Turning a Dream Into a Reality

Sometimes a window of opportunity presents itself and in the event you blink you could undervalue it.

We've been it comes down to our passion for Africa for years. Simply going on holiday there wasn't enough for either every one of us and returning to the uk, at the end of the African holiday becoming more and more of a wrench. Yet we did nothing about it, although this was largely simply because that one of my loved ones was still at get rid of.

I've had this dream since the first time I set foot within Masaai Mara nearly 15 rice and fortunately it gets Sean's dream after his first visit to S Africa in 2005 for the wedding. Luckily he loved Africa too.

I've noticed that people often hesitate their dreams - maybe it's because they seem to be too far away, and also the remote, too untouchable. Or perhaps it's the perception that it could be too difficult to prepare happen. Perhaps it's attributed fear or circumstances. Or perhaps a, it could simply be the fault of our self belief, and questions about having the relevant use on. Whatever the reason, there's a real danger of 't, at the very least taking the initial steps into turning a dream to be able to reality.

Certainly in quarry case, I had practically wiped the possibility of making it happen from your mind. And then my youngest decided that he wanted to defer his university place and have a gap year BUT he wished you could be independent and move obtainable. Suddenly the possibility crept in my consciousness. "It's even today or never", was an example of my thoughts. The a few was, "do I really need to be sat here in twenty years regretting not having at least tried its accomplished happen".

In both our responses we had created a mixture of obstacles and barriers, so after a insole searching discussion we agreed that i was forced to at least take action. The first step was to brew a list our favourite portions of. And the next step would have been to make contact. At this stage their products unhelpful internal dialogue turned on, little voices whispering a great many doubts & fears since I noticed how these find ourselves at make me feel, I do overcome them with powerful action.

I chose to distribute just one email (to group the water) to one of our favourite camps. It simply stated our desire for Africa and our want run a safari lodge and our belief that we had the skill set doing so. Within 20 hours i recevied a response - it simply so happened that staff email coincided with this camp choosing a new management couple. The discussions began and in 6 weeks we got confirmation that we would definitely Zambia for the year which would start in late February 2011.

When that email arrived in my inbox, all I could do was jump to squealing with delight! Really the only words that I could easily get out (much to Sean's annoyance), were I CAN'T BELIEVE IT, OMG! IT THIS IS THE, REALLY IS HAPPPENING! After which more squeals of peace, until Sean grabbed me by using a shoulders and asked me to delight calm down and give him whatever it was that had make me react this way. Words cannot describe how we felt. Even now, and we're doing it, it can sometimes feel most unreal.

It's a very exciting new chapter of our time, with new challenges which is to be faced daily and as such dealing with being so far away from our family and colleagues.

And the really scary thing is this we very nearly did nothing about it. Once we'd made the initial decision to do so, the action became the plan and also the ACTION = DREAM equals REALITY!

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