I celebrate my 50th birthday this month and I’m grateful that I’ve made it this far in my journey.
I look back at the joys and sadness and the many successes and failures, and my sheer audacity to keep trying ignites a bigger fire within me! I could have given up several times along the way, but allowing positive influence into my life over the years have kept me. My faith sustained me through the good and bad, the ups and downs, the joys and sadness, the successes and failures. I knew my why and I was passionate about it. I was far from perfect but I was relevant, hard-working, productive and effective.
50 years.
To me, that’s like turning the corner in a 400-meter race and charge for home! It’s time to really put the “pedal to the metal,” muster every ounce on oomph! and press on to the finish line. I’ve sized many opportunities but I’ve missed a lot more. My prized goal, financial independence, still eludes me.
Reasons abound.
I was going through some of the entries in my diary and I had to ask myself some hard questions:
- What do you really want for the rest of your life?
- What are you willing to do to achieve it?
- Do you really believe that God will make a way and give you the desires of your heart?
- Will you trust Him and take the way that He provides?
Yes, I am.
I’m a thinker and a reader and I’ve been dreaming since I was a child. I was always reading and immersing myself into the lives of the characters in my books. In 1995, I began to write my goals in a journal shortly after I was introduced to self-improvement books and the idea of owning my own business. Since then, goal setting, vision mapping and using the vision board are a way of life for me. For the rest of my life, I want to fully embrace health and wellness:
- Having a sound mind
- Having a heart in tune with God
- Living a healthy, balanced lifestyle
- Living and maintaining a debt-free lifestyle
Success is a journey, not a destination.
So, I embark on my journey into the next 50 years. I am better, I am stronger, I am wiser; I know my purpose and my destiny awaits, to become all God created me to be. I embrace a full and active path towards wellness, – mental, emotional, spiritual, physical and financial wholeness. I look forward to achieving my lifetime dreams and goals. I look forward to a journey of adding value and making a difference. I look forward to being more courageous and consistent. I look forward to providing valuable service others.
There was no identity crisis in the life of Jesus Christ. He knew who He was. He knew where He had come from, and why He was here. And He knew where He was going. And when you are that liberated, then you can serve. – Howard Hendricks
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To Your Success,
Althea
Althea A. McLeish Wilson, RN, MSN
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