Lisa Bilyeu

So we can teach business until the cows come home.

And it wasn't until I recognized that I wasn't living the life that I wanted.

But if you don't believe that you're good enough to get started, you won't actually get started.

I wasn't speaking up about it.

I wasn't talking about it.

So you have to recognize, number one, that you're not living the life you actually want.

That's just step one.

That's just acknowledging that you're not where your dream is.

And it's okay to say that.

And then secondly, what is actually holding you back from getting started?

And so for me, it was believing that I had the right to say I was unhappy.

I was stuck for eight years.

I didn't think that I had the right, if you will, to speak up and say that I was unhappy because I felt grateful.

Now, that was the first step.

Then just talking through with Tom, my husband, who I was taking care of for eight years, I had to make that change.

And that's almost the problem, if you will, with gratitude.

Gratitude can be beautiful.

And so how do I tell the love of my life that I no longer want to take care of him, no longer want to cook for him, I no longer want to clean for him, but I need him to still know that I love him.

It can really pull you out when something's becoming negative.

It can show you the light.