In this video I share a realisation I had today about how important it is to never give up on my dreams, and also that it is actually the journey that is important, the destination is simply the means to making the journey worthwhile.
I began to understand this when I was in India in 2008. I had spent six months doing intense fundraising for the International Childcare Trust, and had achieved my goal to do the 400km in 5 days cycle through the Western Ghats with them. Which was to raise money for the projects they have in India.
I had never particularly wanted to go to India, but when a friend of mine showed me the advert in the Big Issue something clicked, and I knew it would the perfect opportunity for me to test the Law of Attraction, which I had been studying for a few months.
This was in April 2008, by the October of the same year I had raised over £3000. And in November I flew out to India with a group of 40 others to take part in a life transforming, gruelling cycle across Southern India. I’ll write more about that another time.
What struck me more than anything about that experience, wasn’t how I felt when I was there. It was that I had grown so much in the lead up to getting there. I had learnt about my expectations and beliefs, and key friendships had been put to the test. I had learnt that I was an awesome entrepreneur, and could inspire people to give me money for a good cause. That I could raise money easily and had really awesome ideas to do so.
I learnt to ask for my dreams to be acknowledged and believed in too. It was my first taste of real success. I had actually started a project, and for the first time in my life, seen it to the end. Three days into the cycle, half way up a mountain, I looked out across the landscape before me and burst into tears. It was amazing. I had been so caught up with the travelling and hardship of doing the cycle, that the beauty and awesomeness that surrounded me hadn’t even registered. It suddenly dawned on me that I was in India, and that I had DONE IT!!!
So what I’m trying to say, is that we always think that it’s all about the destination. And that we’ll be happy when we get there, but actually it’s the journey. It’s the journey that moulds is, shows us how strong we are. Helps us gain experience and opportunities to practice what we have learnt in the past. It’s the journey towards a destination that is the reward. The destination is actually the bouncing off point for a new desire, a new dream. The moment I achieve something my mind is like “fab, what next?”
Like a little child, its never enough. When I believed in lack, and didn’t believe that my dreams could or would come true I thought this was a bad thing. However, since listening to Abraham-Hicks I know that this “what next” is exactly what I’m meant to do. It’s the expansion of the universe. And exactly why it’s the journey that is the important part. The destination is only ever the bouncing off point for the expansion and the next desire.
When I returned to England from Bali (exactly one month ago, tomorrow) I didn’t understand this. I had heard Abraham-Hicks say it soooo many times. But never felt it to be my truth. From the moment I got back to my house, I felt like I wanted to be back in Bali. I began setting my intentions, acting “as if” I would be back there by the end of the month, and even turned down several interesting work opportunities.
The journey to return to Bali and set up the multi-dimensional business of my dreams is turning out to be a most interesting one, and I am happy to practice the patience it will take to see it become a reality.
In the meantime, I am learning tons of awesome stuff about myself and other people.
This current part of my quest is helping me fall in love with the light and dark sides of myself. It is helping me accept that I have fears and limiting beliefs about money that still need to heal, and that there is no rush for my dreams to come true. When I accept the light and dark, my imperfections and the mistakes I make, I am loving myself unconditionally.
Therefore, I encourage you to keep following your dreams. Make the most of and enjoy the journey. Because although things may not be moving as fast as you want them to, or it may seem like nothing is even happening, you may turn around one day and find yourself surrounded by tea plantations, on a beautiful road half way up a mountain in India.
excerpt from http://www.neverevergiveup.com/ On October 29, 1941, U.K. Prime Minister Winston Churchill visited Harrow School to to hear the traditional songs he had sung there as a youth, as well as to speak to the students. When he was invited to give a speech, Churchill stood before the students and said, “Never, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, give up. Never give up. Never give up. Never give up.”
To be successful in your life and business, here is what Winston Churchill told us:
"The pessimist sees the problems in every opportunity. Whereas the optimist sees the opportunity in every problem"
"Never give in, never give in, never; never; never; never - in nothing, great or small, large or petty - never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense"
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