WHY IN THE WORLD DID SHEILA LEAVING EVERYTHING AND EVERYONE SHE KNOWS TO GO TRAVELING ALL OVER THE WORLD?

Hi everyone.  Welcome to my travel/life blog.  I appreciate you stopping by and I hope you enjoy enough of what you see and read to keep coming back and also tell your friends about it. I guess I should start with some background of what led me to this point. This will be a long post as I tend to be detailed. The rest of my posts will not be this long, so bear with me.

[I am typing this entry on 4/20/09 as my blog was just created. I'm bring you up to speed with subsequent posts, starting with this one]

The week of February 9th, 2009 when I began to inform my friends and family that I had made the decison to give up my beautiful apartment in Beverly Hills that I had lived in for 9 years, sell almost all my posessions (yes ya’ll even the Gucci’s & Louis Vuittons – but not my Gucci luggage – I ain’t that crazy, LOL) and go to Australia to begin my latest travel adventures, everyone thought I was crazy.  Sure, they were used to me being a Travel Diva because since 2005, I had already been blessed to be able to be on holiday and travel extensively for 6 months out of the year for the past 3 yrs.  I was always jetting off to Europe – spent 90 days there on vaca in 06 & have been back 4 times since then or going to Mexico or Hawaii or galavanting around the USA for conferences and seminars, but this was different.  I was actually going to sell my stuff, voluntarily become homeless and go way the hell away to Australia?!?!?! WTF…had I lost my mind??  They really would have thought I was crazy if they knew the entire truth…my entire reason for doing this.  The truth of the matter is that my life is a Journey that is led by God. Don’t tune out now. This is not going to become some religious rant.  I am actually HIGHLY Spiritual and not religious. There is a huge difference. I won’t bore you with a ton of detail, but HE wants me to be here in Australia for reasons that have yet to be revealed to me and I have made the decision to FULLY step out on faith and go wherever HE leads me.  HE very clearly communicated this to me on February 2, 2009 when HE instructed me to 1. give up my apartment 2. sell all of my suff and 3. move to Australia. I chose to obey and I can honestly say that it has been the best decision of my life!  Everything that I have needed for this trip has been provided – I went from having very little money (as I had spent most of it in 2008 with the 13 vacations/trips I took), no real “plan” as to what I was going to do in Australia or why I was even supposed to be here. I didn’t know a single person in Australia except for a couple of random people I have met in my travels, no idea where I would be living, no idea how I would be received as a Black Woman, no idea how I was going to afford to buy my ticket, no idea how I was going to sustain myself financially, etc…  The only thing I did know for a fact was that I absolutely would NOT be getting any type of j-o-b during my travels. I gave up working a j-o-b forever on May 21st, 2008.  It’s called being “on holiday” for a reason.  So armed with all of this, I have sat back and let Him work out the how and everything has miraculously worked out beyond my wildest dreams. My only job is to say “YES” & TAKE ACTION on the directions I am given daily!!  I’m currently living here in Sydney, stress free & CHILLING!!! I have a bit of money in the bank so that I can fully focus on making  lots and lots more which will come in the coming months. I have tons of new friends and new family and it has all just begun. You gotta have FAITH & CHOOSE IN. It’s really as simple as that.  Stay tuned and join me on this journey.  Can’t wait to see how it unfolds.

p.s I truly want to thank all of my friends/family in CA & MO & TX that were my Angels as I prepared to leave: Barbara, Anne, Esther, Giles, Roz, everyone who purchased any of my possessions, My Big Daddy, Sylvia, Tracy, Christa, Linessa and everyone who prayed with me and for me and gave me such an amazing level of support, encouragement and well wishes.  I also want to thank my new friends on Facebook – people that haven’t met me yet but are supporting me every step of this journey.  I could not do this if I didn’t know that so many people love and care about me and are holding me safe in their prayers.  Thank you from the bottom of my heart!!!

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