One of the biggest challenges for all of us modern human beings is getting to the optimal levels with everything we love and want to do. I had over the last few years looked at my life and felt that disproportionate amounts of time and energy were being put into areas that no longer sparked my passions or interests. They used to, but I had grown and changed and doing the same stuff just no longer fitted. Just like a favourite piece of clothing that was worn and that no longer fitted – I needed to discard, recycle and reinvent.

Some of it was forced on me, the universe saying “Enough, we have nudged and pushed you, but you have ignored us.” So it pulled the rug out from underneath me and I landed squarely on my bottom. Falling as an adult either physically or metaphorically, is unpleasant and unnerving. We are used to being in control. While I was sitting squarely on my derriere I had to formulate a plan. So I dusted myself off and put my life back together in a similar vein. The universe scratched its head and said “How much more, before this girl gets the message?” So it rubbed its hands together and turned up the heat. It got really hot. Forcing me to really make my own climate changes. I spent many days and nights going to bed blessing my life and visualising what my life would look and feel like it. I accepted that it would come to me. I started lifting my rocks and looking underneath them, uncovering my long lost dreams, hopes and aspirations. Then when I felt I had the solution, I took a risk and tossed my safe, secure career to the wind and stepped off the cliff.

I planned what my life would look like outside of work from a health, fitness, friends and family perspective. I also decided I would find a “cause” that resonates with me and sparks my passions and matches my skills and that as I became successful in my own enterprise I would give back my time, intellect and passion to “something.”

To date I have found the job, the health, the peace, the friends, the family. Yesterday I found the cause. It is called Simunye. A South African school principal founded an initiative four years ago that takes Australian teenagers to South Africa and exposes them to Orphanages, very poor parts of the country and they have to help build facilities for a school or a community. They leave as typical teenagers, it would seem they come back as human beings. As a South African / Australian, this really resonates. I have found my company, I have found my health, I have found my zest and now I have found my cause.

Watch this space peeps, the caterpillar is emerging out of her cocoon 🙂

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