Dreams

So one day, a few years from retiring from my successful career as a Project Manager in the Federal Government, I was riding the bus and read an article in the local newspaper about how horses were helping humans. It was an equine-assisted learning program being offered in Australia. That was it! That was what I wanted to do with horses! I wanted to partner with them to help folks move forward in their life.

I was so excited I could hardly contain myself! I couldn’t wait to talk this over with my husband at the time but sadly he did not share this dream. That was when I realized I had lived his life, his dreams all these years. A couple of years later, I announced that I was going to buy a farm upon retirement and pursue my dreams with horses.

I invited my husband to join me but he was very clear that this was not his dream and that he would not follow.

All good though, we remain friends to this day and he often helps out on the farm and connects regularly with our 2 beautiful daughters (horsewomen in their own right).

Roadmap

Tony Robbins provided the roadmap. He showed us how to eat better, how to think better and how to live better. He showed us how to face our fears and helped us realize that if we focus on what it is we want to accomplish, there are no limits to the possibilities.

He even had me and 4000 other people walk across hot coals! Never dreamed I would do that!

Roadblocks

The fire walk showed me how the lack of focus, even for a split second, can create roadblocks.

You see, when I was walking across those coals, which by the way, were burning all day at the foot of the CN Tower in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, I lost focus of my goal of reaching the other end of the coals for a split second and ended up with a small burn on the bottom of my right foot! Feeling the burn instantly, I quickly refocused and made it the rest of the way across the coals unscathed.

So what were my roadblocks in attaining my dream of having a purpose in my life?

FOCUS, FOCUS, FOCUS! I spent 35+ years blaming everything and everyone else for my lack of purpose in life, for not knowing what I was meant to do….always distracted by the next shiny object.

You see, I had a great career and 2 beautiful children. For the most part a wonderful husband, and yet I was unfulfilled. I was unfulfilled because I didn’t focus on what made me happy, on what was important to me, on “putting the oxygen mask on me first, so I could help the person beside me”.

As a result of the Unleash the Power Within workshop, I realized that I was the one who had to change, not everyone else. I was the one who had to take the necessary steps to achieve my dreams.

I was the one who needed to recognize my dreams and go for it!

Are We There Yet?

So what was my dream? What was my purpose in life? I had known from childhood that horses were very special beings. I knew that they helped us humans energetically. I knew that I had an unexplainable attraction to them, like a magnet, for as long as I could remember. I did the traditional thing of learning to ride them, competing with them and confiding in them when I was blue. What I had not yet done was learn how to connect with them on a very different level and learn how they can help us move forward in life.

But how was I going to finance this big dream? I was retiring with a good pension and, I found a property that I could transform into my dream farm.

When I went to the bank’s financial planner, after looking at the numbers, he sat back in his chair, folded his arms, and said “well I hope you have your health”. My heart sank and I went into full on panic! He was basically telling me that I could not financially support my dream. After picking myself up off the floor, I went to another bank and found them to be much more positive about my dreams.

They showed me exactly how I could make them come true. And as luck would have it, I meet Betty-Anne Howard of Making Dreams A Reality a couple of years into my new business venture, who showed me how to sustain my dreams.

How to Have Fun Along the Way

Fun is not the word for it!

Fulfilling Fun is more like it! When I embarked on this journey, I knew that this was my life’s purpose. When I completed my on-site final exam, I rocked it! I knocked Koelle and her right-hand person’s socks off! I was on my way to a whole new life!