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Terri Savelle Foy Podcast

The Secret To Self Motivation | How To Not Get Bored With Your Routine

Terri Savelle Foy Podcast

Terri Savelle Foy Ministries

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🗓️ 20 September 2021

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

Pursuing your dreams can actually feel very "un-exciting" at times, can't it? Like, let's get real for a second. You have a dream in your heart, you make plans to achieve this big, audacious goal... but then here it comes -- you have to go to work to see this dream come to pass... ...you have to start the small, mundane habits day-in and day-out that lead you to the success of your dreams. ...or else, you just have a wish, right? But God have us this little thing called motivation, and motiva...

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0:00.0

Have you heard of the Rule of Five?

0:08.0

John Maxwell was the first person I heard teach on it, and he even says the rule of five is the

0:13.0

most life-changing concept for success I have ever applied in my life.

0:18.0

So here's what it says.

0:19.0

Maxwell says, imagine taking an axe, which I just happen to have,

0:23.6

and going in your backyard and swinging at a tree five times. One, two, three, four, five. You put the axe down.

0:32.6

The next day, you pick up the axe and you go to the very same tree and you swing at it five times the next day and the next day five times

0:41.0

If every day I pick up the axe and I do this five times each day

0:46.6

What will eventually happen to the tree? Of course it's gonna fall down right? We don't even have to debate that

0:52.9

If I just swing five times, not 15, not 50, not 500 times,

0:58.8

just five times, eventually it will fall.

1:02.3

Didn't say when the tree would fall,

1:04.2

I just said it will fall, right?

1:06.1

Because I have consistently taken that ax

1:09.0

and swung at it every single day.

1:11.6

Here's what John Maxwell says.

1:13.6

Find your tree!

1:15.6

What is your goal?

1:17.6

Your vision, your dream that you want to knock down.

1:20.6

Now do five things every single day and it will come down

1:24.6

because little by little, it compounds

1:27.5

until mountains of impossible dreams begin to fall.

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