NEW YORK, NEW YORK!

Saturday, November 13, 2010

My friend Heather Urich said she would be in New York to do the Today Show and wanted me to meet her manager, so I bought a plane ticket and booked a hotel, then I considered every possible avenue for success in promoting Just Earth: A Young Widow's Memoir, as well as insuring every effort was being made toward the success of my clients who have dreams of their own.

In addition to the book, there's The Life with Lisa Show and there's the work we have yet to do with The Gift of Hunter Foundation. I have no idea how everything is going to shake out but I know it's going to be a lot of fun trying.

While I walked the streets of New York after a meeting with a man I am certain is going to have an enormous impact on the outcome of our combined efforts, I came across the Simon & Schuster building, one of the largest publishing houses in the world. I was on a business call when I glanced across the street and first noticed the building. After I hung up the phone, I just stood in front of it and looked up as high as the building stood, noticing all of the windows and considering everyone in the building. Who in the window decides what gets published and what doesn't? Who decides if there are enough people in the world who would read my story to warrant them publishing it? Who in the building would fight for my project and who would tell me to go back home and find a new dream.

The theme of my life continues to be borrowed from Henry Ford. "Whether you believe you can do a thing or not, you are right."

I'm the girl who will get on a plane and show up to follow her dream and to be able to say I did all I could. There are few greater lessons to teach our children than that.