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Faithful Over the Few: Build Capacity Before Expansion · R.E.A.L. Talk for REAL L.Y.F.E.

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  Welcome to Real Talk for Real Life, where we are realizing everyone is always
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  learning and living your whole experience.
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  I'm your host, Coach C, and this is Season 7, Episode 4, Faithful Over the Few Things.
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  Real Talkers, I keep saying this because I think we need to hear it.
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  Everybody wants more more money more followers more opportunities more customers
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  more influence more abundance more expansion
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  bigger better next,
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  but here's my question,
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  are you actually ready to handle more because wanting is one thing capacity
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  is another and maybe the better question isn't What am I going to get more?
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  Maybe the question is, what are you doing with what's already in your hands?
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  Because we can get so focused on what we don't have that we become careless with what we do have.
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  You want the big audience, but how are you serving the small audience that's already listening?
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  You want hundreds of customers. How are you treating the first one?
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  You want the six-figure salary. How are you managing the paycheck you have now?
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  You want the big opportunity. What did you do with the little opportunity somebody already gave you?
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  You want a bigger platform. But are you consistently showing up for the platform you've already got?
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  See, everybody wants increase. But increase requires capacity. Capacity.
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  Faithful over a few things. And y'all know me, I'm a woman of faith.
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  I'm not coming at you from religion, but I am going to the good book on this one.
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  Matthew 25 and 21 says, thou has been faithful over a few things.
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  I will make the ruler over many things.
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  Now, I know that's a part of a larger parable, but that principle will preach
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  all by itself because sometimes we're asking God, when are you going to give me more?
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  And maybe the question coming back is, what are you doing with what I already gave you?
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  Because more isn't just a blessing. More is a responsibility.
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  More customers require more systems More money requires more discipline More
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  influence requires more accountability More opportunities require more discernment
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  More people, depending on you, require more capacity So before we ask for expansion,
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  maybe we need to examine our stewardship.
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  Fervently faithful or fretful Here's where I want you to check yourself.
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  Can you say you're being fervently faithful over your few things?
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  Or have you become fretful because your few things haven't multiplied yet?
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  Because fretful sounds like, why isn't this growing faster? Why don't I have what they have?
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  Why hasn't somebody noticed me yet?
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  Why isn't this paying off yet? Why am I still here?
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  Meanwhile, Faithful says, I'm going to work what I have while I have it.
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  I'm going to serve these 20 people like they're 20,000.
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  I'm going to treat this first customer like I'm already running the company I'm praying for.
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  I'm going to manage this paycheck while I'm working toward the bigger one.
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  I'm going to maximize this opportunity instead of minimizing it because it looks small.
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  I'm going to take care of what's in my hands because small doesn't mean insignificant.
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  Sometimes small is the training ground for more.
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  Don't despise the development season.
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  We love the word abundance, but we don't always love the development required to sustain it.
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  And I don't want to receive something my habits can't hold. I don't want expansion
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  that my discipline can't sustain.
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  I don't want more just so I can mishandle more. So maybe this season isn't punishment.
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  Maybe it's preparation. Maybe these few things are teaching you how to manage
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  the many things you've been asking for.
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  Because here's something we don't talk about enough.
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  Getting more and being able to keep more are two completely different things.
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  You can receive an opportunity you're not prepared to maintain.
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  You can make more money and still mismanage it.
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  You can gain an audience and lose them because you weren't prepared to serve them.
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  You can pray for expansion and become overwhelmed when it arrives because you
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  never built the systems to carry it.
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  So perhaps the prayer shouldn't only be, God, give me more.
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  Maybe it also needs to be God increase my capacity to faithfully manage more.
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  Here's your Fearless Homework. This week's Fearless Homework is called the Few Things Audit.
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  I want you to identify three few things already in your hands.
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  Maybe it's your current income, your current audience, your current job,
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  your first few customers, your health,
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  Your home, your gifts, your time, your current opportunity, whatever your few things are.
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  Then ask yourself three questions. One, am I being faithful or fretful with this?
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  Am I nurturing what I have or constantly complaining because it isn't bigger yet?
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  Two, if this multiplied tomorrow, could my current habits handle it?
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  Not my intentions, not my vision board, my habits.
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  And finally, number three, what is one thing I can do this week to steward it better? Then do it.
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  Organize it. Save it. Serve it.
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  Practice it. Improve it. Show up for it.
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  Whatever stewardship looks like in that area, do that.
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  Because real talkers, before you ask for more, take inventory of the few.
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  Be faithful when it's small. Be consistent when nobody's clapping.
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  Build capacity before expansion comes knocking.
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  And stop being so fretful about what hasn't arrived that you neglect what's
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  already sitting in your hands.
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  Because maybe the few things aren't standing between you and the many.
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  Maybe the few things are preparing you for the many.
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  So this week, be fervently faithful over your few things.
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  And as always, decide, commit, succeed, live fearless, keep learning, keep living.
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