Procrastination. My grandmother used to have this saying, she said, procrastination is the greatest nation in the world, and I am the queen of procrastination. So, I was like, why do I do this? Why do I always procrastinate? Why do I always wait until the last minute, right? I'm going out of town, out of the Thai tree actually, in seven days. and I usually wait till the night before to bed. I usually stay up all night long and then sleep on the plane. So I'm going to commit to myself that I'm not going to do that. And I'll try to understand why I do that. Well, one of the things that I read recently about procrastination is that people procrastinate because of stress. and with the stress avoidance. And before I get started, I wanted to speak to the woman who knows she's meant for more. If you've been stuck at the same level for too long, I created a leadership assessment test just for you. And it takes just about three minutes. And if you qualify, you'll unlock my $2,000 leadership advantage, including four weeks of coaching with me, access to our private WhatsApp community, and access to the tools to get you moving again. So start there, take the test, use the link below. Our next levels, it's a new year, new year, new level. That's what we're going to do. And to that end, I've been spending some time thinking about goals for 2026. I don't typically do New Year's resolutions because my New Year's resolutions don't generally make it to that 21-day mark, which is where you're from when you're having. But I'm looking at things in a different way. So I am taking the chance of putting out in the universe to you all what my goals are. And these are goals that I believe will help me to that next level. I have a girlfriend, Panya, and I was sharing with her that a lot of people come to me and ask advice and I seem to be full of wisdom. But yet, I am not able to ingest my own wisdom. I'm not going to seem to listen to myself and follow my own advice. And so that one year she prayed over me. She said, please let me hear the words that are coming out of my mouth. And that's what I want to do for this year. I want to hear the words that are coming out of my mouth. So I have three words. Courage, procrastination, and alignment. Those are the key focus areas for me for 2026. So let's face it. I'm not going to lie. 2025 was rough. It was rough for a lot of people. All of my girlfriends got more or less forced into retirement. One hasn't, but she's about five minutes from doing that. And she probably should do it anyway. but that's another video. So let's talk about courage. In looking at courage, I thought, well what are the barriers to achieving these goals right And so one of my favorite movies is The Wizard of Oz And so in the song Over the Rainbow there this verse that goes the dreams that you dare to dream really do come true. And some of us don't have the courage to dream. That daring to dream takes courage to plant that seed in your head and seal it with hope and faith and maybe fear of being disappointed, right? So committing to the goal, committing to what you want to do will take some courage. And so I'm looking at my courage, the courage that I have. And the three areas that I'm going to focus on is savings, right? Not just for me, personal savings, that I think I do, but savings for the business and looking at the business as being an independent entity and not just an arm of me. So Muse Technologies will have some goals and will have some financial goals. That's what we're going to do. The second area was in a spiritual goal. I never set spiritual goals. Some of the things I do like, okay, I'm going to do my devotional every day. Or I'm going to read the Bible every day. But that's how. But, and I'm looking at outcome-based goals are, make changes, has impact. Output goals, like I'm going to read the Bible every single day and not skip a day. That's output. But I commit to having the Bible change me. Change me. Having an impact. And in this area, it's discipleship. I don't know what it means, but I'm going to make some headway in that area. The last one, and these are all things that need courage, that's what I'm talking about, courage, is a physical goal. I need to improve my mobility, and the one area that would give me the biggest impact is strengthening my core. If I strengthen my core, then the cascading effects would be profound. And so this isn't just exercise every day, take 10,000 steps. I have to be intentional about the outcome that I want. I want to strengthen my core. And so I'm going to do the activities that will help me accomplish that, whatever that is. So I had to do some studying. the second major area was procrastination and so I'm wondering what stress am I avoiding and being a little bit serious about it so if I wait till the last minute to launch and I stay up all night long what stress am I avoiding I'm actually putting wear and tear on my body and regardless of whether my husband's going or not, I put wear and tear on his body. And maybe, Linda, that's not fair. So I'm being a little bit more aware of what causes my stress and not putting myself in those stressful situations. So I kid myself when I say, hey, I'm Superwoman. I can do it. I work better under stress. just because I work better under stress doesn mean I should and especially here lately there are enough things in the environment that cause stress I don have to add anything to it like I get from procrastination One of the things that kind of drew an analogy to stress has to do with, you know, I've had two knee replacements. The first replacement, I was under-rehabilitated because right after the surgery, we had COVID and a lockdown, and then I didn't have the physical therapy that I should have done. With the second knee replacement, it went a whole lot better from a physical perspective, but I found that I'm still recovering from the first knee replacement. So what I noticed that I have been doing, and it's sort of like this whole Superwoman thing. I walk fast. Well, I'm getting over my skis. I'm walking faster than I really can walk. But I feel like I can walk better faster. But why am I putting myself in danger? Because I always feel like I'm going to fall getting over my skis, so to speak. and that fast walking is like procrastination, waiting till the last minute and then doing Herculean efforts to get things done. I don't have to walk so fast. I don't have to walk so slow either. So procrastination, I don't have to wait till the last minute. I don't have to go as early as I need to go, but I need to stop it. So I am going to start packing before next Tuesday. that. So, alignment was the third word, third and last word. And what does that mean? It's alignment with the will of God. One of the things that I wanted to work on is trust in God. When my mother died, my heart was broken. I remember talking to my girlfriend, Stephanie, and I said, I have never hurt so much in my life. Nothing has hurt me as much as the pain of my mother's death. I think I had a lot of reasons for that. But I had some things that I had to figure out in my head, some things I had to work through and work out. And one of the things that it boiled down to is trusting God. And I read, I was going back to my journal, my spiritual journal, and I wrote down five goals. And one of the goals was around my mother's health. This was probably six months before she died, maybe a year. It was probably six months before she died. And so I wrote down what it was, and it was one of the goals that was around my mother's health, approved health. because I believe that she could still approve. She had COPD. It was not terminal. And I believe that she could possess and have a meaningful life. It seems like as soon as I wrote that down, her health started going downhill, downhill, downhill. Then one week, the doctor said she has to go to hospice. She went to hospice on Friday and she died on Monday. So I'm like, what happened? I prayed. I had faith. What happened? So I had to work through all that. And so that's why my word is alignment. Aligning my prayers with God's will. Who do I think I am? That I will have control over life and death and dictate whether or not my mother lives or dies There faith and prayer and healing and that happens But then there's alignment with what God's plans are. So if my prayers don't align with his will, I have misalignment. So how do we get alignment? I think it's a process. It's not you do X, Y, and Z, and then you're aligned. Or you just close your eyes and believe, and you're aligned. I think it's more difficult than that. It's more complex than that. But one of the first things you have to do is recognize God's voice. How do you recognize it? For me, one of the things that worked tremendously is meditation. So clearing my mind of thoughts, focusing on nothing but my own breath, and pushing my thoughts out, clearing my mind. So those exercises taught me how to recognize thoughts that were mine, thoughts that were not mine, and being able to discern what God's voice sounds like. so once you're able to recognize his voice you have better alignment with what his will is and then when you pray interrogate his will first and make sure that you're listening to his voice and not wishful thinking god is not a genie he doesn't grant for you wishes he is here for you but sometimes doors close your prayers don't get answered and it happens for reasons that you don't understand so that's God's will alignment with it there's one more thing I want to say about that and I think it is a difference between lying to yourself and having faith So let's take my mother's situation. I prayed for her health, right? And some would say, then you always speak to the truth. You say, she's going to be better. She's going to get to approve this. But there was something where I couldn't say that. and I think deep down inside I understood what God's will was and if I said otherwise then I would be lying to myself and lying to yourself is not faith lying to yourself is just what it is lying to yourself so the balance here is knowing the difference between faith and lying to yourself so this wraps it up next levels what i'm working on this year is courage procrastination and alignment right and those three things are going to be the overarching things that are going to help me get to my next level so give me some comments put some comments and tell me what are your big things that you're going to do in order for you to get to the next level. And let's talk about it. There's an African proverb that says you can go fast alone or far together. And let's go far and let's go far together. So take my leadership assessment test and let it show what you haven't been able to say out loud. 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