Raw & Vegan

photo by Clearly Ambiguous

My focus for 2009 is going to be Transformation, across all areas of my life: career, mind-body, family and home.  This focus primarily came about during the Embracing Life! retreat I attended in October. With my mind clearing through the juice fast, I finally realised something I had always known – there’s bigger and more important things that I must do in this lifetime! And rather than be part of the ‘machine’, I want to be my own entity!

My passion is spreading knowledge though words and actions.

A few months ago I sat down and pondered the question – what is my purpose in life? After listing my skills, habits, morals and beliefs, positive and negative aspects of my personality, the one thing that stood out was my core belief in spreading knowledge through words and actions.

This has manifested in my current career as an educational technologist, where I saw the internet as an amazing resource that could be used to share knowledge and skills, and reach people who may have not been able to access such resources previously.
As my career has progressed, the focus has turned on maintaining systems and troubleshooting technical problems rather than helping people and exploring the possibilities of the medium. I have tried to find a balance between the two, but my passion and drive in this area had slowed down as politics, problems and people have made me too cynical to progress.

It has been approximately 7 years that I have been following this particular path, which interesting coincides with the concept that our cells rejuvenate every 7 years, as does our emotional and physical selves. A very interesting article about this cycle from a Steiner perspective is Every cell in your body is changed over a seven-year period. Does your personality change too?

Within a month of turning 28, I started following a raw food lifestyle, 100% for the first six months and high raw since. The change broke through the barrier I had built up using junk vegetarian foods and weight gain, and I began to see the world less cynically. The article noted above says of the 28-35 year old cycle “that if there is an inspirational influence at work in the life, it would possibly reach its peak during these years” and we begin to determine “what is us”.

If only we were given at manual when we were born, which says – “everything’s a phase”!

photo by =Mr+G=

I am turning 30 this year, and I want this year to be big. My twenties feel lost, I have been overweight and overall unhappy the entire decade - but it has been a decade of lessons. Now is the time to take those lessons and do something with them, allowing my true and authentic self to blossom.

2009 will be a year of transformation with the changes that have been building up for the last few years coming to fruition. I can see the possibilities, envision the future, and I now believe it is achievable.

Over the next few weeks I am going to set myself some challenges, each one a step to achieving my overall goal of transformation.  You’re invited to take part in these challenges also - more information is coming this week.

I’m excited - 2009 is going to be a great year!

~Kate