Today's video is a conversation face-to-face, me to you, sharing my deepest WHYS behind stepping into owning my own businesses. Take some time to do Dean Graziosi's 7 Levels Deep Experience and let us know what you find in the comments! We pray this video can encourage your heart to uplift and celebrate others + believe in yourself and the unique callings God has placed on your own heart! They are there for a reason, and when we remember that our identity is not found in the work we do, but in God alone, then we can run in freedom towards those callings with confidence, favor, and abundance in this one life we get to live! Loved answering this question & there are so many more fun Small Business owner + Life topics to come so be sure to stick around, give this video a like, and SUBSCRIBE!
A little note to Manny, my husband, for believing in me. You taught me how to be a risk taker. Dreams. Business. Creativity. Future Unknowns. All of it. “If you’re not willing to risk, you can’t grow. And if you can’t grow, you can’t become your best.” -Les Brown. Every single part of me was so scared of the idea of risk just a few years ago. I didn’t allow my vision to even catch a glimpse of what maybe could be if I just took a chance on something out of what I thought were “my plans”. Little did I know that the journey to actually being me and creating a lifestyle that I loved to live everyday would be through overcoming that fear of comfort, knowns, and giving it over to God with my whole heart. Stepping into that part of me, allowed all of God’s plans that we are currently living out to unravel. And here we are living it. Still scary? Of course. But God will continue to be faithful. And you continuously build me up, cheer me on, remind me of my why, comfort me within the uncomfortable, and challenge me to continue for more. I love being on your team babe, God knew I needed you.
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Just let my current heart pour out to show realness. Real “in the waiting” seeking, unknowns, and TRUST as a boutique owner and just a HUMAN lol. This video was taken 2 weeks ago and God has ALREADY CONTINUED TO BE FAITHFUL IN EVERY WAY. AHH I’m now done with college AND ENGAGED TO THE LOVE OF MY LIFE♥️♥️♥️♥️ Now, God will have a new season for me in 2020, teaching me even more areas in my life to be intentional in trusting him wholeheartedly!
It has been so refreshing to reflect back on the busyness of my life in 2019, but honestly, HOW MUCH MY LIFE HAS CHANGED! God decided to put it on my heart to start lain & lou and I have already learned SO MANY THINGS. One thing for sure is that an out of the ordinary calling full of unknowns and trust in Him is NOT EASY, but truly, you all have made it so so so so so beyond worth it. And you give me faith and hope that He can continue to work to provide.
So, if YOU are in a season of unknown and waiting, I hope this can encourage your heart today! That is my purpose for sharing! I truly find so much joy sharing how He’s working ALWAYS (even though it’s harder to see amidst some circumstances). You all mean this much to me. And I just want to radiate the #lainandloulifestyle by being real. The whole story and Gods plans for you do not always have to be BIG or FULLY KNOWN in order to make an impact and a difference. Each day’s small blessings add up and create the faithfulness we see in His work months or years later. So here’s to that
HE WILL PROVIDE OUR EVERY NEED, RIGHT WHEN WE NEED IT. ♥️♥️♥️♥️
Love ALWAYS, Lainie
]]>I am so thankful to have you HERE, at lain & lou, but also on this blog post!
I just wanted to give a little encouragement today to truly DREAM for that calling on your heart, but also be the DOER, because that is what will make all the difference. We only get this ONE life, so let go of the comfortable and the knowns, and head over wholeheartedly to the uncomfortable and the unknowns, because that's right where God will be meeting you ready to equip & provide.
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I am so thankful to have you HERE, at lain & lou, but also on this blog post!
I just wanted to give a little encouragement today to truly DREAM for that calling on your heart, but also be the DOER, because that is what will make all the difference. We only get this ONE life, so let go of the comfortable and the knowns, and head over wholeheartedly to the uncomfortable and the unknowns, because that's right where God will be meeting you ready to equip & provide.
When God placed lain & lou on my heart over a year ago, there was no such thing as this boutique, the name, ANY OF IT. It was only a dream--a vision.
It began to come to life when I began to DO. I began to SEEK God's guidance in the next steps, researched business for hours, let my creative side go WILD, and overall just DID because my heart could feel the big picture somewhere out there. Yes there was lack of sleep & months of HOURS ON HOURS of work after my actual work just to use any “extra” time I could. To some it may seem like a sacrifice that isn't worth it, but to me it was the BEST "sacrifice" I could've ever set my mind to make.
God showed me that He had something unique for me, but get the catch..
He only gives a glimpse. A year ago was a glimpse. 6 months ago was a glimpse. NOW is even just a GLIMPSE. Even though God can only provide us with a small glimpse in the here and now, we must TRUST & KNOW that each and every glimpse he gives will teach us, grow us, and ultimately continue leading us to that next glimpse that's in store. He cannot show us our entire story in the beginning because what would we get out of that? That is what this life is for! To partner WITH HIM for that long run, through every single season.
This partnership and DREAM is where I am able to find FREEDOM, and true identity. I place my confidence in Him and can then INFLUENCE. With that influence, I can RADIATE. What can I radiate? A truly joyful and fufilled lifestyle from completely handing it over to God, the one who holds the plan anyway. I knew in my heart that God wanted me to create not just a store, but a LIFESTYLE. And with that, comes realness. Something beyond my own self, where I could reach & love others by showing them the true foundation of this brand. So today, the realness I am sharing is God.
I am human, just like you, and I fail daily. I stray from my best intentions and from my SOURCE. But I just want ya'll to know, HE is that sustainer. That fulfiller. The provider. Of my every need. When I stray so far and realize I haven't found true joy in the distractions, he reminds my heart every single time I bring it all back to Him.
This is what God has been teaching me over that last few months of dreaming, then doing, and now LIVING MY DREAM, loves. Some days I still cannot believe it. Some days I let FEAR of the future unknowns to overtake my thoughts...
But ultimately in my heart, I KNOW ALL He will do when we choose to humble ourselves and give it all to Him. I don't know the end of my story, you maybe don't know the next steps of your story, but cling to this today: God does and that's all we truly need. ♡ So PARTNER WITH HIM, and HE WILL SUSTAIN.
Love always, Lainie
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