A New Opportunity

It's been a couple of weeks since I made my vision board.  There's nothing exceptional about it, I just printed off pictures that give a visual reference to several of my goals.  But there's something magical that happens when a person takes the time to make a vision board.  Suddenly those goals are there to see every day.  In my case, an opportunity to make some money came out of nowhere.  An old friend found me on Facebook, we played a little phone tag, then talked on the phone for a couple of hours, catching up on the last 15 years.  He started a small company recently, and the opportunity arose for me to help promote his company in this area. 

To most people, this seems totally random, or at best, a weird coincidence.  In my years I've come to believe that coincidence is rarely coincidental.  I've seen similar things happen before.  It's called synchronicity to those who believe in such things.  I focused my attention on where I wanted to go in life, and an opportunity I didn't expect popped out of thin air.  It's not a full time job, it's not a huge amount of money, but it's a good start and I have no idea what it might lead to in the future.  More than anything, I'm psyched on this new opportunity because it's right up my alley of interests and experience.  My big problem in North Carolina was that all my life experience didn't count for anything here.  The industries I've worked in don't really exist here.  Everyone has been pressuring me to give up my past and get some kind of low wage, entry level job.  That frustrated the heck out of me.  Then, suddenly, an opportunity in an industry I've worked in came out of nowhere.  I'm stoked.

In totally unrelated news, I've now lost ten pounds since I started walking.  I' haven't even been walking much since we had a big heatwave, but I lost another five pounds somehow.  Things are progressing, slow and steady, and that's what I'm working towards.