It isn’t so much about love. It isn’t weakness. It isn’t about what it wasn’t but it is a way to embrace life.
It was an adventure as you could only imagine as you were riding the rollercoaster. As it went up and round, side to spin, upside down and drops with a speed that makes you almost want to throwupt yet everything feels so tingling and nice.
It has a simple four letter word and it’s thenbest rollercoaster ride ever. It’s called “life.”
It comes with other four letter words influenced by love and hate. It comes with adventures and surprises. Spoilers, because it’s you already knowing the end. Even if not, it’s still you. Your choices without you ever realizing it. Telling you; You go on. You go left or … You turn right. You’ve seen where it ends in darkness or light. Whether you believed it or preferred the lie. You choose and disembark in the direction of choice.
So I chose…
I chose to build. An air castle, a sand yard and paint my clouds whiter than white and my lightning bolts brighter than bright.
I chose to live, to write, to create and to give it all away. I chose to create a thunder that will resonate in her name.
I chose to love. That way the memories will always stay.
After a life altering accident that was supposed to leave me paralyzed, I found a new purpose in life. I quickly realized that if I wanted to walk again, I had to change my mindset as it relates to my emotional health and my self-expression.
Sitting in a wheelchair I had plenty of time to contemplate life and that’s when I desired to earn a spot on a TEDx stage. After four years of hard work I accomplished that dream in 2016 and I realized I had more to give to the world than working 4 years for 15 minutes of fame.
I had created a project in the previous years, 2nd Life Curaçao, to get me from a disability check (welfare) to become a small business owner. It even won me the JCI IOBA Aspiring Creative Entrepreneur of the Year Award in 2015 and as my cycle from wheelchair to social entrepreneur completed, I understood that the message I was taught, wasn’t mine to keep.
I started coaching people that were dealing with life’s difficulties and still felt I was playing small. It is easy listening to someone for me and give them advice on how to solve it, but I wanted to go deeper into the human programming and really understand why we feel sad, angry or jealous. This led me to meditation, mindfulness, yoga and alter my mindset completely. What I realized in this journey that everything I learned I already had in me. I just didn’t know…
It became my calling to plant as many seeds in as many people as possible and teach them that they are powerful beyond means. As I spoke in more classrooms and at large corporations, I would get personal questions and I understood that the message starts within us. People want to know their why. Their how. And their what. I decided to write those answers in daily quotes on Instagram and Facebook, but soon wanted them to become physical. We are touching our phones enough and how can I coach people without being there?
By creating recycled paper postcards and organic fair trade cotton t-shirt with quotes that came straight from my coaching and public speaking business.
If I can re-learn to walk, that means I can relearn how to think and now it my turn to help as many people as possible starting with you.
Find me on Instagram or Twitter or watch my TEDx Aruba Talk From Wheelchair to Social Entrepreneur here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BxY7hRhZKAk&t=5s.
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