I have always been a visual person. I remember when I was studying strategies in NLP, it was evident I was visual as it appeared twice in my buying strategy!! So when I launched my business, I had an image on how I wanted my office to look. A former colleague had an office with a back white wall with white shelves and I was inspired to create something similar and personalised to me.

But a day or two before my business launch, the shelf my handy man had put up fell, leaving a hole in the wall. I was gutted! My whole image for my launch went to pots. I had a client on my launch day too and this was not how I wanted to start the next chapter of my life. My trainer who was very encouraging told me to focus on my goals and take action, so I did. I decided to move my desk to the other side of the room. Visually that would do for now!

My goal was my Coaching and Training Company and that was what I was focusing on. The back wall was just a goal within a goal. But no matter how beautiful everything else was, in the back of my mind the image of my wall was still there. I mentioned it to my best friend and we decided we would buy what I needed to make my vision come true...and remember when the time was right it would happen. I was in firm belief of having strong intentions and watching them manifest. I placed them all to one side until I found someone reliable to put my shelves up. I continued to work on my major goals; my business and my own levelling up.

Somehow, the vision of the back wall did not leave me. Now you may be thinking...seriously! But the image represented more than two floating shelves. Each item represented a part of me and was a reminder of my life goals. A 3D 2.1 gratitude and vision board. One of the things I really wanted was a Bonsai Tree. The main reason was I wanted to visit Japan for the Sakura Season. My tree was also a metaphor for growth. I remembered my Grandma would replant from cuttings so I put up a status asking if any friends had any cuttings that I could use. A kind soul responded and said "leave it to me". She sent me around 7 different seeds to grow my own trees. I followed the instructors to a T and two of my seedlings did sprout and one of them was the Sakura Tree. But they never made it in the end! I did consider if I should give up. The shelves were not going up either. So I decided to put the shelves to one side and ordered some more seeds to grow my trees. 

I lived by the principle "if you want something then you have to create a vacuum of space". Life was testing me on how badly I wanted my dream. And whilst I still held onto the old, the new needed more space to grow. I had been up levelling and working on being in my feminine energy more and more each day. My dreams were slowly coming together but I knew my current employment was stifling my growth. Ecology was important for growth. So a year and half later I decided to make the change and resigned from work.

Fast forward a few days, it was the week of my 42nd Birthday and my best friend came round to help me do our bi-yearly declutter. It had become a ritual between us and one we both secretly love. Another one of my old friends called and jokingly we laughed at what a Queen I was that I had roped one friend to declutter and another one to fix my shelves. For the world they were shelves, for me they meant much much more.

As we started to put the shelves up we realised that we needed some plaster board screws. A trip to B&Q was beckoning. I was so glad I hadn't become overwhelmed with not knowing how and focused on who could help because as we were at the counter, I had an urge to go look at the plants and there, lo and behold was a Japanese elm Bonsai Tree. So that day, nearly a year and half later, I got my dream black wall and loved every bit of it. And if you are wondering what I did with my seeds, well I asked my friend to be the surrogate caretaker to my new set of seeds until the trees began to sprout.

So...what imperfect action are you willing to take to fulfil your dreams today?