Hey, hey hey hey family, I hope you are doing great, let's see how this video goes, I can
see that autofocus is all over the place, and let me try and stay really still, oh my
apologies I'm just working on a new camera system and this morning it looks a little
bit bananas, I'll mess with it shortly but check this view out, boom, this is the church
of the good shepherd, I'm here with a couple of our crew who are actually in the assistance
for success life coaching, so we've got Kiri and Aude there, whoop whoop, which is primo,
I'm 5 minutes ahead of schedule, so I'm just a little bit early, but check this place out,
this is an ultimate historic building, but part of the deal is if I'm in here, I've got
to be out of here well before 9, so it's kind of epic that we get to go in here, not
even allowed to take photos in here normally, so I'm a little bit on the hooked up side
of things because part of our crew are on the crew that look after this, that run this
place, so awesome to see you guys this morning, great to see you, let's check this bad boy
out, I'm going to speak this morning about, ok so this, check this out for a key, this
is the key that you use to unlock this church, look it's flippin massive, it's a massive
key and this morning I want to be sharing with all of us a massive massive key, alright
so massive key, say massive key, somebody please say massive key, ah that's awesome
I've got a pretty legitimate crew here this morning with me, now I'm going to just slightly
adjust myself, I know I was testing the lighting but I don't think it's going to quite work
that way, so boom here I go, adjusting myself slightly on the fly, boom we're going to talk
about discipline this morning, we're going to talk about the power of discipline, love
you guys and so cool, alright boom massive key and here's the massive key that I'm going
to be sharing with us all this morning, it's about the power of discipline, now the book
of Proverbs is absolutely jam packed full of just phenomenal goodness especially in
the context of discipline and Solomon, he wrote the book of Proverbs, so the word Proverbs
it means training for reigning, that's what the actual word Proverbs means, training for
reigning, so Solomon's given us all these keys for how we can rule and reign like kings
in life, now we are called to rule and reign like royalty, come on, that's who you are,
that's what you're created for, you're created to rule and reign and so Proverbs is the handbook,
Proverbs is the handbook written by a king, written by the man who walked in what the
bible says is the greatest level of wisdom of anyone who's ever lived and he gave us
some pointers, he pointed out some things, he wasn't shy about bringing out like this
is a foolish way to live, this is what wisdom looks like and he'd contrast it with foolishness
and he'd often bring out the concept of a slugger, I'm rattling it through a little
bit this morning so that we get out of here before we have any issues, before the tourism
dynamic kicks in and we've got people come from all over the world to meet with God here
and it's just awesome what happens right here in this beautiful little chapel, people out
looking out there, it's just stunning, so here we go, I've got a bunch of Proverbs that
I've written down here because this last section of template number 2 is all about putting
disciplines in place, I want to bring some Proverbs out and a couple of quotes for you
but when you're going through this last part of the template, filling out your disciplines,
this is one of the most transformative opportunities that I believe we could ever have, we've got
to put in place 21 weekly disciplines, right, 21 weekly disciplines, that's 3 disciplines
in each area of our life, now my encouragement to you, right, is be really, really achievable
goals so that you are going to be able to easily accomplish that discipline each week,
you know, just go for small things, like go for the 5 minute dynamic, look that's my boy
Ez in the window, go for a 5 minute weekly discipline if you think that's more achievable
than an hour, okay, go for things that you're going to definitely get the momentum on, you're
going to win on and that you know each week you're going to be getting it, hi Ez, I can
see you, hey buddy, okay, off you go mate, don't play there, good boy, alright sweet
so Proverbs, let's jump into it, training for reigning, are we our greatest enemy or
our greatest ally?
Right, the answer lies in how we embrace discipline.
So, let's check out some Proverbs.
And I'm gonna get my ladies there as well
to keep me on the clock.
I think we're doing all right at the moment, we're at 8.30.
I think we're gonna smash this.
So, jump on board with me guys, let's go into Proverbs.
Training for reigning, say, I am royalty.
Somebody say, we got the ladies here, I am royalty.
Absolutely.
I train my kids how to be royalty.
I talk to them about Proverbs, about training for reigning.
Even at four and six, they're getting training for reigning,
how they can rule and reign in life like a king or a queen.
And you're called to rule and reign in your life.
And discipline is gonna be the massive key.
Ah, look at how big that sucker is.
That is the biggest key I've ever seen in my life.
And I think discipline is the biggest key
that we have in life to living in and stewarding success.
Remember, lifestyle-based success, too.
You know, thriving in every area of our life,
not just achievement-based success.
So, this is awesome, here we go.
Proverbs chapter six, verses six to 11,
starting with verse six.
Go to the ant, oh sluggard.
Observe her ways and be wise,
which having no chief, officer or ruler,
prepares her food in the summer
and that gathers her provision in the harvest.
And that might be just like you and I.
You might not have a boss who's constantly saying,
hey, are you doing this?
Are you doing that?
It might just all depend on you.
It might all depend on you fulfilling your dreams.
You might not have someone that is all about you.
Look, I've got people sneaking in through the window.
But you might have to be the one that makes the decision.
You might not have a boss saying, hey, hurry up.
You might be the one that has to make
the decision for yourself, boom.
Jump into it, make those decisions.
Be like the ant, nail the seasons,
nail the priorities, nail the timings.
Do what you gotta do.
Proverbs 10, verse four.
Poor is he who works with a negligent hand,
but the hand of the diligent makes rich.
So if you don't master discipline,
then get ready, get ready for poverty.
If you master discipline, get ready for abundance.
Proverbs 10, four to five.
He who gathers in summer is a son who acts wisely,
but he who sleeps and harvests is a son who acts shamefully.
So there's priorities in life, right?
If we get our priorities wrong,
if you're doing a low-priority task,
when it's a time for doing a high-priority task,
oh my gosh, you're setting yourself up
for a massive failure.
High-priority tasks, the 80-20 principle,
we're gonna be looking at that going forward.
But prioritize, do your priorities first.
Proverbs 12, 24.
The hand of the diligent will rule.
That's us, you're called to rule and reign.
The hand of the diligent, or when you say diligent,
you can think discipline.
The hand of the disciplined will rule,
but the slap hand, the person who doesn't have discipline,
will be put to forced labor, put to forced labor.
So if you wanna get set up for slavery,
then just don't steward the power of discipline.
The hand of the disciplined will rule,
but the slap will be put to forced labor.
Proverbs 12, 27.
The lazy do not roast any game,
but the diligent feed on the riches of the hunt.
Now, I love that one.
The lazy do not roast any game,
but the diligent feed on the riches of the hunt.
Now, I love that, okay?
You're called to go out there and crush it.
You're called to win,
and discipline is gonna be setting you up for winning.
But if you're not winning,
then have a look at your disciplines,
because there's probably something out of alignment there,
and there's probably a massive opportunity
to embrace a massive key,
and to embrace the power of discipline,
and put it in place in your life.
Discipline will give you what you want, guys.
It'll give you what you want.
What does winning look like to you?
Feasting on the riches.
Feasting on the riches of the hunt,
that's about succeeding in the pursuit
of your personal definition of success.
We've given that, you know,
you've articulated in template number two,
what is your definition of success?
Well, that's what feasting
on the riches of the hunt looks like.
It's like, yes, you're living your own definition of success.
You're pursuing, and you're fulfilling,
and you're succeeding in the pursuit
of your own wildest dreams.
That is feasting on the riches of the hunt.
The lazy don't get to do that.
Those that don't embrace discipline don't get to do that.
But you do,
because you are gonna embrace the power of discipline.
Proverbs 13, four,
the soul of the sluggard craves and gets nothing,
but the soul of the diligent is made fat.
Ooh, yeah.
The soul of the sluggard craves and gets nothing.
Now, that's the difference between,
are you a daydreamer, or are you.
actually putting something in place.
Are you a daydreamer or are you a visionary?
As someone who's just daydreaming or you're a visionary,
you're sold out, you're actually doing what it takes,
you've gotta embrace this concept of doing whatever it takes
to bring your dreams to life, because the slugger,
there's so many people like this.
So many people are just,
they just have this concept of daydreaming.
They talk about all these wonderful fantasies
of what they want,
but if you don't embrace the power of discipline,
if you don't match your discipline up with your desires,
then you'll never see your destiny fulfilled.
The soul of the slugger craves and gets nothing,
but the soul of the diligent is made fat.
Mm-hmm.
In all labor, there is profit,
but mere talk leads only to poverty.
How's that?
In all labor, there is profit,
but mere talk leads only to poverty.
It's about work ethic.
King Solomon is articulating through Proverbs
that if you wanna rule and reign in life,
then get ready to put on some serious work ethic.
If you're not gonna embrace the hustle,
you're gonna lead to failure,
you're gonna lead to poverty,
you're gonna lead to a heartbreak and disappointment,
but if you embrace the power of discipline,
oh my gosh, get ready for abundance,
get ready for success,
get ready to be living in the fullness
of your wildest dreams.
Proverbs 15, 19,
the way of the lazy is a hedge of thorns,
but the path of the upright is a highway.
Proverbs 18, nine,
he also who is slack in his work
is brother to him who destroys.
Oh my gosh, if you're not diligent,
if you're not working hard,
Solomon's saying, man,
you're brother to one who destroys.
That's crazy.
Laziness casts, Proverbs 19, 15,
laziness casts into a deep sleep
and an idle man will suffer hunger.
So if you want poverty,
then embrace laziness,
just have another nap,
just give yourself another two hours,
just sleep in.
Proverbs 19, 24,
the sluggard buries his hand in his dish,
but will not even bring it back to his mouth.
Now this seems kind of like a crazy concept.
The sluggard buries his hand in his dish,
but will not even bring it to his mouth.
Now that is about finishing well.
Are we finishing well?
So many people walk through opportunities,
but they walk through them half-heartedly.
They don't finish it.
There's all these opportunities,
they're like, you're nearly there,
you're right on the verge of success.
You just gotta push through,
you're on the verge of your greatest breakthrough.
You just gotta push through just a little bit more.
Your hands, you've already got your hands on the prize.
You're right there in that place of success.
You're nearly there, finish well.
You actually just bring it home,
bring it home, bring it home.
You're nearly there, so just push through.
You are on the verge of your greatest breakthrough.
Jump in, your hand's there, you've got it,
you're in the opportunity, you've seized the moment,
just bring it in.
That last 20%, that hustle, that grind,
just pushing right through, finishing well, guys.
That sets us up for success.
Let's not be like the sluggard
who's walked through the open door.
They've got a hold of their prize,
and then just laziness, distraction,
discouragement, whatever.
You are on the verge of your greatest breakthrough.
You've got all these templates,
you're filling out your dreams,
so it could be like you're right there,
you're in the verge of just amazing breakthrough,
so just finish the template.
Just finish it, finish it, finish it,
and crush life, be phenomenal.
Okay, Proverbs 20, verse four.
The sluggard does not plow after the autumn,
so he begs during harvest and has nothing.
Oh, no.
The sluggard does not plow after the autumn,
so he begs during the harvest and has nothing.
This is just a great follow-through to that concept
of you've got your hand on the opportunity,
you're right there, you've got to finish this,
or you're right there, you're nearly there,
but you don't prioritize, and you start doing some,
you get distracted by something
and engage in a low-priority,
a low-priority task,
when it's like you've got these high-priority things,
you've got to get these done.
And you know what, sometimes high-priority tasks
demand that we hustle.
Sometimes that last part of bringing it home
has got some really serious hustle in it.
A few times of the year, I will usually work all day,
work all night, and not stop
until I accomplish a high-priority task.
There's such time pressure on it.
I know this has to be done if I want to succeed.
I can't let up.
I can't drop the slack right now.
I have got to hustle, hustle, hustle.
I've got to put on the afterburners,
and there comes seasons where there's priority things.
You know, you've just got to drive.
You've just got to hustle.
You've just got to get it done.
You've got deadlines, timelines, things just going on.
Well, that's the time to dig deep.
And if you don't dig deep in those priority times,
you'll be like the slug.
who doesn't embrace the power of priority get distracted by low-level
tasks and boom you miss out and so the result will be that you go begging.
Poverty will come on you. Proverbs 20 verse 13. Do not love sleep or you will
become poor. How's that? Oh my gosh we need to tell some people this biblical
wisdom. Do not love sleep or you will become poor. Okay sleep is great but we
got to balance it out. We've got to get some hustle going on as well. Open your
eyes and you will be satisfied with food. Okay opportunity and invitation into
abundance. Proverbs 21 verse 25. The sluggard, the desire of the sluggard
puts him to death. For his hands refuse to work all day long he is craving while
the righteous gives and does not hold back. This is massive. The desire of the
sluggard puts him to death. You know because hope deferred makes the heart
sick but a longing fulfilled is a tree of life which is another Proverbs from
Solomon. So a sluggard has all these desires, all these dreams and they're
never getting fulfilled. They're never seeing anything happen so they're just
disappointed, they're discouraged, they're unsatisfied, they're just miserable and
they're perpetuating their own misery. A sluggard perpetuates their own misery
but having grand, beautiful, outrageous, massive dreams and desires and never
seeing any of them fulfilled because they refuse to do what it takes to bring
those dreams to life. Okay the Dave Riddell quote, how do you get whatever
you want in life? Do whatever it takes and a sluggard is not willing to do
whatever it takes to bring their dreams to life. Proverbs 22 verse 13. The
sluggard says there is a lion outside. I will be killed in the streets. What's
that? Just excuses. Sluggards make up excuses constantly. Proverbs 24 30. I
passed by the field of the sluggard and by the vineyard of the man lacking sense
or a fool. So Proverbs is all about calling what's a sluggard a slug and
what's a fool a fool. He does it all the time. Passed by the field of the sluggard
by the vineyard of the man lacking sense and behold it was completely overgrown
with thistles, its surface was covered with nettles and its stone wall was
broken down. It goes on. Proverbs 24 verse 33 says a little sleep, a little slumber,
a little folding of the hands to rest, then poverty will come on you as a
robber and thief like an arm and and lack like an armed bandit. Oh my gosh
poverty will come upon you like a robber and lack like an armed bandit. Oh
my gosh. So a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding the hands to
rest and poverty will come on you as a robber and lack like an armed bandit. Oh
my goodness. So that's again just about work ethic, about being smart in your
work, about prioritizing, about hustling, about when it comes to that moment to
hustle, you fully engage, you put the afterburners on, you go after your dreams.
Don't, and let me just say this as well, don't compare yourself to the standard
around us because the standard in our world right now is tragic. That's why
there's so few people that are living their wildest dreams. So don't allow
yourself to compare yourself to the person beside you because the person
beside you is probably failing in life, okay. So don't allow yourself to
compare. Don't bother comparing with other people. You have got to have way
higher standards than the average person otherwise poverty will come on you like
an armed bandit. Wow, here is one of the most crazy intense ones. Proverbs 25, 28.
A man without discipline is like a city broken into and left without walls.
What time is that? Are we timed to go? Okay, right. It's Alana. Okay, sweet. Check that out.
Proverbs 25, 28. A man without self-control or a man without discipline is like a
city broken into and left without walls. Oh my gosh. Proverbs 26, 14. As the door
turns on its hinges so the sluggard turns on his bed and gets nothing. Here's again
excuses from the sluggard. Proverbs 26, 13. The sluggard says there is a lion in the
road. A lion is in the open square. More excuses, more justification on why you're
not living your dreams. Justification excuses, they don't give you your dreams,
okay. You can make all the excuses if you want. You can justify all you want. You
can give all the reasons why it's not possible you want but they will not give
you your dreams. Proverbs 26, 15. Again, he highlights the same concept. The sluggard
buries his hand in the dish. He is weary of bringing it to his mouth again.
Proverbs 28 19 he who tills his land will have plenty of food. That's work ethic. What's your land? What's your opportunity?
What's your dreams? What are the disciplines that you need to embrace he who tills his land will have plenty of food
But he who follows empty pursuits will have poverty in
Plenty. Oh my gosh
Now just so that's what I'm giving us from
Proverbs and now I'm just going to give a few just a few quotes as well from different people. So here's some an anonymous quote
self-discipline
Is doing what needs to be done when it needs to be done even when you don't feel like doing it
Oh, man, that's a killer. Let's then say that again
Self-discipline is
Doing what needs to be done when it needs to be done, even when you don't feel like doing it. Here's one from Jim Rohn
Discipline is the bridge between
goals and
Accomplishments. Here's another anonymous one
the pain of self-discipline will never be as great as the pain of regret and
Another anonymous one. I've got a few anonymous ones here and
It's easy to make excuses for the lack of self-discipline
But excuses don't get you anywhere
It's easy to make excuses for the lack of self-discipline, but excuses don't get you anywhere
And I want to say that this generation has got a lot of a lot of excuses a lot of great justifications a lot of well
articulated
excuses and justifications, but
Excuses don't get results
Discipline not desire determines your destiny. There's an anonymous one
Discipline not desire determines your destiny. So this is the thing, you know, we've got these massive dreams the hundred dreams list
we've got these amazing definitions of what success looks like for us, but if we do not match up our
Discipline with our desires. They'll never be fulfilled discipline is is what?
Orients our lives towards success
So when we put these disciplines in place
Every day when you're putting these disciplines in place
Even when you're writing these out when you're running out your 21
Weekly disciplines what you are doing is you are setting yourself up for success
You are orienting your entire life towards success and when you have a precision
definition of what success looks like when you have a precision definition of exactly what you want in your life when you know
Exactly what you want to accomplish in ten years and five years in one year in one month in one week today
When you know exactly
Precisely, you've articulated it. You've written it down. It's so clear. There's no room for
For confusion, it's absolutely precise what you want. Then you can precisely
Articulate you can so you can price precisely orient your life towards success now random actions betray our dreams
but precision actions taken with precision timing produce precision results, which is the fulfillment of your wildest dreams, so
Discipline not desire determines your destiny
So let's match up our discipline with our dreams in order to be people who don't just talk about our dreams
But live in the fulfillment and the fruition of our own wildest dreams last one for you from Dwayne Johnson
This guy's got some of the biggest muscles on the planet. And here's what Dwayne Johnson says. He says all
successes
Begin with
Self-discipline it starts with you
All successes begin with self-discipline. It starts with you. Boom guys. So that's us for today. It starts with you
Let's get those templates fulfilled. I can't wait to see you thriving
I can't wait to see what happens over the next
Five weeks as we all embrace together the power of discipline as we jump on this train
Let's not just be talkers about it, but let's be doers of the word. Let's put into place. Let's smash it
Let's thrive. Let's live like never before. Let's rule and reign like royalty
You were born for this can't wait to see you thriving in every area of your life and taking abundance
Prosperity and the fulfillment of your wildest dreams to a whole new level bless you. See you real soon
See ya. Love you
Hey
Why don't you do a shout out of some of the disciplines that you're putting in place say goodbye to these ladies and say thanks
to them
Say, thanks, lady
Thanks for the massive key to success and the awesome time that we've had here
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Check that out
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and we're signing out for today.
Boom.
Okay, love you guys.
See ya.
Let's try and focus that.
Boom, done.
See ya!