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  • like I was hungry.

  • People often want to call me that exception like Oh my God, you're the exception.

  • No, I'm not the exception.

  • I'm a average ordinary woman who chose every day to make one more extraordinary decision.

  • I just was crazy enough to believe that that it doesn't matter.

  • The color of my skin doesn't matter.

  • My religious background doesn't matter my origin.

  • It doesn't matter.

  • My mom's bank account.

  • My dad's been come when I was born.

  • None of that means my future.

  • That's just the circumstance that I came from.

  • That's not what defines my future.

  • I just believe that not a lot validated it.

  • But faith is believing in the unseen anyway, So I had enough faith to go.

  • I know like I know, like I know, like I know I don't necessarily have to see it yet.

  • Let me tell you, in orderto have something different, you are going to have to do something different in order, have something more.

  • You have to do something you haven't done yet.

  • I have to say the things I didn't want to say.

  • Do the things I didn't feel like doing that have the life I know I wanted period, period, and all I did was give instructions for here.

  • Do this bite size.

  • Do this bite size?

  • Do this bite size, bite sized, digestible, palatable pieces of what you could dio when you look up and you don't have to have a magnificent change over 12 months have a small change over 30 days, and the small change over 30 days your breakthrough comes will come in.

  • Needle point moves on you.

  • Look up, look up in five years and not recognize your life.

  • Refusing to listen to the negative shatter my own head, refusing to listen to other people's perception of me creating something from absolutely nothing.

  • So I got you know, there's the books.

  • There's the TV, there's all that stuff.

  • But my biggest accomplishment is being willing to give myself 1002nd chances.

  • And every time I got to 1999 I press reset.

  • Yeah, I didn't ask permission.

  • I gave notice a some point.

  • I have to stop asking.

  • Can I be great?

  • Can I be brilliant?

  • Can I be okay and still be accepted?

  • I just stop asking permission and just gave notice unapologetically not in a brighter doses way, not in a way that shrunk anyone else.

  • In a way that said, I only got one life.

  • I'm arrived.

  • This one to the wheels fall off.

  • And then all the other stuff came as a result of a decision I made right?

  • But it was a decision.

  • It was a decision.

  • But it was and it didn't come from, you know, a motivational experience.

  • It didn't come from an inspiring teacher.

  • It came from hitting rock bottom.

like I was hungry.

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