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.