Give Yourself Permission to Recalibrate!

Happy day to you, my friend.

Welcome to my inaugural post! This has all been a lonnnng time coming. The whole lot of it. I finally have a website that I feel matches who I really am. From the colors to the simplicity, all the way to the categories and menu titles, it’s finally all really me. I have been on a quest to discover who I am for such a long time–it feels really good to finally make progress in that area! This will be a future post, but it really helps me segue to the point of this post!

Recalibration.

Have you ever felt like things were just off? Have you ever felt like things just don’t make sense? I have spent much of my life in that boat. Though the last few years I’ve finally felt like I’m out of the boat and on dry land. So you can imagine my surprise when out of the blue I suddenly felt like I had put a foot in that boat again.

This, my friends, is when we need to admit to ourselves that we need recalibration.

Google defines recalibration this way:

Calibrate something again or differently, taking external factors into account or to allow comparison with other data. There are going to be times when we need to recalibrate. These are the times when we just need to start again. Let’s get back on the same horse and let’s get right back on that path we were just on. It’s possible. We can do this.

Then other times we’re going to need to get on a different horse because the one we’ve been on is stubborn and lazy, and spends most of his days eating a lot of grass. He can’t be trusted, y’all. So let’s set him free and get on the Mustang. Let’s get on the horse that’s going to take us in the direction we want to go (and are meant to go) as fast as possible.

And can I just say something we all probably need to hear right now?

There’s no shame in admitting we need a change.

Zero. Zilch. Nada. Nope. NO SHAME. I don’t care if this is the 15th horse you’ve tried, or the 900th time you’ve gotten on that same blasted horse. Do it. Just do it (like Nike) and keep moving forward. One inch forward is still one inch forward.

While we’re discussing inches and measurements, can we just please stop comparing our journeys to anyone else’s? Seriously. It’s completely unproductive. My inch of growth is completely different to anyone else’s inch of growth. I might see victory in the fact that I drank enough water today, while someone else sees victory in running a marathon today. We are not created the same — we have completely different DNA and fingerprints — so why would we even humor the idea that our growth would be equal as well? She sees pink, I see blue. He dreams of technology and she dreams about finding a cure for cancer.

We are not all the same, people.

So let’s stop trying to be, okay?

Dare I say this? Okay, yes. I dare.

Let’s stop spending so much time comparing growth, and let’s redirect that energy towards discovering who we truly are. Only then will we really come alive the way we were designed to.

I truly believe if we could just let go of all the expectations — all the things we think we need to be — and just really truly discover what it means to be 100% ourselves, we would find the contentment and happiness we’ve alllllll been searching for.

Can I be honest again? Well, it’s my website, so the answer will ALWAYS be that I can be as honest as I dare to be around here. 😉

I got fired yesterday. It was the first time ever in my whole life that I was LET GO from a job. I take my work very seriously. I respect authority and try very hard to keep my word at all cost–sometimes to my detriment.

But yesterday a company rejected me. They told me I wasn’t good enough, that my work wasn’t good enough. And if I’m honest, I started to let it make me feel like —>I<— wasn’t good enough.

That’s a lie, by the way. Anything that tells you that you as a person aren’t enough, that’s a lie. That’s another blog post, but today I’m here to tell you that I’m using this situation, this “being fired” situation, as a launching pad. Instead of rejection, I’m seeing this as a promotion straight from Heaven. (And I’m glad that I chose to see this that way, because I found out later that the company has a history of firing people before they can be promoted in their company–and I was on the verge of promotion there. ;))

Because the truth is that I’ve been working on this website and this wellness business behind the scenes for a really really long time, but I’ve been too scared to launch it. But my passion to see you and your family healed — mind/soul, body, and spirit — is so strong, that I can’t sit back and watch you suffer anymore. So on this day, August 5th, 2017, I hereby close the door on what’s behind me and JUMP out the window to what is next in my life. I have no idea where the provision is coming from. I have no clue if anyone will even read this little space of the internet (mind/soul), or if you’ll be interested in the Young Living oils that have changed my family’s lives for the better (body), or if you’re ready for FREEDOM in your innermost places (spirit). But you know what? I was. I was ready for all of it, and now I’m THRIVING in those areas. So stick around if you want to see the fruit, or if you want to learn how to get through things like getting fired, because I’m going to teach you.

This website isn’t even close to done, and it will forever be changing. It will never ever be perfect, because perfection doesn’t exist. So instead of waiting for all my ducks to be in a row, I’m jumping into the water with my clothes on and who cares where the ducks are.

I’ve had new life breathed into me over the last 3 years and I’m ready to breathe that out onto you now.

Are you ready for a recalibration?

Be brave.
~Nikki