Setting goals

This fall I have seen a few goals be reached. Wow. It's almost like I had thought they never would? Now I am standing here with two empty hands, hands yelling "Fill us up, give us something new!".

One of the goals I reached was one that I have been carrying inside me for as long as I can remember. I finished and sent a manuscript to a publishing house. In many ways, it was a partial goal that I reached, since that in no way means I will get it published. But still it felt like raising a child and seeing it move on, seeing it start its on life. Now I'm waiting to see, what kind of a life that child will manage to create for itself.

It is important to have goals and it is, I believe, what makes us go further, what makes us make them happen. So I often write them in my calendar or diary. I choose a date and I say "by this time I will have finished or done this and that". They don't need to be huge things, I for example cannot write a book twice a year, but smaller things as well, things that will make us happy. My goals for this year were to book myself a vacation - which I did, and Vietnam gave me all I wished for and beyond - to find myself a new job - and here I am, loving every day because I get to wake up and go to the office where I have found myself truly happy - to finish my manuscript for the book. Things happen when we write them down. That's when the spin is created.

And a side-note:
My calendar is the Courage one by Paulo Coelho. Today I read a passage from it, saying that "Yesterday's pain is the warrior's strength", that is from the Manual of Warrior of light. Yes, isn't that a great thought? I love that thought as it states that all of as can be strong by letting ourselves be fortified by the pain we've felt.

Lots of love and strength to all of you, let's make things happen!

when I start checking the boxes

This summer I've been realizing things. A season of realization. I've felt moments of clarity, when my own actions and the reasons behind them suddenly have been truly clear to me. It's always strange to notice, how one can trick oneself into things, with totally different premises than one would think. But it does good to see those things. It helps one to learn about oneself.

I've also noticed something this summer. I've noticed that the more things we make happen ourselves, the faster the things around us will move. When waiting for things to happen, they never do, that is something we all can agree on, right? When deciding for ourselves that we won't sit and wait, life will start catching speed around us. I feel like being inside a whirlwind right now. And it is moving faster and faster. I've started it. I pushed the button myself by deciding I won't wait. Life can be at a standstill and boring, I don't care, because I'm in motion.

What do I need to be happy? Love, friends, family and a passion for what I do. Love - well yes I do love, so that is enough, isn't it? As long as I keep blowing love into life I will be happy. Come love back at me or not. Friends - so many of them and as many of them so close to my heart. It makes me so happy to see them joyful, content. I am lucky when it comes to the people in my life. I feel I hit the jackpot. Somebody must be smiling at me from above. Family - yes, please let it stay safe and happy. Having them close to the heart helps when they are far away. Passion. That is as easy as love. It is what makes me get up in the morning and it is what makes me feel strong and capable. Because when there is a flow of passion it is all clear. No questions to be answered, no uncertainties. I follow the line that my heart has already painted. Easy.

Here I am. Happy and content. And when I start checking the boxes, there is not much that has happened around me, but within me. And with all the energy oozing through my skin, through my mouth, from my fingers - I feel love has guided me again. I feel I can't go wrong as long as I have it filling my heart, lighting my soul.