From bestselling author and motivational speaker Lisa Nichols comes a unique and powerful inspirational program that will both move you and empower you to realize your dreams. Millions are trying to live by The Secret's Law of Attraction, but the truth is it won't work unless you flex your all-important "bounce-back" muscles, which give you the ability to successfully navigate life's speed bumps.
By developing and toning her own bounce-back muscles at critical points in her life, Lisa found the power to become her authentic self and achieve everything she dared to hope for. Now, in NO MATTER WHAT, she offers a groundbreaking program that outlines these 9 Steps or "muscles", which include among others your Confidence, Faith-in-Myself, Honesty Out Loud and Forgiveness muscles, and explains how anyone can use them to achieve happiness and off-the-charts success. In this powerful guide Lisa Nichols introduces her dynamic plan, shares her own remarkable story, and prescribes specific exercises and action steps to inspire readers to learn from their past and move toward a courageous future.
"I've watched Lisa Nichols light up rooms and inspire thousands for years. As a featured teacher in The Secret, she explained the Law of Attraction, but now, for the first time, she reveals her own secret to the Law of No Matter What . Read this book, and learn to create the things in life you believed were out of reach." -- Marci Shimoff, bestselling author of Happy for No Reason and featured teacher in The Secret
"Lisa is a living example of what it takes to overcome the inevitable obstacles in your path...with the help of this book, you'll be able to soar to success--no matter what!" -- Jack Canfield, Co-Author of the New York Times Bestselling Chicken Soup for the Soul Series
"Lisa Nichols is a rock star of personal growth! Gutsy and authentic, in NO MATTER WHAT, Lisa uses her charismatic and influential style to teach resilience. Whether you are a seasoned student of character and enlightenment or just starting, this book is a must read, advanced course for possibility." --Stephen M. R. Covey, author of The New York Times bestseller The Speed of Trust
I ABSOLUTLEY LOVE THIS BOOK! I credit this book for myself growth and awareness. Author Lisa Nichols gives a 9 step method to helping people achieve happiness and strengthen their “bounce back” muscle. Through delving into her life and sharing her many challenges and explaining how she managed to overcome these obstacles, Lisa gives readers hope and encouragement that they too can overcome anything. Her writing style is one that speaks directly from her own voice. I think she uses this writing aspect well because readers can feel a sense of connection and intimacy between the writer and the subject. Lisa makes readers understand they are not alone in their struggle. She even provides tips on and a self-assessment guide for readers to figure out their past feeling and emotions, current state of mind, and hope as to where they want to be in the future. I highly recommend this book for those who like self-help books.
Every time I say that I am through with reading self-help books, then another one falls into my lap.
I think the first time I was introduced to Lisa Nichols was from watching the now cancelled show, Starting Over. It was a daytime reality show that brought several women into a house to help them let go of past defeats and truly start over on their dreams. There were women from all walks of life being helped by life coaches, psychologists and other professionals. Iyanla Vanzant joined the show as a life coach and took one of the women for coaching with Nichols. The next time I saw her was in the DVD for The Secret (yes, I am one of those people). She stood out as one of only two African-Americans featured (Rev. Michael Beckwith was the other one; I will read his book later) and that was important to me because there aren't a lot of us in the self-help game.
A lot of authors use their own stories as a means of example and this one is no different. Ms. Nichols has gone through her share of difficulties and bad experiences on the road to becoming who she is today. What stood out for me is that she grew up in southern Los Angeles (formerly known as South Central) and her difficulties and bad experiences are similar to ones that I and people I have known have also gone through.
Nichols' books is divided into 9 steps, or "muscles". These are muscles that when developed can help to to navigate life's ups and downs more effectively. Having read a lot of books like this, I really like the muscle concept. When you work out your physical muscles, you don't get results right away. But through diligent work they get more developed and therefore more effective. The same can be said of the 9 muscles that Lisa Nichols outlines: Understanding, Faith-in-Myself, Take-Action, I-Know-Like-I-Know, Honesty, Say-Yes, Determination, Forgiveness, and Highest Choice.
No Matter What! is a fresh take on the self-help genre that doesn't present a quick fix of your problems. Lisa Nichols just doesn't give you a set of exercises that will make every thing all right, she acknowledges that it is a process to develop those "muscles" and it won't be done overnight. Very refreshing.
This book made me take a long hard look at my life and reevaluate. Thank you Lisa for helping me to examine my life honestly and accept things I can't change and change things I can. Such beautiful testimony.
Lisa Nichols shares her very personal failures and triumph in this book. I can only imagine how dynamic she must be in person because her strength and voice come right off the page. Although I was unable to relate to many of the stories, having gone through nothing as dramatic in my life, I can see how developing our 'bounce-back muscles' can lead anyone to a more fulfilling life. I admit that I read straight through the book without doing the exercises the first time around but I do plan to go back and work through each chapter more fully to see how I can apply some of Lisa's wisdom to my life. I have a feeling that the exercises will be uncomfortable and I will feel ridiculous working through some of them but being truly honest in examining one's life is not an easy task
I met author Lisa Nichols awhile ago at her book event in Brooklyn, NY. Her commitment to helping others succeed was evident in her powerful and inspiring presentation. Her new book "No Matter What!: 9 Steps to Living the Life You Love” is a candid autobiographical work chronicling her journey to business owner, best-selling author and motivational speaker. She also shares ways for overcoming challenges and “flexing your muscles” to achieve your dreams.
This was a great motivational book. The author shows how she developed the ability to overcome hardship and find her path, and she gives many exercises to help the reader to do the same. Since it was a library book, I didn't have enough time to work through the exercises, but I can see their power and will probably buy a copy so I have more time to reread and work with the book.
One time I saw an advert whose image has remained indelibly etched on my memory. The photo had a squirrel about to crush a nut with a pair of pliers. It had one more thing a short caption that read: ‘Unfair advantage.’ That is exactly what I would have said about Lisa Nichols if her book came out the way her speeches do. But nonetheless, she put together an awesome book with ideas and counsel that oozes, not only wisdom, but also great business ideas and models for the many young people I see going about starting their motivational speaking careers the wrong way.
Sure enough, like I tell them when they ask for my advice regarding the quick fix route: “You do that, and you will soon run out of steam in a few months and next disappear from the limelight – which is basically social media.” Funny, they always go and do exactly that!
Before, I would said, read Gayton Mackenzie’s book – ‘A Hustler’s Bible’ – and use the model with which he kicked off his motivational speaking career to launch yours. Now, I think I have something more solid and way better. If you want to become a motivational speaker and make a living out of it: pick Lisa Nichols’ ‘No Matter What” and read through it. BETTER YET study it carefully and you can thank me later.
Meantime, here is my argument for ‘No Matter What’. Lisa Nichols went through it all. She was born black and was not the kid that turned heads when she happened down the road. Then she started school when desegregation was at its experimental stage in the USA. For Lisa it meant being in a largely white school and having even the sh**tiest of racist scum make fun of you and some of these daft kids literally have no life, they can choose to make you their sole attention in school every freaking day of their miserable life!
Then when she goes to university, some bloke head decides to make her scholarship strictly about sport, when it wasn’t. Clearly, this coach resolved that the young skinny black girl could only be good for running track – even when she had torn a tendon and needed some slack. There was going to be NO SLACK for her. Either she disintegrated on the pitch or the scholarship would be cancelled. She took the high way and college went down the drain. But not without dire consequences – the kind that Lisa had not anticipated.
In America, not having a college education is a curse. One big curse that could not be fixed by attending some inferior programme at a community college, that serves, more or less as a half-way house to gangsterism, prison and sure death or some lay job with a welfare eventuality. Lisa’s lay job needed some heartless attitude – they were collecting money from defaulters, and Lisa was too sweet to her clients. That was bad for this business.
Jobless and living in commune, she could hardly pull her weight and was becoming a burden on the other housemates. Instead of pulling her weight, she chooses to see the world as conspiring to let her down and keep her there. And she does what many people who take recourse to this lame trick do: MOPING. And all the while the Universe is closely watching her and probably thinking: if this young woman thinks she will whine her troubles away just like that, she’s got another think coming!
One day, in between her sulking, she turns the TV on and the Universe hits her with a strong message that simply said: Nobody owes you anything. It was a nicely packaged anecdote and delivered by none other Les Brown!
Lisa snapped out of her misery and decided to own her problems so she could do something about them. And she did. Normally, when this happens, the rest as they say becomes history and people go on to make it big in the area of motivational speaking and use their story as a reference point: throw in the sexual molestation she experienced at age five, and the picture is complete. This is the ordinary model and of course Lisa was also sexually molested when she was only five!
But Lisa’s story goes beyond this and, don’t get me wrong, I am not trying to downplay, sexual and racial abuse visiting a young black girl in one life time: God forbid! But what follows Lisa’s comeback is what catapults her into her own league as an inspiration. In trying to Band-Aid her inferiority complex and poor self-esteem Lisa screws up her life, not once, not twice, but several times. And she almost sacrifices everything in the process.
And then when all is done and she receives her T-shirt for being a serial screw up, Lisa has a child whose father ends up in prison. Next, she almost dies at the hands of the boy’s prospective stepfather who was struggling with a bipolar disorder; and there is more screwing up in between, it makes her story JUST NOT ONE OF THOSE WE USUALLY COME ACROSS. Her story simply says, among many other things: No Matter What happens, life only gets better. But it sure as hell can get so messed up; the faint hearted could easily leap off a cliff, effectively slapping a permanent solution to a temporary problem. So before you leap or do anything silly, I implore you to read this book first. Life is too precious to not fight one more time and Lisa will show you how to do so in this book.
Turning to business, Lisa showed me one more thing: A beautiful foolproof strategy that you can use to launch yourself into a successful motivational speaking career guaranteed 100% to work out. If you are interested in this secret: for your sake and for Lisa’s sake, I am sure I have made you curious enough to want to hear it and try it out. Lisa has done her part – the larger one, no doubt: screwing up a gazillion times and, in the process, coming up with this amazing business model. I have complemented this by reading her book and then sharing this review in which I have tried my best to make you very anxious to know about this game changing model. Now it’s time for you to play your part; pick the book and improve your fortunes.
Lastly, I would like to dedicate this review to a driven young woman who first mentioned Lisa Nichols to me. Now it’s my turn to introduce you – You know who you are – to Lisa Nichol’s amazing book. I know you need it right now, wherever you are. Get in touch and I will send you my copy to read and to own!
I can honestly say I did benefit from this book. The activities at the end of the chapters were very helpful. They were hands on and make you reflect on different areas of your spirit that need work. Lisa sounds like she would be a good speaker. The only thing I did not like was her storytelling. I really dont like when authors story tell word for word. How do you know exactly what you said and what someone said to you when you were 5 years old? She does a lot of exact dialogue from past experiences and it irritated me. I wish she could've found a better way to tie her experiences in with the chapters in the book. The perfect word for word recounts just made me wonder just how much of her experiences were true and what stories did she just put together because they sound nice. I also HATED the predictability of her stories. I would already know the outcome when she started and she would just drag it out trying to lead up to what happened but the way she explained it, you could already tell how it was going to end. I guess she's a better speaker than writer. Its easy to ad lib to stories to make it sound more interesting when your verbally telling a story but its not as easy to write it and not lose your credibility
Not a big fan of self-help book myself but this one is exceptional. Found out about Lisa from her powerful speeches available online and from thereon I knew she'd be my go-to reference in the subject of "dream big".
Her approach to self-growth is so powerful, that I realized I've been neglecting myself way too much all this while and now I need to thank this book for waking me up to start 'doing myself' first, only by doing so I can serve my purpose and enrich others.
Good thing, exercises provided inside are practical enough and serve more like a practice of daily affirmations, the more you say it, it starts to be a part of you. And thank God no complicated theories or out of this world jargon since Lisa is just an ordinary human with an extraordinary ability to touch your soul (to me at least). She shares a lot on how she bounced back after many shortfalls and mistakes happened to her that led her to where she is right now.
This book won't make you rich but it will jumpstart you journey of playing full-out, saying yes, controlling negative emotions and live a life of worth and purpose..
Lisa Nichols’ book No matter what reads like a story a close friend of mine narrates to me. I like the way she writes. It is entertaining, grasping and very insightful. The personal anecdotes she used and the way she brings out the lessons makes it so real and doable. The book has nine sections that discuss on building bounce back muscles (mental, emotional, physical...) to get on track with our lives and achieve our goals in life no matter what. Another aspect that I liked about the book is that she openly writes about her struggles, defeats, and her low moments, which I think makes her more human and easy to connect to in the eyes of the readers. I thought of the saying where there is the will there is the way. Lisa comes in to help on strengthening the muscles (faith, understanding, determination, forgiveness, honesty, take action, I know like I know and the highest choice muscle) to keep the will strong. I would recommend this book to someone who wants to be inspired and uplifted.
The part I appreciated the most about this book were the personal reflections from Lisa herself. I was first introduced to Lisa Nichols eight years ago when I first watched "The Secret", the start of my own personal journey to live a life more in line with my dreams and desires. I'm not sure when I discovered she had a book but I'm glad I read it. Some of the self-help hype can get blown out of hand but this book seems to stay grounded in that it really is so personal.
NOT the conventional self-help book. Lisa Nichols has a touching simple style and tons of useful tools and introspective activities that, unlike many other books I read, I was eager to do and apply to my daily life. You don't have to be emotionally disturbed or going trough a lot of problems to enjoy this book but for those who are, this lecture can be life-changing.
I love Lisa Nichols! She is inspiring and makes you feel like you're having a conversation with a friend. She tells her very personal stories and exactly how she became who she is. I would recommend any book she has ever written without even reading it because I know that it will be a huge take away from reading whatever advice she gives!
so far, I can relate. Lisa's voice is true, passionate and like a warm cup of tea with a friend. I'm on this journey of rediscovering myself - don't we all go through that at some middle-life time? and Lisa's stories, encouragement and exercises are helping me build some emotional muscles!
This book was so good I am planning on buying it. For me, that is the highest compliment to a book that I can give because that means I plan on rereading. Not only was the book packed with great exercises but with true stories about how Lisa discovered these exercises.
I enjoyed the author's writing style, but didn't find her "bounce back muscle" stories helpful to me. I didn't resonate with her message. I'm glad others found this book useful, but it was not for me.
Enjoyed reading this book. Didn't know much about this author prior to now. She bares her soul to put her points across, and achieves that goal beautifully! Very inspirational reading with practical instructions and everyday application! I will look for her other publications.
Inspirational! I loved the real life examples and details that Nichols provides. As much as you're interested in the methods for improving yourself, you're equally interested in her captivating story of transformation.
Self-development at its best! An encouraging program to improve your life on every level. This book is not just theory, it is "lived" by the acclaimed motivational speaker Lisa Nichols.
A great read for that extra kick we all need to give ourselves when we get comfortable thinking we're too busy maintaining to strive for our original goals and dreams.
Got lots of helpful ideas. I listened in the car and couldn't right enough of it down - I'll have to get it from the library again. A very practical guide!