Dream ~ Act ~ Plan ~ Believe

If you are a regular reader of this blog you’ll know that I have been sharing some painful events from my past. I’ve been sharing my story with you, not to make you feel sorry for me, but to illustrate what I have learned in anticipation that the information will help others avoid the pitfalls I stumbled upon. Some people would read it and say, “Wow, she’s sure been a victim.” Not me.

Read on to see what I mean…

I’ve been reading the book “The One Minute Millionaire,” written by my mentor, Robert G. Allen and by Mark Victor Hansen. The book is full of millionaire ideas and teachings and in that way is an instruction manual on how to become an enlightened millionaire. At the same time it’s a novel that tells the story of a women named Michelle.

Michelle loses everything and comes in contact with a mentor who teaches her that each person is a potential victim. Everyone has had things happen to them that could bring them down. There is one trait that determines if we will be victorious over the circumstances we face. The ability to learn.

You see, a victim blames outside forces, or themselves for their circumstances. A victor learns from their experiences. I do not regret my past “negative experiences” because of what I learned.

A victor learns from their experiences.

That’s worth repeating. “A victim blames. A victor learns.”

You see, I am victorious. And if you don’t mind I’ll keep sharing the circumstances with you because I can’t wait to get to the victory stage of this blog where I share more of what I learned.

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Posted on April 28th, 2008 by Leisa
Filed under: Being Victorious, BookWise, Healing, Life Lessons, Mentoring, Millionaire Mindset
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I’m debuting a new blog today. It’s my artistic technique blog titled: Create with Leisa.

Chances are that most of you don’t know that I’m an artist and designer. I actually took some time off from creating so I could get another business venture going. It’s going extremely well now I plan on making a little more time to create. I’ve taught classes in various crafts and hobbies and have taught nationally classes on scrapbooking, rubber-stamping, book making, and mixed media. I’ve done a designing in the scrapbooking industry, and tole-painting industry.

I found art very therapeutic. Art can be very healing.

Anyway, my new blog is where I’ll share some of the techniques I use in creating my art. For the most part the art and crafts I upload to this new blog will include a tutorial on how to create the look.

So if you get a minute come take a look. There isn’t a lot there yet, but a blog has to start somewhere doesn’t it.

Come create with me.

Oh by the way, I’ve got some advertising space available there for dirt cheap as well, but I’m reserving the space for sites that are niche related. So don’t feel bad if I turn your site down. Don’t take it personally.

Clue for Round 7 - Do You Got the Bug?

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Posted on April 25th, 2008 by Leisa
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Again, it seems quite odd to spend some time focusing on the negative aspects
of my life because I am a positive thinker. However, it’s those challenges
and the lesson I learned, or have not yet learned, that have made me the
person I am today. It will help you, my readers, to better understand
where my writing comes from. So here is the first of several posts
that will take you into the trauma of the next twenty years of my life:

Illness Strikes

As I continue my story it is several years later now. I’m very, very ill. I’ve contracted some type of lung infection. I simply just cough and cough. I’ve lost weight down from 103 pounds down to 94 pounds. It’s gotten so bad that I can’t keep food down. My hair is falling out. I feel like I’m dying.

The doctors keep trying antibiotic after antibiotic, but nothing is touching the infection. Finally a new doctor decides to X-ray my lungs (duh!) and do additional tests. He discovers that the infection is quite rare and only one antibiotic in the world is effective against it. But he warns me that the antibiotic wouldn’t be enough.

It’s winter in Salt Lake City. We have a major inversion that is keeping the fog and pollution close to the ground and in my lungs. We haven’t seen a blue sky in months. The doctor told me I’d have to get to a warmed climate immediately. It didn’t need to be long term, just long enough for the antibiotics to work and for me to heal somewhat.

So we got in the car that day and headed to my grandparents house in Yuma, Arizona. I spent most of the time there sleeping. But I came back with much improved health.

Still the coughing and vomiting lingered for another twenty-one years. In fact, until three or four months ago I would regularly vomit five times a day. This had gone on at the past 18 years with consistency. Each illness made it worse. And no it wasn’t bulimia. I’d cough too hard and anything I had in my stomach would come up.

Automobile Traumatize

A few years later my finance and I are sitting at a stop light when a car plows into us. I’m injured and had to undergo months of physical therapy and experience pain that never seemed to go away. I’ve lost feeling in some of my fingers, and experience lingering back, shoulder and neck pain.

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Posted on April 23rd, 2008 by Leisa
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Previously I told you about the trauma of being watched and stalked like a animal hunts his prey. It was at that time my resilient spirit decided she no longer wanted to fear strangers. I became determined to minimize that fear, to shrink it, and dissolve it. But there was still a huge underlying fear. The fear of sexual assault.

I’m sure the fear first manifested itself when I was young and stemmed from my ability to sense what people felt. It is easy to fear something that feels so cold and dark, and full of such evil intent.

God blessed me with a body and face that many men found attractive. (Ignore that picture on the left of the site. I’m much older now, much more worn out, and not nearly as attractive as I once was.) And I hated the way guys looked at me.

I hated walking past construction sites and being whistled at. I hated the lust I saw in peoples eyes. I remember many, many times wishing that I was fat and ugly. I thought that if I was fat and ugly I’d be safe from sexual assault. Something I now know isn’t true. But nevertheless, that’s what I believed, at the time.

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Posted on April 20th, 2008 by Leisa
Filed under: Fear, My Story, Rape, Trauma
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You may win an autographed copy of The Five Lessons a Millionaire Taught Me by Richard Paul Evans, or an autographed copy of one of Robert G. Allen’s books. Robert G. Allen has authored plenty of books that can help you gain prosperity. Books such as The One Minute, Million and Multiple Streams of Income.

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Posted on April 17th, 2008 by Leisa
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