Whether you call it soccer or football, today we're going to talk about how to run faster, how to get faster, and how to increase your speed so you can be more effective on the field. Couple things before we start this video. Number one, it's really windy out here. I do have my microphone on and I hope it's going to do the job, but if you're having trouble hearing what I'm saying because of the wind, just click that closed caption or subtitle video on this, subtitle link on this video and it will give you the text for the words that I'm saying so you can follow along. Number two, I'm really sick. I can't even talk. I sound a bit ridiculous, but I was actually trying to do this video by myself yesterday and I couldn't breathe and talk at the same time, okay? But I was training one of the players that I trained today, Marco, so he's going to help me with the demonstration and I'm going to talk while he demonstrates what I want you guys to focus on.  Anyone who's ever told you that is either misinformed themselves or they're just holding you back because they don't want to see you get faster than them. So believe me, if you follow this advice, you can improve and you will become faster. So to get faster, I've broken it down into four areas. Number one we're going to talk about is your mentality, like always. Number two is your technique, your running or sprinting technique. Number three is the muscle memory, triggering or training your muscles to trigger faster with more power. And number four is developing strength and power. We'll go into more detail about all those things, but those are the four things that are going to help you become a faster player. So the first thing we're going to talk about is mentality and what I mean by that is if you want to become faster, you actually have to learn to push yourself faster with your mind. So before we get into techniques, before we get into all these drills that are going to increase your speed, you will become faster instantly by learning to push yourself with your mind. What do I mean by that?  I know it sounds a little bit weird, but I want you to play with it because most of us don't understand actually how fast we can go. So if you can learn to, every time you do a sprint, whether you're practicing by yourself, when you're in the game, in the heat of the moment, try to push yourself faster, push your limbs faster, push your arms faster, push your legs faster, drive forward with more intensity by pushing yourself mentally. Okay? And before we get into all those other things, I just wanted to touch on that before we go. Because if you can make that change right away, just try trying to push yourself faster. You will become faster. Now we're going to talk about sprinting techniques. So if you can make these three changes to your sprinting technique that I'm going to talk about today, you will feel a lot faster, but it's not going to come right away. The first time you do it, it's going to feel awkward. But if you keep doing it, keep building on it, keep thinking about how this may be more effective for me and keep adding it every time you sprint, then you're going to see the results. It's all about consistency. It's all about working with these ideas. Okay? So Marco's going to demonstrate a couple of sprints for us. The first thing I want you to think about when you're sprinting is staying lower to the ground. Most of us are sprinting and just hold on for it, Marco. Most of us are sprinting and we're up here. It's tough to generate power, especially when you're starting. If you want to accelerate quicker, get lower to the ground.  If I'm sprinting like this, it's tough to get speed. If I'm sprinting like this, my forward momentum will make me go faster. So demonstrate one for us, Marco. Go ahead. Get lower to the ground. Push, push, push, push, push, push. So that didn't come back. You can see his body, his upper body is forward, and I want you to do one more like that. I want you to try to stay even lower to the ground, okay? Lower to the ground. Start lower, lower, lower, lower. Good. So everything is going forward. Everything pumping hard, going forward, forward momentum, keeping lower to the ground. He can generate more power. Next time you're at the field, just feel your leg when you're down here. It's strong. There's more power. If I'm up here, I can't generate as much power. So stay lower to the ground, especially when you're starting. Okay. Second thing I want you to think about is actually generating more power with your strides, especially those first couple strides. So when you're planting your foot, don't just pick your foot up and keep running.  Actually think about putting your cleats in the ground and pushing yourself forward. Okay? Make those first, especially four strides, really powerful. Okay? So Marco is really good at that. He's going to demonstrate one more time. First thing again, he's staying low. Now he's pushing, pushing, pushing, pushing, good. And you can see the power in each stride, really pumping, pushing himself forward.  You will generate more power and you will run quicker. The last thing I want to talk about with technique is your arm movement. Okay? So a lot of us, we run like weird, especially younger kids, they run like weird, something like this, one arm does this, one arm does that. Okay? You want to think about going forward, cheek to cheek.  Okay? It should be something like that. You don't want to do like super big, but something in there nice and comfortable, but what I want to talk about is the power in those strides. The harder you pump your arms, the faster your legs will have to go to keep up and you'll generate more speed because you're producing more forward momentum. If I'm running like this, this is lateral movement. Okay? I'm slowing myself down. But if I can pump everything forward, nice and hard, you're going to generate more speed. Okay? Marco, do one more for us. It's really low. Grab that ground. Pull those arms. Pull those arms. Good. Okay? You can see the power in his arm. Good. So finally, what I want to say is on technique, I'm actually going to add a link in the description of this video and it's a documentary on sprinting technique. Now the documentary is actually in French. So unless you speak French, you're not going to be able to understand anything. But what I want you to look at is there's some slow motion of Olympic sprinters and how they run. Okay? If you can just watch sprinters and learn from them, you're going to have a lot better of idea of how to run properly and how to generate more speed when you're playing soccer. Let's quickly recap what we've gone through. So number one, you've got the right mentality. You're always trying to push yourself harder and faster and you believe that you can become faster. Next, you've focused on improving your technique. So those three things, three main things we talked about, you want to try to do those every time you sprint, you're going to be faster. Third thing we're going to talk about is training your legs or training your body, training your muscles to trigger faster. Most of us get out to the field and we try to sprint and we feel like weak. There's no power in our legs. Well, that's because you haven't trained your legs to trigger that quickly. If you look at Olympic sprinters or football players even running backs, okay, they're always working on these quick feet drills and explosive sprints. So if you want to become faster at sprinting, you actually have to practice sprinting and you have to build the muscle memory in your legs so it remembers every time you get on the field and you try to sprint, you do it quickly. You do it with power. You do it with explosiveness. Okay, so first thing you should be practicing is just sprinting. Okay, so Marco's just going to do one sprint. He's going to come from a stand still at the ground. Yep. Okay. So he's going to start down here. And he, so for example, you would just do about 30 yards, Marco, go ahead. Go ahead. Yeah, quick. Up, up, up, up, up, up, up. Good. Okay. So you could just practice that and I recommend you practice your starts because that's really where your speed starts. It's easy to keep yourself going fast. It's harder to get yourself going fast. So if you can become really good at starts, then you're going to have a lot of speed in the long run for those long distance sprints. Okay. So what I would recommend is you can practice just starts. Do like 10 repetitions a day in a week. You will feel a lot faster, a lot faster. You will feel a lot more comfortable sprinting. Some other stuff you can do, for example, ladders. I'm sure you've worked on ladders before, but just like pushing yourself in the sprints, you need to push yourself in the ladders. Okay. So Marco is going to do zigzag, quick feet, quick feet, quick feet. His arms are going, his feet are quick. Boom. And then after the ladder, I always like to end with a sprint. Okay. Always convert it to a game situation, explosive speed. So what do you do if you don't have a ladder? Well, you can do the exact same drills. And if you need ladder drills, just go to my channel and search ladder agility drills.  If you don't have a ladder, no problem. Marco, why don't you do the exact same exercise without a ladder? Good. Quick feet, quick feet, quick feet. Once it gets out, boom, explode, explode, explode. Good. Okay. Always pushing yourself. All those things we talked about, technique, forward, forward momentum, get your upper body ahead of your lower body, powerful strides, really pushing that ground behind you, pumping the arms nice and hard. Okay. So if you want to become faster, you actually have to practice running faster. You have to actually practice moving your feet faster. If you do that on a consistent basis, you will become a faster player. Finally, if you want to become faster, you have to develop stronger, more powerful legs. Now, I've seen lots of people saying on comments or in some of my group discussions that lifting weights is bad. It's going to make you slow. That is not true. If you're playing soccer every day and you're practicing sprinting, working on these techniques that we talked about before, and you're lifting weights, you're going to become faster. Why? Your legs are going to become stronger and more powerful so they can produce more power. When it's time to push off the ground and accelerate yourself forward, you'll be able to generate more power and you'll be able to run faster. So anyone who's ever told you that is lying to you or they're just too lazy to put in the work themselves and they don't want to see you get faster than them. So if you want to develop strong legs, Marco, come on up for me. So first of all, before you get into weights, you should be comfortable with your body weight. Okay, and especially if you're younger, let's say like 12 years old and you want to start developing strong legs, it's not too early to start. Just start with body weight exercise. So Marco, come here first. So a couple of things you can do. Squats, basic squats.  So shoulder width on your stance. Good, just show me a couple of squats, okay?   So you're working on that boom, explosive motion. Boom, explosive motion. Okay, let's see a couple of lunges you can just step. Go ahead, just step. Good, and step back and go again.  You could do things like a single leg deadlift to develop hamstring strength. So just like that, just place the camera on one leg, slight bend, going down and coming up, okay? And you should be researching these types of exercises, proper technique on the internet before you're getting out there and doing it by yourself so you have a better idea. Okay, once you become comfortable with your body weight, then you can move into weights. So I just kicked Marco's butt yesterday, his legs are a bit sore, but we're going to have them do this. So why don't you just hold this quick? And can you press that, put that up above your neck? Good, push. Okay, so once you become comfortable, you want to start using weights.  Good, show me a couple of squats, butt down, chest up. Good, and ease into it. Good, do about three, go a bit lower each time, okay? So again, going down slow, nice and controlled, coming up strong, okay? Good, why don't you just turn and do, I want you to start right here, just lunge across the screen. Turn and go backwards this way. Yep, lunge that way, okay? So you need to start with a weight that you're comfortable with. I don't want you to have a big ego, get in there and think that you're super mad, okay? Start low, focus on the proper technique, and then you'll develop the strength, okay? So again, I'll do another video on proper technique. Mark, why don't you put the weight down for me? Okay, you can also do power moves, like cleans or clean and jerks, okay? So like Olympic lifts, these are really good for building strong, powerful legs, but again, chest up, butt down, okay? Clean, just like there, I'm catching the weight and back down.  You've seen that sort of thing, okay? But these are all moves that you can do. You can also do things like plyometrics, like squat jumps. Mark will come in here and do a couple of squat jumps for us. Just do three squat jumps for me. Okay, so he's squatting down, really low, jumping up, as soon as he lands, back down, good. Okay, all about good technique, good. Just do a couple of lunge jumps. So when the lunge stands, power, power, okay? Trying to get off the ground, generating power, okay? But if you want to become faster, you have to be willing to put in this hard work that most people don't want to do to make your legs stronger, more powerful, and that's going to help you run fast. Let's recap quickly before you leave. Number one, mentality. Always try to push yourself faster. Believe that you can become faster if you put in the work. Number two, your technique. Think about those three things we really touched on. Staying lower to the ground, getting that forward momentum, your upper body in front of your lower body, pushing the ground with more powerful strides, actually pushing the ground behind you and pushing yourself forward. And finally, number three, pumping your arms. Nice and straight, not across your body, but getting power from your arms rather than just your legs. Third thing we talked about is building the muscle memory in your legs, training yourself to trigger faster. So quicker feet, quicker acceleration, quicker movement. If you want to get faster, if you want to be faster at sprinting, well, you actually have to practice sprinting. I know that seems like a silly thing to say, but most of us want to become faster, but we haven't practiced sprints ever in our life unless we were forced to by our coach. So if you want to become faster, put in that work. Then finally, developing stronger, more powerful legs by doing strength exercises, plyometrics, or lifting weights. And remember, start small and then build your way up. So what do you do now? Well, I want you to start with a very basic thing. I want you to do three times a week. I want you to do three sets of 10 squats. If you think you're ready for weight, then you can start with weight. But I want you to do three sets of 10 squats, and I want you to do 10 sprints, 40-yard sprints. That's all I want you to do. If you do that three times a week, give yourself one day of rest in between, but do that three times a week, three sets of 10 squats, and 10 sets of 30 to 40-yard sprints, really focusing on acceleration, I guarantee in one week you will feel a lot faster. Thank you for checking out this video. Please like, comment, share this video on social media. Please give me a quick thumbs up and comment below if you have any questions. Just let me know, I'd love to clear it up for you. Thank you very much for watching this video on how to get faster, how to run faster, and how to increase your speed for soccer or football. Talk to you real soon.


Statistics and Excel. Statistical inference. Questions of how close and how confident. Got data? Let's get stuck into it with statistics and Excel. Introduction to statistical inference. Statistical inference is the process of using data from a sample to make estimates or test hypotheses about a population. You will recall from prior presentations we talked about two major buckets or categories of statistics. The first bucket being where we know all the information. We have all the data. Our goal is to try to organize that data in such a way that we can draw meaning from it using tools such as mathematical tools like calculating the average or the mean, the median, the quartiles and so on. And using pictorial tools such as the box and whiskers or box plot and the histogram. The second major bucket of statistics, what we're focused in on now is where we don't know all of the data for the entire population. However, we might be able to get like a sample data of the population. And what we want to do there is to try to extract meaning from the sample data that we have. Once we have extracted that meaning, we're hoping that we can infer some of that meaning onto the entire population. So inference, the major thing that comes to most people's mind is an election type of situation where people, the pollers are trying to take polls to determine what the results of the election will be by taking a sample of the population and seeing if they can infer the results they have there to what's going to happen in the entire voting population when the actual election happens. So note, in this type of statistical analysis, the actual sample that we're looking at, the data that we're actually analyzing is not the goal. That's not the important point. Those people are not important in and of themselves. They're important as people, but not for the statistical poll. What we're getting at, what we're trying to get at is the inferring of the entire population. We're looking for meaning for the entire population. So we're going to use similar tools as with the first bucket of statistics where we're just trying to extract meaning if we already know the entire population, meaning for the sample, we're still going to be looking at things like the average, the mean, the median and so on, the spread of the data. But what we're hoping to do once we know that is infer that on the entire population so we have predictive power about the entire population. So the key goal is to provide an approximate description of the larger population based on the observable data from a smaller sample. So the small sample, it's not our goal to just know everything about the small sample. We want to know information about the small sample so that we can infer that to the larger population. So how close the shape, center, and spread of just some of the population is to the shape, center, and spread of the whole population. You will recall from prior presentations oftentimes when we're looking at a data set, what we want to get from that data set is what's going to be the middle point of the data set, what's going to be the shape of the data set, and so on. And so we want to know those characteristics for the sample, but not so that we can understand the sample more, but so we can infer that and say, is this going to be similar for the entire population? It's the entire population that is important, although we're going to be analyzing, of course, the sample in a similar way as we did when we knew the entire population, and we're just trying to get an understanding of the data that we have. And then this question of how confident we are, gets to be quite tricky, and we'll dive into that more in future presentations. We just want to get an idea of what we're doing with the statistical inference here. But if you take the sample, then the questions are, can we infer that sample to the entire population, and how confidently can we do that? Can we do that with a certain level of confidence? The more we can get numerical data about how confident we are, then the better predictive power we have, the better tools we typically have as well. So practical applications of statistical inference. So clearly, the election polling is usually the first thing that comes to people's minds oftentimes. And in that situation, when an election is impending, it is not feasible to ask every single voter who they will vote for. So clearly, when you're trying to predict the results of the election, we can't just ask everyone, because that's basically we would be taking the election at that point in time. So what we can possibly do is have pollsters take a sample, say a thousand voters, and based on their responses, try to estimate the voting pattern of the entire electorate. So of course, they're going to try to get a sample and see if they can get the data on the sample and infer that results to the entire population. So it is the challenge of statistical inference to extrapolate from the small sample to the larger population. That's what our goal is going to be. So for the medical trials is another common example. So anytime we're doing any kind of scientific kind of testing, a hypothesis testing approach, which is kind of like the foundational thing that you're going to do in science, is going to be a statistical kind of kind of test oftentimes, right? So in medicine, for example, in testing a new drug, it is not possible to test the medication on the entire population. So if we're trying to say, is this drug effective? If someone takes this drug, will it do what we think it's going to do?  Now obviously, there's a lot more to the testing than this that we'll get into in future presentations because you have things like a placebo kind of effect. And when you get into the pollster testing, you have things like, can you reach the entire population and so on? And how exactly are we going to pick the sample? So we'll get into all of those kind of nuances in future presentations, which are very important nuances. They're not just minor things, but you get the general gist, the idea of what we're doing here. So based on the reactions of this group, we infer the drug's efficiency and its potential effects on the larger population. All right, let's take a look at a scenario. Imagine that we have height data for a specific group of adult men. And our objective is to gain a comprehensive understanding of the height distribution for all adult men. Now height is a is a good one to test out oftentimes, when you're first kind of looking at the concept of this inference type of analysis, because one, the heights normally will come to somewhat of like a bell shaped distribution. In other words, most people, when you look at the height of men, for example, are going to have, you know, 10 toward a middle point, most people are going to be somewhere on an average height.


Welcome back to Steps to Freedom. We're working on Miracle List number six, eight, and number 14. Again, if you don't have the Miracle List or if you have one that doesn't have a number 14, you're welcome to email me and I'll send you a copy. Email me at StepsToFreedom, ADC at gmail.com. All right, this is week seven. Wow, we're more than halfway finished. Good job for getting here. Thank you for coming tonight. Last week, we talked about overcoming rejection. We watched a little bit of that video and we talked a little bit about self-deliverance. How many of you got a chance to watch some more of the video? Somebody, yes, thank you, Danielle, appreciate that. Look, you will only get out of this course what you put into it, right? That's it. God will always meet you. He'll always meet you, but if you're like, you know, I'll just show up at class and not do the homework, well, you're only gonna get 10% of what the Miracle List is meant to do for you. Because you're just hearing. We talk a little bit, okay, and sometimes there's experience, but you gotta go home and do it and it's in your private time with God. I say this about deliverance. So people come here to the center and they listen to the message and they get some deliverance in the main sanctuary and that's great. But you know, the majority of the work is done all by yourself. Okay, so that's it. So last week was overcoming rejection. This week, we're gonna talk about the proverbs is all about wisdom, knowledge, and understanding. And that's what this week is about. So you're gonna have to do some reading, okay? Proverbs five one says this, a wise man will hear and will increase learning and a man of understanding shall attain unto wise counsels. Hosea 4-6, my people are destroyed for lack of knowledge because you have rejected knowledge, the Lord says, I will also reject you. Look, we can't afford to have God rejecting us. You who need Him on your side. You cannot get delivered of hurts or wounds. You can't get healed. You can't get delivered of spirits. None of that can happen without the Holy Spirit, okay?  You will stay brokenhearted. You'll stay stuck. You have to have God's favor upon you. So look, I'm gonna give you some knowledge tonight and then I hope to inspire you to go and seek that knowledge out, okay? And learn more.  Exodus 15, 26. Psalms 107, 20 says He sent His word, His word and healed them and delivered them from all their destructions. Have you had some destruction in your life? Do you feel like some parts of your life are destroyed or they're being destroyed? God's word is what you need and you need the experience of those who have gone before us and we'll be talking about two of those authors. Okay, Hebrews 13, 8 says Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today and forever. So if He healed back then, He heals now. If He delivered back then, He will deliver now, okay? So hopefully those scriptures have inspired you to now read your Bible. Jesus, the red letters in a Bible that has the red letter addition, that's what Jesus said. Those are the most powerful words in the universe. God spoke creation into existence. He wants to speak into your life. So here's your list, okay? John chapter 14, yeah, the whole thing. Read the whole thing, okay? Jesus said, don't let your hearts be troubled. He talks about that in John chapter 14. John chapter 15 is where he's talking and he says, I am the vine and you are the what? Branches. You are the branches, okay? And the father, he is the one who prunes the vine. He takes care of it. John chapter 16, I have spoken to you. The whole chapter, Jesus is speaking and the father is speaking through Jesus. Matthew chapter eight, I am willing. It says, whatever you pray in my name, Jesus said, whatever you pray in my name it shall be done for you. Give it to you, right? Anything like a limousine, no, according to God's will. So what does God want for us? Well, this is a great chapter. Matthew chapter eight, you'll know what is God willing to do for you? He wants you to have good sleep. He wants you to have peace in your mind. He wants you to have good health in your body. He wants you to have deep understanding in your soul and in your mind about his truths and what's going on in your life. Matthew chapter nine, take up your bed. He said that to the paralytic. He forgave him his sins and then he said, yeah, be healed. It was nothing. Jesus healed a guy who was paralyzed for a very long time as if it was nothing. And for him it is nothing. Our healing, God is not waiting to heal you. He's waiting for you to be ready. These scriptures will help you to get ready. Jesus cures mental illness. Psychology does not cure mental illness.  So we got Mark, Mark chapter five, a man with an unclean spirit. That's a story there. Mark chapter seven, the children's bread. It's in there.   And then number four, Matthew chapter 28, make disciples and teach them what I taught you. Make disciples of all nations, right? You need to keep reading and rereading. I wrote seven to eight times. When you read something, you may remember 30% of what you read. So you have to keep going over it and over it and over it. The word of God is living, it's alive. So what you read today, you're gonna get something out different when you read it next week. So, I didn't put it in here, but in Psalms one, it says that if you meditate on the word of God day and night, that you will be like a tree planted by a river of water. And in one translation, it says, whatever your hand touches will prosper. I put this to the test one time, my life. Well, maybe more than once, but the first time I did it, I was a brand new teacher and I hated my job. I had spent a lot of money and a lot of tears and a lot of years in college and I got my degree in teaching. And now I'm a teacher and I hated it. I was unsuccessful. I was teaching junior high school. That's probably why. It was hard. There were so many things that were hard about it and I wanted to quit every day, every summer. I was like, what could I do differently? I do not like this job. And then I came across Psalms one. If I meditate on the word of God day and night, then whatever my hand touches shall prosper. And I was like, I need some prosperity right now. I don't like this job. I do not like it. And my evaluator was like, yeah, you need a different job. Other people didn't like me doing that job. So I really felt like quitting. But I couldn't imagine what else could I do? So I hung in there. I took a whole year and I said, all right, God, I'm gonna test you on your word. And I got up in the morning and I read. And I stayed, the last thing I did before I went to sleep at night, I read. And I read my body morning and night. And do you know that next school year? Now that school year I was reading, was the same, hated it. That next school year, God placed me. And yes, he placed me at a school. And that became my best teaching experience. I flourished there. I had favor with the principal. He was a backslidden Christian.  My students, they were poor. They were heartbroken. And I had got some opportunities to speak into their lives. It was amazing. It was amazing. And I was there five years and that's when I went back to school and got my master's degree in counseling. It was just a wonderful experience, really was. If you met, he's true to his word. I meditated on his word day and night. Did I always remember what I read? No, especially, I went through the Bible in one year. So especially like I got the numbers. I'm like, what am I reading? But I just kept going. Because I'm like, I need to prosper. I need a better life. So do it. Okay, keep reading. Stay on these chapters for a set amount of time and then you'll know when it's time to move to something else, okay? But these will help you. And now we need to move to the next slide. That's gonna happen. There we go, okay. Yes, you can be cured too.  Okay, maybe somebody in here might be.  I found that actually it's more than 50% of the population struggles with some form of mental illness, whether it's depression, anxiety, okay? Those two things alone. Some people hear voices, some people see hallucinations. There's some racing thoughts. You feel really down. You feel great and then you feel super low.  It just means that you're struggling emotionally, okay? But I know you can be cured. I was cured. I know you can be cured. All right, two additional readings and this is gonna be part of the discussion next week. So Pigs in the Parlor, chapter 21. I want you to read that. Pigs in the Parlor, chapter 21. If you have not read this book yet, you have to read it. I wish that I had read it years ago when I first met Mike and hardcore Christianity. It would have made all the difference, I think. It just explains very simply how this whole, what's going on with the spirits, how they work, how they operate, how they trick us. Chapter 21, okay. So remember when, yeah, that's a good chapter 21 and even the chapter before that. So before we started recording for our YouTube streamers, I was talking about binding spirits, okay? This is a great chapter. It's got a list of things and you might call them emotions, doubt, unbelief, insecurity, rebellion, lust, okay? Emotions, desires. These are spirits. We identify spirits by what they do. That's how we call them. We don't, here at the Arizona Deliverance Center, we do not say, you know, Joseph Bell, come out, we don't do that. You might hear, I don't know. I don't ever hear it. You know, we don't, we, there are names of specific spirits that people have identified or maybe the Bible talks about, but we don't do that here. We call out spirits by what they do. Their symptom they cause. Makes it really easy, okay? For people to identify with that. If I'm saying Leviathan come out, the person's like, what's that? Is that it, you know?  So when you're binding spirits, maybe you're not ready to do deliverance. Maybe you're not ready to kick these things out for whatever reason. You don't feel confident. You want help, but they're messing with your thinking. They're messing with your sleep. They're causing anxiety. They're causing arguments with the people you love. Bind the spirits. And just say I bind you in Jesus' name. I bind the spirit of strife. I bind the spirit of anger. I bind the spirit of confusion, okay? So that's the theme for my week, Binding the Spirits. All right, number two reading is Plano Spirits, pages 13 through 24. This is gonna talk about more about bitterness, about how bitterness and mental illness go hand in hand. Okay, how rebellion can lead to mental illness. So, and you need to gain knowledge, get wisdom, get knowledge, get understanding. So use the word of God, but then use pigs in the parlor by Frank and Ida May Hammond. They're considered, you know, solid leaders. They're passed away now, but they really have, they had a ton of experience and they paved the way for many people doing deliverance. And then Plano Spirits is by Mike Smith. So, all right, next week, that'll be a part of the discussion. All right, I wanna remind you that tomorrow on Wednesday nights is the Zoom, Zoom call. It's a Zoom deliverance with Rick Hutt. Has anybody been on that in here? Okay, one, two, three. You haven't been on it? Come on. All right, so if you have a Facebook page, that's wonderful and you could look up Steps of Deliverance on Facebook, Steps of Deliverance. They'll post the Zoom link and you can get on there. You turn on your camera, you let them know you're participating. If you're not comfortable with the camera, don't worry about that. Just leave it off, just listen. Kind of see how it goes. Maybe you're brand new to deliverance. No one in here, but maybe streaming. Maybe you're new to deliverance and you're not quite sure, okay, what is this all about? Just get on there and listen, just listen. There's some teaching. This call goes from, I believe, seven o'clock at night, I think, seven o'clock at night, six o'clock at night. Oh, thank you. Six p.m. Mountain Standard Time and they stay on there till midnight. And there's several different ministers that will, that work with you. And they'll work with you individually. Hey, what's going on? Hey, what's going on with you tonight, you know? Oh, I'm gonna do this and that and okay, well, let's repent, let's forgive. And then they start doing deliverance. That's really amazing, it's wonderful. I said in another teaching that if you are going through your process of deliverance, stick with the Arizona Deliverance Center. Don't go off to the, there's lots of people doing deliverance these days. Lots of deliverance ministers. Just stick with us, okay? Stick with us for a time. And then you'll get what you're gonna get. You're not gonna get confused because we all teach the same thing. And then at a certain point, you know, when it's time, you'll move on and God will lead you someplace else or you'll stay with us and that'll be awesome. But while you're here, stay with us, okay? Don't confuse yourself with this ministry and that ministry and with that person from England said and that person in Australia and just stop all that. Okay, we have plenty of resources here. If you are in Arizona, if you are in Phoenix or in the surrounding areas, we have people that come from Prescott. Lights, we have Colleen Prescott, thank you. We have people come up from Casa Grande. Yeah, people drive to get here. Buckeye all the way in Buckeye, okay? Way out in Scottsdale. It can be quite a drive, especially traffic. But people come from all over and they make the trip. Every Thursday night, Rick again, he preaches and then there's a mass deliverance service. People get a lot of freedom at these services. And then Friday nights, Mike Smith will preach or it's Peter V, David Baldwin has been preaching. We hope to see him more. And Brother Francis is rare, but it does happen and he's an excellent minister. He ministers a little different, but effective too, okay? So I talked about whatever you put into this is what you're gonna get out of it. So if you only show up once a week for the two hours that we meet, well, you're only gonna get that little bit of benefit. But if you get into it, I'm gonna do the homework. You know the best you can, of course. I'm gonna do the homework. I'm gonna come to one service a week. That's what I say, either come or get on Zoom at least once a week and start going through some self-deliverance, okay? Get some help with that. Here are some reminders essential to your freedom. Hopefully every night you need to forgive those who hurt you and pray for them. You need to forgive. I'm sure someone's hurt you in the last week. I got my little feelings hurt in the last week and I gotta keep, oh, no, I forgave that person. I'm not gonna think about that. I'm not gonna entertain that conversation or even entertain what am I gonna say to them the next time I see them? No, forget all that. Just forgive him, forgive her. Bless, pray for them, okay? Stop complaining. Stop complaining. Stop gossiping about it. Stop talking about it. Stop all that. You need to fight your negative thoughts. You even need to fight the positive thoughts, okay? Some positive thoughts are the same as the negative thoughts. Let me call them thoughts, maybe ideas of grandeur. Oh, when I have my new job, I'm gonna move into this luxury condo in downtown Phoenix and I'm gonna buy this and that and let me get online and let me look on Pinterest and let me design it, you know? And you haven't even applied for the job yet. You're not even qualified for that job, okay? That's a delusion of grandeur. Stop that. Grab those thoughts, capture them, look at them, say no. That's not reality, okay? Same thing with the negative, right?  Now you need to replace them. Hey, don't give up on this. It takes time. This is a process. I wish everyone could be delivered like that. I wish everyone could have their mind renewed first time reading your Bible. Doesn't work like that. You gotta give it time, okay? Hang in there and pray, pray in the spirit. Build up your faith, all right? Don't forget, I'm here to remind you. So pray in the spirit, pray in tongues, bind the spirits, okay? Bless those who hurt you. Pray for your, bless yourself. Maybe you keep hurting yourself. Maybe hurting your own feelings. Bless yourself, pray for yourself. Okay, God is for you.  Okay, God is for you. So thank you so much for listening tonight. Thank you streamers for, I'm really pleased with the email feedback. Thank you, I appreciate that. Again, if you want the miracle list that I have merged, the different miracle list that Mike's put together, I'll email it to you. Steps to Freedom, ADC at gmail.com. Thanks, all right?


Meaning planners how diligent are you in reviewing your AV proposals and contracts and I mean really diligent Steven was helping one of our clients out with with their AV proposal and boy did we see a lot of glaring fees So we want to share these best practices and reviewing AV proposals with you today stick around It's Steven and Leanne from conference source net and today we're talking about hidden fees on AV proposals and contracts But before we begin don't forget to subscribe to our YouTube channel and click on the little bell to be notified of our content We put out videos every week for the meetings industry including best practices and tips and tricks that you can use Now let's launch into today's video as I mentioned earlier Steven was helping one of our clients go through their AV proposal and Boy did he see a lot of things that this planner needed to be aware of so today We're gonna chat with Steven about some of the things that he saw. Thanks for joining us today, Steve Hey, Leanne. I'm glad we could get together today. It's it's not often we get to share a screen today we're gonna talk about a couple of things in the industry that have really come to light with various clients and I don't want to pick on any AV company specifically, but here's a couple of things that planners need to be mindful of So Steven, can you give me an example of what we're really talking about here? Yeah, sure Leanne, you know, recently I was asked to review a contract that was not sourced by us from an AV company that listed a service charge that was 40% of invoice and I was told that this covers service charges support elements Beyond equipment and dedicated labor which are which they built for separately This included technology support event management before during and after the event Well, in this case, they never actually met with the AV tech team before or after the event while on site, you know limited But you know, it certainly didn't warrant a 40% surcharge I Was also told that this provided daily gear preparation and testing and and accompanying consumables such as batteries projected bulbs and tape really to be honest I just find this outrageous My question is what exactly this rental cover When I'm buying a service my expectation is that the gear Testing is is a cost of being the AV industry and part of the rental, you know consumables such as projector bulbs. Come on. This is the gear rental and not an add-on outrageous and this client was simply due by not knowing the terms out So Steven this clearly has you passionate about service fees and AV firms Yeah, I totally get it, you know, AVs have a huge expense when it comes to equipment and Continually having to reinvent new technology when it comes out. I mean it must be exorbitant That being said, we all get heated when you get charged 12 dollars for a power bar that you could buy at the dollar store For about four bucks. I think what AV companies need to do is a better job of, you know positioning themselves with their consumers Posting charges for service fees just feels like a cash grab and it's it's really not well received. I Was also told by an AV company the service charge covers all the customer benefits of using an on-site audio visual provider Such as having you know, pop up equipment on property to be honest. I was outraged I mean so if that's the case then where's my shipping savings because that wasn't included so I think you know Need to rework that one for sure So Steven what can meeting planners do? Yeah, I think you know, you need to really look closely at the proposal and the contract and what's included Of course, you know much of what's written may as well be in another language because we don't know what they are by product code And if you don't understand what a certain charge that's been posted has been you need to ask the question Secondly, I think you always need to allow a concession to include an outside provider without fees You know, you really need to make sure that you're not bound to that in-house audio visual company And while I certainly see the value in that and having companies be right on site You don't want to be tied to it and their costing that's associated that seems a lot of companies are protecting their in-house rights by You know tying things like internet to exclusive use with the in-house provider Competition is what will keep them honest and and to the ability to source alternatives makes it competitive Thanks for sharing those tips Steven. So what other things are you seeing out there lately? This is a personal favorite. I'm seeing a lot of contracts include complimentary internet service in the function space It sounds great until you find out that it's two megabytes of service Not enough to power Netflix The next step of course will cost a fortune and again is tied to the in-house audio visual company You really need to spell in a contract what is needed and when it comes to complimentary internet and the function space that you're using it in And of course if the planner is a client of ours Steven They can always lean on us for our support and for contract review Which is what you've done with this current client as well Yeah, I know we're always happy to be an industry resource and I'd like to be called upon with questions about these and other industry challenges that people are facing Well, I sure know learned a lot from you over the last couple weeks about the AV fees and I do appreciate your expertise Planners, we also want to hear from you. We want to hear what you're seeing out there on your AV proposals and contracts Share your best practices by commenting below this video We'll compile those best practices together and ensure that they go out to your peers as well friends We've turned Steven's best practices into a blog post so you can check that out over on Conference source net while you're over there you can learn about our complimentary services for meeting planners as well I want to thank Steven for joining us today and enlightening us about the hidden fees that we can find in av proposals And we invite you to join us next time. Thanks everyone. Bye for now. Thank you