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TERRI: Hey! It's Terri Savelle Foy, your cheerleader of dreams.
Hey, if you've never subscribed to this podcast, just push the
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and tips, to help you live your dreams. You know, here I am
living a dream in Paris, France at a beautiful apartment, and I
wanna teach you the same thing. In fact today's Podcast is
called visualize money. I mean it sounds so blunt and so, just
there you go. But I just wanted to talk about this topic of
visualizing money, because did you know that God's the one who
said, "I wish above all things, that you prosper and be in
health, even as your soul prospers." Well, everything
begins on the inside before it ever shows up on the outside.
You know, God has given us two types of sight. Physical sight,
and spiritual sight. Physical sight is obviously what we see.
The gorgeous Eiffel Tower right there. But spiritual sight is
what you see on the inside, that people around you don't have a
clue what you're imagining. Well God wants you to use your eye of
faith, you're spiritual sight to visualize where you wanna go in
life. In fact, Napoleon Hill said, "If you do not see great
riches in your imagination, you'll never see them in your
bank balance." Well again, Albert Einstein said, "Your
imagination is everything." He said, "It's simply a preview of
life's coming attractions." Well, obviously successful
people talk about using the gift of the imagination and
visualizing where you wanna go. Bob Harrison used to say, "If
you wanna see more increase, you gotta see more increase." Where?
On the inside. Well, God's the one who came up with this. I've
shared in the past how when they were building the Tower of
Babel, ungodly people trying to build this structure to reach
heaven, and God's the one who said, "This is just the
beginning of what they will do." He said, "Now nothing they have
imagined they can do will be impossible for them." So, think
about that. Nothing you can imagine yourself doing will be
impossible for you. But you have to imagine it. So, you have to
imagine having a job that pays $100,000. Imagine paying
off your student loans. Imagine logging into your bank account
and moving $10,000 into your savings. Or paying off that
MasterCard, or that student loan. You've got to imagine it.
Visualize it on the inside, before it shows up on the
outside. In fact, one of my favorite stories I like to tell
is of Jack Canfield. Now Jack Canfield said that he grew up in
a very poor home. He said his mom died when he was young, his
dad was abusive, and he had a poor mentality. Well, he became
to be mentored by W. Clement Stone. Multi, multi-millionaire,
very successful man. W. Clement Stone was trying to change
Jack's mentality and his mindset. He said, "Jack, what I
want you to do is imagine a dream that's outside the realm
of possibility." He said, "What is that dream?" Jack said, "Well
at the time, I was making $25,000 a year, so a dream
that's just outside the realm of possibility would be to make
$100,000 in one year." So W. Clement Stone said, "Then
that's what I want you to wrap your faith around." So he said,
"I want you to see it on the inside. Imagine yourself being
handed $100,000. Imagine having a job that pays you $100,000."
And then he said, "I want you to write it down, and
keep that dream before your eyes." Well, Jack didn't know
what to do, so he said he enlarged a one dollar bill, and
he wrote $100,000. Then he said he taped it to the top of
his ceiling in his bedroom, so every night it was the last
thing he saw when he went to bed. Every morning that was the
first thing he saw when he woke up, was his dream. Well, and he
began using the power of words like the Bible says. "Call those
things that be not as though they are." So he started
speaking to that money, and saying,
"I declare that I'll receive $100,000."
Well, he said a couple of months went by,
nothing changed. Now, I always feel like I should repeat that
part, a couple months went by and nothing changed. In other
words, you feel like a fool. Talking to a fake $100,000
bill taped to your ceiling. Well, he said he just kept doing
it. One day he said he had this idea. Years ago when he was
trying to be successful and go for his dream, he said he had
written a book that did not sell. Felt like a complete
failure. He had 400,000 copies setting in a warehouse
just rotting away, and he had this idea. He said, "If I
were to sell those books for 25 cents each, I could make
$100,000," just had the idea. He said one day he's just going
about his life, and he goes to a grocery store, and he just
happened to glance over and see the National Enquirer. It's a
real classy piece of literature. He said, "I just had this
thought. If I could get an article in that magazine, I bet
I could sell my books and make $100,000." He went on with life,
speaking to his vision, speaking to that dream. All of a sudden,
he flies to the New York, he speaks at a university to a
class, about 60 people showed up, but he said, "I gave the
best speech I could." Well, at the end of the speech, this
woman walks up to him and she said, "I really enjoyed your
talk." She said, "In fact, I'd like to help you get other talks
out around the country." She said, "By the way, I'm a
freelance writer for the National Enquirer." Well, I'm
sure you guessed it. She published an article by Jack
Canfield in the Enquirer, and he said by the end of that year he
made $93,000. Well, some people say, "Jack, you didn't make
100." He said, "Well, I was a lot closer to the 100 that was
my vision than I was the 25 I used to make." He didn't take it
as it didn't work. Well, he said his wife came to him one day and
she said, "Jack, if this'll work for $100,000, do you think it
would work for a million?" He said, "Of course, it would." He
said, "I just added a zero, put it to the ceiling," and started
declaring that they attract million dollar ideas, "We
receive a million dollars," and they just kept declaring, kept
declaring. Well, all of a sudden, God gave Jack an idea to
write a little book called Chicken Soup for the Soul. I'm
sure you probably have a copy or you know someone who does. Well,
Jack Canfield wrote Chicken Soup for the Soul, and do you know
the publisher handed him a check for one million dollars. It was
the first one million dollars that publisher had ever written,
and it was to Jack Canfield. Now, I want you to think about
it. A guy went from making $25,000 a year to within three
years time being handed a check for a million dollars. Why?
Well, I like to say he gave himself permission to dream. He
used his imagination, and he just thought, "This is outside
the realm of possibility, but I'm going to go ahead and dream
it." He visualized being handed a million dollars. Well, you've
got to do the same thing. Not only that, he wrote the vision
down and he kept it before his eyes. I want to challenge you.
Do the same thing with whatever your dreams are. Like I said,
God's the one who said, "I wish above all things that you
prosper and be in health even as your soul prospers." Well, God
wants you so blessed that you can be a blessing. That's what
we're doing here in France. We're giving out. We're sowing
into churches. We're sowing into lives. We're giving books away
all over the streets. Well, God wants you to be a blessing. I
want to help you out. In fact, this month I'm giving you the
first chapter of my book, Imagine Big, absolutely free.
Now, all you have to do is click the link in the description to
get chapter one. You can just download it, and just get
started dreaming, thinking, imagining where you want to go.
I believe this'll help you. Take advantage of it, chapter one
absolutely free. If you're enjoying the podcast, be sure to
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you motivated to live your dreams. From Paris,
France, thank you for watching. Au revoir.
TERRI: Icing means something added to
something good that makes it even better.
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