Motivation Daily by Motiversity - I CAN DO IT

Episode Date: February 14, 2022

I CAN DO IT! Being broke is only a mindset. Powerful new motivational speech from Lisa Nichols. Special thanks to Tom Bilyeu for providing this interview, subscribe to his channel for more inspiring content (http://bit.ly/2x6INi1).Music by Audiojungle (https://audiojungle.net/) and Really Slow Motion (https://bit.ly/RSMMusic). Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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The link is in the description. I'm on government's assistance, and I run out of money, and I had to buy pamper's for Geelani. And I had $11.42 in the bank. And I remember wrapping my son in a towel for two days. I remember the second day, like you said, I had my hand on Jelani's stomach, and I said, don't worry, baby. Mommy will never be this broke or broken again. And that day, what shifted for me was I was willing,

and I don't know if this is going to sound crazy, I was willing to completely die to any form of me that I had been so that I can birth the woman that I was becoming. The reason why a lot of people won't become who they want is because they're too attached to who they've been. And you hear it all the time when people say, I've always been this way.

Okay, well, if that's working for you, keep doing that. I knew it wasn't working for me any longer. I had hit my version of rock bottom. So I was willing to let go of everything and everybody. See, another reason why people won't get there is because the doorway is for you to fit through. You're trying to carry everybody else through because you're trying to be rescue 911. And you got to rescue you first.

I am much more valuable to my family and to my community because I was willing to let them go. Go through the door myself, teach myself, learn myself, condition myself, and then come back and get them. I'm much more valuable to them now. But I have to go through a window time of 10 years of judgment. you leaving us hanging out with white people all the time, you're going to these crazy countries, we don't know what you, I had to be willing to allow my conviction

to make me inconvenienced. See, we want to grow, but we want to stay liked by everybody. I was willing to be my own rescue at the risk of your approval. Most of us aren't like that. Facebook is an example. We want to be liked.

Well, I woke up and I liked myself today, so your like is extra. My job is the, like me first. I was willing to say every day, Lisa, you like you? Lisa, are you proud of you? Lisa, are you playing full out every day before I checked in with anybody else? I was willing to inconvenience my entire life. My entire life.

I was willing to disrupt my entire life to buy my future, to buy my possibility, to give my dream a chance. See, we're not supposed to tuck our dreams in on the pillow when we get up in the morning. We're not supposed to leave them at home. We're going to fulfill somebody else's dream. We're not supposed to do that. That's not what we're wired to do. That's not who we are. Your human spirit doesn't care about the economy.

The human spirit doesn't care that my son's father went to prison. The human spirit doesn't care what's happened to your family. The human spirit doesn't care about the past. You may have been molested or your family may have been broke or you may have been betrayed or you may have a divorce. Your human spirit doesn't care about any of that. Your human spirit simply says, what's our command for tomorrow? What do you want to create? It's not keeping score.

Your brain is keeping score. Because your brain is designed to keep you safe. Your soul, your intuition, your human spirit is designed to make you sore. When you get to the edge, your brain will always tell you to step back. It's always going to tell you to step back because you can fall. Always, it's going to tell you step back. Because before you fail, the last time you did this, you saw someone else fail, you could hurt, you could be off work. It's going to tell you, it's designed to keep you safe.

So you have to be willing to play between your brain and your soul. And on some days, you've got to just listen to your soul. And you've got to say, I'm going to leap, I'm going to get to the edge. Most people are at the edge, and you're standing at the edge, and you're watching everyone else fly. That's pit my ride, watch my crib, all this stuff. you know, watching people's lives on Facebook. You're at the edge, watching someone else live, wondering what it's going to be like when you jump without ever jumping.

And I'm just here to tell you, jump. Because only three things can happen. You're either going to jump and fly. Are you going to jump and fall on something soft? Are you going to fall down hard? Either way, you're going to get back up. You already know you got what it takes to get back up. Your greatest fear is not that you will fall.

Your greatest fears that you will live before life that never fly, that you never leaked. You're not afraid of dying. You're afraid of dying before the world sees who you really are. Before they really get your fingerprint, before they really feel your breath, before they really get your contribution, before they really feel you.

That's what you don't want to happen. You don't want to leave this place without us knowing you were here. All I'm doing is giving my dream a chance. And I'm not extraordinary. You don't get off the hook. You don't get to be a lot off the hook. You don't get to be a lot off of life. I'm an ordinary woman who chooses every day to make one more extraordinary decision.

Everything that I need to get back up, I have in me. If I don't have what I need, I can go get it. Once I figured that out, the world was my, like, playground. The question is just, where do I go get it? I don't know about that. Where do I go get it? And I don't come from a learning background where I was a great student. I wasn't, you know, my highest grade in school was a C-plus.

And when I got a C plus, I did the happy day. And so I didn't have a background where studying was natural for me. But when I realized that if I go study something and I learn it, I own it, it's mine now, man, it was crazy. Because all through school, I struggled. The last time I took an English class, my English teacher told me I was a weakest writer she ever met in her entire life. Lovely. Yeah, lovely. And the same year I took a speech class and my speech teacher, he said, quote unquote, Ms. Nichols,

I recommend you never speak in public that you get a desk job. And so I... That's a mean. Yeah, it just, it's just, you know, it was demotivated people, sad people, hurt people hurt. Sad people hurt. Bottom line, don't take it personal. Her people hurt. See, most people want the convenience of transformation without the inconvenience.

Required. Required for transformation. So my grandmother says, and I love to repeat this, your conviction, what you're passionate about your conviction and your convenience don't live on the same block. They ain't even in the same zip code. So if you want to have a conviction for something, you have to sign up, sign up to be inconvenience. We're trying to find convictions and passion and breakthrough on the inside of our box. Well, when you realize that the box doesn't even exist, like someone made up, oh, you're playing outside the box.

So we all bought into, there's a box. Well, I don't live in, I don't even own a box. I don't even want to get in your box. You better come out here because I ain't getting in there. And so when you start thinking like that time, all of a sudden, everything is possible. So I, you know, I disrupt people when I say, you want to make me extraordinary because it lets you off the hook. What if the God that we call God, the divine, whatever your faith is, what if there's no partial? It's not going to give me a hookup and not give you one.

Not going to give me an opportunity and I give you one. I'm just going to go after it. If I die, I'm going to die on a treadmill, like Wilson said, I'm going to be on the trailmill running. you know, I'm not, I'm just not going to stop because I believe all things are available to us. I'm just willing to go after them. Are you willing? And then that is so disruptive because then you got to make a decision. Because it's easier to live inside the parameters of, well, as a black woman, well, as born and raised in South Central, well, I'm academically, I'm dyslexic. I'm dyslexic. I'm dyslexic. I wrote seven books. I'm dyslexic. So just knowing, like, I'm not perfect. What I do really well is I manage my imperfection well. And so we're all waiting for perfect. illusion that will never come to you and it's an excuse to never show up and play.

Your story is not meant to be your fortress. Your story's meant to be your fuel. Any story. Like the fact, the beauty of me being one of the top one percent earners in America is that I was on government's assistance. Right. Like that's the beauty. Like come on, it wouldn't be a big deal if my family was rich. Whatever. Like, I'm supposed to do something. The beauty is that when you show the little engine that could story, like, I'm not going to run fast, but I ain't going to stop running. I might slow down and have to breathe and catch my breath, but I'm not stopping, because I believe all things are available to all of us, and good people should do well.

Because when good people do well, good people just do more good in the world. I'm that same girl who ran track for Dorsey High School, who struggled to get through high school, who got kicked out of college because I couldn't afford to stay. That was on government. I'm that same girl. I'm that same girl. I don't forget her. I'm also that same woman who runs.

a multi-million dollar business. I'm also the same woman who has seven bestsellers. I own both of those. I own all of it. I don't shrink to my greatness and I don't live in my saga and my sorrow. If you can own your brilliance while owning your imperfections, if you can own your giant while owning your smallness, if you can live in duality, constant duality, the freedom will be earth-shaking if you can live in that. See, either you don't want to be as great as you really are, and you're trying to dim your light so that others won't feel insecure about themselves in your presence.

And so you keep playing at 79 watts when you know you're supposed to shine at 159 watts, and you keep checking the temperature of the room to see what the room can handle versus just giving the room you and letting them if your light's too bright, then let them put on some shades. Can you give yourself permission to live in the duality of your imperfections and your smallness and what you're learning and what you still have to learn in your greatness and your brilliance and your light? Can you allow them to coexist and then serve them up to the world?

To love you, to see you, to inhale you, to judge you, to leave you, to love you. You're just, some of us are just as afraid of being loved as we are to be left. if you go where you've never gone, do what you've never done and say what you've never said, you'll become the woman and the man you've always known yourself to be.