How 2018 Became The Year That Changed My Life…

“Yesterday I was clever so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise so I am changing myself.” ~Rumi

I had just returned from having spent 10 days at a Buddhist monastery in the north of Thailand. The silent retreat, called Vipassana, was thought provoking to say the least, and created a huge shift in how I would live my life. Whereas before I was cruising along waiting for things to happen, now I desperately wanted to be in charge of my life and control my own destiny.

Except I didn’t know how…

When you are in complete silence for 10 whole days your whole life flashes before your eyes. At the retreat I realized I wanted, nay needed, to change the way I viewed my life. However, my past comprised of a series of so many broken pieces that I did not know how exactly I could ever become whole again.

At the end of the ten days I went to Bangkok where I had some personal and professional affairs to put to bed. There I packed and unpacked, donated stuff that no longer served me, things that were no longer relevant to where I wanted to take my life.

The rest, as they say is history…

What ensued can best be described in the following excerpt from my #1 International…