if you want to know where your life is headed listen to the words that
are coming out of your mouth right because God's
word says you shall decree a thing and it will be established for you [Music]
hey I'm Terri Savelle Foy your cheerleader of dreams I want to talk to you today about how to
build self-discipline in five simple words and you're gonna love this I just discovered this
five word secret to success from John Assaraf and it's so encouraging first let me tell you
about an experiment that I heard on YouTube and it's called the marshmallow test so what
happened was they took children in a room with one marshmallow and they said if you wait don't eat
the marshmallow then you will get two marshmallows they were just seeing how great these kids were
with delaying gratification because if you can delay gratification you are wired for Success
well they found that one third of the kids shoved the marshmallow in their mouths instantly can't
wait Gotta Have It Now instant gratification the second group just said I'm gonna wait naturally
just delay gratification the third group was really interesting because they really wanted
the marshmallow and they were combined like groups one and you they wanted it so bad but
they also wanted to wait for two so they turned their chairs around not to face it they made funny
faces they tried not to look at the marshmallow and they forced themselves to wait and they got
the two marshmallows so here's the thing group one instant gratification group two naturally delayed
it and group three were programmed to be group one but they fought with themselves until they became
group two they resisted their natural instinct to eat the marshmallows so the therapist said what
they discovered as they followed these children for years was that groups two and three were far
more successful than group one Brian Tracy my friend he said if you can train yourself to do
what you should do when you should do it whether you feel like it or not your success is virtually
guaranteed isn't that interesting now hey before I share the five word principle I learned recently
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know that I am so grateful for you also your free download this week I put together my list of the
top four books to help you develop discipline this year now three of them are seriously some
of my most favorite books of all time and the fourth one it's from me but it's stuff I learned
from the other three so just click the link in the description and I know these will be perfect
for your reading goals this year okay so back in January I was hosting my annual success conference
called the next conference with Ed mylett let's just show a picture of me and Ed I'm so grateful
because that was such a dream come true having him as my guest and Olympic gold medalist Carly
Patterson look at picture I got to hold the gold it was so amazing conference I shared the top 10
things I've learned from my mentors to set me up for Success now I won't go through all of them but
these are areas where I had to learn to discipline myself to delay gratification and practice these
habits every day at the start of my day and do them without it getting overwhelming and it was
everything from like the first one I shared was journaling my prayer time you know God's word
says to seek first the kingdom of God and all his righteousness and then all these things will be
given to you well I was sharing how this is pretty interesting but if you talk to bank tellers and
ask them to teach you how to spot a counterfeit bill this is so interesting surprisingly they're
not trained to spot a fake bill by studying what a fake Bill looks and feels like they're trained
in what a real and genuine Bill looks and feels like in their hands well I was pointing out that
I have had the honor of studying real successful people up close and personal and seeing for myself
that this habit of journaling your prayer time will provide more Direction and wisdom for your
life than anything it's just a matter of doing it and making it a priority every morning well then I
shared the importance of you know being a lifelong student and reading every day in fact Zig Ziglar
said if you'll just read 20 minutes a day you will have read 18 more books than the average American
reads in a year's time he said that alone will give you a colossal advantage in your field World
in fact someone said imagine you can join the club of the most successful people in the world and
these are the dues number one watch less TV number two read more books now I love this about Ralph
Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau they were good friends and every time they would meet up
after having not seen each other for a while their first question was what have you learned since we
last met isn't that amazing so my point was make you and your growth a priority every day well
another life-changing habit and there's a reason I'm telling you this is that shared about speaking
positively over yourself you've probably heard me say that if you want to know where your life
is headed listen to the words that are coming out of your mouth right because God's word says you
shall decree a thing and it will be established for you well I love the story of Lisa Nichols she
said that she was diagnosed as being clinically depressed back in 1998. I don't love that part but
she said clinically depressed she said that does not make sense however her fiance was bipolar he
stopped taking his medicine he threw her three feet across the room choked her until she passed
out finally she got out of that relationship and she said I was just different well her mom
insisted that she'd go to the doctor so she said she's sitting on a table the doctor comes in with
a prescription and says Lisa you're clinically depressed she said what she read the prescription
and it said prozac with her name on it and she thought this does not make sense my name with
ozak on it she said Doctor do you mean I'm sad and the doctor said very very sad she said can
I try something now no I'm not recommending that you stop taking your medicine her doctor agreed
the doctor said yes I'll let you try something but I want to see you in 30 days well she went
home and she said every single day she got in the mirror and she drilled I am I am confident I am
beautiful I am successful I am highly favored of God every day because she said she had forgotten
who she was so every day for 25 minutes she just went over the Iams every day I am I am I am she
went back 30 days later and she was on fire just talking talking talking doctor said wait I gotta
stop you she said what are you taking can I have some she said I'm just taking some of me
so anyway I was teaching the crowd think of your desired outcome and then speak it out well I'm not
going to go through all the 10 habits which one of them was daily exercise one was saving money from
every single paycheck but the reason I'm telling you this today is because it is so easy to get so
overwhelmed with all these habits and all these changes you feel like you need to make that you
just say forget the whole thing and you don't do any of it well I discovered this five-word
solution to getting you on the road to discipline John Assaraf said people ask how do I start like
how do you develop discipline in these areas and here's the formula reduce it to the ridiculous
reduce it to the ridiculous in other words start small give yourself one command like this
could you drink one bottle of water every day for 90 days could you read one page from a good
book every day for 90 days yes could you speak one positive declaration over yourself every day
for 90 days yes reduce it to the ridiculous and real quick you might say why 90 days why she keep
saying that because it takes 21 days to create a habit and 90 days to create a lifestyle you
can do this everything I listed you can do it the question is will you do it you know I think about
how John F Kennedy asked Dr Warner Von Braun what would it take to land a man on the moon
and bring him safely back home and you know what he said the will to do it simple answer for such
an enormous question isn't it but the will to do it has a lot of power so I want to help you this
week develop discipline in your life like never before by reducing it to the ridiculous until it
just becomes a lifestyle so I want you to get my list of the top four books I recommend to help
you get the best habits for this year just click the link in the description and start with one
one page one day at a time and don't forget I'll be cheering you on to live your dreams [Music]
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thank you
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