Where has the time gone?? Imagine my surprise when I logged on and realized how much time had actually elapsed since my last post! I guess that’s why the saying “time flies” is a saying in the first place. I’ve been working on some exciting, yet involved projects. I also started doing readings which has been very exciting and rewarding, but I wanted to do more to help the people I’m called to serve. So, with that intention in mind I finally enrolled in a program to get my life coaching certification. All that said, a post was long overdue for this blog, and every one of you that show your support for me by reading it were always in my thoughts. 🙂
I published my last post at the end of January and before I knew it, February was in full swing. The month came and went as I handled client appointments, attended classes, created website content, researched material for my teleseminars, recorded meditations, and wrote posts for this blog and my website blog. All of this was done in my spare time (and I use that term very loosely) while working my “day” job, running my household, and caring for “the Hubs” and 3 kids. As mundane as the role of wife and mom may sound in comparison to mediumship and life coaching, I really wouldn’t have it any other way.
True to it’s name; March arrived and it’s cadence seemed swifter than ever, followed quickly by April. As I type; and likely before I’m ready, May will give way to June. That’s how it often goes for us down here on Earth as the sun predictably rises and sets, paying no attention to our ups and downs. The sun has always predictably shown up to bring me a new day; and a new chance for a fresh start, regardless of whether I chose to take it or not. Recent years have brought me some of my biggest challenges, and some of the most trying days I’ve ever experienced. There were days I looked up and saw that cheerful, warm sphere and swore it was there just to mock me.
This evening as the sun prepares to set like it has on countless others, I can’t help but feel deep gratitude for the sun’s persistent teasing. Because of its tenacity, I rose to greet those days. As simple as that may sound, it hasn’t always been easy. There were days I felt I couldn’t face, but on those days I got up and put my “big girl panties” on for 2 reasons: 1. A strong unwillingness to let the people I felt screwed me over in the past get one bit of satisfaction from my not doing it. 2. I had a responsibility to my husband and kids not to give up.
Sometimes we do things because we want to, and other times we do things because we have to. It’s when we don’t do the things that we want to because we are worried about others’ opinions or reactions that causes problems. I have lived my life based on other people’s expectations and you know what? It didn’t work. When you are living your life to please everyone else, you are not living your life. Eventually, it will come back to bite you. My choice of college, choice of degree, choice of religion, and even the place I chose to live were based upon my desire to please someone else. I hid from and denied my empathic and sensitive abilities most of my life out of fear of being judged. It’s one thing to keep going out of a sense of love and responsibility when you’re too weak to motivate yourself. It’s another thing entirely to live a life built completely on avoiding judgments and pleasing others. At what point is it okay to live your life according to your values and your standards? When is it okay to say, “It’s my life and I’ll live it how I like.” What are the clues that tell you it’s now okay to make your own choices? When exactly is ‘the right time’? It’s about time. Right now.
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