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- Today, I wanna show you the quickest way
to improve your life
and accomplish your goals this year.
In fact, I'm gonna share with you
a few of the 30 day challenges
that I've done over the years
that impacted my life so much.
And then just for fun,
I'm gonna give you a little variety to choose from.
So I put together 30 different,
30 day challenges in your Free Download
that you are gonna love,
and I'll explain it just a second.
But I want you to be like a sponge
and just absorb everything you hear
as if God is speaking right to you, why?
Because he is.
In fact the Bible says that God speaks
in a still small voice.
I'm the voice of God today.
This is for you.
So what does a sponge do?
It takes it in and soaks it up.
Now I wanna talk about the power of a decision,
specifically, making a decision to grow,
to challenge yourself,
to push yourself, to try new things.
You know, I heard T.D. Jakes say, "Your decisions
are the pathway to your destiny."
I wish I had an organ playing in the background.
But he said, "If your decisions
don't start lining up with your destiny,
you're gonna miss out on God's plan."
Now that's serious.
So today I'm gonna bring this down
to a very practical level.
But first, change in your life begins
with a decision to change.
Now, I remember hearing someone say,
nothing changes if nothing changes.
I was like, that's deep, it really is.
But seriously, Jim Ryun said,
"If you want the future to change, you've gotta change."
Well, I figured out that to start the process of change
doesn't have to be this massive life overhaul.
It can start by giving yourself
a 30 day challenge to do one thing.
Now, what I love is that within 30 days,
you can improve your health,
you can start learning the new language,
you can get control of your finances,
declutter your home.
Basically during a one month challenge,
you can set the course to truly change your life.
That's what happened with me.
Now what I thought was just a month long goal,
I set for myself,
it turned into transforming my life, my habits
and impacting my destiny.
Now I know that sounds pretty heavy, but let me explain.
Do you remember the story in the Bible
of the guy at the pool of Bethesda
and he'd been laying for 38 years
and Jesus walked up to him and said,
"Do you want to get well?"
Why would he say that?
Because nothing changed in 38 years.
You know, Jesus could have said, oh, bless your heart,
you've been through so much here
let me just help you up.
No, he said very affirmatively get up,
pick up your bed and walk.
Get up, think about that phrase, get up.
What does that mean?
Nobody else can do this for you.
You have to decide to get up,
you have to make the decision
to not wallow around another year,
feeling sorry for yourself,
complaining about the conditions,
waiting for somebody to pick you up,
get up and take responsibility for your life.
Now I promise, I'm not trying to be mean,
I'm just sharing with you what God had to share with me,
to stop living in my past,
stop feeling sorry for myself,
stop repeating this year what I did last year
and the year before
and stop waiting until I felt motivated.
No, I had to decide to start making changes in my life
and I made a decision to get up.
And remember everything starts in your mind.
You have to first convince yourself
and then follow up with actions.
Also, let me just point this out.
Making no decision is still making a decision.
So I seriously started giving myself a 30 day challenge.
You know, such as number one,
let me just explain this.
I said, I'm gonna make myself walk every single morning
for at least 20 minutes.
And I would keep a calendar in sight.
And every single day that I kept my commitment with myself,
I would mark through it, joyfully mark through it.
Now this not only helped me get in shape,
but it actually helped my relationship with God
because I would go early in the morning
and use that as my prayer time.
I got closer to God
than ever before in my life
because of that one habit.
Plus my thighs got a little smaller
but here's the cool thing,
I never stopped exercising
since that first 30 day challenge back in 2001.
Number two, here's another habit,
I said, I'm gonna make myself read for 20 minutes a day.
Now, I hated reading,
I hadn't read a book since college, 11 years earlier.
In fact, I was cleaning out old trunks
and I found the only two books
that I ever read for pleasure.
And it was a book about gymnastics
and the Dallas Cowboy Cheerleader manual,
here they are, look at this.
But I started hearing that leaders are readers
and you have to learn more to earn more.
So I made myself set the timer on my phone
and read for 20 minutes a day.
Seriously, it changed my life.
It helped me get outta debt,
it helped me learn how to market our ministry,
it helped me learn the power of having a vision,
everything, it built my self esteem,
it restored my marriage,
I can't even describe what all I've learned
by a simple 20 minute challenge.
Okay, number three, another 30 day goal
was to listen to a message every morning.
I can't put a price on what this habit has done for me.
I have learned more gluing my eyelashes on in the morning
than I ever learned in college.
Instead of listening to music while I get ready,
I listen to podcasts that transform my thinking.
And this is the easiest 30 day challenge you could ever do.
Number four, declutter my house, one room at a time.
Now I found out that if I have peace in my surroundings,
it leads to peace in my mind.
So one of my favorite 30 day declutter challenges,
is to remove an item that corresponds with the day.
For example, on day one,
you remove one unnecessary item,
on day five, you remove items that you don't need,
on day 20, you look for 20 things
that you have no need for.
Get this by day 30, you will have removed
or decluttered 500 unnecessary items
taking up space in your surroundings.
Isn't that amazing?
Oh, and I almost forgot,
I wanted to do another giveaway this week on Instagram,
since we're talking about these 30 day challenges
and being consistent,
you need to have a habits calendar.
Now this is something that I had custom made
based on how I keep myself accountable and committed.
So I wanted to give away three of these today
to help you with your 30 day goals.
So, all you have to do to enter this contest,
is number one, subscribe to this channel,
just push the little play button
and you can do that right now real quick.
Number two, follow me on Instagram
and number three, post photo
from this podcast to your story.
And don't forget to tag me @TERRISAVELLEFOY, you got it?
Subscribe to this channel, follow me on Instagram
and then post a photo of this podcast and tag me in it.
Now I'm gonna go through all the tags today
and choose three winners.
So, if you want me to pose, here we go.
I can't wait to see who's watching
and trust me you are gonna love these habits calendars.
And I signed them just for fun.
So, another 30 day challenge I wanna share,
because it literally changed my entire life,
was to write my goals for 30 days.
Now I learned from Brian Tracy,
that if I write my top 10 goals down,
every single day for 30 days,
it gets programmed in my subconscious mind
and you become more determined than ever
to achieve your goals.
And that's exactly what happened to me in 2012.
The first time I did that,
I achieved all 10 of my impossible looking goals.
I seriously couldn't believe it.
Well now I do it every year.
I set a timer on my phone, here's my phone
that says write goals, so I don't forget.
And every day it goes off
and I'm like, oh yeah, write my goals.
So, I could go on and on with the 30 day challenges
from journaling my gratitude,
to drinking eight glasses of water.
But the main point is
that many of these have just become
a part of my daily routine.
Some of them for 10 years,
some for 20 years, I've never stopped.
But as I push myself, challenge myself
with a simple 30 day goal,
growing myself, caused everything around me to grow,
my career, my relationships, my opportunities,
my salary, everything grew because I grew.
So, what is God telling you today
to get up and go do?
This decision to start
could be starting with a 30 day challenge
that could change the rest of your life.
So, I wanna help you get started
by giving you 30, 30 day challenges,
that will be fun, inspiring,
they'll build your motivation
and help you believe in yourself.
Let me just say you can do anything for 30 days, you can.
So you can pick and choose what you wanna start with.
I love how Morgan Freeman said,
"Challenge yourself, it's the only path
that leads to growth."
So all you have to do to get the Free Download of 30 ideas,
is click the link in the description and start with one.
Now, if you find your wanting to try all the challenges,
I recommend choosing just one or two a month at a time
'cause if you try to implement too many things all at once,
you're more likely to get overwhelmed
and just stop doing any of them.
So, pick one and get started.
I hope you enjoyed this today
and I'm cheering you on to live your dreams.
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