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One card a week 48

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I don’t really remember when I decided to just let go of everything that was holding me back. But there is one thing I am sure of: I don’t regret it one second. My life is really simpler, more enjoyable and meaningful.

When I think about it, I realise that it was really simple and so freeing. I just follow my desires, and do what I feel I should do. And to my surprise, everything falls into place! It’s an amazing feeling: to know you are on the right path because everything goes in the same direction, or helps you to go on.

For years, I shut down this part of me. It was also the time I tried to survive, and so I guess I needed to live my life that way for a while. You can easily get caught in your everyday life, just trying to get to the end of each day without too much harm. And live one day at a time, without thinking about your dreams, without even thinking about having dreams, or desires. Just live through the day.

And a day, I decided it was time for me to stop surviving and to start to live my own life. Mine. Following my rules, my desires, my way. It was so easy, to obvious. I just made a first step and another, and another. Being confident, with this intimate knowledge I was doing the right thing.

By doing so, I live in harmony with myself, and it gives my life a whole new meaning. It’s richer, deeper, and so so exciting! Eacha nd every morning, I wake up wondering what will be the next step, where my journey will take me, and I am confident it will be a good day, as long as I listen to my self. My soul, my heart. Whatever it is that drives me on the right path. My path.

I don’t really have a goal, but it doesn’t matter. I really enjoy each step of my journey.

So here is your challenge:

One card a week 48

Quote: «Follow your dreams, they know the way.

Pattern:fili

Here are the rules of the challenge:

Each thursday, I’ll give you a quote and a pattern to play with. You can use both, you can use only one of them, it’s up to you.
You have till the next wednesday to make your card and share it with us in the facebook group (just ask to be added, and I will open the doors wide open to you )
The goal of this challenge it just to offer yourself a time to have fun with pens and cards, to ponder on words, to enjoy a ME time. We tend to forget about ourselves so easily! And sharing is such a beautiful thing to experiment in our life!

And here is my card:

One card a week 47

english-challenge

Sometimes, when you are lucky (or when you need them), words or quotes appear on your computer screen. I had his words appearing on my feed several times. I then checked on instagram and follow him for a while now. And I purchased his book as soon as I could. I am addicted to his words I guess.

He is known as j. iron word and you can find him here, on instagram.

Anyway, this week quote is one of his, and it really spoke to me, in a deep, meaningful way. In two sentences, he could put in words what I feel for a while now.

We are made from the choices we took, the people who came and went out of our life. But still, we are not confined to the limits of what our past is. We are still living, we are still learning, still growing. So our past shouldn’t stop us from being. Being who we are, who we want to be.

When we understand that, things are getting clearer, not easier but clearer. And we can enjoy all these little things we meet on our journey.

My past made me the one I am today. It taught me skills, resilience, and strength. I learned a lot on my way to today. I explored my dark side, had dark days. But I don’t regret it. because this is why I am the one I am now. The one who can enjoy the brighter side of life. I learned to have my own way of seeing things, of feeling them, and I can rely on that.

It also open the fields of infinite possibilities. I can be or do whatever I want to be or do. It freed me too.

So, what are you waiting for getting rid of this idea that you are your past? You are your now.

So here is your challenge:

One card a week 47

Quote: « You past helped make you, but it does not define you. You are on a path all your own, with a future that knows no limits. » j. iron word

Pattern: Conoor

Here are the rules of the challenge:

Each thursday, I’ll give you a quote and a pattern to play with. You can use both, you can use only one of them, it’s up to you.
You have till the next wednesday to make your card and share it with us in the facebook group (just ask to be added, and I will open the doors wide open to you )
The goal of this challenge it just to offer yourself a time to have fun with pens and cards, to ponder on words, to enjoy a ME time. We tend to forget about ourselves so easily! And sharing is such a beautiful thing to experiment in our life!

And here is my card:

One card a week 46

english-challenge

This week, I have this thought in mind: we are conquerors of Life. We always have been, it’s in our genes… We are drawn to the unknown, and we accomplished so much when… we got rid of fear.

Fear is a powerful thing. Until we decide it doesn’t matter anymore. As I probably already wrote earlier, I had ‘the luck’ to face my biggest fears. I didn’t really have a choice then… I had to step out my confort zone to fight them. I lost some battles, won others. What really matters in reality is that I DID something to face them. I took action. By doing so, I freed myself of their power over my life.

Each of us as a personal struggle to deal with. i guess it’s our main lesson yet to be learned. When we take action and so what we are most afraid of doing, we actually free ourselves from this fear, and we learn our lesson. It’s a matter of will, you know… And a bit of this ancestral power we all have within: our explorer genes talking.

When we step into the unknown, we open fields of possible, doors on possibilities we never dared dreaming of. And this gives Life a whole new meaning.

So what are you afraid of? Just do it and see where it leads you. The journey will be a full one, no doubt about it…

So here is your challenge:

One card a week 46

Quote: « Sometimes what you’re most afraid of doing is the very thing that will set you free. »

Pattern: dewd

Here are the rules of the challenge:

Each thursday, I’ll give you a quote and a pattern to play with. You can use both, you can use only one of them, it’s up to you.
You have till the next wednesday to make your card and share it with us in the facebook group (just ask to be added, and I will open the doors wide open to you )
The goal of this challenge it just to offer yourself a time to have fun with pens and cards, to ponder on words, to enjoy a ME time. We tend to forget about ourselves so easily! And sharing is such a beautiful thing to experiment in our life!

And here is my card:

Lundi

Comme beaucoup, je ne suis pas fan des lundis… Quitter mon cocon douillet et chaud pour affronter le froid, le bruit, les autres. Pas fan, non. ça requiert une telle énergie de faire face à tout ça, aux émotions et aux soucis des uns et des autres, tout en gardant ce qu’il faut pour gérer ses propres émotions. C’est frustrant, drainant, épuisant même. Pendant longtemps, je me blindais, tout simplement.

J’ai appris à doser mon blindage mi téflon (tout glisse, rien n’adhère) mi kevlar (rien ne me touche). J’essaie de comprendre, d’aider même selon mes capacités. Mais je n’attends rien, et je finis souvent drainée, sous tension après une journée de travail.

Et ce soir, il y a eu ça, juste devant mes yeux, alors que j’allais à ma voiture:

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Le vent soufflait fort, et il faisait froid. Mais j’ai décidé de me laisser porter par ce vent. Je l’ai laissé emporter tous ces moments de frustration, tout ce qui pouvait m’avoir drainée. Et j’ai laissée la lumière qui illuminait ces nuages m’atteindre. Ma journée n’était pas finie, j’avais encore d’autres choses à voir, à ressentir, à partager… Et c’est avec un large sourire que je suis rentrée, heureuse d’avoir pu vivre cette journée pour avoir eu la chance de voir ce spectacle.

Finalement, ce n’est pas si mal, le lundi…

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