Destination Unknown

I have, as I explained yesterday to the group of women I meet - all brilliant self employed business women from very different businesses - been playing ipod roulette recently.  Probably sounds a tad more glamourous than it is that way - ipod shuffle on a non-glam moment!  It's been really quite amazing and brought up some incredibly relevant songs for the mood or place I was in at the time.  After a day with some equally brilliant women at a session in Manchester where we dealt with everything from birth to death in very moving ways my treat was Beautiful World by Take That which seemed to sum up the day well.

So back to yesterdays treat - a Top Gun classic - Destination Unknown.  I thought about the song as I drove to the meeting and it's relevance to life as I'm knowing it.  As I explained to them, I knew what I was going to be when I was 7.  I had a great plan at 16 and at 17 entered my destination unknown phase.  No longer was I about to be a vet (latterly an equine acupuncturist - I hadn't realised that by 7, it was just a vet), I really didn't know where to go.  So I found something that fascinated me and did it.  I went to Manchester and studied Psychology and Neuroscience.  By then my horse had been treated with Homeopathy which that was great (no more sedating and steroid injections into her eyelid, or wearing pirate masks with one eye blacked out so she could go out on sunny days - hoorah!) but no idea where I was heading. 

Time passed and much as I loved my course I always knew I was alternatively bound. But where? So I went to Australia.  And loved it.  And returned.  Life at the time was 'interesting', I was sent to see my Homeopath by my mum - probably because she'd had enough!  It was my Homeopath at the time who suggested Homeopathy and that made absolute sense.  Once again something that absolutely fascinated me.

So I suppose what I'm saying is that I've ended up in an incredible place where I love what I do by no grand plan but by doing what made me tick.  I've had lots of plans along the way and still make them now, mixed in with my To Do lists, separately or verbally and whilst I do follow them to some extent I feel it's important to make your own path flexible if need be, follow opportunities that arise and feel good, and, most of all to follow your heart.