Live Your Eulogy | LAYC49

Hello.

Thanks for joining me today.

I'm especially grateful for your company as I celebrate.

That's not quite the right word, but certainly as I acknowledge and mark an

occasion, an anniversary of sorts, not an anniversary from a wedding, although

that's ironic that I should think about that because in fact, it's the

anniversary of the beginning of a divorce.

365 days ago today, I boarded a flight, to leave a marriage, a

life that I had lived for 12 years.

a lot of relationships, and some unhealthy habits and patterns in my life,

and I've spent the last year unlearning some of my lessons during that period

and getting reacquainted with me.

The real me!

Absolutely stunningly surprising to me that 12 months has already gone by

another year of my life on this planet.

And it was hard.

There was a lot of hard stuff.

There was a lot of emotional stuff.

There was a lot of gut wrenching, soul searching, hand ringing,

hair pulling, you name it, during that period of time where I often

said What The F have you done here?

Was it the right thing?

Have you made a mistake?

Are you sure this is what you want.

I am sure.

I am sure indeed.

But it did take a while for me to get to this place of not looking back over

my shoulder and not doubting in my own judgment that it was hard to do

this, but I had to do it in order to continue to thrive and live my best life.

My Encore, this one and whatever the future ones will be.

I'm known as the Encore Catalyst Transformation Catalyst, the mistress of

reinvention in some circles, and that was long before this past 12 months change.

If you're not sure what catalyst means, the definition for me, that really makes

sense is that a catalyst is a substance or an individual who enables or facilitates

a change or a reaction without being consumed or changed by the reaction.

A year ago and more back, I realized I was being consumed by the life that I

was living, and I was being changed in ways that I didn't like and were not

sustainable to my mind, my body, my soul.

My spirit was disintegrating in front of me and I really

felt that I was dying slowly.

Sounds very dramatic.

I know, but really I felt like I, my life force was leaking out of me.

Like the old Chinese torture c alled Death by a Thousand Cuts.

Rather than continue that very slow death, I made a decision to try for a new life.

Here I am.

I survived.

And I am thriving and I'm not finished reinventing or transforming

by any stretch of the imagination.

In fact, I hope I never will.

Cuz I think once you stop changing and growing and evolving, that is the end.

That is the end of your life and you begin to contract and decline.

I've learned a tremendous amount about myself and life over the past year,

and because I am a lifelong learner, I'm grateful for that and I know that

there's much more for me to learn.

But today I'd like to share just 10 of the lessons that I really felt

were worth all of that hard knocks, hard learning in the past 12 months.

I learned that the sun rises every day and it's up to me to do the same.

I bring light to others, but I shine brightest when I

loved myself first and most.

I did not make a mistake.

I learned what I did not want, and I decided to pursue what I did want.

Relationships change in unforeseen ways.

Accepting change is part of our growth and letting go with love

is the only healthy option.

When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.

That wisdom is thanks to Dr.

Maya Angelou.

Regret is fatal if you allow it to grow and fester.

Everything I expected to be true about this age and stage of my life was wrong.

Everything I experience now at this age and stage of my life is better only

if I begin and keep moving forward.

Everything I accomplish at this age and stage of my life matters.

I am living my legacy.

Number 10 is a lesson I learned a long time ago in my life, and I

am grateful for this refreshment and reinforcement of this.

I have the power to grant wishes starting with my own.

If these lessons resonate with you, and if you're thinking, but how do you start?

Where do you begin?

What is my legacy?

How can I do this with no regrets.

Then I'd like to share with you something that I created and used

for myself and used this many times with clients and friends and people

that share my vision for let's live our life fully and make a difference.

It's called Live Your Eulogy, and it's an exercise that I guide you

through that will help you script your eulogy the way you'd like it

to be read and to get started with a plan to live your legacy while you

are alive to influence it, Impact it.

That's available at FreeGiftFromIsabel.Com and I'd love to hear what you come up

with, for your eulogy, your Legacy plan.

You can share that with us in the Lift As You Climb Movement Facebook group.

Or reach out to me at Hello@TheEncoreCatalyst.com.

If you'd like to have a little bit more of the backstory of how I got to this

anniversary occasion today, Episode 41 - Irreconcilable Change, I'll give

you a little bit more background.

So in closing, Thank you again, and I hope to see you here soon because

we have a big, exciting future ahead of us, OUR ENCORES, and I'd