The 3-Part Formula for Your Big Breakthrough

Hey Friend!

Today, we are going to talk about your big breakthrough. You know, that breakthrough that you keep chasing after? The one that you keep dreaming about, planning out, and working towards? There is a three-part formula that will help you reach that breakthrough, and today, I’ll reveal exactly what those three parts are.

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You could be ready for your big breakthrough and start making money. Check out my school, wherever you are; I’ll help you get where you want to go. Make this investment in yourself. Let’s grow, friend!

The 3-Part Formula to Get You There

For now, let’s look at my three-part formula for achieving that big breakthrough and making it a reality in your life.

Breakthrough Part One: God-Led Ambition

The first thing you need for your big breakthrough is God-led ambition.

The dictionary defines ambition as a strong desire to achieve something, often involving success, power, recognition, or motivation. It is the drive to set and pursue goals with determination and perseverance.

Discern Between God-Centered Ambition and Worldly Ambition

There is biblical and God-centered ambition that we want to ensure we are aligned with, and then there is worldly ambition, where things like success, power, or recognition can be negative. We want to discern and ensure that we follow biblical principles in our internal motivations.

We can look to scripture for this.

Philippians 2:3-4 says, “Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit. Rather, in humility, value others above yourself, not looking to your own interest but each of you to the interests of others.”

This verse reminds me that it’s not because of me when I’m working in an ambitious mindset, and I’m constantly in that mindset.

It is because of the people I serve, because of you, and because I want to reach more women. I want to help more women be free from the worldly way of building, have more incredible brands in the world, and create a ripple effect with many astonishing business owners who are the hands and feet of Christ. So, checking your motivation is always a healthy thing to do.

Make Your Goal to Please Him

2 Corinthians 5:9 says, “Make it your goal to please Him, whether at home in the body or away from it.”

And so, how are we pleasing God? I think that pleasing God is about stepping up and stepping out in faith, doing incredible things while we’re here, doing our best, and being excellent in all that we can and within our capacity, not striving, but doing our best. It is prayerfully considering what God has for us and then taking the next step.

To me, that is ambition, and we need to be ambitious. If you’re sitting in a fearful space, you’ll talk yourself out of it. You won’t get your breakthrough if you sit in a self-conscious, worry spiral about judgment or fear of man.

Have a Business Meeting With God

You have to have that internal Holy Spirit-led ambition to drive you forward. The very first thing you need to do to have your big breakthrough is to sit down and have a business meeting with God, which is the entire first module of my program.

He must be partnered with you and involved in all the things you do in your business. And then you can allow yourself to be unafraid of God’s goals, of dreaming, and allowing God to place in your heart where He is trying to take you, so that you can begin to take the steps.

Breakthrough Part Two: Action

The second part of the formula that we need is action. We actually have to take action. It’s not enough to have ambition in your heart to start a podcast and teach people, for example, how to declutter their closets.

You might feel like God is helping you do this because you’ve purged your closet, which has given you a clear mindset, made you feel more confident, and led to outstanding outcomes. And you believe that God has put this on your heart to share this with the world.

But then you think it’s not a good time. Maybe you will do it next year. Or when the kids have left home and you’re an empty nester. Or not now because money is tight, so you can’t invest in it right now. Even though you hear the Word of the Lord giving you direction and feel a little nudge from the Holy Spirit, you keep sitting on it.

Breakthrough Will Come if You Move Your Feet

You won’t get your big breakthrough unless you take action. Sometimes, action is terrifying. And it can result in you failing forward. Sometimes it doesn’t look the way you thought. It can often look a little messy because you are unclear about how to do things. Action usually feels a little confusing or overwhelming.

Get used to it. You are a CEO now. You are stepping into a Kingdom capacity where you are going to grow and stretch everything that you thought possible. God is the only one who knows what you are capable of. You are a human being with a brain and a heart that wants to keep you safe. So, you must take a big step from fear to faith and act.

One tip here: it’s not about taking action based on what you think the result will be, because we have no idea what God is doing. Also, that’s big and scary, and you’ll be a hot mess trying to fumble your way forward on this vast journey.

Take Action on the Next Right Step

Look at the next right step. What is step one? Take action on that step. Then, move on to step two. Take baby steps, but constantly move your feet. My prayer each day is, ‘Lord, how do I shepherd and steward this calling, this business, well? What is one thing I can do today to be excellent and to grow in my business?’

If I can do one thing every single day, by the end of the year, I’ll have 365 minus however many weekend days to do something with excellence, move the needle forward in my business, and grow. I think that this is incredibly glorifying to God.

Breakthrough Part Three: Discipline

The third part of my formula to get to your big breakthrough is discipline!

I’ve been hearing this Word of the Lord on discipline lately, and it needs to be addressed. It needs to be something that we consistently remind ourselves of. We live in a society today of complete entitlement and un-discipline. I’m not sure if that’s even a word! People want to do whatever they want, whenever they want, because they feel like it.

That is not Biblical. When we look at Scripture, we see how pleasing it is to God and how important it is that we are disciplined as believers who are gifted with a message that we are meant to share with the world.

Hebrews 12:11 says, “No discipline seems pleasant at the time, but painful. Later on, however, it produces a harvest of righteousness and peace for those who have been trained by it.“

Be Disciplined in Taking Care of the Gifts God Has Given You

Be disciplined in getting up, working out, spending time with the Lord, and praying for your spouse, even if you don’t want to. Spend time with your kids, speaking the Word over their lives, and showing up, even if it’s for a podcast episode, when you don’t feel like it. Do whatever else you need to do to be excellent shepherds of the things God has gifted us with.

It takes discipline and sacrifice to be the best we can be. This is not striving to perform for God. When we are disciplined in the gift of having a beautiful family to shepherd, a property to take care of, a body that we can work out and feed well, and a brain that we can cultivate and renew with the Word of the Lord, we are taking care of the gifts that the Lord has so beautifully given to us.

Stop Limiting Yourself and Step Into Your Full Potential

If that’s the least we can do, I’m going to do it, and I’m going to do it every single day, even when I don’t want to. I am going to do it without fail because I want to reach my full potential, my fullest capacity for the Kingdom of God. The only one limiting me is me. I will talk myself out of it. I will make up excuses.

So instead of that, I am going to lean into discipline, build routines, and allow the Holy Spirit to lead me in all of my choices so that I can become the absolute best, the most Biblical version of myself. And yes, I will always fail, and that is fine. I will sleep through my alarm! But I am constantly trying my best, and I want that for you.

Discipline Is Showing Up to Be Put to Kingdom Use

Discipline is going to get you far. The people who leave a testimony on this podcast, talking about 10,000 or 100,000 downloads and 100,000 businesses, didn’t wake up and have success. They woke up, did the work, showed up, pressed record, and got frustrated. Tears were shed, but they came back, did the job, and did it again.

They got off social media and quit wasting time on it. I’m not talking about being off social media all the time, but they should stop wasting time scrolling through it. They used the hours they had for the Kingdom’s benefit.

Be Disciplined in Running the Race to Get the Prize

1 Corinthians 9:24-27 says, “Do you not know that in a race all the runners run but only one gets the prize? Run in such a way as to get the prize. Everyone who competes in the games goes into strict training. They do it to get a crown that will not last but we do it to get a crown that will last forever. Therefore I do not run like somebody running aimlessly. I do not fight like a boxer beating the air. No. I strike a blow to my body and make it my slave so that after I have preached to others I will myself not be disqualified for the prize.”

In these verses, the Apostle Paul uses the analogy of an athlete’s discipline and training to illustrate the importance of self-control and discipline in the Christian life and what this entails. Run to get the prize. Show up. Get out there.

Put on your shoes, even when you have a stitch in your side and cramp, and you want to quit, and you’re thirsty. You run, and you run, and you run until the day you’re in the marathon and finish the race. You don’t just finish the race well, but you finish with the prize, which is doing excellent work in your calling. That is showing up with everything that God has for you, in the capacity you can handle today.

A Summary of the Three Steps to Get Your Big Breakthrough

Do you want your breakthrough? Do you want to go somewhere you’ve never gone before in your podcast or your business? In your life and your marriage? In any area of your life? I don’t know what it means to you, but if you want that breakthrough, these are your three steps: God-led ambition, significant faith-driven action, and consistent discipline.

A game-changing, life-changing, Kingdom-impacting, favor-producing three-part formula that will change everything for you.

I pray this blesses you!

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