“The Secret” Star Lisa Nichols Says Anyone Can Succeed No Matter What!
| on May 7, 2009 at 6:33 pm | filed under Featured Posts |
After making a inspiring appearance in The Secret and then being a guest on the Oprah show, everything changed for Lisa Nichols. Her journey from humble beginnings to achieving acclaim as a highly regarded coach, speaker and writer, is explored in her new book No Matter What! 9 Steps to Living the Life you Love.
When I tell Lisa that I have never read a self-help book that makes me both crack up and cry. Lisa says that’s because her format is unique. It’s part memoir, part how-to, and part action steps. When her editor told her “We’ve never done a book like this,” Lisa replied, “We’ve never been in a time like this!”
According to Nichols she wanted to inspire and heal the reader with something meaty and then further engage them with the how-to steps before each new chapter. “I knew people would love it because I created it from the market’s request. I’m not an expert. Just obedient. I’m not here to convert you; you have to want to get it. As long as you want to hear the answers, then I’m happy to help,” says Nichols.
From Breakdown to Breakthrough
After her appearance on Oprah, Nichols received nearly 10,000 emails from people of all ages and backgrounds and from all parts of the world! 98% of the emails had a variation on this question: “Lisa, how could I have a happy future, if this happened in my past?” That’s when Nichols thought it was time to tell her story of “breakdown to breakthrough, of setback to setup for something greater.” She also went back and looked at what her market asked and wanted. She maintained a “listening ear.”
Nichols is honest and brave as she shares painful stories from her life in order to set the example about how anyone can bounce back and overcome any obstacle to live the life they desire and deserve. She repeatedly makes the point that this book is not theory.
As she says with energy and humor: “It’s coming from ‘Hey man when I was down like that, this is what I did dude!’” She shares her “junk” so that the readers can know how stuck she was and how she is now swelling in gratitude because “the light is so bright.” With real joy, she states, “I love the pendulum, the full swing. People are waiting for the miracle and they’re missing the blessings in front of them.”
The Missing Step Zero: Building Bounce-back Character Muscles
“This is the book people need most before they can make “The Secret” (law of attraction) work. “Everything I read was step 1, 2, 3. I needed step zero!,” Nichols proclaims. “Before I can bounce forward, I need to bounce back…from a relationship that didn’t last or lasted too long, from a family situation, from not loving what I see in the mirror.”
In No Matter What! she helps her audience develop 9 different bounce-back muscles. One reader may need to develop their “Honesty Muscle,” while another needs to strengthen their “Faith-in-Myself” Muscle. She also covers:
- your Understanding Muscle
- your Take-Action Muscle
- your I-Know-Like-I-Know Muscle
- your Say-Yes Muscle
- your Determination Muscle
- your Forgiveness Muscle
- your Highest Choice Muscle
Nichols explains that muscles were used as the symbol for growth because people immediately understand that to get physically fit you can’t think your way to success. You have to take action. “I needed to create a language that enabled us to develop character muscle in the same way,” she states.
Where The Secret provided 91 minutes of mind set, No Matter What! offers 200 plus pages of actions steps.
Truth That Can Transform
Nichols gives readers real things to face, real, painful, sobering truth, rather than “Rah, Rah cheerleading. “If I didn’t, I’d be saying I didn’t trust you to handle it or I can’t trust giving giving it to you,” she states. Yet she sprinkles hard truths to face with humor that has been a healing balm for herself, along with prayer. “Someone lost 60 pounds and I found it! No Matter What I’m returning it to the rightful owner,” she says laughing and admitting that she’s a work in progress.
I comment on her beautiful rhythmic voice. Without hesitation, she replies that it comes from no longer operating as a reservoir that’s holding it all in, but rather as a river in flow. “I am fully available, because when I make that all available to you, I’m willing to give it to me, and stand in my completeness. I’m comfortable with myself and that’s contagious. It took me a while to find my rhythm. I now get the feeling of that touching God possibility in me connecting to possibility in you…and it just feels good.”
Being Your Purpose
“Your life is created through seasons and every season has a reason. Your purpose is not something you DO. Your purpose is some you BE [emphasis mine]. My purpose is to encourage, heal and inspire people. That’s not about being on stage or sitting in front of Larry King. It is to BE encouragement inspiration and healing,” Nichols simply says. It’s the private moments with people when they release something toxic that she will take to her grave, not the grandiose moments. “I’m being my purpose, discovering my purpose each day.”
Lisa Nichols invites you to watch the free 19-minute video at www.nomatterwhattour.com. She promises: “It’s short, it’s powerful. It’s a rocket booster setting your inner champion free.”
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