- When was the last time you did something new?
Tried something for the first time?
You know, I want to help you in this week's video,
take back control of your life.
How?
By pushing yourself to take on a 30 day challenge.
That's it!
I'm Terri Savelle Foy, Your Cheerleader Dreams,
and I want you to know you can do anything for 30 days.
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Many of you are doing the 30 day challenges
with me right now,
and you've already printed the download
of 50 ideas for 30 day challenges.
Some of you haven't, but here's the thing,
some of your new challenges will start and end on day 30,
never to be done again.
That's fine.
Some, though, will turn into a habit, a lifestyle.
Now I want you to know that it's never too late
to start a new habit,
to gain a new discipline and to reach a new goal.
In fact, you choosing one of these 30 day challenges
could wind up not only changing your life,
but inspiring someone else to get out of a rut.
I just heard a story about a woman
who took her kids to swim lessons one summer.
She was 40 years old and she had never learned to swim
and she was terrified of the water.
Well, all of a sudden, she just pushed herself
out of her comfort zone and signed up for swim lessons.
Now she's surrounded by kids and here she is,
this grown woman swimming with them.
She said she even had a Dora the Explorer,
a little board that she would do her lessons on.
Well, sometimes she would be getting out of the pool
and she would see this woman off in the distance
just staring at her,
and it was so intimidating.
Well, she'd get out, she'd dry off, she'd glance over
and that woman was just staring at her.
Well, finally, she was so close
to just stopping the whole swim lessons
because she was so intimidated by this woman
just glaring at her,
and she thought, no,
I'm not going to let that woman intimidate me.
I'm doing this.
Well, finally, she's finishing her classes,
you know, she's learning to swim.
She's even doing little flips in the water
and she's getting out, she's drying off,
and all of a sudden that woman comes up to her
with her arms crossed, and she said,
do you think they'd have room
for one more person in that class?
In other words, she wanted to sign up for the class,
but this 40 year old woman taking swim lessons
all that time when she felt like she was being judged
by this other woman,
she was actually an inspiration.
So, who could you inspire
because you push yourself, no matter what your age is,
you do something different.
You try something you've always wanted to do.
You know, I came across a Ted Talk video
by a guy named Mike or Matt Cutts,
where he suggests trying something new for 30 days.
30 days is enough for you to create a habit,
and it's enough time for you to discover
if a certain habit isn't right for you.
It's also enough time for you to break a habit.
So whether it's, you know, keeping your car thoroughly clean
as if you were taking your boss to lunch
or take your lunch to work to save some money for 30 days
or doing 50 jumping jacks
or walking the dog every evening
or doing 100 sit-ups.
Brian Tracy said, "Comfort and convenience
"run the lives of unsuccessful people."
So maybe you feel stuck in your life,
maybe you feel frustrated or bored,
maybe you know inside that there's more to life,
but you don't know where to look
or maybe how to change it or where to get started.
You simply start by doing something new,
by saying yes to a challenge for 30 days straight.
You know, I was reading how in God's word,
it actually says, "For I'm about to do something new."
And then the Lord says, see, I've already begun.
Do you not see it?
In other words,
God wants to do new things in your life,
but you have to take the first step.
Now here's a profound statement
I want you to let really sink in.
Nothing changes if nothing changes.
I know it's deep, but think about it.
Nothing will change in your life if nothing changes.
So you have to make a change,
and sometimes it's as easy as setting a goal
for yourself for the next 30 days.
You know, when Earl Nightingale was asked,
is there a key to becoming successful?
And why does so many people work so hard
and never achieve anything?
And then some people seem to have
everything they touch turn to gold.
You know what his answer was?
It's because of goals.
He said people with goals succeed
because they know where they're going.
So here's what I want to say.
How about setting a 30 day goal
to just do something, one activity,
consistently without fail.
Now I'm telling you
it's the first step to changing your life.
So three steps.
Number one, print my list of 50 ideas
for a 30 day challenge.
Now you've, if you've already done this, pick another one.
Number two, say yes for a solid month.
Pick something that you can do for 30 days,
but you don't want to go overboard with this,
choose something that's challenging enough
so you feel you're accomplishing something,
but don't set yourself up for failure
with an extremely difficult challenge,
and there's two different types of changes you can make.
One is you can add something to your daily life for 30 days
such as, you know, walk 5,000 or 10,000 steps each day
or drink four bottles of water each day.
Number two is you can take away something from your life
for 30 days to maybe breaking old habit
such as no complaining for 30 days
or no bread or pasta or desserts,
and number three is pick a way to track it.
See, once you choose which one from the free download,
set a start date and stick to it.
No excuses.
Keep a calendar somewhere in sight
and mark through it every single day.
Now for some reason,
that calendar is going to keep you motivated
to not skip a day.
Now you're like accountable to the calendar,
and let me just say real quick, don't overthink this.
Don't get too perfectionistic about it.
Just start.
You know, if you ever put your big toe
in a cold swimming pool
and you have to decide,
do you go slow and put a foot in
and then your calf and then your waist
or do you just get the pain over with
and just jump full force?
I'm saying choose a one month challenge and jump in.
Go all the way.
Just start now.
And Hey, you really should think about
asking a friend to join you.
Now there may be some challenges you want to keep private,
but one way to motivate yourself
to stick to the 30 day challenge
is to ask a friend to join you.
And sometimes the thought of,
Uh oh, I'm gonna have to tell my friend Theresa
that I didn't do my 10,000 steps.
That's enough to give you that little push
to just stick with it.
So share this video with maybe one friend or two friends
and say, let's do this together, print the download
and see which one you all can agree on
and then just go for it.
You are going to learn so much
and you're going to have some fun in the process.
Keep in mind, 30 days is not the rest of your life,
so if you find this new habit you're trying to create
isn't right for you,
you can challenge yourself
with a different habit for the next 30 days,
but trust me, there's going to be some that you just decide,
it's too good to stop.
I'm not going to quit
and that will change your life forever.
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