As part of this, I have a breakout intensive treaty to lose 50 pounds in six months. I have put muscles on my programme that I created for myself and I am working it. So, essentially, this is an invitation to grow. If it is not acted upon continuously, it is not faith. Faith, my dears, is a verb, not just a noun. ![]() This is a complete walk of faith, backed 100% by commitment and action. It relies on internal factors and happens in spite of external factors. Old things must past away and behold, all things become new. I trust God wholly and I understand that real transformation comes through the renewing of the mind. I am not saying I have arrived, I am also in process. I am more of an inspiration having lived the example than merely pointing you to and holding your hand towards a goal post on a journey I have not embarked on myself. In fact, what I do for me, affects my efficiency and effectiveness in helping others. I have to stand accountable not only for what I have done for others, but what I have done for me. Success for me is the quality of life that I live. Success for me is not just in accolades won, remuneration received, people served with excellence and general achievements. My relationship with God is closer than it has ever been, and as a mother, I am feeling a lot more secure in the 5 solid years I have invested in my child. Yes, I am adding myself to my own to do list. I am now making the choice to add me to my own to do list again. I made the choice to put certain things first in my life. Yet, as a person, I have paid the ultimate price. At one point I was homeschooling for two whole terms! Each day I did the best I could and in many ways, I accomplished things I still don’t know how I managed to (the grace of God being especially obvious during those times). Throw in ridiculously high stressful environments (moving is right up there with terminal illness in the scale of life’s most stressful situations and we moved entire households, countries and hemispheres) a lack of support systems, relationship trauma, relocating businesses in three countries with different markets and demographics, creating a new family brand for my family farm, expatriate re-location issues and navigating parenting a young child and everything pretty much goes out of whack. We jump between our kids and a gunman without second thought or care for self-preservation. I knew how to leap, and I had a life full of major leaps, yet I was challenged with landing on four feet like a cat with 9 lives or sticking my landing as elite gymnasts learn to do after ridiculous leaps and tumbles.Īs a mother, who is invested in her child, when resources are limited, we lay down ourselves for our children. But after a while… even healthy patterns can become problematic. And having been a daring risk taker, I have taken copious leaps throughout my life. I did not learn how to hold on to transformation in the midst of major life transitions. You see I knew how to start and maintain transformation through momentum. It was a brilliant programme, and saw me vividly blossoming inside and out. I created an amazing coaching programme for myself and set about the most important journey of my life. I knew that even though I had many roles to play to many different groups of people and many ways in which I was serving them, when resources are limited, you must put on your own oxygen mask first. I knew that I had to find ways to interrupt my own unhealthy patterns and pursue the fullness of the life I truly wanted to live. Four years ago, I added two professional coaching certifications to my belt. Talk about occupational hazard! As Jamaican expats in Dubai, then Ras Al Khaimah (7 and 11 years respectively in the UAE), then a few months stop home on route to Aruba, we have moved A LOT and had lots of challenges like everyone else. The occupational hazards of us being professionals at the top of our game in food did not help. Over the years, we have been on again, off again on our way of eating. Granny knew what those who promoted low fat diets did not know. ![]() Granny knew that too many mangoes in mango season, too much cake and rice and other carbohydrate rich and sugary foods would lead to the need for shape wear and eventually clothes not fitting. We had weight to lose and I knew as a seasoned journalist that eating low carb was actually one of the healthiest eating lifestyles… a fact that was proven by science and wisdom of our forebears. If you have been following this blog since January 2011 when it first went live, you know that the whole concept that I developed from 2010 was all about two people (a 7 star hotel chef and me the journalist and marketer wife) on a low carb, epicurean journey.
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