Blog.

The missing thing in your life is so simple yet feels elusive – unattainable.

It’s CLARITY.

It’s always going to be clarity.

You’re always going to be seeking clarity. 

Why is that? 

Because when you are clear on what you want, what the next action to take, the next step, the outcome, the goal, the plan – ALL OF IT – then you cut out a LOT of frustration and crap in your life (if not all of it!)

Life flows when you give it clear instructions.

It wants to serve you. It wants to help you.

The reason for most of what ails you in life is because you don’t have the answers you need and the reason you don’t have answers right now is because something is not clear.

This is what is missing for you. 

It’s missing in your:

• financial life
• health life
• relationship life
• ALL THE PARTS!

This is the thing missing in your life – I’ll bet you my bottom dollar!

This is the secret to everything you ever wanted in life!

So, yes, I’m doling out advice.

Do what ever it takes to get clear.

DO WHATEVER IT TAKES TO GET CLARITY IN YOUR LIFE!

D O  W H A T E V E R  I T  T A K E S  T O  G E T  C R Y S T A L  C L E A R ! !

You will rid yourself of worry and frustration and really get to…….

Live Your Legacy!

xx L

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You still don’t have it do you?

Burning Desire.

Okay, so maybe every once in a while you get a burning desire for something.

(Obviously, I’m referring to chocolate!)

I mean, sure every once in a while you get these moments filled with passion and a deep-burning desire — for chocolate.

But, that’s really not the burning desire I’m talking about.

It’s about the burning desire you do lip service to (and even then, most don’t) but you’re not really feeling deep down.

Maybe it feels fake or pushed or not in flow.

I will be the first to say that it’s hard to find your burning desire for the great things in this life that you know you were called to do, but to do them means hard work and facing your fears.

This is where you have to dig deep.

I was totally confronted with this message this week.

I literally got the whole “burning desire” message from like 4 different sources this week that my burning desire is not really burning at the moment. (So, clearly, the universe is practically banging me on the head with it!)

And what I have – you’d hardly desire.

Sometimes life is MEH. (And that’s okay btw to have those seasons!)

I mean, don’t get me wrong, I haven’t quit – one foot in front of the other and sure, yes, I’m doing all the things I love and absolutely do love my life, but that “burn all your boats” part has been missing.

You know, when there’s no turning back.

Not that you at all need to “burn all your boats”, but it’s like that deep connection with the work I’m doing is missing.

And to be more on point, I think it has to do with the fact that, (and I’ve preached this more than once…) my guide, my angel, my higher-self, my captain, my subconscious, inner-soul – whatever you want to call her, but I call her – CLARITY – was missing.

Or rather, I just tuned her out.

Even more so, I know I’m not the only one.

I look at humanity, in general, and know I’m not the only one who’s tuning out my higher purpose most of the time.

“Da-da-da, I can’t hear you.”

Okay, so I also know I could have coffee with you right now and you’d probably agree with me that you aren’t really doing the thing you were meant to do – and if you are, you’re not showing up in a BIG SOULFUL way.

Obviously, we are tuning out from ourselves and tuning into what the crowd is doing. (I’m referring that the crowd is what our Partners, Kids, Family, Work etc. is doing to push us along into their tangled webs of their ‘stuff’, leading us away from our ‘stuff’!)

I mean, I’m so queen of this. I tune out often. I’ll admit it.

Sure, there’s a balance and time of rest and rejuvenation needed, but I also know when I get that nudge that I can be doing something more useful with my time.

And I know why “we”, in general terms, don’t go after the BIG stuff we know we can achieve.

And I would say that it’s because we are too damn comfortable with our lives.

I was telling my biz-bestie yesterday that my life is cush…

Super Cushy.

I mean, I have;

• food – a life time supply of chocolate at my disposal at the gas station a few minutes from home (what more could one want in life?!)
• big-screen TVs – more than 5 in my home – LIKE an embarrassing amount…..
• a nice warm car
• a beautiful bed and chair to write on
• comfy nice home (& office!)
• a fireplace
• fluffy slippers
• 8-year old Lulu’s (still in amazing shape – they just don’t make them like the used to!)
• a big family
• the best friends a girl could ask for
• the best support people…
• WAIT….I forgot my SHOES!

So, then again, I ask – what is all the striving for?

I mean, I literally have it all – right down to the old style Lulu’s!

Why then do we need to find a burning desire to do anything in life?

I mean, get a job, work, watch TV, few holidays, volunteer once in a while, wine night with friends and VOILA – you have a great life.

But if you are anything like me, there is something still screaming at you that wants out.

It’s your art.

It’s creating something bigger than yourself.

It’s the real reason you were put here on earth.

It’s the tiny candle-lit-flame deep down that hasn’t had a chance yet to turn into the burning wildfire of your soul.

You’ve kept it down.

You’ve kept it small for so long.

Only once in a while did you show your tiny tealight candle to someone and they saw your light, but then you hid it away again.

Life got in the way.

Life gets in the way.

It will again.

It will always.

It will until you finally decide that your WILDFIRE is more important than everyone else’s temporary 3-hour log fires. (My mom used to buy those! Cute!)

But you have to choose that for yourself.

No one else can.

No one else can put you first.

You have to be the cheerleader of your own fire.

It’s your job to turn your tealight into your WILDFIRE of burning desire.

Oh, and the other thing…

You have to have a singular purpose.

This is by far the greatest thing I have faced.

I’m all SQUIRREL!

What is your one purpose?

What is your one burning desire?

You can’t have 2.

Well, you can, but they are both going to be half-assed.

50% to be sure or 90/10 but either way it’s not 100% effort.

You must focus in and find that one burning desire and then from there all the rest will fall into place.

Like the book “The One Thing”, what’s the one thing you need to focus on that will knock down all the other dominoes in your path?

This is what Napoleon Hill meant by his burning desire.

When you don’t have a burning desire for anything, you are caught in drifter land.

You are a drifter.

You are a pawn in life.

You let life happen to you.

You let your mind happen to you.

Stop drifting.

Start thinking thoughts on purpose.

Being a drifter won’t serve you.

Be intentional.

Start fanning your flames.

Be the person who creates the light –

Heck, be the person that creates the smoke and shakes things up!

Be the force you were meant to be in the world.

Don’t stay in your comfy life.

I mean, sure, 99% of people will.

They will keep doing what other’s say they should.

They will keep listening to the other sheep.

They will stay with the herd.

That’s the 99% of people.

But you.

You are the 1%.

You came here to be the 1%.

So be it!

And when you do, when you find that burning desire –

burn up the path behind you –

there’s no going back!

You get to do what so many people don’t do.

You get to……

Live Your Legacy!

xx Lisa

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It’s not with your partner, your friends, your family.

There is no pecking order here.

They all fall below this very pivotal relationship.

Your relationship with you.

Of course, I wanted to write that your most important relationship is with MONEY – and really it is.

I mean seriously, money being what it really is – only a vibration you are a match for.

And that’s only because the relationship you have with MONEY is a direct reflection of the relationship you have with yourself. #youcanquotemeonthat

Money comes from within because it is first created in the mind with definite of purpose and then brought into your reality. (Napoleon Hill anyone?!)

Money, You…. it’s all the same. (I know you are going to hate me for that one… )

Truth be told, the relationships you have with other people – any other person – is also a direct reflection of the relationship you have with yourself. (SIDE STEP SMACK DOWN: for anyone who’s having a hate-on for anyone right now… clear that schtuff up with yourself – you are only holding yourself back…)

And, I know it’s hard.

Hard for us to face the facts (and down right scary!) that we are the attractors of our entire lives.

And totally hard for us to realize that our relationship with ourselves is really the most important relationship of all.

It’s hard because the world sings a different story when it comes to determining who your most important relationships are.

It has to.

It’s job is to make you believe it’s better for the whole than it is for the individual.

But, you know deep down that’s not true.

It can’t be.

You are getting told 100 different things and being pulled in a 100 different directions – it’s a miracle you still have your arms attached to your body!

You will never change the world, make a difference, help others, do all the ‘good deeds’ you dream of doing without taking care of the relationship with yourself first (or I’d even just leave it at your relationship with your mind!)

And the opposite is preached about by society, church groups and politics, obviously.

We are told never to be selfish.

We’ve received the message – loud and clear.

Put others first.

Being selfish is a bad.

Women do this masterfully.

I mean, has there ever been a more powerful propaganda to ever work than to convince women (& men) that their sole job is to take care of other people.

Always putting others first.

But this mindset will NEVER get you the desired results you want.

I’m not at all saying that helping others is bad.

Obviously, we need to otherwise humanity would not have survived, but more importantly, it’s the point of the story here:

To be able to make the biggest impact you want to make you NEED to get your head game, body game, thoughts game, feelings game ALL WORKING TOGETHER on the same page.

You need to get in alignment.

It all needs to be in flow.

It all needs to be put first before anything else can.

If the body is aching and requires a massage – then it needs a massage.

If the brain requires stimulation, a break, self-care – whatever it requires – then it needs that to keep the “whole person” you are in check.

Think about the guilt we’ve endured only because we listen to the tales and actually end up believing that we aren’t as important as everybody else.

I’m saying that we’ve been so trained to think that even doing one thing for ourselves is selfish, leaving us with like 40 Hail-Mary’s to do just because we want to go out and do something for ourselves for 5 minutes.

The guilt.

But again, I know we (as collective women & men) are slowly moving past this.

Or at least we are aware of this…

They say we are out for ourselves and that we are the most selfish generation of all time.

And to that I reply….

Isn’t in someway being able to be selfish (and make our choice like we can in this day & age) one of the things we as humanity has long fought for.

Wasn’t that the goal of our ancestors? Wasn’t that the goal of some of these wars?

So we can be free? Free to think, free to go about living our dreams?

And yet, we stay trapped, confined – held prisoner – by the thoughts that have us believe we aren’t worthy of greatness or the lies that we can’t make a difference, that our voice, our work, doesn’t matter.

And we fought against our innate desire to fulfill ourselves first.

Gave up.

And then ultimately became drifters in a half-assed life.

Resistance will be the biggest hold the ‘devil’ ever has on you.

Resistance from doing what you know you need to do, for what your soul is calling out, begging for – which could be anything from living your lifestyle to sharing your art to going after a long lost dream.

The bottom line is this: You need to NURTURE and LOVE yourself.

Because that’s the most important relationship to you.

Make it everything you want it to be.

Cause when you do, you automatically….

Live Your Legacy.

xx L

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Financial PTSD.

We’ve ALL had it.

AND

It’s real.

It’s NOT FUN!

So, how do you go move forward with your life after suffering from FINANCIAL TRAUMA?

I don’t care how it happened.

I don’t mind hearing your sob story. I’m sure I’ve heard it before and yes, I do have sympathy.

The liar, the stealer, the good-for-nothing ex, the snake-oil salesman, the errors & omissions of the well-meaning…..

Usually it falls into one of those categories.

Life sucks sometimes.

It doesn’t change the fact that it happened, and whatever happened has no left you holding the bag and you have to deal with it.

The bottom line is this: somewhere in your past a decision you made didn’t pan out as planned.

And this isn’t about who is right or who is wrong.

The fact is, you made a choice and now you have to take responsibility for it.

The reason why so many people stay in Financial Post-Traumatic Stress is because they don’t take the first step – which is admitting they are 100% responsible.

Most people can’t wrap their heads around this.

Don’t worry – you reading this aren’t most people.

Most people reading this will and always go with the path of the victim and will never rise above that station in life.

That’s totally okay.

That’s their choice.

But for the people who are called – know their calling, have a bigger game to play in life and a bigger purpose –

They never let petty, tiny, ridiculous MONEY ISSUES get in the way of what they are here to do.

Whether that be to provide for their families, create their dream business or life and no doubt make a profound and positive impact in the world.

They can’t let something as silly as a financial trauma or money issue get in their way!

If you are still complaining or stuck, here’s the reason why you are still suffering from your MONEY TRAUMA:

You are still attached.

You are still attached to the past.

You are still attached to the outcome and you haven’t released it yet.

When you don’t release the attachment you have to the outcomes it will CREATE anxiety in you.

You can push this money stuff down with an anti-anxiety prescription drug or non-prescription drugs and alcohol and food but let me tell you until you deal with the SCARY STUFF (aka. facing your real money problems) head on it will fester in your life until it produces a string of unfortunate events in your life.

You will manifest nothing good.

Becuase nothing good can come from not taking responsibility for all that you created.

Becuase you were put here to be a creator of your life, and not taking responsibility for that is against the entire reason for your existence.

Think about it.

You were here to create and when you are not creating your life ON PURPOSE you are playing victim to your life.

Creative beings not creating wreaks all havoc in people’s lives. 

People need to be creating constructively and on purpose, not just floating in the breeze, drifting through life and letting life occur to you when it needs to be the other way around. 

It physically goes against everything you were put here to do.

Get it?!?!

So, we NEED to get past the crap and move forward.

We need to get over the Money Trauma and move forward.

We need to get to the place where we can live FREE and POWERFUL.

Yes, I know you “used” to be in a better financial position and you “shoulda” had the billion dollars by now.

Hate to break it to you, but your ego is the only thing that cares.

The rest of the world is moving on without you….

or not.

But either way, you don’t focus on that, because you are only here to….

Live Your Legacy!

xx L

Something I value more than money is time.

You may be different and value different things, but I hate wasting time.

Probably because I feel there is more money in the world than there is time.

So, for you, my she-gang, posse, lady mafia, tribe (for the men too!) or whatever we call ourselves these days – we need to do a little time audit.

If you haven’t already tracked how much time it takes for you to do little things, start keeping track – like a lawyer!

Then you go through and see what you can do to save time or rearrange time or what will make your life flow.

4 Things I’m Doing This Year to Create Time Abundance:

#1: Outsourcing Groceries

I’m officially done going every day or 2 to grab little things at the grocery store. I’ll still probably do the big Costco run but that’s all I’m up for in a month. I find I spend like 2 hours a week between driving and grabbing a few things here and there…. Not planned out well. You can use a home delivery service. I live out of town, so I’m planning on sending my nanny now that she can drive. It’s just down the road. She just got her licence! So cool!

BONUS: You don’t waste money on all the extra crap you don’t need, like when you buy Joe clothes at Superstore.

#2: Outsourcing Hair & Eyelashes

If I could outsource showers, I would. I don’t know why I hate them so much! I found that eye lashes save me from doing my makeup! I don’t wear mascara nor eye shadow – go figure. Plus, doing my hair once on Monday for the week saves me literally an hour each day as blow drying and straightening my frizzy half curled natural hair (horse hair as my sisters call it) takes a lot of time to tame!

BONUS: You go through way less product for hair and make-up, but I am using dry shampoo more often!

#3: Outsourcing Social Media

I’ve hired an amazing girl to help me with my social media. I already know that will save me hours upon hours of time.

BONUS: No using all my good brain cells on coming up with content! Plus, I’m never on Facebook and rarely on Instagram, so if you actually need me to see an event or something, you’ll need to PM, text or email me the old fashioned way!

#4: Outsourcing My Home Stuff

7 years of having a spotless home, laundry done, beds made and dinner on the table is priceless…. I’m not kidding. I would rather work at McDonald’s and come home to a clean, calm, peaceful, orderly home than do it myself. My energy is spent on what I’m good at and not at fighting with my kids or husband over cleaning. I always joke, it’s like having my own wife. Best Investment EVER! (Yes, for the most part I haven’t cooked, cleaned or done laundry in 7 years. But don’t worry, if you feel scared of forgetting your domestic duties, it’s like riding a bike, it all comes back to you! LOL!)

BONUS: There’s so many. I don’t know where to begin. I can only create when my mind and physical space is clean and decluttered and organized, so for me to be able to write you this, with my coffee, candle & incense burning knowing there’s not a dish to do later or laundry in the back of my head is priceless and helps me do my job better. I used to do both, and guess what, my work suffered like crazy. The house always came first.

There you go, take it or leave it. It’s just how I flourish best. (I have friends who flourish in messes, I just wasn’t programmed that way. I’m borderline psycho-cleaner – I can’t do anything with stuff out of place. Yikes!)

Lots of my friends, or women will come up to me and say I’m lucky for having all this amazing help. I’m not, I just made these decisions and said, this is what I need to be able to do the work I was put here to do.

This also doesn’t mean that one day, I won’t cook or clean full time.

I still love to bake and cook and even clean, and even more so now because it’s special and not just out of frustration. I have way more JOY when I cook and bake now than I ever did before. I also appreciate how much hard work goes into keeping a house humming and organized and clean.

Implementing all of these time saving ideas were all hard to suck up at first. All of them. Financially. Some days, even now they are hard to suck up.

I remember the first time I had to pay my nanny or even a babysitter. I remember the first few times I paid for my lashes or my hair or how I committed to getting an assistant and increasing her salary and hours worked.

ALL OF IT WAS SCARY.

It was something new. Something I committed to, but looking back, I don’t think I’d have been able to produce the work I’ve produced, changed literally thousands of lives in some small way, and I wouldn’t have been able to do that unless I audited my time, made decisions to get rid of the things that caused me stress or I could have someone else do. (I love doing social media and I’m very good at it, but first of all, it’s not my calling {it’s my platform} and secondly, I know I can pay someone who can do it better than me, so as the CEO of my life, I did just that.)

So, I want to leave this with you today.

Is there something BIG you want to do, but you feel you don’t have enough time?

If you feel scared to hire help, look at your reasons why. 9 times out of 10 its because of a money block or feelings/thoughts of lack and scarcity that money won’t be available.

Do a time audit. Hire even a little bit of help.

What can someone else do better than you?

See where you can create more time in your life.

Because, like all things, what we resist persists and what we commit to happens.

And for the record, I’ve thought many times just to quit, lay off my help, and then I remember……

I am here for a bigger purpose. Shrinking and becoming small is NOT my goal.

(Plus, I’m providing 2+ jobs for people (plus many contractors) who LOVE working for me. LOL – maybe they don’t, but I love them and I would give them the world if I could. I’m a great boss. This I know and it’s a role I’m learning and stepping further into.)

Expanding.

Showing what is possible.

Living in True Abundance is my Calling.

It’s also yours.

Live Your Legacy!

xx L

There’s usually 2 things that keep you from stepping into your best life:

• Lack of Clarity

• Fear

Most people I meet have NO CLUE what they want out of life (lack of clarity) so why should life give it?

The poor universe is like a mad-woman running around with her head cut off trying to deliver all the things you want, but because you don’t know what you want it keeps delivering everything you want, don’t want and the kitchen sink.

Not a great way to be.

Chaos. Internally for you. Stress most likely.

Fear being the other thing that keeps you from living your best life.

You are actually scared of success.

Fear of the unknown.

You are scared to live up to what you will create. Better to play small than to be that big company, big personality, big success story.

Hey, we all know once you’re at the top there’s only one way to go.

Down. Down. Down.

And then comes the evil twin brother of fear of success: fear of failure.

STOP. HALT. SLAM ON THE BREAKS.

Did you even catch that “silly” belief you have about being and living the super successful life in all areas you were destined to have?

You believe that it’s just going to come crashing down at some point anyways so you go and self-sabotage instead or you don’t even try.

Here’s a question for you to ponder: Why can’t you have everything?

Why can’t you get to the top and stay on top, instead of feeling doom is around the corner?

The one gift I hope you realize is that you are allowed to choose whatever beliefs you want to.

Hey, if you want to be a grouch in old-man-pants and think that the world sucks, people suck – then by all means. You are welcome to do that. I’ll leave you to it.

But for us – the dreamers, the doers, the believers – the world is ours.

Literally. Because the grouchy negative people don’t want it. 🙂

So, how do we get to living our best life when the excuses just keep coming and the negative thought highlight reel from our past keeps spinning out leaving us deflated?

I know.

It seems so elementary.

Thoughts.

Focused thinking.

Creating new thoughts that will have us have some new beliefs.

So, next Q: How does this affect me financially? How does this affect my money situation?

If you still haven’t got the memo, (mostly because they don’t actually teach this stuff in school or the work place!), then here it is:

MINDSET has EVERYTHING to do with your money situation.

NOT STEPPING INTO LIVING YOUR BEST LIFE has EVERYTHING to do with your money situation.

You simply are not allowing yourself to receive all that you were created to receive.

It’s that simple.

In fact its so simple we make it hard.

I’m sure like you, I made myself the queen of this land many years ago.

Making things harder than they have to be.

Why isn’t it happening for me yet?

Why isn’t what I want to accomplish going my way?

Clearly, I never got blessed with the __________ (fill in the blank: skinny genes, rich genes, hot genes, smart genes, etc.)

Thoughts that will need to change or you will keep getting what you are getting.

Somethings gotta give.

Change your thoughts and step into your BEST LIFE!

This is your year to….

Live Your Legacy.

xx Lisa

It is said that a person can live without food for 30-50 days. 

Without water for 3 or 4 days. 

But without hope they can’t.

There’s different kinds of hope. 

The main hope we mostly think about is this hope:

The hope we have similar to wishing on a star, or hoping to win the lottery.

There’s the hope of a better tomorrow, a great future.

The hope that our best days are yet to come.

The hope for health and love and a long life. 

And this hope that our best days are not behind us. 

Almost an ego-based hope.

I find some of these kinds of hope somewhat of a useless emotion (yes, you heard me correctly) & honestly, many times, a waste of time, like wishing on a fairy-godmother. (Useless, I say, when the hopes are not followed up with actions or planning, but I digress.)

The second type of hope I would say is this deep rooted hope within each of us. 

Hope that we are here for a purpose.

Hope that we are significant in some way in the grand scheme of things.

Hope is a rather fascinating emotion to dissect.

I think HOPE is an essential emotion to feel (even the fairy-godmother type), and part of our hard-wiring.

Without it – why would one want to continue on in this life? What would be the point? I really do think people die from having no hope. 

Living without hope is a dreadful way to exist and not just for you, for those surrounding you.

I also think people live way longer than they were “supposed to” from all kinds of HOPE.

Hope is probably one of the most powerful emotions I would wager, next to love of course.

I also think it’s the reason why.

The reason why people do or don’t do things.

The motivating factor behind it all, behind LIFE as a human with a prefrontal cortex that can translate the energy of feelings throughout our whole body.

The hope for a better life.

So, today I send you this message of hope my dear friend.

I’m always blessed by the people who kept holding on to hope no matter what their age. (This stuff totally jazzes me up and gives me hope! {Can one still use the word ‘jazzes me up’ without sounding totally 1980s-Richard-Simmons?!?!})

For you who feel like nothing is working out, don’t forget about:

• Harland Sanders was 62 when he franchised KFC
• Julia Child landed her TV show at 51, wrote her first cookbook at 49
• Judi Dench starred in her first film after the age of 60
• Ernestine Shepard is a 80-year-old body builder, she started at age 56
• Picasso painted his masterpiece “Guernica” at age 55
• J.R.R. Tolkien published his first volume of “Lord of The Rings” at 62
• At age 69, Ed Whitlock from Ontario became the oldest person to run a marathon in under 3 hours
• At 100, Frank Schearer was water skiing! (Dad, there’s hope for you wake surfing!)

Hope that the best is yet to come. 

Hope for a better tomorrow.

What happens when hope fades? Dreams fade?

What do we do when our hope fades?

This is a crazy important question.

Because without hope we sure can’t have faith.

Faith requires confidence for what we hope will happen.

When you are without faith and hope, how much do you think you will love life, yourself, anyone else?

Empty. 

Probably won’t be spring out of bed in the morning.

You are now living a miserable existence without hope.

Living without hope makes all the fruits of the spirit practically impossible!

Think about that!

I know I hope for patience!

We hope for the kindness, goodness, faithfulness –

the love, joy, peace – 

gentleness & self-control in our lives and from others.

So, back to what do we do when our hope fades?

Start with Gratitude. 

Start with one simple thing you are grateful for. 

It could be the fact you are breathing. 

It could be that you have a log to sit on.

Sometimes we are so doubtful that things will look up that we forget what’s right in front of us. 

It’s about making the micro-teeny-tiny shifts, planting the teeny-tiny seeds that will turn into full-blown hope.

Gratitude and Thanksgiving have to come first. 

But then, this.

Plugging your hope in.

What?

The thing is this. 

Most of us have our hope tied up in our situations, circumstantially.

This is the wrong place to anchor your hope. The wrong place to plug it in.

It’s like large fries or drunk sex, good for a minute.

Putting your hope in your job, your family, other people, things or society  – will ALWAYS leave you frustrated. 

That wasn’t how this HOPE thing was designed.

Hoping on the fairy-godmother things, as I alluded to earlier, will leave you, flee from you – those things, including all the people around you will forsake you.

It’s a guarantee. 

It’s not a bad thing, it’s just how the system was designed. 

You see we were never designed to place our hope outside of ourselves. 

It was always designed to be a you and God thing or you connected to that all purposeful, all knowing, all powerful source you intuitively know is there – whatever you coin it.

The place where hope was originally conceived.

The place where hope never fades, and never dies.

Hope is the great calling in our lives: 

to be plugged in to our never ending source of hope.

Love and service become fruitless without hope that they will bear fruit. (Although, I will say love can exist without hope, but isn’t it the hope that love will be received? As for serving and helping, why would one do such activities without the hope that a difference is being made? Chances are you wouldn’t. You wouldn’t love or serve without hope.)

Hope is the basis for all business.

The basis for all financial trading.

The basis for progress.

The basis for all products & services.

But it can’t originate from those items. 

It’s tricked so many of us, like a wolf in sheep’s clothing.

Lack of hope is the reason for so much suffering in our lives.

The magic of igniting another to find their hope is in fact hope all unto its own.

To add to the great Alexander Pope who first coined “Hope Springs Eternal”:

Hope Springs Eternal Internal. 

Find your hope.

Finding your hope makes you a natural spreader of hope.

Nothing else required. 

It just kinda oozes out of you.

Live Your Legacy.

xx Lisa

Here’s another way to look at it.

What?

LIFE.

The World.

And by that I really mean….

YOUR MIND.

It can be broken into 2 categories.

Survival and LIFE.

Survival is not yet having developed the faith that you are going to be taken care of – that all your basic needs (& beyond) will be met.

LIFE, on the other hand, is that beautiful space you get to live in once you know that all your basic needs (food, clothing, shelter, water, etc.) have been met, and have been met with abundance.

Keep in mind these are both mindsets.

MOST of the world, regardless of how much money they actually have (TRUE STORY), live in survival.

People live with fear each day that they do not know they will have enough to eat, a warm, safe place to sleep.

Or that all that they’ve worked for will be taken away from them, leaving them without food, clothing, and shelter – not to mention, they are scared about:

• losing jobs
• losing lovers
• losing people to death
• losing their house
• losing their health
• losing their clients
• losing, losing, losing

FEAR, FEAR, FEAR.

The few that have laid to rest this entire conundrum of what shall we eat, wear or where shall we sleep – those that look beyond, get to discover FREE & CLEAR, DEEP, UNRESTRICTED JOY.

All can experience joy – but joy laden with worry undertones isn’t exactly what joy was meant to be – that’s called a nervous laugh.

Wasn’t it someone wise that once said (and I paraphrase), “You are spending your life worrying about what to eat or drink or what you should wear.” and then goes on to say, “O, you of little faith….”

Ummmm, ROCKED it.

Literally, Jesus drove that message home.

It’s all about faith – faith being all about mindset – all about belief.

It’s not about staying in the mindset of WORRY.

We haven’t cultivated our mindset for LIFE because we are so stuck in the mindset of survival.

This is where MOST people are.

I’ve been there.

Worry – ALL THE TIME.

Anxiety – ALL THE TIME.

Depression – I’m sure it’s walking around with a T-shirt on that has my name on it!

We’ve ALL been there.

This isn’t something unique to only a few (although, I’m sure some would like to think that.)

This is part of our human experience.

BUT.

BUT.

BUT.

THERE IS AN AMAZING UPSIDE TO THIS.

That once you find your freedom – LIFE begins.

LIFE happens.

Freedom from survival can only happen within you.

Freedom from survival is not something you will find out in the world.

Not all the trips, travels, money, private jets, lovers, friends, food, clothing or yoga trips on the PLANET will bring you freedom.

You essentially free yourself.

You tune in.

You connect to the highest source.

Peace floods your thoughts.

Survival is not an option anymore.

Enough is enough.

You’ve had enough living in the crumby-cracked apartment survival has you pinned in.

You are ready to break free from your own prison.

The crazy thing is the key was in front of you all the time.

You didn’t think it was available for you.

But it’s always been available.

A tacit agreement between you and your soul.

Waiting for you to take the key of the jail you put yourself in and unlock it.

The key takes you from survival to LIFE.

What does LIFE have to offer you?

Deep Peace.

Deep Knowing.

Deep Love.

Deep Joy.

So, you’re thinking this post is about how to go from SURVIVAL to LIFE.

But it’s not.

It’s actually a reminder for those who keep wavering between survival mode and LIFE mode – for those who KNOW.

It’s like once you’ve tasted the milk, honey, chocolate or wine, you never want to go back.

Once you’ve tasted the good LIFE, you really do never want to go back.

But we do.

I do.

We fall back.

Old patterns.

Wanting to sabotage anything good that we deserve and yet, so deeply feel we do not.

What’s keeping us in a pattern flailing between survival and LIFE is our energy choices.

We are still choosing to come down to the masses, instead of lift them up.

We are still not choosing to stand in our power and stand up for what it is our soul is meant to do.

We are still not listening to the deepest parts of our souls, screaming at us to do, to LIVE the LIFE we are called to.

And it’s easy not to hear, I mean with all the things – the driving kids around, the noise from our devices, our bosses calling, society practically yelling at us to BE a certain way or act a certain way – no wonder life is not worth living so much of the time.

We’ve crushed our own dreams, our own desires.

Yes, I know it. I say it from experience.

Regena Thomashauer says it like this, especially for us women, “Repressed radiance turns into anger. Because we don’t have an external outlet where we can express it, we turn that anger towards ourselves – where it settles in as depression and sadness.”

Word, Regena!

We are practically being yelled at for not complying with the rest of the world, as we keep resisting the calling for our lives.

Who wants to live a life where they feel they are yelled at? Unheard? Dismissed?

Yet, we do this to ourselves.

Of course we have the highest rates of depression on this planet.

Make no mistake, IT IS DEPRESSING to not LIVE OUT YOUR SOULS WORK.

The work that God himself placed you here on the earth to do.

The work you’re not doing for whatever reason you’ve created in your head.

The ‘you-are-not-good-enough’ story in some shape or form.

But you get what I’m saying.

Your soul is nodding yes right now.

You know where your chaotic energy, your depression, your anxiety, etc. is coming from.

It’s because you are simply denying yourself the desires of your soul.

You keep denying the soul’s work.

It’s dangerous to do so – but I don’t have to tell you that.

You like living dangerously.

You know one day you’ll figure it out and be the hero of your story.

Meanwhile, you also know too well that this – not living your soul’s purpose – is actually what’s causing ALL the grief in your life right now.

From the bad skin, to the illness, to the fighting, to no money in your bank account.

There’s something you need to let go of.

There’s something you keep resisting that keeps persisting.

There’s something you need to build faith around.

There’s something calling you to LIFE but you keep choosing survival.

Don’t make this harder than it really is.

Because it’s not hard.

It’s just a choice.

A choice to…..

Live Your Legacy.

xx Lisa

 

 

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