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You didn’t choose the wrong path

Hello Beautiful,

Did you ever talk to yourself: I chose the wrong path. I wasted so much of my time. I should have chosen/started …. years ago, it’s too late now. What if I had chosen a different path...
 
I remember when I started my entrepreneurship journey, these little voices popped into my head from time to time. “Why I wasted all those years working 9-5 at big accountancy firms? I have wasted so much time and chosen the wrong path… if I had started my business years ago, things would be totally different now…”
 
But now looking back, I am much wiser to know that things that we might look at as the wrong path, aren’t the wrong path at all – they are the path. Those experiences are guiding us to exactly where we are meant to be.
 
If I can go back and tell my younger self at that time, I will say to her “No you didn’t, you are exactly where you are meant to be. You didn’t choose the wrong path, because there is no wrong path, we each only have one.
 
There is no point in spending so much time and energy talking about it, regretting our choices … Instead, trust that our path has led us here to this very moment. Right now you are exactly where you need to be. And start doing something today to allow us to align a little bit closer to our true self.  It’s not too late. It’s never been too late.
 
All your previous experiences make you who you are, make your personal brand unique, make your tribe attracted to you. It’s up to us if we are paying attention to what we are being shown along the way, and discover the hidden treasures that are exactly what we required to live our purpose and serve others we are meant to help.
 
For me, my 10 years of business background in the corporate world, and having founded several businesses and brand, social enterprise and non-for-profit organisation, gave me these experience and knowledge exactly what I need to mentor and help my clients create a brand and lifestyle they love: 

  • Branding, styling, luxury marketplace

  • Holistic, creative and personal development industries

  • Soul-led business and lifestyle creation 

  • Female startups and entrepreneurship

  • Transitioning from corporate career to business owner

  • Balancing masculine and feminine energies in business and life

  • Integrating spirituality and personal values into your business

So have you considered that what you may be searching for is already hidden right in your own backyard?

In case you don’t know or haven’t heard about the discovery of African Diamonds, here is the story as retold by the author and speaker named “Phil Callaway”.

"During the years when diamonds were first being discovered in Africa, a farmer was intrigued by the promise of great wealth. Only one thing stood in his way. His farm had to be sold before he could set off in search of the diamonds that would make him a wealthy man. At last the deal was done and he was free. Free to pursue his dream.

The search was long and painful. Trekking mile after weary mile across deserts and plains, through jungles and mountain passes, the farmer searched for the elusive diamonds. But none could be found.

Finally, penniless, sick, and utterly depressed, he took his own life by throwing himself into a raging river.

Back home, the man who had bought the farm carefully tilled the land. One day as he was planting a crop, he came across a strange-looking stone. Carrying it to the farmhouse, he placed it on the mantel.

A visitor to the farmer’s home saw the unusual stone over the fireplace, examined it, then turned to the new owner of the farm and said, “You have found one of the largest diamonds ever known to man.” Further investigation revealed that the entire farm was literally covered with similar magnificent stones. The farm sold by the first farmer turned out to be one of the richest, most productive diamond mines in the world.

One hundred years ago, Dr. Russell Herman Conwell traveled the United States telling and retelling this story. One hundred years later, we still need to hear it. You see, just like that farmer, too few of us take the time to investigate and polish what we already have. In our disappointment with the way things are, in our quest to get ahead, we fail to recognize the wealth in our own backyard. And we end up walking over untold riches every day."

You’ve been on the right path all along. The Universe is always guiding us, it is up to us to do the rest. 

And I would love to support you to find your hidden treasures, to have the business and abundance you dream yourself to have, and be the person you dream yourself to be.

From my heart to yours,

Elva