Lisa Nichols - Rescue Yourself

right bus I was broke and I was broke I was fired from five different jobs and then I got pregnant with my son unexpectedly and then at eight months my son's father went to prison and when my son was eight months old I went to the ATM to get $20 out of the bank because I didn't have any pampering form and to get $20 she got that $20. I had $11 in 42 cents and I still can't tell the store without getting excited because my story for two days. I had to swaddle my son and a boy but something happened Steven those two days my son lay on his back at eight months I have a tile on him and I have my hand on his stomach fan don't worry jeylani mommy it will never be like this I broke again and I made a decision I was broke and every stinking thought I had I was broke and trying to protect my pride I was broke and trying to be all that in a bag of chips and a bowl of grits is fake I was broke and I was trying Not asking anyone for help I was screwed in everything that held me back and kept me where I was I was always talking big again but I wasn't doing anything with my gift and all that stuff about potential I was tired of having the potential that I wanted to have my now and I looked to that baby at eight months and I said, I want to transform your life because you didn't have to come into this chaos as an African-American child in South Central Los Angeles with a single mother whose parents in prison he had a 66% chance of go to prison himself not on my watch not on my watch so I have to be willing to drastically travel or myself to be able to become the woman, but I know I can be it and that's what I started doing.

I was radical. Look. My grandmother says that conviction and comfort don't live in the same block. If you are going to be convicted of something, you may have to feel some discomfort, but if you want to be comfortable while relaxing where you are. Because that's where you're going to say, "Okay," and also, are you willing to reinvent who you are? Are you willing to end procrastination? Are you willing to put an end to excuses? The blame game. I never let people call me a single mother because of my title. I'm Lisa Nichols, who happens to be a single mother.

Don't define me by my circumstances. Follow my intention at some point. Stop asking. It can't be great. Can I be brilliant. Can I be okay and still be accepted? I just stopped asking. permission and I just gave notice unapologetically, not in a boastful way, not in a way that would shrink anyone else into a way that would fit. I only have one life and I am a righteous person in the world, I fall and that was the beginning of my

rescue

. I realized that I am my refuge, no one else is my

rescue

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