Where the road leads ....

This week was a lot of work! In our experience, when you want to make a big change, it can tend to bring up our darker sides, bringing you to a period of growth and development that is not always easy. In some traditions, this is known as a dark night – the period of time where the challenges are in front of you, and it is no longer easy to see the light. It is a time of faith and courage. We both found it hard to connect with our lighter side when confronted with work routines and the troubles that can come with our fast paced culture. It can be easy to take on too much, and to return to the frenetic pace of doing before you have even realized what is going on. By remaining on our path, and keeping the ‘faith’, we have been able to stay true to what we have wanted to do. We have really focused on taking more time, and because of that have been spending more time in our home and in the area we live – finding a fabulous park today we didn’t even know existed after 4 years here – and we found it because of finally following a road that Andy had noticed for years, and wondered where it lead – well today we went to find out and ended up in a beautiful fall walk around a serene and peaceful lake. A road less travelled indeed!

We have been devoting time to really developing our specific goals as a couple. We have both individually been using a model for creating and achieving our own goals, but from our time in Chile it seemed like a good idea to take it to the next level, and start dreaming even bigger and together. The core of the program that we use is presented by life coach Marcia Wieder. So, this week we got down and dirty with our medium and long term goals, and in creating goals to achieve our dreams in different areas, including travel, professional, international, financial and relationship areas. This takes time, as the dreams should be well written to really make us both feel excited and passionate. By the end of the week, we felt we had achieved that, and are ready to move onto the next stage now.

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“For the longest time I couldn’t even touch this food because it was such a masterpiece of lunch, a true expression of the art of making something out of nothing. Finally, when I had fully absorbed the prettiness of my meal, I went and sat in a patch of sunbeam on my clean wooden floor and ate every bite of it, with my fingers, while reading my daily newspaper article in Italian. Happiness inhabited my every molecule. … ‘So this is what you gave up everything for?...For a few stalks of asparagus and an Italian newspaper?’ … yes.”
(Elizabeth Gilbert – Eat Pray Love)