The Intuative Year

Thiswill be my last Monday in Tbilisi for a while. Almost five months to the day wearrived here. Almost five months to the day we go home as three with our newbaby installed and downloading!

Alot of you asked how can I stay over here for five months? The answer is easierthan you think but it still took 55 years to be able to do it.

Everyyear I live my life in a theme. I think about the theme for the following yearso as to stay focused and embed that one thought.

Thisyear’s theme was a theme that revolved around breaking restraints and thattheme was ‘intuition’.

Tolive an intuitive life meant that a few things that felt like a risk would haveto be taken. The big one of course was to sell everything we had in Englandknowing we would be coming back home when we were ready and then as good asstart again. But to be intuitive I wanted to do that and my darling wife asalways supported me.

Theother thing that does it creates a more detached approach to life. This meansit is easy to let material things that rust and break go and then replace themwhen ready. Don’t get wrong I like things like my car or other gadgets but it’salso easy to let them go and never feel defined by things that surround me.

Thereis another thing of course; how do you continue to you live and earn money whilstbeing in a totally foreign land?

Assyou know I used too have shops and other businesses that meant I would be stuckin an office, on a shop floor or behind a desk writing for clients. Today I stillget paid by clients of course but in the 90s I could see that if I could run mybusiness from a computer that would mean I no longer needed a fixed station butjust a computer and web access.

Inthe early days of the Pentium 90 and dial-up that was never that easy. As timehas passed it has never easier to get a business running from a computer.

Iconsult over Skype or WhatsApp so that isn’t an issue regardless of where I ambased. The other big issue I had to overcome was the business of buildingwebsites, hiring tech guys or upgrading plugins that would throw my websitesout again.

Iwanted everything more intuitive and that is what happened this year. Theresults for me have been phenomenal. Apart from finishing and publishing yetanother new book I am well underway with another two new books and busy with myown private client schedule.

Idon’t think if we didn’t go intuitive this year anything of this would have takenplace. I t would have been an endless repeat of sitting at my desk and sloggingaway.

Nowof course when we get back in a few day’s time it’ll be full on. New house, newcar, new furniture and of course the love of my life has given me at 55 a newchild that I have never felt so excited about in my whole life.

Thisfor me is good. The new things are new challenges, the new challenges exercise mymind and if my mind is healthy I can always push forward.

Sowhy am I sharing this with you?

Thefear of a big challenge like this is a fear that is designed to stop manycreating a life they desire. Yet you have to know what you really desire andask yourself are my actions in harmony with my desires. I thing one thingholding me back at the end of last year and the start if this year we boredomand the ties to expectations of routine. So I took it by the neck and shatteredthose ties.

But

Ionly did that once I had planned ahead a little to make sure everything was inplace to make this possible.

Lifeis a one-time event and there is nothing wrong with asking yourself is yours alife that is giving you and others what you want to give?

If not what are you willing to change?

Peace

Alan Forrest Smith