With Rest Comes Clarity

How A Dark Moment Led To A Bright Opportunity

Stillness and Rest Bring Clarity

I am learning that stillness is essential.

It took hitting a wall for me to gain the clarity that I needed for myself and my business.

My period of rest started at the end of 2024.

Before that time, I was experiencing some major personal wins. I had just published my first book, Letters to a Dreamer and it gave me my second wind.

I was still tired but I felt better than I had in a long time and I wanted to keep going, so I did.

In the final months of 2024, as we approached the New Year, I had a few MAJOR opportunities fall through.

Needless to say, I was stressed out, devastated, and couldn't help but feel like it was happening again...

I was still determined to keep going, hoping that at the last minute I would get an opportunity that would wipe out those I'd lost.

It didn't happen.

I was scheduled to take two weeks off from work, and I needed every second of it. I told myself that I would keep pushing until the 20th of December and then I was going to shut down shop and recalibrate going into the new year.

Life had other plans and the week before I was scheduled to take a break, my youngest daughter, Nia, got sick and then like clockwork, her mother and I followed.

Not only was I fighting a terrible cold, but I was also exhausted both mentally and physically. I was battling depression and everything around me seemed dark.

I resigned myself to my fate, and in my mind, I threw in the towel.

My frustration turned to anger, then to bitterness, and then it ebbed into sadness and finally came to rest a pure and utter resignation.

I was tapped out.

Quitting was not in my heart though and a passion of mine (gaming) turned out to be the thing that I needed to refocus, clear my head, and give myself permission to rest.

I threw myself into my favorite game, The Sims 3, and tried to forget about the world.

I made up my mind that I wasn't going to be accessible to the outside world for a while.

If I didn't want to answer my phone or I wasn't moved to answer a text, I didn't.

I just didn't have the energy to engage.

I coasted through the holidays and brought the New Year in with two of my oldest companions, anxiety and depression.

I had been hit with a wave of deep sadness that I settled into, embracing the weight of the feelings and working through them, by being still. I just kept playing my game, for hours on end.

It's funny how things happen and how one thing can inspire another thing, which in turn, inspires another thing.

Sometimes the hardship is what unlocks the opportunity you've been waiting for and sometimes it unlocks opportunities you didn't even know existed.

Every experience comes with an opportunity to make a choice- to go forward, turn back, or go in a different direction altogether.

This experience taught me that there was another option...

REST!

I chose to surrender until I became more clear.

Sometimes when we think that we need to push harder or push forward, we actually need to take a step back for a moment and rest.

Perhaps that problem you're facing isn't that great after all, maybe you're just tired and need to rest.

Accept that some things are out of your control and understand that some things in life are meant to be discovered, like surprises left for you along your journey.

Embrace where you are and go from there.

KEEP GOING!!!

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