Lisa Nichols: Well, I woke up and I like myself today, so your like is extra.
Lisa Nichols: I'm not extraordinary. You don't get off the hook. You don't get to be let
off the hook. I'm an ordinary woman who chooses every day to make one more extraordinary decision.
Voice over: You may think you don’t have what it takes to succeed but that is far from
the truth. No one, I repeat, no one is born ready. You have to choose to build the strength
necessary to succeed every day. You have to choose to develop the skills necessary every
day. And you need to make an extraordinary decision every day!
Now is the time for you to decide who you really are. To commit to changing your life
no matter the circumstances because the power to do so is in your hands. It all starts with
a decision. It all starts with YOU.
Lisa Nichols: I’m on government assistance and I run out of money, and I had to buy pampers
for Jelani. And I had $11.42 in the bank. And I remember wrapping my son in a towel
for two days.
Lisa Nichols: 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 could 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.
Voice over: Be willing to let go. People change all the time and if you want to accomplish
your goals you have to change even more. Every version of yourself was important to get you
where you are today, but there is still a lot to come. More updates, more development,
more skills. And if you hold on to what you are today you will never get to become what
you could have become. You will never get the chance to meet the best version of yourself.
Don’t be scared of the change.
Let it all go.
You, the people around you, the circumstances.
Listen to the wind of change and embrace the storm.
Lisa Nichols: I was willing to disrupt my entire life to buy my future, to buy my possibility,
give my dream a chance. See, we're not supposed to tuck our dreams under the pillow
when we get up in the morning. We're not supposed to leave them at home and go and 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 happened
to your family. The human spirit doesn't care about the past, that 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 soar.
Lisa Nichols: 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
to 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 got to just listen to your soul. And you 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 Pimp My Ride, watch My Crib, all this stuff. You know,
watching people's lives on Facebook you 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 3 things can happen. You're either
going to jump and fly. Or you're going to jump and fall on something soft. Or you're
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
fear is that you will live a full life and never fly. That you never leaped. You're not
afraid of dying. You are 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 are here.
All I'm doing is giving my dream a chance.
Voice over: The things people regret the most at their death beds aren’t the ones they
did, but the ones they didn’t do. Most times the feat is bigger than the will to take the
risk. But you must change that. Your will must be greater than any fear. It must swallow
your comfort zone and destroy it completely. Give your dream a chance. Pursue it even when
things aren’t clear. Even when you don’t know what is going to happen. The best things
come out on the other side of fear.
Take the leap of faith.
Lisa Nichols: Are you willing to do what you've never done before, say what you've never said
before so you can be the man, the woman you've always known yourself to be?
Lisa Nichols: Are you willing, are you willing to tell any part of you that doesn't serve
your future, any party you know, the procrastination and the, and the worry and the doubt and the
am I good enough?
Lisa Nichols: Who can I be over there if I've been this person over here, if you're willing
to stop and look at all of it and say I appreciate you, you got me to this point but in order
for me to go for that I'm gonna have to leave you here. Because you limit to thinking, you
doubtful Debbie, you the naysayer, you vision buster, you can't quite fit in my future.
I have lives to transform. I have people to inspire. I have children to ignite. I have
loves to create. I've so much to do. I can't quite take you with me. But it's been real.
Lisa Nichols: Most people sign up for the goal and this is my new awareness. They sign
up for the goal and you focus on the goal and you get really, really committed to the
goal and then you've got to go through something to get from the goal and then you set the
goal down I'm gonna invite you. Don't sign up for the goal. Sign up for the inconvenience
it's gonna cost you. Sign up for that. Sign up. I sign up every day, every day to the
inconvenience. The girl looks sexy, the inconvenience looks costly, but if you sign up for the inconvenience
then the goal will take care of itself. Every day say
yes to whatever it takes, no matter what.
Voice over: If you want to succeed you must be willing to do whatever it takes. You must
be willing to put so much effort and change yourself so completely you are able to handle
anything that comes your way. Setbacks are not excuses to give up. Obstacles are not
excuses to give up. Challenges are not excuses to give up. Expect all of it to happen. Expect
pain, suffering, and doubt. Expect to hit your lowest point. But prepare to come back
up again. If you stay down you will never get to see what rewards await you. But if
you get back up again, you will get to enjoy everything you fought for.
Lisa Nichols: You have no idea of the breath-taking future that's on its way to you that's asking
you please let me through, please let me through. When you decide that you are good enough,
when you decide you give yourself permission to have it all, have all the
love, have all the health, have all the wealth, have all the abundance, have all the prosperity,
when you give yourself permission.
Lisa Nichols: See, so many of you want to play big in the world but you keep making
it optional. And every time it gets too hard you sit it back down. The moment you make
it non-negotiable, not an option, slide every option off the table, you're not wondering
about the mountain and how big it is because you said you must bow down. You have to have
a level, you have to have a level of certainty for you. You gotta believe in you. Bank on
you. Trust in you like you never had before. And
every single thing that you've ever done, every single thought you've ever had, every
single decision you ever made built you for such a time as this and you are perfect for
the job. Perfect. No one has your unique unrepeatable fingerprint. No one can do it like you.
Voice over: You are unique. No one else can do what you do. If you give up you are not
only depriving yourself of victory but you are also preventing the whole world to benefit
from your gift.
Victory is a must.
You can get to the top of the mountain. You just have to commit fully to it.
Keep climbing. And when you get there enjoy the view, appreciate your power and share
your gift with the world.