This popped up today on my personal profile. I love it each year since that my memories are triggered by these reminders on FB!

This was the day, 8 years ago, that I lived my dream since my 20s and started the trip of a lifetime – to travel and solo backpack around the world for a year! To have a ‘Wow!’ a day (and I often got more than one!)

In 2015 I set off on this place to Bangkok and ended up 12 months later in Ibiza, my last stop before returning to the UK (and living yet another dream of ‘raving’ in Ibiza my final of the trio Cream in Liverpool, Creamfields in 2012 and finally DC10 where I danced all night and lunched in Cafe Mambo in Ibiza!)

On this day 8 years ago I got three identical comments from three different sources on the flight out there “nothing is impossible, anything is possible” – from my seat neighbour Lester, the book I was reading bought at the airport and the film I watched on the plane, all in the first 11 hours!

I decided that message was that I should say “yes!” to each and every opportunity I got whilst I was away. And I did.

Things I couldn’t have planned for but came my way, experiences I didn’t expect but had and a humbling experience of the many cultures, scenery, places and diversity the world has to offer – and the people who at that time gave me the boost I needed that generally people are inherently good, helpful and pleasant.

I can literally say only one person on the entire trip was grouchy and unhelpful to me personally, and I put that down to his experiences with other English people or people in general, or just a bad night (I was travelling 11 hours by train in Vietnam).

So remember, if you want it enough and are willing to trust the universe with your hopes and dreams, work hard and purposefully towards it, dreams really do come true! Mine did!

Life coaching certainly helped me. Even before I knew what one was, I had a vision board in my adult bedroom after my divorce; I helped others and followed coaching steps, had worked on my own ‘baggage’ over the years and got to know myself inside out and upside down, developed self-acceptance, self-love and self-care – and this was part of that, a need to meet and an opportunity in which I had one moment in time to choose or to lose!

Stood in my kitchen at home, having put my home up for sale due to unhelpful circumstances and a need for changes, I realised this was ‘the moment I have been waiting for for years!’ – I decided there and then to choose myself and my dream, never to second guess that choice and move forward with it!

Now I have memories, I have stories, I have life experiences and I have confidence in myself and my abilities, my strengths, my vulnerabilities and my capacity to create a life I want to live!

You can read the many other posts from that period 2015-2016 of my adventures and experiences, things I did, people I met, and tips and tools I share from along my journey here on this blog.