28 Comments to “Questions to Get Closer to You: Question 10”

1. January 16th, 2008 at 8:42 am
   Jesse Petersen said

   I would plug about how to let your handicaps transform your identity, but not become your identity.

   Too many people become the diabetic, the one with the limp, you name it, some people ARE their problems in life.

   We need to embrace what is wrong with us and overcome them to become someone, something, greater than the handicap that hinders those who dwell on their problems. /sniff sniff. I smell a post out of this. Thanks, Liz!

2. January 16th, 2008 at 9:18 am
   ME Liz Strauss said

   Hi Jesse!
   Great to see you!

   This is a question that’s so important. When someone puts an opportunity before us, we need to be able to use to with authority.

   You knew what you would say and as a result your cause could more forward.

   Great cause and great thoughts on it.

3. January 16th, 2008 at 9:43 am
   Karin H. said

   Hi Liz

   Huge question!

   I would plug the ‘old-fashion’ idea of making/having friends. Nowadays, in this fast paced, constantly online with quick contacts here and there and everywhere, I think some forget to realise the great value, support etc friends have.

   Friends can be made online of course, no doubt about that. But real friends forget about just quick contacts, they give you more than that. (Rambling a bit here I fear, trying to find the correct words to explain what I mean).

   Some, I fear, have forgotten how to make real valuable friendships. And because everything is so fast paced nowadays we need more than ever friends who (we) value (us).

   That’s why I would plug ‘old-fashion’ friendship.

   Karin H. (Keep It simple Sweetheart, specially in business)

4. January 16th, 2008 at 9:55 am
   Tammy Lenski said

   Liz, I *love* it when you ask these questions, because I learn from and about others who respond and see a terrific opportunity to get clearer on my own promise to clients.

   Given that we’re talking Oprah and, therefore, her particular audience, I’d plug the power of stepping up to your difficult conversations for healing and transforming the relationships most important to you. Most people avoid in the name of preserving the relationship…but avoidance too often spirals into distance when the underlying conflict isn’t addressed.

5. January 16th, 2008 at 10:48 am
   Mike DeWitt said

   Hi Liz,

   You didn’t go first. What’s up with that?

   Mike

6. January 16th, 2008 at 11:59 am
   Alina Popescu said

   Hi Liz! Given what I’ve heard and seen around me these days, I’d have to go for the idea of knowing what you’re worth. I think people are way too inclined to take less than what they need and want, to compromise way to often and forget to pursue what’s really meant for them. It’s not perfect, but it could be worse - this is something I’d work on hearing less.

7. January 16th, 2008 at 4:53 pm
   ME Liz Strauss said

   Hi Karin!
   I think Oprah’s audience would take kindly to that plug. . . .

   It’s a huge question that comes up in various ways whenever people want to know what we do. I’ve been getting a version of it a lot these days.

8. January 16th, 2008 at 5:03 pm
   ME Liz Strauss said

   Hi Tammy!
   Yeah, I know what you mean about “stepping up.” When we don’t, we walk around frustrated that something isn’t going as it “should.” In our own way, we sabotage our own desires, don’t we?

9. January 16th, 2008 at 5:05 pm
   ME Liz Strauss said

   Hi Mike!
   I’m really sick with a fever, so my appearance on Oprah was cancelled due to illness.

   I lost the opportunity. Having chicken soup instead.

10. January 16th, 2008 at 5:08 pm
    ME Liz Strauss said

    Hi Alina!
    Knowing what we’re work and communicating it with ease are a concrete foundation for fabulous business relationships. It doesn’t hurt in our personal ones either.

    Obviously I agree with you.

11. January 16th, 2008 at 6:15 pm
    Paula C. Scardamalia said

    I guess I would plug that we each have the opportunity to weave a life of beauty–that no matter how mottled, dark, or light the past, it can help to create a life fabric of integrity, texture, and color depending on the choices, the wefts, that are woven into the fabric every day. The tapestry is always in process.

12. January 16th, 2008 at 8:31 pm
    ME Liz Strauss said

    Hi Paula,
    That’s so in keeping with the whole thing you’re doing. Yeah! We’re always changing the story and threading in new storylines.

13. January 16th, 2008 at 10:07 pm
    Sueblimely said

    I would talk about Fragile X Syndrome, a genetic condition that my son suffers from and I am a carrier of. It is relatively common but not well known. Having an audience of that size would be great. More kids would likely be diagnosed and helped and hopefully there would be more funding for research.

14. January 17th, 2008 at 5:41 am
    ME Liz Strauss said

    Hi Sue!
    I’ve heard of that, but not very much about it. So I can see how important it is to get more information out there. Research relies so heavily on people caring about something. How can we care if we don’t even know?

15. January 17th, 2008 at 8:42 am
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16. January 17th, 2008 at 9:16 am
    Mike DeWitt said

    Liz,

    Get well quick! I guess I could plug warm quilts and soft music on Oprah for folks in similar circumstances…

    Mike

17. January 17th, 2008 at 9:18 am
    ME Liz Strauss said

    Or Mike,
    You could plug the need for folks in business to learn how to listen to each other and how you might show them how to do that. You could explain that it’s merely a matter of finding someone like you who knows how to translate what people are saying and who knows how to set up a high-trust environment in which people hear the messages without fear of what they might mean.

18. January 17th, 2008 at 2:04 pm
    Mother Earth said

    I have such mixed feelings about oprah, yet she’s aired our company 5 times this past year and man oh man has it brought us
    “household world” level. The power of what she endorses is pretty darn amazing

    I’d love to talk with her about community environment initiatives, not waiting for the national level to lead us, but what can we do in our small towns, and then have those communities unite - redefine recycling, advocate less packaging, wonder how we could get a community compost going, use less electricity…real home town stuff. It’s still in such an enrollment phase, I’d like oprah to prompt all of us to action!! I wish I knew all the answers to this stuff - i am still wondering which light bulbs are better, ya know? I just think gathering, town home meetings are on the rise, it’s nice to see - maybe if we all out our heads together

    You going to send these to oprah??

    Mother Earth aka Karen Hanrahan
    http://www.bestwellnessconsultant.com

19. January 17th, 2008 at 6:21 pm
    sprouT said

    Hi Liz: heard you on LIME lastnight while I was driving through the Canadian Rockies - this is the very first time I have ever listened to LIME on Sirius Radio.

    Hi Jesse!

    I liked your post and felt that it was a great one to start with.

    Yes. We are what we believe. I guess I would discuss Holsitic Nutrition. I used to think we are what we eat - then I thought we are what digest but now I KNOW we are what we believe!

    If you believe something is bad for you or feel guilty about it then that is what you will experience. Of course the oppsoite is true.

    I also heard about a Therapist and his patient where he asked his patient to rewrite a horrible incident the way she had wished it would have happened and then had her repeat it many many times until she no longer has the physiological response she used to have when remembering the past incident.

    The very first and possibly the most important first step to any kind of transformative health program for health and wellness is getting to the underlying roots of any imbalance (old beliefs, Nutrinet deficiency, stress, colon cleansing)…

    The more I work with people the more I realize that we all have these very strong beliefs that may no longer be serving our best highest good. So I would talk about the tools for finding, accepting and releasing old beliefs.

    Holistic Nutrition is Nutrition for the Mind, Body and Spirit (and if you aren’t the kind of person who uses the word Spirit - think of the word Inspired “in Spirit”).

    The best techniques I have found so far are EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique) http://emofree.com/ - Hands down the quickest, most simple and Free-est way to manifest. Love this!!!

    I also use Michael Losiers Technique for writing a Desire Satement, Logging the Proof of evidence and raising the vibration in our language (NLP) from what we don’t want to what we really want in every single conversation we have with ourselves and with eachother I use it as a part of my Intake Process.

    And “Step 3″ - from Joe Vitale’s Book The Attractor Factor. This exercise helps one get to the root, and then all of the underlying feelings and then finally the true belief of how we feel about a certain sitaution big or small; that happend when we were young or what happened at the office yesterday.

    Write a letter to someone you love. Then writing a the letter you wished the would have written back to you. Very powerful.

    Write a letter to someone higher self so that that person higher self can download the message. Example: Secretary wants boss to give her a business credit card bc she has had to use her own on occasion. She writes a letter and within a few days her boss telss her that he has applied for a business credit card…

    I found a pretty sweet online vision board as well: http://www.visualizeyourgoals.com/

    These Techniques are fun and fabulous for manifesting and feeling good good good!

20. January 17th, 2008 at 8:16 pm
    ME Liz Strauss said

    Hi sprouT!
    Welcome!
    You’ve listened to LIME radio one more time than I have. I was so sick yesterday morning when we recorded that.

    I’m with you . . . we are what we believe, and others believe what we believe about ourselves. Nine of ten take it on faith. (The tenth one at least gets curious about it.)

    Who’s to say that we aren’t what we believe? Who else would know better than we do? we can take their input under advisement, but our hearts know. It’s sad that we sometimes don’t choose to believe what our own hearts know.

    Those techniques you mention are wonderful ways to find out what we know that we’re not telling ourselves.

    Thank you for sharing them.

21. January 17th, 2008 at 8:28 pm
    ME Liz Strauss said

    Hey Mother Earth!
    I’m sure hearing you. The power of Oprah makes one stop to think. But the power of a neighborhood is what really moves us to act, isn’t it?

    I don’t know that we have to worry about light bulbs as much as we do. I wonder if we worried more about bringing our own light forward instead what would happen?

    Hadn’t thought about sending these to Oprah — doesn’t seem like there’s enough here yet to get her attention.

22. January 18th, 2008 at 12:11 am
    Mother Earth said

    hope your feeling better

    it’s the mercury in the new fangled bulbs that has me in a tizzy - you can’t just through them away or even recycle them, they need special handling - it’s crazy

    more importantly no one knew for awhile, false solution, new problem - what else is new ??

    I think oprah might be intrigued with the dialogue?

    Hard to know how her attention is caught - ya know??

    It’s such a fun question

    Mother Earth aka Karen Hanrahan
    http://www.bestwellnessconsultant.com

23. January 18th, 2008 at 4:50 am
    ME Liz Strauss said

    Hi Mother Earth!
    I didn’t even know such light bulbs exist. I’m not very new fangled in many ways. This candle here still works for me. he-he.

    It’s a fun question. Maybe if Oprah does an ego search, she’ll stumble across it and comment.

24. January 19th, 2008 at 11:11 am
    Rose said

    Well that question had me thinking for two days. Here’s my manual trackback since I’ve been having trouble with them:

    A response

    The short summary is:
    “Taking personal responsibility to understand the chain of how consumer goods get to us and how we the purchasers are equally responsible for perpetuating the problems.”

25. January 19th, 2008 at 10:31 pm
    ME Liz Strauss said

    Hi Rose!
    Welcome!
    I think it’s great when a question gets me thinking for two days. I sure hope you do too!

    I’m with you about personal responsibility. Thank you for taking the time to build that trackback link. The article it links to is wonderful.

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