(gentle music)
- Hey, Terri Savelle Foy, your cheerleader of dreams.
I wanna help you get a jumpstart on planning
your greatest year ever for 2022.
Planning is like a roadmap.
It gives you detailed steps
instead of jus wishing for things next year.
No, you have a route to take, a personalized plan to follow.
They say a goal without a plan is just a wish.
So I thought it would be fun to share
my personal checklist that I use and it's actually
the core values of our ministry.
I call it, The G5.
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Okay, The G5.
So number one is God.
What I mean by this is practice hearing God's voice.
I used to think that if God ever speaks to me,
he'll probably say something like,
"I will smite you with my nostrils."
I found out that's not God,
that's Jim Carrey from Bruce Almighty,
but God is the one who said my sheep hear my voice.
So my dad always taught me to take two things
into my prayer time with him.
I don't think I have two things here,
but I have a journal and a pen.
In other words, practice hearing God's voice.
I had no idea that successful people keep a journal.
Jim Rohn said, "A life worth living
is a life worth recording."
He said, if you're serious about becoming wealthy, powerful,
sophisticated, healthy, influential, cultured, and unique,
he said, keep a journal.
Why?
Because you'll forget.
See, you can't trust your memory.
And when you hear something valuable, write it down.
When you feel God is speaking to you in prayer,
write it down.
Even if you're not sure if it's God
or you just making it up.
When you need clarity and direction for your life,
write it down.
God even said in his word,
write all the words I've spoken to you in a journal
or in a book is what the Bible says.
Well, this right here will become your roadmap, your vision,
your direction for the new year.
So make time for God every single day.
He is the one who said, "Seek ye first, the Kingdom of God.
And then all these other things will be added unto you."
Got it?
Okay, number two is goals.
Did you know that the death rate in nursing homes
declines dramatically before holiday,
special occasions like weddings, anniversaries, birthdays?
Why?
Well, they said many of these elderly people
set a goal to live for one more Christmas,
one more anniversary, one more 4th of July.
But immediately after the event,
the goal has been reached and the will to live declines.
And the death rate just shoots upward.
We'll see, that's why God said,
"Without a vision, we perish."
Robert Sheeler said,
"Goals are not only necessary to motivate us,
they are essential to really keep us alive."
Well, there's the proof, right?
So goals keep you growing and stretching and moving
to a new level.
Now, personally, in our ministry and in my life,
every year we ask ourselves,
"What does a successful year look like to us?"
And then we just begin imagining it's December 31st
of the following year and we look back over the year
and we say, "This has been the most amazing year
of our lives."
Then we answer the question.
What needs to happen for us to say that?
So first I always list my top 10 goals
for the new year in every area.
My family, my finances, my fitness, my career.
Number two, hang them on a vision board,
where you can see them all year long.
Number three, declare them out loud during your prayer time.
This is how you release your faith is
with the words of your mouth.
Number four, track your progress month after month.
See you get what you focused on.
And I have so much more to say about setting goals
the right way, that's why I want you to have this week.
My Goal Setting crash course,
absolutely free as your download.
So all you gotta do is just click the link
in the description and get that.
It is an amazing tool that you can use
as just like a guideline to set your goals, got it?
Okay, the third G stands for gratitude
and I'm sure you've heard me say before
that a grateful heart is a magnet for miracles,
but also, the more gratitude you express,
the more abundance you experience.
We even have a gratitude wall here at the office
because it's a core value.
It's a way of life for us to never take for granted
what God has done.
The Bible says be thankful and say so, not just think it,
but speak it out.
Wen you start your prayer time, just thanking God
for what you do have, it opens the door
for him to bless you more.
I remember hearing Joyce Meyer say that you got to stop
magnifying all that you've lost,
magnifying what you've got left, and thank God for it.
And he will do wonders in your life.
Well, I am absolutely convinced it's the truth.
And one of the easiest ways to get into a habit
of thankfulness is to use a gratitude journal
because I have just experienced this myself.
When gratitude is a way of life, poverty won't be.
Got it?
Okay, number four is growth.
What does that mean?
Well, I began to learn years ago
that growth inside fuels growth outside.
I started learning that if I stopped growing,
everything stops growing.
So I launched my own personal growth plan
by just investing in myself like reading 20 minutes a day.
When I used to hate to read,
I'm listening to audios every day,
while I'm putting my makeup on.
It takes a long time to look like this.
Investing in courses and resources.
I'm just telling you from my personal experience,
that once I started making personal growth,
a priority in my life, not only did I grow,
but everything around me began to grow.
My finances, my career, my relationships,
my opportunities, everything.
So set a goal to invest in yourself.
You could enroll in our Vision Board course,
or buy a book, go to a conference,
but be very intentional about growing in 2022, got it?
Okay, the fifth and final G is generosity.
Now, this has been a game changer in my life.
Can you hear those seeds?
I was gonna show you seed sowing,
and I can hear all these little seeds
but this has been the game changer for my life
and for our ministry growth.
Now in 2020, our first act during the pandemic
was to give, which sounds crazy,
but I've learned that when you're experiencing
your greatest needs, so your greatest seeds, right?
I'm talking about money, but this is actual seeds.
In fact, I was reading Genesis 26:12,
where it explains that there was a famine in the land,
like what we've experienced with the pandemic.
But Isaac chose to sow seed in famine.
Bible says he reaped in the same year,
100 times what he planted.
So think about that, reaping a hundred times
in the same year as a famine?
So we decided we're gonna do the same thing.
We're gonna do what Isaac did.
We're gonna sow seed, financial seed.
And we started giving 2,612, you know,
like 2,612, $261.20,
we just started sowing according to Genesis 26:12.
We gave and we gave and we gave,
and we just kept declaring all year long.
We read in the same year, a hundred times.
And do you know that on December 31st,
I mean the last day of the year,
we received more donations for our outreaches
in that single day than we ever had
in the history of the ministry.
I mean, 11:30 at night, me and my directors,
we are texting each other going, what is going on?
It's like the flood gates opened and then we all said,
"Ah, Genesis 26:12!"
Could it be that we were giving and giving
and what we were declaring was actually happening?
God said, give me what you got and I'll turn it into a lot.
So I'm just telling you if you want supernatural growth,
increase your giving.
So that's what I call the G5 and it's how we end
every year and it's how we start every year.
So I hope this helps you.
I want you to get the Goal Setting crash course.
It's absolutely free.
I believe it'll help you get everything planned for 2022.
So just click the link in the description, get your course,
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