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- Hey, it's Terri Savelle Foy, your cheerleader of dreams.
You know, I heard Michael Hyatt say that we're either
designing our life or drifting in life.
And then he said, "If you don't start designing your life,
you'll drift, and nobody who ever drifted
ended up at a destination they would've chosen."
Well, I finally got that wake up call to stop drifting,
and I started being very intentional
about my dreams and goals.
So this week, I wanna take you
into one of my highest-viewed videos
on how to design your life in 2023.
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Hey, I'm Terri Savelle Foy, your cheerleader of dreams.
Let's talk about how to design your life.
Now I'm gonna share my system for achieving goals
which I've been doing for years now.
And I put a free download for you of this very system
if you just click the link in the description.
Now, I used to be so frustrated, discouraged
and downright disgusted with myself
because, year after year, I never achieve my goals.
Finally, something clicked,
and I've become a lifelong goal-setter
and a goal-getter ever since.
And I'm constantly learning more and more effective ways
which is why number seven on my list today
is something I just added to my strategy, and I love it.
So if you're like I was, and you are tired of setting goals
year after year only to be more upset with yourself
than before you even set the goal,
then I have the solution for you.
If you weigh exactly what you weighed last year
at this time, maybe even more,
or you spent all the money you tried to save
and here you are again at ground zero, keep watching.
I'm gonna share an exclusive offer for my subscribers
in just a moment that will turn you into a person of focus,
self-discipline, and a successful goal-setter.
So number one in designing your life is:
write down everything you want.
In other words, here's what I want you to do.
Set the timer on your phone for seven minutes.
The reason I say seven is because most people say
five minutes to 10 minutes, so let's go with seven.
Set the timer for seven minutes,
and just start writing every single thing you want.
Not how you can get it, but just everything you want.
Now, it could be fitness goals.
You wanna weigh 140 pounds, you wanna run a 5k,
you wanna run in the Boston Marathon or join a gym
or hire a personal trainer or be a certain size.
It could be financial goals.
You wanna save $10,000, pay off all your credit card debt,
pay off your school loans, drive a debt-free car,
start investing $500 a month, et cetera.
Or it could be personal or family goals
like you wanna travel to Paris or Los Angeles
or Tokyo or London.
The point is to just dream.
Get all of those dreams and desires that are in your head,
get 'em on paper.
Just dump it all out, everything you can think of.
Now what are some things that you want to accomplish?
How do you wanna grow yourself this year?
Think about your relationships.
Who are the most important people in your life?
Do you wanna plan some trips or special get togethers?
What about in your business or your career?
Do you wanna launch a new product, write a book?
Here's my point, don't edit the list just yet.
Just get it all out.
Number two, put a number one or a number five
next to each goal.
Now this shows whether it's a one-year goal
or a five-year goal.
So you go through this long random list of dreams,
and number them according to the time it may take.
Now, somebody said people often overestimate
what they can achieve in one year,
but vastly underestimate what we can achieve in five years.
Now it's important to set goals for both,
one year and five year.
Number three, narrow down your 10
most important one-year goals.
Now, as you look at your list,
which ones motivate you the most?
Marie Forleo calls this the prune.
She says this is so important.
You don't wanna take on too much and not make any progress.
Now, research support staying between seven to 10 goals
for the entire year.
So what you're doing is focusing on a few critical things.
What will give you the best results?
In other words, what is the reward
for making this goal happen?
More importantly, who will you have to become
to make this goal a reality?
So any goal that just stretches you
and it demands that you grow is a good goal.
For example, let's say paying off your credit card debt
of $16,000 and saving emergency money of $1,000,
those are incredible goals to achieve.
That's $17,000 you need to come up with
in the next 12 months.
But if you accomplish those two goals,
you would be setting yourself up for great success.
So think about that.
Number four, set SMART goals.
Now we all know this.
SMART stands for specific, measurable
attainable, realistic, and a timeline.
So be specific.
In other words, clarity is power.
Don't just say, "I'm gonna save money."
Say, "I'm gonna save $3,000 by December 31st."
Measurable, what gets measured gets done.
Attainable, now if all your goals are totally unrealistic,
then your brain just sort of checks out.
So it needs to be about a 50% probability
that you can do it.
Realistic, if your goals are unrealistic,
you're gonna feel like a failure.
Now, if you've never saved money before
and been living paycheck to paycheck,
don't set a goal to save $50,000.
It could be unrealistic.
And the timeline, deadline serves as a driving force.
They motivate us.
You know, Lisa Nichols says, "Action is the prescription
for that success you say you want."
So if God's dealing with you about learning
success habits this year, take action.
Number five, write your goals as if they are attained.
Now remember, only 3% of adults even have written goals,
and this 3% are the most successful people in the world.
So just writing your goals gives you
a 44% greater chance of achieving them.
Now, when you write your goals,
it gets programmed into your subconscious mind,
and you go to work on it until it's achieved.
So write them in the present tense.
Here's an example.
"I have easily saved $10,000 by December 31st."
And then you break it apart. What does that mean?
$833 a month.
Number six, know your why-power.
Not your willpower, know your why-power.
Now, it's more important than your willpower,
and this is because it's your reason
behind setting the goal in the first place.
Why do you need to have $10,000? For what purpose?
Think about it. Write it out.
Is it for peace of mind that you're gonna be okay
if anything happened, you got $10,000?
Is it to have an emergency money set aside
for unexpected expenses?
The car breaks down, you know, there's a dental appointment
you didn't count on.
Or is it to fund your dream vacation
or funding your business idea
that could change your whole life?
Why do you need the $10,000?
Now, don't set surface goals
that don't drive you to achieve it.
Your why has to be more important than your what.
Now, if you're clear on the reason,
you'll be willing to pay the price.
You'll work longer hours, take on extra jobs,
look for opportunities to make more money.
When you have your why, you'll persevere.
So real quick, think about people who struggle
with their weight until they get divorced
and they're single again.
Suddenly they lose 30 pounds and you think, "What happened?"
They got their why-power, right?
They wanna get married again. They wanna find a spouse.
They got the why power to keep them focused.
Next, this is something I just learned
and started doing, and I love it.
Number seven, write down 20 action steps
you can take to achieve these goals.
And you might think, "Terri, 20?"
(chuckles) No, it is not easy, but just give it a shot.
And trust me, you're gonna start getting real creative.
So make a list that says,
"How am I going to achieve this goal?"
For example, let's say you have a goal
to pay off credit card debt of $16,000.
You could say, "Number one, have a garage sale.
Number two, sell my old iPhone.
Number three, sell clothes on Poshmark or some other site.
Number four, get an extra job.
Number five, I could do some tutoring."
Now you still have 15 more to go, but you gotta write all 20
because the first four or five, they come easy.
But when you get to ideas, six, seven, eight, nine
and so on, you start pushing your mind to be more creative.
Then what you do is select the ideas
that you're gonna take action on immediately.
In other words, put it on your calendar.
Turn this list into a to-do list.
And remember, these are action steps
to achieve your big goals.
They're like miniature goals.
Try this, number eight, track your goals every month
to see if you're on target.
Now I like to document exactly where I'm at
on the first day of each month.
So if it's February 1st and nothing has happened in an area,
then I write that.
If it's a financial goal of saving $10,000,
then I write, "February 1st, saved $700.
March 1st, total saved, $1,300."
Track it each month on the first day of the month
to see your progress and to really push yourself
to go harder.
And don't forget to get your free download of my system
for achieving goals in the description,
'cause I want you to have this
to get you going in the right direction.
And I have a bonus question for you. This will help you.
Ask yourself this, which goal of your 10,
if you could achieve it in 24 hours,
which goal would you select?
Which would have the greatest positive impact on your life?
Now, I learned this exercise from Brian Tracy,
and sometimes it's, you know, a financial goal,
a health goal, a relationship goal.
But this goal becomes the central goal for you.
So think it over and circle the one
that if you could accomplish this in 24 hours,
you would be ecstatic. (energetic music)
I hope you enjoyed that.
And hey, before we go,
I wanna show y'all this fake photo
that I had on my vision board years ago
of me and Ed Mylett.
This is totally fake. (chuckles)
And I wrote, "Ed is speaking at my success conference."
Well, it's happening this weekend,
and I would love for you to be a part
of this dream come true.
Most importantly, we're gonna share tools to help you plan,
prepare and pursue every dream God has put in your heart.
And as a bonus, I have another guest speaker,
Carly Patterson, the USA Olympic gold medalist.
So if you can't travel to Dallas this weekend
to join us in person, you can get a live stream ticket
by just clicking the link in the description.
And you know, I heard someone say,
"You will never go broke investing in yourself."
So get your ticket today,
and we will be cheering you on to live your dreams.