Lisa Nichols: Born to Win - In Case You Didn't Know With Nick Nanton

best-selling book Chicken Soup for the Soul. My dream was always to write a best-selling book that would make a difference in the lives of others. Jack Canfield was an image from a distance at one time he was an icon to me of something to aspire to and that's why I watch them from a distance at different conferences that I would later attend applying these principles. I have created a life that is phenomenal. The Guinness. book the world record for having seven books on the New York Times bestseller list on the same day, so when I got the phone call saying that jack canfield would like you to consider co-authoring chicken soup for african americans, so I thought no way, thank you very much, but I'm very very busy right now.

I thought I'm not a writer, I'm a speaker, I'm a linguistics specialist and I would say they waited a month. Call me, thank you very much, I appreciate it, but I'm a speaker, not a writer, I'm a specialist in linguistics. They waited a month. They called me back for the third time, Miss Nichols. Mr. Canthal thinks it would be great. I was like telling him, I said thank you, but I'm a speaker, not a writer, I'm a linguistics specialist, right, I was very clear about it and on the fifth call she interrupted me and said Miss Nichols, I

know

, I

know

, don't tell me.

You're a gardener, not a writer, you're a linguistics specialist says, but I've seen the work you've done to motivate the teenage spirit and you seem smart, that's what you're doing, what the ego does. She triggered the ego and I said I'm smart she said, well I don't understand why you are rejecting this invitation and the truth came out, I said I'm scared, look I had a fail in English and my English teacher. She told me that she was the weakest writer she had ever met in her entire life and I told her that no one will ever put so many red marks on anything I do again and that I will never give anyone the chance to judge me like that again.

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't even know it was still in me, I

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't know it was still driving me, I didn't know and I was just honest with her, I told her I don't know where to put the point, I'm out of judgment, mom. and she told me: I am a profound writer and editor and if you agree to tell a great story, I will agree to never let you embarrass yourself. I didn't realize that what I needed was a team, I thought about the belief system I had. I did it all myself and so we got into this amazing relationship and that book was one of the biggest releases in the history of chicken soup up to that point, while I was still on tour I got the contract to write chicken soup for the wife African American, so before I even came home I agreed and did that and then he invited me to be part of the transformational leadership council and he wanted me to see my other unicorns and he invited me to this council with all these created people that I I felt so out of place, I felt like I was on the wrong invitation list because everyone was so smart and then Rhonda Byrne shows up at one of our events and she's talking about this, the secret and the law of attraction, and I don't understand. to neither of them, she says, I wish you were in on this, I'm like roll because I have no idea what you're talking about, I have no idea about any law of attraction, no secrets and I can barely understand what you're saying. saying no, we need to interview you, so I go on Google because everything is on Google and I secretly write what the problem was, it hasn't come out yet because we are doing it.

Did I look good when I sat in the chair? to be interviewed and for the whole two hours and 15 minutes I had no idea what the secret was, I'm just going to answer the question, I'm just going to tell my truth, I said God, just let my truth become me, so, What you saw in the secret was that I gave myself over to what I didn't know and what I knew, I knew, I know how to do myself, I know how to love myself and all of a sudden, a year later, Rhonda calls me and says, I know we get a lot of requests for you.

Could we reshoot and have more of you? They came to California and we filmed for eight hours and I was on the first version of The Secret four times and then they did a remake and I was on the second version 19 times when I told them my life took off and I spent maybe 12 to 14 years trying to get catching up with my brand, catching up with the impact it was having on people trying to identify what Was it because it was never a gimmick, it was never a system, it was never a strategy, it was a being and that's why I was trying to understand to be in order to understand how to stand in front of it, how to be responsible for It was, um, and deep down it was that people fell in love with my truth because my truth gave them permission to see, touch and embrace their truth, so I I showed up at the pool because Grandma said she couldn't stop smoking and then I went up on deck. and pow, the gun goes off and I started singing something my grandmother had said the day before the quarters never win the winners never give up they never win one was always silent I kept singing it while I swam around the corners I once won and I could feeling myself in a rhythm that was different there is an alliance of ancestors cheering you on as you walk with you saying do the dream live the dream don't be scared and if you get scared do it with your knees knocking and your teeth chattering but don't stop, I hit the wall and I look at my coach sadly.

I did my best look. She runs towards me. What did you do differently? I've trained with you all summer. I've been to every swim meet with you. What did you do differently? It was like I didn't know and now people are just hitting the wall. I'm like a coach. What's going on here? When you connect with fear, it becomes your best friend and when you stand on the edge and watch people jump and watch. Through the windows and all the people who are living a great life, you feel the fear and you jump anyway, she's like you just broke Lisa's national record, 17 and 18 years old, that was the most physical evidence visceral that if I changed my way of thinking, my life would have changed.

To demand the order, how would the world be a better place to live? because fear didn't have you on edge when I changed my thoughts my life had to obey my order I was that kid who was always struggling with self-esteem I'm I'm good enough, I'm smart enough, no one looks like me, reaches anywhere Part of it, I didn't classify myself on anyone's wealth scale as exceptional, no one, I was an A student, you just don't see me on TV, you don't see me glorified, right? You don't see me representing beauty, you don't see me, so the world didn't give me permission to be here, but I didn't ask for it either, no one knew who I could become, so it's very easy to not see me and me. always be careful, you could work for student c someday ifa ah you