Well, hard to believe... but the time is really almost here!
May 12th was the first time I heard about this trip, so I've
been thinking about it and dreaming about it for almost 8 months now!
Which makes it seem very unreal that by this time tomorrow I will be in the aiir...
on my way to LA (on what up til now has always been considered a really LONG flight)!
No more.... tomorrow that bar gets raised in an unimaginable way!
And, I am excited, and nervous, and scared, and sad, and happy, and excited...
all so much jumbled up in my head and my heart right now!
I know it will be a great trip! "Adventure" everyone keeps calling it.
I began clarifying that it will be a "wonderful" and "magical" adventure today
since not all adventures are wonderful and magical!
(My "adventures" usually mean "We're lost and the only place we can find to eat
is McDonalds!" And I try to sell it to my son as "an adventure!")
So, my hopes are a little
higher for this one. No McDonalds, please!
Each "good-bye" makes it one step closer.
Each word of advice (sunscreen, bug spray, Mag light, drink lots of water,
get up and walk around a lot on the plane, get some rest, take lots of books...)
makes it more real.
And, since I still have packing to do and lists to check (amd make), I am
signing off for now and will check in again when I can!
This is a picture that my son drew for me to help me manifest my dream into reality months and months ago, before I even booked. It says "Welcome to Sydney" trailing behind an airplane, has a cruise ship, a smiling son (funny typo - I meant to say "sun", but I guess I was thinking of my son!), and a koala hugging a tree!! I LOVE it and the grease stain on the placemat reminds me of the dinner we were having when he drew it...
Til next time, take care, Mate!! (or is that G'Day, Mate!?")
Wow! In 2 weeks, I will be in the air heading to Sydney, Australia! Australia has been my "fantasy place to go" for as long as I can remember, so it's hard to believe that I am really going there - alone - to work on my writing with Cheryl Richardson and Reid Tracey, and Wayne Dyer, some of my favorite inspirational people of all time!
About 7 months ago, I received an e-mail about a Hay House cruise from Australia to the exotic South Pacific... on this cruise, I could do a "Manifesting Your Destiny" workshop with Wayne Dyer. Two of my fantasies in one trip!! Had to consider it - but, at first I did what everyone does when they see an opportunity like that... "Yeah, wouldn't that be amazing... oh, how I wish I could..." And, then set it aside because it's really far away, it's really expensive, and probably no one would go with me.
Then I decided to think about it more seriously. Put up a picture of Wayne and the cruise promo. My son drew me a picture of an airplane trailing a flag that says "Sydney" flying over a cruise ship, and the manifestation began... Asked many friends and my husband if they would like to go with me - no one was biting. "I can't - I'm going to Ghana," says one. "I can't, I'm going to China" says another... (yes, my friends live exciting lives). "That's a really long flight," says my husband, and "as drawn to it as you are, I'm just not..." So, I took down the picture and set aside the dream. There simply was no way I would ever do something like that alone. And, it was really, really far, for a really long time, and pretty expensive!
A few months later, I had a reading with a medium. We talked about the books I want to write, and she told me that if I was ready to write them, they were ready to come and will be quite successful. She said to me, "There's a trip... that you may know about - there's water all around, or it may be on the water. And, you're going to say, 'It's too much time and it's too much money.' (I don't ever say those things about vacation...well, except when it's half-way around the world for 15 days!). She goes on to say that I need to go on this trip because I will have an epiphany that will come out of nowhere. Me: "Can you confirm if this is the Wayne Dyer cruise from Australia?" Medium: "Well, that would be on the water,wouldn't it?" Me: "Yeah, and it IS a lot of time and a LOT of money, so it would be really nice if you could confirm it for me!" But, as the words came out of my mouth, I heard my Spirit answer. No one else needed to confirm this for me. I needed to go on this trip.
So, I came home and searched "Wayne Dyer Australian Cruise." What popped up was a Writer's and Movers and Shaker's Workshop with Cheryl and Reid, with Wayne as a guest speaker. I had NO idea that this was even being offered on this cruise. I had never seen this option any of the other times I had been drooling over the possibility. The ad read, "This could be your chance to publish a book with Hay House and become a New York Times best-selling author...one participant will receive a $10,000 advance and a publishing contract with Hay House..." The goosebumps gave me the confirmation that I needed. I was going on this trip! That if I go, the books will come, the right people will enter my life, and my writing will take off... now to sell that to the more logical people in my life, like my wonderful husband, Tom.
A few challenging conversations later and another gracious (but definite) decline of an invitation to join me, and I was registering for the trip. It became clear to me that I was meant to be going "alone." (Can one really be alone with 2000 other people on the ship?)
So, not a bag is packed, but a list is made...and I know that I will be ready. I have a roommate from Germany assigned to me - we've chatted and she seems very lovely. My airplane tickets are purchased, thanks to Tom's United miles, and my hotel in Sydney is booked for the first 2 nights. I'm still trying to wrap my head around not having a New Year's Day this year, because I will lose a day in flight, and that's my day... Time really is an illusion!
