Thursday, August 29, 2013

We are back baby!

And here we are... Back in Australia, firmly planted in the next stage of this, my step by step life journey.  Of course it feels slightly bizarre... As expected... On the one hand it feels weird and a little overwhelming to be in the hype of big civilisation, suddenly cast out of our comfortable routines and home of the last 18 months... On the other hand it's all completely natural and like we were never anywhere else. The later is much more disconcerting.
I don't want to feel like none of it ever happened.  Don't want to just move on like it was all a colourful dream. I want to stay connected and inside the person that I became through the journey of being a CEO, a mother abroad, an expat in a developing country... I had adventures and faced challenges and I made a great success of it all I think...and I don't want to lose the parts of me that were developed and honed through those experiences.
So I keep repeating to myself..."What we think we become... I am a former CEO. I am someone who does things and does them well...." I have had almost a week of "rest" arriving, unpacking, seeing friends... Now to keep my momentum going and keep a strong sense of achievement in my life :)