LIFE… we don’t know how it will go or end, or do we? Living this LIFE of ours can be such an adventure. As we make choices our directions can drastically change, sometimes overnight and where we were once headed is no longer an option along our paths. We close one door but as we do, we’ve opened up another one.
There was a time I flirted with the idea of living in the US for the duration of my life. Coming back ‘home’ wasn’t even appealing to me. I believed that everything I wanted to create in life had to be created in the US. After living there for years I felt I had become too ‘americanized’ to ever be able to come back to a small island in the Atlantic Ocean. The very idea felt confining and limiting and I guess it ‘scared’ me. Which was all the more reason to come back ‘home’ and face myself at the very core of my being. I had ripped myself up from my roots and planted myself in new soil and found I thrived very well and even blossomed in the dry and tough soil of the Arizona desert. All my BIG dreams seemed to be focused around my new ‘home’ but after having recurrent dreams about the ocean I knew my soul was calling for it’s real home. All changes start with desire and I began longing for the fresh ocean breeze and the world’s purest water. Not long after that a dialogue started taking place, and my husband and I began speaking this desire into the Universe. Then an amazing opportunity arrived and we found ourselves having to make one of the most important choices of our lifetime… “are we going to move our children and us back to Iceland and replant our roots there?” The answer was, at first a small, but then a strong YES and once we made the decision, the Universe seemed to conspire to make it happen and we found ourselves in Iceland before we could even find the time to slightly doubt our choice. Which I am glad to say we haven’t done. Yet, the transition hasn’t been all too easy, but then again, it has been easy enough. The last month has been very busy for us, settling in and focusing on the basics of everyday life; getting acquainted with a new job, new place to live, new schools for the children and then looking for a car and a home to live in on a more permanent basis. Our ‘things’ are not here yet as they are still slowly sailing across the ocean yet there is absolutely nothing missing in our lives. We have each other and get to experience this life change together.
I guess the big lesson for me was to simply ‘let go’ and ‘allow’. What was meant to be was already meant to BE. As soon as I was able to let go of old, and perhaps outdated dreams and make room for new ones, everything seemed to just flow.
I can thank my coach and mentor for helping me out with the little resistance I was feeling. He also helped me re-appreciate what I do for a living and see how amazing it is to have a coach to push and pull you forward, even when you want to stand still and resist all changes. I leave you with the following words that were written by this amazing man, Richard Seaman;
“You can choose to go, be, and have… and in the end you’ll exclaim, shocked and bewildered, that because of all the synchronicities of your life, all the “clicks” and “coincidences”, and the many happy “accidents,” your bounty and good fortune must have been your destiny”.
2010/11/23 at 6:45 pm
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