What is progress?

Someone tweeted yesterday that what you think and how you feel materializes some way in your body, in health or disease. Nothing could be truer because the last few days I feel like someone gave me happy pills, I’m lighter on my feet and gone are the tossing and turning nights. I feel like a thoroughbred that was getting trapped more and more into a tight stall, and I was pawing and snorting at the gate THAT WAS UNLOCKED but instead of opening the door, I kept whinnying and whinnying and kicking up hay.

The reality that set in earlier this year when things changed yet again, brought me into action mode and as soon as I took the first step towards a plan, the Universe rushed in with all sorts of details. First, how are we going to afford this house if we want to stay here. Answer, let go of how you have been living in it, and have it bring you revenue. Second, what will I do if I no longer do this, well, what do you want to do, this but in an expanded version, but for myself. It’s not that this never occurred to me before, it’s that I was loyal to a fault, which served me then, but did not serve me now.

I was speaking to someone on Friday who said, “Rachel, you are going to be saying to yourself, why didn’t I do this before?” and I responded the timing could not be more perfect for me, because I’m ready. Later someone else reminded me the timing couldn’t be more perfect to launch my company because it is on the heels of the economy recovering and I will be prepared when the turn around comes.

Yesterday, the stove was installed in our new second kitchen. The locks were put on both den doors so that we can work our way back through the house as guests are invited in. The beginnings of our new life is starting to move down the tracks we have laid and oh, what a difference to me.

I feel like someone gave me the biggest B-12 shot and I’m fired up. There is nothing like fear to create your own trap. But if you take everything and spin it around and find out what it is you aspire to be, you can start to take the baby steps necessary to make that life. I aspire to own my own company and help other companies figure out what they cannot see. Hence my tagline: Greenlight Global Research breaks down the roadblocks that keep companies from reaching their destinations. I aspire to participate in the larger world and give back, hence GGR’s DNA has philanthropy built in. I aspire to work with people who inspire me, hence the people I choose to work with are an important part of the context of my new path. I aspire to live a life that is expandable that could include Spain for two months in the summer, that could include going home to Croatia with Tatjana, that could include taking my son to see the world with us. I aspire to happiness.

And that is progress.

2 Responses to “What is progress?”

  1. Graham da Ponte Says:

    I wanna borrow your life coach!!

  2. Rachel Says:

    You should try him – he’s quite amazing. He wrote me this this morning:

    “It’s really remarkable how just a slight shift in how we see our situation transforms our lives. You sent energy out into the universe and were in some respects relieved of having to deal with the {omitted] situation. You got the best of everything and you absolutely deserve it. I think this time next year we’re going to see a DRAMATICALLY different Rachel Dangermond. There is no stopping you now!”

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