We are now live in the Online School of Sunship as well.
Dawn, great to have you.
Michelle, great to have you.
We've got a whole crew here.
It's beautiful.
And massive welcome to all the new people
in the Online School of Sunship, whether you're
live or delayed watching the replay.
It is wonderful to have everyone jumping on here.
And we are right now, we are in week three.
We're just beginning week three of the 12-week Open Heaven
Masterclass.
And we have kind of been taking our time
settling into this adventure and this journey
together, which is great.
So now we're kind of getting to the meaty section
of laying the foundations for the next 10 weeks, OK?
So this is where we're going to really start
bringing a little bit of intentionality and intensity
into your world and some more hard things, OK?
So who likes hard things?
Who likes doing hard things?
Who does hard things?
All of us.
Yes, that's what we do here.
We do hard things.
The Online School of Sunship, or you
could call us the Online School of Hard Things.
That's what we do.
Tammy, welcome.
Good to have you.
So good to have you with us.
And Bev, good to have you.
Red Miller, good to have you.
Yes, everyone.
Good to see you all.
So just for everyone who's kind of whether you've
been tracking every session or not,
whether you're just kind of catching up, that's OK.
Remember, you can catch all the replays
if you've missed anything.
The replays are always available in the Guide section.
So it used to be called Units.
It's now called the Guide section.
So if you're in the Facebook group,
you can go to the top of the page and click Guides.
And it will take you to where all the replays are
from past series and the Foundations course
and all of those things.
But for now, we are really focused the next 10 weeks
here on the 12-week Open Heaven Masterclass.
And who would like to shift their world dramatically
in this time?
Yes, yes, I see some people wanting
to see some dramatic shifts and changes.
Well, that sounds great.
So let's start today.
Hey, Michelle, welcome.
Let's start today with, let's start praying in the spirit
for a few minutes.
Let's just take three minutes now
to start praying in the spirit.
And then from there, we'll watch and see what God does.
But if you haven't seen it as well, when we finish praying,
feel free to put in the chat here or in the Facebook group.
If you're watching in the Facebook group,
like some people are, good to have you with us.
The link to the handouts is also in the description
of this video, so that handout, you can check that out.
But let's pray first, and then we'll
go on the adventure together.
So Jesus, you guys all comfortable,
happy praying in the Holy Spirit?
If you are, here we go.
One, two, three, let's go.
I want you to do right now is I want you to imagine right now that you are living in the
fruition of your greatest dream in regards to intimacy with God.
So just close your eyes, get still and I want you to imagine that you are in the living
right now in the fruition of your wildest dreams of intimacy with the Holy Spirit, with
the Father, with Yeshua, with Jesus.
So ask yourself, what does it feel like?
I'm seeing myself transfigured, weightless, just weightless in the spirit, kind of floating
in the divine dance, immersed, completely saturated in divine love, delight on steroids.
And I see myself and the Trinity weave together by kind of passing in between one another.
We're seamlessly one, but we're also dancing, entwined with one another, face to face.
Eyeball to eyeball, I don't know what it looks like for you, but I want you to ask
yourself, what does it feel like?
And really intentionally engage with what it feels like as you imagine yourself in the
fruition of your wildest dreams of intimacy.
Now allow in this activation, allow your imagination to really grasp it.
What does it feel like?
How do you feel in the fruition of your wildest dreams of intimacy?
Hey, why don't you just unmute for a moment and if you want to share, take a moment just
to share some bullet points.
Just what does it feel like you can stay there in that place if you want for a little longer,
if you want to share and just share and jump in and just share.
What does it feel like in that moment?
It feels like the world's just been shut out and I just feel totally focused and immersed
in the love of the Father, the Son and Holy Spirit.
I just forgot everything and it was just us there.
I feel totally immersed in rays of light and peace, joy and stillness.
Whoa, come on.
Take a couple more.
I feel completely undone.
Whoa, come on.
Whoa, all right, just jump in there.
Someone else, just jump in.
It feels relief and relaxation.
It just feels right.
Whoa, come on.
That is great to hear.
Now, who would like that to be your normal state of being?
Whoa.
Okay, that is excellent.
That is what we're about in the 12-week Open Heaven Masterclass.
It's about shifting your normal into an open heaven experience on a 24-7 basis.
I want to challenge you one more time on this.
I want to do this one more time and I want the goal.
What I want us to focus on is for 10 seconds.
Here's the goal.
I want us to get to a place where for 10 seconds, about 10 seconds, we are in that place and
we are totally undone.
I just want you to allow yourself just to let go and to go in your imagination and just
to imagine that, to imagine that feeling and just completely let go of anything in
this world that holds you back and just in your imagination allow yourself to fully be
fully undone and fully immersed in that feeling.
We're going after it for 10 seconds.
We just want to really focus in on that one moment.
Here we go.
We'll take a little bit longer.
We'll just create some quiet time and I want you to focus in and just hold it, hold it,
hold it in that place of oneness and union and the fruition of your wildest dreams of
intimacy.
Okay.
Beautiful.
All right.
Just tuck your hands up if you were able to, you know, have a good crack at that, if you
something beautiful happened that moment.
yep yep just wave your hands around if you did that okay so here's the here's the beautiful
thing about that right is if you can experience that for 10 seconds
then it's possible for that to become your constant state of being
okay if you can get it for five seconds then it's possible for that to be
your 24 7 normal your state of being that just that's just becomes life for you does that sound
good yeah that sounds good excellent i'm just checking the comments here and um hi raymond
in vietnam watching on facebook and dorothy as well hello hello to all those beautiful people
on facebook now before we go any further what i want everyone to do now whether you're doing this
uh on ideally so that people can read it later i just want everyone to quickly uh share the
things the top three things that they're grateful for in their world right now okay the three things
that you're most grateful for that you're most delighted about and ideally jump into the online
school of sonship and put those on the comments of this video so people can see them afterwards
if you don't do it right now then feel free to do it later but the three things that you're most
grateful for in your world right now and uh let's just take a moment and do our top three gratitudes
okay this is all going to come into a beautiful a beautiful culmination of exactly where today
is going in a second okay so my top three gratitudes i've actually written my top three
gratitudes down in my journal read today so i'm just going to use those ones for myself
so my top three one is an amazing dream team and raising loyalty you've got such an awesome
crew all around the world they're amazing um uh since right now my world has a sense of
exhilaration and favor and i'm just loving it
and my next one is
this is the faithfulness of god that the faithfulness of god is like a rocket pack
okay
okay sweet so i just dropped those in in the comments as well cool so um
if you haven't grabbed it yet i'll let me just just uh pray for a moment papa yeshua holy spirit
we love you and we are so delighted that we can live overwhelmed and undone by you
and we come right now to give you all the glory and all the honor for everything that
you're doing we come now to declare our radical delight in you we love you with everything that
is in us we adore you we bless you we lift your name on high and we say thank you thank you thank
you oh we're so delighted thank you and delight and words to sing sometimes uh so shallow compared
to what our hearts feel about the wonder of who you are we give you all the glory amen
all right okay so if you haven't grabbed it yet uh you don't necessarily have to get it right now
but you will want to get the notes i put a google drive link there that allows you to download it
okay so um so you can just you can download that if you want i'll chuck it in here there
you go i'm just dropping another file in there into the um chat here uh and i'll for those on
facebook i will also see if i can put it here in the comments as well but it is for those on
facebook it is already on um so for those on the on facebook it's already in the description of
this video so you can just check it out in the description of the video so what we've got my
friends and and this message this this session what this session is about this session is really
about just laying down some practicals for the next 12 weeks of how
we're gonna create a systematic process
that's gonna produce exponential growth for us, okay?
So you'll see it here.
I see some of you are checking it out.
So foundations for exponential growth.
So the first thing we're gonna talk about here
is the seven sacred elements to balance.
And then after that, seven sacred elements to balance,
we're gonna talk about the hard things daily challenge.
And we're gonna check all of that out.
So there's some things that will make sense
and there's some things that won't make sense
in that handout without this video.
All right, so who's ready to get into the seven sacred?
Wait, wait, wait, wait.
Before we do that, who did a picture?
So some people have drawn a picture
of what intimacy,
the greatest expression of intimacy looks like.
I'm gonna share my screen with you for a second
and just show you my picture that I drew.
I drew it pretty simple.
I was actually in the bath having,
oh, look at all these different pictures
that people have drawn.
Who's this one?
That's Carrie, come on, beautiful.
And Dawn, oh, I like that.
I like all of this.
Oh, that's my beautiful daughter.
Karina, nice.
Here's my one, here we go.
I drew that while I was in the bath.
So I love, this is just one of my places
that I love to have glory.
I love spending hours in the bath.
So sometimes that, if I want that in my life,
the only place I'm gonna get that
is like get up at four in the morning
and that way I can create lots of space
to have hours in the bath enjoying Jesus.
Ha ha, who likes that?
Who likes baths?
My wife hates baths.
Well, it doesn't hate, it's just not her thing,
but I like baths.
So I drew that in there.
These rays here, for me,
they just represent transfiguration
and that weightless, glorious,
just undone in the wonders space.
The music there and the holding hands,
that's the divine dance.
Got the face to face, 24 seven ecstasy.
Outdreaming darkness is what we do so often.
Chicago Glory Habitations and Discipling Nations,
that's kind of a little bit about my picture.
Let me stop that screen share.
Great to see everyone else's pictures.
Now the pictures are important
and I'm gonna talk to you about the pictures
when we get down to the daily hard things challenge.
And we're gonna be talking about triggering, okay?
So normally when people talk about triggering,
it's in a bad way.
And it's like when someone like, whoa,
triggers out and has an emotional freak out
and a meltdown and they trigger in a bad way.
We're gonna be talking about triggering in a good way.
Okay, we're gonna redefine triggering.
Does that sound good?
So we're gonna redefine triggering
and we're gonna learn how to trigger in the glory.
That's gonna be fun.
Okay, so let's get some interaction here.
Do you agree or disagree with this concept
that if you wanna grow in intimacy with God,
you need to grow in all areas of your life at the same time?
Who agrees or disagrees with the context
that if one area of your life is dysfunctional,
it holds you back in the other areas of your life?
Or who agrees or disagrees with the concept
that if you're thriving in one area of your life,
it adds momentum to all the other areas of your life?
Agree or disagree?
Got some agreeing, we've got some, yeah.
Okay, so I think that's right.
I think that's true, right?
I think that's true.
And I think that one of the issues that Christians have
is that we compartmentalize things.
And we just, in church, we just teach people about God.
If we're gonna talk about,
it's not often like a full balanced picture.
When was the last time that you went to church
and they said, hey, stop eating sugar.
It's not good for you.
But it's probably,
so here's what we're gonna look at right now
is the seven sacred elements to balance.
So the first one, the first sacred element to balance
is identity, okay?
So you'll see in the notes that when it comes to identity,
Identity covers spirituality, it covers the spirit,
it covers the soul, it covers your psychology.
Identity covers all of that.
Actually, in fact, identity,
your understanding of your identity dictates your emotions,
it dictates your feelings, it dictates,
well, actually, your psychology dictates your identity
because your identity is the culmination of your beliefs
in terms of the identity that you're living.
Now, we're doing lots of Q&A and chats
around the whole dynamic of your identity, of who you are,
so we'll leave the discussion around that
for those other chats that we're having.
But right now, we just want to say identity,
this covers the spiritual area of your life,
this covers psychology, this covers emotions,
this covers your soul, this covers your feelings,
this covers so much, all right?
So identity, really, it's the foundation of everything.
You know that proverb says, guard your heart
because everything you do flows from your heart?
Well, everything in your life is founded on identity.
Everything flows out of your identity.
The only thing deeper than your belief of who you are
is your belief of who God is, right?
So your understanding of the image of God,
your image of God is the only belief that's more powerful
than your belief of your identity, okay?
So that's why Jesus was always about revealing the Father,
and that's why I'm always talking about
revealing the Father, and that's why I talk about
Jesus didn't come to change the Father,
but to reveal the Father,
because the single most powerful belief any person has
is their image of God,
and the second most powerful belief you have
is your identity,
but your identity is always a parallel
of your image of God.
They go hand in hand.
All right, so identity is the first sacred element
to balance.
The second one, and these aren't necessarily
in an order of priority.
Identity just happens to be the most foundational one.
So these aren't done in an order of priority.
They're just done in, you know,
just how they came out when I wrote them down.
The second sacred element to balance is your vision,
all right?
Proverbs 29, 18,
without a vision, the people what?
Perish.
Perish, that's right.
A whole lot of perishing going on right now.
Who knows somebody that's living in their wildest dreams?
Any of you guys know someone that you're just like,
heck, that person's fully living in their wildest dreams?
Benji Alexander?
Well, if you thought Benji Alexander was living
in the fruition of his wildest dreams,
I'm a million miles away.
Okay.
I might know a couple of people in my life
that are close,
but I wouldn't count myself one of them.
I'm definitely living in some of it.
I'm absolutely loving the process,
but my dreams are so big and glorious and wonderful
that they always draw me on.
So I definitely have a big, beautiful,
exciting, exhilarating vision,
but I definitely am not living in the fruition of all of it.
And here's one little tip for you as well.
In your journey,
never measure by perfection,
measure by transformation, okay?
Let me give you two tips that will help you in this process
because people get hung up about not being perfect
or you might compare yourself to someone else.
If you're doing a comparison of yourself,
first thing is that comparison,
you have to know that comparison is the thief of joy.
All right, so you have to understand
that comparison is the thief of joy
because comparison will always try and compare you
to something that's better to make you feel better.
But if you are gonna compare
or if you are gonna look back on your life,
don't measure, or if you're gonna try and measure things,
never measure by perfection,
always measure by transformation.
If you measure yourself by perfection,
you'll always fall short.
If you measure yourself by transformation
and you've actually been faithful and stewarding the things,
then you'll always feel encouraged.
So measure by transformation.
And, but even better is,
don't get caught up in comparison
because comparison is the thief of joy.
And every season you've got something you could compare to
that will rob your joy.
But at the same time, in every season,
you've got something you could be grateful for
that will multiply your joy.
So comparison is a thief of joy,
but gratitude is a multiplier.
So when it comes to vision,
there's not many people in the world
that have ever...
or are currently living out their wildest dreams.
This is a, like,
this is a terrible, terrible situation
that we find ourselves in in life,
like just on planet Earth right now,
most people aren't living their dreams
and the culture around living your dreams for most people,
the standard is so low that you can be average
and at the same time, terrible.
Does that make sense?
The standard in the world is so low
and the standard in the church
around living your dreams is so low
that to be average is to be terrible.
There you go, I'm doing some comparisons for you.
Which I was just saying, don't do too many comparisons,
but it is also good to do reality checks, okay?
Because we want to make sure
that we're not living self-justified,
we ought to be living in an illusion.
So we definitely want to make sure
that we're taking extreme ownership.
So Darren's saying,
what about when your dream changes?
Yeah, totally.
So your dreams are going to change all the time,
they're going to expand.
So just on that one, Darren, I would say,
always set your dreams in jelly, not in concrete, right?
If you set your dreams in concrete,
assuming that they're going to be the same tomorrow
as they were yesterday, it could be a mistake, right?
So there's a little bit of a balance here
of sometimes things are just difficult
and you've got to hold fast and fight for it.
For a long time, you've got to fight for it.
And then sometimes things genuinely do change
and you have to be flexible when they do change.
So, you know, I never thought I would be leaving Te Anau,
but God called us to leave Te Anau
and I was like, oh my gosh.
So, you know, I had to be flexible with some things,
but other things you just hold onto and you fight for.
So it's a balance, you're going to have to journey that out.
So I guess vision is just so majorly,
critically huge and important.
And most people are suffering massively
because they haven't nailed it.
Okay, so it's part of the seven sacred elements to balance.
The next one is relationships.
Who here has felt the pain of a relationship
breaking down so tragically and painfully
all around your life that you're not very functional
because of the pain of a broken relationship?
Yeah?
Ah!
Definitely had that.
Definitely had that in our marriage, right?
When things in our marriage were really, really hard.
Like it gets so overwhelming
that your brain doesn't really function very well.
Nothing else is working because you're like,
ah, so much pressure in my marriage.
What am I going to do?
Feels like everything's going to fall apart.
Ah!
That's not a good place to be in, right?
You know, that causes dysfunction
in every other area of your life
because you're so, you get in survival mode,
everything's just crazy, right?
So relationships is the next one.
Health.
Who's ever been in hospital
or who's ever been fighting for their life?
Who's had a moment where health-wise,
you know, you were about, you were, you know,
you had something really serious.
You were taken off the rugby field in an ambulance
after getting a major neck injury.
And, you know, everyone's like,
oh my gosh, is this a broken neck?
What's going to happen here?
Overnight in the hospital, fortunately, thank Jesus.
No long-term damage.
But we've all had, you know,
like varying degrees of health challenges.
And you would have probably heard the saying,
your health is your wealth.
You know, a lot of people spend their health
to get their wealth
and then spend their wealth to get their health back.
Spend your health to get your wealth
and then you have to spend all your wealth
to get your health back.
So your health is your wealth.
That's a big deal.
You're not going very far with your dreams
if you're dead, right?
Pretty simple stuff there.
Then the next one here, number five,
is kingdom economics.
If you've got no money, right?
Life sucks.
Ecclesiastes, check out this ridiculous verse
that I probably didn't know was in the Bible.
But let me pull this up for you.
Ecclesiastes, something crazy that Solomon wrote.
I'll just, I'll just grab it for you
so I can read it to you straight from the Bible
so you're not thinking I'm making it up.
You kind of have to...
So this is in Ecclesiastes
if you want to prove it with me,
if you want to, you got your Bible
and you want to go to Ecclesiastes,
you can find this on Amazon.
If you want to go to Ecclesiastes.com,
this in Ecclesiastes chapter 10 verse 19 this is a little bit wild it says a feast is made for
and you want to read this verse,
you can find it on Amazon.
If you want to go to Ecclesiastes.com,
laughter wine makes life merry and money is the answer for everything well who put that in the
you can find it on Amazon.
I'll put the link to it in the description.
Also, just to let you know,
bible that's a bit interesting there you go so kingdom importance is at bare minimum really
important and then the next one is focus who here has ever been distracted or lost focus
on their goals you realized like a year later or two years later oh yeah that's right i remember
i set a goal a while ago but then i just totally forgot that i even set a goal oh yeah that's
interesting where are my goals i wrote them down but oh yeah i can't remember where they are oh
yeah um about that so focus focus is so huge focus is so huge i think i would probably put
focus at the second most important on this list if i if i had to put them on a list of important
things i would put focus at number two and i would put work ethic at number one okay so work ethic
we do hard things so what so work ethic on this list work ethic and doing hard things is by far
the most important uh element of all the sacred elements to balance and the reason for that is
that work ethic can change all of the others if you've got work ethic you can change anything in
your life if you've got no work ethic you can't if you've got work ethic nothing is impossible
but without work ethic nothing is possible so uh
some of you will have heard this from one of our earlier sessions i've got a friend david
riddell and he he likes to tell people that he's a genius but he likes to tell people
hey you want to know the secret to getting whatever you want
and who here wants to know the secret to getting whatever you want
yeah put your hands up if you're like yes i want to know that secret
heck yeah well the secret to getting whatever you want is do whatever it takes but you know what
uh most people hear that secret and then they just get disappointed oh that's a dumb secret
why because
they don't have whatever it takes they don't have what it takes to do whatever it takes
and if we are honest for most of us we will actually have to come take some extreme ownership
of our lives and realize that um so work at work ethic if you break work ethic down
to the most important aspect of work ethic the single most important aspect of work ethic and
the single most important aspect of who you are in balance and the single most important thing
that you can steward in your whole life is willpower right now this is not about striving
don't get me wrong this is not about striving you know or trying to do things in your own strength
this is self-control willpower is self-control you've not been given a spirit you know uh you've
been given a oh trying to remember that verse in time uh timothy but a sound mind there you go
dawn it's on the tip of your tongue why don't you set it unmute and say it out for everyone
and self-control for god has not given you a spirit of um a spirit of fear but a power loving
of the sound mind or some say self-control yeah that's right that's beautiful thank you very much
so self-control or willpower listen that that's your sovereignty that that is your you know we
we love talking about free will
but your will your will your ability
to control yourself is your single greatest asset in this world
there is not there is no greater asset that you have in this world there's no greater muscle
that you have in this life than your ability to control yourself
who agrees with that agree disagree that the single greatest
power you have in your life is the is the power to control yourself
and i find this as a parent all the time you know i you know my kids are freaking out doing something
crazy and I'm like hey look I haven't asked you to control anyone else in this situation
except yourself. You're the only person I'm asking you to control in this situation. I'm
not asking you to control your sister, not asking you to control your friends, not asking
you to control your parents, I'm just asking you to take control and take ownership and
control yourself please. And without self-control, we become our own worst enemy. Because we
give our power away, we give control of ourselves away. If we're not controlling ourselves,
who is? And if you're not controlling yourself, you can, like God's not controlling you, that's
the last thing God wants to do, is control you. That's the first thing that Satan wants
to do, is control you. God is about liberating you and Satan is about enslaving you. So willpower,
okay. Now how, the thing is with willpower, the reason that this generation struggles
with willpower is because we avoid pain. Who likes to avoid pain? Yeah? Stop it. Stop
it. Stop avoiding pain. Stop avoiding pain. Stop avoiding pain, stop avoiding hard things.
If there's something painful or if there's something scary, if there's something hard,
you have to start training yourself to run into that. And that's why I want the anthem
in the online school of sonship to be, we do hard things. Because it's the most fundamental
practice in your life, the practice of doing hard things, there's nothing that will give you
back your power more than practicing doing hard things. There's nothing that will give you back
the ability to take control of your life and redesign every aspect of your life than the
practice of hard things. If you want to take back control of your life, which is a non-negotiable,
if you want to redesign your life and if you want to redesign every aspect of your life,
you have to take back control of your life. And if you want to step into this level of intimacy
that you're dreaming for, which is what we're going after, that's the whole purpose of this 12
weeks. If you want to step into that place, you must take control of yourself like never before.
But the only way we're going to build that strength into ourselves is by doing hard things.
How many hard things? As many as possible. How hard? As hard as possible. And this is something
beautiful that we see about Jesus is, oh I see Beth saying here, no pain, no gain.
Yeah, so this is something beautiful about Jesus is that Jesus didn't avoid hard things, right?
Jesus had hard conversations with the Pharisees. Jesus didn't avoid awkward conversations.
There he is. He starts awkward conversations. Can you imagine? It would have been so awkward. He's
33, right? Which is a young fella. He's a young fella in front of all these bearded old school
rabbis and Pharisees and all these people who are supposed to know way better than him. And there he
is just laying down how it is. He's like, no actually guys, I just like to tell you that
the entire country is wrong, okay? And on the truth, that's a hard conversation to have. Let's
tell the whole country they're completely wrong. Everything they thought about God is completely
wrong. Their whole culture is based on a lie. Like I was going to tell you some stuff, right? You
guys, you are so lost. It's sad. He didn't avoid hard things. The cross, right? Wow, the cross.
That's some pretty hard stuff right there. Did he avoid it? He did say, Father, you know, if
there's another way, let's do that. And I've been happy to pray that sometimes. I'm like, God,
you know, if there's an easy way, I'll take it. But if there's not an easy way, let's do it. Let's
do the hard things. And so that was Jesus. He's like, hey, if there's an easy way, it sounds
awesome. But never mind. If there's not, I'm pretty sure there's not. Let's just do the hard things.
OK, so. Righto, I'm bringing this down to because we now have to get practical with this
about starting to do some hard things. OK, who likes the idea of doing?
hard things. Yes, we're quite tentatively like it sounds good, but it feels painful.
I'm a little bit shy about whether I want to say yes, the idea is good, but I'm not
sure I trust this guy. He looks a bit weird. And he does some crazy stuff. And he has some
funny ideas. And I'm not really sure if I like the idea of doing hard things or not.
Is this too good to be true? Or is this just crazy stuff? Let's feel free to be honest, I am.
So the seven sacred elements to balance, just a quick recap on that. We've got identity,
vision, relationships, health, kingdom economics, focus, and work ethic. All right, so the single
most influential one of those, you might think it's your identity, right? Well, that's really,
really influential. But if you've got your identity down, but you've got no self-control,
it's not going to work out. I mean, you can't even step into your identity if you don't develop
willpower. And I guess it's really important to highlight to people as well is that this is not
about striving. This is not about being in the flesh. This is about self-control. This is about
stewarding your own sovereignty. This is your sovereignty, your willpower, your self-control.
That's one of the greatest gifts that God gave you. All right, so yeah, so that's key.
Then the next thing, and I want to highlight this is focus, okay? And that's why being in this group
is really, really powerful, because how many people do you know in your life that come up
to you in your face and say, excuse me, have you been focusing on your vision today?
How many times have you focused on your vision today?
The problem is most people are so insecure and so average that they wouldn't dare challenge
anyone else on being exceptional. But what we want here is I want to challenge you to be exceptional.
And you can't be exceptional if you don't master focus multiple times a day.
All right, you have to master focus. So after willpower, it's focus. And what are you going
to focus on? You're going to focus on the next thing I would say. If we are putting this on the
list, I would say the next most important thing is your vision, your willpower, your focus. Because
if you lose your focus, you will start wandering. And people are wandering all the time. And then
the next thing I would say is your vision, because your vision is directing you where you're
wanting, where you need to go, where you have to go. After that, I would put identity, because
there's no, like, you've got to master your identity. You want to step into that identity,
that intimacy, all that dynamic in order to really live out, you know, who you're created to be.
And then I'd probably put the other ones of health, relationships, money on the same
tier. Health, wealth, and relationships on the same tier. They're all critical.
I don't know. I mean, I'd probably put money actually maybe just below health and relationships.
Maybe put money. I'd probably put money just below. I'd probably put money as the last thing there.
But even though it would be the last thing, it's still insanely important.
Okay. So what we understand is that if we want to thrive in one area, we have to thrive in all
areas. If we want to take really, if we want to be set up for exponential growth, we can't be living
in dysfunction in one area of our lives. Okay. If we've got dysfunction and chaos happening in one
area of our lives, it's going to hold us back in all the other areas of our lives. But if we're
going to be, if we're thriving in an area of our life, it's going to put momentum into all the
other areas. Agree? Yeah. Okay. So we boil all that down. And what it means is if you want to
lay the foundation for exponential growth in your life, you've got to start doing hard things.
Yeah. But you don't want to do random. You don't want them to be random. You want them to be
focused and intentional and smart and systematic hard things on a daily basis that are going to
produce, uh, they're going to, they're going to produce fruit and all the seven sacred areas of
your life. So let me prescribe to you. This is, this is me giving you the prescription of hard
things for the next 10 weeks that will produce exponential, exponential growth. Okay. So I'm
like a coach or a doctor right now. And my prescription for you to get what you,
to get whatever you want, you come to me and ask, how do you get what you want?
And I'll tell you what, I'll tell you how to get what you want.
How do I get whatever I want? Here's the prescription. The prescription is do hard
things every single day for the next 10 weeks, but don't do random hard things,
do specific hard things. Take precision actions with precision timing for precision results.
Precision actions with precision timing for precision results. Okay, so here we go.
Let's go down to the hard things, all right? The daily hard things challenge. I've written it
slightly wrong there. It says on the handout, it says here's the hard things daily challenge.
Let's just call it the daily hard things challenge, okay? So we've got
11 daily challenges. We should make it 12. 12 is a better number, right? We'll add one more.
Okay, so obviously I don't want you to be overwhelmed. I want this to be achievable,
all right? That's one of the first things about smart goals. Smart goals are specific, measurable,
attainable, realistic, and time-bound. So we want this to be attainable, realistic for you.
So the first thing that we've got, now this is the baseline, okay? This is the baseline
hard things. If you want to do more than this, you can do more, but this is our baseline, okay?
So for the next 10 weeks, if you will do this for the next 10 weeks,
you will experience exponential growth, guaranteed.
Now, this is why I got people to draw their picture, okay? I got people to draw their
picture because you have to have a why. You have to see the significance because I'm now telling
you to do hard things. I'm telling you to harden up. I'm telling you you've been a bit soft.
I'm telling you it's time to lift up the intensity. I'm telling you that you've been distracted. I'm
telling you all sorts of challenging in-your-face things right now. If you read behind the lines,
I'm saying them in a positive light, but if you look at the other side of the coin, I'm saying,
hey, you've probably been too distracted. If I'm saying there's room for more focus,
the flip side of that is, hey, you've probably been distracted a little bit.
If I'm saying there's, you know, we need to do hard things to develop our willpower,
the flip side of that is saying, hey, we've been a little bit soft. Now, I'm going to be doing
these too. This is not me saying, hey, you need to do this, you, you, you. This is like, yeah,
I'm prescribing this to myself as well. I'm going to be doing this with you. I do most of these
things every day anyway. Pretty much most of these things I do every day anyway and more,
but this is like a baseline for us. This is a baseline. This is like boot camp. This is
beginner entry level to start building willpower and start thriving in the seven sacred elements
of balance in our lives. So, I got you to draw the picture of intimacy, your greatest picture
of what intimacy could look like because it, oh, so yes, Dawn's asking where is the list. It's in
the handout there. If you haven't seen it, it's in the chat here. I can drop it in here. Oh, not that.
If you want me to drop it in the, did you find it? I'll just grab it for you again.
Okay, just if you haven't seen it, I'm just dropping it in the chat again for people here.
If you're watching on Facebook, it's in the description of the video. You can grab that.
It's got the list there. We may add one more to it in the future, but for now, there it is.
I wanted you to draw that picture because you have to have something to focus on when things
get hard, okay? And I want you to ask, if things start getting harder, if you look at this and you
think, oh, it's too hard, I want you to ask yourself, what would you be willing to pay
to experience your greatest expression, your greatest dreams for intimacy?
What price would you be willing to pay?
What would it be worth? What would you be willing to do
to step into your greatest dreams, your wildest dreams of intimacy?
Let me put it like this. Close your eyes for a moment. Imagine yourself in the future.
Michelle, we're going to talk about what it means to practice your trigger in a minute. That's
a little secret code there. So close your eyes. Imagine you're with Jesus. You're looking back
over your life and
and you and Jesus now Jesus is having more real honest conversations with you than you're willing
to even have with yourself he's cutting right to the heart and you look back over your life
and you realize that you stepped into the fullness of your wildest dreams of intimacy with him you
lived that you went beyond what you thought was possible and you lived that and the fruit of that
impacted countless lives around the world i just want you to just to imagine the level of joy that
you feel in that moment on a scale of 1 to 10 how much joy do you feel in that moment
drop it down in the comments on facebook or in the chat here on a 1 to 10 scale or
shout it out feel free to shout it out on a 1 to 10 scale how much joy are you feeling
in that moment i see people saying off the scale
okay let's flip it let's flip it right now and let's take some extreme ownership go back right
back into that same moment with Jesus so close your eyes again go right back into that moment
that exact same moment with Jesus
there you are with Jesus looking back over your life and you're having a hard conversation now
as you realize that you never stepped into the intimacy that he had for you
and and as you have that conversation he highlights to you the fact that the reason
that you never did that is you weren't willing to do hard things
you weren't willing to take extreme ownership for your own
life you weren't willing to take extreme ownership for how you lived on a daily basis
he said because you avoided pain because you avoided hard things you never had the willpower
to do whatever it would take to live in this and the result is that all the people's lives
that could have been impacted were never impacted the level of joy that you could have experienced
you never experienced the relationship and the walk with me that you could have experienced
you never experienced because you weren't willing to do hard things
okay right now step out of that you don't want to think about that too much okay
so snap out of that come back here and i want you to ask i want to ask you how painful is that
on a one to ten scale how much pain would you feel in that moment if you lived that reality
right for me that's like an unbearable feeling that's that's crazy level of pain
so what i want you to let a moment that i want us to come face to face with right now is that
it's impossible to avoid hard things if you think you can avoid hard things you've you've
lied to yourself
right you just have to choose which hard you want do you want to pay the price
of doing the hard things that will give you your wildest dreams
or do you want to pay the price and experience the pain of regret because you never did it
there's only there's only two options right and the option that most people are taking
right now and most of your christian friends are taking right now is the second option where
they're not willing to do the hard things and they're going to pay the price of regret later
on because they've allowed the normal of our culture to set their normal and the norm of
our culture is so low that if you are even above average in church you'll never walk in your destiny
you've got to take you've got to take this to a whole new level
because there's so people few people in the world that are actually living their dreams
that if you do what everyone else is doing you're going to get what everyone else is getting
which is a substandard existence so who's a little bit inspired to do
some hard things now rather than have a dumb hard conversation with jesus and affinity
yay well this is the most uninspiring inspirational message i've ever heard
let's do hard things that's right what a beautiful prophecy hey jesus has a
funny prophecy for us is like in this life you will experience tribulation
what no one wants to talk about that prophecy oh that's a nice encouraging word jesus no
not really but it is something that he said there's going to be hard things you can't avoid
it you just got to choose your heart which heart do you want
the heart of doing whatever it takes,
the heart of doing hard things,
or the heart of regret
because you never did the hard things
you needed to do to live your wildest dreams.
So you're going to choose your heart.
OK, so here's us choosing our heart
with our baseline,
our daily hard things challenge.
All right.
So first thing on the daily hard things challenge.
This is it. Bring in the pain.
Is now I want you to just say
I want you to react to this
in the comments here or in the chat or somewhere.
I want you to react to this and say
whether you think it's possible or not possible. OK.
So let me know.
Say possible or not possible.
So the first one is five minutes
of praying in the Holy Spirit every day.
Possible or not possible.
Yeah, possible.
Feel free to unmute and check this through.
You can be chatty in this.
So five minutes of focus, praying in the Holy Spirit every day.
Possible or not possible.
Yeah, possible. Absolutely.
Possible. OK.
Seven daily decrees.
Now, let me explain that
because I intentionally didn't explain it here in the notes.
Seven daily decrees is something that I want you to take some time
to actually create for yourself.
So I'd like you to create one decree
for each of the seven sacred elements of balance.
OK, so I want you to craft and it can be a sentence
that can be as short or as long as you like.
All right.
But it's something that is heartfelt for you, and it's something
that it should be decreeing
your vision.
Should be.
So the essence of the daily decree is that it should capture
your vision for that area of your life.
OK, so identity.
So a daily decree around identity.
What does that look like?
So listen, I've got mine right here.
No one has to check up on me.
Benji, you're doing your daily decrees.
I don't necessarily get these done every day, but I will be doing them
every day now because I've been challenging you to do these.
So but every day I'm thinking about these.
I'm meditating on these in some way.
I've got I've got stuff everywhere that helps me stay
focused on my vision.
OK, so I've got to have this in front of me.
This this is always in front of me.
I've got it.
I've you know, I've recorded that onto my phone.
So sometimes I'll do a workout, go for a run or something,
and I'll be listening to my daily decrees while I'm out going for a run.
You know, I've got them on the other side of the whiteboard.
I've got a bunch of them written down.
I've got pictures in that side of the whiteboard as well as as pictures of it.
So it's like it's in my face what it looks like.
I'm seeing it all the time.
I go, wow, this is what it looks like. OK.
So the seven daily decrees,
they've got to capture an aspect of your best case scenario
with wildest dreams for that area of your life.
OK, so we've got identity.
So you can structure a declaration around identity.
What do you want in the area of intimacy, identity, all of those things?
Vision. What do you want for the future?
So just a declaration around that.
Relationships, health, kingdom, economics, focus, work ethic.
Structure one decree around that.
So that's some homework for you.
OK, so you've got to write your seven daily decrees.
So homework I've given so far on this challenge is to draw a picture.
The next bit of homework that I've given you is to do to
write out these seven daily decrees.
Now, if you want to start on this now, you can.
But our official start date
is not going to be.
I'm going to give you a week to write these daily decrees, OK?
Seven daily decrees, I'm going to give you a week.
So I will be to start this next week.
I've started it, you know, already, like I said, most of those things
are things I do every day already, at least that. So.
Any questions on daily decrees, does that make sense?
No, that makes sense.
OK, right.
Let's assume that we've written them.
Is that possible or not possible?
Possible. Possible.
Possible. OK. Possible.
All right. The next one is read one chapter of the Bible a day.
And what we want to do with that is we want to be reading
the same chapter.
So I want to start with the Book of John next week,
and I want to read the same chapter each day
so that we're all kind of flying through.
It's really fun reading the Bible together with a group of people.
OK, so each day to be like, oh, yeah, sweet.
We're on John 20. This is I love this.
And we could be chatting about, oh, my gosh, John 17 every time.
Sweet. So.
Possible or not possible. Yeah.
possible okay um the next one is the verse of the day so just record in your journal
the verse that stood out to you the most
so you're reading the bible you read one chapter and it's like wow that verse there
stood out the most and you just write that one verse down in your journal
okay and then while you've got it out you write down the three things that you're most grateful
for in your journal okay um writing down one verse a day is that possible or not possible
possible possible what about recording three things that you were grateful for in your journal
the top three things you're grateful for possible or not possible yeah possible
okay the next one excuse me i have to take a moment
pretty much empty mostly empty had a little bit more left in there than i thought but
um so the next one is drink three liters of water a day yeah
does that sound difficult yeah yes possible or not possible possible
is that i have an exceptionally small bladder it's almost a scientific phenomenon
that's it um so i know what some of you will be thinking three liters of water a day you must
pee a lot uh look i pee a lot even if i'm dehydrated that's how small my bladder is
um but um three liters of water a day is awesome for you and the easiest way to do three liters
of water a day is to get a one liter drink bottle yeah and you only need to drink it three
times it's actually not difficult once you start practicing that but if you probably it's a it's
a real big oh look at that what do you jump on the attending yeah i drink two of these a day
so this bottle goes everywhere with me so i know if i filled it twice i've had my water for the day
brilliant 1.5 liter drink it twice you'll be surprised at actually how easy it is to drink
three liters of water a day if you've got a mindset that says that's impossible then you're
probably like i was a little while ago oh that sounds pretty crazy i will tell you as well
something that really helped me um change that is change your water change your life i sell
water machines so um selling water machines is a great way to uh drink more water because you've
got amazing water so i will at some point drop a link down so you guys can check out water machines
if you want to um if you sell water machines what ends up happening is inevitably you start
studying water a little bit and start realizing how important water is and the company that i
sell on behalf of i just here's the thing that i um i've figured out that nearly anything that
you want you can be an affiliate for nowadays right so i've got an expensive water machine
they cost thousands of dollars but it's made me 10 times more than what it cost me
and so what i have come to realize you know in the help like who you know who thinks that
supplements are expensive right supplements all the health stuff that you want that stuff's
expensive but the cool thing about it is that nearly everything that you want that's too
expensive if you research a little bit you can sell those products and make money instead of
um it actually costing you to be healthy so actually make money from being healthy kind of
cool right um so yeah so i mean a lot of it's network marketing uh but there's some genius to
it as well like you can do so i'm not i'm not trying to coach you in on this but we are going
to talk here about being a genius with money so one of the reasons why most people don't do health
stuff is because it's too expensive but if you actually do a little bit of research you can
actually figure out how to make money from being healthy that would be better right you know who
would like to instead of being healthy costing them money who would like it if
being healthy made them money.
Yeah, so that's what I'm suggesting to you
about the dynamic of,
you can, if you're a little bit creative with this
and the whole area of nutrition and things like that,
I'm at the moment, I'm kind of, I'm in that space now.
I've already got some supplements that I take,
but I'm about to, I really want to commit to something
that I've become an affiliate for and I start selling
because, so I'm kind of researching that space
at the moment because I'm like, yeah,
I want to kind of take my supplements
and that to another level.
So instead of like just going out and buying it,
what I'm looking at is what I think is the best one
and also what I think is going to make me more money
than it costs me.
Good idea, right?
So just chucking that out there,
it doesn't have to be expensive.
So three liters, drinking three liters of water a day,
possible or not possible?
Possible.
Benji?
Yes.
Like when you drink, let's just say I, you know,
I were to drink four cups of herbal tea,
would that be, would the water have to be over
and above that or?
Well, I've never really, I tell you what I do
is I drink my herbal tea on top, actually.
It's usually how Alana and I wrap up the day
is we have a nice little herbal tea and watch some telly.
And if I feel like I've done enough,
I might have a little bit of chocolate there as well,
but it's usually like a not very sugary chocolate.
So that's kind of, I would probably just recommend
do three liters of water and then do everything else on top.
It's more of a mindset thing than a physical thing
that makes it difficult.
But here's the thing is that when your body is benefiting,
everything is benefiting.
Okay, next one.
Move your body for at least five minutes a day.
Possible or not possible?
Possible.
Yeah, so intentionally move your body,
do something with your body, do some type of,
it could be something real small, just go for a walk.
Okay, it could be just something real simple, real small.
Right, but for at least five minutes a day,
do something with your body, move your body,
get your body moving around.
And then if you wanna take it to another level,
actually do some actual proper exercise, okay?
Not pushing that right now, but I'm saying move your body
for at least five minutes a day.
What I am thinking of doing is that in the future,
I might do a giant slayers challenge
where we take this to a whole new level.
Now, is there anyone here
that hates the idea of losing weight?
No, I want that.
Now, maybe if you're already like real skinny,
you might be like, ah, that sounds terrible.
But was there anyone here that doesn't like the idea
of being healthier or fitter?
So everyone likes the idea of being fitter and healthier?
Mm-hmm, yep.
Yeah?
Yep.
No, but people are like,
mm, but when it comes to actually what it's gonna take,
I don't know if I like that.
Who likes the hard things
about getting healthier and fitter?
Yep.
Oh, not that many people like the hard things, right?
That's where, that starts getting a bit personal,
starts getting a bit in your face,
starts getting into a bit sacred cows,
and I'm like, actually, stop eating that, right?
It's wrecking your life.
So this brings us to the next one.
Eat something awesome every day.
Eat something awesome.
Now, I didn't put it in here,
but I would recommend that you start reducing
your sugar intake.
Who drinks Coke or Pepsi,
or you have a drink like that every now and then?
Yep.
It's killing you.
It's no good for you.
I used to, my wife had a conversation with me once,
because I used to always make sure
that we had something like that in the fridge,
and she was like, one day in our future,
we are not gonna have this junk in our fridge,
and I thought she was crazy, right?
Well, now I'm like, oh my gosh,
don't have that in our fridge?
That stuff's nasty.
So big changes there,
but the big changes always start
with just a little change, right?
So little change leads to a big change.
So I just, what I want you to start thinking about
is eating something awesome each day,
eating something that's fantastic for your body each day,
because when you start making progress,
and you realize that if you start working out a little bit
and you start losing some weight,
or you go to the effort of working out
or doing some exercise,
and your body gets into a fat-burning cycle
and you've done all this effort to get that,
when you realize that the moment
you start eating something sugary,
it shuts down the fat-burning cycle,
you're like, oh man, what?
I just wasted that entire time doing a workout?
You know, it's just shut down my fat-burning cycle?
Oh.
So those are small things
that have a big impact across the board.
So eating something,
is moving your body for at least five minutes a day
possible or not possible?
Possible.
What about eating something awesome every day?
Possible or not possible?
Possible.
Oh, well that could be,
that could include, you know,
like a supplement or something like that.
And like I said, I am currently researching,
I've had a number of people
just recommending different things to me,
but I'm researching it
because I haven't really fully committed
to like a whole supplements product range
that I sell on behalf of.
I sell a couple of little supplements,
but nothing too crazy,
but I'm looking at something else.
So, but that would come under eating something awesome,
giving your body great nutrition.
All right, so,
intentionally express love to one person.
Possible or not possible?
Possible.
Now that could be as simple as sending someone a note,
just a message and say,
hey, I appreciate you Dawn,
because there's so many reasons I appreciate you,
but I also wanted to let you know
that your makeup looks really nice today
and I like it.
That's a good, it looks good on you.
You're looking good.
It could be something as simple as that,
just intentionally expressing love to one person.
Cool?
Okay, next thing is,
sorry, possible or not possible on that one?
Possible.
Okay, the next one is practice your trigger,
which is the weirdest thing that I've written down there,
because normally a trigger is associated
with some type of emotional dysfunction.
You're like, ah, I have a freak out.
But what we are talking about here
and practicing your trigger is,
remember your picture of intimacy?
Yep.
And the activation that we did at the start
of the session today,
which was just an activation to focus in on
stepping into that place of extreme intimacy
and feeling it.
And then we went to that place
and felt it for like 10 seconds,
like, whoa!
Yeah?
Okay, so,
that's what I mean by practicing your trigger.
Part, that's part of it.
So part one is actually practicing that moment,
where you can kind of like for 10 seconds,
just focus in and just feel.
So just take a moment right now,
close your eyes.
I know you have heads in something else,
but close your eyes.
Just jump straight back in there as fast as we can
in that place of our wildest dreams,
urgency being fulfilled.
And I want you to feel it.
I want you to feel it.
Urgency being fulfilled.
And I want you to feel it for 10 seconds.
Whoa!
Ah!
Whoa!
Ah!
Whoa!
Okay, stop it.
Stop it!
That's enough of that.
So, practicing your trigger
is a little bit like that, okay?
So, what I want you to think about is
a practice becomes a habit,
a habit becomes a reflex,
a reflex becomes a lifestyle,
and a lifestyle becomes a state of being.
So, practice, habit, reflex, lifestyle, state of being.
So, did you see how easy and effortless that was for me
to go from mid-conversation to just,
whoa!
Whoa!
It's just getting blasted.
Whoa!
It's as quick and easy as just shifting my attention for,
and it's less than a split second,
and I can be just getting blasted.
Where I've leapt into that place
like I've jumped into a freezing lake of the glory.
You know, it's just like, I'm doing what I'm doing,
but in a split second,
I can get baptized in glory and get undone.
And I can feast on all sorts of different elements
of the glory.
What do I need in this moment?
I can start feasting on love.
I can start feasting on joy.
I can start feasting on His face.
You know, like, I'm a bit of a weird thought,
but I can start feasting on the glory in a moment.
but I never used to be able to do that, okay?
So it's practice becomes a habit,
a habit becomes a reflex, reflex becomes a lifestyle,
and a lifestyle becomes a state of being
where this is just, this is your default setting,
this is what your normal is, okay?
So how we do that is,
I want you to think about a trigger that you can create.
So this is part of your homework over the next week, okay?
So in the next week, I want you to come back with a trigger.
Okay, and what your trigger is,
is your trigger could be your drink bottle, right?
That'd be a really good trigger.
That every time you take a drink from your drink bottle,
you practice for 10 seconds or five seconds,
jumping into that place
of your wildest dreams of intimacy fulfilled.
Whoa!
Right, so the idea is to find something
that's gonna be like a regular part of your day,
and you're gonna see multiple times a day,
and it is gonna be your trigger.
And that trigger is like,
every time you see that action or do that thing,
it's like, I'm gonna practice this right now.
Okay, so it could be every time you're taking a drink,
you're like, right now,
I'm gonna find a secret snack in here,
and I'm like, okay.
Hmm.
Whoa.
Hmm.
All right.
Okay, so that's gonna make drinking more fun.
That'll make it easier to drink three liters.
So for me, my drink bottle is gonna be my trigger, okay?
So every time I'm having a drink,
that's gonna be the trigger for me to practice
being in the book.
Practice it.
Oh, look, look at that.
I see Michelle double dipping.
Okay, so anyone got any ideas
on what they might like to use as their trigger?
You want something that is around you,
that's close to you,
something that you can do on a regular basis
and you wanna train yourself.
Yeah, Dawn.
Are we creating a new trigger
or continuing to create a new trigger?
Are we creating a new trigger
or continuing with what we've already created
or what we already have in place?
Yeah.
What do you have in place already?
Well, about six to maybe seven months ago,
my husband and I, we're with a small,
and we challenged ourselves to be more aware
of the spirit realm around us and the Lord.
So every hour on the hour,
our alarm goes off 24 hours a day.
And when the alarm goes off,
we try to stop what we're doing
and give the Lord 30 seconds to a minute, 24 hours a day.
And what has happened,
probably about like a month in,
all of us realized when that alarm went off,
we were already doing it.
Like our bodies were already doing it.
And we were like, oh, that's the alarm.
And so it's really funny.
Like when all of us get together, like now,
all of our phones are on vibrate
and all the phones, every hour when we're all together.
And it's like this hilarious thing.
And we just all like right then, oh, praise the Lord.
You know?
So I don't know if that's, are you still my question?
That's an amazing trigger.
There you go.
You've got an alarm and everything.
That's brilliant.
That's genius.
And you know what?
I saw everyone go, and I did it too.
Every hour.
What about when you're sleeping?
But you know what I love about it?
That was difficult.
It was difficult when you were sleeping
because you were being woken up.
But, you know, even in that, you know,
it's kind of, we have trained ourselves
to kind of like, you know, kind of like praying dogs
and like go back to sleep.
And it's like, it's really cool.
I don't even know what has happened.
Just like, I don't, I don't, I can't explain it.
It's a, there's no words,
but that is what happens in the middle of the night.
And so now all of us,
we have all experienced these middle of the night things,
you know, like, oh, guess what happened?
You know, for 10 seconds in the middle at 3 a.m.,
you know, stuff like this, like amazing things, you know?
And so anyway, but yeah.
So you're saying stay with what I've created, not-
Yeah, if you've got something that's working,
that's awesome.
That is amazing.
That's a trigger on the next level.
That is so good.
And I love it.
And you know what I love about it is that that sounds hard.
Right?
I love that because it's hard.
And it was very, very hard.
Produce great.
results. I also, you know, like, I would, you know, yeah, just,
just, just create something that works for you. Okay, create
something with you. For me, that sounds awesome, but I'm not
going to do it. Right. That's not going to be that's not going
to be a good fit for me. But I don't necessarily sleep all that
much. I'm often up at 4am or before. So those hours of sleep
that I do get, boom, Jesus, give it to me. I'm going to take it.
Holy Spirit wakes me up at 2am as it is. So for me, I'm going
to like, no, I don't want to do that. But I flippin love it. And
you want to find the thing that's a good fit for you. Okay,
so find a trigger that's a good fit for you. Okay, who spent
some money today? It's all wait, wait, wait, practice your
trigger possible or impossible. Possible. Possible to create a
trigger. Miracle, you can set your own trigger. So it's
possible. Okay, so the next one is a lot. So let me ask you a
question first. Who spent some money today? Yep. Who? Who has
to pay rent? Who had expenses today? Let me put it
differently. Who had expenses today? Right? They don't give
you rent for free, right? You have to pay rent every day. You
don't get free days, right? Or a loan on your, you know, like you
paid rent, or you paid a loan, or you paid power, or you paid
internet, or who had expenses today? Yep. Everyone, right?
Everyone had expenses. Who made money today? Anyone make money
today? Maybe. Maybe. So, okay. Who gave someone some money
today? All right. And who saved some money today? Did anyone get
a bargain, get a discount, or put some money in a bank? Or a
savings? Or invested it? Anyone invest some money? Save some
money? I invested some money today. Okay, so here's the
thing. Our economy is a daily thing. But every single day we
have expenses. Agree or disagree? Every single day we
have expenses, right? Every single day we have the
opportunity to spend more than we need to. Right? Yeah. You
could, you could spend more money than you need to today,
right? And then pay the price later on. Like, oh, I shouldn't
have done that. Agree or disagree? Agree. So every day we
get the choice to choose. Now there's four purposes of money.
Let me just hit them real quick with you. But there's four
purposes of money. Money can be spent on things. Money can be
saved. Money can be given. And money can be invested. Those are
the four things that you can do with money. You can spend it,
you can save it, you can give it, or you can invest it. And
every single day, you have an economy, your own economy. And
in your own economy, every single day, you are choosing
what you do with your money. You're either spending it,
saving it, investing it, or giving it. And that's a daily
thing. So the next one is to make a genius money move every
day. All right. And that could just be choosing not to spend
money when you have the opportunity. You're like, I'm
not gonna waste it on that. Or it could be, you know what, I'm
gonna make some money today. I'm gonna do something to make some
money. Or I'm going to give someone some money today. Or I'm
going to invest some money today. Yep. Sweet. So, is that
possible or impossible to make a genius money move every day?
It's possible.
Possible.
Possible?
Yeah.
Impossible. Now, it's not about the amount. It's just about the
principle of stewardship, of just making you just do
something brilliant every day. It's about making sure that
every day you're being intentional, that what you're
doing with your money is a brilliant decision. You're
already making, you're already, you make decisions about money
every single day. So what we want to make sure is that those
decisions are genius decisions.
every day we make genius level decisions with our money.
We're either making it somehow or investing it or we're saving it by either putting it
somewhere where we put saving things or we're not you know like we're not um
you know we're saving it by not spending it on something we just I actually know that's a waste
I don't need that um you know or we're giving it and then with spending I'll just say one thing
with spending as well is genius spending doesn't always mean cheap spending you know if you're
going to make a genius money move sometimes that means buying something exceptional that is not
going to break it's going to last so that's another dynamic of spending and making a genius
money move is you know you could buy something cheap it's going to be broken and you're not
going to last it's going to be a pain and a headache or you can buy something exceptional
that's going to really last and do the trick so there's our daily hard things challenge
now let's just quickly run over it real quick so five minutes of focus praying in the holy
spirit of day I want us to analyze how long this takes to take five minutes that one seven daily
decrees um if you've got the decrees down into a sentence each that could be 30 seconds a minute
30 seconds of the cream so that could be you know like that could be five minutes
there read one chapter of the bible a day um that could be you know that might take you 10 15 minutes
so just say it's 15 minutes we're at 25 minutes now verse of the day writing down your verse of
the day that's five minutes writing down your gratitude that's five minutes so that's 35 minutes
on those things drink three liters of water a day that doesn't actually take time that's just
something you're doing through the day right doesn't take any extra time you're already
drinking it's just being a little bit intentional um move your body for at least five minutes a day
well that's going to take at least five minutes it might take a little bit longer um so
so we've got 35 minutes on that on those other disciplines but so five at least five minutes
on working out eating something awesome does it take much longer or does it just take us
being intentional intentional yeah just just requires us to be intentional doesn't require
any extra time just requires us to be intentional intentionally expressing love to one person
and that could take from a minute to the whole day
depending on depending on what it is
um so yeah that's just an open-ended one just depends on how inspired you get what you want
to do it might be buying a present for someone that could be good spending that could be a
genius money move you buy a great present for someone um then practicing your trigger
not necessarily an extra length of time but just something you're incorporating into your
daily routine your rhythm and then make a genius money move you know it could just be making a
decision that um you're going to buy something that's a better quality so it's not necessarily
a time thing so actually if you look at this we're actually all of the things that we've got
there if you look at the time dynamic it could all be done in less than an hour
what it does require the thing it requires the most is intentionality
yeah so here's where we ask the final question and then wrap it up for the day is
that picture that we had when you were with Jesus right imagining
all your wildest dreams come true versus imagining none of them happening
what price would you pay to make sure that you weren't living in regret but you were
living in the fruition of your wildest dreams would you be willing to pay an hour a day
yes to be willing to pay an hour a day every day in order to position yourself at the end of your
life to be to be in that place where you're like oh my gosh i'm in ecstatic joy looking
back over my life because i made amazing decisions
all right beautiful well um that sounds excellent how you guys let's just chat now any questions
and how you guys let's just check now any questions feedback how you think what are you
thinking thoughts on this
before we wrap up. Feel free to get chatty.
Um Benji,
can I just clarify one thing that you said? That was about reading one chapter of the Bible a day
and you said the same every day. I just want to clarify are you saying that we all as a group
collectively commit to reading you know the same the same Bible chapters each day or are you saying
that we say read John 1 and we read it every day for for a certain period of time? I just wasn't
sure. Yes so what I was saying is what I'd like us to do is go on a journey together as a group
reading reading the same chapter. So we got we read the book of John and then we'll read the
book of Acts and we're just going to go on this cool journey together of reading through the
Bible. So start with John 1? Yeah we won't officially start this until next week okay
so Monday next week is actually um I have it I have a three-day training that I'm doing next week
um it's Sunday, Monday, Tuesday my time. So next week what we're going to do is we're going to do
Wednesday, Friday here in the Honours School of Sanskrit okay so today is Wednesday so and
so it'll be the same as this week next week it'll be Wednesday, Friday that we do our sessions yeah
so Wednesday so you've got a week from now to work on your decrees a week from now to figure
out your triggers a week from now if you haven't done your picture already to do your picture
so you've got a week from now to do your homework um yeah and that'll be at the same time
yeah we'll be aiming to do it uh pretty much the same time
I know I know it kind of jumps around a little bit sometimes it's time zones and sometimes
like yesterday for example um oh we were going to do it at 3pm yesterday but then I got the
opportunity uh to do a tv interview for our calendar so I said yep sweet I'll do that
so just kind of bumped my schedule out but yeah not worth it oh it was cool and I think you know
that's part of the thing about the Honours School of Sanskrit it's all self-paced you can catch the
replays anytime the sessions will happen and we won't always be able to get the live ones
so the replay will always be there so you can finish track yeah
yep um
yeah any other thoughts reflection does it sound crazy terrible excited about it um scared about it
um sorry it's very practical and I'm very excited
cool very cool yeah sounds good good reset
oh that's cool looking forward to beginning the journey excellent excellent this is like
the behind the scenes in my life of what actually made change happen for me is just
doing a ridiculous amount of hard things and then doing discipline stuff like this
pretty much every day or if not every day most days um some of those things I you know might
not happen uh you know one particular day like today I'm uh today I'm taking a break like I'm
not doing a workout today but that's because it's a rest day um for my body but I'll probably still
end up you know moving my body intentionally for five days but that's partly because yesterday I
did a real hard out session at the gym on weights and um did a pump class and got blasted so
I'm like sweet I'm going to take a rest day and you know get busy again tomorrow
but for us for this challenge we want to we want to commit to these things as daily
um but it's it's that's that's where like this is this is the stuff that no one actually gets
most of the time you go somewhere you speak at a conference or whatever you see something amazing
happen people go oh I can you pray for me because I want what you've got you're like
are you serious if it was that easy I pray for myself you know
it doesn't work like that you know like it's forged in the heart things
if you want what people are carrying don't ask them to
but just go more like, yes, you can get impartation.
I'm not saying you can't get impartation,
but impartation is only the scraps.
If that makes sense.
When someone prays an impartation for you,
that prayer of impartation can never give you
the foundation that was built through hard things.
It can give you the residue.
It can give you something,
but it can't give you the foundation,
the infrastructure that was built
on decades of hard things.
It can't give you what impartation doesn't do.
I mean, I won't say nothing's impossible,
but what I want to say is very rarely what happens,
very rarely does someone impart their willpower to you.
That's something that you're responsible for yourself.
Sweet.
Well, why don't we grab a couple of people
who are keen to pray and we'll wrap it up.
Who would like to pray?
I will pray.
Lord Jesus, thank you so much
that you have given us everything that we need
for life and godliness.
And I thank you for the sessions,
what you are teaching us through Benji.
And Lord, I pray that you strengthen us
in the core of our beings to just go throughout
and just simply do the things.
Thank you that it is possible
and that there's a flow because you have enabled us
and that you have created us to be able to do hard things
and that you are with us in the hard things,
encouraging us, equipping us,
coaching us, teaching us, comforting us.
And we praise you and we honor you for that.
Thank you that we are not alone
and that we as a group also can encourage each other.
And we praise you for all of this.
Amen.
I just hear the Lord saying,
just I just hear the Father saying,
come up higher and expect the unexpected.
So Father God, we just thank you
that you are calling us up higher,
even as the eagle flies up above the storms
and up above the winds, Father God,
that you are calling us up higher,
higher than we've been before.
Thank you Father that you're calling us
and to expect the unexpected Father God,
even as we put the work in daily,
Father God, as we put in the hard work,
the hard things that we need to do,
Father God, that you will just,
and even as we wait on you,
that we will rise up on wings like eagles,
that we will run and not grow weary
and that we will walk and not faint.
Thank you Father.
We thank you Father that you are our strength
and we are weak.
Thank you Father that in you,
you in us enables us to do exceedingly abundantly
above all we can ask or imagine.
Just thank you Father.
Thank you Father.
Amen.
Well, bless you family.
Love you very much.
Couple of cool notices for you.
We are gonna do a three-day royal challenge
over the weekend, okay?
So it's Saturday, 11 a.m. and 3 p.m.
in Pacific Standard Time.
So it's a three-day royal challenge
and it's all about mastering mindsets
of your royal identity, your royal calling
and royal economics.
So that's gonna be a really powerful three-day masterclass.
So if you wanna jump on board that,
that's gonna be heaps of fun.
It'll be in the main Raising Royalty group.
So if you want, you can jump in on that action.
It will be, it's a real, like it isn't intensive,
it's a masterclass.
So six sessions over three days,
but it produces a huge shift in a short space of time.
So if you're up for an expedited shift
and a big upgrade,
then that's a really cool opportunity to jump in on.
We've got the Raising Royalty Talent Awards
happening real soon too, which is very exciting.
And then the other dynamic.
that we have is coming up soon is the Seven Sacred Pathways to Intimacy. Who finds that
idea quite exciting of doing the Seven Sacred Pathways to Intimacy? It's real vulnerable,
in-depth, behind the scenes, brutally honest, transparent, covers all the stuff.
Yeah. Interest levels on that?
Yep. Okay, cool. So for anyone who wants to build mind-blowing intimacy, whether you're
single or married, but you have that dream for mind-blowing intimacy, then that's happening here
in the Online School of Sonship too. So watch out for that. It's a real game-changer. And
I'm hoping to actually... I'm just working on exactly when to schedule it in, but we're
going to probably... We will have started that. Within the next three weeks, we will start it.
Maybe even the next two weeks. So maybe even next week. I'm just working to set the schedule on
exactly. It will be set shortly. So yeah. So I love you, family. Bless you. Catch you soon.
Thanks heaps for being with us today. Bye. Bye.