Posts Tagged "self-worth"

She Said I Was Her Next Of Kin

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“I’m getting on a plane in the morning. I’m going to go surfing Central America.”

This couldn’t have come at a worse time, quite frankly.

My sister rings me up, essentially out of the blue, to remind me that I’m her next of kin, and that if “anything happens” while she’s out of the country, the life insurance check comes to me.

“I love the idea of people getting money if I get washed out to sea.” she said. “I mean, I don’t like the idea of getting washed out to sea… but if I do, I’m happy to know there’s a check coming your way.”

That’s my sister. I love her frankness… most of the time.

Today, however, I’m not sure if I love her or hate her. Not because of her, but because of me, of course.

Before You Can Play…

Posted by LisaYoung in Big Ideas | 0 comments

When I was a child, the world looked a lot less complicated than it does today. The “rules” were a lot easier to navigate.

Share with others. Say “please” and “thank you”. Take turns.

I was having an interesting spiritual conversation the other day. The discussion leader, a good fiend of mine, made the point that we need a common language if we are going to understand each other. There was a lot of talk around the nature of establishing “rules” for a society, and at one point, we came to a playground analogy.

We were discussing how, on the playground, children don’t jockey for position, and most aren’t bullies. In fact the ones that bully at a young age were either raised to be bullies, or they just haven’t learned how to interact with others yet. At which point my friend made the following statement.

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.

Other Gifts

Posted by LisaYoung in Fun | 2 comments

No birthday hangovers here.

In fact, the birthday wasn’t much different from every other day this year. I had promised myself to take the day off, but it just wasn’t very convenient to do so.

So I walked the kid to school, and worked on website issues with my tech team, and dealt with a few “fires” that had to be put out.

It was pretty much an uneventful birthday.

At first, this did not set well with me. See, I’m an action taker – a DO-er – and sitting around NOT doing what I wanted to do kind of pissed me off.

The Hero In All Of Us

Posted by LisaYoung in videos |

Last year about this time, I put together this video mashup of two scenes from Spider Man 2. In it, you hear Aunt May talking about how there’s a hero in all of us as an underscore to the big train rescue scene I spliced together to fit. YouTube suspended the video not long after I posted it (copyright issues, I’m sure), but then somewhere along the lines in the last year, they restored it.

The irony? I didn’t know about it until a few weeks ago.