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- Hey, it's Terri Savelle Foy,
your Cheerleader of Dreams.
Well, I'm here in my home, I made my own little set,
I don't know if it looks that great, but...
And I was so tired of wearing sweatpants
that I put on my little dress,
I wanted to look cute, (chuckles) as cute as I can,
and my husband's like, you're going somewhere?
I said, No, honey, I'm just making breakfast
in my leather and polka dot (laughs).
OK, so anyway, I wanted to talk
about re-evaluating your life.
You know, what does God want us to learn
during this time?
And let me ask you this question,
I wanna give you a little quiz.
Which actor was sentenced to prison,
and while he was in prison, he re-evaluated his life,
and when we was released from prison,
he become one of the highest-paid actors in Hollywood.
What it Mark Wahlberg, Tim Allen,
Drew Carey, or Sylvester Stallone?
I'll tell you in just a few minutes.
So, I believe this is the perfect time
to re-evaluate your life.
You know, I've heard a story
about a guy named John Goddard,
who, when we was 15 years old,
he said so many times he would hear
his parents and his parents' friends at dinner,
they'd be at the house having dinner,
and he would hear them
talking about all the regrets they had in life,
places they never visited, countries they never saw,
all the things they never did.
And he went up to his bedroom one night,
sat there with a pen and paper, and just made a decision,
that will not be my story,
I am not gonna come to the end of my life
with nothing but regrets,
wishing I had done all these things.
So at 15 years old, he just made a list
of 127 things he wanted to do,
everything from visiting a movie studio,
to write a book, read the Bible cover-to-cover,
ride a horse in the Rose Bowl Parade,
drive a submarine, learn to speak French and Spanish,
live to see the 21st century, climb Mount Kilimanjaro,
so many things he wrote down.
In 2013, John Goddard died at the age of 88 years old,
having done 120 of the 127 things.
So, in essence, he re-evaluated his life at 15,
and then, he hit the ground running.
He lived his dreams, right?
Well, I don't want you to come
to the end of this quarantine, and all this time,
let's say, you go back to the office,
and all you really did was
watch every episode of The Office (laughs).
You wasted time, watched five new series of Netflix,
and gained ten pounds.
You know, somebody sent me a little meme
or a little quote on Instagram,
and it said, Dear God,
can we uninstall 2020 and re-install it?
It has a virus. (laughs)
Well, we don't want to just come to the end of this time
and think, all we did was waste time.
Well, I was reading a story the other day
about caterpillars, and I wanna show you this,
if I can hold this.
It was a about a scientist
who did an experiment with caterpillars,
and he placed them on the rim of a flower pot,
like this right here,
and he placed them all the way around the rim
to where the leader, the lead caterpillar,
was actually touching the backside of the final,
the last caterpillar. (laughs)
Nice view, but that's not my point.
And all of a sudden, these caterpillars
started going around and around in a circle.
Hour after hour, day after day, night after night,
they made a circle around this flower pot.
Meanwhile, the scientist put the pine tree,
pine needles and stuff,
right in the center of the flower pot,
which is the main source of nourishment
that caterpillars feed on, they love this.
But the caterpillars just circled around the flower pot
day after day, night after night.
Seven days later, the caterpillars dropped dead
of starvation and exhaustion.
Here's what the scientist said,
their nourishment was only six inches away,
however, they just continued to circle
in this circle going nowhere.
Well, the point was,
don't confuse activity with achievement.
Don't confuse activity with achievement.
In other words, don't confuse being busy all the time
with being beneficial to your life.
See, I believe that God can use this season
of quarantine, isolation, social distancing
to be the most beneficial time of your life
because you get serious about where you're headed.
Instead of just being busy all the time,
going in a circle nowhere, you're gonna get strategic
about what you wanna do with you life.
So I wanna share with you five things real quick
that I believe will help you
re-evaluate your life right now.
Number one, have a quarantine routine.
Have a quarantine routine.
I just mean, have a certain time,
a routine that you wake up every day.
Have a workout routine, have a reading routine,
have a family routine, have a bedtime routine.
You know routines help us stay structured and productive.
Instead of just being like,
I don't know, I just go to bed whenever,
I get up whenever.
No, when you have a routine,
you're gonna maintain structure,
and you're gonna increase productivity.
So, you don't wanna overeat during this time.
You know, I also saw on Instagram,
there's so many funny little quotes out there,
but it was Day One of the quarantine,
and it was Little Debbie Snack Cakes,
and it said Day One, Little Debbie;
Day 30, Big Deborah. (laughs)
No, you don't wanna overeat during this time,
so even maybe have a routine of you
eat dessert on the weekend.
Just have a routine, I'm telling you,
it's gonna keep you protected to reach your goals.
Number two, get up early.
I'm not saying you have to get up at five o'clock
during this time, but get up earlier than everybody else.
And you know what, the rest of the family
doesn't need to do this, but I'm talking to you.
I want you to have a time
where you get up earlier to invest in yourself.
That could be your time to read,
to take an online course,
to do something to get you closer to your dreams.
You know, John Acuff, he said,
the only time he could start
making progress towards his goals in life,
after working a full-time job,
being a father, being a husband,
was to start being selfish
at five o'clock in the morning,
and he said, you know,
not one time has my wife complained
that I wouldn't spend time with her
at five o'clock in the morning,
not one time does my daughter complain
that I wouldn't go jump on the trampoline
with her at five o'clock in the morning.
He said, no, this is your time to invest in you.
Again, I'm not saying you have to get up at five,
but get up earlier than the rest of the family
so you can invest in you.
So, John Acuff said,
If your dream isn't worth 30 minutes of your time,
you've either got the wrong dream
or you're pretending to have one.
Ouch, so just get up early.
Number three is get direction for your life
and you might like, how?
Spend time with God.
I want this to be your time
that you start getting serious
about hearing from God.
I don't have my journal here with me, I forgot it.
But just get a journal
and start practicing hearing the voice of God,
listening for Him.
You know, this is your time,
and I wanna challenge you
to just spend five minutes with a journal and a pen,
and just listen for God,
listen for those ideas.
You know, throughout the Bible,
every person, they got their direction,
they got their assignment in isolation,
you could say in quarantine.
On the back side of a desert, in the wilderness,
in jail, behind a mountain,
that's where they got direction from God.
Well, what is God trying to tell us?
Maybe He wants this time to say,
I want you to start listening for Me.
You know, just since this quarantine,
I've been spending five minutes every morning
with a pen and a journal, just five minutes,
just doing my think time
and actually writing my journal, think,
and I've been thinking about the IC Women's Conference.
You know, what do I believe
the Lord wants us to do with that,
which direction does He want us to go.
I've been thinking about books I wanna write.
I've been thinking about our courses
that we're launching.
What does God want you to do.
Just say five minutes, I'm just gonna think.
Think about what you want to achieve,
turn the TV off.
You know, have a routine with that,
don't leave the TV on for 18 out of 24 hours.
Turn the TV off, go somewhere, and just think.
This is your time to work on you.
And also, I put together five scriptures
that I want you to download this week
because they're five scriptures that reveal to you
that God wants you to know His plan for your life.
So I want you to read those scripture out
during your prayer time.
In fact, one of them says this,
Surely the sovereign Lord does nothing
without revealing His plan to His servant.
That's comforting, isn't it?
So God wants you to know His plan,
we just have to get quiet enough to listen for it.
So I want you to download those five scriptures
and even start your prayer time
just reading those scriptures back to the Lord,
just saying, Lord, You said in Your word
that You do nothing without revealing Your plan to me.
So, Father, I'm asking you to reveal what you want me
to get serious about during this time,
and then just start writing down
every thought that comes in your mind.
Don't question whether it's God or it's you, just write,
that's all you gotta do.
Get these scriptures, click the link in the description
to get your five scriptures.
Number four, set quarantine goals.
Set some goals that you want to achieve
during this quarantine time.
I'm not talking about massive crazy goals,
I'm talking about goals that you can achieve
during this short season.
It could be, you wanna read an entire book.
In fact, this is the book I'm reading right now.
See You at the Top, that's a classic by Zig Ziglar.
Well, I set a goal to read this big old book
during this time.
You need to do something like that
or take an online course.
You could probably finish a whole course
during this time.
Wouldn't you feel good,
going back to work or your kids go back to school,
and you're like, wow, I read a whole book,
I took a whole course,
I started a workout program.
Think about some goals that you want to achieve.
Maybe it's to declutter the most dreaded room in the house.
Now is the time to just tackle that thing.
It's probably not gonna take as long
as you thought it would.
In fact, we're doing it a Declutter Challenge
on Instagram if you're interested.
We're giving away a $200 Amazon gift card.
So check out my Instagram post if you're interested in that.
But set some quarantine goals
that you will achieve during this time.
Write them down, don't just leave them in your head.
Write down, these are my quarantine goals,
and put them on the fridge or something
so you can check them off.
And number five, this is huge,
rethink your finances.
This is the perfect time
to re-evaluate where you are financially.
I mean, how does this pandemic,
how does this no-income, no-paycheck,
only essential businesses are open,
how does this affect your financial situation right now?
Did you have six months of your monthly expenses
already saved in an emergency account,
so you're like, I'm fine for another 5 1/2 months,
I'll be fine 'cause I saved money?
Did you save three months of your monthly expenses?
Did you save one month, so you're like,
I'm OK for a month, but I hope we go back to work?
Or, can you make it until next Friday?
Or did you have nothing?
If you're like most Americans,
they say 60% of Americans did not save one penny last year.
And I'm not putting you down if that's you
because I lived like that for most of my life until 2002,
when I started learning these things that,
you know, we never dreamed a pandemic would happen,
but I began to learn from people like Dave Ramsey,
you've got to have an emergency account.
You know, we never think,
oh, an emergency like this is gonna happen,
but look what happened!
Thank God I began doing what I'm telling you,
investing in myself, reading books about money,
listening to podcasts about money,
saving just a little bit at a time.
In fact, if you were to start saving $20 a week,
just $20 a week, do you know that you would have
over $1,000 in your emergency savings account?
Wouldn't that come in handy right now,
knowing at least I have $1,000 set aside.
Just $20 a week.
So I wanna challenge you during this time
rethink your finances.
Number one, establish a budget.
In fact, in the download this week,
where I give you the five scriptures,
I also added a website
where you can do your own budget.
This is the one I use, you're gonna love it,
so I put that in there.
But you've got to establish a budget.
Number two, start saving money.
You know, set a goal,
when all this is over, you are gonna save like a maniac.
You know, eBay reported
that the average American has at least $3,100,
over $3,000 worth of stuff
laying around their house
that they don't even need, but they could sell.
So, during this quarantine,
make a pile of stuff you could sell.
People are buying right now like crazy online.
This could be your moment to sell the old phones,
the old iPads, just sell some stuff,
start looking for ways to make extra money,
to build that savings account.
Just make a decision,
you will never, ever be unprepared again,
that this is your moment to re-evaluate your life.
What does God want you to learn during this season?
Use this as bonus time,
and I believe the rest of this year
will be the best of your year.
So, I want you to click the link in the description,
get your five scriptures with the website
for where you can budget your money,
and start your prayer time
reading those scriptures out loud.
So let answer the question, which actor was it
who was sentenced to prison, but during his isolation,
during that prison time,
he began to re-evaluate his life,
he discovered that he loved acting?
He actually put together talent shows in the prison,
and then, when he got out of prison,
he became one of the highest-paid actors in the world.
Was it Mark Wahlberg, Tim Allen,
Drew Carey, or Sylvester Stallone?
The answer is Tim Allen,
the funny man from Home Improvement.
So, what I'm saying is utilize this isolation time
to re-evaluate your life,
and again, the rest of this year
is gonna be the best of your year.
Thanks for watching, and remember,
I'm cheering you on to live your dreams.
Peppe! (speaks a foreign language)
Come here, hurry, hurry, hurry!
Come on!
He doesn't wanna be around.
I'll get him now, hold on.
Let's go, babe, come here.
Peppe, Peppe. (speaks a foreign language)
Here you go! (laughs)
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