From my experience there is little room in a JOB for you to be fully creative and express who you really are. You are bound by restrictions and hours, there really is only so far you can go. You can sell your time or sell your money.

It has taken both me and my husband to accept our true entrepreneurial sides, and we love it. For me it is the true freedom to express myself and who I truly am. To have full creative power of my life and my results and there is not many things more exciting than that.

Have you found the space and place to be all of you and really do what you are capable of in life? Some people just go through the motions of life feeling that is the best they can do. There is so much more to us, and it’s time to let that out.

He reminded me that when you are in a new place or learning something new that it can feel clumsy and unknown. You are not an expert at the very beginning; you can get frustrated with yourself for not having all the answers. And I thought he was in my head describing my week. I realized I am in a space of new development in my life. I have created some pretty cool results lately but am in new territory. Having not been here before, it is like riding a bike for the first time.

He reminded me of some key questions to ask as I am a learner driver in my new evolution of my life, and I think these are great questions for any time in life:

• What do I really want right now?
• What feels right for me right now?
• What do I really want to be creating?

Acknowledge how you feel, and then ask is there something I have missed that has led me to feel this way?

If you are learning something new, or about to embark on a new chapter of life or business, try the questions and let me know how you go.

I am finding they are creating a new level of curiosity for life.

If we really want to aspire to great things we can look around and learn everything we need as part of who we are is in everything we see. When someone annoys us it is best to ask what it is in me that I am being annoyed at, is there a part of me with that behavior. That way someone who annoys you has become your teacher.

I like to walk around with my ears open. We have two ears and one mouth. If you are truly curious about people the next lesson you need to learn in life is right in front of you.

I have enjoyed living by the concept so much of late and my rate of learning and growth has escalated. Give it a go and let me know what you find.

First you need to succeed to survive. We must take the seasons and learn how to use them with the seed, the soil and the rain of opportunity to learn how to sustain ourselves and our family.

But then second is to then succeed to flourish in every part of your life. Good question to ask mature people: “If you could do better, should you?” And I think almost everybody would answer the question in the positive. If you could improve your health, shouldn’t you do that? If you can learn more, shouldn’t you do that? If you could earn more and share more, shouldn’t you do that? If you can improve your relationships and spirituality, shouldn’t you do that? And I think that is what success is really all about. It is not just a destination that is set for everybody to try and go for.

It is like Zig Ziglar said, “Improving in every area of your life to see if you can with satisfaction at the end of the day, week, month and year, say ‘I have made excellent progress this year, for myself, for my family, for my business, my career and my health.'” I think that kind of success everybody recognizes is legitimate and something we should all strive for.

Interesting phrase in the Bible that says strive for perfection—not that we can ever reach it. But it is in the striving, to be a little bit better today than yesterday, in our speech, our language, our health, everything we can possibility think of.

So yes, in my opinion, success is everything!

I have been listening to some CD’s about future, present and past and have learnt a lot about how we can choose how we live and what outcomes we have. I also learned that I have been making a lot of my decisions from my past experiences.

I have heard the comment many times before “but it did not work before so I am not going to try that or do that again”. When today is a new day, you are a new person and you can create different results. Just because something has not worked before does not mean it never will, maybe we just needed more knowledge or were not ready for the outcome we desired.

If you close off from all possibilities because of the past you will only become stuck in where you are, too afraid to move forward, to afraid to try new things.

So for example, what if I woke up tomorrow and decided I wanted to change my financial future and gain time freedom, I decided I wanted to start a home business. I have a few choices in that moment; I can look at what I want to create or I can look at the success I have had in my life, the experience I have and all of the things that could hold me back from creating success. If I was not willing to cut off from that person, that past I would never create a different outcome. I would not create the success I desired. If I choose only to look at myself and my future, I would take the bold action to start and keep moving forward until I created what I wanted as I know I would learn what I needed to along the way.

Choose your future not your past.

I look back over the last two years in share amazement, wonder and overall a feeling of excitement and like a magic wand has danced along the scene of my life. What an amazing journey and who would have thought that in such a short period of time all the we have created for ourselves and the hundreds of others that we have assisted to re create their future would have been possible.

We have on an individual level assisted over 1000 people to increased incomes and on a corporate level made a huge impact to company and educational culture in over 50 huge organizations around the world. I look back and look around me in awe of what is truly possible.

It really did all start back with a small dream and taking one step in front of the other.

The exciting part is I am reflecting on this from our dream home, I am adsorbing the smell of the salt air as I can hear the waves lapping on the beach. As I look out our front window this morning I can see the sun glistening on the waves as the lap at the white sand on the shore, there is a dolphin out playing in the waves, which reminds me of how much play we have been able to do for ourselves and our family along this journey. We have travelled to over 10 different countries as a family spending great quality time in each absorbing each culture wide eyed with wonder.

Our house is also surrounded by wonderful bush land. We have two gorgeous guest houses on the property that are often frequented with family or friends. So many times we have had the most awesome dinners with laughter filling every corner of our house, sometimes we have so much fun that no one really wants to go to bed, way too many fun times to be had.

I look around this house and realize I am surrounded by love with my amazing husband Paul and our two children; they are growing up to be such amazing inspiring individuals. I am so proud of who they are becoming at such a young age.

It was so much fun to go for a family drive this morning in our Audi Q7 and zoom up the beach for a family picnic; we all looked up into the sky at the clouds and picked what animal we could see.

I look forward to looking up at the sky many more times and recreating our dream, building on what we have been creating with new aspirations. There is nothing quite like this. I am truly blessed.

We are just about to open a school in Brisbane, it will be known to be one of the best educational facilities for children in Australia, and you guessed it our personal development for kids is part of the curriculum.

I have the pleasure this year of handing a set of keys over to my mum for her house in Whangaparoa, she was speechless. I was a little worried when she could not speak for 10 minutes and asked for a chair to sit down on if we were going to have to call an ambulance, but as it turns out she was just in shock from our gift to her. It is sooooo nice to know that she is taken care of now and for the future, something that has always played a little on my mind.

Now I know she will always have a roof over her head in a sensational spot in the world filled with memories of our childhood and her life. I know my dad will be watching over her as well in her new home, thank you dad.

What I learnt over time is that the things I want to avoid are often the very things I need to do, to move forward in life and get the lessons I need for the time.

So I started to monitor how I am when a change occurs in my life. I noticed that change I choose, woo hoo I am great with it. Unexpected change that I did not know was going to happen or choose, not so good.

The interesting thing for me was that although I would often get frustrated, get over whelmed or annoyed with what was happening, I could still see the light to move forward. I suddenly moved through the change so much easier.

What I have learned is if we live and participate in life there will be expected and unexpected change, the more we live the more we experience this. This is a constant. We have a choice to react or respond to the change. Sometimes when we feel that we are threatened or our outcome or goals may not be achieved due to this change we can react. That is ok, the choice there after is where to from there. Do you sit in the problem throwing your toys enrolling others into the problem or do you look for a way out and a way forward, take responsibility. Most often the change is for a perfect reason, because what you learn from that change is exactly what you need to learn in your life in that moment.

Thank you change.

When you start to journal each day there is a lot of benefit, you can learn about how you feel. You can reflect on what is and is not working for you and many other important realizations.

One of the things that we have learnt simply from journaling each day is our commitment level to ourselves. We made an agreement, that we would journal each day. This is a simple process of writing about your day and what occurred, it really is not rocket science. However what soon started to show up was that we missed days, here and there. The more we looked the more we started to see a pattern of our commitment to ourselves. This simple process of journaling to improve ourselves we were not 100% committed too.

What we found was that this happened for many reasons, for example life distractions, change in routine, excuses. And the list does go on and on. But really is there any good excuse not to commit to yourself and your results?

I honestly think there is not, as the more you help yourself the more you can help others.

One of our speakers Patrick Combs spoke about seeds and the power of the seed and this topic resonated with me. I wanted to share what he said and what I got from the topic.

• Did you know that a seed can grow even if it is broken?
• Did you realize that the result of the seed is not dependent on its size or shape?
• Were you aware that by looking at the seed you cannot determine its outcome, you would never know what it is going to grow into even if you looked at it under a microscope?

Seeds can grow even after being dormant for 1000 years.

For a seed to grow it will need to overcome some adversity to become the amazing plant that lives inside. For a start it will need to break out of the husk, and then it will need to grow against gravity. And this is to just name two simple triumphs the simple seed will have made just to get out of the ground. A seed is no different to us, to our dreams and our bliss.

We have dreams and goals that lay dormant within us, not acted on or planted in the ground yet for many different reasons. We sometimes can feel broken or defeated as a result of past experiences; however our past experiences do not determine the result of this seeds outcome. The only thing that will determine the outcome is if we are willing to give the seed the opportunity to grow.

What is your seed? Are you willing to plant it and let it grow?

Be patient with your seeds, they take time to grow. If you go and dig it up every day and check on it, this will not make it grow any faster.