Category Archives: Personal Growth

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De-cluttering Your Life to Make Room for Your Dreams

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As much as I enjoy the celebration of the winter months and the optimism that a New Year brings I welcome the renewal that comes with spring! This is the time of year when I do my “dream check” to evaluate my progress towards accomplishing the goals that I’ve set-out to achieve this year and be honest with myself about the areas where I’m on track, and the areas where I’m completely missing the mark. Absent of a plan and deadlines, I know that my dreams will remain “daydreams” if I don’t make room in my life to actively pursue achieving them. That is much easier said than done! With so many competing priorities that come with being a wife, mother, daughter, entrepreneur (and a sister-girlfriend too), I often end the day feeling like I have nothing left to invest in myself and question how I will muster enough energy to invest in my dreams.

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Waking Up To Destiny

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Recently, a dear friend connected with me via Facebook and asked, “What happens when I wake up and know that what I am doing is not what I am destined to do?”  She is an accomplished professional, Ph.D., and has invested all of her resources in pursuing her current profession and has found that the woman she has become no longer “belongs” in the life that she desires to live.  I too had that moment when “destiny was calling” and I didn’t know how to begin to transition into the life I wanted. Here are a few things that I’ve learned along my journey:

Seize the Opportunity

 

Make no mistake, waking up to destiny can be disturbing!  It challenges everything you “thought” you were and what you thought was important.  It can cause you to doubt, and be fearful of your future.  But, look up… The fact that you are experiencing fear, doubt, or just may plain think you’ve gone crazy is how Dreamers know that they are on the right track and asking the right questions of themselves! Waking up to destiny  presents the greatest moment for you to seize the opportunity of living your dreams because it may be the first time that you are asking yourself who you “are” outside of what you “do.” It might be the first time that you’ve challenged your motives or been willing to take the risk of being unpopular.  This may be the moment when you “get it…” When you finally understand that your life is not “about you,” and that it is far more important for you to make a contribution in the life of someone else instead of pursing personal achievement.

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Run Your Race

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The Olympics is always such a special time as we watch athletes compete and stretch themselves to their highest potential. This year I became what I call an adult onset athlete and completed my first 1/2 marathon. Not only did I discover a new found passion for running, I learned about the value of running your own race.

“Learning is Experiential”

Learning is experiential, meaning I wasn’t able to read or study my way into these lessons, I paid the price to learn them with my most precious currency – TIME! It is my hope that as you make the investment of your time in your dream that you will use these strategies to prepare you to begin the journey, encourage you during the run, and give you the courage to finish strong.

“Show Up!”

One the day of the marathon, I reported to the race staging area at 5:30 am “ready” to run with everything from my brand new visor, performance t-shirt, compression running pants, and reflexive waistband to hold my ID and “goo.” There were runners there from all over the world, and there was excitement generated from the crowd as we pressed our way forward to the starting line.  And there they were… The “elite” runners that look like they stepped off of the cover of the latest health and fitness magazine (I suck my teeth).  But, to my surprise there were more “regular folk!”  Yes, the “regular” people that looked like my family, neighbors, and colleagues.  The athletes were all ages, races, genders, and fitness levels. Everyone was there!  Corporate partners, fathers and sons, girlfriend walking groups, blind athletes, and those with prosthetic limbs.  Each person was bound by the decision that they made to “show up!”

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It’s Always Too Early To Say It’s Too Late

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When my daughter Willow was four years old, she had absolutely no concept of time! With the enthusiasm and energy that only a four-year old can display she will remind me of the fun we had “yesterday” at Walt Disney World or what happened “yesterday” when she went to the beach in Los Angeles with her Grandparents.  If I even attempt to correct her and remind her that the trip to Walt Disney World was last month, and the day at the beach was at the beginning of summer, she will insist (with all that four-year old sass) that these events happened “yesterday.”

Willow’s concept of “yesterday” was equally matched by her understanding of “tomorrow.” If I told her that we are going to get ice cream this weekend or have a play date with friends she will wake up each morning in great anticipation of what I promised her.  With the same four-year old sass she would ask me, “Mommy are we going to get ice cream today?”  When I respond with, “No we are going to get ice cream on Saturday” she quickly reminds me that I said we would get ice cream “tomorrow.” That pattern will persist each day until “tomorrow” becomes “today.”