It was the best of times and the worst of times...

Hiiii,

Lemme paint you a picture of my most chaotic week on the road yet... and also, coincidentally, my favourite week yet.

It started last Monday. I woke up and had a flat tyre, an oil leak, a broken radio, and a broken water pump that I would potentially have to rip all my cabinetry out to access. In addition to this, I put on a load of laundry at the caravan park and broke the machine. That still wasn't enough though... the machine then flooded the laundry and short-circuited the power to the entire amenities block.

On my Instagram stories I referenced this idea of 'sexy fingers'. It's a quirky little catchphrase that I picked up from a friend when we worked together years ago. It's really useful to describe situations like last week, where everything I touched, I fucked. Monday was not my day.

Things started looking up on Tuesday. I managed to get somebody to come and check out my water pump... we did not have to pull cabinetry out, and we did not even have to replace the pump. Thanks to my intuition that told me there was something funky going on with the switch, he found the fault and replaced the switch instead. The pump was totally fine. Happy days!

Wednesday I lost my leftover (expensive) breakfast to blow flies, but I did get into the tyre repair shop and they had two tyres left to fit the van. Lots of $$ later, I finally felt safe enough to pull out on the road again the following day.

Thursday morning arrived and my radio had miraculously saved itself. Again, happy days! I found a quiet beach at Hearson's Cove and pulled in for a few days. It's technically no camping... and by technically, I mean large signs posted everywhere 'NO CAMPING'. I chanced it anyway. Spent two days there and saw some of my favourite sunrises and sunsets on the trip to date, and never saw a ranger.

On Saturday I moved to a legal campground on another beach... and as I pulled into my pre-booked campsite I got bogged. Like back tyres spinning frantically in the sand, getting worse every second kind of bogged. I'd just come from the beach so I was in a bikini (of course) and had to spend the next hour digging myself out of sand in the heat and direct sun. Thankfully, my stepfather had snuck in the tyre compressor before I left and it literally saved me and my van's life (only a slight exaggeration).

After getting unstuck, I moved campsites and had a beautiful couple of days there (mostly hiding away from the midday sun). I saw my absolute favourite sunset of this trip (picture below for you viewing pleasure, although the camera never does it justice!)

Then this morning I woke and the infamous WA wind had died down. You beauty, I thought to myself. A peaceful morning journalling in bed, watching the sunrise. I opened the doors.

And promptly got swarmed by thousands of the smallest and peskiest midgies I've ever experienced. Literally the worst Australia wide. I look like I have a serious case of the pox today and they are ITCHY.

Why am I telling you all of this? Because it speaks to my main message.

Life is about learning lessons. And this week has taught me one hell of a lesson.

I really have sat down and thought about each individual mishap and traced the energetic root cause of it back to me.

Everything blew up on Monday because I wasn't taking the time I needed to look after myself. The van literally forced me to stop and slow down, to get some items checked off my list that I kept thinking, when I get a quiet afternoon I'll do those!

The van getting bogged taught me to trust my intuition; I knew it was too soft. I knew I should have turned back, but I thought I'll just try and make it anyway!

The midgies this morning were showing me that there was an area of my life that I was annoying myself in, and I wasn't addressing it.

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Slowing down and getting really intentional about the areas of your life that aren't meeting your needs, is a powerful reminder of our agency to create change.

One of the very best things I did 12 months ago was sign up to a self-development program and at the beginning we had to audit each area of life from 1-10. It showed me exactly where I needed to focus my energy moving forward, instead of just trying to 'solve' the problems of my life as a whole.

As human beings, we tend to listen to our subconscious minds on auto-pilot, so any feeling or thought that enters our mind means that we are immediately consumed by it.

Instead of feeling like my whole life was stressful and I was failing at everything, I could narrow it down to my career, and my sense of purpose.

Fast forward 12 months, and I've just completed another audit of my life for how it stands right now. It's so wild how much growth can happen in just 12 months. I'm in a completely new career as a life and mindset coach and my sense of purpose, helping other women live their dream life too, has never felt brighter.

I did this audit with my coach because I knew that she would be able to point out areas of celebration that I tend to just gloss over, and additionally, she would help me dig into WHY I was feeling that way and what that score actually meant to me.

This week had so many challenges in it and it would have been so easy to throw a tantrum and sulk about the unfairness of it all. And I would have done exactly that even 6 months ago. But this week has really shown me how much I have grown and how capable I am at handling difficult situations on my own...

If you start your trip without knowing where you are, you don't have any markers to check and see how far you've come, or how far you still have to go. Are you even heading in the direction that you desire? Or have you just allowed the fog of daily life to blind you and turn you around in circles for the last few years?

I had that realisation last year... the fog had taken over my life. And in the 12 months since, I've managed to completely turn it around. I know exactly what I want and what direction I need to move in to achieve it.

If you're feeling stuck in that place, if you're sick of counting down the weekends and the holidays, if you're sick of setting goals and then failing at them... it's probably not your discipline or motivation that needs work. It's shifting the subconscious beliefs that you hold about yourself at an identity level.

It's exactly why I've designed my 1:1 coaching packages with the 'Don't f*ck-it up life audit' at the very beginning of the journey... so you have a really clear starting location and a direction to start moving forward in. Once we know where you want to go, the reasons WHY you haven't achieved them yet actually become much easier to work on.

Sooner or later, you'll become so frustrated with the uncertainty of driving blindly, that you'll realise the missing map you need is mindset work. It's the only thing that will create real transformation, because it's the only thing that works on the root cause, which is embedded deep down in the identity level of your subconscious. You can clearly see the difference it's made in my life, can you not?

Book your free discovery call when you're ready to take back the wheel in your life and create your own mindset map. The more clarity you have on your intended direction, the more ease you have navigating your life.

 Sending all my love and yummy road trip snacks,

Haley 🤍