Lisa Nichols says stand on your story instead of being trapped by it. She teaches carefrontation, a form of loving truth-telling, and argues that serving others at a higher level makes you unforgettable. Setbacks like divorce or bankruptcy should rock you but not move you.
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There's something that happens when we allow ourselves to sit inside freedom. Sit inside transparency. Sit inside what I like to call carefrontation. That means I might push up against you a little bit. I might make you mildly to moderately to significantly uncomfortable in any form of mediocrity. But it's out of the spirit of love. You want to inspire people with your voice. From your child to your sibling, to your significant other, to your community to the world, to this room. Be willing to love me enough to tell me your truth. Then love me enough to tell me my truth. Then love me enough to just tell me the truth. Be willing to touch the edge of your own comfort zone. You show me yours, and I'll show you mine. You show me your heart and I'll show you my love. You let me know that you're willing to be imperfect and still have a perfectly giving, serving, loving life. Then you give me permission to let my imperfection out into the world too. See, you want to speak at another level, you got to be willing to love at another level, forgive at another level, show up at another level, speak up at another level, pray at another level. You have to be willing on every level to up level who you be on a daily basis. And recognizing that when you open up and use your voice, everything that comes out after you speak really doesn't belong to you. See, it's very difficult. Difficult to speak phenomenally and to not be good. Come on, y'. All. From y' all say not be great, but to be what? Un freaking forgettable. It's difficult to be unforgettable while you're still trying to look good. You can't do two things as chasing two rabbits. See, unforgettable has everything to do with serving at a level so high, so big, so massive, that people feel like they have to change their lives because they crossed your path. See, when you're willing to use your voice, first you have to recognize that you have one. You gotta recognize that no matter your past, you were given a voice and your voice was given not to keep to yourself. Your voice is not a secret. And you have to be willing to use every experience that's ever happened in your life not as a fortress holding you from using your voice, but as the fuel on why you will use your voice. You gotta be willing to not stand in your story, but stand on your story. It's not in spite of your past that you get to be amazing, that you get to be a change agent, that you get to transform lives. It's because of your past that you're perfect for such a job. Hi. When you own it like that. See, there's no question in my certainty about my life. Can you walk with that level of certainty? So that when the wind comes and then when the wind blows? And it will come and it will blow and it will be a storm and it will be a tornado and it will look like divorce and it will look like bankruptcy and it will look like an illness and it will look like a loss. When it comes, it will rock you. It will rock you? It will rock you? But it won't move you sa.
