Come Walk with me- 365

Today is February 11, 2010 and it's the first day of the rest of my life. Over the weekend I watched Julia & Julia which was based on the true story of Julia Powell and Julia Childs. It was such a profound wake up call for me. Julia Powell was a temporary secretary who had never finished anything she started. What she did have was a deep love for cooking and so admired Julia Childs she set off to cook her 524 recipes in 365 days. And she made the commitment to blog about it everyday.

I wondered what it would be like to have that kind of passion, drive and commitment to do something that would literally change your life. I thought about how many projects I had started like my book, diet and even my blog only to put them aside.

On Sunday, before Super Bowl XLIV, I took a 2 hour drive out to the country and God began to download some extraordinary revelations to me. In that, two very distinct occurrences earlier in the week stood out in my mind. The first was of my dear friend being released from her job of many, many years. Amazingly, she was very excited because she was ready to move on to the next chapter of her life. I shared this with someone else who commented "it’s good she had a plan." "She had a plan" came back to me on the drive and I knew a concrete plan was the one thing I never had in my three attempts to start my business. This was one of the key factors in why I would always end up allowing someone to talk me into taking another job.

The second occurrence was a conversation between my son Reggie and I about one of his friend's who is my Facebook friend. I commented that she had uploaded some new pictures that were beautiful and it was the first time she had put one up without a drink in her hand. He asked “so what's wrong with her having a drink in her hand?" I of course replied "what's right with it, and that it is simply not ladylike." He asked me how she was supposed to know that and who was suppose to teach her that.

As these two occurrences played over in my head I suddenly knew like never before what I had to do. I had to finish what I started. I had to as my friend Jane Fonda says start living out Act 2 of my life. The thing that has been holding me back is my deep rooted need to help everyone else with their lives. Somewhere I lost my own way and on Sunday I began to find myself anew.

So, I decided like Julia to seal the deal and put my lofty goals out for all to see. And to make myself accountable I would blog about it for the next 365 days as I move to living the life I was predestined to live before I was formed in my mother’s womb. Today, I made calls to former colleagues to pursue some consulting opportunities and released myself from chasing closed doors. Today, I didn’t go out and buy diapers for my granddaughter Skyy even though there were only two in her basket. Today, I got back involved in my ZamZuu business because it just makes sense to have a residual income business that pays me while I sleep.

I believe if I step into the water and not look back to Egypt (old stuff, old ways, old methodologies,) God will part the Red Sea for me just like He did for the children of Israel.

Thanks for taking the walk with me, Day 365.