Welcome to the leaders of transformation podcast. The number one show for business leaders and entrepreneurs passionate about uplifting others and making a greater impact in the world. Now, here's your host, transformational coach, speaker, and business advisor, Nicole Jansen. Welcome to episode 525 of the leaders of transformation. For this episode, I thought we would do something a little
different. We are going into a new year, and there's always a lot of excitement, anticipation of the year ahead. And there's also oftentimes a lot of disappointment about what happened in the year past. And as I was walking this morning and I was like praying about what could I talk about in this episode, what came to me was it's time to thrive in 2025. And I believe that is a word for you. That is a word for me. That is a word for all of us to believe and expect great things to happen
in 2025. So in 2024, maybe you didn't reach your goal. It's time to thrive in 2025. Maybe you had a divorce or a separation in your marriage. It's time to thrive in 2025. Maybe you had to close a business. It's time to thrive in 2025. Maybe you plan to lose weight this past year and you ended up gaining weight. It's time to thrive in 2025. There, god has good plans. God has good plans for you, plans for hope and plans for a future. Jeremiah 2911 says that. It promises that God is not looking
to harm us. He is looking to prosper us. And it's time that we believe that, truly believe. If we really understood what our potential was and what we were capable of, we would do so much more than we have ever done in the past. Our past would pale in comparison to what we would do this year. And so I encourage you this year, this today, but also throughout the whole year that you start to speak life over yourself. Maybe you have been disappointed. Maybe you've
been betrayed. Maybe you have been jaded. Maybe you've set goals and you haven't reached those goals. Whatever it is, I would acknowledge it, I would encourage you to maybe if you got to journal it, write it on a piece of paper, all the disappointments, all the things that you hoped would happen in this past year or maybe in your past, like, all, you know, how many years you've been alive and look at those disappointments, write them on a piece of paper, and then
burn the piece of paper. Release the past and embrace the present and look to the future. So this is a really short message here and I just wanna encourage you. It is time to thrive in 2025. Lean not on your own understanding this year. Maybe it doesn't look like it's possible for you to start that business, to have a relationship, to get healthy. Maybe you've got a negative diagnosis from the doctor. Declare it over yourself. It's time to thrive in 2025. I am going to thrive
in 2025. You need to speak life over yourself. You know, life and death is in the power of the tongue. And so often, we use our words to describe our situation. And in doing that, we perpetuate the situation that we don't want. Instead, we need to use our words to transform our situation, to transform our lives, to transform our beliefs about ourselves and about others and about the
world around us. And I believe that is what God is calling us to. I believe that is the message for this year in 2025 and that we can thrive. And, you know, it's interesting because I've been working on for the last several months, working on a new faith based community for the leaders of transformation. As I said this morning and like, what am I gonna talk about in this episode, this very special episode? And this idea of thriving
came up. It was like, duh, oh my gosh. I've been talking about that in all of the courses, Everything I've been developing for our community, the marketing, the messaging is to thrive as God intended. God intended us to thrive. And if you don't believe that, just look around at nature. Nature is abundant. There is no shortage of trees and plants. And maybe even if you're in the desert and it's dry where you are, there's no shortage of
rocks. There's no shortage of sand. You can't count the number of sand kernels or whatever they are, little fragments of sand. You can't count them on a beach. You can't count the number of rocks. You can't count the number of leaves that we have in nature. God is abundant. He is an abundant God, and we are made in his image. And so we are created to prosper. We are created to be creative and to grow and to thrive and to prosper in our lives. And if you're not prospering, there may be
some things that may be holding you back. Maybe there's some limiting beliefs that you've had about yourself. Maybe some, like I said earlier, disappointments, hurts. I've been hurt. I've been disappointed. I've been betrayed. I failed. I have failed miserably on many different levels and sometimes more than once in the same area because I guess I just need to learn the lesson, you know? And when we don't learn the lesson, we are bound to repeat it. And so I encourage you to
believe for the great thing to happen in this new year. And so I'm not gonna give you some goal setting strategy. You know, there's lots of things out there that will teach you how to goal set, setting smart goals, goals that are specific, measurable, attainable, relevant, and time dated. I've taught them myself. There are different ways to envision, create vision boards, and put the vision boards. I have a vision board in front of me.
I know exactly what my goals are. It reminds me every day. All of those things are great, and we need to do those things. We need to set goals. We need to have vision. We need to have it in front of us so we don't get distracted. We stay fixed and focused on the thing that we truly want to create. And setting goals that are actually meaningful goals for us is important because when you don't set a meaningful goal, you're not gonna have the motivation and the energy to see
it through. And so that is absolutely important. But you know what's important? Even beyond all that is speaking life over yourself. Because if you do all of that and then you speak disappointment, you speak lack over yourself, you speak scarcity over yourself, none of those things are gonna get accomplished. Why? Because you won't have that motivation. You won't have that inspiration to see.
And even if you go and work hard, I hate to say this, but even if you go and work hard and do the thing that you really are trying to do and you're not in belief, in confidence, believing and speaking it into existence, you're gonna struggle. I did this. I did this for myself so many years. I struggled and I strived and I didn't realize that the reason why I was not creating the results that I
desired was because I had a faulty belief system. I had a belief system that said that I wasn't smart enough, wasn't old enough, wasn't capable, educated enough, whatever it is. And so I started to speak life over myself, changed my questions that I was asking. Instead of saying, what's wrong with me? Why is this not working for me? I started to ask myself questions like, what am I learning? What am I learning in this process? What am I learning about myself? What am
I learning about others? What am I learning about sales and marketing and business and relationships and being healthy? What am I learning about life? What am I learning about faith? What am I learning about what works and what doesn't work and how I can move forward with confidence and with success? And so I encourage you today, there's a lot that I just threw in there. I was just kinda going off the cuff and I hope and I pray that that
blesses you. Somewhere in there, you're gonna discover some insights. Maybe there's a missing piece for you in terms of being able to move forward. I teach a results model, a transformative results model, which says results come from behaviors. Behaviors are influenced by our mindset. Mindset is made up of our beliefs like we've been talking about. It's also our nature. It's who we are inside. It's the greatness, the preloaded
greatness inside of each and every one of us. The personality that we have, the strengths that we have, the desires, the aspirations, all of that that is within us. And you know what? Too often, the world speaks negative and we allow all that to kinda like get all over us, and we don't even realize it. We don't even realize that we can be fully immersed in personal development. We can be fully immersed with positive thinking people all around us
and yet not realize that we have limiting beliefs. So I come back to where I started. It's time to thrive in 2025. Start speaking life over yourself. Start speaking life over your family, over your marriage if you're married, if you
wanna be married over your future spouse. Speak life over your children, speak life over your business, speak life over your career, speak life over your community, over your neighbors, over your whatever the community is that you're part of, your health, speak life, start to declare what you would like to see have happen and do it in the present tense. I am healthy. I am strong. I am lean. I am energized. I have vitality flowing through my body. I am smart. I am capable.
I may not know how to build a business, but I can figure it out. I may not know how to have a successful relationship, but I can learn. I can read. I can study. I can learn from others. You can learn whatever it is that you don't know. You can learn it. You learn things before. You can learn things again. Okay? So I encourage you. I just pray a blessing upon you today. I
encourage you to speak life over yourself. Believe and declare. Maybe you need to put it written up on your wall in front of you, on your mirror in your bathroom, on your fridge, wherever it is that you need to write it and just write it's time to thrive. Or even better yet, I am thriving in 2025. This is my year to thrive. This is my year to thrive as God intended. This is my year to break out and to step into all that I'm capable of. So God bless you. Happy New Year.
And if there's anything we can do to support you, please let us know. We have a great community like I was talking about earlier, lead as a transformation community that is for our faith based entrepreneurs, aspiring entrepreneurs who are looking to start a business or have a business and wanna grow a business. And if that's you and you're interested in being part of that community, you can go to leaders of transformation.com. There's a page on there or go forward slash faith community.
You can get all the details there and check that out. And, of course, we've got many more guests. This is a podcast. We have 524 episodes prior to this. We're gonna have a whole lot of episodes this year that are gonna just blow your mind in terms of the people that are gonna be on this show. Expand your mind beyond what you ever believed was possible so that you can become and step into all that you are capable of becoming that leader of transformation
that you are capable of being. I believe that every single person is capable of being a leader of transformation in your respective area. And, you know, it's funny because I had a a mentor years ago who I said to him, I've always wanted to be an example to those around me. And and he said to me something really that stuck with me all these years. And he said, Nicole, you're always an example. The question is, what kind of example are you?
You are being an example right now to those around you. There are people looking to you. There are people watching you. Maybe they're your children. Maybe they're your friends. Maybe they're your family members, maybe they're your coworkers, colleagues, the people in your neighbors. People are watching and that shouldn't disturb you, that should encourage you that you are an example and you have the ability to influence. You don't need to
have a big following on social media to influence people. You influence people already. When you walk into the store and you buy something and you go up to the cashier and how you treat the people in the store, how you treat the cashier, how you treat the people in line makes a difference. And so I encourage you to recognize who you are and who God
says that you are. And let go of anything, any lies that you believed about yourself, anything that you have taken on that somebody else has said about you or maybe not said to you, just let it go. Let it go. And if you need to dust it off of you, if you need to write it down on a piece of paper and burn it, burn it, release it, let it go. It is time to thrive in 2025. God bless you. If there's anything we can do to support you, reach out, let us know and we
are here to support you along your journey. Okay? And we look forward to seeing you next week for another episode of the Leaders of Transformation. Let's go. Thank you for listening to the Leaders of Transformation podcast with Nicole Jansen. If you're enjoying the show, please click the follow or subscribe button, and leave a rating and review wherever you listen to your podcasts. And remember to join us on social and get connected. Together, we can make this
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