I have evolved. Now, that’s not such a brilliant observation, all of us are constantly evolving. Every second, every time we draw a breath we experience an imperceptible evolution.
That’s not the evolution that I’m talking about. I’m talking about an evolution that has become a true “turning point” in my life.
I have evolved from the woman, who with a college friend, founded the original Turning Point magazine, the one who carried on the dream when the partner who had the original idea decided (wisely, I might suggest) that it wasn’t her dream anymore.
Making the dream mine was not my evolution, it was my responsibility. Expanding the original concept from a local publication to an internationally recognized brand was not my evolution, that was a necessity.
My evolution occurred when I stopped. It occurred when I dared to stop and sit quietly and suffer the consequences of stopping and sitting quietly.
My evolution occurred when I stopped to tend to my rose garden. To get to know every one of those 13 (yes, unlucky 13) rosebushes. To realize how their heartiness is a metaphorical lesson for my life. When I watered and pruned and mulched and fertilized them they flourished. But, guess what, when I did nothing to them, ignoring them for weeks on end, and neglected to counter the days of hot sunshine with water and deadheading, they still flourished!
My lesson…sometimes we have to let it be.
To stop and literally smell the roses. That’s exactly what I have been doing the last couple of years…tending my roses! As a result, I have some beauties! A cacophony of color and varieties, each bush with its own distinct personality.
I also took time to define what I want to be when I grow up. What I want my life to be like for the next half. I did not set out to define what I want to DO, I set out to define what I want to BE.
And you know what; I found its pretty simple…at least for me. Once I stripped away all the must have’s, gotta be’s, have to go’s, my professional wants boiled down to some pretty simple stuff:
See…simple.
And, that’s where turningpointmagazine.com comes in. gives me a stripped down platform for celebrating the turning points in my life while creating a platform for others to do the same. And, by making it a community effort, guess what, it satisfies three of my four life concepts. I’m really not looking for it to satisfy the money part. Although I am fully aware that if you follow your professional passion, reward will follow, monetarily or otherwise.
That’s enough self absorption for now. No more about me. Everywhere else in turningpointmagazine.com, it’s all about you!
May God continue to bless you!
