Realising My Dream

I am starting to sound like a book reviewer here. I have mentioned Bethenney Frankel's A Place Of Yes book on my blog before but I am truly thankful.  I can't help it, its true after my hypnobirthing experience Bethenney's book kept me on my path of self belief, gave me the motivation I needed.

She inspired me to chase my goals.  Helped me get to my Place of Yes, made me believe that I could and would achieve anything I set out to achieve.  No excuses anymore, no self doubt, there was only ever one person stopping me from achieving anything for myself and that one person was me.  I was standing in the way of my dreams!

I've always had a passion for real estate, love viewing homes, home style magazines, love all the tv shows around at the moment.  So it made sense to me that why not become a Real Estate Agent.  I have had this dream in the back of my head for years now but never done anything about it.  I didn't know how or if I could even do this.  Always doubting myself.

I read A Place Of Yes, slowly but surely, in baby nap times, whenever I could agreeing with each statement along the way.  So, could I actually become a real estate agent?  Yes, I sure can!  How can I achieve this?
What do I need to achieve this?  I researched and researched and found the basic qualification to start working as a Real Estate Agent is to complete a Certificate of Regsitration.  Right, this is now my goal!

To gain my Certiicate of Registration is the first step towards my dream!

I found the right course for me, online study whenever I could I would study.  I applied, got my log in details emailed to me and that was it.  I was away!  I was studying to achieve my goal. 

Its taken me a while, five months to be exact.  I've studied, completed assessments and then my final research project, all the while looking after my two children and household duties.  If I can do it, so can you!  Whenever I had a spare hour, half an hour or even ten minutes I would be studying.  Its so fulfilling, to learn something new, a real sense of achievement.

So, now here I am, with my Certificate of Registration ready to take the next step into achieving my goal.

Thank you Bethenney Frankel!

The key is to find something you love doing and building on your experience.

http://www.bethenny.com/
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It All Started With Hypnobirthing!

If you can dream it and if you want it enough, you must make yourself believe it, that you will achieve it.

Believing and understanding you can do something, educate yourself repetitively, constantly and then eventually you WILL believe in yourself that you can do it.  You Can Do It!  Tell yourself this!

Hynobirthding - Pain free labour!

I was sceptical, I was a non believer, I thought it was a rediculous statement, stupid, something that hippies did.  This was only because I didn't understand it, I didn't know anything about it.  I had my head in the clouds, a non believer in myself.

Until I started to think about it, what harm could it do?  I decided to give it a go, if it could only help in some way, the smallest way, why not?  It was something to do to keep me busy, a book to read whilst at home.

I read it, listened to the CD, enjoyed it, reread it several times.  Couldn't get enough of it, I educated myself to believe that yes in fact I may actually have the power in believing in myself that I could deliver, I would deliver, I must deliver, theres no two ways about it, the baby will be coming out.  So why not give this alternative way of birthing a go, I have nothing to loose.

If women in Africa, even in todays world, can do this, deliver a baby painfree in a field with no help, no medical support, I can do it too.  I can do it!  I can do this!  Not actually in a field!

Along with this most motivational pregnancy book and my fitness ball I will do it.  I bounced on my ball every night in the last weeks of pregnancy, ritually made myself bounce, sometimes during the day and then at night whilst watching tv.  It was fun and it was comfortable believe it or not.

The last night of pregnancy made the most difference, the most movements.  I could literally feel, as I bounced and bounced, the baby heading further and further down as though she was between my legs!  Crazy feeling, exciting feeling, but never once a scary feeling because I believed in myself.  The closer we got to labour day the more excited I got.

The next morning, my waters broke and I started with contractions.  Instead of panicking I waited, I got up, I had a nice hot shower, washed my hair, got dressed, it was lovely.  But then due to my mums panicking, you can't stop others, we agreed to go to the hosptial. Even though I instinctly knew it wasn't time, I wasn't ready, the baby wasnt ready.

We got to the hospital, got checked over and were then left with the decision to stay in hospital and wait for things to progress or we could go home and relax in my own surroundings, so we did the latter.  At home, I bounced some more, walked around some more, had breakfast and a nice cup of tea!  Up until the point I knew I was ready.

Off we went back to the hospital.  Got examined straight away and the baby was very ready to be delivered into the world.  I had thought I was only in the beginning stages of labour but I was 10cm dialated already and was soon at the pushing stage.  An hour and a half of labour and two pushes later our beautiful baby girl was born!

I was in awe, I was dumbstruck, it worked, it worked because I believed in Hypnobirthing and believed in myself that I could do this, I did it!  I did it!

And so can you!  Its all about the believing!