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Editor and Publisher: Teresa Proudlove
Issue #040 July 2, 2007

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These 680 words will take you a little less than two minutes to read. Read on, and please accept my “My Apology and a Gift.”

Table of Contents

1. An Apology

2. My Soul Stirs

3. A Gift Given, A Gift Received

Hello friends. A part of me feels I owe you an apology for the three part series I sent you called, “Avoiding the Dream Killers” while another part of me says, “It’s OK Teresa, pieces of your truth were written there.” Yet, while writing that series I sensed I’d veered away from my true calling. Just because we have the skills to do something doesn’t mean it is in alignment with our purpose or passion.

Three years ago, when “yourlifework.com” was born I knew I didn’t want to create another self help site. We are not projects in need of fixing and indeed, many today suffer a soul sickness seeking answers in a world of “How To-s….” So, how did I end up writing a three part “How To” series?

I was running… running in fear as the “Career Assessment Program” (CAP) I had facilitated for fifteen years - to over three thousand people - drew to its final close. Valiantly, I laid the best of plans: becoming a certified “Creative Career Consultant;” designing and presenting a pilot workshop; completing my last Career Assessment Program; uploading the marketing page for my creative career consulting to our site; plus weaving some of my new found information into “Avoiding the Dream Killers” E-zines.

I planned to seamlessly transition into my new livelihood – with no lost time, income or tears. However, my soul’s stirring reduced my well-made plans to ashes. Apathy set in. My desire to “do” died.

Bits of work I had to do went unheeded until last minute. Instead of starting my day with the usual “To Do List” I planned my day around yearned for alone time. In solitude and silence I sat.

Inner promptings guided my journaling. At times I read bits and pieces of deeply soulful writings, savoring each morsel, allowing their words to steep in my soul. I pondered and wondered and allowed space for the ashes to settle.

The loss of fifteen years of fulfilling work left me feeling hollow, empty, insecure and uncertain of my direction. Simultaneously, my identity and worth woven into nearly eighteen years of mothering my child was gone - our son flying solo on man-sized wings.

I felt pangs of failure. Me, the so-called career guru lost… on hold… (my Services page strategically buried on my site as now I wasn’t so sure of anything.) Yet, I sensed a supreme rightness, in that once again I was being called to feel what many people feel who come to me for guidance.

I held on… trusting this unnerving transition, feeling the feelings, writing my soul’s promptings, letting go of the depressing/scary thoughts negating those promptings. I held on… trusting I would be made stronger, wiser in order to better light the way for others - despite many feelings to the contrary.

Then, today, I returned a phone call to Jan, a lifestyle coach who had contacted me via my website. After our conversation, my three months of soulful reflections and writings were further crystallized and affirmed by her words of appreciation. Jan wrote saying, “Thank you Teresa for your strength and wisdom… and for giving me a gift I didn't really realize I needed -- permission to truly express my authentic self and to tell the world who I really am and what I offer.”

I am perpetually awed by the many ways God works in our life. Jan – someone I had only just met – succinctly defined my purpose and passion threaded throughout my journal, indeed throughout my life. Since childhood I have been called to fully express my authentic self in the world and to help others see and express their Light.

I have returned from the desert.

So my friends, I wonder what wondrous gift you’ve been given which meets a need in the world? What if you began each day with this question rather than, “What do I have to do today?”

May you connect with and fully express your True Self.

Warmest regards,

Create the Life and Work You Love!

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What do you plan to do with the time you have left to live?
Do you want to make a difference in the world and live with passion before you die?
If so, you might want to read Jan Moore's insightful and evocative article on Living With Passion Before You Die!
written by Jan Moore, MA
Certified Retirement Coach
www.FitForRetirement.ca

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