“Hola! Soy Peruana. Tengo solo dos Soles!”

*delay post pre-MachuPicchu

“If you don’t disable your past….you will never enable your future” – Dr. Mark Temperato

So here I am sitting in Charles de Galle Airport in Paris, France. (as opposed to Parys, … Freestate It is good to be in Europe. The coffee somehow seems to be more precious and the croissant fluffier. (The fact that they are both smaller in volume and four times the price probably has a lot more to do with my sudden penchant for French cuisine – or perhaps as a South African we live life LARGER> I like! 

I am on my way to spend my holidays with ‘Mi Amor’, my love. My Fabiana; who for some reason better known to the universe lives in Lima, Peru. I havent seen her in 7 weeks. Man do I miss her! I miss her so much in fact that I am travelling from Jozi, via Paris to catch a connecting flight south again to Peru. a 22-hour round trip. 

I make it sound as though it’s a burden. It is most definitely not. I am loving the adventure, the downtime, the fact that I will see her soon, fall more in love, experience a new culture and time-out. Being out of SA always brings with it amazing new people, new energies, perspective on “possible” and In the end I realise some pretty simple uniersal truths:

1. For south African’s – traveling globally is NOT a cheap exercise. 
2. The world over, human beings are united in the fundamental need for love, connection, a sense of belonging and meaning. 
3. I still carry part of my past. In that I am not alone.

Crowded House nailed it with their classic song “Everywhere you go, always carry the weather with you …” It seems that looking back, I still carry things. A lot more than I would care to admit as a 37 year old male. So how honest do I get to be? How much am I not telling you , or more precisely, how much am I not telling myself. Here goes … step #1

Money! It scares the living daylights out of me! Not making it. It is the flow of it. Building LIFESTRUCK has been four years of blood sweat and happy tears. I have lived with the anxiety of uncertainty. So much so that it has become a necessity for operating in my daily life. I seem to create it. Perhaps I am am being a little melodramatic here. Or perhaps not! Sure there have also been moments when I did not know how i was going to make it to the end of the month, that is life. Ironically though the solution it all only came about when I got out of my own way that LIFESTRUCK gathered momentum and wind beneath its wings to fly. So the million dollar question would be how do I magically change my thoughts? Change my energy? Change my direction. It is a daily realisation and practice. A decision.

I physically have to stop. Sit and breathe. I have to remind myself of what it is that i do. Of my journey and how grateful I am for where I have been. I have sat at the bottom and looked up.

My journey inspires others and for them I will take the next step forward and JUST PUSH PLAY! Not because of it all but in spite of it all.

So here’s to living in uncertainty and knowing that “We must be willing to let go of the life we planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us.” (Joseph Campbell)

And of course heres to the universal realisation of being human! Here’s to love, to Paris (The Eiffel Tower is to far from here for me to be affected to flying to Peru and being in LOVE. To living with the perfectly imperfect reality of cash flow. Of inspiring change and well-being. To growing, living and being you. To having fun!

Here’s to you!

Be well? well, just be.

JUST PUSH PLAY!

You rock!

Stu

Today’s quotes:

“All is well, and you will never get it done. Life is supposed to be fun. No one is taking score of any kind, and if you will stop taking score so much, you will feel a whole lot better – and as you feel a whole lot better, more of the things that you want right now will flow to you. You will never be in a place where all of the things that you are wanting will be satisfied right now, or then you could be complete – and you never can be. This incomplete place that you stand is the best place that you could be. You are right on track, right on schedule. Everything is unfolding perfectly. All is really well. Have fun. Have fun. Have fun!” – Esther Abraham-Hicks

“Dream as if you’ll live forever, live as if you’ll die today.”- James Dean

“Consider how much more you often suffer from your anger and grief, than from those very things for which you are angry and grieved.” – Marcus Antonius

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