If you’re anything like me, you get faced with challenges at the most inconvenient times.

Back in January 2005 I was attending a real estate investment seminar at a Hilton hotel in Arlington, Texas.  On the second night I went to dinner across the street with my husband and 2 nice men from Japan, Nobuji Kanai and Shinya Moriuchi, whom we’d just met at the seminar.

After enjoying delicious Chinese food and good conversation, the 4 of us crossed the street and approached the hotel, still enjoying our time together.

The next thing I knew, my left shoulder was in terrible pain…

and I saw the shoulder straps of my purse being pulled down my arm as I was dragged to the ground.

Can you believe it?…I was mugged in front of a nice hotel while walking with 3 men!

After being carried into the hotel lobby by an angel of a man who also ran after my attacker, I received a healing treatment from a compassionate woman.

Then I was taken by ambulance to an emergency room where I got X-rayed… diagnosis: broken bone in my upper left arm and an unknown injury to my right knee.

The injuries caused me to miss the last day of the seminar. Oh, what timing….such bad luck! The good thing is that I’m right-handed. It was my left hand that was in a sling.

The timing was also inconvenient because in just a few days I was scheduled to fly to Orlando, Florida, to attend a 3-day event to help you discover your purpose in life. I wasn’t sure how I’d manage the flight since I couldn’t bend my knee much.

Not wanting to miss the seminar I chose to overcome the challenges of a broken arm and using crutches to walk.  And I’m so glad I did!

Little did I know that my life would take a new direction at that seminar in Orlando.

On the last day or so of the course, we were told to get into groups of 3 and write a song in 8 minutes about our experiences at this event. The song was to include verses and a chorus, and we were told to sing our song to our group members.

So I wrote a chorus and a few verses challenging you to make a difference in the world .  Then I sang it to the 2 other members of my group. Since one of them was my husband, of course I got a good review!

And… guess what? I also got good reviews from 2 life coaches standing beside us. My group and the life coaches encouraged me to be one of the volunteers to sing my song onstage.

You know, deep down inside I really wanted to do it, but that was way out of my comfort zone. I grew up very shy and was gradually emerging out of my shell….

Then there were the additional excuses. My arm was in a sling, and I had to rely on crutches to walk…and it was a very long way to the stage from the back of the room where I was contemplating.

Should I raise my hand and volunteer to sing onstage?

Finally, after listening to others sing their songs onstage, I summoned up my courage and volunteered. Onstage I announced to the group of maybe 260 people that I was out of my comfort zone, and they cheered me on!

That’s the great thing about these kind of self improvement events…you receive encouragement and positivity from so many people. It’s quite uplifting!

So I sang my song, even getting the audience to participate in the chorus, and it was fun! I loved singing in front of an audience even though I’d never before sung solo onstage. The last time I sang in public was as part of a chorus of college students.

Singing solo onstage there in Orlando was a huge step for me in getting unstuck.

At the end of the seminar I thanked our presenter, and he said he thought I was a professional. “Yeah, right”, I thought to myself.

That night I wrote more verses to the song because it was fun to do so.

Anyway, since then I’ve written about 23 songs. Many of them are inspirational, and they offer lessons to seekers of self development.

That song I began in Orlando is named ‘Will You Make The Difference?’.

I’ve come to realize that getting mugged at the seminar wasn’t bad luck. It was a sign that learning about real estate investing was not what I should be doing. That’s not the way I will make the difference in our world.

Attending the seminar led to me getting unstuck about my life’s purpose.

How will you get unstuck?

Perhaps these lyrics from my song, ‘Uplifted and Inspired’, will help you:

Ask for the help
of those who are Divine.
Their help you will receive
when it’s the perfect time
to be uplifted and inspired.

Find mentors.
Learn from those who care
to show you their success
and want to take you there
to be uplifted and inspired.

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After receiving multitudes of divine help as well as help from numerous mentors, I am currently enrolled in the apprenticeship program of the IM University.

My IM University mentors, Gina Gaudio-Graves and Jeffrey Levesque, are helping me fulfill my mission of marketing my songs.  With their messages of peace, love and joy, my songs will make the world a better place.

Through the business they are helping me build, using the power of the internet, I will fulfill my dream of founding a charity that will help poor children and orphans, beginning with the Caribbean and Latin American countries and Ukrainian orphans.

Now, what about you?

What are you doing to fulfill your dreams?

Isn’t it time to make your dreams come true?

Take action now or you may never know what joy you’re missing in your life. Click the following link as if your authentic happiness depends on it: Make your dreams come true

Till next time…

Wishing you peace, joy and love,

Joyce

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