By far, the MVP on your team is YOU. Others will question you, test you, take from you, and use you… Few will Believe in You, keep Few close. Let your God be your guide and stay rooted in your conviction as your Future is YOURS to write and your Present is YOURS to Live and to Love.
Recently, I made some decisions to change my life. I took action in pursuit of a Dream in which I Believe. In just two weeks from the job offer to my flight, I sold what I could and abandoned the rest. “They are just ‘things’,” I reminded myself, worthless possessions, STUFF I do not need. I moved myself, my dog and only that which I could carry to run a retreat center for yoga, surf and adventure in San Juan del Sur, Nicaragua.
(If anyone is curious where that is, it is where the current Survivor was filmed. It is a place rich in culture, music, beauty and food. It is the very place I began my journey in March of this year. It is the place where I fell in Love and where I wished to return. I am here. I Live Here.)
But nothing worthwhile in life comes without challenges, as success is Earned and not “deserved” (note back to the blog post I wrote several months ago about this word, “deserve.”) And since before my arrival, facing “challenges” on this particular path has been a recurring game, in which difficulty tells me I am but a pawn, but wisdom assures me I am the Queen. How am I to earn your Trust? To secure your Faith in my Vision and my Ability? Will you Love me? Follow me? Serve me? Not undermine me?
I have crossed language barriers, been met with venomous creatures and flying mice (turns out Batman is more of a house mouse with wings, then a muscle-y man I would want by my side), gripe (Spanish for the flu has plagued me)… But no challenge is as great as the clash of the Ego(s). WHO is in charge? WHO is the Boss? WHO knows best? WHO is a sound owls make. I cannot change your mind or make you do as I please. I have only control over one thing: Me. So, to Me and to You I say, “get our of your own way for your own good!”
Keep going. Never stop. Yours is a path worth traversing cavernous mountains, crocodile-laden rivers, and valleys as great and your gaze…
BELIEVE.
Together in Health! In Life! And in Love!
xob
BODY BY BIANCA 