We are rapidly rolling into the weeks where the world (or most of it) takes time away from its usual activities to wind down and celebrate.  We take holidays at this time of year and for a few brief days, change our focus and hopefully experience rest, peace and contentment.

We don’t normally want to think about much of anything else.  I heard it this a.m. when talking with a business friend, “just call me after the first of the year!”  I feel that way as well, but of course don’t have that luxury (ha)!

Yesterday I began sharing about our “hidden factor” or the potential within each of us that clammers to get out. 

Our intuitive nature is our ‘6th sense’ and it matures over time.  In the maturity process are the seeds of understanding as to our ‘hidden factor’ - the dream, vision, purpose and potential that has been waiting for the right time to emerge.  Like a butterfly emerging from it’s cocoon!

It can’t happen in the 1st half of the journey.  Well, at least it’s rare that it happens during that period.  In fact, my own observation is that once the cocoon starts to crack is when we move from the 1st to the 2nd half of the journey - regardless of our chrono-age!

When we sit down and say; “this isn’t what I want” or “this isn’t working for me”.  Often what prompts that realization is our 6th sense or intuition knocking at the door of our awareness saying, “let me out”.

And passions change over time because life experiences layered upon each other reveal new and different passions as we travel the road.  What I was passionate about as a teen or young adult may bare no semblance to the desires of my heart at this age.  And a woman’s passions often take a ‘backseat’ if we’re rearing children, maintaining a home and supporting a spouse as he climbs his own passion-ladder.

Why take up this subject now?  It’s Christmas (well almost) and we’ve shut down until after January 1 of next year!

There’s no better time than when we come to a point in the calendar where we change focus and gears (as my Mom used to say).  When we sit down and shift our mental-emotional focus elsewhere; we give opportunity to unrevealed awareness to come knocking, and that is when we are most likely to discover something significant which couldn’t get our attention before.

My encouragement as we head into this last week before settling in for “a long winter’s nap”, is to listen.  Listen to the murmurings in your intuition.  Pay attention to your dreams and quiet thoughts in the midst of the seasonal clamor.  If there’s that quiet inner ‘nudge’; write it down with a plan to visit it at a quiet moment between the seasons and years.

It may just hold the key to your ‘hidden factor’ that is the heart of your purpose. 

Tomorrow, I’m going to post some interesting things I find in my inbox on a daily basis and some interesting pieces of information I find elsewhere.  So you’ll want to stop by for a few minutes during the busy day just to take a peek!

Have an awesome day with much love and many rich blessings!

   Linda