What do you stand for?

I was 28 when I made the decision to leave the world of high finance behind me for good.

To be honest, I’d been searching for the courage to do it from the moment I had taken on my first graduate position. I had known right from the start that it was a world that I didn’t belong in and frankly I was tired of trying to be someone else.

Many people told me that my decision was a bold one.

When I finally made the decision to leave for good, many people told me that my decision was a bold one. I could feel their disbelief when they asked me ‘Have you really thought this through properly?’

What they didn’t realise was that I had spent the previous 7 years of my life ‘thinking it through’ and I had finally reached the stage where I was ‘through with thinking’.

I discovered that all I really needed to do was to just start living from my heart.

When you step onto the path, the Universe will test you.

All new paths come with their own unique challenges and mentally, I had moved into a space where I wanted to face them all.

I had come to realise that challenges were nothing more than opportunities for growth and rather than try and live a life devoid of challenge, I decided to embrace them to become the person I was capable of becoming.

My first challenge was unexpected.

As prepared as I was, the first challenge I had to face was completely unexpected.

In my first week of chasing my entrepreneurial dreams, I received not one, but two 6 figure city job offers, both with 20% more cash than I had been earning previously.

When I received the first offer something strange happened… I declined it without a second thought. I didn’t ask for time to consider the offer or for some else’s opinion – I just turned it down point blank. (And it felt amazing I have to tell you!)

The same thing happened when I received the second offer a couple of days later.

Those who stand for nothing, fall for anything…

One of my favourite quotes is 'those who stand for nothing, fall for anything'.

In declining the two job offers so ‘matter of factly’, what I realised I was doing was making a stand for something that was really important to me - to live a life filled with passion and meaning.

If I had taken one of those jobs, I knew that I would just be a little further along a path that I no longer wanted to walk.

Do you have a big dream living inside of you?

Many people look for the permission of others before they chase after their dreams, but really the most important permission you need to seek is your own.

By giving yourself permission and allowing your dreams to beat proudly from your heart, your life has the opportunity to turn into something quite extraordinary. And the ‘Alchemy of Work Retreat’ has been designed to enable you to do just that!

Set in a stunning valley surrounded by the Andalucian Mountains in Southern Spain, you will be in the company of people who want nothing more than to see you flourish.

If you have reached a point in your life where you are looking to connect with your true calling or would like to take your passions to a completely new level, then the Alchemy of Work Retreat could be just what you need…

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