December 13, 2022 • 30 mins
Would you like to begin the new year with a vision that's clear and focused? Believe it or not, there is power in a single word.
Following the simple and powerful concept outlined in the book, One Word That Will Change Your Life, you can ditch the new year's resolution list and narrow your intentions with one word for the whole year that can drive success in your life.
Join me today as I interview Jimmy Page, co-author of One Word That Will Change Your Life, and my husband. Jimmy will share personal stories of how one single word, when chosen with intent, can make all the difference in the new year ahead and his experience with this process from the past 23 years!
Connect with Jimmy at Unstoppable Freedom Alliance:
https://https://beunstoppable.live
Suggested Resources:
- BOOK: One Word That Will Change Your Life
- LINK: One Word Journal
- BOOK: One Word for Kids: A Great Way to Have Your Best Year
- BOOK: Life Word
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Ivelisse Page (00:34):
Welcome to today's episode on the Believe
Big podcast.
My name is Ivelisse Page, andit's an honor to spend this time
with you.
Do you feel like you needclarity in your life?
What if one word could mean thedifference between repeated
failure and new found success?
you are listening to the perfectepisode today as my husband
Jimmy is joining us to talkabout one of the books he
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co-authored called One Word ThatWill Change Your Life.
A process and practice that ourfamily has done for the last 23
years.
We have found that the simplepower of one word impacts all
six dimensions of life (01:11):
mental, physical, emotional, relational,
spiritual, and financial.
A few things you may not knowabout my husband Jimmy, besides
being a author of eight booksand being one of the co-founders
of Believe Big.
Jimmy is the founder andpresident of the Unstoppable
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Freedom Alliance, the BeUnstoppable Life and Leadership
System, and the Joseph Project.
He is also a health and wellnessexpert, a Spartan athlete,
podcaster, and a frequentspeaker at conferences.
I have to add that he is thebest dad to our four grown kids,
and there would definitely be agaping hole in my life without
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him.
Welcome Jimmy, to the show.
Jimmy Page (01:57):
Hey, it's great to be here.
That's quite an intro.
I feel like I got something tolive up to now.
Ivelisse Page (02:02):
Aw Before we dive into the book, we always like to
learn from our guests what theirfavorite health tip is, and I
know you have many, so can youjust share one with us?
Jimmy Page (02:12):
had predicted that I was gonna share about athletic
greens because I take athleticgreens every single day.
It's my green drink.
And, you were so confident thatI almost had to give something
different.
So my health tip for the week isthis: do it even when you don't
feel like it.
Do it when you don't feel likeit.
Most every aspect of yourpersonal health, most every
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aspect of your life is gonna bedetermined by whether or not you
can overcome the excuses thatare rattling around in your
brain.
Whether or not you can overcomethe way you're feeling and
continue to do the things thatyou know to do to produce great
health, regardless of how youfeel.
Cause I gotta tell you, and youknow this, there's plenty of
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days where you don't feel likeexercising, plenty of days,
there's plenty of days where youdon't feel like eating the right
foods or you feel likecompromising in some way.
And the real truth is thateveryone feels that way, and the
best way to overcome it is to doit when you don't feel like it.
Ivelisse Page (03:15):
Yeah.
I love that you also always tellour kids always show up.
So that's another way of showingup, whether it's exercise or
with your friends or in everyway that you can.
So I really love that tip thankyou.
One Word has been such animpactful tool for our family
and so many others.
Can you share with thoselistening how One Word came to
be?
Jimmy Page (03:36):
Gosh, it's been 23 years of doing this, both
personally as a family, you gotintroduced to it right away
because I thought it was a greatidea.
but I remember Dan Britton and Iand two other guys were meeting
together every Friday morningfor accountability.
This is years and years ago.
We had a desire to live our bestlife.
God has created us.
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He's given us purpose and somethings that we're passionate
about.
He put us in marriages and infamilies where we really wanted
to be our best and we wanted tobe our best with respect to our
careers too, with the thingsthat we would do.
So we had, every year we haddone these New Year's
resolutions, and we had thesehuge long lists of things that
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we were gonna get done, thingsthat we were gonna do that year.
And we weren't having a lot ofsuccess, to be honest.
I remember early on, losingtrack of the things that we had
committed to, even though wewere intentional about it.
And we discovered that we had alot of failure, a lot of false
starts.
And a friend of ours, SteveFitzhugh, former NFL player,
told Dan, he said, hey, have youever considered just filtering
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your year through one singleword, narrowing the focus to a
one word theme, and Dan jumpedon it.
He shared it with me, and thenit spread like wildfire to just
scrap the to do list and tocreate a one word theme for the
year that would help us becomethe people that we are made to
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be.
Instead of always being, alwaysdoing things.
Instead, we wanted to becomebetter in many different areas,
and the one word became thatfocal point that gave us the
ability to get real life change.
Ivelisse Page (05:15):
Yeah, it's amazing how you're right, it has
spread like wildfire.
I see so many posts about it.
I see it on Christmas cards.
I know we put that in ours, howGod used our one words every
year.
see it on Etsy for people makingone word bracelets and key
chains, you name it.
So it's been exciting to see itspread because that concept, it
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really is so powerful andsimple.
For those who, maybe been hidingunder a rock and may not have
heard of One Word yet, can youexplain to them the process?
I know that you go into greatdetail into the book, but maybe
you can give them a sneak peekas to how they could discover
their one word as we head intothe new year.
Jimmy Page (05:55):
When Dan Britton, Jon Gordon and I wrote the book,
we came together and we wantedto make sure that we kept a
simple, powerful concept, simpleand powerful.
We have the tendency to drivetowards this complexity, to add
too much stuff.
So we really stuck to a verysimple process.
It is the simplest process, inmy opinion, that you can follow
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to discover your word, and it'sthis, three easy steps: look in,
look up and look out.
So those three steps, whencombined and done in an
introspective way, can help youdiscover your word and then live
it out.
So the first step is to lookwithin, right?
And this look in step is reallyimportant that you unplug from
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the noise and the busyness oflife.
Because those are alldistractions that prevent you
really from hearing that innervoice.
As a man of God, as someone whobelieves in God, I believe it's
the voice of God within me, youknow, that God speaks in us.
When you quiet the noise, whenyou get away from the
distractions and you askquestions like, what do I need
most?
What's in the way?
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What are the things that arepreventing me from becoming the
person I'm made to be?
And then you ask the question,if I were to focus on one single
word for the year, that wouldhave the greatest positive
effect on who I am as a person,what would that word be?
And you just journal somethoughts, what's in the way,
what's gotta go?
and then that's the first stepof introspectively saying, if I
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were to make the mostimprovement this year possible,
I need to look in and discoverwhat I need most.
Ivelisse Page (07:27):
That's great, and then what do you do from there?
Jimmy Page (07:29):
The second step for me is fun because it's looking
up.
As a believer, as someone whobelieves that we've been created
for purpose, with purpose, it'simportant that we ask the one
that has made us to reveal to uswhat needs to change.
And so we go into this lookingup phase, which for us is
prayer.
It might be some contemplativetime.
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It might be asking God, if therewas one single word this year
that could have the greatestpositive effect, not only on me,
but on others.
You don't want this to become aselfish pursuit.
You really want this to becomesomething where you are becoming
the person you're made to be, tothe benefit of others, the
blessing of others, and toreally make a difference in the
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world around you, especially forthose that you love the most.
So this is that time when yousay, where's my purpose?
Where's my passion?
What do I need to become theperson that I'm made to be?
And we look up and we ask God toreveal that to us.
I think this is an importantstep to contemplate your purpose
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and your passion and to say, ifyou were gonna make the greatest
positive impact on others, whatword would capture that this
year?
I think that it's not exclusive,but I do believe it's more
powerful, of course, when youreally do believe that God has a
plan for your life and you aretrying to discover that.
Ivelisse Page (08:49):
Yeah, I completely agree.
And it's, this part of theprocess is always so exciting
for me because sometimes I haveall these words when I'm looking
in and I write them down and Ithink it's one word, and then
all of a sudden as I look up,God really shows that it's
actually this word, or heactually confirms it.
And, one of the coolest storiesI think two years ago, my word
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was Shalom and I was in Novemberand I was had a few words
written down and I decided, Isaid, okay, I think God's
telling me that this is theword, and I never will forget
that I went walking with afriend locally in the
neighborhood and all of a suddenwe're walking and my eyes could
not believe in the lawn of oneof my friend's neighbor's yard,
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they had cut out with theirlawnmower and left the word
shalom on the grass.
I could not believe it.
It wasn't peace, like a commonword, but it was shalom.
And I'm like, okay, God, you'retruly making sure that this is
the word I pick so that it's offun sometimes when God speaks to
you in that way too.
Jimmy Page (09:52):
And he always does that with you.
And I'm always jealous.
I'm always jealous about this.
And you know so not everyone isgonna have the shalom moment in
the lawn, but it is animpressive, amazing story,
actually.
I think part of this too, justto take the pressure off people
is you do not have to get theperfect.
Sometimes we think, oh man, if Idon't get the perfect word, then
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the year's gonna be a failure.
I can tell you there have beenyears when I've made my best
determination for the word forthat year, and I wasn't
necessarily certain, but I hadgeneral idea.
And what always amazes me is nomatter what that word is, if
you're picking between two orthree different ones, just be
decisive.
Pick one.
God is going to use that word inyour life.
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So don't get stuck looking forthe perfect word, right?
Perfection is often the enemy ofprogress.
So I just wanna encourage ourlisteners, hey, if you get to
the place where you just don'tknow and you can't choose, flip
a coin, pick a word, I guaranteeyou it's still gonna have a
positive effect.
Ivelisse Page (10:56):
That's great advice.
Yes.
Don't put pressure, extremepressure on yourselves, and so
look out what does that mean?
Jimmy Page (11:01):
Looking out is the fun part because it's where you
start to live out your word.
We talk about keeping it frontand center.
Telling other people that you'veselected a word for the year
where you're expecting to seepositive life change.
And by the way, one of thethings I love about one word is
it does create this positiveexpectation for life change.
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If you're discouraged or ifyou're feeling worn out, or if
you're tired and you want alittle bit of a jolt of positive
expectation for the new year,this is a great way to do it
because no matter what word youchoose, there's a reason that
you've chosen that word.
There's a why behind the word,and it always sets itself on a
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positive expectation for theword.
Whether your word is trust orpeace or brave or lead or like
yours have been, believe andharvest it automatically orients
your mind towards a positiveoutcome, toward positive life
change.
So that's what looking out isall about.
It's about living out your wordand putting it front and center,
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telling people in your life whatyour word is and why you chose
it.
And then keeping it front andcenter.
And we created a one wordjournal to help keep people on
track, that just came outbecause we had so much feedback
that people wanted a place tocapture their progress.
So we just created that as aresource as well.
Ivelisse Page (12:27):
Yeah, I'm really excited about starting to use
that this coming year.
We'll make sure to put a link inthe show notes so that if people
are interested in the book oreven the journal itself and even
the kids' book.
Can you share about the kids'book that they're welcome to
click on and purchase it.
Jimmy Page (12:42):
Okay, so I have a copy, right?
So if this is on video, you'llsee it.
If it's not, you won't, so youhave to go see the video.
But it actually is one of myfavorite books that we've had
the opportunity to write becauseit's fully illustrated, it's
made for kids eight andunder-ish.
So if you've got a kid that'seight or nine and under, or if
you've got grandkids that youwanna bless, this is a way our
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subtitle on One Word for Kids isa great way to have your best
year ever.
So again, kids are tired too.
If you look at some of thestatistics and if you look at
your own kids, they're worn out.
We've come through a little bitof a tough stretch and this
gives them an opportunity tocreate a positive expectation
for their year and they'relooking for it, believe me.
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When I launched this with schooldistricts, for example, some of
the ones in Texas are the mostfun cuz man, they're all in.
They will let their kids takethe ceiling tiles out of the
roof, paint their word on thereand put'em back in their hallway
so that every day these kids arereminded of their words.
It's a beautiful way to engagekids with a positive expectation
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for how that year's gonna go.
Ivelisse Page (13:48):
I love that.
It's so powerful.
Can you imagine walking downthose halls and you're having a
hard day and you look up andthere's your word.
So I think that's reallypowerful that they do that.
What are some other ways thatfamilies have incorporated the
"Look Out" portion?
Like I know Christmas Eve, wegather and get canvases and we
paint our words and you don'thave to be an artist in order to
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do it, but we just have fundoing that.
It's become a tradition in ourhouse.
But what are some other waysthat you've heard from people
who've reached out to you on howthey keep their word in front of
them?
Jimmy Page (14:21):
Yeah, I think you can be as creative as you wanna
be with this, right?
I mean, me, I'll put my word ona t-shirt, I'll put it on a
wrist band.
Those are fun and they're reallyinexpensive to get.
But whatever it is, we'll putthose canvases that we paint,
and you said it we'll paintthose and put'em up on the wall
in our kitchen.
Because it becomes a naturalconversation point.
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It's something that's in yournatural routine of life.
So we like to make sure thatthose words are visible.
A lot of families especiallywhen they're incorporating it
with their kids, will haveconversations over the dinner
table.
So once a week or once a month,they might have an opportunity
to say to one of their kids,hey, are you seeing your word
have a positive effect in yourlife?
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What's it doing?
What are you learning?
How are you growing?
And just keeping it in yourregular conversation is a really
big way to keep it front andcenter.
Ivelisse Page (15:12):
And you know something, even as simple as you
can take a picture of yourcanvas and keep it on your
phone.
We all have our phones with us,and so having it as a
screenshot, as your saved homescreen is a great way to have it
in front of you as well.
And we've had some individualswho have even done a tattoo of
their word that really spoke tothem.
I don't recommend that, but.
Jimmy Page (15:34):
We have an opportunity at 23 years, we've
got 23 words.
I could literally get a sleevetattoo at this point with all
the words.
That might be an option.
Ivelisse Page (15:44):
Yeah.
I prefer to put'em on yourcycling jerseys.
Jimmy Page (15:47):
Oh yeah, that's right.
Ivelisse Page (15:48):
So you get asked this a lot and I always chuckle
because people feel like, okay,I didn't quite finish all that I
wanted to do with my word.
And they'll say to you, can Irepeat a word?
And what do you say?
Jimmy Page (16:01):
If you do, you're a rule breaker.
And I'm not opposed to rulebreakers to be honest, cuz I am
a bit of a rule breaker myself.
But the idea with the one wordis it's supposed to form a
chapter.
It's a chapter of your life, inthe broader story.
So let's say you live 80 yearsand you've got 80 chapters in
that life.
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Each one word should form achapter in your life.
So you shouldn't feel pressureto perfect the word.
My mom's first word, I believewas patience.
And I warned her not to do itbecause when you pick a word
like patience, it doesn't meanyou're gonna be made more
patient.
It means you're gonna be givenopportunities to become more
patient.
But she decided she was gonna doit anyway, and she had a great
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year.
But the idea is that word wouldform a chapter in your story,
That you would have memories andmilestones along the way that
you would remember about thatword, and that word would become
part of your dna, part of whoyou are, regardless of whether
you think you mastered the wordor not, which is not the goal.
The real goal is to make surethat you are experiencing
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positive life change, that youremember things for that year,
and that it forms that chapter.
Ivelisse Page (17:10):
Can you share one or two of your words that have
had impact in your life over theyears?
Jimmy Page (17:16):
I'll tell you a personal story and then I'll
tell you one maybe of one of oursons, which I know you're really
thankful for.
I'll tell you my story first.
My word in 2019 was unstoppable.
And it's a powerful word, but italso is a challenging word,
because now you have to confrontyour excuses.
You're gonna be confronted withyour own negativity.
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You're gonna be confronted fromthe mental side.
You talked a little bit abouthaving six dimensions of life
change.
The six dimensions are mental,emotional, relational, physical,
spiritual, and even financial.
What I discovered was I wasconfronted with a lot of things
in my life that were stopping mefrom becoming everything I was
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made to be.
And so the first stopping pointon that is, is the mental side
of the game, right?
And I had to confront limitingbeliefs.
I had to confront excuses thatwere preventing me from making
the progress I wanted to.
I remember just having to weedout all this maybe negativity
and excuses and then feed itwith this unstoppable mindset
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that nothing is impossible,especially for those who
believe.
That year really was a profoundyear of change for me.
And then a second story and Ireally wanna maybe end on the
story of your one right afteryou received your cancer
diagnosis might be a great tiein, want to say a little
something about that.
But another word was was Jimmy,our son Jimmy, when he went off
to college at LibertyUniversity.
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He had a great high schoolcareer in lacrosse, and he was
contemplating whether or not heshould go out for the lacrosse
team at Liberty.
And we had these conversationswith him and I said, hey, what's
your word for the year?
And he said, oh, my word isboom.
And I said, what do you mean byboom.
And he said, it's like abreakthrough.
It's like a breakout year.
I'm not going to shrink backbecause I'm afraid of things,
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but instead I'm gonna, I'm gonnago for it.
And we all smiled on the calllike, you might just have your
answer whether or not you shouldtry out for that team.
And of course we all kindalaughed about it.
And then he tried out, had greattryouts with the Liberty
University lacrosse team, endsup making the team.
And has two really great yearswith that team, that really in
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some ways changed his collegeexperience, at least for the
front end of it for sure.
So it's a demonstration of thepower of how one word can be
used in your decision makingthroughout the year as well.
Ivelisse Page (19:37):
I remember those moments, how amazing that time
period was of his boldness tojust go for it, walk on for the
tryouts and the team pretty muchhad already been set.
So for him to make the team wassuch a huge accomplishment.
And God really had his hand onthat whole situation.
I also love that you know, youshare that the one words are
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like chapters in our life.
Because if I look at the 23years, I write down my one word
every year, it becomes what Godhas done in and through us
throughout all these years.
And it's just amazing because aswe age, our memory may not be
what it used to be, but weremember what God did through
those words.
So it's super powerful.
So that leads me into what youguys wrote.
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And I know we aren't reallyfocused on this book, but can
you share a little bit aboutLife Word?
Jimmy Page (20:29):
Sure.
Life Word is the title of thestory, so if you think of your
one word chapters.
And then you think of the lifeword, it's the title of the
story.
And we always talk aboutbeginning with the end in mind,
right?
Trying to design your life, notdrift into your life, but
instead design it intentionally.
And it's like anything else whenyou have a very clear vision for
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something for the way you wantit to be, for the way it should
be, and you're compelled tocreate that, then you take
action consistent with what youwant your life to be.
So Life Word gives the reader anopportunity to look at what
they're passionate about, lookat their power source, what are
they gifted at?
What are their strengths?
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Then talk about what theirpurpose is, their calling and
their cause.
And so when you combine thosethree things, they're kind of of
overlapping circles.
You combine those three thingsand it helps you discover your
life word, which really givesyou purpose and almost a
plumbline to keep you fromdeviating too far from the
things you're most passionateabout and designed to do.
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Life Word is a great companion.
Begin with the end in mind.
put a word over your life thatyou believe will give you
direction and purpose, and thenthose chapters start to fill in
all of the details of the story.
So that's a little bit aboutLife Word.
It's a great book.
Ivelisse Page (21:49):
Yeah.
And what's your life word andwhy did you pick it?
Jimmy Page (21:52):
People are afraid of picking a life word because they
think that, what if I get thewrong word?
Am I stuck with it for the restof my life?
So we caution people and we say,hey listen, go through the
process.
Select that life word, and thentry it on for a few years.
Try it on for a year, try it onfor 2, 3, 4 years, and then
reevaluate about every fiveyears, to make sure that life
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word still represents thatbigger picture purpose for your
life.
And so when I went through theprocess, originally, my word
became inspire.
I had a desire.
I think much of my early lifewas lived as an underdog of
sorts and I had to work hard.
I was undersized.
I grew late.
It's the worst nightmare for aboy, to be small and to have to
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wait to grow.
I can still remember asking mymom, am I ever going to grow?
I remember actually crying aboutit.
So if you wanna know how deepthat runs.
And my mom would say, worryabout things that you can
control.
Out of that, I had to work superhard and then I discovered that
I wanted to inspire other peoplethat may have long odds, that
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may be an underdog, that may notbe the one that people think is
going to achieve great success.
I wanted to inspire them tomaximize their life.
It's like the parable of theseeds, it's the parable of the
talent.
Where some are given five, someare given two, some are given
one.
The question isn't how much haveyou been given?
The question is, what will youdo with what you've been given?
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So for me, my life word isinspire.
I wanna inspire people, oneperson at a time to fulfill
their absolute best God-givenpotential and purpose.
So that's my life word.
Ivelisse Page (23:30):
I remember going through that process too, and my
life word is actually life, andI went through that process and
it was just amazing to mebecause, It really is what I do
every day at Believe Big.
I feel like I need to speak lifeto those who are feeling
hopeless, I feel like you knowthe life he's given me a second
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chance at life.
And what am I gonna do tomaximize it for our family, for
those in our community, ourneighbors, for my friends.
And interestingly enough, yearslater after I picked it, I
realized that my name Ivelissealso means life.
So it's pretty cool that you gothrough that process and you do
find that word.
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And for me the word has stuck.
You did hint also into the factthat you wanted to share the
story of my one word, the yearthat I had gotten cancer.
And so you can tee it up and Ican insert a few things if if
you'd like.
Jimmy Page (24:25):
if I miss something, right?
That's what you meant?
Ivelisse Page (24:27):
No.
No
Jimmy Page (24:29):
I'm kidding.
For me, the reason I wanted tobring this up was because back
in 2008 you were obviouslydiagnosed with cancer, and
anyone on this call probablyknows a bit about your story.
And they obviously know it'sbeen many years now that you've
been cancer free.
It really is truly a miracle.
But that first year, 2009, yourword became believe.
Because we had a lot of badnews, and I remember every time
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we went to the hospital, itseemed like the bad news from
the last time we came in seemedbetter than the bad news we're
getting today.
It was just one of those days,but I remember you picking that
word, believe because thescripture says nothing is
impossible for those whobelieve.
And this idea of believing thatGod was capable of bringing you
back to good health, God wascapable of healing you.
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And we were gonna trust that andwe were actually gonna trust the
outcome regardless of how itwent.
Because we know thatunfortunately, the journey
doesn't always end the way youwant it to.
We all have an appointed time todie, so we knew that was a very
real possibility, but at thesame time, we did not wanna
dampen the reality that Godcould do anything.
But the reason that this mattersmost for me is because of the
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next piece of one word, why oneword is so powerful is because
out of that experience, out ofthat healing, out of believing,
and really deepening our faithcame Believe Big.
It wasn't that you wanted yourhealing for you alone, but once
you received that healing, youwanted to bless other people and
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help them find their pathway tohealing.
And that was the birth of theidea of Believe Big was that,
let's take the adversity let'sturn that adversity into an
advantage.
Let's take the focus of believeand turn it into believing big
for others.
And that's the beauty of the oneword process.
It's not a selfish endeavorabout me just being my best.
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It's me being my best for othersto be a blessing.
And also for us people of faithis to build a kingdom of God.
It's to bring other people intoa relationship with God.
It's to bring other people alongto benefit and be blessed by
what we've experienced.
Ivelisse Page (26:38):
Yeah, you said it perfectly.
And I still remember at thattime we weren't doing canvases,
but we did like a scrapbook pageof things that with our word in
the middle that I would cut outand paste on there.
And I remember that God gave methe verse in the Psalms that
said, I shall not die, but liveand declare the works of the
Lord.
And I wrote that on my believeboard because, like the verse in
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Matthew, the father says, Lord,I believe, help me with my
unbelief.
And like you said, with the oddsso stacked against us with bad
news after bad news and a lessthan 8% chance of survival, you
had to really believe big thatGod could step in and do the
impossible.
But like you said, we also hadto trust him to know that my
story could have endeddifferently.
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And thankfully as believers weknow, that wasn't the end.
So we knew we would win eitherway.
But the power of one word,you're so right.
It's not a selfish thing.
It's something that also gets usthrough difficult times that God
emboldened us, encourages us tolook beyond what we think is
possible.
So I love that.
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And interestingly enough, I alsolove that he used your
unstoppable word to start yourbe-unstoppable-life that you
stepped out of your comfort zoneand started an organization to
help other people as well, tolive a life of purpose and
passion and clarity.
And it, it really is powerfulwhat can happen through a word
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in one simple year.
Jimmy, our time is already atthe 30 minute mark, and so I
just wanted to let you end itwith anything that I may not
have asked you that you feel ourlisteners would be encouraged to
hear.
Jimmy Page (28:20):
I would just fully engage in this process.
If this is your first time atit, grab the book.
Look at the process.
The book is meant to be writtenin.
Dig in, write down yourthoughts.
Write down the things that aregetting in your way and fully
engage.
Don't just pick a word out ofthe air.
You can do that.
But I would encourage you tofollow the process.
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And if you're a veteran, if yousaid, oh, I've been doing this
for 10 years.
In fact, I had the idea beforeJimmy.
I would encourage you as I did afew years ago, I felt like I was
intuitively picking my word forthe year, and I finally said,
wait a minute.
I need to go back and go throughthe process for real again.
And when I did, it became a muchricher process and I felt more
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convinced the word that Iselected was the right word for
that year, and I believe in theend I probably got more out of
those words just because I wentthrough the process.
So whether you're a rookie atthis or whether you're a 20 year
veteran, go through the processfully.
It doesn't take much time, butyou'll be happy that you did
because the word that will berevealed, I believe will be a
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transformational word this
Ivelisse Page (29:27):
year.
I love it.
Thank you, Jimmy.
And for those who are listeningand you select your word coming
up for 2023, send us an emailand let us know what your word
is.
We'd love to hear it.
You can just email that toinfo@believebig.org.
Thank you so much, Jimmy, forjoining us, taking time out of
your very busy day.
And we're so grateful for allthat you've shown and spoken to
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us about today.
Jimmy Page (29:51):
You bet.
My pleasure.
Thanks for having me on.
God bless you.
Ivelisse Page (30:01):
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Thanks again and keep believingbig!
Welcome to today's episode on the Believe
Big podcast.
My name is Ivelisse Page, andit's an honor to spend this time
with you.
Do you feel like you needclarity in your life?
What if one word could mean thedifference between repeated
failure and new found success?
you are listening to the perfectepisode today as my husband
Jimmy is joining us to talkabout one of the books he
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co-authored called One Word ThatWill Change Your Life.
A process and practice that ourfamily has done for the last 23
years.
We have found that the simplepower of one word impacts all
six dimensions of life (01:11):
mental, physical, emotional, relational,
spiritual, and financial.
A few things you may not knowabout my husband Jimmy, besides
being a author of eight booksand being one of the co-founders
of Believe Big.
Jimmy is the founder andpresident of the Unstoppable
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Freedom Alliance, the BeUnstoppable Life and Leadership
System, and the Joseph Project.
He is also a health and wellnessexpert, a Spartan athlete,
podcaster, and a frequentspeaker at conferences.
I have to add that he is thebest dad to our four grown kids,
and there would definitely be agaping hole in my life without
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him.
Welcome Jimmy, to the show.
Jimmy Page (01:57):
Hey, it's great to be here.
That's quite an intro.
I feel like I got something tolive up to now.
Ivelisse Page (02:02):
Aw Before we dive into the book, we always like to
learn from our guests what theirfavorite health tip is, and I
know you have many, so can youjust share one with us?
Jimmy Page (02:12):
had predicted that I was gonna share about athletic
greens because I take athleticgreens every single day.
It's my green drink.
And, you were so confident thatI almost had to give something
different.
So my health tip for the week isthis: do it even when you don't
feel like it.
Do it when you don't feel likeit.
Most every aspect of yourpersonal health, most every
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aspect of your life is gonna bedetermined by whether or not you
can overcome the excuses thatare rattling around in your
brain.
Whether or not you can overcomethe way you're feeling and
continue to do the things thatyou know to do to produce great
health, regardless of how youfeel.
Cause I gotta tell you, and youknow this, there's plenty of
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days where you don't feel likeexercising, plenty of days,
there's plenty of days where youdon't feel like eating the right
foods or you feel likecompromising in some way.
And the real truth is thateveryone feels that way, and the
best way to overcome it is to doit when you don't feel like it.
Ivelisse Page (03:15):
Yeah.
I love that you also always tellour kids always show up.
So that's another way of showingup, whether it's exercise or
with your friends or in everyway that you can.
So I really love that tip thankyou.
One Word has been such animpactful tool for our family
and so many others.
Can you share with thoselistening how One Word came to
be?
Jimmy Page (03:36):
Gosh, it's been 23 years of doing this, both
personally as a family, you gotintroduced to it right away
because I thought it was a greatidea.
but I remember Dan Britton and Iand two other guys were meeting
together every Friday morningfor accountability.
This is years and years ago.
We had a desire to live our bestlife.
God has created us.
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He's given us purpose and somethings that we're passionate
about.
He put us in marriages and infamilies where we really wanted
to be our best and we wanted tobe our best with respect to our
careers too, with the thingsthat we would do.
So we had, every year we haddone these New Year's
resolutions, and we had thesehuge long lists of things that
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we were gonna get done, thingsthat we were gonna do that year.
And we weren't having a lot ofsuccess, to be honest.
I remember early on, losingtrack of the things that we had
committed to, even though wewere intentional about it.
And we discovered that we had alot of failure, a lot of false
starts.
And a friend of ours, SteveFitzhugh, former NFL player,
told Dan, he said, hey, have youever considered just filtering
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your year through one singleword, narrowing the focus to a
one word theme, and Dan jumpedon it.
He shared it with me, and thenit spread like wildfire to just
scrap the to do list and tocreate a one word theme for the
year that would help us becomethe people that we are made to
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be.
Instead of always being, alwaysdoing things.
Instead, we wanted to becomebetter in many different areas,
and the one word became thatfocal point that gave us the
ability to get real life change.
Ivelisse Page (05:15):
Yeah, it's amazing how you're right, it has
spread like wildfire.
I see so many posts about it.
I see it on Christmas cards.
I know we put that in ours, howGod used our one words every
year.
see it on Etsy for people makingone word bracelets and key
chains, you name it.
So it's been exciting to see itspread because that concept, it
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really is so powerful andsimple.
For those who, maybe been hidingunder a rock and may not have
heard of One Word yet, can youexplain to them the process?
I know that you go into greatdetail into the book, but maybe
you can give them a sneak peekas to how they could discover
their one word as we head intothe new year.
Jimmy Page (05:55):
When Dan Britton, Jon Gordon and I wrote the book,
we came together and we wantedto make sure that we kept a
simple, powerful concept, simpleand powerful.
We have the tendency to drivetowards this complexity, to add
too much stuff.
So we really stuck to a verysimple process.
It is the simplest process, inmy opinion, that you can follow
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to discover your word, and it'sthis, three easy steps: look in,
look up and look out.
So those three steps, whencombined and done in an
introspective way, can help youdiscover your word and then live
it out.
So the first step is to lookwithin, right?
And this look in step is reallyimportant that you unplug from
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the noise and the busyness oflife.
Because those are alldistractions that prevent you
really from hearing that innervoice.
As a man of God, as someone whobelieves in God, I believe it's
the voice of God within me, youknow, that God speaks in us.
When you quiet the noise, whenyou get away from the
distractions and you askquestions like, what do I need
most?
What's in the way?
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What are the things that arepreventing me from becoming the
person I'm made to be?
And then you ask the question,if I were to focus on one single
word for the year, that wouldhave the greatest positive
effect on who I am as a person,what would that word be?
And you just journal somethoughts, what's in the way,
what's gotta go?
and then that's the first stepof introspectively saying, if I
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were to make the mostimprovement this year possible,
I need to look in and discoverwhat I need most.
Ivelisse Page (07:27):
That's great, and then what do you do from there?
Jimmy Page (07:29):
The second step for me is fun because it's looking
up.
As a believer, as someone whobelieves that we've been created
for purpose, with purpose, it'simportant that we ask the one
that has made us to reveal to uswhat needs to change.
And so we go into this lookingup phase, which for us is
prayer.
It might be some contemplativetime.
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It might be asking God, if therewas one single word this year
that could have the greatestpositive effect, not only on me,
but on others.
You don't want this to become aselfish pursuit.
You really want this to becomesomething where you are becoming
the person you're made to be, tothe benefit of others, the
blessing of others, and toreally make a difference in the
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world around you, especially forthose that you love the most.
So this is that time when yousay, where's my purpose?
Where's my passion?
What do I need to become theperson that I'm made to be?
And we look up and we ask God toreveal that to us.
I think this is an importantstep to contemplate your purpose
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and your passion and to say, ifyou were gonna make the greatest
positive impact on others, whatword would capture that this
year?
I think that it's not exclusive,but I do believe it's more
powerful, of course, when youreally do believe that God has a
plan for your life and you aretrying to discover that.
Ivelisse Page (08:49):
Yeah, I completely agree.
And it's, this part of theprocess is always so exciting
for me because sometimes I haveall these words when I'm looking
in and I write them down and Ithink it's one word, and then
all of a sudden as I look up,God really shows that it's
actually this word, or heactually confirms it.
And, one of the coolest storiesI think two years ago, my word
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was Shalom and I was in Novemberand I was had a few words
written down and I decided, Isaid, okay, I think God's
telling me that this is theword, and I never will forget
that I went walking with afriend locally in the
neighborhood and all of a suddenwe're walking and my eyes could
not believe in the lawn of oneof my friend's neighbor's yard,
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they had cut out with theirlawnmower and left the word
shalom on the grass.
I could not believe it.
It wasn't peace, like a commonword, but it was shalom.
And I'm like, okay, God, you'retruly making sure that this is
the word I pick so that it's offun sometimes when God speaks to
you in that way too.
Jimmy Page (09:52):
And he always does that with you.
And I'm always jealous.
I'm always jealous about this.
And you know so not everyone isgonna have the shalom moment in
the lawn, but it is animpressive, amazing story,
actually.
I think part of this too, justto take the pressure off people
is you do not have to get theperfect.
Sometimes we think, oh man, if Idon't get the perfect word, then
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the year's gonna be a failure.
I can tell you there have beenyears when I've made my best
determination for the word forthat year, and I wasn't
necessarily certain, but I hadgeneral idea.
And what always amazes me is nomatter what that word is, if
you're picking between two orthree different ones, just be
decisive.
Pick one.
God is going to use that word inyour life.
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So don't get stuck looking forthe perfect word, right?
Perfection is often the enemy ofprogress.
So I just wanna encourage ourlisteners, hey, if you get to
the place where you just don'tknow and you can't choose, flip
a coin, pick a word, I guaranteeyou it's still gonna have a
positive effect.
Ivelisse Page (10:56):
That's great advice.
Yes.
Don't put pressure, extremepressure on yourselves, and so
look out what does that mean?
Jimmy Page (11:01):
Looking out is the fun part because it's where you
start to live out your word.
We talk about keeping it frontand center.
Telling other people that you'veselected a word for the year
where you're expecting to seepositive life change.
And by the way, one of thethings I love about one word is
it does create this positiveexpectation for life change.
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If you're discouraged or ifyou're feeling worn out, or if
you're tired and you want alittle bit of a jolt of positive
expectation for the new year,this is a great way to do it
because no matter what word youchoose, there's a reason that
you've chosen that word.
There's a why behind the word,and it always sets itself on a
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positive expectation for theword.
Whether your word is trust orpeace or brave or lead or like
yours have been, believe andharvest it automatically orients
your mind towards a positiveoutcome, toward positive life
change.
So that's what looking out isall about.
It's about living out your wordand putting it front and center,
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telling people in your life whatyour word is and why you chose
it.
And then keeping it front andcenter.
And we created a one wordjournal to help keep people on
track, that just came outbecause we had so much feedback
that people wanted a place tocapture their progress.
So we just created that as aresource as well.
Ivelisse Page (12:27):
Yeah, I'm really excited about starting to use
that this coming year.
We'll make sure to put a link inthe show notes so that if people
are interested in the book oreven the journal itself and even
the kids' book.
Can you share about the kids'book that they're welcome to
click on and purchase it.
Jimmy Page (12:42):
Okay, so I have a copy, right?
So if this is on video, you'llsee it.
If it's not, you won't, so youhave to go see the video.
But it actually is one of myfavorite books that we've had
the opportunity to write becauseit's fully illustrated, it's
made for kids eight andunder-ish.
So if you've got a kid that'seight or nine and under, or if
you've got grandkids that youwanna bless, this is a way our
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subtitle on One Word for Kids isa great way to have your best
year ever.
So again, kids are tired too.
If you look at some of thestatistics and if you look at
your own kids, they're worn out.
We've come through a little bitof a tough stretch and this
gives them an opportunity tocreate a positive expectation
for their year and they'relooking for it, believe me.
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When I launched this with schooldistricts, for example, some of
the ones in Texas are the mostfun cuz man, they're all in.
They will let their kids takethe ceiling tiles out of the
roof, paint their word on thereand put'em back in their hallway
so that every day these kids arereminded of their words.
It's a beautiful way to engagekids with a positive expectation
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for how that year's gonna go.
Ivelisse Page (13:48):
I love that.
It's so powerful.
Can you imagine walking downthose halls and you're having a
hard day and you look up andthere's your word.
So I think that's reallypowerful that they do that.
What are some other ways thatfamilies have incorporated the
"Look Out" portion?
Like I know Christmas Eve, wegather and get canvases and we
paint our words and you don'thave to be an artist in order to
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do it, but we just have fundoing that.
It's become a tradition in ourhouse.
But what are some other waysthat you've heard from people
who've reached out to you on howthey keep their word in front of
them?
Jimmy Page (14:21):
Yeah, I think you can be as creative as you wanna
be with this, right?
I mean, me, I'll put my word ona t-shirt, I'll put it on a
wrist band.
Those are fun and they're reallyinexpensive to get.
But whatever it is, we'll putthose canvases that we paint,
and you said it we'll paintthose and put'em up on the wall
in our kitchen.
Because it becomes a naturalconversation point.
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It's something that's in yournatural routine of life.
So we like to make sure thatthose words are visible.
A lot of families especiallywhen they're incorporating it
with their kids, will haveconversations over the dinner
table.
So once a week or once a month,they might have an opportunity
to say to one of their kids,hey, are you seeing your word
have a positive effect in yourlife?
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What's it doing?
What are you learning?
How are you growing?
And just keeping it in yourregular conversation is a really
big way to keep it front andcenter.
Ivelisse Page (15:12):
And you know something, even as simple as you
can take a picture of yourcanvas and keep it on your
phone.
We all have our phones with us,and so having it as a
screenshot, as your saved homescreen is a great way to have it
in front of you as well.
And we've had some individualswho have even done a tattoo of
their word that really spoke tothem.
I don't recommend that, but.
Jimmy Page (15:34):
We have an opportunity at 23 years, we've
got 23 words.
I could literally get a sleevetattoo at this point with all
the words.
That might be an option.
Ivelisse Page (15:44):
Yeah.
I prefer to put'em on yourcycling jerseys.
Jimmy Page (15:47):
Oh yeah, that's right.
Ivelisse Page (15:48):
So you get asked this a lot and I always chuckle
because people feel like, okay,I didn't quite finish all that I
wanted to do with my word.
And they'll say to you, can Irepeat a word?
And what do you say?
Jimmy Page (16:01):
If you do, you're a rule breaker.
And I'm not opposed to rulebreakers to be honest, cuz I am
a bit of a rule breaker myself.
But the idea with the one wordis it's supposed to form a
chapter.
It's a chapter of your life, inthe broader story.
So let's say you live 80 yearsand you've got 80 chapters in
that life.
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Each one word should form achapter in your life.
So you shouldn't feel pressureto perfect the word.
My mom's first word, I believewas patience.
And I warned her not to do itbecause when you pick a word
like patience, it doesn't meanyou're gonna be made more
patient.
It means you're gonna be givenopportunities to become more
patient.
But she decided she was gonna doit anyway, and she had a great
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year.
But the idea is that word wouldform a chapter in your story,
That you would have memories andmilestones along the way that
you would remember about thatword, and that word would become
part of your dna, part of whoyou are, regardless of whether
you think you mastered the wordor not, which is not the goal.
The real goal is to make surethat you are experiencing
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positive life change, that youremember things for that year,
and that it forms that chapter.
Ivelisse Page (17:10):
Can you share one or two of your words that have
had impact in your life over theyears?
Jimmy Page (17:16):
I'll tell you a personal story and then I'll
tell you one maybe of one of oursons, which I know you're really
thankful for.
I'll tell you my story first.
My word in 2019 was unstoppable.
And it's a powerful word, but italso is a challenging word,
because now you have to confrontyour excuses.
You're gonna be confronted withyour own negativity.
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You're gonna be confronted fromthe mental side.
You talked a little bit abouthaving six dimensions of life
change.
The six dimensions are mental,emotional, relational, physical,
spiritual, and even financial.
What I discovered was I wasconfronted with a lot of things
in my life that were stopping mefrom becoming everything I was
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made to be.
And so the first stopping pointon that is, is the mental side
of the game, right?
And I had to confront limitingbeliefs.
I had to confront excuses thatwere preventing me from making
the progress I wanted to.
I remember just having to weedout all this maybe negativity
and excuses and then feed itwith this unstoppable mindset
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that nothing is impossible,especially for those who
believe.
That year really was a profoundyear of change for me.
And then a second story and Ireally wanna maybe end on the
story of your one right afteryou received your cancer
diagnosis might be a great tiein, want to say a little
something about that.
But another word was was Jimmy,our son Jimmy, when he went off
to college at LibertyUniversity.
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He had a great high schoolcareer in lacrosse, and he was
contemplating whether or not heshould go out for the lacrosse
team at Liberty.
And we had these conversationswith him and I said, hey, what's
your word for the year?
And he said, oh, my word isboom.
And I said, what do you mean byboom.
And he said, it's like abreakthrough.
It's like a breakout year.
I'm not going to shrink backbecause I'm afraid of things,
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but instead I'm gonna, I'm gonnago for it.
And we all smiled on the calllike, you might just have your
answer whether or not you shouldtry out for that team.
And of course we all kindalaughed about it.
And then he tried out, had greattryouts with the Liberty
University lacrosse team, endsup making the team.
And has two really great yearswith that team, that really in
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some ways changed his collegeexperience, at least for the
front end of it for sure.
So it's a demonstration of thepower of how one word can be
used in your decision makingthroughout the year as well.
Ivelisse Page (19:37):
I remember those moments, how amazing that time
period was of his boldness tojust go for it, walk on for the
tryouts and the team pretty muchhad already been set.
So for him to make the team wassuch a huge accomplishment.
And God really had his hand onthat whole situation.
I also love that you know, youshare that the one words are
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like chapters in our life.
Because if I look at the 23years, I write down my one word
every year, it becomes what Godhas done in and through us
throughout all these years.
And it's just amazing because aswe age, our memory may not be
what it used to be, but weremember what God did through
those words.
So it's super powerful.
So that leads me into what youguys wrote.
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And I know we aren't reallyfocused on this book, but can
you share a little bit aboutLife Word?
Jimmy Page (20:29):
Sure.
Life Word is the title of thestory, so if you think of your
one word chapters.
And then you think of the lifeword, it's the title of the
story.
And we always talk aboutbeginning with the end in mind,
right?
Trying to design your life, notdrift into your life, but
instead design it intentionally.
And it's like anything else whenyou have a very clear vision for
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something for the way you wantit to be, for the way it should
be, and you're compelled tocreate that, then you take
action consistent with what youwant your life to be.
So Life Word gives the reader anopportunity to look at what
they're passionate about, lookat their power source, what are
they gifted at?
What are their strengths?
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Then talk about what theirpurpose is, their calling and
their cause.
And so when you combine thosethree things, they're kind of of
overlapping circles.
You combine those three thingsand it helps you discover your
life word, which really givesyou purpose and almost a
plumbline to keep you fromdeviating too far from the
things you're most passionateabout and designed to do.
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Life Word is a great companion.
Begin with the end in mind.
put a word over your life thatyou believe will give you
direction and purpose, and thenthose chapters start to fill in
all of the details of the story.
So that's a little bit aboutLife Word.
It's a great book.
Ivelisse Page (21:49):
Yeah.
And what's your life word andwhy did you pick it?
Jimmy Page (21:52):
People are afraid of picking a life word because they
think that, what if I get thewrong word?
Am I stuck with it for the restof my life?
So we caution people and we say,hey listen, go through the
process.
Select that life word, and thentry it on for a few years.
Try it on for a year, try it onfor 2, 3, 4 years, and then
reevaluate about every fiveyears, to make sure that life
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word still represents thatbigger picture purpose for your
life.
And so when I went through theprocess, originally, my word
became inspire.
I had a desire.
I think much of my early lifewas lived as an underdog of
sorts and I had to work hard.
I was undersized.
I grew late.
It's the worst nightmare for aboy, to be small and to have to
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wait to grow.
I can still remember asking mymom, am I ever going to grow?
I remember actually crying aboutit.
So if you wanna know how deepthat runs.
And my mom would say, worryabout things that you can
control.
Out of that, I had to work superhard and then I discovered that
I wanted to inspire other peoplethat may have long odds, that
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may be an underdog, that may notbe the one that people think is
going to achieve great success.
I wanted to inspire them tomaximize their life.
It's like the parable of theseeds, it's the parable of the
talent.
Where some are given five, someare given two, some are given
one.
The question isn't how much haveyou been given?
The question is, what will youdo with what you've been given?
(23:18):
So for me, my life word isinspire.
I wanna inspire people, oneperson at a time to fulfill
their absolute best God-givenpotential and purpose.
So that's my life word.
Ivelisse Page (23:30):
I remember going through that process too, and my
life word is actually life, andI went through that process and
it was just amazing to mebecause, It really is what I do
every day at Believe Big.
I feel like I need to speak lifeto those who are feeling
hopeless, I feel like you knowthe life he's given me a second
(23:51):
chance at life.
And what am I gonna do tomaximize it for our family, for
those in our community, ourneighbors, for my friends.
And interestingly enough, yearslater after I picked it, I
realized that my name Ivelissealso means life.
So it's pretty cool that you gothrough that process and you do
find that word.
(24:12):
And for me the word has stuck.
You did hint also into the factthat you wanted to share the
story of my one word, the yearthat I had gotten cancer.
And so you can tee it up and Ican insert a few things if if
you'd like.
Jimmy Page (24:25):
if I miss something, right?
That's what you meant?
Ivelisse Page (24:27):
No.
No
Jimmy Page (24:29):
I'm kidding.
For me, the reason I wanted tobring this up was because back
in 2008 you were obviouslydiagnosed with cancer, and
anyone on this call probablyknows a bit about your story.
And they obviously know it'sbeen many years now that you've
been cancer free.
It really is truly a miracle.
But that first year, 2009, yourword became believe.
Because we had a lot of badnews, and I remember every time
(24:51):
we went to the hospital, itseemed like the bad news from
the last time we came in seemedbetter than the bad news we're
getting today.
It was just one of those days,but I remember you picking that
word, believe because thescripture says nothing is
impossible for those whobelieve.
And this idea of believing thatGod was capable of bringing you
back to good health, God wascapable of healing you.
(25:14):
And we were gonna trust that andwe were actually gonna trust the
outcome regardless of how itwent.
Because we know thatunfortunately, the journey
doesn't always end the way youwant it to.
We all have an appointed time todie, so we knew that was a very
real possibility, but at thesame time, we did not wanna
dampen the reality that Godcould do anything.
But the reason that this mattersmost for me is because of the
(25:35):
next piece of one word, why oneword is so powerful is because
out of that experience, out ofthat healing, out of believing,
and really deepening our faithcame Believe Big.
It wasn't that you wanted yourhealing for you alone, but once
you received that healing, youwanted to bless other people and
(25:57):
help them find their pathway tohealing.
And that was the birth of theidea of Believe Big was that,
let's take the adversity let'sturn that adversity into an
advantage.
Let's take the focus of believeand turn it into believing big
for others.
And that's the beauty of the oneword process.
It's not a selfish endeavorabout me just being my best.
(26:20):
It's me being my best for othersto be a blessing.
And also for us people of faithis to build a kingdom of God.
It's to bring other people intoa relationship with God.
It's to bring other people alongto benefit and be blessed by
what we've experienced.
Ivelisse Page (26:38):
Yeah, you said it perfectly.
And I still remember at thattime we weren't doing canvases,
but we did like a scrapbook pageof things that with our word in
the middle that I would cut outand paste on there.
And I remember that God gave methe verse in the Psalms that
said, I shall not die, but liveand declare the works of the
Lord.
And I wrote that on my believeboard because, like the verse in
(27:04):
Matthew, the father says, Lord,I believe, help me with my
unbelief.
And like you said, with the oddsso stacked against us with bad
news after bad news and a lessthan 8% chance of survival, you
had to really believe big thatGod could step in and do the
impossible.
But like you said, we also hadto trust him to know that my
story could have endeddifferently.
(27:26):
And thankfully as believers weknow, that wasn't the end.
So we knew we would win eitherway.
But the power of one word,you're so right.
It's not a selfish thing.
It's something that also gets usthrough difficult times that God
emboldened us, encourages us tolook beyond what we think is
possible.
So I love that.
(27:46):
And interestingly enough, I alsolove that he used your
unstoppable word to start yourbe-unstoppable-life that you
stepped out of your comfort zoneand started an organization to
help other people as well, tolive a life of purpose and
passion and clarity.
And it, it really is powerfulwhat can happen through a word
(28:06):
in one simple year.
Jimmy, our time is already atthe 30 minute mark, and so I
just wanted to let you end itwith anything that I may not
have asked you that you feel ourlisteners would be encouraged to
hear.
Jimmy Page (28:20):
I would just fully engage in this process.
If this is your first time atit, grab the book.
Look at the process.
The book is meant to be writtenin.
Dig in, write down yourthoughts.
Write down the things that aregetting in your way and fully
engage.
Don't just pick a word out ofthe air.
You can do that.
But I would encourage you tofollow the process.
(28:42):
And if you're a veteran, if yousaid, oh, I've been doing this
for 10 years.
In fact, I had the idea beforeJimmy.
I would encourage you as I did afew years ago, I felt like I was
intuitively picking my word forthe year, and I finally said,
wait a minute.
I need to go back and go throughthe process for real again.
And when I did, it became a muchricher process and I felt more
(29:03):
convinced the word that Iselected was the right word for
that year, and I believe in theend I probably got more out of
those words just because I wentthrough the process.
So whether you're a rookie atthis or whether you're a 20 year
veteran, go through the processfully.
It doesn't take much time, butyou'll be happy that you did
because the word that will berevealed, I believe will be a
(29:25):
transformational word this
Ivelisse Page (29:27):
year.
I love it.
Thank you, Jimmy.
And for those who are listeningand you select your word coming
up for 2023, send us an emailand let us know what your word
is.
We'd love to hear it.
You can just email that toinfo@believebig.org.
Thank you so much, Jimmy, forjoining us, taking time out of
your very busy day.
And we're so grateful for allthat you've shown and spoken to
(29:50):
us about today.
Jimmy Page (29:51):
You bet.
My pleasure.
Thanks for having me on.
God bless you.
Ivelisse Page (30:01):
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