Sarah Jakes Roberts

You're called to this. You're called to do this as you are. to just keep it pure. I think that the hard thing about success, which feels like a very cringy word, is that people begin to impose their strategies onto you. And when those strategies and ideas about who you could be and what you could do and this could happen for you,

You're called to this. You're called to do this as you are. to just keep it pure. I think that the hard thing about success, which feels like a very cringy word, is that people begin to impose their strategies onto you. And when those strategies and ideas about who you could be and what you could do and this could happen for you,

It can make you hungry for something that you never even had an appetite for. And so protecting my appetite so that I can continue to just focus on what God has put in my heart is my greatest responsibility. Wow.

It can make you hungry for something that you never even had an appetite for. And so protecting my appetite so that I can continue to just focus on what God has put in my heart is my greatest responsibility. Wow.

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I think the line is so thin. that the only way you learn it is by trial and error, unfortunately. But I think some of the qualifying questions I ask myself is what's driving your desire to do this? And being real enough to know when it's ego, being real enough to know when it's wanting to seek approval from certain industries or certain people versus even with this book launch.

I think the line is so thin. that the only way you learn it is by trial and error, unfortunately. But I think some of the qualifying questions I ask myself is what's driving your desire to do this? And being real enough to know when it's ego, being real enough to know when it's wanting to seek approval from certain industries or certain people versus even with this book launch.

Like you've written a book before. So everybody's like, you got to hit the list. You got to hit the list. You need X amount of numbers to hit the list, hit the list, hit the list. But like when I wrote this book, I wasn't thinking about how do I write a New York Times bestselling book.

Like you've written a book before. So everybody's like, you got to hit the list. You got to hit the list. You need X amount of numbers to hit the list, hit the list, hit the list. But like when I wrote this book, I wasn't thinking about how do I write a New York Times bestselling book.

I wrote this book because I was completely consumed with this idea of what it means to have power and who holds it and who doesn't. And why do we believe that it's only reserved for a few? Like I wanted to explore that. this idea of power. And I did that, which means that this book has already been successful in the way that it was meant to be successful for me.

I wrote this book because I was completely consumed with this idea of what it means to have power and who holds it and who doesn't. And why do we believe that it's only reserved for a few? Like I wanted to explore that. this idea of power. And I did that, which means that this book has already been successful in the way that it was meant to be successful for me.

And so for me to get to this point and then for it to become about, okay, but if you don't hit the list, it wasn't successful is robbing me of the obedience that started the book in the first place. And so I'm going to do everything I can to make sure that people hear about the message. But I'm not going to put the success of the book on whether or not it makes it into a list.

And so for me to get to this point and then for it to become about, okay, but if you don't hit the list, it wasn't successful is robbing me of the obedience that started the book in the first place. And so I'm going to do everything I can to make sure that people hear about the message. But I'm not going to put the success of the book on whether or not it makes it into a list.

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And numbers matter and all of that matters. I think defining what success is for yourself first, because if you don't have a definition of what success is, that's part of even in the book. Like I have to define what power is for me as a person, because if I do not have my own definition, I will be stretching and reaching for someone else's definition of power.

And numbers matter and all of that matters. I think defining what success is for yourself first, because if you don't have a definition of what success is, that's part of even in the book. Like I have to define what power is for me as a person, because if I do not have my own definition, I will be stretching and reaching for someone else's definition of power.