Last year, I started an experiment.
I wrote these words in Gibraltar, sitting between work meetings, sensing I was moving away from something but having no idea what I was moving toward.
This came up on my memories today…..
So I started an experiment...
And to be honest, I didn’t even know if I’d do the work.
In the past, that would’ve meant I’d failed.
That I was flaky. Undisciplined.
That I couldn’t commit.
But this time…
Something deeper pulled me in.
Not the logic.
Not the structure.
But a feeling.
A knowing.
A quiet “yes” that didn’t come with a plan.
And here’s what I’ve learned so far:
🧞♀️ I wasn’t failing.
🧞♀️ I was just measuring success with the wrong metrics.
Not because I’m ungrateful.
But because I didn’t realise how much I’d achieved, because I was looking at the wrong things.
🏡 I have my own home.
🕊 I work on my terms.
👨👩👧👦 I raise my children in alignment with their truth.
🌬 I follow my intuition more than I ever have.
But I thought I was behind…
Because I was using someone else’s ruler 📏
So what is success to me?
✨ It’s in how it feels to be me now.
✨ It’s in the trust I’ve rebuilt with my body, my business, my becoming.
✨ It’s in knowing I no longer outsource my knowing.
And even when I don’t finish the thing…
I finish what mattered.
This experiment reminded me:
🧞♀️ My only job is to follow what works for me.
Not someone else.
Not what “good” should look like.
We’re taught to make decisions with our heads and mine has been in overdrive.
But now I see:
I just need to follow what feels true.
And that changes everything.
Part Two of the Experiment… here I come
This morning the pendulum was swinging.
Same old loop. Different backdrop.
But I caught it faster.
And I remembered - the pendulum never stops trying to swing you just get better at slowing it down.
If the pendulum is swinging right now, it’s just a distraction…. Head to the classroom, I needed it this morning 🧞♀️