Discovering Your Path

I don't believe our teen years are when we should be deciding on our life-path/career.

What life experiences have we had in those few short years?

In my opinion, not enough to know what we will become, (although there are exceptions to this).

Some children are born knowing what their path is and they spend their childhood acting out their future. Unfortunately, this isn't so for most people.

With my kids, I suggest to them, instead of deciding now what they wish to be, they should be creating opportunities for prosperity and abundance while they continue to grow and gather the life experiences that will assist them in seeing their path.

My daughter, who is now 16 years young, is focusing on becoming a snowboarding instructor for the winter months and a swimming instructor for the summer. She has a desire to learn about aromatherapy, so she's home schooling herself in this art. Reading books and acquiring knowledge from other people, she is teaching herself, with the understanding that when the time comes to take an actual course to pursue this dream, she may have discovered she has a new path presenting itself to her instead.

She also has some skills which will assist her in earning money while she learns her trade (whatever it may be). Having the ability to work a job that has very flexible hours will always benefit her. Like hairdressing out of her home, massage, teaching swimming lessons or life guarding, or even becoming a tutor for other homeschoolers!

She isn't closing any doors. Instead, she's focusing on opening as many windows as she has desires at this moment. Touching and tasting as many experiences as she has time for, to assist her in gathering life experiences while she slowly matures into a woman.

It took me over 30 years to discover my path, my passion. Teaching, enlightening, assisting others is my path; and while I am fulfilling this part of myself, the Goddess has blessed me with another avenue of teaching.

Writing is a gift school never taught me. Well, I learned the basics but always had failing marks in my English classes....if my teacher could see my life now! I'm sure she would wonder where the words were flowing from since I never seemed to be able to tap into them back then.

My life was miserable when I was a teen. Opening myself up to the flow wasn't possible for me then. Keeping myself from self-destructing was all I could manage. So school didn't do much for me at that time in my life.

I have learned so much since leaving school and living life. My soul-mother, Maggie has taught me the art of editing, as she is a professional editor herself. Getting me a "that sack" to put my endless "thats" in, was a gift unto itself. Did you know the word "that" is pretty much unneeded in most sentences… and yet so many of us use it in almost every one?

Learning does not stop when we turn 18. In my opinion, that's when the real learning begins!

So, rather than focusing on what you want to be when you get out of school...focus on learning a trade that will allow you to financially sustain yourself, while you are awaiting your path to reveal itself to you. Focus on learning your lessons, life lessons, so you don't have to repeat them over and over again. Allow yourself to exist in the now instead of focusing on tomorrow. Today is the only day that truly matters. How are you living yours?

If you ask around, you will find most people who have found and live their path didn't make it happen, it just did. An opportunity presented itself to them and they chose to pursue it and voila! they found their path opening magically before them with the greatest of ease. Our purpose isn't difficult...it's natural. So when you find it, you know it!

Focus on today, live life with great happiness and watch as the Goddess unfolds your path in front of you. Remember, if you are too busy looking back at the path you have already walked, or jumping up to see the path in the future, you may miss the gift of this moment and the path that is presenting itself to you.

This is what I try to teach my daughter. She doesn't have to decide on her career right now, she merely has to allow it to unfold.

Above all, enjoy today!

In light, Aleesha Stephenson

By Aleesha Stephenson