A short excerpt from a YouTube interview where Lisa Borders emphasizes that health is foundational to achieving goals, advocates a positive mindset and regular physical activity, and uses high-profile athletes (Kobe Bryant, Muhammad Ali) as examples of how mindset and bodily engagement drive success.
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In any community but certainly in the African American community. If you're not healthy I don't care what you want to do, I don't care how much money you have I don't care how much imagination you have, how much time. If you are not healthy you can't execute on anything right. So you got to have a positive mindset and you got to move this body on a regular basis. I too have affirmations that I'm saying every day. Everybody thought Kobe was arrogant when he said he's the best basketball player or Muhammad Ali said said I'm the greatest but that was about positive mindset and yes both of them happen to be athletes and so they too were in it to win it every single day. So they engage their mind in a positive way and they are engaging their body. Muhammad Ali was punching people in the mouth. Let's just be clear. Kobe was dropping 80 points on people but each of their bodies were directly engaged.