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Today I am writing this post in my "between time". What is "between time"??? What I mean by this is this morning as a mum and as a foster mum to my daughter who has Cerebral Palsy and brain injury, and as a grandmother - babysitting my youngest grand son. My day started with bouncing out of bed at 6:15am to be ready for my daughters caretaker to arrive at 6:30 am to assist me in our morning routine. - out of bed, toileted, dressed, fed, and dogs fed, and ready for an equipment trial at 9:30am. . my grandson arrived at 6;45am - earlier then usual.. which we totally managed to make him feel welcome in the midst of the activity. My husband arrived home from his night shift at 8:00... and settled in to get some much needed sleep catch up whilst the mayhem continued on around him. here I am at 11 am, My daughter's equipment trial completed and now left for an outing with her support caretaker, my grandson munching down on an icypole and watching cartoons, my husband asleep on the lounge next to him and here I am after spending the last 20 mins answering requests from leads and writing this post. This is what I mean by a business that fits around my family. Thank fully we have alot of automation working in the background that provides information for my potential new mentees and customers, keeping my virtual "shop" open. I am grateful that I stumbled across this system when I did - now 7 years back. I have grown so much within this time. You may ask why would I do a business when I obviously have my hands so full at times. I have goals for my family that include being able to travel, and that included living on the coast - and I knew that if I kept going with my normal day to day - these new goals would never come to pass. You need to do something different to get a different result then what you are currently experiencing. When I look at some of the results that my mentees are having - @Nicole Masseque travelling so much now with her role in the Gather and Grows business events - all of these nice little additions that make our lives enjoyable... are happening because I have said yes to fit a business into my day. It feels good. It feels right.

Often, if you are like me, we can put our dreams on the "shelf". Have you ever said - I just have to do this first... or thought - oh my dream is too big - its not for me at the moment ... and then the next thing you are head over heels with "life" and your dream gets packed away on a shelf and in the "too hard" category. Now heres a thought. What if. What if you begin to familiarise yourself to your dream. What does your dream looked like. and started to experience a tiny aspect of the dream to keep your dream alive. What does this look like? Lets take an example: A simple but blissful dream- you have a dream for a day to yourself - where you can catch up on sleep. Breaking down the dream and familiarising yourself to the dream may look like clearing 15 minutes in your day for a power nap - including it in your schedule (if you have children - booking someone just to oversee them so that you can have guarded time for a rest). Another example: Surrounding yourself in nature and being one with the moment - this may mean simply researching where you would like to go, Making that beverage that you will take with you and visualising what it would be like to be at that location whilst you enjoy the beverage at a location that is similar - within your ability to do so. What can you do today that will get you closer to living out your dream day? What did I do to feel closer to my dream day? My dream is to be permanently living beside the coast as I am currently living in the Suburbs of Sydney at least 2 hours away from the coast. So to familiarise myself with my dream of living on the coast, I booked accomodation at a beach side location and put myself in the environment- going for a walk along the beach front... a simple action but definately brought a smile to my day. What actions that you have taken to make your dream day more familiar to you?

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