For any length of time!

I just came home from visiting a friend. I was saddened by what was going on with her.
After so many years with a dominating, verbally abusive partner, she didn’t know anymore what she wanted in her life or what she even enjoyed doing. Her partner left her not long ago and she is now lost as to what to do. I asked her what she likes to do. She likes to watch her favorite programs on TV. I said what else. She didn’t know. I asked again. She said she used to love baking and doesn’t do that anymore. You see, over time she had closed that part of her self down. Little by little over the years, what else did she close down?

Well for myself, is there a message in that? You bet there is…a huge message!!! I used to put my life on hold for others, literally on hold! I used to put so much effort into dreaming of business ideas for the people in my life, hoping somehow I could be there to help them. I didn’t realize along the way, I wasn’t allowing my self to open up to what I wanted.

How many of you are like that? You don’t know what it is you like to do or would even enjoy doing for any length of time. If you had all the time in the world what would you do? You are so busy taking care of this and that for others….and controlling this or that for others, that you don’t even know what it is you really want to do or enjoy doing. If you are at a place in your life where your children are grown up and gone, your partner is busy doing their own thing, what are you going to do? What will it take to get to that information within your self?