Ever feel like giving up?
I recently listened to Lisa Nichols. Her words were a wake-up call. She reminds us that we're each uniquely equipped to face our challenges and inspire others along the way.
As you read, ask yourself: What unique gifts do you bring to the world? How can you tap into your resilience today? Remember, nobody can do you better than you.
Nobody Can Do You Better Than You
by Lisa Nichols
No one else has to get your vision because God, the divine, did not give your vision to anyone else but you.
Resiliency is not something that you download from Google. It's not something that you look up in the glossary and you instantaneously have it.
Resiliency is that thing that you tap into when you hit a wall, and nothing seems to be going the way you planned it.
Resiliency is that thing that you muster up when you feel like you can't go any further, when the best plan that you made falls right in front of your face, or when the relationship that you thought should go on forever ends abruptly.
Resiliency is that thing you tap into when you say I'm not ready to give up. I'm not ready to stop. I'm tired, but I won't quit.
Resiliency is that space that you go to inside of you where you begin to say the things you never thought you would say and do the things that you never thought you would do because you want to be the woman, the man you've always known yourself to be.
There is a time in your life when you have to find something that you never thought you would have, do something you never thought you would do because you know the man, the woman you're supposed to be, is on the other side of that action. And not everyone's going to agree with you. Not everyone's going to align with you. Not everyone's going to support your vision. Not everyone's going to support your dream.
There are times when you have to carry your dream alone. But in those moments when you are the only one carrying your dream, you're the only one getting your ideas, and you're the only one that understands your vision, see, you're the nurture, the conduit, that there's something unique and divine coming in that can only come through you.
You are the person, you are the perfect person, with all of your imperfection, you woke up enough, you are smart enough, you are brilliant enough, you're wise enough, you're tall enough, you are short enough. You are enough, you are dark enough, you're light enough. You are enough. You are the only person that can bring this divine, unique. And when you rise, and when you lift, and when you breathe, and when you stand again, when you turn the crawl into a walk, and you walk into a run, and your run into a soar, when you do that, you liberate every single one of us witnessing you. You liberate every single young child, every single young woman, every single older woman, every senior citizen, and every single person from two to twenty to ninety who crossed your path and saw they witnessed your resiliency.
Your life is so much bigger than just this moment. Your life is meant to leave and indelible impression on all of us, and you are the perfect person to do it. Look at who you are. Look at what you've been.
Look at who you are. Look at what you've done. Look at what you've come through. Look at what you're going to do. You're perfectly designed for such a time as this.
No one can be better than you. No one can move with your rhythm. No one has your style. No one has your grace. No one has your sense of ownership. No one has your sense of determination. No one can do better than you. And when you do you, and we witness, you give us all permission to do as.
So go ahead.
If you get knocked down, get knocked down. If you sit down for a minute, sit down for a minute, but then get back up. Because who you've been made to be, who you've been designed to be, you will always get back up. It's not in your mind, it's not in your essence, it's in your DNA. You will get back up, and when you get back up, you will stand up tall. When you stand up tall, you will run fast. When you run fast, you will soar high.
Why? Because you always do.