It’s so tempting to fall into line, to be like everyone else. Standing on the outside of the lines is risky, lonely and demands courage. Some of us never leave the safety of the known, spending our whole lives like a kind of photoshopped version of someone else’s.

For years I thought I was being a maverick, going it alone, doing what I thought I was my destiny. I forged ahead with a career in marketing and had lots of wins. I remember my Dad framing a national award I’d been given whilst at University – the first thing he’d ever really shown pride for. I did so well in my first job that a multinational company sponsored my last year at University and offered me a permanent job before I’d even graduated.

Years later, I was heading up my own Pharmaceutical company with really exciting prospects yet none of it felt real to me. I couldn’t shift that nagging feeling that it wasn’t who I was meant to be. I didn’t know what the hell I was meant to be doing. All I knew was that I just couldn’t find satisfaction in the success I’d achieved so far. I constantly looked deeper into my life, trying to find the source of dissatisfaction, trying to understand myself better. But no matter how many answers I revealed, I found twice as many questions followed.

It was a difficult few years. I shifted from one thing to another, dissatisfaction growing with each change of heart. I ploughed money and energy into making other business ventures happen but nothing felt right. I knew that I was meant to be doing something else but why was it being so damned elusive?

Why couldn’t someone just tell me what it was that I was supposed to be doing..?

What I didn’t understand back then was that everything I was going through, all the experiences, the let downs, the wins, the losses, the confusion, the sadness, the despair and the hope were combining to feed me with empathy, understanding, insight and experience.

Without any of those things, I wouldn’t be the person I am today. If I hadn’t gone on the journey, I wouldn’t have collected all the lessons along the way. If my true vocation had dropped into my lap at 21, what life experience would I have had? The journey we call life has as many potholes, hidden dangers and scares around the corner as any adventure. The trick is getting past them and managing to carry on, regardless.

Trust that life is showing you everything you need to see right now, for a reason.

You long for the answers, for the vocation, for who you are meant to be to come and reveal itself, to give you the ultimate satisfaction that being yourself every day, at work and play, only your true vocation can give. But believe me, whether you find it or not, only one thing really matters – how you got there.

Because that’s your journey, that’s your story, that’s what got you to your destination. And even when you think you’ve found it, your goals simply change again. Even now, I am constantly challenged to define who I am, what I do, how I do it and what my purpose is.

Being a psychic medium isn’t a purpose, it’s a tool, it’s what I do with that tool that matters.

Trust that life is showing you everything you need to see right now, for a reason. Your spirit has decided the destination and you, through your decisions and choices, are in charge of the details; you choose the journey.

Gin & other Spirits by Lucy Day – OUT NOW.

Lucy Day is an International Psychic Medium & Intuitive Coach and spends her days helping others to find their true purpose and make sound decisions using her intuitive insight. Originally a Pharmaceutical Managing Director, Gin & other Spirits is the story of her courageous journey to embracing her true gift by breaking the rules. A must read for anyone who has unanswered questions about the spirit and psychic worlds and craves a common-sense, practical approach.

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