I met with a coaching client yesterday. A co-worker had told her about my work with her when she was getting ready for a keynote presentation and had suggested we connect.

We did and in giving, I received.

When I left our session I felt enlivened, on purpose, focused and energized. And she was feeling confident about her capacity to create the next steps in her presentation. We meet again next week to move it forward — and I feel excited about what she’s doing, and creating and my capacity to provide insight on her journey towards her presentation. A win/win for both of us!

And I learned something very important.

Making a difference is easiest when I feel ‘on purpose’. When I am using my gifts to create better, I feel better!

Yesterday I put the final touches on a course I’ve created called, Write Your Heart Out! A poetic guide to falling into love with you, your life and everyone in it.

The course consists of 21 Practices that deepen your creative expression of who you are in the world.  Writing this course has made a difference in my life. It has clearly demonstrated how when I put my attention on something it grows stronger in my life — It’s not just the fact that putting my focus on creating the course resulted in a finished product yesterday. It also means my understanding of Love and my belief in myself, as well as my understanding of my purpose in the world is stronger.

I started to create the course after realizing how powerful the process of writing my beloved a poem a day was in my life and our relationship. One lesson lead to the next and there I was yesterday, with 21 lessons completed, photos inserted and a finished product in my hands. Now the work of getting the course ‘out there’ begins.  And yes, I am plugging it here!  My very first official plug of Write Your Heart Out!

Which is also something I’ve learned that makes a difference in my life too — believing in the work I do, what I create and its place in the world.

Within me is that inner voice that believed ‘the world will come to me’ which sometimes translates itself into believing — the world owes me, now get over here and make my life happen.

The Universe doesn’t work like that. True. The Universe is always there. Always present. The Universe is on my side. It wants me, needs me, to succeed. And while the Universe is doing its job of being present, it’s my responsibility to turn up. To let the world know I’m here. I mean business. I am serious about being real, about being authentic and true and who I am. I am not playing small. I am not hiding my light. I am shining!

Shining is in all of us to do. Dimming our light shades our brilliance.  And when we are not sharing our brilliance, we are playing small — Life’s too short to play small.

Write Your Heart Out! is a labour of Love. It is up to me to continue expressing it. Which means — it’s up to me to ensure I have a marketing plan that will provide a path for getting it out into the world. It means ensuring I have materials put together that are compelling enough to inspire someone to put up their hand and buy the course. It means — getting real.

Making a difference means exactly that. I am real serious about being real in the world — in all facets of my being.

Right now, that means getting serious about what I do next with Write Your Heart Out! 

Watch me fly!

But first, watch this space for the details to come on how you can Write Your Heart Out!