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TERRI: Hey, I'm Terri Savelle Foy, your cheerleader of dreams.
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and tips to help you live your dreams. Today I want to 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. 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 ten times without
success. Well, if you want to live your dreams, you have to
become 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. I'm convinced that this
act alone has caused me to go from being in a rut, living
paycheck to paycheck, marriage falling apart,
body out of shape, etc., to my marriage restored, healthy
and full of energy, writing books, doing what I'm
doing today, basically. 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 year
after year, he just got away and thought. He said he'd actually
started comparing himself to other people, and he didn't feel
good enough. He went to his parents' summer cottage, sat on
the dock and got out a pen and paper. 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 behags, 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. It was right during the "Got milk?"
Phase, so he ran with that. He started a company called
1-800-got-junk. 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 over night, 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. What am I
saying? When the vision is clear, the results will appear.
I really kicked it up a notch in my personal life in 2012 when I
practiced what Brian Tracy teaching 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. 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, after doing that,
it's going to become so ingrained in you. Then after
that, you look at them, you pray over them, you declare them out
loud. 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. I want you to do
the same thing. Number one, get a notebook and just think like
Brian Scudamore did. He got way and just thought. Don't be so
busy that you never truly think about what you want to
accomplish. Number two, set seven to ten goals this year.
You know, research supports that seven to ten goals is the best
place to stay. You've heard that phrase, "Man who chases two
rabbits catches neither." Right? 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 best seller, The Nine Steps to Financial Freedom. She
said years ago she had a job at Merrill-Lynch in her early
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. Of course, she has far surpassed that target. Well,
you know, you think about, even in The Bible, three powerful
words that Jesus used to defeat the devil, he said, "It
is written." 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 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 for years she wished she had a raise. She would
complain, get frustrated, and then finally she said, "I wrote
it down, Terri. I received a $10,000 raise." She actually put
it on a Post-It on a vision board. That simple. Took 30
seconds on a Post-It note. She said, "Terri, I got my raise!"
I said, "How much?" She said, "$10,000." Well, in most cases,
our dreams and our goals are too broad. 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, 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 sense of urgency. 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." 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 going
to have to grow to achieve these goals. Number six, put your
goals in sight. That's why I like vision boards, because this
was discovered as the biggest reasons that goals are not
achieved, because we stick them in a drawer, we put them 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 them out loud, one by one. So
make a vision board, or put it on your screen saver, 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 want to
challenge you. Send me your top 10 goals. I would love to pray
over them, I would love for you to get that accountability where
you make yourself think of top 10 goals. Send them to me,
because I want to pray over those goals and join my faith
with you. I want to 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. 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 am 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 going to 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. So for more consistent motivation,
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TERRI: The NEXT Conference is right
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