It is so peaceful to sit here, in Paddington, Sydney, writing about my life and passion, and thinking about what the world is doing out there. Yesterday I went to Micky’s cafe on Oxford Street to drink tea, eat some delicious scones and use their free internet connection (thank you Micky). The intention was to catch up on my email, send off an interview I have completed (soon to be published in JetSetCitizen) and do some planning and administration on flights and accommodation. So I go out for a cup of tea, contemplating going to New Zealand and you come back going to Singapore and possibly Fiji. That’s what happens when you have to leave Australia for a while…
Our visas for Australia allow us to stay for a maximum of three months and we plan to be here for five months. So at some point in the middle of the trip we need to leave Australia and come back again. It turns out that I’m OK because I had to go back to England for a week on a business trip. But Cheta still needs to go, so we start planning to go to New Zealand for a week or two. I go to the cafe to use the internet to start organising this.
I always check my email first and find an email that has just come in from a lady in Singapore offering us a week long house-sit in a beautiful house on a plot of land. She has written to two of us saying that the first to reply will get it. I read her email, it is effusive in its praise for what we offer;
“You both sound like the perfect well travelled, experienced and passionate animal people we are looking for to look after our landed property, small garden, 3 cats and our bird. We love your philosophy that your respective careers involve a lot of time writing as well as traveling around the world. You say, ‘Finding ourselves travelling, we have found that it is possible to create a win-win situation: owners get a well-educated, trustworthy couple who are capable of looking after their property and pets, and we get a place to stay and write. We are available to sit around the world and have a great understanding of many cultures and traditions as well as an ease with international travel at all levels.’”
This slightly overwhelms me and makes me determined to get it agreed. I reply within half an hour and await her response. (I get it later that day, all is agreed and proceeding.) I then get an email from a dear friend who is running an event in Fiji asking us if we can come out to crew. We would go next week and get back in time to go to Singapore, then returning from Singapore in time to go to our next house-sit in Gin Gin, near Bundaberg north of Brisbane, before flying back to Europe for a busy spring.
Wow! NZ is clearly off the cards by now, perhaps another year! Later on after some discussion and negotiation we decide not to go to Fiji, it really doesn’t serve where we are at the moment. But this is how things are all the time now. We have given in to uncertainty and trust that the right thing will come along just when we need it. We put our intention out there and always get a positive response. the more we do it and the more we trust, the more, we find, that we get the right result. It is truly amazing.
This is the Law of Intention in daily action. My email banner says,
“Progress and Passion are found in Uncertainty”.
We live it and can attest to it. It works.
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