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Horizons
Journal -
Taking Charge of Our Lives : Leaving South Africa
We
are moving. No kidding. After almost 23 years of being expatriates
in South Africa, particularly enjoying the last 10 here
at the beautiful Cape of Good Hope, my wife and I are relocating
to Europe. We are homesick - if you have ever been away
from home for any extended period of time, I am sure you
know what that feels like.
True
to our belief that we can create any type of life we want,
we are taking charge and doing it. We'll miss a lot of people
and things in this country, but when one door closes, another
opens and we know that there are even better things waiting
for us.
How
often have we looked out over False Bay from our house in
Simon's Town in the morning ? With a cup of tea in our hands,
we marvel at the sunrise over the Hottentot Holland Mountains
40 kilometers across the sea to the east almost every day.
I
never started counting. It wasn't important because we were
enjoying the moment, and we knew there would be many mornings
like this.
Sometimes
in season, there are whales or dolphins to watch, but most
of the time it is just the magnificent sunrise at the southern
tip of Africa. And some birds chirping in our Fynbos garden,
unless the guinea-fowl kick up a racket.
Apart
from that - peace and quiet. The comfortable stillness that
only nature provides. The content impression that this is
how everything is meant to be.
These
lines are from the introduction to my eBook
'Moving Horizons' and they still ring very true.
But we have now dissolved our household, given most of our
furniture to friends who need them more than we do, sold
the cars, parted with our two cats yesterday - and are ready
to move.
On
Monday everything will be packed and we're taking a flight
the following Monday. We'll be back regularly, for holidays
and I have work here, but we are moving our base back to
Europe - modern technology enables me to work from anywhere
in the world, as long as I have a telephone and an Internet
connection.
BLUE
CRANE and COMPASS will carry on as usual, of course - but
for the next few weeks I expect to spend less time with
the laptop so I might not be able to write as many articles
as usual.
What
I WILL do, though is keep an online HORIZONS JOURNAL with
shorter messages at the COMPASS
blog to trail my next leap in personal growth in
Europe - if you want to be kept informed, please subscribe
to the COMPASS RSS feed here
or
get it delivered by eMail :
I
found an excellent article on taking charge of your life
this week, by the way : 'What
It Means to Wake Up and Take Charge of Your Life' by
Matt Inglot. Really very interesting, here is a short clip
:
'I
was exposed there to a strange freedom that was offered
nowhere else. I read some extremely positive literature
from people that seemed … happy. This was a world that
my programming books had never exposed me to. Never before
had I seriously read about ideas like goals, personal development,
financial planning, and the idea that becoming truly successfully
was something other than luck or born talent.'
What
else is new? Steve
Pavlina's forum on personal growth is up and running!
It is very exciting and growing rapidly, with anything you
can imagine being discussed - I am contributing actively
(e.g. please see the thread for South Africa) and if there
is one thing you don't want to miss, it is this forum. Do
yourself a favour and register there, it works well and
is hugely informative.
OK,
here I go - you'll hear from me soon if you put your eMail
address in the box, don't forget - best do it now.
Until
next time, all the best from :
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