Posts Tagged "mindset"

Jump, And The Net Will Appear

Posted by LisaYoung in Big Ideas, Faith, videos | 1 comment

This 4th grader has more intestinal fortitude than many adults I know. She is a great example of what we all do before taking the leap.

We try to talk ourselves into it. We obsess, we interrogate, we obsess some more.

We feel our nerves, sometimes we shy away from the edge, and we generally believe we’re not capable.

Then, with the encouragement of a guide, a mentor, a friend, someone around us, we give it a go.

When we come to the bottom of our 20 meter jump, we realize that it was the anxiety at the top of the hill that made it feel so crazy. We confidently say that a 60 meter jump is nothing now. We can do it because we’ve got experience with the smaller jump.

But that first jump… it’s a doozy!

Loving My Inner Critic

Posted by LisaYoung in Faith, Family | 5 comments

It began at the convergence of three events:

A while back Andrea Patten asked me to proof her “Inner Critic to Inner Ally” program and offer my feedback. I proofed it and offered some suggestions, and left it at that. A couple of weeks ago, she was talking to me about some of the great results her clients were getting, so I asked if I could review the entire program and see if it might be something useful to my subscribers.

I had started working through it, and got stuck on an emotional block for me. It stemmed around describing my Inner Critic, and quite frankly, I had spent many years trying to shut it up. The last thing I wanted to do was spend time putting energy into describing what I believed was the very thing holding me back in life.

Then, my coach posed a question last week that vexed me. “Really, Lisa. What if it REALLY didn’t matter what other people thought?”

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:

The Power of Slow

Posted by LisaYoung in Big Ideas | 8 comments

My five year old came up to me the other day and asked if he could have a motorcycle.

“Um, let’s see if you can figure out how to work the scooter you got for Christmas first, honey.”

Seems logical, right? But in the moment of watching his mini-tirade about wanting to “go fast” and “sit up high” I was reminded of my own tirades against “paying my dues” in the various professions and industries I’ve served over the years.

MacGyver Me, Please

Posted by LisaYoung in Big Ideas, Faith, Fun, videos | 5 comments