Follow your dreams

Wow! Time flies. Over two years have past since I started this blog, posted one article and then never wrote again! I guess it's been a busy couple of years. As a working mother of three children, trying to build a business, there have been some highs and lows over the past two years to say the least. Looking back now, yoga has helped me through all of these ups and downs and I feel so blessed to have that kind of outlet and grounding force in my life. Over the past couple of years, I have had moments where teaching yoga has seemed like too much trouble to keep up; taking time away from my kids or from projects at work that I really needed to get done.

So, when I got an email telling me that I would have to pay the $200 annual fee to keep my website active, I contemplated not paying. I was so busy with work and the kids, trying to move forward in my career and help my son catch up at school, that yoga seemed like an irresponsible thing to be spending my time on. With only a few days left to pay the money or lose my website, I had just about decided to give it up, when I got a phone call. It was from a lady in town, whose business it was to help other women start their own businesses. Talk about timing. It was a weird conversation that lasted almost an hour! When I first answered the phone, she seemed like any other parent, just interested in having private yoga instruction for her young boys. We set up a time and date for yoga but then she started asking weird questions about my business and my life in general. Being a pretty open person, we had a lengthy conversation in which I told her my issues in trying to start my business while trying to balance family and work etc. It was then that she told me what she did for a living and suggested ways in which I could improve my business while working, so that eventually I could transition to yoga full time. It seemed a little far fetched that it could ever happen but never the less, that was my dream.

I don't really remember much of the conversation but I am so grateful that she called. We never did do any yoga. My guess is that she called to sell her services to me, not for yoga classes! It wasn't what she said in that conversation, it was just the coincidence of her calling and telling me to have confidence and follow my dreams right when I was giving up on them. It was enough to make me pick up the phone and pay the $200 to keep my website up and running. Almost immediately more people started calling for yoga. Not enough so I could quit my job, but just enough to make me think, maybe this could work after all. Six months later, here I am doing yoga full time and loving it! Funny how things works themselves out.