300: Tim Storey: Thinking Big In Small Places

Tim Storey is an acclaimed author, speaker, and life coach helping people create the future they desire. He has inspired people from all walks of life, from entertainment legends to professional athletes, from executives to deprived children throughout the world – using seasoned foundational principles and humor to get honest with people so they can overcome the obstacles that are holding them back.

Tim has traveled to seventy-five countries and spoken to millions of people. He often meets privately to counsel high-profile leaders in various industries.

Tim has partnered with phenomenal organizations to spread love and hope. Spending time with the Fred Jordan Mission in Los Angeles’ Skid Row, Music Unites Day in Los Angeles’ Compton schools, and Kid‘s Haven orphanage in Johannesburg, South Africa.

He leads Congregation Church in Placentia, CA, which meets weekly and provides spiritual insight and direction for people of diverse ages, backgrounds, and needs. He is featured on nationally syndicated Keep the Faith Radio each weekend, providing short inspirational moments and is featured on Steve Harvey TV Facebook LIVE weekly.

He was a featured guest on Oprah’s SuperSoul Sunday, Steve Harvey TV, Grant Cardone’s 10X Growth Con, and many more. Tim has authored multiple books, with the most recent, Comeback & Beyond, being a top seller on Amazon. 

In today’s conversation with us, Tim shares what motivates and inspires him and how the little steps along his journey opened the doors of opportunity to the big impact he is making today.

We explore the Law of The Harvest, timeless principles of life and leadership, the difference between divine dissatisfaction and ego-driven dissatisfaction, and the importance of staying in your flow.

Quoting Ed Cole, Tim points out that, “It’s not how fast you move your feet it’s how big your strides are.”

Tim shares how to find your stride and meaningful purpose and make a difference right where you are, while you create the life and impact you desire.

Key Takeaways

1. Focus on the now and where you’re headed, and only spend a little time on the past.
2. Recovery is being healed from the wounds of the past. But if you’re not careful you will stay in the recovery zone and will miss your discovery zone.
3. Discovery is today. There’s a lot that’s gone on for you to have a good day today.
4. No matter who you are, something new, fresh, and never been done before can happen in your life.
5. The beauty of life is that you never know what can happen just around the corner.
6. The Law of the Harvest: you have to plow the ground, plant the seed, and water the seed, to reap the harvest. A lot of people plow, plow, plow and are so plow-minded that they forget that you need to plant the seed and water the seed, to see the harvest.
7. When you learn to sow from just a good place, good things happen.
8. A lot of people are dissatisfied because their goals are not realistic.
9. “He who works his land, shall have abundance...” (Proverbs 12:11a) Your land is what’s in front of you. Whether that’s seventh grade or working at Taco Bell. Work your land.
10. “...but he who chases fantasies, lacks wisdom.” (Proverbs 12:11b) A lot of people are chasing fantasies, so they’re getting dissatisfied in their jobs too quick, the schooling they just started, in their exercise program, and who they’re dating or married. That type of dissatisfaction is more cultural, as in, “give me a new toy.”
11. Divine dissatisfaction is God changing your appetite. All of a sudden, you don’t have an appetite for the same things anymore, because He’s moving you into something else.
12. God can give you a plan but you have to be willing, and many times people are not willing.
13. Be willing do the things that most people don’t want to do.
14. When you’re obedient in the small things, then life trusts you in the bigger things.
15. It’s just as important to be an amazing mother as it is to be Oprah Winfrey.
16. Don’t take yourself that seriously.
17. Study comedians. Comedians are some of the best speakers because of their timing.
18. Stay in your flow.
19. “It’s not how fast you move your feet it’s how big your strides are.” ~ Ed Cole
20. We’ve had problems all over the world from the beginning of mankind. Any time you have humans, you’re going to have human problems.
21. When people change their mindset and they change their motives, it shifts a culture. If everybody in your city for one week had good motives, it would change the culture and the climate of that one city. “When the righteous are raised up, the city is exalted.” (Proverbs 11:11)
22. We are temperature changers. Do it in your home, your school, your job, and your city, and it may multiply to the world. “Jesus went around doing good, healing those who were oppressed.” (Acts 10:38)

Resources

• Book: Comeback & Beyond: How To Turn Your Setbacks Into Comebacks
• Book: Utmost Living: Creating and Savoring Your Best Life Now
• iTunes App: Utmost
• Congregation Messages: https://www.congregationchurch.com/messages

Connect With Tim Storey

• Website: com
• Congregation Church https://www.congregationchurch.com
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TimStoreyOfficial
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/timstoreyofficial