A good friend of mine, Shermain Melton, asked me a simple question last week: What do you stand for?
What comes up for you when you think it? To take a stand means to believe in something. To defend something. To fight for something.
Taking a stand means it’s worthy of you getting up in the morning and working towards it. It means you care enough about it that you want others to have it.
It can be aspirational, but more likely it is retroactively provable. You have felt strongly about it for a long time.
This is what I stand for:
I stand for not giving into stories about why something can’t be done.
I stand for maintaining hope and optimism in the face of overwhelming odds.
I stand for taking action when the moment arrives.
I stand for knowing there is always another path to take.
I stand for believing that anyone has the same potential as anyone else.
I stand for caring about the world my kids, and everyone else’s, will inherit.
I stand for making the world a better place by my being in it.
I stand for showing and not telling.
I stand for inspiration over provocation.
I stand for having it all is possible.
I stand for taking on the impossible.
I stand for being kind to yourself.
I stand for knowing everyone’s story is worthy of telling.
I stand for living a life of freedom.
I stand for knowing how much is enough.
I stand for modeling for others what a single person can do.
I stand for being true to my word.
