Notes To My Younger Self:

Notes To My Younger Self: 

Know that everything you’ve walked through—the blessings and the challenges—have had purpose. 

Preparedness: to put in proper condition or readiness~dictionary.com

Prepare: ready or able to do or deal with something~Oxford languages

—to make yourself ready for something that you will be doing~Britannica

One of the many experiences you’ve had while flying will serve you in so many unexpected ways.

While in flight training, you will sit in your hotel room in front of a cockpit poster and run checklists over and over until your hands seem to reach for the to-do, before you read the line item aloud. Before your four hour simulator session, you will allow yourself as much time as it takes to visualize the flight from the moment you buckle into the seat until you hear the hydraulics on the trainer legs release, signaling the end of the session. (Every step, every checklist, every potential maneuver, every emergency procedure) Ahead of every passenger flight, you will repeat the same preparation, along with weather checking, weight and balance, visualizing the entire flight from start to finish before you leave the ground. So that you are clear-minded and prepared, so when the unexpected arises, you will be calm and assured.

Down the road, this prepping ritual will evolve into other areas of your life. The act of mental preparation will lead to you becoming immovable. 

E.L. Chappel author of Spirit Dance/Storm Makers/Coming very soon: The Surge

Resist the urge to get bogged down in the “whys” and instead ask the question: “I wonder how this experience is going to serve me?”

aka A woman realizing her highest purpose and her highest timeline.