I Am Blessed

I haven’t written in this Blog space for 5 years - the last Blog I wrote was a month before my 40^th Birthday and now I am turning 45 years in 2 months.  Wow, in so many ways a lot has changed, my life has changed - and yet I am still the same in so many ways - and in other ways I have grown.

In terms of my life, 7 years ago today, I went to my neighbour’s housewarming (who happens to now be my husband), and that night there was a spark, the start of us liking each other.  And now we share our lives with our two beautiful children, my greatest dreams have come true.  I am blessed.  I am ecstatic!  I have always been in search of my true love - and now my search is over.  I absolutely love being a Mum - my children bring me so much joy.  And I love being the home maker and home manager.

As I approach my 45^th Birthday I feel more confident in myself and my mission.  And it is a journey that requires a commitment to continual learning and personal development.  I am blessed - I am happy to be healthy, I am loving my vegetarian cooking (especially , I love making healthy treats for our family, I enjoy getting out walking with my children, I love our home, I love spending time with my family, I am part of a wonderful Church community, I love my friends, I am surrounded by people who inspire me, I love my job and I even like my hair!  I am also really excited to be currently planning to re-establish my Coaching Business.

I am not striving to be perfect or to have a perfect life - life is not perfect and I cannot expect myself to be perfect.  Yet I am committed to being self-reflective, present, inspired, intentional, empowered and proactive.  To me it is about aiming for the 80/20 rule - where 80% of the time I feel happy with myself and different parts of my life.  And it is a journey. 

I still have challenges - some smaller ones, some bigger ones.  Yet I am blessed to be surrounded by wonderful people in my life.  And I am blessed to be self-aware and to have tools within me to support myself.  I am blessed to be in joy, gratitude and hope on a daily basis.

A big change for me has been my enhanced commitment to be active in my faith and my personal relationship with God, where I have named and claimed my Christianity.  This has made a huge impact on my life in terms of feeling at peace and feeling on purpose.  I praise God for my blessings and I know that he is with me and for me every day, every step of the way.  

Knowing my values is really important to me and living my life based on these values is the key for me.  A couple of years ago, with a group of my friends, we studied the book ‘Spiritual Parenting’ which I loved as it was a great opportunity to establish our family values and learn ways to be practical in building faith in our children.  In deciding what was important to us as a family we came up with an acronym for FAMILY which represents - Faith (A Commitment to be Active in our Faith), Attitude (Positive and Gratitude), Memories (Special Moments), Inspired (Life), Love (Ourselves, Others and the Earth), You (Know Ourselves, Our Gifts, Strengths, Uniqueness).    

My goal is to be in a state of presence every day, to be present moment to moment, to allow space to hear guidance from the Holy Spirit, so that I can live an inspired life, where I can make a difference.  I love acronyms and I love the acronym for TRUST - To Rely Upon Spirit Totally.  

I am enthusiastic to teach the meaning of our values to our children.

I am excited that I know myself and I know what is important to me.  And I am still learning about different parts of myself that work for me and other parts of myself that need to evolve.  Setting goals and personal development is still (as it has always been for the last 20+ years) important to me.  

I am happy!  I am grateful!  I am blessed!

I write this Blog to record my journey of self-reflection and self-discovery and my process of transformation.  It is about being authentic and real and sharing myself and my life.  It is about keeping myself accountable to be committed to my purpose, my passion, my vision.  It is not so much about others reading my Blog, although I have decided to be brave in sharing my personal journey with others. Thank you for taking the time to read this post and to get to know me more.

May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit. Romans 15:13