I am statements. So I am love. I am light. I am the daughter of the most
high God. And so you can keep adding these. And any of your identity that you want to root
and ground in. Now the difference between an affirmation and a declaration, a declaration
instead of starting with I am starts with I will. And these are the things that you are absolutely
committed to do that day. I will write 500 words. I will walk a mile. I will exercise 15 minutes.
I will, you know, drink eight glasses. These are things I will contact three prospects. I will
follow up with three. They're very specific and they carry this, this, this, um, this depth of,
of conviction and commitment. Okay. So your affirmations about who you are and getting
rooted and grounded in your God given identity, your declarations are around your commitment.
Okay. And scripture says you shall declare a thing and it is established. And then, so as you're
dividing up this golden hour, and like I said, these minutes can be changed. They're yours. I just
put samples. Okay. I think one of the most powerful things for growing is to read every single day.
I read every single day from something that grows me, grows my faith. So I'm always reading,
you know, from scripture that comes first. I'm reading the passion translation right now.
So I'm reading that and really getting some depth.
Then I'm reading a book that grows me or stimulates me.
Right now, I happen to be reading People of the Word.
And it's 50 words that shaped Jewish thinking.
It's just really, again, it's expanding a biblical mindset.
It's really growing me.
So when you read, it should be really growing
your mind, your spirit.
And then journaling, your morning pages,
your evening pages as well.
But this is one of the most powerful things.
There's something activated, especially
when you're writing with your right hand.
It's different for left-handed people.
But when you're writing with your right hand,
you're activating a different part.
You're freeing up a different part of your left brain.
And so lots of wisdom comes out with journaling.
So I use this also as part of my spiritual practice.
In other words, I will ask God questions.
And I will allow what flows through me
so that it's another form of prayer and meditation
that the answers come back.
Visualization, again, really powerful.
Remembering your wins.
This is something that a lot of us
that have been perfectionists or always go, go, go,
or striving, we don't pause to really acknowledge.
We always are looking at what's missing, what's broken,
what's not done, how we're behind,
how we're not doing enough.
This is a way of slowing down
and really praising God for the wins.
Really praising God for the wins.
This just changes everything.
And then I usually, this I am grateful for,
I fill up the whole line.
I just start going across whatever's hitting me.
I'm so grateful for my health.
I'm so grateful for learning.
I'm so grateful for coaches.
I'm so grateful for friends.
I'm so grateful for my business.
So grateful for my client.
You could just something new all the time,
all the way across that.
Now, my words for the year,
there's something so powerful about this
that when we, I like to come up with three,
some people do one,
and God gives me three words for the year.
And when we write these every single day
for an entire year,
I promise you that will be fulfilled in that year.
I've been doing this for decades.
It will be fulfilled.
That will be the border around your year
and God will honor that.
He will give you the desires of your heart.
You will create that, co-create that with God.
Okay, so that whole section
is all about the most important hour of the day,
having a spiritual practice.
If you have not really built that in,
we're creatures of habit.
You need to build this into a habit.
If you need to wake up 15 minutes earlier
and start with 15 minutes,
five minutes in each section, okay.
What's gonna happen if you're truly doing this
and sticking with it, it's so rewarding.
You'll expand it to 30 minutes.
It's so rewarding.
You'll probably expand it to an hour.
And when I have time for me, it can be two, three hours.
It's glorious.
Okay, the next part of the Prosper Daily Plan
has to do now with,
when we say being purpose-driven and scheduling,
it has to do with basing what you do
being around your mission.
Now, when I coach,
one of the first things I establish
is your vision and your mission.
This changes.
I've just seen it change lives like none other.
I just, two days ago,
a coach, there's been a coach forever, a brilliant woman.
I'll often ask the question,
do you have a written vision that inspires you?
And she did not.
Sometimes people have written
some kind of makeshift business vision,
and then it just gets lost somewhere,
or it's in a brochure or something.
I'm talking about a vision that inspires you.
Based on Habitat 2-2,
write the vision and make it plain
that those who see it may run with it, okay?
And so this is so powerful to have this vision.
So this woman that I helped her find her vision,
she literally cried.
And when she arrived to meet with me,
she was really feeling stuck.
And when she left, she just,
like she had wind underneath her wings.
She was so alive.
There was so much energy.
She went from being drained and tired.
So vision is first.
From that vision, then mission.
Mission is how you accomplish the vision.
And so this becomes important for your scheduling.
So if my vision is to equip and empower a million women
to prosper physically, financially, relationally,
spiritually, and I do that through, this is the mission,
I do that through, retreats, coaching, master classes,
et cetera.
So from that mission, I can write that right here,
the main gist of it, and then I can build my goals
around my mission.
You see how I'm being very purpose-driven.
I'm being very specific.
I'm not just setting a random goal or a goal
that someone thinks I should set or something
that I just pulled out.
This is my goal is based on my mission.
My goal is based on my mission.
And so that can be in however you want that goal to be.
It could be in new clients, whatever
unit that you are measuring.
What we measure is what we tend to get done.
So we've got our mission, and then we've
got our mark, which is the goal, and then we've
got our method, which is exactly how
we're going to implement that.
So if I'm adding five clients this month, let's just say,
or 10 clients or whatever you want to make that, then how?
Is it by, do I have a lead generation system set?
Am I doing lives?
Am I blogging?
Am I using LinkedIn?
What is the method that I'm going to get that goal?
This place is because you should be.
I'm going to use the word should.
I'm going to should on you for a second.
You should be communicating a lot
if you're trying to build a relationship
with your clients, potential clients, audience.
And so it's never been easier.
You can team up with AI.
You can throw up your ideas that God has put on your heart
and then ask it to clean it up for you,
and you can really create something nice.
So I write down the ideas there.
So right now, I'm doing a whole series,
if you've gone to my social media or LinkedIn,
doing a whole series on identity because identity influences
every aspect of our life.
Our finances, our self-concept, our identity
is how we're going to interact with money.
Our relationships, how we're treated,
what we settle for, all of that is rounded.
The growth of your business, your health,
every aspect of your life is affected
by your first, your self-perceived identity,
your self-concept, and when you really
know your true identity, which is why I'm doing
the masterclass on identity.
So this is a place to jot down the ideas
so that you can later transfer it to a different place
if you want, but you've always got this.
I have this beside me all day, every day.
I'm working off of this.
Now, here's the magic of ordering your day
to accomplish the most, all right?
And that is organizing into uninterrupted 20-minute chunks
of action, 20-minute chunks of action.
So what does that mean?
It means during the 20 minutes, everything else
is off.
You're not checking messages, all the beeps and bings
and things popping up and everything,
completely turned off.
You have all the tabs closed.
You are working on one specific thing,
giving it your undivided attention for 20 minutes.
So you can, each of those lines is a 20-minute,
so this would be equivalent of an hour.
You can draw a line between this if you need six hours,
but this is based on three hours.
Three hours, you can accomplish more than most people
do in seven or eight or nine with distractions
and multitasking.
So you might break it up in advance.
Let's say I was going to write, let's just
do something really easy, like I was going to write
a newsletter or something.
And so I might do 20 minutes of outline and planning,
like just what's going to be in there.
Then I might be 20 minutes of writing the rough draft,
and then I might be 20 minutes, less than that probably now,
with AI of polishing and posting.
So you are doing uninterrupted, same thing
if it has to do with prospecting or follow-up,
whatever you're trying to create, this will focus you.
You'll get more done in so much less time.
everything else that you need to dump can go here and in the back of the page of must do I must go
to the bank I must blah blah blah or I choose to do and if I had time I could do and then this
becomes your connections so people that you need to remember that you need to stay in touch with
and again you can use the back of this page so this has pretty much everything to have a spiritual
practice filled with gratitude and purpose to know exactly what you're wanting to accomplish
this goal can be for the day for the week for the month however you work best the quarter and
I'm writing some of these things over and over every day my words I'm writing every day my
mission I'm writing every day the mark I keep writing until it changes okay and then this is
the real you know what I'm really working on and this gets calendared another way of looking at
this is the idea of a priority focus time okay brilliant people that get a lot done
have priority focus time same thing I'm saying same concept that during an hour if you said or
two hours um that you are focusing on only one thing with no interruptions okay so they'll be
different you can have a priority focus time around writing writing your book you know writing
your posts whatever that can be a priority focus time you can have a priority focus time around
creating you can have a priority focus time on brainstorming on just one issue or so and then
when you break it up this way you truly will accomplish the most okay so I'm going to stop
the recording and stop the share here and be here to really answer your questions
and apply this in a way that is most meaningful for you.