TERRI: But why I stopped watching the Bachelorette,
mainly so I could come to Paris, France, seriously, I'll explain.
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TERRI: Hey, it's Terri Savelle Foy, your cheerleader of dreams.
And here I am in London, England. Look behind me, we're
in Paris, the most beautiful city. And I'm so happy to be
podcasting today. I want to talk to you about something that
sounds a little crazy, but why I stopped watching the
Bachelorette, mainly so I could come to Paris, France,
seriously, I'll explain, but do you know, believe it or not,
years ago I would get so caught up in shows like the
bachelorette and the bachelor and what is it called? Like
Bachelor in paradise or I don't even know what it's called
anymore, but I would watch those on Monday night and then go to
work the next day and we'd talk about who got the rose, who
threw someone in the pool. I can't believe he kissed her. We
would get so caught up in the drama and then countdown for the
next Monday, night to watch it again. Well, the reason I'm
telling you this, and it's not just the Bachelorette, and shows
like that. I would watch, I would watch a lot of TV, but one
time the Lord said to me in prayer, I was just listening for
the Lord and I heard this come up in my spirit. The Lord said
to me, don't be average and your life won't be average. Emphasis
on the understood you. You don't be average and your life won't
be average. You know, I started thinking about that. It applies
to everything. You don't be average and your career won't be
average. You don't be average and your opportunities won't be
average. Your salary, your body, your marriage, your vacations,
your um, organization or business, it won't be average if
you refuse to be average. Well, I started looking around at my
life and realizing I was average and I had average habits. In
fact, I've heard where the average person, the average
American watches between four and six hours of TV every day,
you know, think about that. If the average person watches six
hours of TV, they say, by the time you're 60 years old, that's
15 years of your life glued to the television. 15 years of your
life. They say 95% of Americans watch TV every day. Well, it's
so easy to get into that routine of, you know, you work all day,
you come home, get your dinner, you plop in front of the TV and
you just stare a rectangle for four hours and then go to bed
and do it again and do it again. Well, when you start actually
tracking your time, your TV time, and you realize, oh my
gosh, I just watched it. Two hour, maybe I just watched an
hour of reporting on gossip. Then you start going, I
seriously just watched three hours without even realizing it.
Well, when we waste our time, we waste our lives, right? Here's
what I began to realize. Life is meant to be live not watched,
right? And you know, I started thinking, I'm sitting here
watching other people fall in love. Start businesses, start
familes, visit cities. I've dreamed of, you know, experience
new foods, climb mountains, start you know, ministries, um,
renovate houses. You're watching all these other people do these
things. When God's wanting you to do these things, well, what
do you do? You look around on what the average person is doing
and you say, I'm not going to do that. If the average person is
watching four to six hours of TV, this is what I tell people.
I'm joking, but I'm kind of serious. Just take 20 minutes,
still Watch your 5 hours and 40, take 20 minutes to go read, read
a book. The most successful people in the world, they read.
Well, you've probably heard me say on other podcasts, I hated
reading like I loathed it. Well, I had to make myself start this
habit because when you discover the most successful people read
books, it makes you go, okay, if I'm not going to be average, I
got to go above average. I'm going to start reading now. Let
me ask you this. Can you imagine getting to sit down with someone
like Dave Ramsey and ask him questions about how to get out
of debt? How do you increase your savings account? How do you
start getting a a successful financial mentality and mindset?
Can you imagine sitting down with him and getting to just
talk about that? We'll truth is, you can with his book, you know
the total money makeover. You can sit down basically and have
a conversation with him. That's what books are they're
conversations with the author or can you imagine sitting down
with Joyce Meyer and getting to ask her, how do you get free
from the past? How do you get free from emotional abuse and
sexual abuse and how do you forgive people who have truly
hurt you and wounded you? You can actually pretty much sit
down with Joyce Meyer and find out the answers to all those
questions. She's written what like 80 books. She's poured her
life into the pages of books. It's the equivalent of getting
to sit down with that author and find out everything they know or
I think about Joel Osteen. Can you imagine getting to sit down
with Joel Osteen and just get full of hope and ask him how do
you stay optimistic? How do you have such a positive mindset
even when all hell comes against you? How do you stay motivated?
You can. Here's one of my favorites. Can you imagine
sitting down with Jerry Savelle, which I can, I can actually do
that, but asking him, how do you increase in the favor of God on
your life? What are the 10 benefits of walking in the favor
of God? How can you experience that favor every day of your
life? You can actually find that out by reading his books. With
me I would say sitting down with me and me getting to talk to you
about how to achieve your dreams and goals. How do you set goals
the right way? How do you make a vision board? What do you do
once the Vision Board is done and on the wall? I teach you how
to do that. Here's the thing. You know I think about one of
the book I just wrote, the five things successful people do
before eight o'clock. That took me 16-17 years to learn those
habits, to learn all the content that I poured into that book
that you can learn in six hours. So a book is the equivalent of
an author, just pouring years of wisdom and knowledge and
experience and failures and triumphs into the pages of a
book. So you can learn it in a matter of hours. I want to
challenge you to do what I started doing years ago is read.
Read for 20 minutes a day. You know, they say the key to
success is actually K. E. Y. Keep educating yourself. You
know, when I began reading and learning how to get out of debt,
how to build an organization, how to be a leader, how to go on
the mission field. You know, reading is what brought me to
cities like Paris, France, where now I get to minister to people.
Nobody cared what I had to say before. But when I started
reading and growing myself, everything around me began to
grow with it. because I want to challenge you to do the same
thing. You know, there's a famous doctor who's written so
many books, his name is Dr. Seuss. Very successful doctor.
And this is what he says. This is what he, I love this. We have
this actually on the wall at my offices, it says, the more you
read, the more things you know, the more you learn, the more
places you'll go, and that is the truth. As your mind
increases and improves, everything around you increases
and improves. And you know, I love what Jack Canfield's him.
He said years ago when he was just learning about success,
Debbie Clemonstone down multi, Multimillionaire said to him, he
said, Jack, do you watch TV? He said, yeah. I watched a little
bit of TV. He said, how much? He said, I don't know. I watch, you
know Johnny Carson, I watch entertainment news. I watched,
you know, he said about three hours a night. He said, cut out
one hour. He said, why? He said, I want that hour and I want you
to read. He said, read what? He said. Read books that are going
to help you read marketing. Read success, read spiritual growth.
Read books. Well, he started doing that and within a matter
of five years he became a millionaire. I want to challenge
you, stretch yourself, refuse to be average. Just like the Lord
said to me, don't be average and your life on be average. So in
fact, I want to help you get started. I want to give you a
free chapter from my book, and it's all about stop killing
time. Eight ways to discover if you're wasting your time. I'm
going to give you that chapter absolutely free. You just click
the link in the description, get access to that chapter and get
started reading today. Hey, be sure and follow me on Instagram,
Facebook, Twitter, that can keep you motivated to live your
dreams. Au revior from Paris, France.