HOW IT ALL STARTED, WHERE IT IS NOW, AND WHERE IT WILL GO!

I’m sitting here, trying to find the right words to explain it all. This project has been incubating for five YEARS. This project started off in a completely different form. I had an idea for a coffee table book—there would be self-portraits and musings, and as an added extra maybe there could be these cute little quotes in card form to go along with it.

But I’m not famous. No one would buy a book of photos of me. And then, would they even care about my life lessons and musings? Probably not.

I re-examined. Shifted focus. What was a really trying to do here?

I wanted to uplift and inspire. I wanted to use my life lessons as a way for people to relate and connect and in turn grow. Yes, we’re getting closer.

I realised the thing I was most excited about was that added extra idea. The cards of quotes. But they’d be more than quotes, they’d be empowering, affirming, almost oracle-ish. Pull a card and receive guidance.

My focus became clear. THIS was the direction.

So I dropped the coffee-table book idea and set my intentions on creating a beautiful empowerment deck.

I started with over 100 quotes. It got messy. I pinned the idea, knowing that time would make things even clearer.

With a little bit of pondering and a lot of time, I had an epiphany. There won’t be one deck. There will be three.

The first one will focus on the tools needed for total self-belief. Confidence, self-acceptance, realising who we are. This one which has just been brought to life!

It’s the start of it all.

The second and third deck will see us finding the flow in day-to-day life and then, shining our bright light to guide others. I hope for a teen deck too. And maybe one more which is still ruminating.

My ultimate goal, is to stop striving for my dreams to come true and start inspiring and guiding others along their journeys of reaching for their dreams.

But for now, the first deck has been given life!

I dreamed of this.