{"id":25,"date":"2008-04-03T12:27:36","date_gmt":"2008-04-03T17:27:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yourbreakthroughtosuccess.com\/blog\/?p=25"},"modified":"2008-04-03T12:27:36","modified_gmt":"2008-04-03T17:27:36","slug":"the-day-my-life-changed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/yourbreakthroughtosuccess.com\/blog\/?p=25","title":{"rendered":"The Day My Life Changed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t quite know where to begin this one, especially to keep it<br \/>\nshort enough that you&#8217;ll read it. And I think this is important to read.<\/p>\n<p>So here we go:<\/p>\n<p>It was a day much like today, warm and sunny.\u00a0 Just another<br \/>\nbeautiful day like all the others in Cabo San Lucas. I&#8217;d been<br \/>\nliving there for almost 6 years and today I was going for my<br \/>\nfirst mammogram.<\/p>\n<p>Because I thought it would be no big deal, hey I was only 43,<br \/>\nI decided to go to a local doctor rather than my regular one<br \/>\ntwo and a half hours away.<\/p>\n<p>Well, it did turn out to be a big deal as I was diagnosed with<br \/>\nbreast cancer.\u00a0 But as I quickly realized I didn&#8217;t react in the<br \/>\nway that the majority of women I&#8217;ve known in the same situation<br \/>\nhave.<\/p>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t cry, I panicked just a little bit, mostly about how I was going<br \/>\nto break the news to my husband.<\/p>\n<p>But for me, the moment that&#8217;s burned into my mind isn&#8217;t the one<br \/>\nwhere they said those dreaded words, it&#8217;s the one where I came<br \/>\nout into the light of day into a completely different world than I<br \/>\nhad left a little over an hour before.<\/p>\n<p>It was surreal to say the least, but the most important point that<br \/>\nI wanted to clearly get across to my husband was that I was pretty<br \/>\nsure this was an awakening, not a death sentence.\u00a0 There was<br \/>\nsomething big that had been building inside me for quite a while.<\/p>\n<p>I knew there was a shift coming.\u00a0 A spiritual friend of mine told me<br \/>\nmonths before that she saw a big test coming for me.\u00a0 I figured this<br \/>\nmust be it and I was going to do whatever I needed to do to get the<br \/>\nmessage I was being sent and do what I was to do as quickly as<br \/>\npossible.<\/p>\n<p>How I become cancer free in a short period of time without surgery<br \/>\nis a whole other story. But what made me think of this experience on<br \/>\nthis particular morning was that I have that feeling again.<\/p>\n<p>I have that feeling of being on the brink of a major shift in my life.<br \/>\nFor some people who don&#8217;t embrace change, it&#8217;s terrifying.\u00a0 For me<br \/>\nit&#8217;s electrifying.<\/p>\n<p>When this happened 9 years ago it meant ending a 25 year career,<br \/>\nleaving the place I thought I was going to stay forever and moving to<br \/>\na city in the desert when I&#8217;m an ocean resort person.<\/p>\n<p>But I went on faith where I felt directed to go.\u00a0 And this life that I<br \/>\nhave now being able to communicate like this with you and helping<br \/>\nthousands of others to change their lives came out of that moment<br \/>\nwhen I walked out of the doctors office and chose a different path.<\/p>\n<p>It makes me want to cry just thinking of the magnificence of how life<br \/>\nunfolds in ways that are wonderful and yet unpredictable.<\/p>\n<p>That shifted every part of my life.\u00a0 And it was all good.\u00a0 No I didn&#8217;t have<br \/>\na clue what I was going to be doing for a living.\u00a0 I didn&#8217;t have any idea<br \/>\nwhat any part of my life was going to look like, and thank God I had a<br \/>\nhusband at the time that trusted my intuition and didn&#8217;t fight me on this<br \/>\nambiguous picture.<\/p>\n<p>And now it&#8217;s happening again. Not the cancer, the feeling.\u00a0 So watch<br \/>\nover the next few weeks, because I&#8217;m sure I&#8217;ll be sharing things with<br \/>\nyou as they show up. I&#8217;m excited to see where my life will go.<\/p>\n<p>But today, I really want you to look at your life and ask yourself if there&#8217;s<br \/>\nsomething that could shift for you that potentially could make a huge<br \/>\npositive difference, but you&#8217;re too afraid to take the chance.\u00a0 And why?<\/p>\n<p>You have to take the leap of faith because if you wait to see for sure,<br \/>\nmost likely the opportunity will have already gone to someone who<br \/>\nwasn&#8217;t afraid to act.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t quite know where to begin this one, especially to keep it short enough that you&#8217;ll read it. And I think this is important to read. So here we go: It was a day much like today, warm and sunny.\u00a0 Just another beautiful day like all the others in Cabo San Lucas. I&#8217;d been &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/yourbreakthroughtosuccess.com\/blog\/?p=25\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Day My Life Changed<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,23,3],"tags":[96,98,75,97],"class_list":["post-25","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-personal-development","category-success-strategies","tag-breast-cancer","tag-cabo-san-lucas","tag-lynn-pierce","tag-mammogram"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/yourbreakthroughtosuccess.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/yourbreakthroughtosuccess.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/yourbreakthroughtosuccess.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yourbreakthroughtosuccess.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yourbreakthroughtosuccess.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/yourbreakthroughtosuccess.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/yourbreakthroughtosuccess.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yourbreakthroughtosuccess.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yourbreakthroughtosuccess.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}