Hey hey, this is us. We are live. I'll be waiting for you to join me. I'll be waiting for you.
So yeah, here I am. I've just put the link out into Facebook world. So I guess you guys will
take a little while to get here. So yeah. It's such a beautiful day. Such a beautiful day.
Hey hey, and I'll be waiting for you. I'll be waiting for you.
Oh look, we've got someone there. Who's this watching live? Don't watch live. Click on the
link and come join me in the Zoom room. Come join me in here in the Zoom room. This is where,
this is where you want to be. Come and join. Come and join me. Oh Esther, we got someone.
We got our first person. Esther's here. Hey Esther. Hey Esther. How you doing Esther?
How's it going? It's good. It's good. Oh, we've got another person. Here we go. Welcome.
Oh Esther, how are you? What's happening? What's happening? Well, I've been a lot of,
I've been a lot on Facebook this week. Yes. Yes. Totally. Yeah.
But that's good. We've had a wonderful time. I've been learning a lot. Yeah. So
all's fine in the Netherlands. Oh, that's very good. Very, very good.
Now I'm just going to do one tech thing here.
I'm just doing one thing here.
But Carol, tell me about your week.
Tell me about my week. Yeah. I've ordered lots and lots of plants for in the garden.
Oh, yes. What are plants? Well, there were packages of, we want a border,
but we have an acre of land. So that means a lot of plants. So I've ordered a lot. Next week,
we're going to have to put them in the ground. So we're working hard. Yeah, that sounds great.
Yeah.
There we go. Wonderful. Good. Did you turn that beard?
Uh, no, no, I might. I might this summer for my daughter's wedding.
Oh, no, I was actually thinking it didn't look like it had been trained,
looked free and happy. That's good. Yes. Yes. I turned mine. I turned mine.
This is my beard. When I let it really go loose, it goes a little bit more
extreme than this. It's a little bit more extreme, but not much.
Bonnie, how are you doing? Wonderful. Thumbs up. We're about to you, Bonnie.
Unmute and chat with us. Oh, good to see you. I just, I just was checking in and
just saw that you came live. So, oh, yeah, perfect. We're about to tell you, Bonnie.
Good. I'm good. Can you hear is I my I having speaker issues,
so I don't know if my quality is coming through. We're hearing you fine. We're about to tell you.
Yeah.
So, yeah.
I can now hear you.
Can you hear me all right?
Yeah, where are you, Bonnie?
I'm in Michigan.
Great.
Go, Michigan.
That's very good.
Very good.
Great to hear.
Well, good to have you with us, Bonnie.
And so we've got Priyadarshini.
Who is that?
Are you there?
Hi.
Yeah.
Do you have a nickname?
Or did I say that right?
What's the best way to say your name?
You said it right.
It's my middle name.
First name is Ida.
First name is?
Indira.
Wonderful.
Well, that's great.
And we're about to you today.
Thank you.
Where are you today?
I'm from Germany, Hamburg.
Hamburg.
Wonderful.
Well, great to have.
We've got Germany, the Netherlands, Michigan.
Michelle, where are you?
Michelle, can you hear us all right?
Yeah, I can hear you.
Great.
We're about to you today, Michelle.
I'm from England in the UK.
Yeah.
That photo of yours that pops up on Zoom
looks a little bit of Coronation Street-y.
So you're in England.
And Steph, where are you today?
Hi.
I'm in Hawke's Bay, New Zealand.
Hawke's Bay, New Zealand.
Haven't gone anywhere?
No.
Good stuff.
OK, cool.
Slightly shaken last night, Benji, as you were too.
Yeah, I've slept through.
I didn't really notice that.
I'm very happy about that.
And I was very happy to be asleep last night.
So Steph and just not too far from Steph,
they had a big earthquake last night.
It was like a 7.1?
Yeah, I think they've upgraded it to 7.3 or something.
Keeps changing.
Oh, that's fun.
But damage-wise, it hasn't done that much, has it?
I've had a look around here.
All I've seen is kind of a bit of a crack
between where the wall and the ceiling join.
There's a little bit of that's all I can see.
I haven't seen, I can't see anything, any other damage.
Nothing fell off shelves or anything like that.
OK.
When I was in Te Anau, I was down at the church late one
night praying and just really going after God.
It was a pretty epic, pretty epic moment, right?
Because I started praying and then, you know,
like in Acts and that, you know, multiple times,
the place where they're praying starts shaking.
So I'm praying.
I'm praying away.
And then I feel like the room, like when the auditorium
starts going, whoo, whoo, whoo, whoo,
the Oats just starts moving a little bit.
I'm like, oh, come on, like this is the encounter
I've been going after.
I'm like, yes.
And then I'm like, yeah, come on.
And then I look at the speakers, you know,
that are on pole speakers and then it starts going
ka-di-ka-di, ka-di-ka-di.
You know, they're rocking.
I'm like, holy, they're about to fall over.
I realized I was actually an earthquake
and I was pretty disappointed.
I was pretty disappointed.
I thought I was about to get sucked into heaven,
sucked through the roof or something
while it was going to happen.
No, no, just an earthquake.
Disappointed.
Well, why don't we get a couple of volunteers
who would like to pray for us?
That would be wonderful.
Indira, it would be great to have you pray
if you're happy to pray for us to get started.
And maybe Steph, if you warriors want to kick it off,
that'd be great.
Sure, I can pray.
Yeah, wonderful, please do.
And then Steph, just follow along.
Father, I thank you for this beautiful day
and for the breath in our lives.
I thank you we all can come there in your mighty name.
I thank you Lord for the privilege of internet
that we can, from different nations that we can join.
And thank you for being our corner and foundation rock.
Thank you Lord for your beauty in us
and for the salvation and for the gift of Holy Spirit.
Thank you Father for all the love that you offer us
and for the plans that you have for us.
Thank you Holy Spirit for your presence
and leaders as we do.
I give everything into your mighty hands.
In the name of Jesus, I praise and thank you Lord.
Amen.
Hallelujah.
Yes, thank you, Lord. Thank you. Lord, we acknowledge you today. Trinity. Oh, thank you, Lord. Thank you,
Lord. Thank you, Father, that you go before us. That you make a way for us, Lord. Father,
we thank you, Lord, for Benji and the Dream Team and for all the work that he's been doing, Lord.
Father, we thank you so much for the masterclasses and thank you for just your ongoing,
what's the word I'm after? Your ongoing, not only your presence, Lord, but challenging. I know that
you've been challenging me and opening up my eyes and changing mindsets. Father, that you continue
to bring in new people along to the group. Father, that you will challenge them and open up their
minds and their hearts. We thank you, Lord, in Jesus' wonderful name. Thank you, Yeshua. Amen.
Amen. Father, we thank you for your sacred glory. We thank you for your sacred presence.
We thank you for everything that you're doing right now. We thank you for who you are.
We thank you for the hour that we're alive in history right now. We thank you that
this is an hour of radical grace. We thank you that this is an hour of a massive kingdom expansion.
We thank you that this is an hour of the glory of God going out like never before. We thank you
that this is an hour where you're releasing new dynamics of angelic activity, new realms of grace,
things that have been prophesied for centuries that are actually beginning to unfold in our day.
Lord, we thank you that this is an hour of the unveiling of the sons of God. We thank you that
you are doing a mighty work in the earth right now. We thank you, Lord, that this is an hour
where we can stand. Papa, I just thank you so much for who you are, for what you are doing
in our lives. We welcome you, welcome you, welcome you right now in Jesus' name. Amen.
Amen. Well, guys, good to be with you. It is an exciting time in world history,
dynamic time in world history. How are you guys doing?
Yeah, doing good, doing good. We are week three on the adventure. We've been looking at stewarding
success this week. Last week was a big deal on processing failure. This week, we've been looking
at stewarding success, and people have been starting to share their definitions of success,
which is awesome. Open mic time, guys. What do you want to chat about? What has been interesting?
What has been challenging? Where's everyone at? If you can unmute and take the mic.
Okay. Shall I jump in? Yeah, definitely. Jump in there.
I think what was... I loved your two different ways of describing two different kinds of success.
Yes. Yes.
I was really thankful to give words that I recognize that in my own life. Of course,
there is stuff that I want to work on, and there's always room for improvement,
but there's also a lot of stuff to be really thankful for. That was really great. Defining
success in those seven areas. Achievement-based success versus lifestyle-based success.
Yes, exactly. It's great to define where you want to go, but it also made me realize all the things
that we have achieved, and the lifestyle we've built together, and the fruit that that has
already given us. It was a lot of dreaming, but also a lot of thankfulness.
Oh, that is excellent. That's really, really good to hear.
Now, did you sign a personal commitment?
Not yet, because I did the replay from...
monday this today oh yeah and i did wednesday today so with all the the inner circle stuff going on
it's just yeah and i don't want to rush it i'd rather do it later and do it good
then uh i don't want to rush it so yeah very good and um i think that in what are we what
we're week three now see when we're gonna
we're week three now i'm just going to look at my calendar
now we're in a lockdown at the moment in new zealand where i am one so are we
three we've been for two and a half months locked down have you been two and a half months yeah
ah sneaky
um so um i've got a once a year if i can well at least once a year if i can we have the raw
do you guys know what the raw is do you guys have the raw hi patty
hi elise welcome um so do you guys know what the roar is i don't you don't know what the roar is
anyone here know what the roar is okay so the roar the roar is when um red stags in new zealand go
into the rut and they start roaring all over the place it's crazy wild exciting um and there is
there are not many things in the whole world that are as exciting as being in the being in
the bush being in the forest just meters away from a big angry red stag that is releasing a
full-blown roar it's like thunder like it goes whoa like it shakes right through your bones
around it's like wow what was that and you know there's a big guy right there's like oh my gosh
uh that is one of the most oh look right there um patty's got a stag in the in the back but that's
not a that's not a red stag is it patty what stag is that is that like a white tail no it's not a
white tail i didn't mean a white tail i was going to say like a samba but it looks too big for a
samba how do you have to unmute i'm sorry i don't know i don't know i just love him
stags always remind me of jesus
he kind of looks a little bit like a red spread but he's got a bit of a
bit of a pointy pointy nose on him there it looks a little bit like rudolph
um cool yeah so in a few weeks time uh the roar will be on and as long as i'm not in lockdown
i'll be disappearing for um for a little bit so i think we will be just about at the end then it's
like week seven or eight um of the process so i'll keep you guys in the loop but we might have
like one or two cat we might have a little catch-up moment there so everyone kind of catch
up before we do the last bit if i'm in the if i'm out in the wilderness hunting uh hunting stags so
yeah um so who are everyone else like open mic time jump in here let me know what you um
what you have been thinking about and processing this week as we've been doing the stewarding
success template i have to be honest i haven't i've started with mine um well you don't have to
be honest it's your choice uh but wow um i was just so surprised i don't know if it makes sense
but how much resistance there is for really for success um just i've been i mean i thought i was
one of my way over the last few years but i've realized that you know i did it in such a
precocious way that i'm like oh my hat i really need to go and this week with the um
with the mass the the uh marketing just stir up so many stuff and and what you said in the bio
you know acts yes yeah everything is just like coming together and it's like
wow
and yeah today in a live video i was just
I actually deleted the first part and then I went again and about a third way I could really feel
that the Holy Spirit was taking over. So you did a live video yourself this morning? Yes,
and then you know you can feel that there's really love, you're speaking, it's authentic,
but up to that point it's like, yeah, but I want to be there all the time.
Great, great, so resistance to success. Yeah, good stuff. Right, someone else jump in here.
Yeah, come on, Canada.
Oh, hang on, we can't hear you guys, you muted yourself again.
Actually, maybe I muted you by accident. How's that? Can you guys hear me now?
I think I muted you by accident. Yeah, no worries. We're a bit behind on our homework,
but it's the perfectionist in me that wants to do it just so. So we're working our way through it,
and Ron and I are going to take some time together this week and just continue to work on it
from finishing the dreams and the failures and successes. We have had some success in life. I
know I have had some success just in the world's eyes, but it's more achievement-based success,
and so it could be gone tomorrow. I don't necessarily feel like it makes me who I am.
A lot of people would say, okay, that's who you are, but I don't really feel like that defines me,
and so I'm really open to what God is wanting for myself and for Ron in the future, and I'm
so excited about all these classes. I do feel a bit bad I haven't finished my homework,
but I'm not going to let that stop me from continuing. Yeah, for sure. Hey, maybe we should
have a break week next week just to lever and catch up because we're also simultaneously
going to run a Kindan Economics Masterclass next week, and that's going to be some pretty epic
content there. How about we just take a break next week because it's actually better if we
do this over a longer period of time. It consolidates rather than having a rush and
miss stuff. It's better to take a break, let people catch up. How about we do that next week?
We will pause this and let everyone catch up, and even if you're not catching up, you can at
least not get further behind or join the Masterclass that's going to happen next week. It's
going to be a great Masterclass on Kingdom Economics. Got some cool voices going to be
contributing into that space. That's going to be a pretty cool adventure. How does that sound?
Next week, and we'll probably do this a couple of times just to let everyone catch up and just
to reduce the overwhelm because overwhelm is a pretty realistic thing for people.
I'll give you an example. Last year, I set a goal to run my first 20 kilometers, so I wanted to do
20 in 2020, but it wasn't happening. October was coming and I was like, hey, I haven't got
many months left to do this 20k run, and I hadn't been doing all that much running. I've been doing
workouts regularly, multiple workouts a week, but the running I've been doing more like once a
fortnight, I'd go for a 5k run and that wasn't really enough to prep me for a 20k run. I was
thinking, oh, I've got to start stepping up. Come the start of November, I started stepping up my
training for running this 20k, doing this 20k run that I wanted to do. Then right as just a day or
so after I started stepping up the training, my little girl Zoe and I and another little girl
were riding on this little kid's quad bike, and Zoe got a fright and pulled the steering,
excuse the driving, got a fright and pulled the steering and flipped us all off the back,
and I broke my wrist. I was like, ah, and it was a really quite a good break. I broke right through
the skateboard going right through it. They put me in the cast and they're like, okay, you know
that even like no running, nothing, don't even try and do anything.
with it for you know like five weeks and then right but that is like as soon as that five weeks was up
it was December and I was like oh my gosh there's a there's no time left in the year for me to hit
my goal which I was like ah and so I was like oh man time's running out to get this goal of running
20ks and so I'd done one little run just in my driveway you know and that was it and then it
was Christmas and so uh for all of November and most of December all I've done is just one little
run up and down my driveway and um and now it's Christmas and I've got literally only you know
what from Christmas what have you got a week and it's not a good week for doing running and things
is it so but I was like I said to because I and I thought to myself I've got I've got one choice
one chance to make this work because my brother and my brother-in-law both run marathons on a
regular basis that's nothing for them you're like well it is a big deal but they both do that
type of stuff so they've got that mindset and psychology and it's like hey you guys want to do
a 20k run with me and they were like they were they were keen but just kind of a bit funny for
them because um you know I haven't done that type of thing and my brother had done you know he just
did an over 20k run just that week on the way to Christmas it's just like a little thing you know
just for fun he was prepping for a 60 kilometer mountain run and I was like okay guys would you
do this with me so they said yes so I start doing this run so it was a big deal right this is and
you guys might have this on your goal so this was in terms of that you know stewarding success
it was kind of coming down because I had this goal I really wanted to do it and it's both this
was both an achievement based success moment and a lifestyle based success thing because I really
wanted to have I want that fitness as a part of my lifestyle and all that comes with that I want
that as a part of my lifestyle so it's achievement based success and lifestyle based success kind of
mingled together and then I've also got like this is my one chance because I knew that if
if I wanted any chance of doing this like having my brother and my brother-in-law around me who
have got the psychology around me would give me a strategic advantage and I needed every advantage
possible because I wasn't fit enough I hadn't trained I've done anything for this so they said
yes so we did it we left it I don't know I think we got up at like I got up at half past four or
something on the uh I think it was new year's what the boxing day I think was the day after Christmas
um boxing day or the day after boxing day and so we started out on this run
it didn't start out very good I think I had three I had to make three trips four trips to the toilet
before we by the time we're ready and like there's only three kilometers and uh fortunately I staged
it out so that you know like in the very first section I knew where there was a bunch of toilets
so I had to uh I had to steward the facilities well and I was like man this is not going this
is not going great to start out but anyway I cleared the system out and uh and then I was
starting to go and then um it was going right but then one of my foot my I think one of my feet I
think my left foot is slightly bigger than my right foot and so I started getting pins and
needles in my foot and I was doing everything I could to kind of open my shoe up and I was like
oh man like my foot was going numb like ah but after the first 10 kilometers I'm just kind of
pressing through it it kind of came right and then the next five k's was kind of going all right five
k's was great and then at five k's in we were in a different city to where we live but then we saw
some really good friends of ours from our hometown we're like oh my gosh hello and we stopped and
chatted with him for a moment because it was a big deal to see these guys but then after that my
body started wanting to shut down it's like oh no like we should not have stopped but we couldn't
we could just couldn't go past these guys because they were such good friends so we had to make a
big deal and say hello but then my body was just like oh no you shouldn't have stopped it was like
oh it was winding down and shutting down I was like ah then so what I couldn't what I realized
was I couldn't sustain the intensity my body was literally going to give up so but then I had this
like yay jesus bright moment I was like actually I can't sustain this intensity
but I can keep going if I reduce the intensity so I just reduced the intensity
and I I changed into sloth mode and I was like
the slow motion sloth mode just keep one foot in front of the other but um but I made it I got
there I got the goal I was totally wasted but I actually thought I did the 20 k's in 2020
the furthest I've ever run in my life and um and actually got there
wasn't the most tragic timing ever.
But I got there, and two of the things,
the two big things that got me there,
one was the mindsets, having been surrounded
by the psychology of others who knew they could do it.
So that's a real big deal of who you are gonna be around.
You know, those mindsets that you're gonna be around
are gonna be a big deal around,
in terms of if you can make it or break it.
So, you know, Elise, for example,
you're talking about how success has been a real barrier,
has been a real struggle.
But, you know, ask yourself, who have you been around?
Have you been around people
who push the envelope for success?
Or are you experiencing, are you coming around,
are you finding you're around mindsets right now
who are more passionate than other people have been?
Or is there a, just in terms of mindsets,
do you feel like right now in your life
you're encountering some new mindsets
that are challenging you to go further,
to dream bigger, to run harder?
How would you say that is for you, Elise?
You're asking me?
Yeah.
Well, in this group, I've seen,
I mean, I've seen you and I've seen a lot of the team members
and I'm like, wow, I'm not walking there.
And that is very inspirational and very, you know, inspiring.
But my husband is strong.
He's taken the spiritual lead.
But in our church, we are kind of leaders.
And yeah, so we are not official, yeah.
The church is a bit traditional,
not traditional in this traditional sense.
It's a community church,
but there's a lot of things that's lacking.
And I find more spiritual food in this group than in church.
But it wasn't like that in the past in South Africa.
So I miss that strong people around me.
Yeah.
So you're definitely feeling that benefit of mindsets
and people around you that are helpful.
And then another cool thing,
I was running with a little bag,
like it didn't really have much in it as well,
like a couple of musibar, you know, in my phone,
nothing really, nothing very heavy.
But one of my brothers took that, you know,
just took that little, just that little burden away,
just because I was, you know,
I was running there with someone else.
He's like, oh, hey, I'll just take your little bag.
And it wasn't, you know, there was really not much in it,
but it was just, it was a psychological boost.
It was a slight, a slight change.
It was, you know, it didn't even weigh a kilogram,
you know, it was probably 600 grams.
So it wasn't like it was a heavy thing,
but it was just encouragement.
Encouragement, that little thing
was just such a boost of encouragement,
just helped me to keep going.
And for example, you know,
all the stories of the failures that everyone's found,
you know, who's found that that's been like,
reading those has actually been so,
actually there's been a little boost from every single one.
There's been a little inspiration.
There's been a little encouragement from everyone.
It's been really good, eh?
Yeah.
And so I guess what I'm saying is,
what I'm saying is, next week, let's take a break,
just to reduce the intensity,
because there's no pressure.
We're under no pressure in terms of a finished date.
You know, there's no urgency.
We're not strict on that.
We can just share the journey.
So we'll just take a break,
and then the following week we'll get back into week four.
Yeah.
Cool, open mic.
Who else wants to chuck something else in?
Hey, yes, hand goes up, quick.
The thing for me in all of this is time management, really.
I really need some help with time management.
Everything else, well, apart from getting my head
round all the tech, I'm emailing support ever such a lot.
They're amazing, and they're helping me a lot.
But yeah, it's a time thing for me,
that I've got so much that I want to be doing,
and so much in my heart that is burning.
And I do ask Holy Spirit to help me prioritise,
and I've always made to-do lists.
I think now I need a not-to-do list.
Interestingly enough, that will be coming up soon, too.
But did you see the balance sheet
at the bottom of the week three template?
Sorry, what?
What was that?
Did I see the balance sheet at the bottom of the week three template?
Who saw that? Yeah, I've actually done it.
I finished it this for the first time.
I think I finished it.
I was determined to get it done quickly this time.
So. Yeah.
So I am kind of working on that one.
And I tend to try and fit in more than I can possibly do, I suppose.
Yeah. Which
which just means sometimes that,
you know, that this thing is that it's balance.
You know, it is balance, and that's the whole dynamic
of this week of just discussing success,
because, you know, we looked at the achievement
by success guys who got a way out of whack.
You know, there's some pretty crazy stories.
They write like Tiger Woods.
How crazy is that?
I don't know how he had time for both when he was having so many fears.
On average, he admitted to having at least 120 different women
during their five year marriage.
That's a lot of time.
That's a time commitment that on average is one new affair every two weeks.
You know, as well, as well as sleeping with his wife, you know,
and that's and that's assuming that he only had, you know,
and assuming he only had sex with each affair one time.
That's still a commitment once every fortnight.
Yeah, but no doubt the addiction level
that that was, it was probably much more like five times a week.
That's you know, so he's got a I'm like, how did he play any golf?
He was already busy.
He already had full time occupation.
It's amazing that he fitted any golf in there.
I suppose he had loads of opportunities.
I suppose there were lots of ladies
that were throwing themselves at him anyway.
Big time goes out that much.
I bet they didn't come around to his house. No.
You know, I bet they didn't.
I bet they didn't come out to his house,
and I bet he wasn't just hanging out with them in his bedroom.
You know, that means you have to go out.
Who goes out five times a week?
I wouldn't want to go out.
I hardly ever go out. I love not going out.
I love not going out. I love staying home.
People get excited about going out.
I'm like, yes, I'm staying at home. This is great.
Going out is nice, too, and it's a special occasion,
but like going out five times a week or three times a week,
I'm like, oh, I'd be bored.
I'd be bored of all that going out.
I want to stay home and relax.
Who likes to stay out?
How many times a week do you like to go out?
If you're going out, how many times a week do you like to go out?
Esther likes to go out. Zero.
Bonnie, how many times a week do you want to go out?
Zero. Lorraine and Ron, how often do you like going out?
Twice a week? Once or twice?
Steph? A few times a week?
Elise? Couple?
Indira?
How many times do you like to go out a week?
You don't know?
I have to work, so I have to go out.
But I'm just meaning for social stuff, not just for work, but you know, like.
Maybe two or three times, not much.
Three times a week? Now, Kerry, is that three or zero?
Zero. Zero.
So Kerry doesn't like to go out.
Zero. So Kerry doesn't want to go out.
Patty, how many? Once or twice, you say?
Well, two or three, maybe, depends on which energy I've got left.
Michelle, how often do you want to go out a week?
It depends where you're going out and what you're doing.
I mean, I'd go out every night if I could, but that's because I'm just a sociable person.
That's right. Here we go.
All party. That's good. That's good.
Hey, and that's important.
That's why it's good to define success for yourself, right?
Because for some people, success is
never having to leave the house.
They're like, ah, this is perfect.
And for others, that is such a miserable existence,
you know, that you just couldn't imagine it.
And then for other people, like the concept of having to go out every.
single night just sounds terrifying. So it kind of depends on me. I'm like an introvert, extrovert,
kind of don't really care where I am. I'm going to get into whatever it is, but drop me in the
wilderness for two weeks and I don't have to speak to anyone and I'm going to be having the time of
my life. I will be, I get into this really epic state of silence that I love and I'll be so happy
not to see a soul, not to talk to anyone and I'll just be in this like silent communion with God
for days on end and I absolutely love it. It's really rare for me to get that nowadays because,
but when I do get it, oh I love silence and I'll be just so happy just to, you know,
be only opening my mouth to eat food or to pray. That's fine with me, but oftentimes when I get
in that state as well, often even my prayer times become very, very quiet. You know, oftentimes like
if I go to a state of prayer and fasting or a time of really seeking the Lord, I set some time aside.
Often instead of getting loud and rowdy in prayer, it actually gets really, really still, which is quite cool.
Solomon, you know, he, the thing that set him apart is he had a listening ear.
How do I balance social media? You drowned in Facebook this week trying to keep up with the
posts and interacting even here on the Sonship Group. Difficult to keep up even though I really
want to. Well, that at the end of the day, it always, you just have to, you have to bring it back
to balance and balance comes back to your definition of success because your definition
of success is going to determine where your priorities are, right? And so for me,
and I've been having this conversation lately as well, like do I, if there's someone that's
hating on some of my comments, right, or some of my posts, say I've got someone who really hates
what I'm doing and they're getting all worked up and calling me all sorts of names or whatever,
how much time am I going to give that person knowing that if I engage with that comment,
the time that I put into that comment is time that I don't give to my children?
So balance, that's why the balance sheet is really important at the bottom of the
stewarding success because, you know, if we were like Tiger Woods, we don't care about our family,
you know, in that sense, you know, like you can neglect your family, like if you, but you know,
you have this, your definition of success and that's why it's important, take that time to
define success for you and not, don't do it in a shallow way, do it in a deep contemplative,
do it as a deep contemplative meditation of how you define success.
Yeah, and then out of that definition of success, yeah, we'll come to next step,
but out of that definition of success, you will have to, you know, you will then have to balance,
okay, so how much time do I put into my kids? How much time do I put into my business? How much time
do I put into my fitness? Yesterday I got up just before 2am and, but I had to have a little nap in
the afternoon to carry on through the day and, you know, what time am I going to finish work? Because
I know that if I work too late, that puts pressure on my marriage, puts pressure on my family.
And so the working late puts pressure on, but the working early doesn't. So I have to figure out
balance, okay, so if I want to do extra work, I kind of have to get up extra early as opposed to
working extra late. Extra late doesn't necessarily work that well, but even this week I've had to do
some extra late. I've had to do some stints. I'm looking forward to the weekend because it's kind
of a bit more of a relax and a chill. I'll still do a couple of things over the weekend, but
it won't be the intensity, you know, it'll be like, ah, get to rest. So those things all
balance out, you know, like balancing workouts and going for runs and doing all those things,
all balancing out. So that balance sheet is so, so critical because if you aren't, and this is
the thing about intentionality with how you're trying to succeed. If you're not intentional,
your life will get out of balance. You know, like the chaos will come if you're out,
if you're not intentional, but Steph, let's go with you.
Sorry, I had to unmute myself. I just hear, I've had.
People will say to me, they say, oh, how are you doing?
And they'll say, I don't know if it's a Kiwi thing,
they'll say, oh, are you busy, are you busy?
And I say now, well, actually, rather than being busy,
I'm trying to be intentional about what I'm doing.
And they go, oh, you can see this look on their face,
like of shock of like, what the heck does that mean?
And people seem to think that like often,
busyness is successful, if that makes any sense.
Yeah, exactly.
Yeah, because my life has, in the last,
or since lockdown, really, last year,
my life is completely different to what it was.
And so I suppose people would say like,
with business and stuff, there was retraining,
I did retraining and stuff and successful, I guess,
in that kind of realm.
But now doing all this, doing the systems for success
is really, what am I trying to say?
I had to really, I guess my dreams and visions
had kind of disappeared.
Like I was a bit, I've been a bit lost.
I didn't know, it was like, oh, Lord,
what am I doing from day to day to day?
So I've gone from being busy
and really stewarding my time,
and yep, I do this, this, and this,
to now that I've got most of my time is nothing,
if you want to put it that way.
I'm still seeing clients with massage in the biofields
and spending more time with my daughter
and my grandchildren and stuff like that.
And I'm caretaker at the center that I live at,
so I can potter around in the garden
and do stuff like that.
But my life is so completely different.
So it's that whole giant of distraction is like,
when we did that part, it was like,
it was like, I felt like it was a real slap in the face,
like, oh my gosh, that's really going on in my life.
So it's having the discipline to do these things
and to do this, like the stewarding and all of that stuff.
So it's kind of opposite for me.
It's like I can be easily distracted of doing nothing.
Yeah, so my life's very, very different to what it was.
So it's like flipped on its end, if that makes any sense.
Yeah, very good, very good.
Couple of thoughts come to mind,
not exactly on track, but just reminded me of this,
that a salary is the price they pay you
to forget your dreams.
And sometimes survival, right?
Survival, the need for survival gives you some type of perk.
There's some type of perk for survival.
And that perk, that prize, whatever it is,
that thing that we start chasing in our day job
or in our business, that thing that we're chasing
that gives us a little perk that just enables us to survive,
that perk is the thing that actually
causes us to forget our dreams.
You know, you're so busy chasing this thing
that enables you to survive,
that you forget about why you're really here.
Yeah, that's right.
And then another thing with busyness is I think that,
I think that people who value being busy
more often unsuccessful people
trying to justify their own failures.
Yeah, like busyness is such a justification.
Oh, have you done this?
I've been busy.
Busy doing what?
If you actually question the middle,
like what have you actually been doing?
I've actually been mucking around and being distracted,
but I'm just calling it busy to justify the fact
that I have wasted my life.
And so I don't feel as bad as I do.
So I feel pretty bad, but realistically,
if I was to actually take ownership of my life
and what I'm actually doing, I would feel terrible.
So let's just say I've been busy.
We can chase busyness and chase distractions
because they are a justification.
It's a really narcissistic place to be,
but that busyness and those distractions
enable people to justify your own failed existence
in a way of saying it.
Because there's so many people,
there's things that they want to do in their life,
but they don't have the time to do it.
And so I think that's a really good point.
they all say, they say to me,
oh, I'm too busy to do that.
Or, oh, I'm too busy to do an online course.
And I sometimes I say,
well, what's your favorite program you're watching?
Are you binge watching any series at the moment?
You know, maybe turn the TV off and, you know.
I've watched so much
that Netflix charged me twice this month.
Yeah, that's right, that's right.
Yeah, yeah.
Yeah, exactly, exactly.
And the real issue is that people don't take ownership
and justify.
And the same, we have to be really careful here too,
that when we're looking at the balance sheet,
that we're not justifying.
You know, actually you have to take real extreme ownership
of, oh, are you overwhelmed this week?
Well, that's your fault.
Okay, that's your responsibility
of whether you're overwhelmed this week or not,
because you are the powerful person
that gets to choose what you do and what you don't do.
And that ultimately has to come back down
to what your priorities are.
And are you acting in alignment with your priorities?
And your priority this week
might be different to your priority next week,
but you have to really identify what your priority is.
Like, this fella over here
has got my priorities for the week.
You know, where my time has to go,
what's urgent, what needs to be done?
Well, it's all right there.
And that's where your intentionality comes out,
to-do lists, not to-do lists.
Like, this is where I'm gonna spend my time.
And then looking at the priorities
and looking at the time
and realizing most of the time there's not enough time.
So how am I going to resolve that dilemma?
Well, it might be that I'm gonna have to get up early
a couple of times this week so that I can expand my time.
Or it might be I'm gonna have to cut something out
in order to prioritize the priorities.
But it's that thing of getting balance
and not being, you know, not justifying.
Does that make sense?
Who feels like we can easily fall into that trap
of justifying
when really the real issue is
that we haven't prioritized,
or we haven't been intentional,
or we haven't actually thought this through,
or we actually did get distracted,
or we actually did just waste an hour
on this dumb thing that we weren't supposed to be doing
that has now put even more pressure on our priorities.
And now we just blame something else
for the fact that really we were distracted.
And that's the real reason why we're not living our dreams.
But you can imagine doing that.
You imagine the price of that distraction as a lifestyle.
Imagine, you know, how much time is wasted over a week,
over a year, over 10 years.
Well, that time over 10 years is the difference
between whether you live your dreams or not.
Yeah, and so that attitude of justifying
that half an hour distraction here and there,
that one thing is the one thing
that's actually costing us our wildest dreams.
And we don't even realize the price that it's paying
because we're not seeing it in perspective of,
actually, over 10 years,
this is gonna cost me my wildest dreams.
But in the moment, we justify it.
Yeah, oh yeah, it's okay.
And then the next day we, ah, it's okay.
And then again, and again, and again, and again.
But over 10 years, the real price we pay is,
if that half an hour had been put into something intentional
would have been the difference
between me living my wildest dreams or not.
I see Ron nodding his head.
Yeah, I so much appreciate this group and you, Benji.
I'm a contractor and I prided my site,
so much on the fact that I had a lot of work
and I was busy, busy, busy.
And it's like, how are you doing?
I'm really, really busy.
And I determined being successful is being so busy
and having lots of work.
And it's like, man, I could work 12 to 16 hours a day
and go, go, go.
But was I really fulfilling my dreams?
No, not at all.
I knew there was so much more,
but I was so busy focusing on being successful in work
and accomplishing this.
And it's almost like by the grace of God,
this whole COVID thing came about.
I went, thank you, Lord.
Cause it just put the brakes on so much.
And then it was like, okay, now what?
And it was like, now you have a lot of free time and it's like, I got to stay busy.
I got to stay busy.
And you know, when we went through your, your, your thing about achievement
based success and lifestyle based success, it just opened up a lot of like, like
it's like the lights turned on.
Right.
And it's like, so now what?
And it's like, and now I want to be intentional.
I want to take the time.
I want to change my mindset and, and go after the things that I know God has for
me.
And it's like, and it was almost like he was saying, well, when are you going to
finally step into what I have for you?
Because there'd be so many promises spoken over our lives over where we're in
and I, and it's like, when are we going to actually step into it?
Well, we're just too busy.
And, and now it's like, we're even taking this next week off and we just want to
hunker down in, in, in all of this.
And, and, and it's like when you said that the, the concept or the idea of
success is shalom.
And it's like, when you describe shalom, it's like, it's like, I want to stop
rest in him, rest in, hear from him and, and just download what the father has for
us and then change my mindset and change my priorities and reboot for this new
season we're walking into.
And Lorraine just found out yesterday, the day before that, you know, like, you
know, her work, it's like, you know what, there's not going to be any work for the
rest of the year, right?
You're getting paid, but there's no work.
So it's basically, yeah, it's, it's an incredible position.
So what are we going to do with that?
Just go on vacation and go fishing.
Yeah, that's maybe one day, but, but my priorities are, I want to change my
mindset and be intentional and, and achieve the goals that God has for me.
And so we're actually taking the week off.
We're going up to the mountains, the place, and, and we weren't able to use
it because of the restrictions.
Now there was a door open.
We're going to go, we're taking all this.
We're going to finally catch up.
That's why we're happy.
Oh, we get to catch up next week.
We get to, you know, so yeah, so, so, but, but lining up with people that
are intentional that want this mindset, you know, change, it's very exciting.
And, and to link up with people that, that, uh, you know, that,
that are on the same page.
And, and so I feel very, very blessed to be a part of this.
You have no idea.
It's incredible.
That is awesome.
Yeah, me too.
Well, that is great news.
Great news.
Right.
Who else wants to jump in on the open mic?
Um, and share because, um, just again, being time sensitive of everyone's
priorities, we won't drag it out today, but, um, uh, Oh yeah.
So if you've got, um, if you've got, yeah, anything you want to say, then just
yeah, anything you want to say, then just do it.
Kerry, go for it.
Yeah.
Uh, sorry.
I had the internet connection, so I had to switch between the devices.
Uh, no problem.
No, thanks for allowing me.
Yeah, welcome.
Yeah.
Kerry.
Kerry, what's happening?
Um, Kerry farms, alligators, and she'd like to tell you guys all about it.
She's, uh, she's got some exciting things happening with the alligators.
Kerry, why don't you tell us about your alligators that you're farming?
My alligator farm.
Yeah.
Tell us about it.
Well, there's lots of crocodiles in Australia, but I've moved out of that area.
Um, I wouldn't like to wrestle with one.
That's for sure.
You would like to?
No, it would be a horrible demise, but just, just, um,
I was talking about that, guys.
She does not have an alligator farm.
They don't have alligators in Australia.
No, we don't have alligators.
We have crocodiles.
Big saltwater crocs.
Nasty things.
Yeah.
Nasty things, quite like, um.
15 foot long.
Oh, some are huge up here.
Even bigger, longer, 20,000 leagues under the sea stuff.
So how I've been feeling is,
because I never really defined my failures as failures,
that was difficult to adjust to that.
And then with coming into trying to define success,
I kind of got caught in the middle of that
and felt a lot of overwhelm,
but I've really been working on balancing
the areas of my life.
So, but at times I haven't wanted to go near,
I've just put my phone away and said, I'm not going there.
And I found it a bit challenging
with the tech side of it,
being frustrated with that, wanting to do so much,
all of that, and really just trying to keep
my own personal stuff happening in the middle.
But yeah, just really, and what I really miss
is the time that I used to be able to spend with God,
just in prayer and meditation and getting a lot of answers.
And now I try to juggle that in between everything as well.
But I've been really enjoying Acts.
Yeah, who's been trapping along
with reading the book of Acts?
It's been great.
Have you enjoyed that?
I've been like, I love that book.
It has been so good.
Who felt, has anyone done today's one?
Yep.
Yeah, okay, well, I just thought that,
that was like so on point for us,
just globally, like where the world is at right now.
Where the world is at right now is so crazy.
And I'll just put this out there.
I know that there's some conversations
that I'm intentionally not having right now,
but it's because we are in the background
building our own platform, right?
We are spending thousands of dollars right now.
I've got a guy full-time working in this area.
We are building our own platform,
and it's gonna be a platform
where we can have any conversation we wanna have.
But right now, for me, the way that social media works
is that social media is a big fat cow,
and I wanna milk it like a big fat cow.
Because if it wasn't for social media,
I wouldn't have been able to connect with any of you.
So for me, social media is how I actually connect,
how we're building a movement of kingdom royalty,
discipling nations through fulfilled dreams.
This is how the movement's starting.
But we're basically connecting with people on social media,
then stepping into creating our own platform,
but it's the pipeline, right?
So it's the pipeline.
So I'm being sensitive and cautious presently
so I can funnel people into our own platform
so that on that new platform,
I'm future-pacing the conversation, right?
Because I know that there's so much
that we wanna say right now,
but if we say everything we wanna say right now,
we won't have a platform.
So in that sense,
if we say everything we wanna say right now,
even what I do say, some stuff gets banned, you know?
But if I say everything that I wanna say now,
we'll cut the pipeline,
which means that we will restrict the flow.
But once we've, like our own platform,
once that goes live in a couple of months,
then we're gonna have a space
that we can have any conversations we like,
which is pretty exciting.
You guys think that's exciting?
That's gonna be fun, right?
Do you guys want me to share like two minutes
on the new platform, like our long-term vision for that?
Of what we're building in the background?
Okay, so what we're building in the background,
what we're gonna do ultimately
is it's gonna be like an entire city
in one platform, right?
So there'll be different levels of access.
So there'll be, so it's a website.
You'll be able to go to that website
and on that website,
you'll be able to see on the surface,
you know, kind of like a bit of stuff.
And then if you create a free account,
you'll get access to a whole lot more stuff.
And then you'll be able to have like a $10 a month
subscription, and then you'll get like access
to a whole lot of stuff.
And then if you're in the inner circle, for example,
it'll go right deep
and you'll get access to nearly everything.
There'll still be a few private rooms
and things like that in there that you can have access to,
but there'll be all sorts of things.
So you imagine like what we're gonna do
is we're gonna create lots of strategic partnerships.
We wanna, one example is we wanna find
the 50 most influential voices
that are really adding huge value
in every sphere of influence.
So a little bit like a Christian network.
in the sense of, okay, what are the 50 most like,
most, 50 voices that we want to hear from the most
in terms of even just entertainment.
We love these movies the most.
We love this entertainment the most.
We love this health information the most.
We love these workouts the most.
We love, we love this.
This is like the preaching, the church side of it.
This is the worship.
This is the entertainment.
This is like, you know, interesting stuff.
And then having like a place as well,
like a whole homeschool dynamic on there as well.
Online education from kids up to university
that actually operate on our platform.
Not necessarily recreating everything,
but we become the platform
where all of this stuff takes place.
There'll also be a market, you know,
where people can have their own shop
and sell their own stuff on the platform.
So it'll be like a big mall.
So if you will go there, it'll be like a big mall.
We'll have counselors.
So any type of counseling you need,
you'll still be able to have counseling there.
If you have a professional service
that you'd like to have this professional service
for other, you know, other kingdom people,
then you can list your professional service
and people can connect
with all these different professional services,
all these things, all these free trainings,
like entertainment, reality TV.
There'll be heaps of stuff all happening on that one site.
So that's what we're building in the background,
which is kind of fun.
And it'll also mean that we won't be restricted
in the content that we want to bring.
And it's all being built from the ground up
by kingdom people.
So it'll be like completely kingdom.
We won't be vulnerable.
We won't be able to get cut off at the knees.
So that's kind of fun.
So that'll be a picture for success for us as well
as we build into that.
Cool, guys.
Who's, Gail, good to have you joining us,
jumping in here with us.
Who else is keen to just share a little bit
where they're at and what's been happening?
Kerry, are you done?
Yeah.
Yeah, say something else.
You have to unmute again.
I muted you.
Okay.
Yeah, you haven't unmuted yet.
So there you go.
Okay, got it.
One thing that has been amazing is I read the thing
about going into 100X and just getting some friends.
So that is sort of avalanched.
And I have got so many friend requests
and taken on so many friends from everywhere.
But not only that, I've been connecting one-on-one
with people, which is, and it's been,
so it's just been unbelievable.
And with that as well, lots of people like Pakistan,
young ladies who are trying to feed the poor,
lots of stuff like that from all over.
So it's really been heartwarming as well.
That's great.
I get a constant stream of people asking for money
and things like that more than I can ever reply to.
So I, especially when you tell people
you're gonna give away $10,000,
then they're like, oh, sweet, well,
yes, you can just do, you can give me whatever
I ask for as well.
But I only give people stuff
in the context of relationship.
So in social media, you get all sorts of things,
like some, if you're a single lady,
you get thousands of guys going,
hey, I'm the one, we should get together.
And then you get all sorts of people asking for money,
you get scammers, you get all sorts of distractions
and chaos there.
So again, that's like a space that you have to navigate at.
And if you feel like you're, it's winning,
then great work, but it is definitely
a dynamic space to be in.
But that's cool to hear, Kiri.
I'm stoked that you're building connections there.
Yeah, it's been good.
And I'm really well-versed in scammers.
And so I usually pick them from a mile off.
Yeah, so it's been good.
It's something that I would never have done.
Brilliant, that's very cool.
Gail, how you doing?
I'm fine.
I've had an amazing time with Elise.
Oh, great.
With Jordan, she, and we've just finished.
She put me, she got me doing the post, you see,
and I'm not really, I'm not good on computer,
but she, I posted a few things
and I posted one this morning.
So she helped me.
And as soon as I post the post,
at the poverty one, I had all these calls, I had all these messages and so I'm rushing around
anyway I got hold of Elise and she said this is what you have to do and I thought I actually
moved them to you Benji because I thought that it should have been you to tell them
but Elise said to me no, she said this is yours and I went oh my gosh what do I do?
Anyway I got there and thoroughly loving it I didn't think I would, business I'm not there
yeah business minded I'm not but I thoroughly enjoyed it this morning with Elise so
I'm so pleased that she's there and I can turn to her when I need help. That's great great stuff
so on this whole dynamic of stewarding success and the balance sheet and with everything that's
happening in your life staying balanced I just want to create open mic again a little bit now
Patty is your hand up or across I can't tell if your hand is supposed to be up or across no that's
good I was just checking in case you were trying to get attention but if you've got something
really keen on your heart to share then go for it otherwise we've had a good chat and we'll wrap it
up but if there's something that's really on your heart that you want to share about this whole
process of creating the balance sheet of stewarding success then feel free to jump in now.
How did you guys what do you guys think about the stories of the different people
there that you know we shared in the template of that whole dynamic of you know
sometimes things just get way out of balance in one area. Awesome I loved it.
Great keep going great very cool very cool.
Well no one's no one's jumping onto the mic so I think I'm just gonna
we'll wrap it up there it's been a great chat and and then just we I'll spread the word on
this but we will take a break next week so that everyone can be caught up and we can just reduce
the intensity a little bit so that you know it's not too much we want to avoid overwhelm you know
like if you like when I was on that run I was at the point of overwhelm if I tried to maintain the
intensity I would I would have had to stop whereas I just reduced the intensity a little bit and I
mean yes I could finish I could go the whole distance so um well next week we will take a
break from this in terms of we won't put out new content don't take a break in terms of you know
catching up and being where you want to be but just in terms of I won't put out new new video
content next week we'll have a break from the video content so that people can make sure that
they're really stewarding what they've got and I think that'll be awesome for everyone and then
we'll we'll pick up again and then we'll have another little break when uh when the time comes
for me to go hunting stags if we're not on lockdown yeah all right well uh why don't we
have a couple people who want to pray to wrap it up and that'll be us for today
okay yes please elise elise and one other who would like to pray
elise and patty fantastic guys take it away
oh lord thank you that um we know that you you are a loving father
and jesus that you come as a friend next to us and your holy spirit is all around us and inside
of us and encouraging us and comforting us in those areas where we need comfort
and you speak truth and you remind us of all things and thank you for this community of
believers lord and i thank you for benji and for his heart and and the team that has come around
him and we we ask lord that you will take each one of us deeper deeper deeper deeper
deeper that we would hear your heartbeat that we will be in step with you that we will run
when you say run that we will stop when you say stop and that we would know that we hear your
voice that your voice is clear and that your voice is clear
is that nothing can come against us because we have you who is greater inside of us.
Your Lord, thank you for that. Thank you for that knowledge. Thank you for that encouragement.
We honor you. We worship you and we thank you. Amen.
Father, we praise you and we thank you that you have raised up men and women of
fire and passion with your desire to see heaven come on earth in very practical ways, Lord.
Thank you, Father, that you have birthed dreams and visions like the one you put in Benji's heart,
Lord, which is not just a personal thing that you've called him to do, but that you've called
him to equip and empower so many others to do it, Lord. I just praise you and I thank you, Lord,
that this is the day and this is the time and we are the people, Lord God, that we don't need to
wait for another day and another time because you are stirring the hearts of your people. You are
telling us we can do it together. We can do it. We can overthrow those giants and dragons of
darkness. We can see them topple and see your kingdom come on earth as it is in heaven. Your
kingdom increase of righteousness, peace and joy, of justice and truth, Jesus, that you will be
crowned king of the whole earth, that you will cause all the nations to come to you through
this dream and this vision that you've put into Benji's heart, Lord, and other people's hearts.
Oh, Father, we're so blessed, so privileged, Lord, to be a part of what you are doing now in this day.
It is truly the best of times and the worst of times, it seems, to be alive, Lord, but we don't
want to miss anything of what you want to do in each of our lives to see your dream, your desire
fulfilled and to see Jesus receive the travel of his soul and be satisfied. Thank you, Lord.
Amen. Great stuff, family. Well, love you very much and for those that are going to be part of
it, it's going to be a great week next week as well with the Kingdom Economics Masterclass. So
love you very much to all of you and we'll see you soon. Love you. Bye-bye. Cheers. Bye.