Posts Tagged "Belief"

The Sun And Moon In You

Posted by LisaYoung in Big Ideas | 2 comments

Love  is a dangerous thing.

We can give and give and give and never receive it. We can take and take and take and never give it.

Love has a never-ending supply. It’s not like oxygen. It doesn’t get used up and expelled.

Then why is it so difficult for us to embrace our True Self with love?

It would seem we get busy doing one of two things that prevents us from fully falling in love with our True Self:

1. Hiding our “mistakes” and “pretending” our True Self isn’t who we really are (pretending we don’t exist)

2. Comparing ourselves to something outside our True Self, and deciding we’re either “not enough” or “too much” if we stand in our uniqueness for too long.

And yes, I speak from experience on this.

Obsessions

Posted by LisaYoung in Big Ideas, Faith | 3 comments

There’s a haunting in my heart.

I’ve been raised to be dutiful, honest, hard working, and basically a “nice” person.

I’ve worked hard to be that person.

That person isn’t me.

There are people in the world that would love to trade places with me in a heartbeat, and I know that. I’m incredibly grateful for the life I’ve worked so hard at having. It’s very nice.

Nice.

It’s a word that reminds me of Tybalt’s line from Shakespeare. “I hate the word. As I hate hell…”

Who will mourn your death?

Posted by LisaYoung in Faith, videos | 9 comments

So I was watching the Kevin Costner eulogy for Whitney Houston last night.

Say what you will about Whitney, Costner’s eulogy rocked it.

And I got to thinking about a tweet I saw a few months back when Steve Jobs died. Something about “will we cry when you die?” or something like that.

It really got me thinking.

Recently, my friend, Ted, turned 50, and his wife put together a “celebrity roast” to commemorate it. As part of the entertainment, I got to channel my inner Judy Garland and sing him “Over The Rainbow” until he cried (he’s a huge fan of Judy).

So it’s no wonder I started wondering about my own death. And who would really miss me when I’m gone.

To be clear, I’m not planning a funeral here, nor am I demonstrating any suicidal tendencies. This is not a “poor me” pitch to get a few people to tell me they think I’m awesome and they’ll be first in line at my funeral (wha?).

Actually, this is more spiritual than any of that.

Two Truths Of Failure

Posted by LisaYoung in Faith | 6 comments

After a lackluster year in 2011, it would be easy to call myself a failure and wonder what the heck I’m doing in business.

So easy, in fact, that it’s exactly what I did.

After a spectacular 2010, I truly believed I had things “down pat” in my business, and positioned myself in 2011 to have at I thought would be my best year in business. I went into 2011 with very high hopes.

Those hopes were quickly and frantically dashed on the rocks as the mid-point of 2011 approached. I spent the second half of the year cleaning up the debris, trying to keep my sanity and my business together.

Don’t get me wrong. Some VERY good things came out of 2011. Here are a few of the highlights:

Answer The Call

Posted by LisaYoung in Uncategorized | 4 comments

There’s a nudge inside you.

At first, it’s like an echo or a faint whisper, and you’re not sure if it’s real or imagined.

Maybe it’s both.

There’s this unknown spot – where you feel like there’s great potential for… something.

And even though you don’t have a clue how it’s going to turn out, you somehow know it at least won’t be any worse than where you are right now.

In fact, it could be better. A LOT better.

It’s that moment when Alice starts following the rabbit.

When Harry takes Hagrid’s hand and leaves the Dursleys.

When Martin Luther wrote his Ninety-Five Theses on the Power and Efficacy of Indulgences. 

When Steve Jobs decided to take a calligraphy class.

And long before any of these folks changed their world, they changed themselves.

They made a decision to answer the call inside them to something…

…something more.

…something greater.

…something honest.

…something true.

…something that resonated within their spirit.

None of them knew what would happen – just that they needed a personal change of pace or scenery. And they believed – even if only for a moment – that what they were going after was going to be better for them than where they currently are.

For a long time, I’ve held a belief that we’ve grossly misinterpreted what Jesus was about in this world. One of the facets of that belief stems from a statement Jesus was purported to have made, wherein he says that we will be able to do all the things that Jesus himself could do, and even greater things than that.

It’s always fascinated me that we somehow have all this miraculous potential inside ourselves – to manipulate energy and make miracles happen – and yet most of us don’t have a clue how to do it, if it’s possible at all.

We just don’t know.

And yet, there’s a whole world of people pursuing alternative healing modalities – without drugs, doctors or invasive/chemical procedures. People who wield their own thoughts, fancy (or simple) meal plans, stones and more to shift the energy of themselves or others.

It’s quite fascinating, and yet no one knows with certainty whether any of it consistently works. It may work for some, sometimes.

But we just… don’t… KNOW.

And it’s something I’m keen to explore – and I know it sounds crazy. I’m blessed that my biggest health issue is my weight. I’m rarely sick, have pretty high energy levels most of the time and rarely take an asprin when I have a headache.

But there’s this part of my curiosita (curiosity, for those that don’t speak Italian) that won’t shake it loose. So I keep reading, and keep getting fascinated by the subject.

And it’s this curiosity that drives innovation in the world.

See, 200 years ago, people didn’t fly in planes – but daVinci had drafted this fancy plan for a flying machine a few hundred years before that.

Believe it or not, in the 1980′s Sir Richard Branson cracked an April Fool’s joke about creating a little “music box” to download your music digitally, years before Apple introduced the i-pod.

While I’ll probably keep playing around with healing energy for the remainder of my days (and may never get a concrete answer), I have other curiosities that drive me. I want to help entrepreneurs see what’s really going on in their work and lives. That’s why I launched the Real Results program – and gave people the ability to really name their own price.

And I want to do more than that.

When the new LisaRobbinYoung.com launches, the first project I’ve got planned is something so vital, and yet so unlike anything I’ve ever done before (at least in terms of the topic). It calls to me like nothing I’ve ever wanted to do before. It wakes me up at night, keeps me up some nights, and won’t let me work on other days.

So I have to answer this call, because I know that wherever it takes me, it’s got to be better than where I’m at right now.

What’s your idea? What’s calling you from the unknown into a place that feels better than where you are right now? When will you answer that call?