Blossoming! What is it?

One of my dictionaries says that to blossom means to thrive and prosper. Another says that it means to grow well or develop successfully. I carried on and looked up these words as well. To thrive is to grow healthily and vigorously, to do well, to prosper, to increase in goods to be successful and to flourish. To prosper is to experience favourable circumstances or to turn out well. To be successful also means to turn out well as well as to accomplish what is attempted. When we are successful we achieve the  outcome that we wanted to have, which often means we have gained fame, power or wealth. To flourish is to grow luxuriantly or to display something in an ostentatious or showy manner. Something that is flourishing is strong, healthy and productive. Who would think that to blossom could mean so much?

Most of us would like to experience what it is like to blossom in that way wouldn't we? I cannot imagine anyone, even the most macho of men, not want to experience this kind of blossoming. Yet the reality for many of us is that we have tried to grow but circumstances, situations and even the people around us have left us stunted and diminished. We see the seeds of greatness in us but somehow they simply have not grown so we are left feeling like fruit that has been allowed to rot. We are dissatisfied stuck unhappy.

What do we do? We could try and mask it by eating too much, drinking too much or using even worse things to self-medicate and make ourselves feel more comfortable. Or we could do something to change the situation. The choice is ours. I was in a situation where I could not flourish in fact I was doing the opposite. One day I screamed at God that I was stuck and wanted to get unstuck and serve him better. He took  me at my word and arranged a series of events that led to my personal circumstances changing dramatically. The transition took time but within three years my life was unrecognisable. Things that I thought would or should never change did in ways that I never expected them to do. Finally I was able to thrive and flourish.

It felt so good to be able to be free and finally able to work towards achieving what I had been designed to do. To finally do things that will help me reach my potential.  So good that I have wanted others to experience what it is like to know the freedom of being able to do what they are designed to do. Until we are doing we are doing this we will be like round pegs in square holes bumping and banging against the sides and until to fit in. When we finally find the place where we fit we will flourish, thrive and be successful. I have started on the journey towards being successful.

Part of my journey has been to set up a system whereby I can set up online courses to share what I have learned. I spent a long time wandering around looking for ways to spread my wings and not finding out how to do so. There were places where I could learn skills that I have proved useful like how to use a computer and set up a web site. There were places where I could gain qualifications. These have been useful but they have not proved to be the whole answer. I am trying to use this system to develop courses that cover as wide a range of the factors that have helped me blossom as it is possible to do.

I am still learning some of them and improving others however I have learnt a lot that I want to share. In fact I am not hundred per cent sure that this is one journey where we think that we have reached the destination we desired to reach only to see a better destination ahead. In other words this is a journey of constant improvement. I want to invite you to come along with me on this journey.

Of course your journey is different from mine but there are things that you can learn from my journey. There again helping you on your journey so not strictly an unselfish action as it will help me make more progress on my journey because one of the best ways I have found to learn things in depth is to prepare to teach or to share with others. One reason why part of the dream of developing this course system is to enable other people to create courses.

Interested in working together so we can go forwards and become all that we both can be? Continue to have a look around this web site. Have a look at what Lily the Pink's Online Learning Place has to offer. Find out more about how we work and who has influenced us. This will help you get to know me a bit better and when you feel comfortable you are welcome to join  me on the journey towards blossoming into all that we can be.