Lisa Nichols, who rose from South Central LA, argues you have to confront the parts of yourself holding you back and commit daily to hard work. She asks: are you willing to sign up for the inconvenience that real growth demands.
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I stopped by to poke you, to prod you, to make it mildly to moderately to significantly uncomfortable for you, to sit in any form of mediocrity, for you to make sure you don't look at 2020 when you get to 2022 and say, damn, there was more of me to give back there and I didn't. To make sure you're not keeping score. Keep track, but don't keep score. I stopped by to ask you, are you willing. 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? Are you willing to tell any part of you that doesn't serve your future, any part, you know, the procrastination and the. And the worry and the doubt and the. Am I good enough? 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 further, I'm going to have to leave you here because you limited 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 changed children to ignite. I have loves to create. I have so much to do. I can't quite take you with me, but it's been real. Because I gotta tell you, I could not stand on this stage and on all the stages around the world and touch 50, 60, 70, 80 million. I could not do that. I could not have seven bestsellers and have lunch with Oprah and dinner with Steve Harvey and whatever with Dr. Phil and hang out. I couldn't do that had I not talked to a part of me that I had grown complete with. I could not do that if I didn't identify something in me that was being born and that I was the midwife to. And to allow that to be born and to realize that I was impregnated with my own greatness. I couldn't do that. And so if God would use a little ordinary chick like me from South Central la, then oh, what can happen to you? And what could come through you? So I just stopped by, I stopped by to ask you, are you ready? Are you willing? Because 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 gotta go through something to get to 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 goal 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. Sam.
