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How to Faith Goals · Arise Women of God

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  Have you ever received a clear prompting from God?
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  Maybe a dream to start a podcast or a business, or maybe to heal a relationship, and then immediately you felt a wave of panic because you have no idea how to actually do it?
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  Most of us shut down when the vision that we have is bigger than our current capacity.
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  So today we're tackling the practical question, how to faith goals.
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  And by the end of this episode, you will have an amazing toolkit of hacks to break down the massive downloads into manageable steps.
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  We're going to help you solve the pain of spiritual paralysis by showing you how to pivot when the path changes.
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  We're moving from being overwhelmed by the vision to empowered by the process.
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  Stay tuned.
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  Ordinary women.
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  Extraordinary faith.
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  When God calls, we say yes.
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  The Arise Women of God Podcast.
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  Hello, and welcome to another episode of the Arise Women of God podcast.
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  I'm your host, Tamara K.
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  Andersen, and joining me today is Amy Johnson from our Women warriors of Light Advisory Board.
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  Over the past couple of days, we've defined what faith goals are and why we need them.
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  And now we're getting into the nitty gritty.
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  First, we're going to discuss how to capture the download God is giving you based on how you actually process information.
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  So second, we'll share the National Geographic zoom story, which is actually the secret to not running away when God shows you a huge mission.
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  Third, we'll talk about the 42% rule and how to use visual anchors to keep your goal right in front of your face.
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  And finally, we're going to tackle the elephant in the room.
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  What to do when all hell breaks loose and your progress completely stops.
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  But first, let's talk about capturing the download.
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  I do everything with my journal and my pen and God on my knees.
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  Everything.
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  If I have to make a decision.
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  If actually.
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  And every morning I just.
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  That's.
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  That's how I do it.
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  I.
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  I know that doesn't always work for everyone, but that's how I do it.
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  I write down what I think I hear him say as best as I can.
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  I love that, too.
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  I am also.
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  I also process things by writing.
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  And so I just have journal after journal of Tamara just writing things down.
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  But I know that not everybody processes this way.
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  What are some of the other ways you've seen people process?
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  I know some people talk it out.
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  Right.
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  Well, I'm also a talker.
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  And that's like.
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  It's really helpful for me to have a good friend so that I can talk it out and get it out and think it out and And I'll often say, if I'm in a safe place with someone, I'll often
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  say, hang on, be patient.
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  It feels like it's coming as I'm talking, right?
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  But I have a friend who really values the inspired counsel of others.
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  And so she will ask a question and she will have someone else talk it out.
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  And then she can glean from what they say what is inspired for her and how to move forward for her.
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  Whether you are a writer or a talker, the key is getting that inspiration out of your head and into the physical, physical world.
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  But once it's on paper, that big picture may feel like a super heavy weight on your chest.
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  Amy has a specific way of asking the Lord to break that weight down into bite sized steps.
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  One of the most important things I do is often get a big picture in my brain of what God wants.
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  And if I just stare at that big picture, that's too much.
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  So I am forever asking, how, what does that look like?
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  And have the Lord break it down smaller and smaller and smaller until I feel like, okay, that I can do.
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  Today, if God showed us the whole map all at once, we would probably run screaming, right?
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  I know I would.
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  If I had seen the full scope of Women warriors of light years ago.
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  It's like those zoomed in pictures we see in magazines where you only see a tiny piece of texture until the lens pulls back.
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  Amy's going to share a little bit more about this analogy.
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  And when I was a little girl, we had National Geographic made a kids magazine called World Coming.
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  But on the back of the world there was these zoomed in pictures and you would get this much and they would say, what do you think this is?
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  And we would stare at those pictures forever.
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  And then you'd read the answer and you were like, oh, that's what it really was.
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  And I feel like that's how God is, is that we think we're getting this big picture, but really we're just zoomed in on this little tiny section.
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  And as we go to him say, how do I do this?
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  How do I do this?
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  And things start to unfold, we realize, oh, there's a much grander landscape here that I could not even have understood.
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  We only see the zoomed in part, but God sees the forest.
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  To stay focused on our little section of woods, we, we have to use every psychological advantage we have, starting with the power of the pen.
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  All right, so we've talked about brainstorming with God, getting the idea, writing it down.
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  There's creative ways to do it if.
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  If you like looking at something on your mirror, you could even take like a 3 by 5 card, write the big goal and marker and either laminate it or a totally redneck hack is to take packing tape and
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  put it all over the three by five card and then you can write on it with dry RA markers and write like a weekly goal on there.
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  Put it in your shower or.
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  Oh yes, put it in your shower.
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  Once its laminated You can do anything with it.
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  Yeah.
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  If you prefer having it as a lock screen on your phone, there's ways that you can build a screensaver super Simply like in PowerPoint or Canva, and just change that out.
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  Maybe if you spend a lot of time in your car, you put a note in your car.
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  These are my goals this week and I'm going to accomplish them.
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  Or God will inspire you to find creative ways that you can record the goal somewhere where it's in your face.
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  Just the act of writing a goal down means you're 42% more likely to actually accomplish it.
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  So huge.
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  Huge.
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  If you want to increase the chances that you'll do it even more.
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  So talk to somebody about it.
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  Find somebody that you can say, hey, I'm setting this goal.
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  We call them an accountability partner.
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  And maybe you're setting a goal too.
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  Maybe we can hold each other accountable.
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  You know, pick somebody that you love, that you trust, that you feel safe with, and that you can maybe support each other.
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  Because I've found that to be so very helpful in my life when I'm setting big goals, especially ones that are scary or hard, or when you have obstacles.
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  It's nice to have somebody to say, talk to and say, I had a really hard week and here's why all these things came up.
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  I didn't reach my goal.
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  And maybe you can help me brainstorm my way through this so that you're not tackling it alone.
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  Right.
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  And putting the goal where you can always see it.
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  Yes.
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  When I first started doing Mary Kay, I was determined to become a director really fast because I had five little children and I needed to provide.
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  And so Mary Kay is all about doing that.
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  And so I've did every step they taught us to do, and one of them was keep it where you can see it.
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  And so I would walk past this massive goal of becoming a director and did it in eight months because it's in your.
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  It's in your face, it's in your space, it's in your brain.
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  It's what you're thinking about is what you're Brain about and you see opportunities to move forward because it's always there.
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  From vision boards to whiteboards to redneck hacks with packing tape on your mirror.
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  Whatever it takes to keep the goal right in front of your face, that's the important thing.
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  But even with the best vision board, there are weeks when everything seems to go wrong.
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  That is when you need to understand the dam principle.
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  I always found it fascinating that one of the meanings of the word damn is to stop progress.
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  That's what if you dam up a river, it stops its progress.
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  Satan is damned.
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  He cannot make any further progress.
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  And so he is jealous of all of us as we move forward and make progress in our lives.
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  And so he wants us to stop and be miserable like he is.
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  And so just remember that that is the adversary's tactic.
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  And he uses it quite effectively all the time.
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  Feel guilty and you feel shame and the adversary starts putting these negative thoughts in your mind and you're just like, ah, you want to give up.
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  You want to say it's not worth doing.
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  And if you want to keep moving forward, that's why yoking yourself with Jesus is so important.
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  And we have a free resource for all of you amazing women out there called our Guide to Goal Setting.
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  And in this free download on our Women warriors of Light website, you will find a Cast out the Adversary page.
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  And it walks you through casting him out, along with any tools that he's using.
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  Because it's spiritual warfare here, ladies.
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  Bringing in light and calling on angels to help fill you full of light, help be your companions.
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  And I tell you, anytime I feel discouraged and I walk myself through that, I end up leaving.
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  It's like the anxiety's gone.
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  I've cast out anxiety, I've cast out discouragement, and I cast out.
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  You can cast out those feelings and bring in confidence and faith and peace.
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  And I tell you what, that one thing alone has helped me so much with my goals.
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  Because when I'm feeling discouraged and don't want to keep going, I know God has my back.
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  And if I just cast out darkness and bring in God's light again and kind of yoke myself to him again, then I feel like I have the energy to keep moving forward.
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  Yoked to Jesus.
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  If you need that specific Cast out the Adversary protocol that we mentioned in today's episode, you can find it inside our free A Guide to Goal Setting for Christian Women.
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  It's a beautiful download that includes the sacred brainstorm and warrior hacks to make your goal visible and achievable.
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  The link for this is in the description below.
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  Go Be a progress maker today my friends, and until next time.
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  May you arise.
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  Do it God's way, God strong.