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Happy new year to all my friends all over the world!

Wow! 2017 is gone. That year came with huge challenges and also much growth but in all God remains great.

You see, my needs to please everyone around me used to be the driving force for my life until God broke down this tendency greatly in me in 2017.  Each day God keep breaking me away from this person pleasing lifestyle. So I can truly pursue His call for me boldly. And the result was 45 episodes of Like Jesus Podcast and a course on PurposeUniversity.online and many other exploits around the world. I am so grateful.

I remember one specific day I was driving on Westminster ave in Montreal this year. The traffic was heavy, and I  don’t like the road rage that comes with heavy traffics. However, I needed to boldly advance or I would be there for hours. My husband was also encouraging me to move,  he said go, with fear and some boldness I advanced, but mistakenly my eyes caught that of the other driver and guess what the looks on his face sent chills all the way to my heart it felt like a knife cutting some of my nerves. I am sure you may be wondering what kind of a weirdo I am but really, that was one of the events that God used to point my attention to the way my heart had become. I didn’t like to look bad in people’s eyes.

I really thank God for the way He pushed me out of my comfort zone and still is. Because I stepped out I am blessing many all over the globe. I have statistics of people listening to Like Jesus Podcast from all continents of the world. Also our course on PurposeUniversity.online is helping individuals learn to become all that God made them to be.

God has a wonderful plan for your life my dear,  and I pray that in 2018 you will engage that more than ever before.

I pray that God will deliver you from whatever is holding you back this year. You see it’s up to you, God will not come down and be you, you have to become you. You have to stay committed to the call of God for your life or at least stay committed to clarifying the call.

I want to ask you to step out of the boat this year. Step out of your comfort zone, step away from your limits into His presence. Listen, trust and obey!

As a recovering people pleaser, I know what it means to keep perfecting your purpose until it’s really good. But sometimes it’s because you don’t want to appear like a failure or looser. But guess what, those who stay on the boat are actually the losers. It’s the one who stepped out that was able to practice his faith with the master.

Be one of the exploit makers in 2018, the world is looking for what God has hidden inside you.

Once again happy new year!

There are many great episodes planned for 2018, in the next 2 months we will address ideologies that might be limiting you and how to overcome them and also how to get the help of your family to live a purposeful life. I am so excited for this and you should be too.

Now it’s your turn, go and impact someone with what you’ve got.

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Ep. 45 Transcripts: How To Be Sure Your Idea Is God’s Part 2

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Merry Christmas dear listeners & friends,

Joy and peace to all this Christmas, especially to my dear friends who are hurting this time. May Jesus, the reason for the season, brighten our days. Pls. listen to this episode to get the special piece from the Sobanjo family.

This picture of my family and some of our acquired children here was taken earlier today at our Annual Christmas Day giveaway in Kuje (near Abuja),  Nigeria. God is good for creating awesome people like these, each one very unique. It was really awesome to see people go home with non-perishable food items to celebrate Christmas. Thanks to all our church members and friends all over the world that join us to make this a great day. Remember to bless people around you this Christmas, especially those who can’t pay you back.

From his abundance, we have all received one gracious blessing after another. John 1:16

Today on Like Jesus podcast (continued from last week) this is the second part of the chat between Ade & I on how Like Jesus podcast became a major part of our family.

1. I learned to cut down on the desire to do more and be more to everyone.
2. Some unnecessary stuff had to be restructured in order to find time to do what I am called to.
3. It’s not easy because people around will complain at first, but they will adjust as you pursue God’s purpose for you as long as they continue to see that you love them.
4. Talk to God always to know what He wants and confirm with other leaders in your life.

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Ep. 45 Transcripts: How To Be Sure Your Idea Is God’s Part 2

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It’s always great to know that you are doing what God has called you to do. However, what if you don’t? Here is a discussion between Ade & I on How I was able to check that this podcast is what God wants me to do. This is the part one of this recording, part 2 will air next week.

1. It’s not your tool that matters it is the message that matters
2. Check very well to be sure you can sustain it
3. Count the cost and state it clearly
4. Learn to say No to other ideas
5. Join my VIP Program now to Find Your First Profitable Idea

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Ep. 44 Transcripts: How To Be Sure Your Idea Is God’s

Like Jesus Podcast Episode 44  

[Intro Beat]

Hello Everybody, this is Olu Sobanjo. And you’re listening to Like Jesus Podcast. I have Ade Sobanjo here with me today.

Ade: Hello!

Olu: We’re very glad to do this discussion and to share this discussion with you today. Recently as I was spending some time to pray, I remembered what happened to our son, Demi. At some point, we just were thinking that he should go to an eye test and when he went to do the eye test, we discovered that he needed glasses. After that, we were just asking him the experience he’s had before that. And I remembered one day, we were driving in the night to go or very early in the morning to go to the airport and he said to me, “Wow, look at…”  [after he now has the glasses] He said to me, “Mummy, how come you never told me these were street lights?” And I was like, “I don’t know I needed to tell you that these were street lights.” He said, “Because I’ve never seen them. I always used to wonder what kind of light those were…” Because he couldn’t really see them. He’d see some kind of glowing thing – light, but he didn’t know they were just street lights or the oncoming vehicle in the night. He’d just be wondering what was that. But funny enough, he was in school and he’d struggle… He was doing well in school but we didn’t know that he had the challenge of not seeing very well.

And as I was praying recently, I just realized that it’s very interesting that sometimes we may not even know that we can’t see clearly. You know, we’ve been talking about doing what God has put in your heart to do. And as I was praying that day, I remember just feeling that it’s possible that you have an idea and you’re almost… Maybe you’re even running with the idea; maybe you feel like you should start running with the idea but you may not actually know that it may not actually be God’s plan.

What do you think about that, Ade?

Ade: Yeah. I think it’s very important that we are sure that God is directing us to do why we do before we do them. And I think we all run into that problem. You get an idea, you’re so passionate about the idea at the time. You love the idea and you’re ready to commit your money and your time to it. And then after one year, you run out steam – you run out of energy; you run out of money and you put it down. Then, 6 months later, you come up with another brand new idea and you run for another 2 years, only to run out of steam and put it all down. So, maybe what you should do today is just talk about you – your podcast.

Olu: Sure!

Ade: Umm… How did you decide that this is God’s plan? It’s not just another fancy idea; it’s not just another thing that will go on for just 6 months and then you’ll pack it up. What made you know that this is God?

Olu: Thank you! I think that it’s a very good topic and a very good question. It’s going to be a little bit of secret time here today but I think it’s very good to do this.

Personally, I think for a while now, I’ve always thought that I had to share. Every time, I’ll be thinking I need to share; I need to… there’s this message that I want to pass across. I want people to do what God has called them to do. And I’ve always desired that but I mixed it all up at the beginning. I was carried away with the model of sharing the message. I was carried away… it was more of the model – the strategy that I’d use to carry out the message that was more important to me at the beginning. And so, after a while… After I had tried YouTube – I used to do lots of YouTube videos but I realized that I couldn’t sustain it and gradually I just dropped most of the things that I used to do then. You know I mean I’ve had all sorts of ideas and I’ve used different strategies so to speak but gradually, I got to a point… As I continued to fellowship with God, I got to a point where God began to open my eyes to see that it’s not the strategy or the tactics or the tool that I’m going to use to deliver the message that matters. It’s the message itself that matters! And at a point, I was almost even scared of picking it up again because I didn’t want to run my ideas. I was tired of running and stopping. But God began to change my heart to see that the message is very important and people need to hear this. It got to a point, I remember there was a time I got to the point where I said I’m going to be doing this faceless messages that it’s not about me anymore; it’s not about what I want to say. It’s about the message going out and so I… ‘cause I’d get all these write-ups on WhatsApp that people will send and I began to feel that many of these WhatsApp messages and Facebook posts and all these things, they inject fear more than elevate God. And I began to see that you know, I just got angry. So, I said I will be doing this faceless messages – I tried it. I think I did one writing… I wrote a comment and I sent it to my friends and family and I just trusted that it’d just continue to be forwarded like that. And then I did another one that was audio. It was my voice but my name wasn’t there and I sent it out. And I did that and then I began to continue to walk with God and I realized that some other times, I’d want to refer back to these things. It’d be good to have an archive of where it is. And then I began to see, “Okay maybe it will be good for me to put it on my website so that I can always have the archive.” I can always use it – refer back to it and all that.

I was still on that and still trying to see what platform to use, what tool to use when one day I was listening to a message. I can’t remember the title of the message but it was Ashaya that was preaching in that message. I can’t even remember what she was saying but what I got from that message was more like God had a whip in his hand and chased me out of bed and said, “Stop that message now and begin what I’ve called you to do.” That was the day I felt, “Oh! Maybe I should try podcasting. Maybe if I do podcasting it will be easy…” So, I did the first one; the very first podcast – an introduction to Like Jesus Podcast. When I did that, I just saw how easy it was. If I go listen back to that very first one, I still feel I should delete it but I’m not going to delete it because it’s part of the history. And It’s good. I realized that after I started that, what God now did was, I googled how can I start a podcast using my phone? And then I saw an app. The app that I was using then is called opinion podcast or something. So, I paid for the podcasting app and I began to do the recordings and it was so easy for me. Because of the experience that I’ve had with video editing on my YouTube channel and all that, it was so easy for me to handle this app. And by the time I started doing it, it was so easy, I just continued. Gradually as I continued, I discovered that the app crashed and I had to go… Thank God for you that you’re very knowledgeable about it. I had moved over to another platform which is not as easy and where I started from but recently as I was just thinking about it, I realized that God arranged that that day I would start… Because if I had not started that day, I might have been thinking, “Oh Podcasting is so difficult. I can’t do it…” And if you don’t have the time to help me and I don’t want to spend money to do it, then maybe I won’t do it. But I discovered that as I began to do podcasting, it became so easy even easier than writing a blog post. But I really think that it’s good to start with what you think you can sustain.

Ade: Yes! And so what I was trying to find out from you is, how does a person know that this is not another thing that is going to run for just a few months and go off? But you just mentioned that there’s that burning desire. It’s there even when you did it for a while and stopped using the YouTube and you didn’t do it again for a while. God still brought it back up and you had to go and do it. Now, what I want to find out from you is, for people who are just starting out on a project, you started off and you stopped. What are we going to put that in? Was it fear that got you up or you just wanted to go big? What was it that made you start so big and you ran out of steam? And looking back, what are the pitfalls that people should watch out for?

Olu: I think the main thing is what I just said, starting something that you’re sure you can sustain. And sustenance, it’s almost like… In a business, before Coca-Cola or Apple or any big company out there, before they go out and embark on a new project, they’d want to analyze where they are. They’d want to analyze the resources they have. Resources could be money; it could be the human resource; it could be time, it could be… They want to know if they are able to run this race. The Lord Jesus said – He said so Himself. He said, “is there anyone of you that’d want to build a house and will not first count the cost?” I think that was one of the problems that I had. Now, if you ask me and if you take me back to the point where I was, I’d say I counted the cost. And what I did was that I looked at my… you know, this message is really strong on my heart and so I say to myself, I’m going to dedicate one hour every day to do this. It’s a 10 mins video [I can’t remember] or a 5 mins video I was doing then but I’d dedicate one hour to it. And I looked in my schedule and I thought I’d just do this. It’s going to take me some time to pray, some time to write my script and then some time to record, then edit and you know… But really, the truth of the matter is that even though I dedicated that one hour to it, the one hour wasn’t enough to actually get the job done. Let’s say the time when I started this, let’s say I was not a married person, I wasn’t a pastor, I wasn’t a mom, I didn’t have a job… If I didn’t have all that, and it was just me going to the office and just taking time. After the work between 5-10pm every day, I was just free watching TV and all that. If that was my schedule, it’d have made sense. But because of the fact that I had all these other things that I was doing, I thought I counted the cost but it wasn’t well done.

So, I think that for anyone to sustain anything, it’s not just you that you need to count and say, Oh! Yes, I can do it and start jumping. You need to bring it to the table, write it all out then… Just like in a company, the people in one department will do the analysis, another department will do the analysis of the project and then they bring it together in a group and say this is what we need. Then they analyze it. They say “do we do it now? Or do we postpone it or do we…” This is one thing that I could have done. I could have brought my agenda, clearly written agenda to you and then we discuss it together and then we commit to it. Now, that was the difference between then and now. Then, I was running with it and I would do it as long as you know, I don’t want anybody to stop me. But, there was no formal discussion where I said I want to do this and let’s do… And then apart from discussing with your family, there’s also the aspect of Am I able to sustain it spiritually – whatever it is that God is calling you to do? Because, when God has put something in your heart to do, there is always the adversary that won’t want it to happen. So, you need to spend time – quality time with God so that the message that God has given to you is preserved and you’re able to run with it and actually not throw it down as you go. So, I think it’s much more than we think when we say, can I sustain it? Do I have enough capacity to be able to do this? It is much more than what we are really ready to face and actually go for it and say Okay, let me do a detailed analysis. Can I do it? Maybe I should take it easier than the way I started… Because sometimes what happens is you get the idea of what you are supposed to be doing 10 years from now and you want to start that now. But sometimes, it’s good to start small. I bring it to you, we say, “Oh! this is very elaborate but we don’t have this kind of capacity yet. Let’s start with very little part of it and then let’s grow.” And this is what I’ve seen in this new start for me because then we are all doing it together. We understand, the children understand and at the time, my children were very small. They couldn’t understand all these but now it’s a lot easier.

Ade: Yes. Thank you. As you were talking, there were some questions that were coming up in my mind. I’m thinking of, do you have experience of some ideas that they are not just God’s idea? Because in this situation, it was God’s idea, the application was too big and so you had to pull back. But what of someone that has an idea that is really supposed to be killed for now? The idea itself is not supposed to fly? Maybe it is going to come up or it is going to be an addition or it is just supposed to be given to someone, how do we know that? What are some of the things that you can look back into your archive and help somebody?

Olu: Oh yes! Oh yes! Thank you for bringing that up. That’s one of the reasons why it took me time even to get to this point because my personal you know, the way my brain works, and I’m assuming now that I have mingled with a lot of people; I see that I am the only one that is like that. Ideas keep coming in like a flood. So, I get the idea of what God wants me to do but then I have all these other big ideas – huge ideas that come in. You need to actually look at them and see, is this what you really want to do?

I remember one day, God said to me in… I was just looking at the conference that we do – the ladies conference that we do and it was at that year, I can’t remember 2-3 years ago, as I was looking at the ladies, I began to see God say to me, this is the reason why I gave you this idea. Before that, I used to think that it was for me to do all these things. But then I began to see that, no! It was for me to empower many of the women to be able to do what He has called them to do. And so, I began to see that as the ideas are coming, I should actually be writing them down to share with other people. The point is not for me to do. But before that, I used to want to do every new idea. And they’d look really fantastic. I’d see the way it’d work well with where I am right now and I’d just want to start running with it. My brain becomes really busy calculating and my blood pumps… I’m so excited, you know, I get a lot of adrenaline and I just want to go for it. I’m so excited for these things but then, it is not what God is calling me to do.

So, how do I differentiate and say this one is not God’s plan for me and this one is God’s plan for me? I think the way I’ve looked at it and I’ve been able to do it now is based on my walk with God, I’ve been able to declutter to the point where I realize that the reason why He sent me here is this: to empower other people to do what He has called them to do and to encourage them to do so. Now, I’ve seen that as the core and you’ve really helped me a lot where you keep… I remember back in the day you’d say, “But where are you going with this? What are you trying to do with this?” I’ve been able to get to a point where I see it now – I see my call, what God has called me to do and I want to ask myself each new idea that comes and say, how does that fit into what God has called me to do? I want to have a new school – kids club that will help kids. I have always… I love it. I want it for my children and so I should create it and start doing it because right now, I’m in a place where it’s not available so I should start doing it. But then I look at it, “Can I actually sustain it? Will I be able to sit down there? Would somebody else be able to carry out the process if I am not there?” And all these questions help me to look at the idea and then I trash it. Eventually, I got to a point where I’m not trying to achieve anymore. I’m just trying to be who He made me to be. And I think the more you walk with God, the more you get to a point where you’re not struggling to make a point. You’re not struggling to tell the world that you are somebody. You just be yourself and the more you do that, the easier it is to say No to many other things that come.

Do I still get ideas now? Yes, I do! In short, even in this new podcast and all these things that I do now, I still have different ideas but it’s a lot easier for me now to just write it down. And maybe it’s for tomorrow. I don’t know but right now, let me face what I’m doing. This is what God has called me to do. I’ll face it, I’ll do it well and then we will see what God will do from there. So, it’s very important that each one would look at it and say this idea, how does it fit into what God has called me into? So, it’s very important to know what God has called me to do here on earth. It starts with making other people know the joy and the love of God and the name of Jesus to be elevated. That’s the main thing for every one of us but in different ways, He puts a strong desire in your heart for something and you are going for it. The more you do that, the more you submit and surrender to what God is calling you to do, the more it is easier for you to do – to be able to say No to other things.

Ade: That is fantastic. I remember that question, you answered more of that in your course Ready Set Impact, the first class I think. So, those who have not taken the course, go ahead and take it…

Olu: Oh yeah!

Ade: …So that you can know more about that. Now, I have another question for you just to help someone that is starting off. They have this idea, they believe it is God but they are doing some work now. They are working. For yourself, this podcast that you are doing now, how are you… you know you said to write down the plan and make sure you can sustain it What will be in that plan that will tell us that I can sustain this? I know that at that time when you were doing those things, you said you could sustain it so what are some of the things? I want you to go deeper into the plan and some things that they can try because sometimes, you can’t know this unless you make effort. So, how can they test out the sustainability of the plan that they have?

Olu: Thank you I…

Ade: How did you do yours?

Olu: I think that it’s always good to look at… If you are going to sustain anything, it’s always good to look at where you are and see what you have – the resources that you have and where you are at, okay? I am talking about when I say where you are at, it’s very important for example to look at your experiences, your gifts, your talents, your skills… You need to look at all that and write it down. Like you said, we’ve done this well in the Ready Set Impact Course and it’d be very beneficial to anyone that goes to take that course. So, you write down all these things – the resources that you have.

Then your relationships. Your relationships. If you have, for example, to do a good recording, it is good to have a place where there is not a lot of noise. If you have a baby in the house, it may not be so easy to get that done. Except if you have enough money to have an extra room where you can lock it up and soundproof the whole place and make it your studio. Right now, I don’t have that and I have something similar to – close to it but it is not complete. Even at the time, it was far from it. So, it is good to look at your relationships, look at your home setting, look at your schedule at work, look at your schedule at church, some of the commitment that you already have – things that you have said yes to and you have committed to. Some of the things… You may need to drop some things, some relationships that may not be necessary at the time in order to do what God has called you to do. You may need to cut down on some of those. But really, the main thing is just to look at all of the things that you have where am I right now and what can I sustain?

For example, when I was starting this, I didn’t start with buying a microphone or buying a tripod stand or buying some of these things. I had many of the things already and then I started with my phone. I didn’t start with a new recording set that will make it look professional. No, No, No! I realized that I could even start with my phone and people were asking me, are you actually recording that from your phone? Yes, I was. It was later on that I bought a better mic for the recording and I’m still doing it on my phone. Now, the next level is to do it with a better recording set so it’s good to start with what you have – the equipment, the tools, the things that you already have now. The only money I spent to start this was $5.99. That was the cost of the app at the time. And that was it. I was just using that. But you know, what happens is that if you go big, you will go home. You may go home because you’ve spent so much and you are not getting so much and you get tired. So, it is good to analyze all these things and say, what do I have? What can I do with what I already have? And then at the same time, what you are doing is that you are trying to… you want to, first of all, be committed to the thing. If you start too big, you reduce the chances of you being fully committed. I mean, I don’t know if I said that well. If you start too big, your mind may be clouded to the point where you forget about the fact that you may not still be 100% committed to what you are starting to do but you already spent $1000. But it’s good for you to, first of all, prove to yourself that you are in and get regular. For example, in my podcast, I bought the $5.99 thing just to prove to myself and to prove to you that I’m ready. I want to do this now and then gradually after that – after I had done this regularly for so long, I could now pay for a bigger platform that I’m now using. And then I would discover that I need more equipment and tools and then I get it, you know, gradually like that. What happens is, usually when we say we are trying to see, can I sustain it, we are looking at, Oh, yes. I can buy this and buy that and buy all the things that I need. Yes, I can sustain it but really, that’s not the point. The point is, do I have enough commitment first of all inside of me and then can I start small?

So, I’m looking at the time here and I’m thinking that it will be good to wrap it up here. I think we may still… I don’t know if you still have…

Ade: Yes, I still have lots of questions because I know that people want to start something and that is what this podcast is about – to get people to do what God has called them to do. So, it’s good to really get some other things that one may have to think about and so maybe I’d ask you some more questions and we can do that next week.

Olu: Sure! We can do that. So, people, we are going to wrap it up here. We’ll continue again next week.  And before we do that, why don’t we pray? Do you want to pray?

Ade: Yeah, Sure! Father, we thank you for everyone that is listening to us – listening to this podcast. Especially those that have this idea, they are thinking in their minds that this is you, God speaking to them and they are about to take off but they are wondering, Is this another fad? Is this going to just go on for 2 more years and then fade off like some other projects they’ve done before? Father, I pray for just a confirmation for each one of these people that they will hear deep in their spirit that you are with them and that you are going to help them. And as we’ve talked about writing down the plan and really looking at the action steps that need to be taken over a long period of time, we ask that you help them to write that and as they write it, if it is not your will, declare to them Father. And for those who know what you’ve told them to do and have written the plan, I pray that they will be encouraged to take steps this week to be able to move the project forward. We pray for anybody that is going through a difficult time for intervention, for healings, for breakthroughs, for wisdom in the name of Jesus.

Olu: Amen

Ade: Thank you, Father. And this time as the end of the year comes and we celebrate the birth of Jesus, we pray that Joy will fill the heart of everyone. In Jesus name,

Both: Amen

Olu: Amen. Thanks, everybody. See you again next week and yeah, Bye for now.

If you don’t mind repeating exactly what you did this year in the new year then you can stop reading at this point, but if you want a better year, you want to be able to pursue your dreams in the new year with clarity and focus then you need to take the following steps:

1. Take charge, don’t just go with the flow
2. Take it easy, be driven but take caution
3. Take time to plan, don’t just hope.
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Ep. 43 Transcripts: What Are You Doing In Order To Have A Better 2018?

Like Jesus Podcast Episode 43

You’re listening to Like Jesus Podcast. This is Olu Sobanjo. I want to welcome you again to this episode today. Someone said if you are going in the same direction, you will arrive at your destination but the question is, Is that destination what you really want?

A year is ending and another one is unfolding. If you continue the way you were this year, are you confident that that you would be excited about the result you’d get a year from now? Now that’s a question that you need to ask yourself. I’ve met so many people that are really busy as in very busy. From far away when you look at them, you can tell that they are busy building something. However, as you get closer to them, you start to notice that they are actually building blocks however, none of those blocks are on top of the other. The truth is that it is not bad to build blocks but at some point, it will be important to know what structure you’re trying to build. And it’s important to know why you are building your blocks. It’s important so you know how many blocks you really need and it’s very good to have all these structured out. In short, it’s better to start with a clear goal in mind but many a times, we don’t because we don’t actually understand where we are going. We don’t understand what we’re doing but that’s fine. Because a lot of people are like that. You see, many people that you see succeeding today didn’t start with a clear goal in mind. They just jumped in and they started going and gradually, they start seeing that they’re figuring it out. And so for yourself at the same time, you’re going to have to ask yourself the same question, What am I doing? Am I just busy building blocks or have I started putting the structure together? You see, the same set of people that are busy – occupied with activities – to them, it’s actually just wrong to sit down. It’s almost a sin to sit down because what will you be sitting down doing? You need to be busy. But the truth of the matter is it’s not about being busy. It’s about knowing what you’re doing.

My message to you today is that though it’s very important not to be lazy, success is as a result of great planning. Ask around and you’d hardly find people that just stumbled on success. Yes, they may stumble on a strategy or a tactic that is making better results for them but strategic planning and having a goal must be one of the first things that they start with. Now, if your year has been great and you don’t mind repeating exactly what you did this year in the new year, then you can stop listening at this point but if you want a better year – you want to be able to pursue your dream in the new year with clarity and focus, then you need to take the following steps.

Number 1 is you would need to take charge! Don’t just go with the flow.Now, it’s good to understand what’s going on around you so that when opportunities come, you can take advantage of them but you don’t just keep waiting – sitting down and hoping that something is going to happen. I’ve met a lot of people that are waiting and “trusting God” they say. They say they are trusting God for somebody – their helper to come. But you see, the truth of the matter is that many people that help, won’t help you just sitting down. They won’t help you just waiting around hoping that something will happen. They want to see you that you are actually taking charge. You are actually putting some stones on top of the other; you’re actually laying the foundation a little bit before they come and they help you, however they can. You must take charge and don’t just go with the flow. Don’t just hope that something will happen. Start doing something!!! And then trust God that that which you are doing, God will use it to form something great.

The second step that I have – the second thing that you need to do is take it easy! Now, you must get to the point also where you are not distracted with trying to achieve that you are not able to enjoy each day as it comes. Now, it’s possible to be so driven that you’re not even taking care of yourself. You’re not taking advantage of people around you. You’re not taking advantage of the opportunities that are around you. You’re just so focused and running. Now, as you’re running, you need to pay attention to what’s around you. Take it easy. Take caution. Take care of yourself. Take care if the people in your life. Be in the life of the people around you. Don’t just cut them off and say you are driven by success. Now, that doesn’t bring any good solution either.

Then the last one is you’re going to have to set time to plan. Now, the aim here is not just to hope. The aim is to actually plan. And how do you plan? First, you need to start with what you have right now. I’ve met so many people that the moment they hear they need to plan, they take a pen and paper and then they begin to write huge numbers. It doesn’t matter where they are right now, they just think, “Oh, I should be able to achieve x, y and z in the next five months.” Now, it’s possible in your dreams maybe but in reality, it’s usually not as easy as that. And you must first of all acknowledge where you are right now. You see one thing… As I thinking about this today, this thought came to my head that where I am today is as a result of my decisions up till today. Now, if I am at this point and I have so much success, then I should be thanking God because some of the decisions that I have made in the past have brought me to this place. But if I am at the moment where right now, I lack so many things, equally, my decisions have brought me here. And I must be able to acknowledge that and accept it; that I am at this point right now and I need to start building from where I am. And if you’re not going to start from where you are, you’ll be wasting… you’ll be starting wrong. In order to start right, you need to acknowledge where you are and start from there. And then the next thing in planning is, where do you want to get to? What’s the end goal for you? Are you just hoping that something good will come out? Now, that’s not a good goal. It’s good to have concrete, measurable, realistic goals. And time bound too so that in the next 6 months – we are going into the new year so you can say in the next 6 months, I want to be able to achieve xyz, and xyz must be measurable. As you do this, you will see that you’re getting yourself ready for a better year.

And that’s why I’m very excited to invite you – if you don’t know already about it because I’ve been talking about this for a while now. If you don’t know about my new course Ready Set Impact, you need to get yourself onto that. Now, I believe that each person, God has put something in your mind. God has put something in your heart. God designed to be doing some many things that God wants you to use to impact the people around you. And if you’re not going to focus on planning and putting your mind to it, you’re just going to say, “Yeah. Sure! Anything happens… Anything goes… If I get there, I get there. If I don’t, that’s fine. It’s God’s will” No! You need to focus. You need to put your mind to it and you need to put yourself into this process of getting ready to launch out what God has put in your heart.

On this course – the Ready Set Impact, it’s an online course. It’s designed to help you turn your ideas into realities. It’s supposed to help you first of all, find out what it is – how do you clarify and identify those ideas that God has given you and then how do you know who you are set to impact? How do you focus? How do you get yourself? And how do you start out? And so many things have been out into this. There are so many frustrations that people have – where do you get money? How do you get your family involved? How do you combine this with so much that is going on?… You know there is so many things that you need to learn from this course. And I want to invite you if you’re not registered yet. Within this week, I believe on Wednesday, classes will be open and you will be able to start listening and taking the courses. It’s my very first course in the purposeuniversity.online and so I’m very excited. I’d like to invite you to get on board. Go over to purposeuniversity.online and sign up to be a part of this course so that by Wednesday, as soon as class starts, you’ll be one of the first set of people to enter the class and start taking the courses. And I tell you, it’s going to be a big benefit to you. It’s going to be a huge help to you.

Now, if you know somebody that needs a better year than they’ve had before, I want you to forward this to them. Tell them to go to purposeuniversity.online. Let them register for the course and definitely, it’s going to be definitely, a big bonus for them because this has been designed to help them achieve their goals. Alright? So, you want to go over to purposeuniversity.online and begin to see how you can plan a better year.

Now the last thing which is my question for you today is, In order to be able to do what God has called you to do, what are you willing to say No to in order to be able to say Yes to what God is calling you to do? Now, it’s very important, you know, you need to make out time… For example, for this course, you need to make out time for you to be able to go through the materials and actually do the exercises that follow. But I tell you if you can focus on making this happen; if you can focus on getting the classes and the lectures in and practicing what it says, I can guarantee you that you are going to have a better year. Alright! So, go over to the website purposeuniversity.online and sign up for the course. And let’s take it from there. Share it with other people that you know because I desire that God will use them to transform you and bring you to what He wants you to do in order for you to begin to impact the people around you.

Alright! So, why don’t we pray together? Let’s do that. Father, we thank you so much for this time we’ve had to just discuss and for your children that are listening to this. Lord, I desire that you would transform each person and you will help them plan a better year as we are going into the new year. And Lord, I just desire that you’d open their eyes to see that which you have in store for them. Lord, I pray that this course, Ready Set Impact will be a huge benefit to all those that listen to it, all those that watch it, all those that go through the classes in the name of Jesus. Purpose University will be a blessing to many in the mighty name of Jesus. Lord, I pray that as we go into this new year, it’s going to be an awesome year in the mighty name of Jesus. Help us to clarify things as we go in and help us to achieve as we enter into the new year. Thank you mighty God. In Jesus name we’ve prayed, Amen!

Alright! So for me, I’m so excited. I just celebrated my birthday and this course is something that God laid on my heart to give out and do for free. It’s a free course. You’re not going to pay anything except the time that it takes for you to do it but it’s an investment. I want you to count it as an investment into your life and your future and the future of people that are waiting for you to impact them with what you have inside of you. So, head over to purposeuniversity.online and make sure that you’re in class. Check your email. You’re going to register and confirm that you want to be a part of the class and then on Wednesday morning, check your email and then you can sign up to be in class.

Alright! God bless you and talk to you again next week. Bye Bye!

Biggest Takeaways You Don’t Want to Miss:

1. I am growing older and so are you
2. Time is running out, so the time is now
3. Everyone must answer the question: what would you love to be remembered for when you leave this earth?
4. If you are not taking steps towards that now you must
5. Join my Online course to help you with turning your idea into reality today before registration closes.

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Ep. 42 Transcripts: Time is Running Out: Ready, Set… Impact!

Like Jesus Podcast, Episode 42. Drum rolls!!!

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Hello and Welcome to Like Jesus Podcast. This is Olu Sobanjo. I’m glad to be talking to you again today. I hope you are having a great day.

Now, 2017 is coming to a close and personally, I’m very excited at this time of the year because my birthday is right around the corner. And I’m so so glad. Each time my birthday is approaching, I’m so excited. I’m especially excited this year and I’m going to tell you why. But before I go ahead and tell you why, I traveled recently to see my parents-in-law and my parents. And it was such a beautiful trip. It was really packed and it was just a weekend – Friday to Monday – and it was tiring. However, I still came back really really full because you know, when you hang out with older people, you learn a lot. I was really excited to go back to where I grew up. You know, it brings this feelings back and sharpens my dreams a lot more – brings back to memory some of the dreams that I used to have. And so it was really really good. However, my parents were in church when I got to the city so I had to go meet them in church and of course, when I got to church, I met so many people that have not seen me in many years. I was even shocked because somebody was saying to me – one big brother – one of my family friends, was saying to me, “You know I’ve not seen you in 12 years” and I was like, “12 years come on!!!” But of course, with Facebook, it doesn’t feel like that. So yeah! But it was good to see him; it was good to see many other people.

Now, In my culture, just a normal way of greeting, especially those you haven’t seen in a long time is that you kneel down to greet them. That is not something that I do on a daily basis. I hardly find people to kneel down to on a daily basis. And so… I don’t do frog jump when I’m doing my exercises. I do running around, I do walks, I even do jumping jacks and jogging sometimes but I never do frog jumps. And so when I was there, I had to greet a lot of elderly people and so I was just kneeling down and rising up; kneeling down and rising up for many people. They were all very excited to meet… I was excited to see them. And it was fun. However, I realized that at some point, I couldn’t even continue walking. I got to a point where my legs were beginning to freeze, like I couldn’t continue.

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I never experienced something like that before because I mean, how can I have… my legs are there but I can’t move. And I’ve never done frog jump to that point before. By the time I got home to my parents house that day, I was just knocked out. I just slept and I was so tired. I was expecting that after having a warm bath and after rubbing ointment and all that on it, that my legs would come back to normal the next morning but nope! It did not. For days after I had returned; 4 – 5 days after I’d returned, my legs were still hooked. Then I started doing some frog jump, kneeling and stuffs like that to get me back into shape. And right now, you know, this is like almost a week after I came back and it’s much better… I mean, I don’t even feel the pain anymore. So that’s good.

But why am I sharing that with you? The truth of the matter is that my knees and my thighs are not the way they were when I first started living. Not even when I was 18! They are not the same. As I approach my birthday, I remember, especially even with this kind of situation that I’m not getting any younger. I’m getting older! That’s what that means and I don’t know what you’re thinking right now. I wonder if you are laughing at me and thinking, “Yeah, Old Woman…” Yeah! well, laugh at me but I’m not the only one growing up here. You are at the same time. I remember a few days ago, I was just in church and I was trying to read from a paper Bible. The letters were medium to small and I tried to read this thing. The light wasn’t so bright in the section of the church where I was and I tried… I tried to strain my eyes. I couldn’t figure anything out of what was written on the pages and so I had to use my phone to light the place… And I realized that even my sight is not 100% and once again, it’s not the same way it used to be and I’m growing older.

The main reason why I’m sharing this with you is time is running out for us. Now you may be looking at yourself; I’m getting to an age where I’m feeling this is the prime of my life and this is the time to do a lot more. But as much as I’m entering into the prime ages or I’m in the prime ages, I still have to remember that time is running out at the same time. And time is running out for you as well. You see the purpose for this is, I know many of you out there that you are listening to me, you have ideas that somehow you feel God has put in your heart. You’ve tried to shove them off, you’ve tried to discard them but somehow they keep coming back. You have this passion within you that you feel “I need to do this… I need to do that…” And you’ve not been able to do it maybe because you’re very busy; maybe because you’ve not really had time to focus and understand what exactly it is and so because of that, you just let it go. Maybe you’re so busy with your career that you’re not able to spend extra time to build and develop this idea. And I’m talking to you. This podcast today is about you.

The idea that God gave you, there’s a reason why He gave you. There’s a skill that He gave you and there’s a reason for that as well. When He gave you all that, there’s a reason – He wants to achieve something. And that’s why the past couple of weeks I’ve been reaching out to you my listeners and I’ve been asking, what’s the frustrations that you have in the area of achieving, you know, turning your goals, ideas into reality? And many have talked about many different things. Some have said even just having the guts to start is a big thing because you know, there’s so much going on. Where do I find the boldness to step out and just start? Somebody else told me, I don’t even know what steps to take. How do I start? Somebody said money is a big frustration. How do I get funding – money to execute these goals that I have? Somebody else said I’ve started many things and the obstacles that I encounter after starting something, is too much that I don’t even… I fear starting something because I’ve really sort of failed in many other things that I’ve started and so I’m not interested in starting again. Somebody else said How do I combine all these things – transforming an idea into reality. How.do I combine that with so huge schedule that I have already? I have all these, you know… As a man in the house, I have so much to do. The bills have to be paid… As a woman in the house, I have so much to do. The children don’t run to the nextdoor neighbor’s mum to solve their problems. They still come to me… How do I find time to execute another plan when I have not even balanced what I am doing well? And so many. So many… Somebody said how do I even… how am I sure that somebody would listen? How do I find somebody that’ll listen? And many many frustrations that people have. How do I carry my family along on this task that I have? How do I prioritize and organize my life? How do I find time? Many many reasons why people find it hard to turn their ideas to reality.

And that’s why I have made up my mind to execute this online course that people can take and it can be there for you – that you can always come back to and you can use it, especially as we are finishing 2017 and entering into 2018 or whenever you are listening to this. Ready Set Impact is ready for you to be able to turn your ideas into reality. As a child of God, you need to learn how to execute the plan that He has put in you. The Bible says the world awaits the manifestations of the sons and daughters of God. And that which God has put inside of you, He wants to be able to execute it. But if you don’t know what to do – if you have all these challenges that they are like roadblocks and you are not able to progress then that’s why a lot of people focus so much on their work that they don’t focus on the thing that God wants to use them here to do.

We just concluded a conference and my husband asked a question. He said, You need to define your identity. You need to ask yourself, when you are no longer here, how would you love to be remembered? When you’re done with your activities here on earth, how would you want to be remembered? It’s a question that we all have to ask. I want to be remembered as somebody that is encouraging everyone to pursue that plan that God has for them despite the difficulties – despite the limitations. I want to be that person that encourages you to get all from God and be all that you can be in God. And that’s what I want. When all’s said and done, I want people to be able to remember me for that. And I don’t know about you. What exactly is it that you’d love to be remembered for? And if this thing that you’d love to be remembered for is not the job you do right now, if it’s the idea that is still on your head, then you might as well, start settling your mind and getting ready to plug into this. It may be a ministry idea; it may be a business idea; it may even be different other things, platforms like writing a book, writing songs, creating a website… Different things like that that you’d need to do. But you need to be on this course and you need to plug in so that you can do this and do it well.

Somebody said, you know, when I went to Lagos for the conference, somebody said – this is a quote but he wasn’t sure exactly who said it and I’m quoting again too, I dunno who said it but he said, “The salary that you are getting is what you are being given to shut down the plan of God or to shut down your passion… The salary that you have, is what you are being given to ignore and shut down the passion and dream that you have…” Think about it. Now if you’re working in a position where you love what you are doing and you feel this is what God has called you into, you may not have a 100% of why you really really like to do but you are on the path, that’s fine. Sometimes, you find yourself that what you really love is going in the direction C but then where you are right now is in the direction Z. You say, “there’s no way this two are going to meet…” so you might as well begin to look at your job as something that is paying you now, in order to be able to find what your dream really is and then you begin to pursue that.

Now on this course, we are going to do that. We are going to take time to figure out what’s going on with some people and I’m looking out for people that want to be case studies. You want us to use your idea as a case study, I’d really really love you to go to my website, olusobanjo.com, and leave a comment or send me a voice recorded message. Now you can do that on my website. You’d see green button somewhere on top or on the side, I’m not sure what platform you are using to – whether on the desktop or on your phone, you’d just see green button that says, “leave a voice message” and so you click on that. And if you want to be used – you want your case to be used the case study on the course, it’s good because then we can help you literally turn this idea into a reality. And so leave me a voice message. If you have a question also, you can leave me a voice message on the website and I’ll address the question. Of course, you can leave comments as well but voice message, you can do that now on my website. And I’ll be glad to see… maybe we’ll even do a hangout, Facebook live or something where we come together and analyze your idea and break it down until we get to the core of it and then we start fleshing it out.

One of the things I’m going to teaching you on the course is How do you even verify that that idea is valid – is a viable one?” Because you see, many ideas that we have, they are not viable. They are not going to last. The reason why many of these ideas didn’t work in the first place is because they are not viable. They are not concrete enough and so I’d give you the strategy, the formula to know, to use and to validate an idea even before you start. For example, the person that is saying, I’m looking to… I want to know who will listen, we need to do that even before you start. We need to find the listeners and begin to address their needs even before you start. So, there’s a lot that we are going to be covering on the course and we’re going to deal with even some limiting beliefs that affects you and affects the idea.

So, I want to encourage you – go over to olusobanjo.com if you’re not registered – you don’t get an email from me on a weekly basis, you go onto my website and you enter your name and email address to enter into the course Ready Set Impact and then we’d… on my birthday – 7th November by God’s grace, I’m believing that the first course – the first set of module will be out that you can start working on. Then we can look at case study using somebody’s case to get it better because then we can… for you that will be doing the case study, you have higher chance of starting 2018 with a very nice roadmap of what’s going on. And obviously other people that are going to be on the course but if yours is the case study, you know that you are hiring a coach that’d guide you through it for free. So I want you to get on this and let do this together. 2018 is a great year that God wants to do a lot of great things in our lives and He wants you to be light to the world. He says you don’t light a candle and put it under bushel, you put it on top of a table because a lot of people need to see it. There’s something inside you that the person out there is looking for and if you are not going to plugin and find that thing and get started doing it, then the person that needs it won’t get it. Then we are going to use other people that have achieved their ideas also, we’ll bring them and get them on this course as well so that they can inspire you as well.

Alright! So, that’s what I want to share with you today. And I want also pray with you so let’s pray together.

Father, I thank you so much because you have a plan for us. I thank you because you have a plan for your son or your daughter that is listening to this. I thank you because you’re the one that is putting this desire – you’ve been putting that desire since they were little or since a long time ago or maybe it just came. And this desire is not for fun. I know that you want to use this desire and you want to turn it into something that’d help many others. And many times Lord, I see all the things that we benefit from today. Even the recording set that I have here, it was an idea in the mind of somebody before but now I use it, I use this pen, I’m sitting in a couch… you know, I have many things that were ideas in the mind of somebody but I thank you because you helped those people to turn them into reality. All my listeners that are listening to this, I pray oh God that you’d help them that they will recognize the ideas that are in them that’d need to be turned to reality. And this week as we enter into the Ready Set Impact Course, daddy that you’d help them and they’d begin to see new things and the way you want them to go. In the mighty name of Jesus. Lord, we look forward to all the things that you are going to do with this course and we ask oh God that you help everyone that’ll be a part of it, help everyone that needs to know about it to know about it. In the mighty name of Jesus. Blessed be your name oh Lord and let your name alone be glorified. I pray for all my listeners, I pray that this week will be great for each person in the mighty name of Jesus. For those on my team as well, this week will be great for each person in the name of Jesus. We love you Lord, we thank you for everything. Blessed be your name. In Jesus name, Amen!

Alright. So don’t forget. If you’re reading or listening to this and you’re not getting emails from me – you’ve not at any point gone to enter your email address to my website and your name, go over to olusobanjo.com, register for the Ready Set Impact Course. This course is going tone for a limited time so you want to be in before I close the gate to it. So the number of people that registers by the time we close the course is what we are going to work with. So if 2018 is important to you and you want to be in this course and you need guidance to enter and to achieve more in 2018 with God’s help, then you want to register as soon as the gates are open – as soon as the class opens and after a while, we’ll shut the gate and it’d just be just us that are inside. So you wanna be on that.

God bless you and talk to you again next week. See you all on the inside of the course. God bless you. Bye!