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- Hey, it's Terri, your Cheerleader of Dreams.
You've probably heard that by now
most people have already given up on their New Year's goals.
You know, they say New Year's resolutions are things
that go in one year and out the other, (laughs)
but that's not gonna be your story.
Today I wanna take you
into my most popular video on goal setting
to make sure you're setting your 2023 goals the right way
'cause I promise you it'll change your life.
So watch this.
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Hey, I'm Terri Savelle Foy, your Cheerleader of Dreams.
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Today I wanna talk about goal setting,
just a few minutes that can change your life.
First of all, what are goals?
They're simply dreams with deadlines.
Now, traditional goal setting,
New Year's resolutions look like this,
and you probably identify with this.
I know I used to.
Save money, read more, lose weight,
get out of debt, get closer to God, be more organized,
spend more time with friends and family, things like that.
In fact, the average person
makes the exact same New Year's goals
10 times without success.
Well, if you wanna live your dreams,
you have to become a lifelong goal setter.
Do you know that the very act
of sitting down and making a list
of goals that you want to accomplish this year,
it gets your blood pressure and your heart rate up.
You become awake, alert, and excited.
In fact, you feel good about yourself
only when you're working toward achieving something
that you value.
And I'm convinced that this act alone has caused me to go
from being in a rut, living paycheck to paycheck,
marriage fallen apart, body outta shape, et cetera,
to my marriage restored, healthy and full of energy,
writing books, doing what I'm doing today, basically.
And you know, I love this story.
I heard recently about a guy named Brian Scudamore.
Now listen to this story.
I think it's amazing.
This is just a summary real quick of what he shared.
In 1997, he said he had a business
of hauling off junk and getting paid for it.
One day he got away alone to just think,
those are the key words, to think about his vision,
his dream, his goals.
Instead of just letting life just keep going by,
you know, year after year, he just got away and thought.
And he said he'd actually started comparing himself
to other people and he didn't feel good enough.
Went to his parents' summer cottage, sat on the dock,
and got out a pen and paper.
And this is what he asked himself.
What if I could dream up possibility?
What could this business look like five years down the road?
Well then he began to write.
We will be in the top 30 metros in North America.
He said at the time we were only in one.
We will be the FedEx of junk removal, clean, shiny trucks,
friendly, uniformed drivers.
He said he just started writing, you know BHAGs,
big, hairy, audacious goals for his company.
We will be like the McDonald's
of junk, just like Ray Kroc did.
Well, once he made his vision clear, ideas began to emerge.
He started brainstorming,
and it was right during the got milk phase,
so he ran with that.
He started a company called 1-800-GOT-JUNK? (laughs)
This became his new business name.
I'm sure you've heard of this.
Through a series of events,
you know, it didn't happen overnight.
He did 53 franchise deals that one year.
Today they're in every major metro
in the USA, Canada, and Australia.
Now listen to this.
He has made a quarter
of a billion dollars in revenue hauling off junk. (laughs)
What am I saying?
When the vision is clear, the results will appear.
You know, I really kicked it up a notch in my personal life
in 2012 when I practiced what Brian Tracy teaches
on goal setting.
Number one, you get a notebook,
you project forward to December 31st of this year,
and you write your top 10 goals.
Now, here's another key.
You do this for the next 30 days.
Every day for 30 days, you write your goals down.
And here's another little kick.
Without looking back to what you wrote the day before.
In other words, do you remember all 10?
If you don't, that's okay.
Just write the ones that you remember.
After 30 days, you know, after doing that,
it's gonna become so ingrained in you,
and then after that you look at 'em, you pray over them,
you declare them out loud.
Well, when I started doing that,
that was the year they began happening.
I'm talking one by one, just checking them off.
Now, I can't imagine starting a year without goals.
Well, I want you to do the same thing.
Number one, get a notebook,
and just think like Brian Scudamore did.
He got away and just thought.
Don't be so busy that you never truly think
about what you want to accomplish.
Number two is set seven to 10 goals this year.
You know, research supports
that seven to 10 goals is the best place to stay.
You've heard that phrase, man who chases two rabbits
catches neither, right?
And you must write your goals down.
Something powerful happens when you put pen to paper.
In fact, I heard a story about Suze Orman, you know,
the author of the New York Times bestseller
"The 9 Steps to Financial Freedom."
She said years ago she had a job
at Merrill Lynch in her early, you know, career days.
And she was so afraid that she wouldn't be able
to meet her sales quota for the company.
So she said she decided to put pen
to paper and start writing down her goals.
She said she created what she wanted
for herself first on paper.
Every morning before she went to work,
she said she would write over and over again,
"I am young, powerful, and successful,
producing at least $10,000 a month."
Now, she claims that writing her goals replaced her fears
of inadequacy with endless possibility.
And of course, she has far surpassed that target.
Well, you know, you think about it, even in the Bible,
three powerful words that Jesus used to defeat the devil.
He said, "It is written." (laughs)
Well, each time Satan came to try and tempt Jesus,
Jesus came back with, "It is written."
Well, you know, sometimes you have no indication
that your dream will ever come to pass.
But all you have to do is point to your vision board
or your book of dreams and say, "You know what?
I don't know how this will ever happen,
but I have faith in the fact
that it is written and be it unto me according to my faith."
So number three, be specific.
You know, you may say, "I'd really like to make more money,"
but until you make it concrete,
it's doubtful it will ever happen.
In fact, there was this lady in Colorado.
She told me, she said for years she wished she had a raise.
She would complain, get frustrated.
And then finally she said, "I wrote it down, Terri.
I receive a $10,000 raise."
She actually put it on a Post-it on a vision board.
That symbol took 30 seconds on a Post-it note.
She said, "Terri, I got my raise."
I said, "How much?"
She said, "$10,000." (laughs)
Well, in most cases, you know,
our dreams and our goals are too broad.
You know, in our ministry up here,
we set goals for everything.
I mean everything.
We aren't haphazard about anything.
We set specific goals
for phone calls, orders, sales, new connections,
website visits, you know, social media goals, followers,
invitations to speak, attendees at conferences.
I'm talking everything.
But here's the thing.
When the vision is clear, the results will appear.
So be specific.
Number four, assign a deadline.
Deadlines are motivating.
They create a sense of urgency.
You know, many people are so afraid to set a deadline
because they're concerned they won't make it.
But that's okay.
You can move the deadline.
So if you have a desire to write a book this year,
you need to assign a deadline for chapter one.
Don't just say, "Write my book this year."
Put a deadline to it.
Number five, stretch outside your comfort zone.
You need to be uncomfortable.
See, if all of your goals are in the comfort zone,
it doesn't motivate you.
It's not compelling.
It doesn't require you to think creatively
or to trust God and to pray.
See, when you set goals outside that comfort zone
that stretch you, that's where prayers are answered.
That's where you look back and you say,
"Look what God has done."
And here's the thing about the discomfort zone.
It's uncomfortable.
You will feel doubt and fear and awkward,
but it just means you're being stretched.
It means you're gonna have to grow to achieve these goals.
And number six, put your goals in sight.
You know, that's why I like vision boards,
because this was discovered
as the biggest reasons that goals are not achieved,
because we stick 'em in a drawer,
we put 'em on a computer screen somewhere or in a file,
but never go back to look at them.
We have a giant vision board here
at the office where all of our goals are in the hallway.
We get them out at our team meetings
and we read 'em out loud one by one.
So make a vision board
or put it on your screensaver, your iPad, your phone.
Put it somewhere in sight at all times.
Well, Earl Nightingale said, "People with goals succeed
because they know where they're going."
It's as simple as that.
So I wanna challenge you.
Send me your top 10 goals.
I would love to pray over them.
I would love for you to, you know,
get that accountability where you make yourself
think of top 10 goals, and send them to me
'cause I wanna pray
over those goals and join my faith with you.
And I wanna read real quick.
I got a YouTube Subscriber of the Week that I'm so proud of
and her name is Karen.
Let me find Karen's letter here.
Karen said, "Thank you, Terri.
I have already achieved one of my goals
because of my vision board.
I am now the first board-certified
ambulatory registered nurse,"
wow, that's impressive, just saying,
"at my organization."
She said, "I am three months away
from achieving my next goal,
which is to pay off my student loan."
Then she says this.
"Vision boards work."
I love it, Karen.
I'm so proud of you for following your dreams.
Well, to help you follow your dreams in 2018,
I have a free download
for you called "The Isaiah 46:10 Method."
I think you're gonna love it.
So this is a proven goal-setting strategy
to achieve your dreams and goals this year.
Now, on average, 60% of goals get completed
within the first year using this method.
That's how much I believe in it.
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