WATCH ME Defy the Odds: Tyra's 3 Rules

Good morning, Believe Nation! Today's message is "Watch Me." Over to you, Tyra Banks.

Even as a model, back in my modeling days, I'd say almost every single day I heard, "You can't do this fashion show because you're black." "You can't do that magazine spread because you're black. You can't have this contract, modeling contract, because you're black. You can't be on the COVID of a magazine because you're black. And of course that gets you down, but for some reason there's something inside of me that goes, "You say I can't? Really?

Watch me." So in life and in business, you're gonna get people who tell you all the reasons why your ideas are not gonna work out. They'll point out all your flaws, they'll point out all the weaknesses in your plans, and make you feel like you're weak and you can't do anything. I call these people the little man. They're too afraid to go and take some big step in their life, and instead they're jealous and they attack people who are trying to make something great with their own. And so you can either listen to them, you can either continue to live the life that you have, continue to live the small life and not reach for anything greater, or you can use their feedback as fuel to help you drive forward. You could tell them, yeah, Watch me. When I dedicated myself to YouTube and said, "You know what, I'm gonna go all in on YouTube now," I made a video as a collaboration that I was really impressed by and I was really excited by. I wanted to start promoting it, and I sent it to somebody I knew who had a lot of experience in the video industry, and he hated it. He said it would never work. He said it was too long. He said nobody would ever watch a 6-minute video and that it would never work out. He told me that I didn't understand the internet. Fast forward to today, that video has over a million views, has led to tons of subscribers, has really helped boost my account, and it's something that I am proud to have been involved with. What if I listened to that guy? What if I thought, "Ah, you know, he has all this experience, maybe he's right, maybe I shouldn't include it, maybe I'll pull it down and do the safe thing." That's the risk and the challenge that a lot of people face. And you have to eliminate the little man from your life, and when you get that negative feedback and criticism, Use it to push you forward. Use it as fuel to then go out and tell the little man, "Just watch me." Believe. So my question of the day today is, I wanna know a little man in your life who you've had to say, "Just watch me," to. You don't have to say the name, but tell me the story, 'cause I wanna get inspiration from it, and I think it'll inspire other people as well. Leave it in the comments below. Thank you guys so much for watching. Have an amazing day. Continue to believe. And I'll see you again tomorrow morning for another shot of espresso.