I was told “If you don’t write it down it can’t happen.” So, I wrote it down, in fact I wrote a lot of things down. I have become quite a prolific writer of my thoughts and dreams. I have a story I would like to tell………About 6 months ago I attended a seminar (my husband and I are seminar junkies). I didn’t really want to be at this seminar, in fact I sat on the back row as he sat on the front row. I was feeling pretty lousy about my life at the time. My last child was about to graduate from high school and I wasn’t quite sure what I was supposed to be doing now. My job as a stay home mom was ending . What’s next? What now? These were my thoughts. While attending the seminar the speaker asked us what we wanted out of life? What did I want? I had no idea. There wasn’t anything calling to me or that I felt passionate about. Being dead, or without purpose and vision is a good definition of where I was at.
The assignment in the seminar was to write down three things we wanted and tape it to the wall in the room with our name on it. The things I wrote are now forgotten , but I remember some of the others papers. There were things like; get my carpet cleaned, get a new car, take my whole family out to dinner, take a vacation. I can’t remember what I wrote because they were just words on a paper, they lacked interest and passion.
At the completion of the 2 day seminar I felt a little more alive and awake. I came home and created a vision board for my present and future. I had things I wanted to happen in areas of my life like: my relationship with my husband and others, my spiritual growth, how I can use my talents to serve the world and who will help me with that, my health, wealth and who I want to be known as. I read it every day for about a week, then maybe once a week, and it slowed down a bit.
The things I wrote are on 3x5 cards taped to the wall next to my bed. In the past 6 months I glance at it every morning while stretching, but never read all of the cards. I’m giving a little background here for the miracle that has taken place in my life.
My girlfriend met me for breakfast last Saturday to share an opportunity she had just learned about. She said there’s a woman who started a World Academy for Women in China and she created it to help teach women to take a stand for themselves in the word as leaders. The next thing that came out of her mouth was, “she needs instructors, do you want to go?” I was inspired to the point of tears about the things she was saying . I quickly responded with “yes I want to go.”
We met with the founder of The World Academy For Women on Monday and 3 hours later and a few more tears I was committed to the project. I left her home electrified, energized and feeling more alive than I had felt in months. Here’s a purpose, a cause and a need, something I had been looking for.
Sleep has left me because I am so inspired, excited and joyful. The miracle in all of this is on my vision board on a 3x5 card is a statement that I wrote 6 months ago saying: “I want to help women in other countries to be more powerful and find their gifts.” When I wrote that statement I had no idea how or when that would happen. I simply wrote it because I wanted it .
That card will soon become a reality as I become an instructor for a 5 week course at the World Academy for Women in China on August 30, 2011.
What I have found through all of this , is the value of having a vision for something, a purpose and a hope. When inspiration is not expressed you have depression. I’m actually excited to add more to my board now because there’s truth to writing it down and bringing it to creation.
