Are you feeling hopeFUL or hopeLESS?

Submitted by Lisa Steadman on December 31, 2009 - 12:00 am

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Be honest — with 2010 here, are you feeling hopeFUL or hopeLESS?

Believe it or not, how you feel right this minute affects how 2010 will unfold for you.

It doesn’t even matter what happened in 2009.

• Maybe you lost your job.
• Maybe you lost your home.
• Maybe you lost Mr. Right.
• Maybe you lost all three.

And if so, it’s no wonder you’re feeling hopeLESS right now. What’s there to look forward to in the new year, right?

Without love, hope, or possibility, what’s the point?

Exactly!

That’s why it’s essential that you reconnect to hope, starting today.

What if — regardless of how much pain, disappointment, and loss you experienced this year — you could step into the awareness that everything you want, need, and desire can be yours in the coming year?

What if I told you that it’s already here?

All the love, all the financial abundance, all the career fulfillment you’re seeking is already HERE…

You just don’t see it yet!

And if you can’t see it or believe it, how can it SHOW UP?

Let me share something deeply personal with you…

Five Decembers ago, I was in deep despair.

I had left my corporate job to pursue a better life and it wasn’t showing up. The job opportunities were slim to none. My tendonitis that had developed in my arms during my Big Breakup was getting worse, which meant I couldn’t physically go back to my old corporate life of writing on a computer 40 hours/week.

I’d cashed in my 401K to build this new life and not only was the new life NOT showing up, the money I’d saved was drying up.

How would I make my mortgage payments?

How would I make a living?

How could I attract love if I was disabled and broke?

I had FINALLY gone cold turkey with my Big Breakup so that Mr. Right could show up and he wasn’t anywhere in sight.

While I had managed to manifest a fun, cool, sexy magician who was rocking my world, he had made it clear that commitment was not an option.

Had I really just left one man who was rocking my world but unable to commit for another man just like him?

It sure seemed like it.

So much for that dream life I thought I could have if I just let go of the old life.

I felt like the universe had duped me.

I felt like a complete and total failure.

I was really f***ing angry. At God, at the world, AT MYSELF.

I told myself I was a fool for thinking I could really have all those amazing things I wanted. Things like:

- A career as a published author

- A man who loved me for me

- A community that supported me and that I cherished

- Abundant health

It wasn’t fair.

My life sucked.

My heart ached.

And my body hurt.

My old life no longer worked, but my new life wasn’t any better.

I remember sitting on the living room floor of my condo, looking around at all the STUFF I had accumulated.

I felt empty.

Alone.

Betrayed.

Petrified.

I thought I had hit rock bottom months ago. But this was a new level of LOW. How could I possibly find my way out?

I remember crying, wailing, feeling hopelessly desperate.

And then a voice spoke to me.

“Get out of the way.”

Huh?

“Don’t ask how. Just do. Now, get out of the way.”

At the time, I didn’t know what the voice meant. Or even who the voice was!

But I somehow summoned the courage to listen and start following it as it got louder and more clear.

“Pack your things.”

I packed up my condo and found tenants to rent to. I moved in with friends.

“Start writing.”

With my tendonitis causing daily pain in my arms, I wasn’t sure how to write anymore. I researched voice recognition software and I slowly started talking instead of typing.

“Change how you feel about love.”

Having learned not to question the voice within, I created a daily exercise where first thing in the morning and last thing before bed, I said out loud, “Love is…” and filled in the blank with words that excited me.

Love is blissful.

Love is available.

Love is abundant.

Love is here.

Love feels amazing!

Slowly but surely, I started believing that this new kind of love existed.

I also started believing that maybe I could write my book using voice software.

Guess what happened next?

I met my husband. And from the moment we met, I FELT him the way I’d been describing love.

Within months, an editor at a publishing house contacted me and invited me to write a book.

After hitting rock bottom, things were looking up.

But it wasn’t until I believed another way was possible.

So if you’ve hit rock bottom this year, now is NOT the time for hopelessness and despair.

Now is the time to shift your beliefs, change your behavior, and act as if your new life has already begun.

Because it has.

Imagine what it would FEEL LIKE to be loved, miraculously, unconditionally, delightfully LOVED just for being you.
Imagine how it would change your life if you loved your career AND had more than enough money for your life?

Imagine what extraordinary things you could accomplish when you know that the universe is happily, blissfully, and unconditionally supporting Y-O-U?

This new reality already exists. You just have to awaken to it.

And that’s what I’m going to show you how to do in 2010.

My mission for the entire year is to give you the tools, techniques, support, and guidance to break free from YOUR ROCK BOTTOM and rediscover a new ELEVATED way of living and loving.

Here are some great ways to get started:

1. Join my FREE 30 Day Woohoo Challenge on my Fan Page:

http://www.facebook.com/LisaSteadmanFans

2. Download your free chapter from my next book If He’s Not The One, Who Is?: What Went Wrong – and What It Takes to Find Mr. Right by going here:
http://www.ifhesnottheonewhois.com/


The book isn’t available anywhere else until January 18. And together, we’re going to spend 2010 learning how to let go of Mr. Wrong and call in Mr. Right!

3. Listen to your new anthem song “I Just Haven’t Met You Yet” by Michael Buble. It’s booty-shaking, inspiring, and F-U-N:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1AJmKkU5POA

And set your intention for 2010. Give yourself permission to dream BIG!

Now, I’m out of the office the rest of this week and part of next. It’s my way of celebrating my new dream life. I work hard to create a dreamy life and I’m taking the time to celebrate it! My husband and I are having fun dates and planning our trip to Paris next fall. Woohoo!

In the meantime, give yourself permission to have fun, release your old life, let go of rock bottom, and start celebrating your new life!

So many people tell me how lucky I am. It isn’t luck. It’s a combination of faith, preparation, opportunity, and courage.

You have all that inside you. Why not let it out, starting TODAY?