Renovations...& You??

Friday, 05 February 2010 00:00

To start the New Year, I wanted to share with you my experience of the end of 2009 going in to January 2010. I have been renovating my house…”Enough Said…! ” I hear you all say. I had not anticipated doing such a thing until one day, due to a few conversations and a few uncomfortable decisions, I sought to undertake this task. This was a Friday morning – by Monday, there were strange people walking around my house, upending furniture and leaving their mark.

Many of you will remember Mitch and I talking about your house being your sense of self. Well, did I ever experience that! As my house was being turned upside down, so it seemed was my life…in so many ways and in so many areas. I felt that people were walking through my home, not caring about it and not taking into consideration how I would feel that my house was being treated this way. I also felt uncomfortable standing up to this at times. This was representative of my life in that I felt I had given up my values and what was important to me. It was representative of the disrespect I could have for myself that I would allow others to be inconsiderate of me and not feel comfortable enough with who I was to expect others to honour my values.

Many similar lessons have come from the move to renovate my house. Most importantly of all, was that at the same time as I was moving on the outside, I was growing on the inside. I renovated myself...! As I felt sad about the state of my home, I felt sad about me. As I gained renewed pride in my home again, I become proud of me again. I found myself again, became grateful for not only the new version of my home (me) but the old as well, as ultimately, that is what brought me to this point.

I was told recently that I must feel upset at myself for being so good at teaching this but not always living it – but the truth is that we all have our moments, we all need to re-learn, re-evaluate and renovate ourselves sometimes and in that, we become the very real people that we are, using what we have learnt in ourselves to touch and inspire another and I personally, wouldn’t change those moments for the world. They don’t mean that I don’t practise what I preach, they remind me how far I’ve come and to find a way to continue to improve. They give me my life.

Here’s to moving forward in 2010 by loving every part of what’s made you YOU in all the years previous!

Love and light,

Emilia