Love Lesson #14: Attracting True Love by Building Your Self-Esteem and Self-Value
Jill thinks like a man and looks like Marilyn Monroe. Quite a combination! She has a brilliant mind for numbers and makes a great operations manager. Once she makes up her mind, swift action follows. For Jill, graduating from high school during an era that programmed women for a life modeling June Cleaver or Harriet Nelson meant frustration and entrapment. There wasn’t a role model for talent and energy like hers. Hmmm, maybe there still isn’t…about the closest I could come w
Love Lesson #13: Fairy Tales Do Come True
Love Lessons are true stories about real people who have changed their lives by deciding what they want and not settling for anything less. Would you like to believe that you too could create this miracle in your life? Most of these true stories will be available for your encouragement and inspiration in my soon-to-be-released book, Journey to Joy: True Stories of Hope and Inspiration. ******* Jacqui is a dynamo. Quicksilver fast in mind and energy. Warm and playful and energ
Love Lesson #12: How Can I Be a Force for Good?
What would you do if you were at a conference and at the last event of the day, Pepsi Co. handed out a new product, packages of hummus and pretzels, to every person attending, and as the conference hall emptied out most of the people left the packages of food on the table unopened? Brenda asked the staff at the Drake Hotel what would happen to these hundreds of packages of good and valuable food and they told her it would all be thrown out. It broke Brenda’s heart to think of
Love Lesson #11: Creating the Love You Want
Edward did not have a happy track record when it came to emotional and physical satisfaction in relationships. His marriage was based on an appearance of love, but it was service oriented. You know the old routine—you bring home the money and I will cook and clean for you and that’s about it. Twenty-five years of it. By the time Edward left his marriage he was so emotionally and touch starved that he had no idea that he deserved love or that someone might find him desirable.
Love Lesson #10: Keeping the Romance Alive
Keeping romance alive requires attention to pleasing yourself. Make a list of what you like to do. Ask your partner or friend to make their own list—not the things you want to do together but the things you each love to do, whether alone or with someone else. Doing what you love pleases and satisfies you and that makes it easier to have a relationship with you. When we are much more focused on pleasing others it is more difficult to have a relationship with ourselves. After y
Love Lesson #9: Getting Clear on Career and Expanding into Joy
How do I get started learning to use the laws of attraction? How do I manifest what I want? How do I manifest career opportunities? Ask yourself the following questions and take time to write your answers. First, make a list of what you hate to do: What you complain about at your current job What you never want to do again What you feel uncomfortable or inept doing Next, and more important: Get clear about all the things you have done in the past that you enjoy doing: Make a
Love Lesson #8: On Beyond Perfection
Steven is a dynamo in every respect, a man of enormous energy and generosity. He has gifts of insight and the ability to see opportunities at exactly the right moment—along with the fearlessness to leap into the moment and seize the day. Because of these qualities he has become very successful at every endeavor. Throughout the years he has been diligent in using the financial rewards of his successes to support the people he loves. He has given generously back to the communit
Love Lesson #7: It's Never Too Late to Bloom
Eleanor’s daughter’s voice strained with worry and desperation as she implored my help: “I am so worried about my mom can you help in any way . . .” “Lyn, tell me what is happening with her?” “Ever since Mom was forced to retire she seems to have lost the will to live or do anything. She used to garden in the summer, but for the past two years she just sits in her front room and watches TV. She hasn’t developed any new friends or activities and my brother Jeff and I live hour
Love Lesson #6: Making Positive Changes with a Friend
These are true stories of hope and transformation from my career as a lifestyle success coach. The names have been changed, but you may recognize yourself or a friend in these messages. ~ ~ ~ Shawn was extremely unhappy and depressed. Life was boring and tedious, and there was nothing to look forward to. She got up, went to work, and paid bills. There was no money left for fun. She only took her job to pay bills, and now she felt stuck. She lived in constant fear that the
Love Lesson #5: How Our Fears Can Serve Us
Shock waves were felt through the room as their eyes met. She was running a sales meeting as he was passing through the corridor and noticed her at the front of the room. He stopped and never took his eyes off her. She noticed this oh so very handsome man standing at the back door while 200 people were watching her every move and she had to keep her focus on what she was presenting but . . . he was so attractive and so distracting. Who was he? And why was he just standing the
