Hello World
My name is Lisa Johnson and I founded Life1440™ to help people stop settling for what is and create the life they dream of living.
In creating Life1440, I followed the same methodology I teach others and I stopped settling for what was and I created what I wanted. I stopped settling for only helping people who I have the chance to work with in my corporate role and those who I happen to know or meet personally. Those people are amazing, beautiful people and I love working with them but I want to do more – I want to help more people stop settling and create the life they want to experience.
Here’s my quick backstory:
- I grew up in South Carolina – family was and is an important part of my story.
- I went to law school and then moved to Chicago where I practiced business related litigation for 4 years (I later moved to San Francisco, got married and then moved back to South Carolina but that’s a story for a future post).
- Recognizing that the practice of law wasn’t as fulfilling as I wanted and needed it to be, I went to work in Corporate America.
- My first role was a Sales/Training Consultant – I helped lawyers use my company’s products to help them conduct research for their cases.
- After a couple of years, my manager asked me to help mentor new people as they came on board and I discovered that I loved helping people develop and grow.
- I then moved into Training & Development where over the years I held a few different positions – my favorite position was being responsible for the professional development, management training and leadership development for a sales organization of 1,500+ people.
- Along the way, I became a certified executive coach.
- Through my coaching work I began to see a pattern – a lot of good people settle for lives that are less than they are capable of experiencing.
- I created a process – a methodology – that people can follow to stop settling for what is and create the life they dream of living.
- I’ve been blessed to work with many people and witness the positive change that they have created in their lives.
While all of this was happening on the professional front, something was happening on the personal front that had a tremendous impact on my life. My step-mother was diagnosed with and eventually died from Alzheimer’s. The disease did not only steal her memories, it consumed our family and ultimately took her life. That was a horrible experience and we are still grieving our loss. I could not save my step-mom Mary from succumbing to Alzheimer’s but, along with the rest of my family, I tried to make the time she had as good as possible. I focused on creating moments of joy for her and, in doing so, I experienced those same moments of joy. Helping care for her required me to slow down and be fully present – while I was doing it for her and I know I helped care for her, I think that as is often the case I got more out of that experience than I gave.
Alzheimer’s steals people’s memories and worse it steals their lives. Life1440 does just the opposite – it helps people embrace their role as CEO of their life and use the 1,440 minutes they are given each day to experience amazing moments and create beautiful memories that combine to form their life.
When you are dealing with a terminal disease, there is a lot of talk about “quality of life.” One of my goals is to inspire people to evaluate the quality of their life now – there is no need and certainly no requirement that you wait until you or a family member receives a terminal diagnosis. Your life is your life and while most people don’t like to talk about it or even think about it – we all have a limited number of days on this Earth, so it’s time to start living! Let’s take that one step further – it’s time to stop settling and start living the life you want to experience.
Based on my observations, most people want more out of life but they end up settling for a variety of reasons:
- They don’t think they can have more
- They don’t think they deserve more
- They feel guilty for wanting more
- They are afraid of failing
- They are stuck in the muck of life and they don’t know how to dig themselves out to move forward
- They (think they) are too busy
- They don’t know how to create the more that they want
- And the list goes on….
Life1440 provides people with products, tools and services that empower them to break free of the reasons, justifications, excuses and rationales they are holding onto for why they are where they are in life – in other words, we help people stop settling and create the life they want to experience.
I invite you to explore our site. Be sure to check out the 7 Truths – 7 simple, yet profound ideas that have the power to change your life.
You are the CEO of your life. Your life is your life. Will you create the life you want or settle for what is?