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Hello, friend, and welcome to the Life Changing Manifestations podcast. I'm your host Stephanie Edwards, and today I want to talk about the goals that you have set for 2025. I'm recording this on January 15th, so I'm halfway into the first month. I'm also past the time when they say most people have already quit on their goals. Where are you with your goals, with the intentions that you set for this new
year. And I want to tell you my goals because what I've done differently, one, I've read the 10 X book, which I highly recommend. And this book's concept is that it's easier to achieve a 10 X school than it is just to incrementally double your goal. So you think, okay, I did, I'm just throwing on a number. I did $25,000 last year. So this year I'll double it and I'll try to get to $50,000.
The concept is you'd be better off setting a 10X school and going even bigger because what it does is if you just go to the next level, you're pretty much staying in a mindset of like, okay, I know how to do what I've already done. And I could kind of just rinse and repeat and hopefully get the same kind of result. mean, results are not guaranteed, right? We know that. Otherwise no business would ever go out of business. As soon as they got to the point of success,
They would always stay at success, right? But that's not the case. So we know that things change, but let's say you figured out how to earn a certain amount or you've learned how to do a certain thing in your business and you're like, okay, I could just keep doing that and hopefully get similar results. However, you think, okay, I'll go increase it and I will go for double. I he's saying is let's 10 X the goal because now you're like, in the world am I even going to do that?
And that friend ties perfectly into all the conversations that I love to have over here at Life Changing Manifestations is we want to get out of mediocre. We want to get out of average. We want to get out of our own system of knowing how to do the things where we are relying just on ourselves. And so when I say mediocre, I'm just saying that you're staying average. You're staying where you've always been because you already know how to do that. And instead you can say, uh-uh.
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I'm going to aim for something bigger. I'm going to set that 10x goal because I want to challenge myself. One, me, I want to challenge myself. Do you want to challenge yourself to break out of the norm, to break out of the box of the defined parameters of things you already know how to do and the way you've done them so that you can improve the results that you can get. But beyond that, beyond that friend is where you can allow big God-sized dreams to step in.
And this is what I've been writing about. This is what I put into my book on faith, where we are having the faith to step out when we have no idea how or what we're gonna do. That would be like a 10X school. And we have a vision that we have cast and hopefully this is aligned with God. And we have this vision that we have and we're like, okay, if God doesn't step in and help me and guide me and show me, like you're putting your whole trust so you can be there to rely on God, I don't know how it's gonna get done.
because I don't know what I'm going to do. Okay. So I want to share with you my three goals that I have set for this year that to me feel really big and feel really like, okay, how am going to do that? They're fun and they're exciting to me. And I definitely have the attachment, the why I understand all of that, but I'm putting big, big, big goals out there because I want to do this year differently in that I want to do this year with faith. And I want to move forward with God to achieve the goals that have set.
So what we're looking at friend is how can you create a goal that is so big? How can you cast a vision that is so outside the realm of possibility that you know how to do that where you can turn to God and you can pray one for wisdom and direction and what it is that you've been casting. And two, once you feel solid on that, you're like, okay, I don't know how it's all going to come together, but I'm going to trust. And what is my first step? Where do I keep going? How do I keep moving forward in action? How do we keep doing the things?
so that I can expand and grow as I see you working in my life. And that is a powerful engagement of your faith. Faith is not just believing in something, faith is the action to move forward when you don't know how to, okay? It is the confidence and the courage, not in yourself, but in God to move forward. That's the kind of faith that I'm talking about, okay? I wanna inspire you to activate that kind of faith. So one, I wrote a book that I just published last week.
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called stop living within your means, because it's all about this. Stop living within your means means stop just doing things that you already know how to do. Stop just setting goals that essentially are just living off of your own power, your own capability. And yeah, they might stretch you a little bit, like getting back into the gym. If you haven't been in a gym, you're like, this is hard. But could you just kind of keep doing that and figure it out on your own? Most likely. But if you've set a bigger milestone, like let's say you decided to run a half marathon or a marathon,
and you've won, you've never even run before, now you've got to say, okay, I've got to get some help and I've got to have other resources in place because I don't know how to do this on my own. I want you to start thinking bigger and grander and more amazing because here's the other thing this brings you, is it brings you to a place where now you can turn to God and you are one, relying on God, two, trusting in God, walking in faith, thirdly, and
Fourth, the most amazing, is you get to bring glory to God. Because now you get to proclaim to everyone else, this is what was accomplished by God's power. God helped me do this. Look at how God is moving in my life. All the different ways that you can give credit to God for what he is doing in your life. And friends, that is what we are about here at Life Changing Manifestations. Not just creating manifestations for our own benefit, but so that we as Christian women,
can inspire others to be curious about our faith. Our faith has to be lived out, has to be done in action for somebody to see something different about us than what they're seeing the rest of the world. Because we're not supposed to look like the rest of the world. We are supposed to uniquely be crafting our lives in a different way and living out our purpose, which at least we know that we both have the goal. You and me both have the goal. The Bible tells us that our lives are here to glorify God.
And how can you glorify God if you're just living in average existence? What I'm saying is stop living within your means, go cast that bigger vision and go out there and go live where you are trusting God in faith to create, to do, to be, to have all the things and to do and achieve these amazing things so that you can praise Him and give Him glory for what He's doing in your life. Okay? So that's the premise and that's why I attached so strongly to the 10X book. And so what I did is I took and I crafted just three
Stefanie (07:09.55)
By the way, normally I have a massive list of goals and I'm like checking them off like checklists as I go through the year if I even remember all of them. Half the time I said so many things in an inspired moment that I don't even attach to them and I don't stay clear with them. Okay? So this year, my word of the year and my intention is to be very purposeful. So I said, I'm going to be super purposeful with my goals, then I think I need to have fewer this year, but I need to make them bigger.
And by making them bigger than yes, there will be sub goals and sub tasks that will come along as I get the inspired nudges for the actions I need to be taking. However, just having these three really large 10 X goals gives me the clarity for me to know what it is that I'm doing. So here are my really big goals for 2025. One, I have set the goal to publish a book and a workbook each month of the year.
So that's a total of 12 times I'm going to be publishing, but actually it's a book and a workbook. So it's really 24 different things that I am saying I'm putting out into the world and I'm publishing this year. And this is so that I am taking action on the things that have been living in my heart, the inspiration I've been having and the things that I know that I'm intended to share through life changing manifestations, but I've been sitting back on them.
I have so many of these really big, notebooks that I buy on Amazon and I have them full of content. I have documents on my iPad. I have so many documents in my folders, on my computers, full of stuff that I have been writing and developing for years and I have not published it and I'm tired of that. And so I'm like, I have to one, break free of this old pattern and not do what I've always done.
and I need to release this. And I noticed that the big fear was just judgment. What would other people think? And I'm like, wait a minute, what does it matter? I mean, I would love for you to enjoy what I put out there. However, I know I'm not gonna be everybody's cup of tea, just like everyone else is not my cup of tea. And that's okay. So why am I getting caught up in that? Plus, what I have to share is to inspire Christian women. It includes scripture, which means that the stuff that I put out there, like I'm...
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equally excited about the fact that stuff that I get to put out there is my testimony, my witness to others to inspire them to be the best Christian woman and live out their lives and honor God and all the things that they get to do. So I'm like, okay, not only am I pushing for my own happiness and delight and achieving this goal, but I am literally putting stuff out into the world that helps to draw people closer to God, that helps to encourage them, helps them to live a better life. Okay, how can I keep sitting on that? So I say,
let's set a really big goal. So I just an average goal would be to say I'm going to publish a book this year, right? And I was like, nope, let's make it even bigger. So I said I'm going to publish a book every single month this year in 2025. So I can't wait to come back in 2026 and tell you the accomplishments of how these books did and the reach and all the different things that has happened as a result of publishing so much content and even feeling into if there's even more inside of me that's going to come pouring out. So
That is the goal number one. Goal number two is to release 100 unwanted unnecessary pounds from my body. And that is really to live into one the Bible tells us to take care of our body. Yes. But I'm also like, I'm only getting older. Okay. But at the same time, I don't want to feel older. I want to live into being stronger and more empowered. I want to have more energy to do all the things I mean.
seriously, just to accomplish goal number one. But I want to be able to move in a healthier way. You know, if you've watched any of my other content, that the house that I'm recording from right now is the house that I just recently manifested. And it is larger for my growing family. But in doing so it has an upstairs and it has a basement. So that's a lot of different stairs that I'm not used to living in a ranch for so many years. So even just the mobility for just moving through my house, okay, but it's bigger than that.
It's me imagining being on stages speaking, which is something I really have a passion to do. Well, I want to look, I want to feel better. I want to have the energy and the confidence and all the different things that come from physically being strong. So the big goal is to say I'm going to release 100 unnecessary pounds, pounds that I just don't need anymore. And I'm intentionally using the word release. I just feel stronger to me. And with that,
Stefanie (11:47.252)
I am exchanging that and I'm building muscle and I'm strength and I'm mobility and flexibility. So that is just an energy. Don't forget the energy. Energy is huge. So that alone inspires me and that is a fantastic goal. And the third big 10x goal is something that to me, I set this and I said, okay, this feels a little bit freaky. Like how, how, how, how? And then I said, no, it's not for me to know the how.
And right after I started to question, I came across somebody on social media who literally said that one year ago she was starting her, where she was at having her consulting business, but she was kind of like at a zero level because she was rebuilding and where she closed the year was well over a million dollars. So in one year she went from zero to a million dollars and really beyond. And she's doing exceptionally well. And I love social media for the fact that you can find inspiration.
Okay, I like to use Instagram in the sense and Pinterest in the sense that I'm getting inspiration by seeing what other people have done and people that feel relatable to me and people who are showing up and doing things in a certain way, like how I would do it, which is also what I hope that this channel is encouraging you to do. So all that to be said, my last goal is regarding my business. And so I'm publishing, yes, I am selling my resources.
And I am selling other things of value through life changing manifestations because there is a need to grow this into a business, to have this be sustainable so I can stay at home and I can be the parent, the homeschooling parent that I want to be. But at the same time, I'm staying home and I'm making great use of my time and my space because I do love the privacy of working from home and being around my pets so much.
However, I get to work from home and that is a blessing. And I also want to be able to build and provide and create and I can't create endlessly without having a source of income. So this is becoming my source of income. And so I'm like, how am I turning this what has been a hobby and an interest into an actual business? And I don't know all the house of doing that, but at the same time to go from zero, starting the year at zero to ending the year.
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at a million dollars in profit or more. That is a big 10X goal. That is a huge kind of goal. And I set it so big because in the past I have aimed consistently for $100,000 and I thought, okay, what would be 10X of $100,000? So that's where the million came from. Because if you're going zero to a million, you're like, that's not 10X. But from 100,000, 10Xing that is to a million. So that's where I came up with the million number. So all I to say.
This is me being bold and declaring this publicly. That's one thing, but also because I want to be a Testament. And I love watching videos where people document and share what it is I've done. And then they go back and they can see later the progress that they've made. And so I want to be able to have this kind of a video and be able to look back and say, okay, in 2026 at the start of 2026, I can watch this and I can look back and see where that is. And I hope friend that you will think about doing something about in your own life, not just writing it down because
First all, I tend to lose things in notebooks. I'm like, which notebook was it in and where is it? But a video, make yourself a video. Just talk to yourself. You don't have to publish it like I am, but just talk to yourself and make a message about what it is that you're striving to achieve in this year and where are you going with this? Why does it matter to you? How are you feeling into who you're gonna be when you achieve those goals? Like that's the thing, friend, is I'm already feeling stronger as I continue to work out and I've changed the way I'm eating.
the habits that I have built in to my lifestyle. So I'm making sure that this is becoming a part of who I am every single day, how much I write every single day. So that publishing a once time, the month, you know, a book just feels natural and easy. Like it just is, it's coming to me as I'm evolving and becoming even stronger in my writing skills, how I am then going to sell these resources and publish these things and put them out there.
stay brave to be able to keep moving forward step by step as God guides me for what's next. It's, it's inspiring and it's exciting at the same time. And I want to encourage you that if you stay where you've always been and you just keep doing it the same way you already know, staying within your means like the title of my book, then you're not going to feel the same level of excitement that I'm feeling right now. And I want to exchange that with you, Fred. So think about the way that you're progressing. Think about how you can go into the future.
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and think about who you're going to be in one year from now that attaches back to the goals that you're setting and be amazed. Be so amazed and think about the credit and the honor and the glory that you're going to be able to give to God for all the different ways that he's going to work in your life this year. That's faith, Brent. And activate your faith. For more help on how to activate your faith, read my book.
Stop living within your means. And you can find it over on Amazon on Kindle Unlimited. And if you're a member of Kindle Unlimited, you can get it for free right now. Otherwise it's less than $5. And it's an easy read so that you can go through there and get what you need so you can start actively living out your faith. It's more than just saying you believe in something. It's how are you activating your life to live by faith, trusting God to provide. And friend, that's where the life changing manifestations are going to happen.
Be sure and make your goals and have the clearest engine as you move into the year so that you don't get like this haphazard result. You know what you're striving for. You know what to continually stay motivated towards as you're asking in prayer for wisdom and guidance, direction and provision for where you're going to go this year. And friend, you can always visit me over at lifechangingmanifestations.com. That's where you can get the information about the resources and provisions I provide. I also have a link in the show notes to make it easier for you to get access.
especially to the book and the training course that came out of doing the book. After I finished the book, I had this inspiration and I sat down and I made out these videos and something even more that was in the book because the videos are deeper into scripture. We are walking step by step through Hebrews chapter 11, which is a powerful, powerful chapter on faith. And with that, I have an attached workbook. So these are not the same thing. The book...
And the workshop with accompanying workbook are two different things that collaborate and work together to inspire you in faith. You can get both when you reach out to me over at lifechangingmanifestations.com. Have yourself a wonderful day.
