What if you can live a life of no regrets?  

By Lori Hammond

Coach and Professional Hypnotist. Giving you simple tools to stop overwhelm and harness joyful forward momentum.

Yesterday I came across this  Facebook test... 

My horror host name, based on my birthday, was...

 

Procurer of Fear.

 

I thought, "Yuck" then went about my business. But  a few minutes later someone reframed the way I interpreted that phrase in a powerful way. 

 

(I'll tell you what she said in a moment.)

 

Here's the back-story...

 

On Feb 14 last year I lost almost all of my belongings in a flood. 

 

When I look back on that experience, two moments are frozen in my mind.

 

The moment I discovered that all of my kids' artwork from their school years had been destroyed. 

 

And the moment I saw my journal... 

 

Open to the page I'm about to tell you about...

 

Completely waterlogged with the pages stuck together.

 

Five years ago I sat at a table outside a coffee shop and did a journaling exercise called "Fear Setting".

 

I had been contemplating quitting my job to become a professional hypnotist for months.

 

I was freaking terrified. 

 

I was terrified of what would happen if I DID quit my job. 

 

And I was terrified of what would happen if I threw my dream on the ever-growing mountain of "Things I wish I'd done".

 

I journaled my answer to 6 specific questions designed to help a person step OUT of fear and...

 

STOP PUTTING YOUR LIFE ON HOLD. 

 

You know that feeling you get when you absolutely KNOW the right answer?

 

These 6 questions catapulted me out of the fear of pursuing my dream and opened my eyes to the devastating cost of putting my dream on hold for one more minute. 

 

The Coffee Shop Conversion

 

A few days ago I sat in a different coffee shop and created a journaling exercise called Coffee Shop Conversion that asks the same 6 questions that shifted my fear into freedom. 

 

It was a full circle moment. 

 

I closed my eyes and imagined sending the knowledge of where that choice would take me back to the Lori in the coffee shop 5 years ago...

 

Because she KNEW something amazing was ahead but she had no idea what. 

 

The anniversary of the flood.

 

This coming February 14... one year after the flood...

 

Registration closes on my Workshops that Work program. (Where I show you how to build a 6-figure business doing group hypnosis sessions... like I do.)

 

I only opened the doors yesterday and 16 people have already registered. 

 

I'm only allowing 100 people in so the doors will close sooner if it fills up sooner. 

 

The past year has been a wild roller coaster ride. 

 

Maybe for you too. 

 

I was so sad when I lost my home and all my belongings. 

 

I felt like I was being furiously shaken inside a snow-globe. 

 

This year on February 14 I will be in my new home... my favorite place I've ever lived...

 

Celebrating the fact that... not only did I do the scary thing and quit my job 5 years ago... but I've done scary thing after scary thing after scary thing since.

 

Remember that silly Facebook post I mentioned at the start?

 

When I shared that my phrase was "Procurer of Fear", a friend commented,

 

"Well, you do make people do things they are scared to do."

 

That comment shifted everything...

 

Because it brings me great joy to see people do the thing that used to scare them (like becoming visible on social media).

 

They realize that life can be an exhilarating ride when you

 

GET OUTSIDE YOUR COMFORT ZONE. 

 

If you've read this far, thank you. 

 

This feels like a journaling moment for me and it softens the blow of the loss of my other journal. 

 

I'm lucky that there's a part of me that remembers everything that's important about that experience. 

 

How lucky are YOU that there's a part of you beginning to understand...

 

There will never be a better time than now...

 

There's no such thing as "being ready"...

 

And you are so much braver than you think. 

 

Will you be one of the 100 people who joins me on February 15 for Workshops that Work, Jennette?

 

If you're curious to know why people are so excited to sign up, you can click that orange button down there and explore. 

 

I'm grateful for you. 

 

Have a beautiful week.

 

Love,

Lori

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