Stop Waiting, Be Happy

This program is for anyone who is ready for something new.

Are you done with conflict?
Are you willing to let go of your grievances?
Do you want to know the joy of co-creating with Go

In order to participate in this program, you must be done with conflict – it’s a requirement for participation – at least to have a willingness to let it go.

Are you done with conflict?

This is a 6-week coaching program to work with me privately one-on-one (so there’s no group interaction) and it’s designed to get out of conflict (once and for all!), experience consistent happiness, and to know how good life can be when you develop a relationship with God.

If you’re ready to give up conflict – if you are seriously tired of your old existence of pain and fear – this program is for you.

Once you know your destination, getting there is easy.

A Course in Miracles means EXACTLY what it says: there is a world where there is only love.
Are you there yet?
Are you in a place where there is only joy and happiness and perfect peace.
If not, I can help you find your way there.

I used to ask people: Do you want be happy?

And everyone would inevitable say YES!!!! YES, I WANT TO BE HAPPY!

Yes!

But then I noticed a curious thing: No one stayed happy. They said they wanted to be happy, and yet they were still participating in misery and conflict.

So I started asking a different question. “Are you done with conflict?”

You should have seen the reactions!!! Almost everyone paused!!!! A blank stare would cross their face. Some said “Huh??” A lot said “what?” as if they hadn’t heard me correctly. Then even more curious, a lot of people flat out said “no, I’m not ready yet” (lol) and that’s when I realized that’s the real question that needs to be asked. Because OF COURSE everyone says they want to be happy, but very few mean it, very few are willing to leave conflict behind forever.

“Hi Lisa,

This program is awesome and I love that you made Lesson #7 Crossing the Bridge. It’s just the kind of gutsy, go for it, let’s do what it says approach I wanted without quite knowing how to say it. Not that I don’t feel like I’m having to shake the world off of my left foot while my right one is already gone. So this week with physical disruption and throwing out the old, disintegrated carpet foundation is a great metaphor for me. It amazes me that it’s working so well to do both these things (this 6-week program and renovating my house) in the same time frame. There were scraps of disintegrated carpet pad that got dropped as the helpers (holy spirit’s angels) took 95% of the old to the garbage can that was emptied within 30 minutes of their leaving. I’m thinking I have a bit of clean up the rest of this week. Then my sister came to help me scrape up old pad and remove bit of yellow shag. I was deliberate in not complaining about brothers and not hardly tempted. When I am tempted to attach to a grievance, I notice quickly and have more tools to replace it with Trust or remembering I am done with conflict and want to be happy all the time.
I have read the section on Trust a good many times in the past and always wondered where I was in those stages. Tonight I think I can line out big chunks of each stage starting in 1998 with heading for an ACIM study group and pulling in two acquaintances the next week, one of whom was my study buddy for 10 years. It even feels like I’m on the brink of the last stage, period of achievement. So tell me what you think I need to hear, coach. I love having a coach for the first time, feeling like I attracted the right program for now and for me, and your example of having crossed the bridge with good cheer, humor and candor is greatly helpful.” – Nancy F

Have you been “waiting” for a miracle?

Have you been feeling stalled or stuck? Do you want to get unstuck?

Have you been praying for your life to change, but realizing that “not much of anything” is happening?

Are you “supremely happy” (as A Course in Miracles says you should be, all the time) or are you still fluctuating between emotions of fear and love?

Do you feel excited and passionately alive when you wake up in the morning?

And finally, do you see a world where there is only love?

You’re about to discover the fast track to receiving miracles (finally! no more waiting!) to start seeing dramatic results in your life.

FROM: Lisa Natoli
Tilton, New Hampshire USA
Thursday, June 17, 2010

“Friends, this is not Disneyland and we cannot turn this river off.”-river guide to Jerry and Esther Hicks as they were about to put their canoe into a very fast moving river.

This is one of my favorite sentences for several reason – the use of the word “friends”- because you know the guy is not leading them into anything that would harm them, the humor in it of not being Disneyland – THIS IS A REAL RIVER, not just a ride – yes, there are risks – and the suggestion that life is flowing all the time and it never stops. You cannot turn it off when you’ve had enough.

This sentence, when I first heard it, was the start of something new for me. For the longest time, way more time than I care to admit, I was WAITING for life to start. I was waiting for a miracle, waiting for more money, waiting for people to be different, waiting, waiting, waiting for something.

I didn’t even know what I was waiting for, I just knew that my life was not all it could be, and I kept thinking “a miracle” was going to be given to me because I had dedicated my life to God, and I was a good person, and I was generous, kind, thoughtful and loving.

Because I spent so much of time giving, I felt that it was only “a matter of time” before I started to receive.

I felt I deserved it. I felt that I had paid my dues. And I felt that because A Course in Miracles promises peace, joy and happiness, that it was “just a matter of time.”

So, I waited.

And waited.

And waited.

And waited.

I kept writing every day.

I prayed.

I hoped.

I gave with all my heart, mind and soul.

And I waited.

Give, give, give, give, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.

That was my life.

Giving and waiting. Being nice and waiting. Writing and waiting.

I kept thinking something BIG was going to happen, but not much of anything seemed to happen. But I felt success was right around the corner. But when I got around that corner and didn’t find the success I was expecting, I figured it was right around the next corner …

I just knew that “what I really wanted” was “on it’s way” and “coming soon” and all I had to do was be patient … and you guessed it … wait.

My life was on pause while I went through the motions of “living.”

But as you may already know, years of waiting for something to happen with nothing ever really changing is really REALLY frustrating.

Where was my miracle??? Why was I still struggling? What was I doing wrong?

Where, DEAR GOD, was all the joy and passion and love that is promised to me????

A Course in Miracles says “consistent joy” is our inheritance and that certainly NOT my experience. I’d have glimpses of it, followed by doubt, anger, and fear.

AND THEN, SOMETHING MAJOR-LEAGUE DRAMATIC HAPPENED FOR ME LAST SUMMER 2009 THAT TURNED MY LIFE AROUND.

I MADE A DECISION.

That was my life-changing, turn-around, stop-the-world event that happened to me: I MADE A DECISION.

I made a decision to STOP WAITING.

I made a decision to be happy, NO MATTER WHAT.

That was last July 2009. And you want to know what happened? Everything fell apart, almost immediately. I got divorced, my computer died, my hearing aids broke, and for a while there it almost seemed like something out of a movie. Things just kept breaking -but I had made a decision … and there was no going back.

- NO MORE WAITING.
-TO BE HAPPY, NO MATTER WHAT.

And an interesting thing started to happen, I began to feel truly alive.
I started waking up happy, for no reason at all. I started to see that life is a thrilling adventure – AT ALL TIMES – when things are going “wrong” and when things are going “right.” It’s all good!!

I started to see that all my misery came from the false belief that I was powerless.

I started to see that everything is JUST A STORY and that if I don’t like the story … I CAN CHANGE IT.

In the beginning, things on outside things looked the same, and in some cases, things looked like they were getting worse – HOWEVER – on the inside, I knew something dramatic had shifted.

I FELT DIFFERENT.

You see, I thought life was only happening when things were “good” but suddenly I realized that life is always happening even when things are going “bad” – and that NO MATTER WHAT, I have the power of decision to choose the way I feel.

And I chose happiness.

FROM THE MOMENT OF MY DECISION, I WAS CONSCIOUSLY AWARE OF EVERYTHING WHILE IT WAS HAPPENING.

Before that moment, I was a victim to external events. I was waiting for other people to be different.I was waiting for circumstances to change. I was waiting for life to change. I lived almost exclusively in the past and in the future.

I had forgotten that NOW – TODAY -is all there is … and this is what life looks like!!

THIS MOMENT IS MY LIFE. I am awake for it, or sleeping through it?

I had forgotten that I am the CENTER from which everything happens. I had forgotten that all miracles have already been given. I’d forgotten that time is over. I’d forgotten that this is a dream.

I knew the words, but I kept forgetting.

For a while there, in unconsciousness, I really believed the world was real. I actually believed that something outside of me was going to happen to make my life be different.

I thought someone else was responsible for my happiness.

I’m laughing now, but at the time IT WAS NOT SO FUNNY!!

And what ended up happening is that I said loudly and boldly:
“I’M DONE WITH CONFLICT.”

And for the first time in my life, I really meant it.

“I AM 100% RESPONSIBLE FOR EVERYTHING THAT HAPPENS TO ME FROM NOW ON.”

“I’M NOT A VICTIM.”

“I’M NOT WEAK, I’M POWERFUL.”

“NO ONE IS DOING ANYTHING TO ME, AND I AM GOING TO LIVE MY LIFE AND BE HAPPY, DAMMIT.”

And you want to know what I found?? This is funny. I DIDN’T EVEN KNOW WHAT I WANTED!!!!!!! I had spent so much time waiting and dodging bullets of conflict, that I didn’t even know what I wanted from my life. I kept thinking it would show up on a platter, and then I would know.

So I knew there was work to do, because I was done with waiting. I was done with using sentences from A Course in Miracles to keep myself in oblivion.

I WAS READY TO TAKE MY PLACE AS THE SAVIOR OF THE WORLD I MADE.

If the world is truly over, and this is a journey we’ve already took, and that God’s Will for me is PERFECT HAPPINESS, then I decided I was going TO BE ABOUT IT.

I was going to do things that I wanted to do, and live life on my terms and be actively involved in creating a beautiful life for myself … AS AN ARTIST, A WRITER AND A CREATOR.

So I started taking action. I did things that felt WILDLY UNCOMFORTABLE.

I was breaking out of my comfort zone and it felt equally exciting and downright scary. Half the time I didn’t know what the hell I was doing, but I did it anyways because I felt I had nothing to lose.

I was tired of waiting.

First thing I did was get clear on what I wanted.
Second thing I did was hire a coach.
He cost $10,000 for one year of coaching, and I hired him at a time when I had $5 in my wallet, no gas in my car and the only food in my house was cat food, coffee and soy milk.

But I knew something dramatic had to happen, and so I asked a friend if I could borrow the money. He said yes.

I nearly fell out of my chair, but my friend said yes!!

And within 24 hours, I was no longer alone. I had someone I was accountable to – my coach Steve – someone who worked very closely with me to help me to stay clear and focused.

AND I HAVE TO TELL YOU, IT WAS THE BEST THING I EVER DID.

He saw things that I couldn’t see, and he told me things that I didn’t know. He showed me shortcuts, and he took me by the hand and cheered me on, and he reminded me of my goal when I forgot (which was often).

And interestingly enough, he’s big-time Christian and his message is that you do everything with God in mind, so it was like he custom-made for me.

I didn’t see results right up front, and I’m still paying off that debt, but hiring my coach was the best thing I ever did. You see, I made an investment in myself. I stopped playing the victim. I stopped waiting for someone to save me. I realized -FINALLY – after about 15 years of “waiting for something to change” – that the change was going to have to come from me.

I knew if I wanted my life to be different, I was going to have to DO something different.

No more waiting. The miracle was always available.

“Across the bridge, it is so different!” -A Course in Miracles

That “something different” for me was 100% responsibility, no more playing the blame game, no more waiting, no more playing boo-hoo, no more wishing, no more praying, no more hoping.

I saw what was needed was ACTION.

I saw that I had everything I needed, and I was ready. And that all I needed to do was start going in the direction I wanted to do – to take that step, and then the next step, and then the next step.

And a lot has happened since. I’m divorced now and it was the best thing that ever could have happened to me. I took a “bad” thing (losing my best friend) and turned it into a “miracle” of something “good” and beautiful where I recognize the gift of freedom.

I moved from Wisconsin back to New Hampshire and I’m amazed how different life is now. I wake up and feel excited, passionately alive.

WHO KNEW CO-CREATING WITH GOD WAS THIS MUCH FUN!!!!!

I know this is going to sound like the hugest cliche ever but I feel like an artist with a blank canvas, and my life is mine to create. I choose the colors. I choose what goes in this picture. I choose what my life is going to look like.

CO-CREATING WITH GOD.

This is all brand new territory to me. I’m learning as I go along. I make mistakes. But I’m living!! I’m alive! It’s happening. I’m doing what I have always wanted to do – which is help people be happy and know God.

I absolutely love private coaching – it gives me a chance to see the blocks and obstacles – it’s a really fast way to move through the story and excuses and to make new choices.

All you need is desire and willingness.

“Hi and Hugs Lisa,
I love you and I love this course. It’s the best thing I’ve ever done. I most definitely want to continue with it in whatever forum you create. I am grateful to you, to God for this day. thank you my Lovely Lisa
Sending you all my love and prayers. God Bless.”

“I’m so excited Lisa! I want to hug you. It came to me this morning that what I have been longing, yearning and praying for so badly is actually happening and I started to feel so happy and excited. I honestly never thought I would get it. … I’m living in the moment and loving it every second of it and it came to me that this is how I should be living my life. It also came to me that I should share all of it with you, to stop trying to control or be afraid of what you’ll think, there is nothing to fear because God sent you. I am the captain of this vessel (I like seeing myself as the Captain), you are my lighthouse and the light you are shining to me is the light of God. Wow what a day this is! Yahoooooooey Love Love Love.”

This program is one-on-one private coaching. You do NOT have to have completed A Course in Miracles, because we start where you are and go from there. “Waiting” (ha, there’s that word again!) to finish A Course in Miracles to take this 6-week program is just another delay tactic to put off your happiness for some later date.

But happiness is available to you now. There’s no need to struggle.

This program consists of
42 daily blog entries with practical and simple advice to rock your world
42 audios to inspire you to change your thinking
6 weekly group calls – LIVE! – at Wednesday night at 7pm EST

WHAT RESULTS CAN YOU EXPECT

No more grievances and no more conflict.

The ability to feel doubt, and still move through it anyways. You’ll learn to stop being paralyzed long enough so you can take the next step in the direction of your goal.

You’ll get clear about what want.

You’ll learn how to rise above fear.

You’ll stop waiting for life to happen, and start creating.

You’ll stop surviving and struggling, and instead you’ll start living in joy and abundance.

You’ll begin to feel happy, for no reason at all.

You’ll start to become aware of when you’re telling an old story or going down an old road that has never served you.

You’ll be given the ability to get back on track quickly.