The exit Plan

I spent the next week ruminating about all the things I have always wanted to do, such as to go traveling, and started to question how on earth I could leave my well paid corporate job, but then I challenged myself, how could I not!?" After all, my health was on the line and I could no longer continue working like that. Otherwise, I maybe I may be forced to. I was single, no dependents, I had good savings I could reduce my mortgage and my house was very rentable so it was  fear that held me back – fear of the unknown yes but fear of the loss of the status. Unraveling the fears took time but the seed for travel was growing bigger and stronger every day.

A voluntary role with orangutans in Borneo that arrived in my inbox made the the desire blossom. I was accepted as a volunteer in 7 months time!.

I formulated a six month exit plan my job. 3 months after returning to work I had that conversation with my boss – I was resigning. They offered a sabbatical but I refused the offer as I didn’t want that cloud linger over me and what was more important I knew I didn’t want to go back. I cried in the meeting – I was not a hard nosed corporate type, I was a sensitive soul that needed heart connection, who needed to help make a difference to other people's life…the tears were relief and release that I no longer had to pretend to be something I was not. I was no longer going to be doing something that was sucking the life out of me. I wanted to LIVE my life, not just exist. Thrive not just survive!.

Just 6 month after being on the ground in that park  I handed over my pass and didn’t look back at the place that I had worked at for the last 7 years. 3 weeks later I sat in the airport with my journal, writing the first page of a new chapter in my life, the one where I listened to my inner guidance and followed my dreams. I wasn’t sure then where it would take me but I knew that it was to a place where I would be happier and feel more abundant.