excerpt:
Now, let me be clear about this. I made the final decision to move on with my life over the period of a week, but I made a checklist of everything I wanted, concerning my change of career, in a parking lot while sitting in my car, just before heading inside for the interview for an international sales position.
Fifteen minutes later, in the middle of this interview, my phone rang. I was completely surprised by the person calling me from Whistler, though I politely suggested my caller should call me back in half an hour. I loved the idea of the international sales job with the Miami company but wasn’t completely sure I would be comfortable spending so much time on the road. So I politely declined the offer.
When I received the call back from Whistler, I was offered the position that checked off every single box on my “must-have” list. Just as I had envisioned.
It was November 2007, and as soon as I accepted the position, I set the same intention in my mind to bring a man into my life. I began searching an online dating service in the Seattle area for a guy that might check off all the boxes on my checklist for the kind of relationship I wanted. And he appeared. There was only one thing that would stand in our way, although we didn’t know it at the time, and wouldn’t until a few months later.
I packed up everything that was important to me, filled the back of my new red Jeep Liberty, and set off on the road trip of my dreams.
Was I crazy to drive all by myself through Mexico and up the Pacific Coast of North America? Yes, probably. But I’ve always been fearless and impulsive, and maybe on occasion, you should be too!
It was the middle of November and I had no set schedule — just a destination and two weeks to get there. The longest road trip I’d ever taken by myself, before this trip, was four hours, so I was pushing my own personal limits. As Tony Robbins would say, “I was taking massive action, determined to take back control of my life.”
© excerpt from LOVE The Beat Goes On
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