747 The Abundance Mindset with Lisa Nichols

YOU ARE A CULMINATION OF ALL YOUR DECISIONS. We can blame our circumstances on our upbringing, on our partners, even on the government. But the truth is, you’ve signed up for your life experience. Everything happening in your life is a direct response to your actions. You have to let go of the belief systems that are holding you back. They might have served you in the past, but they are keeping you where you are. For this Five Minute Friday, I revisited a conversation I had with Lisa Nichols where she shared how she developed an abundance mindset that took her from being a single mom on welfare to a millionaire entrepreneur. Lisa Nichols is one of the world’s most-requested motivational speakers, is the best-selling author of seven books, and is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Motivating the Masses, Inc. Changing the way we look at the world can be scary and painful. But it will make the difference between accomplishing your dreams or not. It’s time to give blood, sweat, and tears. Learn how to develop an abundance mindset no matter how uncomfortable it makes you in Episode 747. In This Episode You Will Learn: How to get rid of your old belief systems (3:00) The book that affected Lisa the most (3:30) The cost of an abundance mindset (4:00) How Lisa started learning about business (5:00) Get more from Lewis! Get my New York Times Bestselling book, Make Money Easy! Get The Greatness Mindset audiobook on SpotifyText Lewis AIYouTubeInstagramWebsiteTiktokFacebookX

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• 0:00Lewis Howes?

  This is Five Minute Friday.

• 0:10Lewis Howes?

  Welcome everyone to the episode. Thank you so much for joining me. We've got a great guest on today. Her name is Lisa Nichols and she's one of the world's most requested motivational speakers, as well as a media personality and corporate CEO, whose global platform has reached and served nearly 30 million people. From a struggling mom on public assistance to a millionaire entrepreneur, Lisa has become a multiple time bestselling author and appeared on shows like Oprah, The Today Show, and Steve Harvey. Super excited about this.

• 0:44Lewis Howes?

  So what was the first discovery?

• 0:46Lisa Nichols?

  That there's a mindset that comes with abundance, that they think differently. They don't just do something different. There's not a hookup. First of all, there is no such thing as a hookup. I am still waiting on mine. And if you know where it is, my phone number is. So there's no hookup. There's no hookup. Like it's not true. Like you got a 297 million chance in one to win the Lotto. And within five years, the people win the Lotto are in more debt than they were before they won the Lotto. So that ain't even a hookup, right? And so I realized that I needed to change my mindset. I needed to learn something different. And I needed to know it at a cellular level. All that stuff I just told you about, my color, my gender, my...

• 1:26Lisa Nichols?

  I had to unlearn. People are, we're information junkies, because we got all kinds of access to information online. And we're learning all this stuff, but we're not implementing anything. I'm sorry, I might step on a few toes. That's what I do. And so I realized that I had to, at a cellular level, first, before I went to get any more information, I had to be willing to divorce and evict some belief systems that I already had. That they had taken me as far as they can take me, and now they're holding me back. It's almost like you wear a size 11, you have 11 foot, and you tried to fit it back in a size 7 shoe. You passed that a long time ago, and that's gonna be a very uncomfortable day. I was in discomfort. I was very uncomfortable with my thinking. And so I started diving into books.

• 2:11Lisa Nichols?

  The first book I dove into was Stephen Covey's Seven Habits of Highly Effective People. And it disrupted me. It disrupted everything. I didn't know. It was like, it was like a double door opened up and then a wall opened up. I'm like, what do they, they know that? Like, why nobody told me that? Like, I felt like I was out of a club. And really, you are. I'm just gonna tell you. Abundant thinkers think a certain way. And they don't go around trying to, trying to convert you. Like, people like you and I go, let's open it up to everyone. But here's what I, I know about the human spirit. It's that the human spirit has the power of choice. And most people don't want to choose this kind of thinking because it costs you something.

• 2:47Lewis Howes?

  Mm-hmm. What's the cost?

• 2:49Lisa Nichols?

  The cost is, you gotta get up earlier. You get up earlier than the average guy. Your day, what you do in a day is what some people do in a week. What you do in the mornings is what some people do in a 12-hour day. You gotta be willing. What you're willing to do on your book tour to get on the New York Times? Some people say, I gotta do all that? I don't wanna do all that.

• 3:05Lewis Howes?

  It's a lot of work.

• 3:05Lisa Nichols?

  Okay, great. Then have your life. Like, you have to, you sign up for your life experience. There's no way. Like, you were, when I realized that I was a culmination of all my decisions. That's like straight with no chaser. That's like getting it with no cookies and milk. I was a culmination, you're a culmination of all your decisions. And then when you up-level your decisions. And now that's even harder times when you go, God, why am I always single? You're a culmination of your decisions. You're a culmination of your actions. Why can't I keep any money? You're a culmination of your decisions, your life. So I wanted to make better decisions. Because my son being wrapped in a towel. Me having eleven dollars and forty-two cents. Me being overweight. Me, my, my son's father being in prison. I, I couldn't shake it. I was a culmination.

• 3:49Lisa Nichols?

  My life experience was a culmination of all my decisions. And it was undoubtedly a hot mess. And so I went, well, let me go learn from somebody whose life don't seem like it's a hot mess. And then let me adopt some of their behaviors. When I began to hunt, I went to conferences, I and scared the bejeebies out of me these conferences. I'd never been to conferences before. I went to entrepreneurial conferences. I was the only, I was one of four women at an eight hundred person conference. Wow. And I was the only woman of color. So it was all older white men and me. And I was like, okay, well, they they're not afraid of money, seems like. They're talking money and business and corporations and ROI's and PPM's and term agreements and no habla español. I don't know what that means, but I am not leaving until I figure this out. Right.

• 4:32Lisa Nichols?

  And I went to the same conference. When I say do what other people won't do, so and you'll have what other people don't have. I went to the same conference, those forty two times. Hmm. I told you I was a C student, so it took me a minute to get it. And I kept getting sponsored back to the, I didn't even have the money to go to the conference. I started volunteering at the conference. I would be on stage teaching because they loved the way I spoke. Then I'd get off and I'd help clean up because I had to pay my dues to be there. I was okay. I ate ate my slice of humble pie every day. Sure. Because I was bankrupt. See, some people, you haven't pushed non-negotiable yet. You're still optional. I really would love to be successful. And so you. I want to be successful. I want to be successful. I want to make money. I want to make money. I want to be healthy. But it's not non-negotiable yet. Yeah. Because the moment the rubber meets the road and you feel a little skin and it gets a little tender

• 5:17Lisa Nichols?

  and a little blood may show up, you don't want to give blood, you don't want to give sweat, you don't want to give tears. Hmm. Let me just tell you, you can't take the elevator to the top. Right. It ain't number stairs.