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TOPUCU Adult Faith-Based Workbook Lesson 5: Part 1

LESSON 5: PART 1
LESSON 4: QUIZ FINISH BEFORE YOU START

1. What are the seven E’s? NOTES: You must finish before you start. We can This principle is very important to mastering
already hear you saying, “What’s this one whatever change you’re working on, so in
Select one: all about? What in the world does it mean this part of the lesson we’re going to give

a. Eat, Entertain, Example, Exclude, to say ‘You must finish before you start?’” you an in-depth understanding of the value
Exactly, Examine, Experience Well, we’re into the fifth lesson plan, so we’re of visualization. Then in part two we’re
going to ask you to think this one through for going to discuss a technique you can use to
b. Exercise, Examine, Envelope, a second. Have you figured it out yet? apply the power of visualization to your own
Execute, Enjoy, Excuse, Enjoy circumstance. Champions use this principle
This lesson is all about visualization – seeing all the time. If you don’t use it – The Only
c. Enjoy, Experience, Excuse, Eat, it and achieving it. Before you even start the
Exercise, Entertain, Entrance race you must visualize yourself crossing Person U Cheat is U. TOPUCU.
the finish line. Think of a champion sprinter Let’s get down to it!
d. Experience, Exclude, Expectation,
Excuse, Explain, Enjoy, Entertain running a 100-meter dash. They always see In Genesis we read the story of Joseph the
themselves crossing the finish line before
e. Entrance, Entertain, Examine, Enjoy, they even get down in the blocks. In golf, Dreamer, a man we’ve touched on briefly
Experience, Excuse, Envelope those who excel to the top visualize the flight throughout the first few lessons of this
of the ball before they hit it. An architect Starter Program. As the story goes, Joseph
sees the finished product in their minds was the favorite son of his father, which
caused great jealousy in his older brothers.
2. "Losers have ; and proceeds to write down what it will His God-given ability to see dreams of
winners have reasons." look like. Sometimes they’ll make a model prophetic visions only increased their
to show the prospective buyer an example.
Then they work backwards as they create indignation toward him.
the blueprint of the outside of the structure. “Joseph had a dream, and when he told it
3. When referring to your thoughts, you are
who you think you are and you'll become The next picture shows the interior – the to his brothers, they hated him all the more.
rooms, the dimensions – then they continue He said to them, ‘Listen to this dream I had:
who you think you'll working backwards until they end up with We were binding sheaves of grain out in the
the plumbing and electrical. Everything is field when suddenly my sheaf rose and
visualized before anything is built. stood upright, while your sheaves gathered
4. Which 'E' happens when you are In an earlier lesson we touched on this around mine and bowed down to it.’”
completely covered, surrounded or verse in the book of Habakkuk in which the Genesis 37:6-8 (NIV)
wrapped in the excuse? prophet was questioning God about how to He would later tell them yet another dream

be faithful when the future looks bleak. “And in which the sun, moon and 11 stars were
the Lord answered me: “Write the vision; bowing down before him. Theses dreams
make it plain on tablets, so he may run who of course, were symbolic of Joseph’s future
reads it.” Hab 2:2 (NIV) This is one of the appointment as one of Egypt’s top officials
5. You can stop a thought from
entering your brain. reasons it was imperative to write down and his brothers’ future status as subjects
your transformation goal. Seeing it with your who would have to come to him and beg
True or False (circle one) eyes will help you to visualize the positive for help. But the fruition of these visions
transformation you want to achieve.

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