It's amazing what six months can do. Or should I say what you can achieve in six months when you decide that you aren't going to be miserable anymore.
Earlier this year, around this time in May I wasn't in a good place in life. In fact you can read about it here.
I was stuck, static, lonely and I hadn't deep belly laughed in a looooooong time. I wanted to have this amazing beautiful life filled with love, connection, creativity, fun and adventure. I wanted to serve, uplift and add value to the world. But realistically how could I expect to do that when I wouldn't even look after myself? I said 'No' to myself far too many times that I just gave up, hung out at home in my pajamas all day and avoided any social gatherings altogether. I wouldn't even fork out $20 to get myself a well overdue haircut.
Now that I look at it, I was seriously heading towards becoming the neighborhoods cat lady. Oh dear.
I'm no longer embarrassed to admit all of this because when you finally choose to push yourself from out of the dark and into the light, you become mentally stronger pretty quickly.
But the coolest thing about all of this? It's that none of it happened how I thought it would. I imagined it would be a tough uphill battle of pure will and perspiration. That I'd have to start from scratch as some shy, reserved, "damaged" girl. But my sparkle came back almost instantly, there was no shell I needed to come out of. I was already the person I wanted to be - happy, vibrant and fulfilled.
So what did happen?
Well, since publicly declaring my goal I..
- Discovered I had a serious passion for travel!
- Enrolled in a travel & tourism course, became a full time student & graduate in Dec 13!
- Met wonderful, bright & sparkly people
- Re-discovered my confidence, goofiness & humor
- Became the class rep and excelled in all of my assessments
- Re-ignited my social life!
- Flourished in my relationship
- Did more creative projects and now feature them here
- Re-branded my business and added new features I'm passionate about
- Took up photography as a hobby
- Joined a gym & a social soccer team working out at least 4x a week (Zumba's my regular jam)
- Changed my eating habits to the 80/20 rule & LOVE it
- Lost a dress size without dieting, restricting or punishing my body (WOOHOO!!!)
- Lots and lots and lots and lots of play
- Scored a dream position at a renowned wholesale travel company right out of course!
- Started creating an eCourse that teaches others how to get their sparkle back
- And went on a big ol' road trip of an adventure with these peeps (my class)..
When I think about it, my epic melt down was more like an epic blessing in disguise. Because if that moment of breaking point didn't happen, if living how I was didn't become as unbearable as it did - none of these last six months would have happened.
And being where I am now looking back, I wouldn't trade that miserable, lonely and isolated time for anything in the world. Because it lead me here to this point. Beauty, love, connection, creativity, fun and adventure. How's that for a mindf**k!?
So my message for you little soul, is this..
You can transform your life.
You can do it in a short amount of time.
You can become the person you dream of being.
You can deep belly, hard-to-breathe, snort laugh again.
You can be vibrant.
Your life can be beautiful and fun and adventurous and whatever else you want it to be.
It is possible. It is doable. You can do it I know it.
I'm fresh living proof!
And because of that the world will never be the same again.
You will never be the same again.
Just take the first step into the light.
Elise xo
