Cyrus Webb - Power Your Life With the Positive: Life Lessons and Secrets for Success From Luminaries and Everyday Heroes

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Power Your Life with the Positive: Life Lessons and Secrets to Success from Luminaries and Everyday Heroes

Library of Congress Cataloging

ISBN: (print) 978-1-63353-748-4 (ebook) 978-1-63353-749-1

Library of Congress Control Number: 2018937910

BISAC category code: SEL027000 SELF-HELP / Personal Growth / Success

Printed in the United States of America

To the Reader:

There are so many influences t hat ca n bring us down in life, making us feel as though nothing is possible and that our goals and dreams are unattainable. Maybe you find yourself surrounded by such negativity. Does it have to dictate what you are able to do in your own life? Absolutely not!

Through my radio show, magazine, and web series, I have interviewed over seventy-eight hundred guests from all walks of life. They might seem different at first glance, but each is a great example of someone who has accomplished amazing things while facing difficult circumstances. Power Your Life with the Positive draws on my interviews with forty such individuals, people who have overcome challenges, set goals, and exceeded them often bouncing back from difficulty to find their way to achievement.

But Power Your Life with the Positive does not end with the stories it tellsit continues with yours. After each profile, you will find questions and inspirational quotes to prompt thought, journaling, or discussion on what you have just read. To focus discussion and thought, as well as providing more nugget-sized inspiration, Power Your Life with the Positive includes text-box nuggets in each profile that you can draw on

for yourself.

Nothing in life is impossible. Your goals and dreams are worth fighting for. Let these examples give you the fuel you need to power your life with the positive and leave the negativity behind.

Cyrus Webb

Table of Contents

Actress, Producer, and Author Robinne Lee

Robinne Lee is a talented producer, actress and author, a woman known for movies like Deliver Us from Eva and Seven Pounds , as well as the hit show on BET, Being Mary Jane . Her fans went crazy when she joined the cast of the Fifty Shades franchise, and she spends a lot of time promoting her work, which includes her new novel, The Idea of You . Her busy life shows how much effort Robinne has put into her work, but she is always eager to share with others how her success is something they can attain as well.

CW. Robinne, what has it been like for you to reflect on this amazing ride that you have had, not only as an actor and a producer, but now as an author?

RL. You know, I think I am the kind of person I am a little bit of a Type A person. I am very controlling, but I also dont like to sit still.

I feel like I need to be creating and evolving, and I think that it is important to keep finding things that feed your soul, your heart, and your brain.

And for me, Ive always appreciated storytelling in any aspect, and I have always written for myself for joy since I was little. I just kind of did it for pleasure. And the same with actingit has always given me pleasure, but acting is different in the fact in the way that you are waiting for someone to give you permission to act. You kind of have to rely on other people to support you.

Writing is something that I just sit down anywhere with my laptop and create and have something to show for it.

CW. That control is definitely a great thing. I think so many times, even in other professions, we give up so much of our power, and we wait on opportunities that in many ways and now especially with technology and the way that the world is that we can create for ourselves. People have gotten to know you over the years because of these amazing characters that you brought to life and dramas and comedies youve been a part of. Do you think that also helped set the stage for where you are now with books, where you are able to bring us a little bit of laughter and a little bit of drama but also, you know, those really deep personalities you have gotten to play and gotten to know yourself?

RL. Right! I think that it all feeds into each other. If you are a person and paying attention and living and breathing in the world, you hold onto these things. You hold onto these experiences and you hold on to all of the parts that make you who you are. At least as an artist I kind of store them up so I can use them in future projects, and whether or not its something that Ive borrowed from the behavior of one character or a voice or something, its like having a treasure of materials that you can dip into. And so I think all of these little things that you do, everything you experience and the way you experience the world kind of really helps you as an artist, as long as you make yourself open to experiencing new things and you kind of walk around as if you dont have any skin and allow situations in different environments to affect you.

CW. Your main character in your book, The Idea of You , is having to definitely find her way as many of us do. There is so much we can learn from her experiences that play into what others can realize about powering their lives with the positive. Part of Celine, the main character of your book, is her ability to change and adapt when things werent going well. What do you want readers to think about when they read Celines words about realizing that you can redefine yourself and that you can really be whatever you really want
to be?

RL. I felt, at twenty, like the choices that I made then were going to lead me on a path to a certain place, and that I wasnt going to be able to change direction. I wanted to try all of these different things, but I also had these fears that maybe I am not focusing enough. I did have friends who came out of college and then went straight to law school, and they were on a certain path. They then became law professors, etc. They were on this certain trajectory, but I feel like if you know what you want to do from the time you are young thats one thing, but if you dont know what you want to do you shouldnt feel like, Ive got to figure it out right now.

There is time to figure it out. And even if you do figure it out, you can re-figure it out and you can reinvent yourself. You are not running out of time.

I love that you can continue to redefine and you can continue to choose who you are and who you are
going to be at any age until you die. Dont be afraid to make mistakes.

Have you started on the journey to doing what you love in life?

If it hasnt worked out, how can you redefine your goal for yourself and give it another shot?

Power Your Life WITH IMAGINATION

Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.