Each day, focus your attention on what you want. Each day, take one step that will bring you closer to it. ALL THINGS ARE POSSIBLE! The key is to identify it, claim it for yourself, and believe that you are worthy to have it. Iyanla Vanzant More Quotes by Iyanla Vanzant More Quotes From Iyanla Vanzant I'm focusing on healing lives and teaching people that they can heal - giving them tools to heal. Iyanla Vanzant teaching healing people Finally and most important of all, authenticity means that you must do what you do the way you do it and allow everyone else the same courtesy. There was a time I wanted to be like every famous writer that ever lived. I tried to copy styles, reframe information, use similar artwork. I almost drove myself crazy! Now I just do what I do. I have mentors. There are people whose work I admire, but I write the way I write. I eat the way I eat. I dress the way I dress. I can't believe that God made us each so unique only to have us do everything the same way. Iyanla Vanzant crazy writing believe I knew all of the childhood prayers I uttered on my knees at the side of my bed. Many years of Sunday-school attendance had etched certain Psalms and rote prayers into the fibers of my brain. However, somewhere deep inside of me, I had the secret belief that I did not know how to pray, and that frightened me. Iyanla Vanzant sunday prayer school There are two emotions: love and fear. Iyanla Vanzant love-and-fear emotion two I was sitting on the bus, and the sign said if you're ready to better your life, come to Medgar Evers College, and I got off the bus and went to Medgar Evers College. Iyanla Vanzant sitting college said Oprah Winfrey gives you the stage? Shut your mouth. I said, 'I'm sorry for taking over your show.' She said, 'No, that's why we have you here.' Iyanla Vanzant mouths sorry giving You know, if you're a human and living on the planet, it doesn't matter what you do; you are not immune to the challenges, the trials, the difficulty. And that fact that I happen to be a coach and a minister and a spiritual teacher doesn't mean anything. I'm still human. Iyanla Vanzant spiritual teacher mean We know how to be doctors, nurses, lawyers. We know how to be tweeters. We know how to be everything. But how do you just be people? How do you be present with one another? How do you be honest with one another? How do you be compassionate towards one another, forgiving towards one another? We know what to do. We don't know what to be, how to be. Iyanla Vanzant doctors nurse people What I am doing; how I am being as I am doing it; and does it bring honor to my community? What is the lesson in what I am doing? And most importantly, am I having fun? Iyanla Vanzant community honor fun Some children do what they’re told to do; some children do what they’re told not to do; all children do what they’re parents have done. Iyanla Vanzant parent done children You are never angry for the reason you think you are. There's an older hurt under that. Iyanla Vanzant hurt reason thinking Some of us pray demands. Some of us pray complaints. Some of us pray knowing, and some of us pray not knowing. But prayer is the attitude that you hold in your heart. Iyanla Vanzant prayer heart attitude If you are a card-carrying human being, chances are that you share the same fear as all other humans: the fear of losing love, respect and connection to others. And if you are human, in order to avoid or prevent the pain, trauma and perceived devastation of the loss, you will do anything to avoid your greatest fear from being visited on you. Iyanla Vanzant greatest-fear pain loss I've always told the truth. I think that's been part of the foundation of my career. I don't put myself above people. I don't put myself different than people. And I, for one, know that none of us is immune. Iyanla Vanzant careers people thinking Be willing to share all of who you are. So many of us want a partner, but we're not willing to show all of us. Iyanla Vanzant partners share want I had no preconceived idea what fame would be like, because I never thought I would be famous. I just wanted to do my work. Hell, I just wanted to pay my rent on time. Iyanla Vanzant would-be pay ideas I had to stop traveling alone because I missed so many planes. When somebody runs up to you in the airport and begins to tell you their life story, you can't say, 'Excuse me, boo,' as they're weeping on your bosom. Iyanla Vanzant airports up-to-you running When Oprah Winfrey tells you that you need to have your own show, you feel compelled to do it. Especially if she's gonna pay for it! Iyanla Vanzant shows pay needs I took my kids everywhere. I didn't have money for child care, so I took them to college with me and they sat in the hallway. Iyanla Vanzant college kids children The show is 'Fix My Life!' Get it? Life. I do not fix people. Iyanla Vanzant shows people
