When Things Speed Up in the Best of Ways

Words I hear myself saying often are good things take time.

Of course, this could just be my own belief and if I wasn’t so human and got in my own way sometimes, good things wouldn’t have to take time. Life can manifest wishes in a moment. I’ve experienced it that way too, but usually around things I have much less attachment to.

Generally, good things do take time because we have to grow into our readiness. In the process of allowing the good thing to land, we dissolve resistance, work through fears, feel our way into the results we want, imagine the worst and heal those thoughts, imagine the best and heal the doubts. We let go, we hold on, we let go, we hold on! It’s a ride.

Sometimes it can feel like all you ever do is imagine the dream. It may seem to go on so long that you even wonder if it will ever become your reality. The vision feels so familiar that it’s almost impossible for it to still be just a dream. You often live it more than your real life.

The frustration can make you cry. Then you let go and trust. You hope. You get excited. You feel your way into it once again. Then you grow frustrated. You cry again. You let go once more. Then after the release, you find trust. And again, hope. You get excited. You feel your way into it. And on it goes.

Somewhere in there, you return to the present as often as possible so as not to miss your life in the process. And in that space, when you’re not paying attention, the dream lands with such ease that you wonder how you could have ever doubted it.

I’ve experienced this cycle myself plenty of times, as well as witnessed it in others.

This fortnight, my dream started landing.

The journey to living on my wild acreage has been incredibly challenging, as any huge dream is. But things have shifted gears into the final stretch. The installation of the solar system was brought forward six weeks from the date I was told. The other services that were waiting for that to be completed have lined up brilliantly, as well. So it’s suddenly all systems go.

It has been almost two years of managing so many details that my brain has wanted to explode a few times. Thankfully, I know myself enough to have created pauses in between to resist the potential of overwhelm (although I didn’t escape it completely – I almost sold up and quit along the way!).

If we want to see our dreams land without killing ourselves in the process, leaving space for pauses in between is a necessity. That’s a part of why good things take time.

At the right time, the flow quickens. And it is a flow. There’s no panic, just one step landing after another in its perfect sequence.

Things do change, often when we least expect them to. We can’t force them, but we can certainly choose our focus when things get hard along the way.

We either wallow in a pity party or we accept that the challenges are happening for us, not to us, and so we take from them what they’re trying to teach us.

More often than not, any challenge is trying to release us from parts of ourselves that no longer serve us.

So, life is changing for me and I’m enjoying and allowing that.

More than anything, I am being as present as possible in this transition into my new chapter of life. I am committed to regret-free living, which includes the joy of breathing in the landing of the dream while it’s actually happening.

I’ve cut back on a lot of my work, particularly my interview schedule and am pausing the final round of edits on my novel for now until we’re fully settled in.

I’ll still record some of the transitional moments along the way for new vlog episodes to come. It’s too beautiful out there not to!

Even if good things do take time, they still happen. I hope that by sharing my journey with you through the vlog, you see that although creating a regret-free life can be incredibly hard at times (and make you almost want to quit), if you keep following your heart and dare to trust in life, the dream does land in its own good time.

It takes so much courage to see the big dreams through, but like I’ve said many times - based on my experience caring for dying people - it will never be as hard as dying with the regret of not having tried.

There is power in readiness and timing.

When they align, no matter how long it takes to get to that point, the pace at which things can then change is phenomenal. It’s also when all the hard feelings get replaced with excitement.

Never lose hope – and choose your focus well.

With love,

Bronnie.

PS. A little about my novel that I mentioned in this newsletter, it’s now up to its final edits. This is a fabulous feeling. I love the characters dearly and where their journeys have taken them. From the point of completion to going out into the world can still take time … because good things take time!

There are a lot of steps in the publishing process. But I look very forward to updating you on the journey of this work later this year. Stay tuned! In the meantime, if you’ve not read my other books, check them out here.

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