Where am I going?

I haven’t been real inspired lately to blog until a few days ago when I was scrolling through Facebook and this quote from Zig Ziglar came across my screen. It literally jumped off the page at me. I thought I had a clear direction earlier this year on where I was going, but it all came to a screeching halt back in the fall. I have written about life changes earlier in another post, about being at a crossroads, and trying to decide which way to go. It’s so easy when life shifts you in a direction you didn’t see coming to lose focus, and to totally knock you off course. I am a planner to a fault! I do not function properly by flying by the seat of my pants. Yes, I admit, I am a control freak, but that’s my nature.  I like a road map all laid out with a plan on where we’re going, and what it is going to take to get there, and I want it to stay on course! I am finding that when life gets hard and off course, I shut down, I give up, I lose focus and I lose control. I lose site of my purpose.

Where is it that you want to go but you’re scared, or life has taken a turn down an unfamiliar path. What is it that you want in life but something is holding you back? What do you want to try, who do you want to inspire, what do you want to create, what do YOU want? Stop for a minute and think about that question. Nobody can answer that question for you, but you! Nobody knows the passion that burns down deep in your soul for that thing you long to do, long to try, long to make, long to travel to. Did you start this dream and lose focus on it so now you sit around, and just look back at what you did to start it, but something has happened and you’ve quit, you’ve lost hope, you’ve given up? Now is not the time to give up! Stand up, turn around and look forward on where you’re going! Trust me when I say that if God put a dream or a desire in your soul, he has a purpose for you!

I have talked about this before but 3 years ago, I set out to get healthy. I went back to my trainer, started eating healthy and was in the gym 6 days a week. The result of that hard work was 30 pounds of fat lost! I was feeling like a million bucks and so very proud of my accomplishments! About 8 weeks ago, I had a life changing event happen and I have barely worked out.  My meal plans have been effected, my sleep pattern changed and I found a big old excuse to not set my alarm and get my butt out of bed every morning and work out. I can’t put into words how awful I feel! No, I haven’t gained weight, but only because my nutrition has also slacked off and I haven’t even been getting the amount of calories needed in a day. It’s so easy to think wow, I lost 30 pounds, I can slack a little, but that’s a lie! I had a goal to be the healthiest version of myself in my 40s and I have a path before me with a vision of where I want to go that is much brighter than even the success of that 30 pound fat loss! I’m not done, it’s not time to throw in the towel! God gave me a healthy body to use and I am taking that for granted! I can’t continue to pat myself on the back for what I did over the past 3 years, I have to re focus on where I am going!

How about this blog!? I set out to do this, felt like I had a purpose and a gift to help other women and again, let life knock me around a little, and I haven’t been blessing other people.  I literally have spent the past 8 weeks focusing on all the negative things that have happened in 2018 and have failed to see all the positive things, and the direction life is going in. Honestly, I don’t have a clear vision of where my life is going, but I know the greatest things of my life haven’t happened yet, and I know that where I am right now is just a stepping stone to where I am going. So what am I doing to prepare? What are you doing to prepare for where you’re going? Sitting around feeling jealous of other women who are already where we want to go, or feeling sorry for ourselves for where we’re at, is not going to help us get there any faster! You are where you are right now for a reason, but it doesn’t have to be where you stay forever! Fight for what you want and where you want to go! Use that passion to drive you and guide you in those times where you feel nothing is happening! We do sometimes have dry seasons for a reason, there’s a lesson there too!

What is you’re calling? Maybe your calling is to be the best wife and mother you can be, and that’s an awesome responsibility so do you approach it with everything you’ve got? Maybe you want to open a bakery. Have you started baking for your friends and family? Have you signed up for a cooking class at your local community college? Maybe you want to do social work of some kind. Are you volunteering anywhere? Maybe you want to finish your degree, but you’ve given up. Start by just taking one class at a time, do the best you can and go from there. Maybe your goal is to lose some weight and get healthy and be your best self. Join a gym, or start simply by getting some exercise every single day and eating healthier. Just start somewhere! No more excuses! 2019 is coming up in just a few short days. Let me urge you take a minute for yourself, sit down and literally write out your goals. Not resolutions, you set yourself for failure right off that bat with those, but real goals that help push you to your destiny, calling, purpose. I know we are busy with life, we’re tired, we’re stressed, we don’t see how we could ever find the time to work on that thing that we want to do, that we dream about, that wakes us up in the middle of the night thinking about, that fire that burns within us. If you have got a dream, don’t let that flame die within you! Re focus on where you want to go! I believe in you and I know great things are on the horizon for you! Get out there and do anything you need to do to make it happen but also be patient with yourself and give yourself the grace you need while you’re on the way to your calling! Don’t focus solely on the successes of yesterday, focus on the successes that are still ahead! Don’t live in the past! Live with great expectations of the future! I look forward to hearing great reports in 2019!

With love for you all!

Shauna