To live life with GRACE. Gratitude, Respect, Acceptance, Compassion and Empathy!
Often in my life I have been forced to stop take stock of where I am, what I am doing, and ask the question of myself. “ Am I standing in my truth or am I compromising who I am?” In business I compared myself only to the people who had ethics and yet had still reached a high plateau of success. I asked myself what did they have I didn’t have? (Besides money) What did they know that I didn’t know? And from there I struggled and stretched until I owned that quality and I just kept aiming for the stars. I remember my mother writing in my autograph book when I was 13, “Aim for the stars but don't step on anyone to get there.” And not only that “if you aim for the stars you must just be lucky enough to hit the moon.”
I began with nothing but an idea, and courage, I didn’t have anyone to help me, or to gi ve me a silver spoon. I did have the quality of courage, commitment, and the vision of what I wanted to achieve. So many people have ideas or dreams, and thinking other people will support them share their dream with other people only to be bashed in to oblivion with, “what makes you think you can do that?” or “Well you know what the chances are of you succeeding don't you?” Well-meaning folk, who live in fear of success, fear of not enough to go round, and the need to control and limit rather than empower achievement.
As a child and an adult I was dyslexic, today this does not restrict my life in any way. I was uneducated, introverted, totally lacking confidence, bad tempered, terrified of life and I was so lonely because I did not belong, I had no sense of anyone understanding me or connecting to me. The one light in the darkness was that I had been born with a gift, the gift was an inner knowing that I was born to do something special and that one person can make a difference. My anger was simply my own frustration and confusion which grew as a result of peoples ignorance, I found people could not accept or nurture me when I needed strength life seemed to beat me down some more. The harshness of the world tore at my soul until I had the courage to begin to find a way to firstly understand why people behaved the way the do and then secondly how I could help people develop an awareness based upon their individual life experience. Even as a child I was confused by the way people treated each other, life wasn’t supposed to be like that and I was determined to find a way to help stop the violence. Or at least help people become aware that they are not victims and they have a choice.
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