Making IT Happen!

Throughout my journey, I have asked myself tons of questions...who am I?  What do I want?  Why do I want X, Y, or Z?  How do I get there?  When is the right time for me?  I think all of us have similar questions and prayers that frequent us in the quiet of the early morning, or on the drive to work, or in the carpool line.  I have found there is no telling when that gift of clarity will break through the noise and the distractions of our day and get past the packed schedules that we have in our lives.  But, what I have also found is that they WILL break through!  We can quiet those questions for a month, or a week, or days at a time...but at some point, they find that little opening and surprise us when we least expect it!

Recently, I have grown very fond of those moments so much so that sometimes I try too hard to reproduce it at times when I am searching for answers.  I like to think of those as bursts of Divine intervention and while I am not much of a morning person, I find they often come to me when I am trying to get my family and self ready for the day.  I've lost some of those opportunities because I did not stop for a few minutes to explore the burst of clarity!  Well, this morning, I stopped and may have come up with what I have been searching for...not the answer, but the REAL question!!

What is IT that I want?  It is funny that I have just now seen this because I have danced around this in my journals, coaching sessions, blog posts, and Girls Night...with Purpose.  I have a tendency to do this in all parts of my life, and this time, I didn't see IT until I was ready to understand.

So here it is...all of the questions I have been asking are great questions and I will continue to ask them to myself and my coaching clients, but I now know that we will not get the real answer until we know what IT is that we desire.  If we do not know what IT is, we will continue to live as we do now, but we will continue to do things that may not have real value or meaning for us.  

Would IT be going to college or getting a job after high school?  Would IT be going to medical school or law school because of expectations?  Would IT be choosing a career over family?  

So what does all this matter anyway?  Well, we are going to be doing things in life whether we choose or not, so why not make IT what you want IT to be?