Life is fleeting.
We all know this.
One moment, you’re bringing your children to their first day at school. Blink … and the next moment your children are learning to spread their wings. Graduating school. Their courage inspires you. You wonder at the ease with which they leave behind all that was familiar to them and sail forth into unknown waters. You remember your own graduation, way back in the annals of time. Was it that different back then? Has it changed at all? And are we not just constantly graduating from step to step and milestone to milestone?
This year has been busy for me:
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- I wrote and launched my online course, How to Get In On Your Life: Because It’s Happening Anyway!
- Relaunched my novel, The Bridge Of Now.
- Wrote a gorgeous 13-week Coaching Program that is filling my Tuesdays with beautiful people who want to let go of the past and create a rewarding reality into their future.
- I have co-founded Tera Maiä Academy Ireland, with my good friend and colleague John Darcy, to help to safeguard the amazing legacy that Kathleen Milner has given to the world with Tera Maiä Reiki.
- I have almost completed a second book to accompany my online course and am seeking the inspiration this summer to complete the sequel to The Bridge Of Now.
Each milestone an initiation of sorts into something bigger that I am reaching for. In my personal growth and in my business.
I’ve been casting millstones from around my neck, some of which have been there for decades, and I’ve been looking to grow. I can see that now. Can I go into the 3rd act of my life taking inspiration from my children? Unknowingly, they offer me such freedom now. As their eyes turn outward into the big, brave world, so can mine.
I admire them so much. Diligently applying themselves to the tasks in hand, studying for final examinations, seeking to get into University, having come through lockdowns and the pandemic that could have sucked the will out of them. But they grow upward, instilled with a faith that they can create a better world. A more equitable world. They are certain that they can do a better job that we did.
Yes, life is fleeting. But each step is important. Each step is a milestone. What I’m admiring now, in my children, took years and years of little milestones for them to accomplish. It reminds me to keep my eye on the prize, but also on the step just ahead of me.
Thank you for reading!
~ Alvagh