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- Have you heard of The Rule of Five?
John Maxwell was the first person I heard teach on it
and he even says, "The Rule of Five
is the most life changing concept for success
I have ever applied in my life."
So here's what it says.
Maxwell says, "Imagine taking an ax"
which I just happen to have,
"And going in your backyard
and swinging at a tree five times."
One, two, three, four, five.
You put the ax down.
The next day, you pick up the ax
and you go to the very same tree
and you swing at it five times.
The next day, and the next day, five times.
If every day, I pick up the ax
and I do this five times each day,
what will eventually happen to the tree?
Of course, it's gonna fall down, right?
We don't even have to debate that.
If I just swing five times,
not 15, not 50, not 500 times,
just five times, eventually it will fall.
Didn't say when the tree would fall,
I just said it will fall, right?
Because I have consistently taken that ax
and swung at it every single day.
Here's what John Maxwell says.
Find your tree. (chuckles)
What is your goal?
Your vision, your dream that you want to knock down?
Now do five things every single day
and it will come down.
Because little by little, it compounds
until mountains of impossible dreams begin to fall.
By the way, I'm Terri Savelle Foy,
your cheerleader of dreams,
and I want to answer a question I got on Instagram
from SFAE Allen.
This is what they asked.
"How do you not get bored
when developing a discipline routine?"
The Rule of Five. (chuckles)
Well before I begin to explain,
how I've been doing the same rule of five since 2002
and it's led me to the most incredible dreams,
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Okay, motivation makes things happen.
Where there's no will, there's no way.
So self motivation is the key to success, right?
But how do you stay motivated
to swing the ax every single day
on the way to your dreams?
Well let me explain it like this
because I used to be very undisciplined.
Proverbs 29:18 says, "Where there is no vision,
the people perish."
Well one translation says it like this.
"Where there is no vision,
the people throw off restraint, self control,
or self discipline."
Isn't that amazing?
In other words, I like how the late
Myles Monroe described it.
He said, "The key to your future
is finding a vision that imposes self-discipline on you."
See, until you define what living a successful life
means to you, than you're gonna struggle
staying inspired with your daily habits.
Now to help you further with it
and simplify this, I put together
in your free download this week,
a chapter from my book, "The Five Things
Successful People do Everyday Before 8 a.m."
It's a chapter called "The Secret to Self Motivation."
Now there's only so much I can teach on this short video
but I want you to download this free chapter
by clicking the link in the description,
and seriously read it.
Read every single word
because this is something you must do
if you want to have a disciplined life
that leads to your dreams.
And it's not difficult,
it just requires a little thinking.
So this is truly how I got out of a rut
and into a routine that transformed my entire life.
And like I said, I started The Rule of Five
where I commit to five daily disciplines,
and I've been doing it since 2002, I've never stopped.
Because I did what this chapter's gonna walk you through.
So just click the link in the description
to get that free download
because it boils down to this.
The secret to self motivation begins
with finding your definition of a successful life.
So you must have a reason to succeed.
Why is it so important to you?
What will you lose if you don't keep going?
So we'll answer all of that, but click the link
in the description, and I'll walk you through it
step by step.
Now let me explain.
Defining a successful life like this,
they say the two greatest days in a person's life
are the day you were born
and the day you discover why.
Well I like to compare it to being handed like,
a bag of 10,000 little puzzle pieces
without the box top.
You know, without, you have no idea what this is
so you don't have the box top,
all you have are these little cardboard chips
and you don't even know.
Is this the Eiffel tower?
Is it a giant cupcake with tons
of buttercream icing? (chuckles)
Is it a field full of daisies? What is this?
However, your job each day is to get up,
go to your desk and try to figure this thing out.
Well over time, you're gonna be frustrated,
you're gonna be bored with life,
you're irritated, you're lethargic, why?
Because you don't even know what you're doing.
You don't even know what this is.
But all of a sudden, when someone hands you the picture.
That just happens to be my dog, Peppe Laschwa, (chuckles)
when you see the picture, it's like it all starts
to come together.
You have a reason to get up,
you have a vision, you have a goal to achieve.
Suddenly, you're motivated to stick with it.
Does that make sense?
See, that's what happens when you define success
for your life,
and you develop an image, a vision
of where you want your life to go.
Now without sounding morbid,
basically what you're doing
is you're writing, I like to call it
your dream obituary.
And then you live it before you die.
So what do you want your life to look like
when you come to the end of it?
In fact, Stephen Covey, you know the author of
"Seven Habits of Highly Effective People"
he said habit number two is begin with the end in mind.
He said if you carefully consider
what you want said about you
at your funeral, you will find your definition of success.
As creepy as it sounds,
that's exactly what I did for the first time in my life
back in 2006, with nothing but a laptop
and a head full of questions, ideas,
thoughts and dreams.
I literally wrote my full name, Terri Lynn Savelle Foy,
at the top.
I put my birth date underneath,
September 30th, 1969.
I didn't put an expiration date
'cause I'm not prophesying my death. (chuckles)
But I just began writing exactly
how I want to be remembered,
as a person, a wife, a daughter, a mother,
a friend, a leader, a world changer.
And I wrote big, crazy,
out of the realm of possibility dreams
that automatically sent questions to my head
like, how in the world could you do this?
Or who do you think you are?
But I didn't let that stop me from dreaming.
I just let my imagination soar.
But you know what?
Something remarkable happened.
It caused a flame in me to ignite and come alive
like no other exercise I had ever done before.
It was a completely different mental challenge
than just writing down my goals for the years
like paying off my debts and losing five pounds.
When you imagine your ideal life,
in every area, and then you imagine coming to the end
of your life, and your closest friends and family
are describing how you lived it,
hopefully they're gonna say more than,
"She finally paid off that MasterCard."
No! (chuckles)
It's gonna awaken dreams in you
that you never thought possible.
See, without a vision, you cast off restraint
but with vision, you develop self-discipline.
Now I don't have time to go through
this whole exercise with you
but the other thing I did was I defined
what an unsuccessful life meant to me.
And you gotta do the same thing.
As discouraging as it sounds,
this exercise can be quite motivating, seriously.
Doing that forced me out of my comfort zone
when I imagined my life not changing one bit
over the next 10 years.
Talk about being full of regret.
So I explain all of this in your free chapter download,
but let me point this out real quick.
In response to the question I got on Instagram
of how do you not get bored with your discipline routine,
let me answer that real fast, two ways.
Number one, one time I heard this in prayer,
this powerful phrase that's kept me motivated.
This is what I heard, the Lord said,
"Don't be average and your life won't be average."
I have held onto those words all these years
and I can humbly say today
my life is anything but average.
I refuse to do what the average person does.
What do they do?
Well for one, they oversleep 30 minutes every morning.
You know what? I choose to get up.
They watch six hours of TV every day, I won't do that.
They rarely ever read a book after high school.
They don't exercise, they don't drink enough water,
they don't invest in themselves.
See, if you refuse to be average
with your daily routine,
your life will be anything but average.
The second thing I've never forgotten is this.
I heard Joyce Meyer
say that in the beginning of her ministry,
she asked a man who had been in ministry for over 40 years,
she said, "What kind of advice would you give me
to help me not quit or give up along the way,
to not get bored with discipline
or fall into temptation?"
She said he thought about it for a minute
and then this is what he said,
"Whatever you did to get to where you're at,
don't stop doing it."
And I've never forgotten that.
I know that my morning routine of refusing to be average
has led me to where I am today,
so I'm not gonna stop doing it.
I have no interest in going back to where I was.
So I wanna remind you, you are not like the average person.
They don't subscribe to "Success" podcast.
No, God is putting you on a path to success
and he is gearing you up for greatness.
So I wanna thank you for watching,
don't forget to get your free download
and remember, I'm cheering you on to live your dreams.
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- He said, "I don't have love for you.
I am love for you."
He said, "I don't love my children equally,
I love them uniquely."
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- So I'm telling you today, somebody in need
is waiting on the other side
for you to say yes.
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Most people are not living the life of their dreams
because they're not asking God
for the life of their dreams.
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