Lisa Nichols argues you don't need to feel ready to act. Nelson Mandela, Gandhi, and Martin Luther King all moved forward despite fear and uncertainty. The key: start now and refine as you go, not the other way around.
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So when you talk about making your dash dance point one, you gotta be.
Willing to do it. Afraid.
See, you might be waiting for the fear to stop.
Lisa.
I heard this so many times. Lisa, I'm afraid. What do I do?
Do it anyway.
Lisa, I'm afraid. I don't quite know if I should move.
Move anyway.
I don't know if I should leap.
Lisa. Leap afraid.
And then gather your courage on the way down.
And if you don't get it before.
You hit, you was gonna hit anyway.
I'd rather die leaping than on the edge figuring out how to get the courage to leap. Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes.
So many times.
We're waiting. We're waiting. I'm waiting.
I'm waiting to get something right. I see your hands going up. You guys know if it's your truth, you can raise your hand just like we did on day zero. You're just kind of waiting. You're waiting to get everything in order. You're waiting. You're waiting so that everything is in you. It's together. You're waiting to not be afraid. You're waiting to have the courage. You're waiting to have all the money. You're waiting to lose weight. See? See, if I waited to release my unwanted pounds before I got in front.
Of you, Lisa Nichols would be the secret.
Yes. Yes. I thought, how about I just leap with my imperfection and then find my form of perfecting my imperfection while I'm soaring? How about I do that? How about I not? How about you not wait to get it right? You look at, you figure out, how does it look doing it wrong? How does that look? Because your 80% of right is somebody else's, 159% of what they needed.
Yes. Yes.
And when you want to do it right, and you want to wait till you're not afraid, and you want to wait till you have it all together. Oh.
Oh, you made it about you again.
See, Nelson Mandela did it. He just did it, not knowing if it were right. Mahatma Gandhi just did it, not knowing if it were right. Mother Teresa just did it. Not looking for affirmation or confirmation. Is this right? Martin Luther King did it, not even knowing if it would happen before his life ended.
I mean, what are you waiting on? Are you willing to do it afraid?
Are you willing to do it knowing that you got so much work to do to get it better, to get it more perfect? But are you willing to do it inside your imperfection? Do you realize that in your imperfection you're perfect for the job.
