Inspirational speaker, Corliss Rassyle, spoke before a sizeable crowd gathered at the Prince of Wales Cultural and Recreation Centre on Tuesday, November 5. Rassyle, the author of Lead Your Life: How to live with Purpose, Passion and Confidence, is the head of With Purpose Consulting, a company established to assist people to unearth meaning in their lives and to uncover their potentiality towards self-improvement. The event in Assiniboia was organized by the community’s Health and Wellness Team. Adults paid $5 and ages 12-18 were allowed in for free. Refreshments for the evening were provided by Fresh Start.
The Prince Albert-based speaker spoke about her life and the path she took to reinvent herself as a motivational author and presenter. “Life has funny way of changing and evolving,” the author said. “The past hasn’t defined you, its prepared you. Everything that’s happened to you has prepared you,” Rassyle further emphasized. “You have the power to create anything you want.”
After Rassyle introduced herself to the enthusiastic crowd, she talked about how she became a motivational speaker and author. Before her divorce, Rassyle had a life she described as being “picture perfect.” She had a great house, a loving family and a successful marriage then everything feel apart when she was 40-years-old. Rassyle moved into a tiny apartment with her family and struggled financially. At this juncture, she decided to transform her existence and move upwards in a wholistic sense, instead of shifting herself and her family into a downward spiral. “Everything happens for a reason,” the author declared. “The real character comes when you’re down, not up,” she added. “Give up thinking about could go wrong and think about what could go right.”
After her inward self-revelation about the exciting possibilities of individual power, creativity and leadership, the author decided to assist others in waking up and sensing their own individual strengths.
“How can you take your life back?” Rassyle asked the audience. “You can be a leader,” she answered. “Understand your thoughts and actions are shaping you and everyone around you.” According to the author, an individual’s inner-beliefs and thoughts have an important function in moulding and directing their lives. The author said the average person has about 50,000 to 70,000 thoughts per day. “Those thoughts are either serving you or not.” To get rid of the bad thoughts and replace them with optimistic and constructive ideals, the author instructed the audience to pull rubber bands over their wrists. “When you have a thought that doesn’t serve you, snap the band around your wrist,” Rassyle suggested.
“The more you think a thought, the more it becomes a belief,” said Rassyle as she further outlined how inner thoughts are capable of directing an individual to attain specific outcomes. Thoughts become feelings, which in turn become actions and then conclude with definitive results. “Change your thoughts by not focussing on the event, but by changing your response to the outcome.”
For Rassyle, understanding the power of a single individual is an important keystone for self-actualization. “Your thoughts and decisions are changing your life. Action is required. “You are one decision away from changing your life,” she instructed.
