Showing posts with label Life's Calling. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Life's Calling. Show all posts

Saturday, 22 August 2015

Running To – Not Running Away


ESCAPE TO VICTORY

Jonny Bealby's amazing story of travel, book writing and the events that led to him starting up an adventure travel company, all began with a tragedy.

When Jonny was 26, travelling through Kashmir, his life path took an unsuspected turn when his then soulmate/girlfriend died in his arms. Jonny was knocked sideways. So, while all his friends were getting married and embarking on a more conventional path through life, he was off riding solo on a motorbike through Africa.

His adventures across some of the most amazing and hazardous parts of the globe have inspired many others to travel and through investing energy in his travel company, he's found a calling that has brought both fulfilment and success.


In interviews with Jonny, he talks about his adventures and the inspiration taken from his many travels which inspired him to write books and in turn, how writing led on to making a TV show - things he believed, as a dyslexic, he'd never be good at doing. 


All the time he was moving further away from the path his friends were taking. By crossing continents on his own, often through dangerous parts of the world, everyone believed he was running away. And yet, when he returned to Kashmir, the very place forming the start of his altered path, he realised with his newfound success in the adventure travel industry, that he'd been running towards his calling all this time and not away from it.

Sunday, 28 June 2015

Waiting For The Call


LIFE'S CALLING

It can be a frustrating, uncomfortable and unsettling predicament to be in. Being stuck in limbo land. Searching for life's calling, having a mission or purpose and not just feeling like we're wandering though life without any real meaning is a daily quest.

Many don't ever address it. Many must really feel it, being caught up in the hamster wheel. Work, eat, sleep, repeat. It can gnaw away at us more than the daily wonderings will do on our search for 'what am I?'. This needn't be the case. We have a life's calling and we just need to put ourselves in the right state of mind to find it.

Having a purpose-driven and meaningful life is something we can all embrace if we allow it to happen. Taking positive steps to get on the right path, will lead us to discovery. It may take many years to realise the benefits of our life mission. To find and live out our true realities can be an evolutionary process. It takes patience. But, merely knowing that you're embarked on this mission is all that's needed to help bring about the very changes in ourselves that we seek to achieve.

Thinking more positively about how we can better influence our decisions in order to bring about beneficial change, will place significantly more value on every interaction we make. Because we all have a meaningful place in life. Every person we connect with, every single action - everything has an affect on those we touch. Cause and effect. These actions determine our role and the reactions, in turn - define us.