Can You Create Your Ideal Life?

I found an old thumbstick in a purse I no longer use.

Curious to see its contents, I plugged it into my new laptop and found a one-page document I’d written 11 years ago. The title was: “My Passion.” I had no idea what to expect and realized that I had written it during a time in my life when I was searching for my own purpose. I did not have a career, my teenage sons were still living at home, and I wanted something concrete to look forward to. I knew what I liked to do, and what my strengths were, but how could I create a life that encompassed all my dreams?

This was a time when I read self-help books hoping for a solution. I didn’t really believe in visualization, and the ability to manifest dreams, but as I started re-reading “My Passion,” I shuddered: Was I reading a dream, or my life today?

Here’s what I wrote on March 13th, 2007.

My Passion

I love my job, it’s my passion, and I absolutely adore doing it. I wake up and feel happy that I can do what I love and what I’m best at on a daily basis. I control my own hours, and spend a good deal of time meeting people. I network with people of baby boomer age and older, and provide a service that is beneficial to my clients. I motivate them, one on one, and in small groups, to be positive and happy with their lives. I travel and experience new adventures.

People refer me to their friends and relatives and see the benefits of what I can do for them. It never feels like work, as it is giving part of what I already have and it is very natural for me to do this. I have one very good contact, the catalyst. The people I deal with are very well educated, interesting, and down to earth. It’s very easy. People request my services and soon I recruit others to help me. I select carefully to keep a good reputation going for my business, and to keep the “personal touch” with each one of my clients, whom I have grown to consider more than clients.

These clients offer me numerous opportunities to travel. I have a loving and peaceful job, and the answer is simply staring me in the face.

It is there, right in front of me, and I make it happen. This is what I see:

a service
word-of-mouth referrals
helping people
fulfilling a need for baby-boomers
writing articles

Now it’s 2018, and everything in this document has culminated in what I’m doing today.  So who is the catalyst?

Gillian, the catalyst, far right and two ladies I met who are traveling with me on my first “Women Travel with a Purpose” trip to Kenya this October.

My hairdresser, and friend, Gillian, who mentioned that I was looking for a career and returning from Africa. I was fortunate to find a career in the Safari business through her.

Sometimes I think this is luck, and other times I believe we can create our ideal life.

The five goals that I wrote about in 2007 are now part of my life. I offer a service, I help people who want new travel experiences, I organize Safaris for Baby-boomers, I write blog posts, and I’m starting to get word-of-mouth referrals.

a service
word-of-mouth referrals
helping people
fulfilling a need for baby-boomers
writing articles

I’m leading my first group of women travelers on a purposeful Safari to Kenya this October. We’re visiting orphans and vulnerable children at a school in Nairobi, Kenya, and spending a day with them. We have ten ladies who are also passionate about visiting a school and helping. I plan to offer this trip again next year as well with my friend, Roz Berry, Director of the African Child Foundation.

Have you had a similar experience where you’ve written down your ideal career or life and checked back to see if it materialized?

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