Now if you read my last post, you're asking, so what did the universe deliver that had me get to this place?
I guess it was a number of personal realisations, people and circumstances that lead me to where I'm at now; preparing to launch Integrity Cosmetics; a range of certified organic, high quality, energetically aligned, Australian made, skincare products made with some of the most natural and pure ingredients available.
It's been over a year in the making (or my whole life, depending on how you look at it) and the launch date is getting closer and closer. I can see the light at the end of the tunnel. (then there's another tunnel, but that's ok...lol, that's what life is all about)
Had I not realised these things, Integrity Cosmetics wouldn't have been created;
1) I don'thave to have done something to create it and be successful (who says you need to be an expert at the beginning?) I've learned this throughout my career developing new technologies, but it's easy to forget, especially when you enter a new industry
2) I have loads of skills and experience to create what I choose to (given my 20 plus years of business experience and my family upbringing in relation to buisness)
3) I've been on a journey looking for healthy products and services, which started when I was 18, and more recently in the last 6 years I've been looking for natural skincare and make up and I've not been all that satisfied with what I've found. (Either it was too expensive, didnt' do what it was meant to, or I was horrified when I found out the ingredients contained in many products. Quite simply most products I came across didn't meet my needs, as a woman and as a customer.

Pieces of The Puzzle

It's quite amazing how all the pieces of this "puzzle" called life come together.

As a kid at school, my friends used to say to me "Trace you'll be the first female Prime Minister of Australia one day"...somehow I think perhaps not, and I can't say I have an urge to go into politics right now, but I can understand why they said that.

I've always been interested in leadership, new ideas, business and progressively in health and well being and spirituality. From a youngster I wanted to run my own business "one day" and make a difference to the world on a large scale, I just didn't know what any such business would be......until more recently, when a series of events stemming from my teens to my late thirties seemed to come together, like a jig saw puzzle, with amazing synchronicity. It's like a series of random events over the last 25 years has come together and now makes sense.

A critical turning point in the realisation happened when I took a sabatical. A what? some of you may ask......an extended period of time (some 7 months) not working, without earning money, aka being unemployed and supporting myself. I used my sabatical to relax, rejuvenate, and start answering the question "What are the next 40 years of my life going to be about?"

I brainstormed, I had the white board out, I had the butchers paper out, and most importantly I had the colored textas out! And I wrote and drew and.......I considered the key issues facing humanity and the planet right now and asked myself the question, how do I want to use my skills and experience to make a real difference on the planet......without killing myself working like a dog in the process (tried that and it didn't go so well.....hence the odd sabatical here and there never worried me, I always knew me and my health would benefit in the long run).

I found some key areas of interest in my brainstorm to be Education, Sustainability, Health and Peace.

I then looked at my skills and what I'm passionate about to try to find what my next career ambition could be. I'd love to create a TV station that focussed on health and well being and positive information, but I'd never worked in that area and really couldn't see how my current skill set, right now, could translate to a job application, or creating a business in that field today. I looked at politics and even met with a politician to chew the fat and in the end that didn't grab me either. Somehow I think my entrepreneurial flare would be squashed in politics. I searched and searched. I even updated my CV and applied for jobs in the old industries and areas I used to work in, ie IT, Sales, Telco etc, but that didn't come to any fruition.

I needed to stick to my passion.

I'm passionate about health and I love creating new projects, goods and services and launching them to market, really sitting in the customers shoes during the creation process and then seeing products and services on the market and mangaging the communications and all the departments around the product or service. I'm an entrepreneur at heart and an educator. I've done business coaching and personal coaching and simply loved being able to make that kind of difference to people and or their businesses. Somehow I must be able to find what's next for me that incorporates what I love to do and what I'm passionate about.

And I did. Infact it came to me, I didn't have to go and find it. All I had to do was ask the right questions and the universe delivered.