The Very Beginning

Right now, I know pretty much what I want in my life….I have a list! 

I also know that what I want is a massive dream and I enjoy the way it feels when I think about it. However, it is so far removed from where I am today that I have no idea how I will achieve it. My biggest barrier to achievement is time, and it seems that, from talking to others, I’m not the only one who’s missing that one valuable commodity. Why? Because, like many others, I am a mum who runs our family home – organising, arranging, planning, booking, preparing, keeping on top of household chores and generally catering for everyone’s needs. Add to this the fact that a large chunk of each day, four days a week, are taken up with a job to keep the income stream flowing and what’s left is very little time to get in any way closer to my dream.

Here’s the thing, while I've had a good life and despite the numerous 'you can change your life' themed books and techniques I have explored, I spent most of the first 3 decades not really focussing on whether I was on the right track to get me closer to the kind of life I dreamed about. Looking back I guess I just thought it would happen one day! Well now I'm in my 40’s and I want to find a way of doing something before I wake up at age 80 only to find I no longer have the energy to get what I want.

So I’ve decided, for the next 5 years, I am going to become more focussed on channelling my energies towards my ultimate goal. I have no clearly mapped out steps in place yet but in writing this, I am declaring my commitment to the dream and will therefore be obliged to do something, anything, to start the journey. This story will be my own, real time log of what I’m going to do next. By letting you read about it, I’m hoping that if anyone, regardless of your age, is in a position where you can relate to any part of my unfolding life in any way, then maybe, just maybe, this will get you thinking about what you are doing with your own life, about what you want out of it and about how you’re going to get it. …And if you get what you want before I do, please let me know how you did it!

The Grey

I recently saw the film ‘The Grey’ where a group of men find themselves lost in the wilderness after their plane crashed. The film effectively portrays the feeling of being isolated with just your own wits to survive, while also displaying the emotions that arise when faced with such an experience.

 It made me think how, being stripped of everything that represents security to us must be a frightening feeling, perhaps it’s a feeling that also resonates with people when they are first faced with a life threatening disease. However, if we can take something from these scenarios without having the misfortune of actually going through them ourselves, the key learning point is that the biggest single thing we have are the people in our lives. It is when these people are brought to the forefront of our minds in a situation described above that literally all else pales into insignificance, and it is in those people we have strongest feeling for where we find our deepest source of comfort.

 So my question to you is this…. If you were lost and alone in the wilderness, miles away from anyone, unsure when you might see anyone again, with nothing but a pen and paper; what would you write and who would you write it to?

 Whatever your message, I have no doubt that somewhere in there would be the 3 simple words ‘I Love You’. Whoever those people are, why not write them the note now?

A gift to say 'I Love You....with all my heart and soul'