Lisa Bilyeu

It can show you what the positive side of things are.

But it also can keep you exactly where you are.

So the transition was step by step.

And that's what happened to me is I stayed exactly where I was for eight years because I felt I had to be grateful for the fact that I had a husband that loved me, that I had a roof over my head.

It was believing A, that I am worthy enough to say that I'm unhappy.

It's then coming up with ways to communicate with the people around you that you're going to change because not everyone's going to be happy.

And so when you use gratitude to hold you stuck, that's when it can become toxic.

Not everyone's going to like your change.

And so for me, I had that toxic gratitude.

So you have to make sure that you're communicating with it.

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

You're not asking permission, but you're communicating with it.

And then it becomes, if you're building a business, what skill sets do you need to learn in order to grow the business?

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.

Because who you are today is not the person that's going to run the billion dollar company in five years.

That's just step one.

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

So you need to go, what skill sets do I need to adopt today that I need to do a stack in effect, if you will, that eventually allows me to be able to crush a business, build my career, et cetera, et cetera.