29.3.12

Pearls of Wisdom Press Release


It's official!  Pearls of Wisdom is now available at Barnes & Noble, Amazon and many other bookstores!  I am moving my internet home base to www.lisalabon.com.  Please find me there and subscribe to for a free tip sheet "10 Family Sabbatical Ideas for Every Budget" and an MP3 audio interview with the real story about what led our family on the greatest adventure of our lives so far.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE



This book will help you live your best life…now!

Pearls of wisdom
Jack Canfield, Marci Shimoff, Janet Bray Attwood, Chris Attwood
Hierophant Publishing
April 2012

An oyster can’t produce a pearl without first suffering
from a grain of sand…

In PEARLS OF WISDOM, New York Times bestselling authors Jack Canfield, Marci Shimoff, Chris Attwood, and Janet Bray Attwood along with today’s brightest stars in transformational leadership, offer 30 inspirational ideas for turning your own grains of sand into brilliant pearls.

Providing a wealth of practical wisdom and advice, each of the 30 authors share a meaningful idea that can be acted upon immediately – each designed to remove the blocks that interfere with living your best life now

Lisa Merrai Labon of Park City, Utah is one of the contributing authors.  Lisa is an essayist, novelist and mother of four who wrote about how taking a family sabbatical changed her family’s life.  In fact, this family adventure is what led them to choose Park City as their new home.

Lisa Merrai Labon
         “A family sabbatical will enlighten, inspire and motivate profound and often unexpected changes in your lives.  Whether you go for a month or many years, you will discover along the way a renewed definition of success and an enduring bond that will serve your children better than test scores or iPods.”

Jack Canfield
“Sometimes inspirations occur without our even seeming to ask for them.  Other times, we have to ask for them then create the quiet space within which to receive them.”

Marci Shimoff
“Most people aren’t in the habit of taking good care of themselves and honor­ing their own needs. Luckily, beginning that process is actually quite simple: you start by becoming aware of those needs. Three times a day, stop what you’re doing and ask yourself, What’s the most loving thing I can do for myself right now? Then pay very close atten­tion to the answer.”

Janet Bray Attwood and Chris Attwood
“What you love and God’s will for you is one and the same. What this means is that the universe doesn’t play tricks. It’s not a mistake that you love the things you do. By consistently choosing in favor of your passions, you will find that you will naturally have the courage you need to live a fulfilled, success­ful life, one step or one huge leap at a time.”


PEARLS OF WISDOM offers great ideas and sound advice from today’s most accomplished self-help authors, combining traditional and new techniques, affirmations, theories, meditations and practices to lead readers from their struggles to a more enlightened and happy life.
 
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About the Authors

Lisa Merrai Labon is a passionate advocate for healing Earth and local communities. As a writer, Lisa has invited her readers to embrace their own lives with conscious intention, exploring community values, health, education and spiritual connections.  Lisa contributed "Take A Family Sabbatical" to Hampton Roads forthcoming book "Pearls of Wisdom:  30 Inspirational Ideas to Live Your Best Life Now!" featuring best selling author Jack Canfield and Marci Shimoff.  Due April 2012.  Visit her online at www.lisalabon.com.

Jack Canfield is the co-creator and coauthor of the New York Times bestselling Chicken Soup for the Soul book series, which has sold more than 500 million books in forty-seven languages, and The Suss Principles: How to Get from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be.  He has appeared in eight films including The Secret, The Truth, Tapping the Source, and Discover the Gift.  Visit him online at www.jackcanfield.com.

Marci Shimoff is a renowned motivational speaker and a New York Times bestselling author of Happy for No Reason:  7 Steps to Being Happy from the Inside Out and Love for No Reason: 7 Steps for Creating a Life of Unconditional Love, as well as coauthor of six of the Chicken Soup for the Soul books, including Chicken Soup for the Mother’s Soul.  Marci was also a featured teacher in the movie and book, The Secret.  Visit her online at www.marcishimoffblog.com.

Janet Bray Attwood and Chris Attwood are coauthors of the New York Times bestseller, The Passion Test: The Effortless Path to Discovering Your Destiny, as well as cofounders of the online magazine Healthy Wealthy n Wise, in which they have interviewed such inspirational figures as Byron Katie, Wayne Dyer, and Reverend Michael Bernard Beckwith.

All Authors in Chapter Order
Jack Canfield ▪ Chris Attwood & Janet Bray Attwood ▪ Marci Shimoff ▪ Barnet Bain ▪ Kelle Sutliff ▪ Renee Baribeau ▪ Chantal Herman ▪ Asia Voight ▪ Wendy Beyer ▪ Siobhan Coulter ▪ Sheila Pearl ▪ Susan Barker ▪ Glenyce Hughes ▪ Robert Evans ▪ Glenn Groves ▪ Leslie Gunterson ▪ Kimberly Burnham ▪ Liz Byrne ▪ Tami Gulland ▪ Susan McMillin ▪ Debra Hanes ▪ Stephanie Bennett Vogt ▪ Lisa Merrai Labon ▪ Patricia Cohen ▪ Craig Meriwether ▪ Marcelle Charrois ▪ Michelle Manning-Kogler ▪ Stacy Goforth ▪ Jacob Nordby ▪ Tim Anstett ▪ Randy Davila

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Pearls of Wisdom
Jack Canfield, Marci Shimoff, Chris Attwood and Janet Bray Attwood
Hierophant Publishing; Hardcover/ $23.95
ISBN: 978-0-9818771-5-0
Self-Help
April 2012
Available wherever books and ebooks are sold or through:
Red Wheel/Weiser at (800) 423-7087

31.12.11

Dreaming in 2012

"The most successful organisms of nature are the result of collaborations."  
The Shaman's Well




I woke this morning trying to shake disturbing repetitive dreams about being robbed.  First it was my luggage.  I carried a large duffle bag, on a train to the city.  Someone took it.  He was a dark and fleeting image.  I wasn’t even sure I had seen the thief.  Confused and frustrated, I soon discovered he came back for my wallet.  Less concerned with the overall nuisance, I was frozen by indecision.  I knew I could quickly foil the fun by simply calling my bank and notifying the authorities but instead, I crumpled in a ball.  Afraid.  Alone.  Bewildered that I live in a world where this even happens.

I rolled over staring at the clock.  Another sleepless night.  Great.  Just what I need.  

I noticed David Whyte’s book “The Three Marriages” sitting on my nightstand.  Before my feet ever touched the ground, I began reading about how our busyness builds tidal gates to our potential, our dreams and inspirations.  The wonder of childhood, the vast expanse of imagination and vision is lost in our growing up, maturing, taking on the mundane and practical realities.  

His words stung:
“When had I erected a barrier inside me that let things out but did not allow them back in? ... By what steps had I forgotten the promise I had made as a child not to fall into a false form of maturity, which is actually a form of nonparticipation, of not seeing, not hearing and not imagining?”
My dream continued to haunt me as I mulled this question within myself. 

I certainly have much to be grateful for.  2011 wasn’t as awful for me as it might have been for others, and yet I am fully aware of the Titanic that is our civilization and I worry about us.  I worry about how all these human beings with all their “stuff” (emotional and economic) are going to harmonize with the Earth and her changing biosphere. 

And then there is my own little life of excuses and burdens.  I hate being a martyr, but let's get real.  Mothers can't win.  2011 was a year of reckoning on the life balance front and I ain't even close to having it figured out.

As I finish the last warm sips of chai, I realize what my dreams are telling me.  They are telling me to let go of the baggage of beliefs that are holding me back from fulfilling my own dreams.  I have wrestled with the aligator of worldly and personal woes for far too long.  We all know it's bad out there.  But it's not going to get any better if we sit frozen, staring at the tragedy from our (for now) safe seats on the sidelines.  I surely have options to find the balance I need to be the mother AND writer I want to be.  Time to roll up the sleeves and do what we can.  However small.

No more tidal gates.  Let 'er rip.

Open.  Open wide.  Breathe.  Let Go.  Re-imagine.  Dream.  Adapt.  Change.  

In surrendering all the crap, I am free.  I am free to dream a new dream for 2012, one that is empowering, powerful and healing for me, my family and through quantum domino effect, YOU.

I wish you beautiful sparkly dreams in 2012!

Namaste.


21.10.11

Free Book Contest


My first give away!  Enter to win two signed copies of "Pearls of Wisdom:  Inspirational Ideas to Live Your Best Life Now," with a chapter by moi!  You get a copy for yourself and for a friend!  From the sneak peak I have already had, this book is filled with fresh, practical and uplifting wisdom from 30 new and best selling authors.

Here are the rules & conditions.  Enter before December 1, 2011:

1.  Subscribe via email to my blogs - Alpine Aerie or Life On Purpose (upper right corner, select "get Life On Purpose delivered via email).  Feedburner sends a confirmation email.  Be sure to "confirm" your subscription or it won't deliver.  Check your spam folder.
2.  Post a link to this page on Facebook, Google+, Twitter or any other social media platform you regularly use.  I will certainly consider an extra entry for anyone who posts links on more than one platform!
3.  Leave a comment here about where you posted.

I will add all names to my random name generator and on December 15th (or sooner if I can) I will announce the lucky winner.

The book is due to be published Spring 2012.  I will mail out signed copies as soon as they are available.

Thank you!