It’s a sunny Saturday morning and I am feeling myself. My hair is perfect. My skin is glowing and I am wearing the cutest golf outfit. I’m at my golf lesson at a  club in Essex and my coach is helping me perfect my swing. 

I really enjoy my coach’s way of teaching. It’s holistic. Less about what you should do and more about: ‘let’s work with your body to find a swing that feels good, using your senses such as feel, intuition and visualisation.’

So back to the swing, I’m putting in some great ones. You can clearly see my improvement from the last lesson, so my coach challenges me to tweak my swing to generate more power. 

I implement the change…. and the ball doesn’t even leave the ground. It skids across the grass. At least it went in the right direction. Externally? A crap shot. Internally? I felt free, exhilarated. My heart fluttered with excitement. The swing felt great. 

I wasn’t pulling my arms back like I used to, afraid of my own strength. I trusted my body. I knew she knew what to do. It was a fantastic swing and yet the results such as how the ball moved did not reflect that. My coach smiled and said ‘Great swing’

So what was the problem?

Absolutely nothing. Change is hard. It’s messy and unpredictable. It’s never clean-cut. It’s foggy. Often you can’t see where you’re going, but you know where you want to go.

Change is not linear. And it’s scary because the changes you make, whether forced or voluntary, rarely reflect immediate results.

Change is about growth. And growth is always uncomfortable.

Though change brings growth, it also invites faith. faith in the unseen.  Faith in a Higher Power/Source/God/Creator, your Higher Self which is you. 

Why am I so uncomfortable with change? 

Because it requires you to have Faith in the unseen when you’re also seeing destruction. 

It requires you to surrender and allow the creator to do what she does best; Create in your favour. 

We live in a society conditioned to fight change. Taught to fear the unknown because it disrupts the status quo. But surrendering is the way to fight and win. 

Much like that swing, my experience with change in business was just as messy. A year ago I decided to quit a business I had built from scratch. I fought for it for 3 years. I hired mentors. I pivoted. I refused to let it die. Until one day, I’d had enough. I told the Universe, “Okay. I’m listening. I’ll close the business.” And with a heavy heart I did just that. 

Around that  time, I discovered Daryl who channels Bashar. In one video, Bashar said; “Do what feels more fun, even just a little more fun than what you’re doing now.” So I did. Instead of lying in bed, crying and eating Ferrero Rocher, I decided to learn how to make bread. 

Change involves stepping into the unknown

Bread making helped me surrender. It helped me to mourn, accept and let go. 

It created space for  abundance without a job. By the end of the year I was offered a role  I didn’t search for. One that gave me everything including the flexibility to continue to home educate my son. 

Someone paid for me to attend a course. Someone else bought me a car. My children received scholarships and went on holidays. Through it all, I only took one step at a time, and yet, I felt  complete peace. 

I trusted the process. I had faith in myself because I’ve never let myself down. I had faith in the Creator, because everything always works out in my favour. 

So yes, change is hard. It’s scary. And yes sometimes it demands that you let go of what you’ve been clinging to. But that’s only because something better, something greater is waiting on the other side. 

Maybe it’s the very thing you’ve been asking the Universe for. But first you have to release what you think your dreams should look like and trust that the universe is conspiring on your behalf. 

I dare you to lean into the unknown.

Sage x

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