The Beauty of Possibilities

This is Day 9-11 of my  30-Day Live a Better Life Challenge.

So as always, I've tried to take up more than I can chew. Celestine's 30 DLBL proved to be more work than I imagined and I am faced with making a decision either go for my own 30-day challenge or go for the 30 DLBL. I can't do both apparently with full-time work and mothering. Since I feel like my own life's direction is better than being able to churn out 30 beautiful blog posts for September, I chose the 30 DLBL. I could always do the 30-Day Blog Challenge any month, but this is more important. I am also meeting a lot of people who are passionate about their personal growth and I can't miss out on the wonderful support from the community.

The photo on top is what I've been doing for two days. It's part of the 30 DLBL, creating a vision board for my life. In envisioning my ideal life, I encountered some resistance which I talked to you about here, but once I've gotten past that, what was revealed is nothing short of amazing.

Through this exercise, I have revealed what I really wanted to do with my life, that is, helping women to live their best lives. I want to be able to reach out to other women, mothers especially, and let them discover their own beauty and to have the courage to live their dreams. I'm dreaming of a spa that nurtures the body, mind, and spirit. I want a haven where mothers can temporarily get away from their family responsibilities, without feeling guilt, and indulging their own selves so that they can go back to their families renewed. 

I want them to enter this haven and feel extreme beauty that they're going to weep with joy. They will be pampered with caring massages that will slough away their cares and be ready for counseling. They will be enveloped with acceptance, so they can make sense of their lives and figure out how to live their dreams. They will be made beautiful inside and out.  It's sort of Celestine Chua's dream school, but for women, with spa services to boot. I want this to be open to all women, whether they are rich or poor. 

You might say, "You're dreaming, kid," but that's right, I am dreaming and loving it. No logical side of me getting in the way. Well, it is getting in the way, but I'm working to silence it and unleash my imagination instead. 

I dream about being surrounded my lovely family and friends... I dream of growing old with my husband with a love that's endless and pure like a diamond coming out from the fires of everyday living...I dream of my daughters, grown and beautiful in their own right, fulfilling their own dreams. I dream of true friends who are as passionate as I am with living and growing and helping other people. I dream of writing inspirational stories so women could relate and be inspired to live their own beautiful lives. I dream of being able to discover Tuscany and enjoying good food. I dream of that lovely kitchen on the left where I can bake to my heart's content and nourish my husband, my kids, and grandkids. I dream of time to myself to write and to read on my Kindle and to reconnect with my soul. I dream about a well-lived life full of truth and beauty, a life lived with courage. 

How about you? How do you see your beautiful life? Are you living it? Do you have the courage to live it? Because it could be yours, if you want it enough.

P.S. I have been singing Enya's Book of Days since discovering my life's purpose. I'd like to share it with you. along with these beautiful pictures of nature.

One day, one night, one moment,

my dreams could be, tomorrow.

One step, one fall, one falter,

east or west, over earth or by ocean.

One way to be my journey,

this way could be my Book of Days.

Ó lá go lá, mo thuras,

an bealach fada romham.

Ó oíche go hoíche, mo thuras,

na scéalta nach mbeidh a choích.

No day, no night, no moment,

can hold me back from trying.

One flag, One fall, One falter,

I'll find my day may be, Far and Away.

Far and Away.

One day, one night, one moment,

with a dream to believe in.

One step, one fall, one falter,

find a new earth across a wide ocean.

This way became my journey,

this day ends together, Far and Away.

This day ends together, Far and Away.

Far and Away.