Remember to Empower Yourself
I often run across people who aspire to be authors and/or empowerment speakers. I meet people wherever I go that have a story to tell. I encounter many who desire to have an audience listen to them. I have found both as an author and a speaker that you cannot truly empower anyone else unless you have empowered yourself. What does it mean to empower yourself?
1) Not making assumptions about anything or anyone.
2)Handling yourself in a respectful manner.
3) Knowing that no one can bring you down to their level without your participation.
4) Always try to make the best of a bad situation.
5) Realize when its time to cut your losses.
Living an empowered life is living on your own terms. Its finding happiness where you are. Its living your life in a way that you can be proud of how you behaved. No one has a right to bring you down or bring you into their negativity. For everyone who truly wants to impact others and empower others, remember you must empower yourself.
When was the last time you had to empower yourself despite the negativity that may have been swirling around you? I’d love to hear your stories.
About the Author
Yasmin Shiraz is the President of Still Eye Rise Films, an independent production company which films educational and thought provoking documentaries that chronicle the lives, traumas and experiences of youth. Her first production, Can She Be Saved?, a documentary that examines violence among middle school girls, was an official selection of the 2009 Roxbury Film Festival and recently won a 2009 Indie Award of Merit from IndieFest.
Yasmin Shiraz is the Award winning Author of Retaliation a novel about a community’s response to youth violence. In 2009, it was selected as one of the top Ten Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers by the American Library Association. She is the author of The Blueprint for My Girls: How To Build A Life Full of Courage, Determination & Self Love (Simon and Schuster) and five other books. Her best selling “Blueprint” empowerment series is utilized as a self esteem, motivational, and educational tool at middle and high schools, after school programs, non-profit youth centers, as well as Boys and Girls Clubs throughout the country. 
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