Find inspiration in the every day....
Hey! Welcome! Hope you have all had a great week!
My week can only be described as......abundant!
It was a week filled with a little bit of anxiety over buying a car, but as the days went on and Friday ( pick up day ) approached I had grown accustomed to the fact that WE WERE ACTUALLY GETTING A NEW CAR. I counted down the sleeps like a kid before Christmas!
The start of the week was slightly challenging. Hot weather was back with a vengeance but who can complain when you have a good air conditioner both at home and at work....right? Except the air con at work didn’t work. That cold blast of air as I walk through the doors on a humid and hot morning did not greet me as it usually does. So fans had to do. First world problem! But we managed and we survived! And I certainly couldn’t complain to hubby who had a huge week of fitting windscreens outside.....sometimes in the full sun.
My week got better...way better. I received a call from Tan, the gorgeous manager at Evans Shoes. I had won a $500 gift voucher! OMG!!! Apart from my beautiful family, I’ve never won anything! And shoes! Shoes and car in the same week! Get the flock out of here! May have squealed! Abundance was my word of the week. Many thanks to Evan’s Shoes! Abundance………Friday car day finally arrived and we had an early morning start on the 6.30am train to Melbourne. The two and a bit hour train from Shepparton to Melbourne was actually pretty nice! Coffee in hand, we jumped on with our luggage ( I’m not a minimalist packer) and realised we were sitting next to a gorgeous young-at-heart couple we haven’t caught up with for a while. Leo and Lisa are well known in our community and we were thrilled to chat with them about the merits of living in a small town, marriage, birthdays, and of course, kids! What a great start to our day!
I also read my “Big Magic” book by Elizabeth Gilbert. I had started it but hadn’t got far so the train was the place to get stuck into it. I love it. I was wishing I had packed a highlighter! I was finding gems in abundance....my new fave word. And I had a light bulb moment. You know how I started this blog looking for purpose and passion? I was searching for something that made me feel whole. Something to fill the gap I was feeling with my kids getting older. I was thinking it would be a new skill, a new hobby. For a while I was thinking it could even be a new job. But reading this book made me realise something.
Writing the blog has given me purpose and passion. Creating something is giving me a purpose. I’m living creatively for the first time in a long time. I’m seeing things differently. It feels like I’ve taken the blinkers off and there is a whole new world out there! I’m more conscious of my surroundings, more aware of.......well everything. Just more aware!
Southern Cross station was a perfect example. Now I have been to Southern Cross station before. But on Friday I saw it differently. While Scott went off to stand in line to get our Myki cards, I watched people. I love people watching. But this time I had a tonne of questions going through my head. I wanted to know everyone’s stories. Where are you going with that suitcase? Why are you hurrying? How do you pack so little??! Who are you looking for? Who are you talking too? What is your passion and purpose? How do you spend your day out of this station? Are you living your best life or is life serving you a shit sandwich, as Elizabeth Gilbert spoke of in “Big Magic.” Are you loved or are you lost? How do you walk through a train station in those stiletto heels? What’s your dream? What’s your dream? What’s your dream? Pressing questions! And questions I’ll never have answers to. But that’s what this blog has opened up to me. A whole world of questions. A sense of purpose. Passion. I’m being creative and I’m loving it. It’s changed me. I’m happier for creating. I’m happier for acknowledging my thoughts, my goals, my dreams. I’m viewing things which an open mind, something I haven’t done in a long time. And I feel lighter. The weight of the world, the negativity, the poor me feeling is all gone. In place of all that are questions. What else can I do, what else can I write about. And my writing is not for anyone else. It’s for me. You lot just happen to read it!
So I’m still looking at trying new things. Pilates for beginners is booked!
But I’ve worked out the secret to being happy is BE HAPPY! Find joy in little things. Be grateful. Be creative. Be open. Love. Learn. Read. Paint. Play music. Create. And abundance will come.
Have a great week.
Love,
Cherie with a C xxx