WOMANITION MAGAZINE Womanition2017_Magazine_ForWEB (old) | Page 101

I have always had a strong belief that we all deserve to be happy. Every person on this planet deserves to be happy; and more importantly we have the ability to choose happiness. As much as my heart knew that, I now have tools to help and support people to live it. nobody ever has it all together! Today I am living a much more authentic life where I allow myself to be more vulnerable. As a result, I have welcomed the most wonderful people into my life; friends, colleagues, clients and business partners. Like I said, I had a good life before, but now there is a different aliveness in my life. I have more freedom than ever before. I have the flexibility to spend time with my young family. I love receiving the emails, phone calls and messages from my clients about the success they are having in their lives, and I wake up in the morning with a strong feeling of gratitude in my heart for the opportunity to do what I love. As a kid I wanted to be a writer and as a young adult I thought it would be fun to be a professional speaker. Someone I looked up to at the time made a comment that I’d get bored with that, and because I respected this person I dismissed that idea. It is so easy to have our dreams crushed by other people even when it is unintentional. You may be feeling stuck, like a prisoner in your own life. Or maybe you have had success in your life and you are ready to discover what’s next for you. I would love to have a conversation with you. Sometimes we are taught to believe that life has to be hard, or that it is selfish to ask for more. The truth is your desire for more is life, expressing itself through you. Our desire for growth is the most natural thing in the world and when we can embrace that, life becomes a lot easier and a lot more fun. Another game-changer for me in the last few years has been the breaking down of a mask or shield that I always walked around with. I come from a corporate background and have been in leadership and senior management positions since a very young age. One of my coping styles was to guard myself from letting people