WHAT IS YOUR BIG ADVENTURE?

"You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water."

-- Rabindranath Tagore

Hi Patrice,

On Friday, I'm off to New York City with three dear friends. This is a grand adventure for all of us, and it became a reality when we dared to say to each other, "Why not?"

Sometimes, we may need someone else to suggest that something is possible to open us to new ideas. I want to share with you what Vicky White wrote about this. May her words spark a big adventure for you!

~ Patrice

Your life reflects your decisions: what are yours?

The poet David Whyte asks: what is the courageous conversation I am refusing to have with myself, in my own heart and mind with regard to my work and the present life threshold on which I find myself?

For each of us, there is a courageous conversation waiting to be had.

I believe we each have choice. What stops us living a life of adventure -- inner and outer -- is not making a decision about what we want. ...

On retreat you step out of your usual environment and into a world of possibility -- your world gets shaken and stirred and your fears don't stand a chance. Surrounded by nature, in an unfamiliar world, you step into a bigger world that doesn't know the rules you've set up. Hasn't heard that it's not possible for you to live near water, write your book, go on safari, experience Machu Picchu, make different decisions about your life.

So you find yourself on retreat, fueling that spark of possibility and adventure. You're with women who are like you -- and when you hear their dreams, they don't sound so far fetched either. You... realize just how important it is to be with women who hold your dream, who see you as who you really are, women you become friends with who will not buy into your decisions about why you cannot have the life you want. They will say: tell me again why you cannot do this? with an expression of bewilderment on their faces.

As you start to tell them your story -- no money, no time, or something else, there comes a time when what you're saying starts to sound just a little crazy. Perhaps you really are as powerful as the other women see you. You start to wonder with some indignation, just whose life this is? And you start to realize you don't have forever. You realize you can't go back to that land of same old, same old. And you don't even want to. And you start to put one foot in front of the other and before you know it, this thing you had no idea how to make happen, is here.

You start to hear others saying to you: I wish I could do that. You respond with: you can!

You've stepped over the line into a life of passion, purpose and adventure and you rather like this Self who was here all along, just waiting for permission to step out and go for it.

I'd like to invite you to gather support around you and heed your soul's call to adventure. It's who you're here to be. You are not here to settle and you're definitely not powerless.

So, what's your big adventure?

~ Vicky White

Read all of Vicky's June 30, 2011 story here and visit her site at http://lifedesignstrategies.com.

"CHOOSE LIFE -- only that and always, and at whatever risk.... To let life leak out, to let it wear away by the mere passage of time, to withhold giving it and spending it is to choose nothing."

-- S.H. Kelley