I can not believe it has been two years since my journey began, and I started to blog. Sometimes, it feels as if I haven’t come very far, and other times I see I have made great strides. My journey has been arduous at times, joyful at others, and somewhere in between for the majority but nonetheless an adventure. I am grateful for the life experiences.

I see my life as a beautiful painting in progress. One day, I will look back and realize all the experiences needed to be there to create it. All the pain, the joy, the heartbreak, the success, and the failures. They all lead to a beautiful life lived in the end, a life I have created. A life I took charge of at times and let others do so at others. The times when I felt I couldn’t go on and the times I was floating on cloud 9. They all create the beauty of life. In my life and yours.

As I reflect on what has transpired, I have nothing but gratitude. Gratitude for the people I have met and those i already knew. Those of you who cheered me on along the way. Those praying for me and those who just had me in their thoughts. I am grateful for you all. I am grateful for the things I was able to do and see. I am grateful for being able to fulfill a lifelong dream of living in Sweden. I am grateful for the things I have learned about myself and about life. Each experience has been valuable.

It is with this in mind that I have come to discover a passion project I want to take on. I have been thinking about it for a while and have not done it. For years, I have searched for the perfect gratitude journal. Inspirational, colorful, and yet easy to use, so that is what I am going to create. I know there are some out there, but none seem to fit long term. I have several. If you want to be one of the first to try it out, let me know. I want to have it started by next month.

My leadership training course is an encouraging community where we nourish ourselves. We engage in life and put ourselves out there for a greater good. Lots of amazing projects will come out of this group. I can hardly wait to see what develops.

That being said, my job has been a little topsy turvy. We are still working some things out, but honestly, bookkeeping is not my favorite. I know what to do, but talking to people, engaging, learning, and growing with them, that is my thing. My relationship coach has agreed to help get my project out and even wants me to collaborate with her on some things. It’s very exciting to think about. The possibility of helping others, growing in self-confidence, and finding joy and happiness. I just needed the right environment and skills to be able to do this, and a different time may not have been the right time.

Life has an interesting way of giving us opportunities in our lifetime. It gives us a chance to grow. It gives us lessons, and how we use them is up to us. We can stay stationary, but that is also a choice. We can grow and flourish or wither and slowly become a shell of our former self. I want to live life boldly and unleashed. I want to be a better version of myself. I want to feel alive and love unequivocally. Life is worth living. Let’s live it the best we can. Age doesn’t matter. It is not too late. Let’s live it together and transform the world, one person at a time. All these things I am learning about in my seminars. The more time I spend there, the better I feel. The friends I have made, the experiences I have had, have all been taking me little steps or leaps and bounds forward to whatever life holds next. Come ride the rocket with me. Come live your best life with me. Let’s get curious about why we do what we do and transform to someone unrecognizable. Let’s make our lives and those around us incredible.