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My Blog Transformed My Life

Today I have a spe­cial guest with us — Live Lane, from Choos­ing Beauty.  Below, Liv shares a part of her blog jour­ney, and how deeply good that has been for her.  As well, both Liv and I sat down recently to talk about this, and to dis­cuss her upcom­ing “How To Build A Blog You Truly Love” e-course.

The story Liv shares below very much touches upon choos­ing beauty, and how we can all choose to see that in our daily lives.

For those of you who are blog­gers, in the video Liv and I dig a bit more into her upcom­ing e-course, How To Build A Blog You Truly Love.  We both came into this video as video non-experts (yikes!) and there were a cou­ple of tech­ni­cal dif­fi­cul­ties which cut off the last few sec­onds of the video (in which Liv so gra­ciously thanked me for our time) (and thank you, also, Liv!).

 

My Blog Trans­formed My Life

 

I know it sounds over-the-top, but it’s totally true: my blog trans­formed my life.
 
Before I tell you how, I need to rewind to the day my first son was born in early 2003. I had entered the hos­pi­tal happy and excited, my usual chip­per self. But sev­eral days later, I left the hos­pi­tal a changed woman – sob­bing all the way home. The birth expe­ri­ence had been hor­ri­ble, with one com­pli­ca­tion after another. I was phys­i­cally and emo­tion­ally exhausted by the time my baby arrived – blue and barely breath­ing, with his heart on the wrong side of his body and his lung col­lapsed. Mirac­u­lously, he recov­ered in the NICU and is now a healthy, high-energy eight-year-old. But as he got bet­ter, I got worse.
 
I cried a lot. I couldn’t sleep.  I became mas­ter­ful at small talk because I couldn’t han­dle any­thing deeper. I hid my pain really well – at least for a while. My fam­ily even­tu­ally urged me to seek help in late 2005. I was diag­nosed with depres­sion and post trau­matic stress dis­or­der, both the result of “birth trauma” – some­thing I’d never even heard of.  My ther­a­pist, Jeanne, promised me I could heal and that the dark­ness I was liv­ing in could be lifted. It seemed impos­si­ble. But I decided to believe her and jumped into my heal­ing jour­ney. I was will­ing to try any­thing: talk ther­apy, psy­chother­apy, med­ica­tion, med­i­ta­tion, hyp­no­sis, and more. Even­tu­ally, I began to see glim­mers of light. Slowly but surely, I re-discovered the real me.

One day after a ses­sion with Jeanne, a bril­liant rain­bow arched over the inter­sec­tion where I was sit­ting in my car. I looked at the dri­vers around me; they were all too busy putting on lip­stick, talk­ing on the phone or star­ing blankly at the stop­light to look up and notice the stun­ning rain­bow over­head. I won­dered in that moment how many other lit­tle mir­a­cles I’d missed by being too dis­tracted or too depressed. I wanted to take a pic­ture of the rain­bow, just to show oth­ers what I’d seen {remem­ber, our cell phones didn’t have cam­eras back then!}.

My birth­day was only days away and I decided it was the per­fect time to ini­ti­ate a per­sonal exer­cise: take a pic­ture of some­thing beau­ti­ful each day for a year and write about it. I sus­pected it could con­tribute to my heal­ing and cre­ated a very basic blog – a type of web site I’d only just learned about.  I called it One Year of Beauty.

Within weeks of start­ing, I was hear­ing from read­ers around the world who were inspired to find beauty in their every­day lives, too. They kept me account­able; had it not been for those early read­ers cheer­ing me on, I prob­a­bly would have quit on the days it felt impos­si­ble to find beauty. In the end, those turned out to be the most trans­for­ma­tional days. Find­ing some­thing good on a “bad” day was a rush. I was so glad I’d cho­sen to write some­thing about each photo I posted because it forced me to really reflect and prac­tice grat­i­tude. What was so beau­ti­ful about a fallen leaf? Why did the sight of my child’s paint-covered hands make my heart skip a beat? How did I feel stand­ing under a bright blue sky?

Over time, one beauty sight­ing a day mul­ti­plied into many. Though I con­tin­ued to fea­ture just one on the blog each day, I began to notice beauty every­where I went – even in the midst of chaos. My ther­a­pist was floored by the changes in me. I would waltz into Jeanne’s office more eager to tell her about all the good things around me than the fear or sad­ness that occa­sion­ally {instead of always} reared its ugly head. Dur­ing that first year of blog­ging, my search for every­day beauty – and the abil­ity to post it for the world to see – gave me com­fort, hope and a new per­spec­tive.  And the sup­port I received from read­ers was the fuel that kept me going.
 
I’m fast approach­ing the fifth anniver­sary of my blog. It’s now called Choos­ing Beauty because I believe we each make a daily choice – whether con­scious or not – to see or shun the beauty in our lives. It is there, wait­ing to be noticed, eager to inspire us and ready to com­fort us. I learned this from my blog and it changed my life for good.

About Liv Lane

How To Build A Blog You Truly Love is a soul-stirring, blog-boosting e-course for any­one who longs to feel more inspired, excited and rewarded by their adven­tures in blog­ging. Led by inspi­ra­tional speaker, radio per­son­al­ity and vet­eran blog­ger Liv Lane of Choos­ing Beauty, you’ll be lov­ingly guided through an inno­v­a­tive process of self-reflection and in-depth learn­ing. Over the six-week course, you’ll develop your own unique blog­ging blue­print — designed to help you achieve sweet suc­cess and deep ful­fill­ment for years to come. Plus, gain exclu­sive access to Liv’s inter­views with more than a dozen super­star blog­gers on how they’re rock­ing the blo­gos­phere and livin’ the dream.
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Spe­cial: Sign up here for 20% off this six-week course (start­ing June 5th).  I’ll be at this course both as a par­tic­i­pant and a con­trib­u­tor!
 

Lance writes sto­ries from his heart, aim­ing to inspire and moti­vate, as you align more fully with YOUR true peak. When he’s not here, you can find him hang­ing out with his fam­ily, rid­ing a bike, or just gen­er­ally act­ing goofy.   Sign up for the Thoughts from the Tree­house newslet­ter and get addi­tional inspi­ra­tion in your email inbox!
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  1. rob white says:
    May 31, 2011 at 8:12 am

    “Choos­ing Beauty” is a per­fect and empow­er­ing name, Liv. Run­ning away from our prob­lems never works. Inevitably, they run into us, some­where down the line. We must cast away old pat­terns of thought — don’t bemoan our prob­lems and fail­ures. We can always begin right now to engage in the choice of choos­ing beauty! I’ve noticed that the more I appre­ci­ate the more there is to appre­ci­ate — sud­denly beauty is every­where!
    rob white´s Last Fab­u­lous Post ..Is God a MuleMy Profile

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  2. Tom Volkar / Delightful Work says:
    May 31, 2011 at 9:01 am

    Hey Liv, loved your story. Thanks for shar­ing it whole­heart­edly. It reminds me that all good things come from a fully aware choice. I enjoyed read­ing about the expan­sion of you see­ing beauty every­where. Thanks for the inspi­ra­tion.
    Tom Volkar / Delight­ful Work´s Last Fab­u­lous Post ..How To Make Your Idea A Real BusinessMy Profile

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    • Lance says:
      June 1, 2011 at 8:01 am

      Tom,
      Liv really in filled with inspi­ra­tion, and the story she shared here just truly high­lights that.

      It’s great to see you here today!

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  3. Lynn says:
    May 31, 2011 at 10:08 am

    Choos­ing beauty — it’s there for all of us. How lovely that this was so trans­form­ing for you.
    Lynn´s Last Fab­u­lous Post ..Rhodo­den­dron gar­den– memo­ri­als and tributeMy Profile

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  4. Keith says:
    May 31, 2011 at 10:21 am

    Liv,

    I think one of the most pow­er­ful state­ments you made was when you were speak­ing of your blog :
    “It’s now called Choos­ing Beauty because I believe we each make a daily choice – whether con­scious or not – to see or shun the beauty in our lives.” That says so much. We do CHOOSE how we live, how we view life. If we can­not con­trol what comes our way we can def­i­nitell con­trol how we deal with it. Thank you for shar­ing your story Liv.

    Lance, my man! You’ve done it again. What a won­der­ful guest today and with such a pow­er­ful story. Thank you!

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    • Lance says:
      June 1, 2011 at 8:03 am

      Keith,
      “Choose”: that one word is such a key. What are we choos­ing? And when we choose beauty, how awe­some what it is that we see…right there in our daily lives!

      Liv is a superstar…and it’s an honor hav­ing her here!! Thanks Keith!!!

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  5. Andrea (Sacred Suds) says:
    May 31, 2011 at 11:06 am

    Liv, you are a con­tin­ual inspi­ra­tion. You are a liv­ing exam­ple of how to be present in the moment. I love your photo-a-day approach — what a sim­ple, yet pow­er­ful way to be mind­ful every day of the mir­a­cles that sur­round us. Even if if we pause just a tiny moment to respect and appre­ci­ate a rain­bow, or a leaf falling, the momen­tum of that appre­ci­a­tion car­ries through to every­thing else. Thank you so much for the reminders that it is within our power, it is our choice, to “see or shun the beauty in our lives.” I can’t wait to take your course!!!

    xo,
    Andrae
    Andrea (Sacred Suds)´s Last Fab­u­lous Post ..Lovin’ all up on my blogMy Profile

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    • Lance says:
      June 1, 2011 at 8:07 am

      Andrea,
      First off…it’s great to “meet” you, and welcome!!!

      And so awe­some that you know Liv, and have been touched by her beauty!

      I love how you have high­lighted how this beauty can be some­thing as small as just see­ing a leaf falling. It’s remind­ing me that beauty doesn’t have to come all pack­aged up, or be grandiose. It’s right there, in front of us. And I’m see­ing it right now, as I look out the win­dows at the pur­ple buds on a small tree. Amazing…to see and know that this has just been created…

      And…I’ll be see­ing you in the course! Yay!!!!

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  6. Melody | Deliberate Receiving says:
    May 31, 2011 at 11:24 am

    What a beau­ti­ful idea! I love it! And what a fan­tas­tic exam­ple of how what we focus on mul­ti­plies. As soon as you started look­ing for beauty, you began to see it all around. Bravo.

    Hugs,
    Melody
    Melody | Delib­er­ate Receiving´s Last Fab­u­lous Post ..Crack­ing the Code– How to Attract Every­thing You’ve Ever WantedMy Profile

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    • Lance says:
      June 1, 2011 at 8:08 am

      Melody,
      Yes!! It multiplies…whatever we choose to see. So, here’s to choos­ing to see the beauty, and then hav­ing that mul­ti­ply in our lives!! Love it!!

      Big hugs,
      Lance

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  7. Hilary says:
    May 31, 2011 at 11:45 am

    Hi Lance and Liv .. glad you posted the tran­script .. and Liv I can see how the expe­ri­ence of blog­ging lifted you and con­tin­ues to do so .… your expe­ri­ence must have been hugely shock­ing and no won­der depres­sion and the blues set in.

    We expe­ri­ence so many blog­gers who have so many dif­fer­ent heart wrench­ing tales, but who feel the encour­age­ment of blog­ging souls around the world .. they are as you say a major source of life blood to our brain .. and the pos­i­tive kick and sup­port we need at times.

    Blog­ging has cer­tainly helped me along my con­tin­u­ing jour­ney with my mother … but has opened new doors I didn’t know existed in me …

    Lance — great guest .. and so good to have you back .. cheers for now to you both .. Hilary
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    • Lance says:
      June 1, 2011 at 8:53 am

      Hilary,
      So true…the amaz­ing doors that are opened from blog­ging. And that’s above and beyond just the sense of joy we can get when we share from our hearts.

      I’m sure this jour­ney of yours has been touched by many, and has made the your time with your mother even that much more mean­ing­ful. And there is much, much beauty in that…

      Hilary, thanks so much for being here!

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  8. Liv @ Choosing Beauty says:
    May 31, 2011 at 2:44 pm

    Lance, you have built such a com­pas­sion­ate and uplift­ing com­mu­nity here. I can feel the love — thank you, all!

    The many com­ments about our power to CHOOSE how we deal with every sit­u­a­tion reminded me of a fave Wayne Dyer quote: “How peo­ple treat you is their karma. How you react is yours.” The same is true of life cir­cum­stances and events that are out of our con­trol. If we stay stuck in the notion that life hap­pens TO us rather than FOR us, we’ll always be play­ing the vic­tim. No fun, right?? Big LOVE to each one of you today!
    Liv @ Choos­ing Beauty´s Last Fab­u­lous Post ..Knock Knock Whos There Great– Big Love 053111My Profile

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    • Lance says:
      June 1, 2011 at 9:07 am

      Liv,
      That word “choose” is some­thing that’s been really high­lighted in the com­ments, and is some­thing that is really con­nect­ing here for everyone.

      And I’m lov­ing this — how you talked about how choos­ing to see the every­day beauty took you from a dark place to some place alto­gether more beau­ti­ful and happy. So, choos­ing beauty…is so, so fit­ting for what you have created.

      Big, big love to you!!
      Lance

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  9. Henway says:
    May 31, 2011 at 7:00 pm

    I appre­ci­ate the mes­sage of see­ing the beauty in every­day life, but some­times it’s hard for me to do so when I look around and just see dis­ap­point­ment, and every­one just think­ing about them­selves. Noone takes things seri­ously such as friend­ship or love. Peo­ple just want to do the least pos­si­ble, and are after car­nal plea­sure.
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    • Lance says:
      June 1, 2011 at 9:16 am

      Hen­way,
      You bring up a great point — there can be moments where we feel like “what’s the use, any­way”. And the thing is…even in these times where it feels bleak…our choices DO make a dif­fer­ence. We may not even be aware of it…about what we do and choose and feel — and how that can affect those around us. It does, though — just like those who choose to see the dis­ap­point­ment — and it affects us. And maybe this is baby steps into see­ing beauty. Baby steps toward see­ing the world in a whole new light…

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  10. rocky @ travel to india says:
    June 1, 2011 at 5:33 am

    Nice post , Thanks for shar­ing with all.

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  11. Tess The Bold Life says:
    June 1, 2011 at 7:39 am

    Hi Liv and Lance,
    I love the con­cept of choos­ing beauty. It reminds me of Macy Gray’s song, I see beauty every where.
    Hubs has a con­fer­ence in Vegas each August and I go with him for the week. I don’t gam­ble and tend to be very judg­men­tal about most of what goes on there. Last year I decided before I left to enjoy myself and knock off the judg­ment. I prac­ticed see­ing beauty every where and in every­one. It was amaz­ing how it changed my experience.

    Lance…awesome video my friend!
    Tess The Bold Life´s Last Fab­u­lous Post ..How to Get Beyond Bad Luck– No Luck– and Hard Luck to Find Mr RightMy Profile

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    • Lance says:
      June 1, 2011 at 9:19 am

      Hi Tess,
      I *love* that Macy Gray song!!! So…thank YOU for remind­ing me about that today! I’m going to lis­ten to it in just a lit­tle bit!!

      And thank you for shar­ing your story about Vegas. How do we choose to see oth­ers, right? And look at how every­thing shifted for you, just by the choices you made! Awesome!!

      And — thanks on the video! It’s def­i­nitely a work in progress!!

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  12. Lance says:
    June 1, 2011 at 9:13 am

    Liv,
    Thank you so much for shar­ing your very per­sonal story, and how choos­ing beauty…in the every day…has changed your out­look on life and on liv­ing. It’s so true — what are we choos­ing? What am I choos­ing? And by those choices, so is our life…

    I’m reminded of a favorite quote: “We who lived in con­cen­tra­tion camps can remem­ber the men who walked through the huts com­fort­ing oth­ers, giv­ing away their last piece of bread. They may have been few in num­ber, but they offer suf­fi­cient proof that every­thing can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human free­doms — to choose one’s atti­tude in any given set of cir­cum­stances, to choose one’s own way.” ~ Vik­tor Frankl

    We can always choose (even when we think we don’t have a choice)…even if that is just our atti­tude in any given moment (no mat­ter how dark).

    Liv, you are a beau­ti­ful and shin­ing star of beauty, and I’m deeply grate­ful for your pres­ence here.

    Much love…always,
    Lance

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  13. susan says:
    June 1, 2011 at 9:16 am

    Hi Lance! Your story of per­sonal heal­ing thru blog­ging is dyna­mite! Seri­ously — and we are blessed that you started! As for Choos­ing Beauty — well, just beau­ti­ful! How many times do we “for­get” there are choices about every darn lit­tle thing all day, every day, and start­ing the day out choos­ing beauty (I do wake up with abun­dant grat­i­tude, pretty much the same thing I think) is just the best!

    Tricky thing over all though. I am work­ing with clients (as a nutritionist-food coach) and teach­ing peo­ple to choose some­thing to con­sume that makes their CELLS happy indeed makes their health (and weight) improve. How­ever, lots of strug­gles get­ting peo­ple to real­ize that very lit­tle they were eat­ing really truly is FOOD. We are crea­tures of imme­di­ate grat­i­fi­ca­tion and oh well the diet starts tomor­row etc etc. Choose Beauty AND choose real food! (Sorry — had to throw this in, haha)
    hugs
    suZen

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    • Lance says:
      June 1, 2011 at 12:07 pm

      Suzen,
      And as I write this com­ment, I’m eat­ing some green pep­pers, car­rots, and some fruit…and life is good (and beau­ti­ful)!! So — thank YOU for putting a plug in for real food!

      Do I always eat this way?? No (although I do quite a bit). When I do, though, I just feel bet­ter (hmmm.…maybe I really have to work on mak­ing this a habit)

      Liv is a shin­ing exam­ple of some­one who has really embraced that which speaks to her, and in so doing — has cre­ated some­thing deeply mean­ing­ful for her — and it IS beautiful…

      Big hugs,
      Lance

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  14. Naomi Estment says:
    June 1, 2011 at 9:49 am

    Thanks for a fab­u­lous post, Lance and Liv — and con­grats on an awe­some con­cept, as well as both of your blog­ging suc­cess so far!! I com­pletely agree that it can be trans­for­ma­tional, and that the key is to blog in accor­dance with your pur­pose. Way to go and all the best with your pro­gram!! I can already see it help­ing loads of blog­gers :-D
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    • Lance says:
      June 1, 2011 at 12:10 pm

      Hi Naomi,
      Thanks!!! I really love this, because I know that my blog meant much more for me when I became more fully “in love” with it. And that’s been part of the journey…and a jour­ney more deeply into that love…

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  15. Audra Krell says:
    June 1, 2011 at 12:51 pm

    I love this authen­tic story of a fighter and some­one will­ing to try. Very inspir­ing!
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    • Lance says:
      June 1, 2011 at 8:53 pm

      Audra,
      Liv is a shin­ing exam­ple of exactly the title of her site ~ Choos­ing Beauty. And it just emanates from her, both in writ­ten word and spo­ken word.

      Thanks so, so much for being here!

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  16. Jody - Fit at 53 says:
    June 1, 2011 at 1:10 pm

    I love these views peo­ple take! In fact, saw a seg­ment about 1 lady’s year of fear & tak­ing on some­thing sh feared to do each day for a year — we all know how fear of fail­ure can stop us in our tracks but I LOVE tak­ing the look at beauty — since so many of us are so stressed that we rarely find time to do that… THX!
    Jody — Fit at 53´s Last Fab­u­lous Post ..Bet­ter Exer­cise Expe­ri­ence BEXMy Profile

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    • Lance says:
      June 1, 2011 at 8:56 pm

      Jody,
      And that’s it — when we become too busy or stressed or what­ever — we can all too eas­ily miss the beauty that is right around us. And so, what Liv has done — she’s made this just a deeper part of her consciousness…in choos­ing to see beauty EVERY day! I love it, too!! Thanks Jody!

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  17. Cathy | Treatment Talk says:
    June 1, 2011 at 2:13 pm

    Sounds like a won­der­ful course. How refresh­ing to hear some­one talk about their blog as a place they want to be. Find­ing beauty every­day and turn­ing it into a blog sounds like the ulti­mate grat­i­tude list. I like the tech­nique on your video. Was it done through Skype?
    Cathy | Treat­ment Talk´s Last Fab­u­lous Post ..How Can Par­ents “Behave” Their Way to Good Par­ent­ing to Help Stop Sub­stance AbuseP­art 2My Profile

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    • Lance says:
      June 1, 2011 at 8:58 pm

      Cathy,
      Isn’t it won­der­ful!! And just look at Liv’s site — it shines beauty…and that’s beauty that I’m sure has deep and per­sonal mean­ing to her!

      Yes, the video was done through Skype — and the record­ing of it…well…the first time for both of us!!

      Thanks for vis­it­ing, it’s great to have you here!

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  18. David Stevens says:
    June 1, 2011 at 6:52 pm

    Hi Lance & Liv,
    Thank you for shar­ing your story. The world really can be a beau­ti­ful place. Be aware of what sur­rounds you, often we take this for granted. There are times when we have to peel back some lay­ers to find “the beauty”, but do it any­way.
    Be good to your­selves
    David

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    • Lance says:
      June 1, 2011 at 9:04 pm

      David,
      Yes!!! And…Yes!!!

      We can all too eas­ily take for granted what is right beside us…thinking there’s some­thing greater (and more beau­ti­ful) over the hori­zon. And in that, we miss what’s right there all along. And some­times that beauty is hidden…but, yes, it’s there!

      Thanks David…great thoughts to go along with all of this!!

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  19. Giulietta Nardone says:
    June 2, 2011 at 7:26 pm

    Hi Liv and Lance,

    I love the idea of look­ing for beauty every day. You know the phys­i­cal world seems to be the Gar­den of Eden to me. As a child I loved get­ting National Geo­graphic so I could look at the pretty pic­tures of far­away places. If we were com­mit­ted to beauty, we’d never hurt the Earth. I hope you can spread the cel­e­bra­tion of beauty around the world. It might make folks think twice before doing ugly things to each other.

    One of the most beau­ti­ful things ever is the inside of a flower! It’s a lit­tle piece of art, del­i­cate yet intri­cate and free for any­one who stops gal­lop­ing through life long enough to slow down and take a look at it.

    I believe we’re taught to ignore the nat­ural beauty around us and in us and look for arti­fi­cial beauty. Oth­er­wise, we’d all be out­side all day and all night. I go out at night and look at the stars (lance, you might like my essay The Starry Night — I can send you the link if you like ) not many folks out there wish­ing on these twin­kling beauties.

    So many ways to unite the world through beauty!

    Thx, G.

    Best wishes for the class.
    Giuli­etta Nardone´s Last Fab­u­lous Post ..Ques­tion Every­thing Con­cern­ing Your HealthMy Profile

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    • Lance says:
      June 3, 2011 at 5:38 am

      Giuli­etta,
      That’s such a won­der­ful thought — that if we’re com­mit­ted to beauty, we would never hurt the earth! So, just by see­ing the beauty in our every day, we love and care for this planet (and those who inhabit it) a bit more than we did before — and that is so, so awesome!

      Yes, please do send a link to The Starry Night. I love to go out­side and just gaze up at the stars, too. When I do, I just get this sen­sa­tion that our world is so amaz­ing and filled with wonder.

      Thanks so much for being here, dear friend…

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  20. Megan "JoyGirl!" Bord says:
    June 3, 2011 at 10:38 am

    You are incred­i­ble! Good for you, Liv, for chang­ing your life around so con­sciously, and for inspir­ing many oth­ers along the way! I can­not imag­ine what your expe­ri­ences eight years ago must have been like, but my gosh, to come clear on through to the other side and then some?! You’re made of tougher stuff than prob­a­bly even you real­ized.
    Like you, my blog changed my life but maybe not so rad­i­cally. Sounds sort of like your blog “saved” your life (maybe that’s too strong a word). Through mine, I found deep, mean­ing­ful, love-filled friend­ships — and I’ve tried to meet, in-person, each of those friends so that our con­nec­tions don’t start and end online. It’s been such an enrich­ing experience.

    Bless­ings of eter­nal joy and beauty to you!

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    • Lance says:
      June 3, 2011 at 1:21 pm

      Megan,
      Isn’t it so, so cool to see the power of the human spirit, and what IS pos­si­ble! Liv exem­pli­fies this in her choos­ing to see the beauty before her every day. And in that…how awe­some that the light within her just shined brighter than ever!

      Megan, even though you no longer write at your orig­i­nal blog, I am so, so blessed that you did. And I am because that brought us together, includ­ing that won­der­ful day we met, in per­son! (along with a very mean­ing­ful and spe­cial friendship…)

      …peace, love, and all things beautiful…

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  21. Jean Burman says:
    June 4, 2011 at 4:10 pm

    Hey… thanks you guys for this. Video blog­ging isn’t easy. I tried it when I launched Dear­Dot­Com. I think on some lev­els it scared peo­ple. Just a lit­tle. They had been used to read­ing me for four years and then all of a sud­den… hey… there I was sit­ting there talk­ing to them. It was a funny expe­ri­ence.. but one I will be repeat­ing into the future on both blogs.

    Liv… con­grat­u­la­tions on your new ecourse. And go you! I hope it’s a huge suc­cess. I res­onated with all you said… and con­cur that blog­ging is not easy with­out a strong per­sonal focus and clear direc­tion on which way to go. It takes time. And per­sis­tence. Espe­cially given the blog plat­form… where mean­in­ful feed­back isn’t always given. No-one expects how hard that will be to keep pro­duc­ing [with­out an emo­tional return] and that’s why so many give up. So great you’re address­ing the issues and help­ing peo­ple to see. Thanks for doing that.

    Lance… dear friend. So great to hear you talk! I loved the video and hope you do more. Apolo­gies for my late­ness to this topic. It’s been a big week!
    Jean Burman´s Last Fab­u­lous Post ..What’s your ART worth Part 2My Profile

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    • Lance says:
      June 5, 2011 at 7:35 am

      Jean,
      Ha!! Yes, video blog­ging can def­i­nitely pose some new chal­lenges!! (and we dis­cov­ered them!!)

      And now you have me look­ing for­ward to your next video posts!! Woohoo! I’m excited!!

      So true — when there is that emo­tional return, that makes blog­ging just con­nect more deeply. The thing is, that emo­tional return may take time to develop. Stay­ing the course…can be chal­leng­ing. When it’s mean­ing­ful though, there is so much reward in it (for blog­ging, or for what­ever it is that brings meaning).

      It’s super great (as always) hav­ing you here!!

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  22. Andrew Walker says:
    June 13, 2011 at 11:08 pm

    I love your story, Liz. It’s great if you have found your way in blog­ging world. I am new in this bat­tle­field. I have to learn a lot from the other blog­gers. Thanks for shar­ing the inspir­ing story.
    Andrew Walker´s Last Fab­u­lous Post ..Infin­ity Shoes Coupon CodeMy Profile

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  23. Connie @ carpet cleaning grand rapids mi says:
    June 17, 2011 at 1:01 pm

    It is such an inspir­ing story! I totally agree that a blog can trans­form your life as well as those who have read your blog. For me, blog­ging may not only talk about busi­ness, it can also func­tion to inspire oth­ers with what you have expe­ri­enced and learned in life.

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