How did that happen??

Oh….okay, I get it!

 So you plan and plan for a new launch that couldn’t possibly BE any more exciting and then suddenly, out of nowhere BAM….the dog becomes unbelievably and potentially terminally ill and a wisdom tooth that has been minding it’s own business decided to explode into a pain the likes of which I have never known!!  This is NOT how I envisioned October kicking off!!  Wisdom tooth pulled leads to a massive infection and more pain than I will probably and hopefully never know again… Poor little dog Max winds up having major surgery and spending over two weeks in and out of the hospital….he’s home now, but still not responding and we are beginning to fear the worst.  Really?  Is this some sort of a test, or maybe a cruel joke?

How does this happen?  More importantly, WHY does this happen?  In a nutshell, that’s life.  Just when you think you’ve got it all figured out, a gigantic curve ball comes headed towards you at lightning speed and you wind up flat on your back wishing you could cut your own head off.    All that momentum you were building and building is suddenly laying on the side of the highway like road kill and frankly, it sucks.

The good news is, nothing is permanent…and as the old saying goes, this too shall pass….and don’t I know it!  Thankfully a whole lot of medications have me back to looking and feeling like myself again and Max actually ate a few tiny piece of chicken this morning.  Are things beginning to get back to normal?  Maybe….and then maybe not, but I’ll take what I can get, I will put on my big girl pants, and do whatever I need to do to get that momentum back again.  Perhaps in some sort of twisted way the Universe knew better than I did that I wasn’t ready for my launch??  I do have enough faith to know that things do happen for a reason.  Had I never gotten that toothache and had the tooth pulled I would have never known about the infection floating around my body and heaven only knows what could have lead to.  So, at the end of the day, I choose to just be thankful that it’s behind me, the sun is shining and a brand new week is finally here!

Laying on the couch unable to eat for almost an entire week did have an upside…I have dropped six pounds, so there is always that….always something to be thankful for, sometimes we just have to dig a little deeper to find it.

Wishing you a day of sunshine and the intentional ability to find the silver lining in spite of it all!  If the day throws you a curve ball, you can choose to let it hit you right between the eyes and knock you down, OR you can wind up that arm, stand firm and throw that baby right back!  The choice is always yours!!  Choose wisely!

Happy day to you!!!

Heather

The countdown is ON!

Oh my goodness, I ‘m less than a week away….I’ve been planning and re-planning for months promising myself that if I was really going to do this, then October 1^st had to be my kick-off date because it’s my birthday month and I’ve always felt as though it was lucky.  But that was months ago, and now it’s a mere 5 days away!!!  Okay, the good news is that physically, everything is ready.  I have created my own products, built a new website, and I have enough ideas to fill a building….a really big building.  But…am I really READY??? 

I’ve started a lot of new adventures in my life.  I’ve blown around in the wind and tried to make them work for as long as I could, but they never felt like they really fit because there was always something missing.  People who know me probably won’t be surprised by one more endeavor, after all, these are the same people who each time I start something new are the ones that feel as though they have to ask, “Is this finally going to make you happy?  Is this IT?”  Perhaps their perception of me is what used to makes me so nervous about sharing this with them.  Maybe an overwhelming fear of judgment is what got me here in the first place….in which case, that must be a good thing.  Or could it be that this slogan has resonated so deeply with me that for the first time in my life I’m not really all that concerned with what THEY think.  If that’s the case, then oh my gosh, I really DO need to share it!

Am I really crazy enough to launch what I am actually calling a campaign?  Uh…yes, yes as a matter of fact I think I am!  It’s been a long road getting to this place and a lot of the process hasn’t really been all that much fun.  But the point is, I’m here.  I’ve wanted to be at this place for as long as I can remember but I just couldn’t get the pieces to fall into place and so I wandered around….a lot!

But now everything suddenly feels different, and it has since the day the slogan Flawed is the New Fabulous leaped into my head.  It dug its heels in, unpacked all of its belongings, painted the walls a bright shade of red and just wouldn’t leave.  Oh I waited, I waited for the usual flags that told me this was another of my fleeting ideas, another turn down the same old road that has always lead to frustration and feeling as though my IT was still missing.  But the warning signs never came.  For months I wrote about it in my journal, planned everything down to the last detail and still waited to find a way to sabotage the whole plan.  Didn’t happen.  Somehow and for whatever reason, I just knew in my heart that I had to share it.

All these years of trying to figure out what I wanted to be when I grew up couldn’t possibly culminate with the launch of this campaign, can they?  Yet somehow I know with every fiber of my being that I am exactly where I’ve always hoped I would be, I am at a turning point in my life and there is no looking back.  From the drawings to the birth of the slogan, ALL the years of writing and soul searching, and driving my husband to the brink of insanity have ultimately lead to five little words with one enormous message and it feels FABULOUS to know that I will finally be sharing it!  Even that crazy voice, the voice that normally shows up ( I call her NOna, but more on her later) and tells me what a fool I am seems to have left the building and so, beyond a shadow of a doubt it seems as though I am ready!

I feel like a little girl getting ready for the first day of school….the anticipation enough to make me crazy….so excited I can barely sit still.  Yes, I am ready and if all goes as planned then Monday October 1^st is going to be one heck of a fantastic day!