Seeing it through - don’t let go of your vision.

Stay the distance, go the path, do the things, keep your vision clear.

I had a dream to live in my tiny house while I looked for land, and I kept coming back to the area that I now call the Valley of Joy.

I had the vision clear of the kind of land that I wanted to be custodian of and I kept waiting for the right piece to come up for sale in order to settle down.

I kept coming back to the area of Wollombi and Broke and I think the indigenous history here (I pay my respects to Wonnarua and Darkinjung people), the amazing bushland here, the native animals, the creatures, the general habitat always attracted me.?

I had a vision about how the tiny house would be and how people would come and gather here, and they would also feel healed and whole from being in the serenity and peace of this place.

I always envisaged a fire pit where people could sit around, look at the view and have a yarn.

Over the past week or so, that’s what we have been creating.?

I want to thank the community that helps make things like this become a reality. It is magnificent, and the view from it is exactly how I had always imagined it in my mind's eye. A place for gathering, a place for people to sit around and have a yarn.

While it's not finished yet, I can truly start to see the picture that I've held in my mind for the last four or five years.

If you have a vision of something that you want to become a reality, stick to the path, stay with it, keep focused.

I read the book “Surrender Experiment” by Michael Singer a good seven or eight years ago after my dear friend Tracy introduced me to it.

I read his life story and how he had created this amazing life where he lived in the woods and had a little meditation, prayer temple.

He lived in a little cabin much like a tiny house. He ran a multi, multi, multi, million dollar IT firm that handled medical appointments for medical centres and doctors, and he did all that from his amazing little woodland place.?

That struck something in me.?

That’s when I knew this kind of life was possible. A meeting of two, a blending of business and lifestyle, moving between the boardroom and the bush.

It's how I came to first come up with my vision of the life that I now live.?

I'm truly blessed to live here on this land, and I've also worked for it. I stuck with my vision and didn't let it go.?

I have often been impatient for it. I wanted it now, then the weather and floods came, parents illnesses and loss. It all just got in the way sometimes, but I never ever lost sight of that vision.

I still collected pavers and bricks and I still cleared land and did the work to get ready for it.

Don't let go of your dreams, hold true to them.?

Paint the clearest picture you can of them in your mind because there's nothing as juicy as turning and looking and going, “That's what I had in mind, that was my dream, and here it is. Now I can drink it in.”

What's your dream now??

Is it a clear picture??

What does it look like?

Do you want to grow your own veggies too??

Maybe you have a dream of a career, or family, or sailing around the world.

Whatever it is, I believe in you. I know you can do it. Stick to the path.

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