This year has been one of the best for me. I feel like throughout the year, I've made all the right choices. Well, perhaps not all the right choices, surely, but overall, I've done well this year. I started the year, with making the decision to come to the U.S. and not stay in Iran with my husband. Even though I had lost my job as a professor and ESL teacher due to going to Iran for a month and a half, I still opted to come back. I had many reasons for wanting to come back and I'm glad they pushed me to do it, because it's one of the best decisions I ever made. After about four months or so, I felt like I had made a mistake and I needed to go to Iran and this time stay there until Hamed's visa was ready to go so we can come back together. I booked a flight and started applying some goal-setting strategies that I had learned from the many Darren Hardy modules and videos and conference I attended to make my stay in Iran as valuable as possible. Two days before my flight, Hamed's visa was ready for pick up. I cancelled my flight and awaited his arrival. After about 5 years, I finally saw my husband in the United States on June 2016.
We traveled for a month, just as I had always dreamed we would do. We took a family trip to Miami, FL and we went on our honeymoon to the most beautiful islands of Bahamas on a cruise, we traveled to NYC, my home, for less than a week and came back to Oakland, CA. After much research and thinking, we finally decided we wanted to live in Los Angeles, CA so we moved here in August 2016. We have been living here ever since. I have to say, since the beginning but especially now after 4 months, I am more in love with LA than ever. I love my apartment, my neighborhood, the weather, the city, the ocean, the people, and of course the added bonus of having Iran in the palm of our hands here in LA where most Iranian-Americans live. I am grateful and thankful for all of this.
Another awesome fact about 2016 is that I feel like I have finally identified my calling in this world. Because I made the decision to stay with my husband for a month and a half in January in Iran, I lost both my teaching jobs. However, by losing those jobs, I gained something much better. I was pushed to pursue self-employment as a writing tutor and editor, which has led me to begin Meela Editing. The business is still very much in its first stages, but I feel like it has come a long way since its "launch" though that was never an official thing. I feel that because of it, I have now an opportunity to be led into the new year, 2017, with tangible goals, for which I'm truly grateful. I am also able to call myself a writer. I have been blogging regularly (despite the past couple of weeks), I am working on two writing projects including a work of fiction and a memoir/cookbook, and I am also doing academic writing on the side. In addition, I have designed and have begun facilitating a series of Writing Workshops where I have combined meditation with Free Writing. I feel that most of this has been possible because I didn't simply say: "I'll do it next year". As I mentioned in my previous blog, ever since I heard a #DarrenDaily about the importance of starting right now rather than leaving it for later, I have been trying to put it into practice in my life and I feel that I have truly gotten results. Anything that I think of and do right away like washing the dishes, cooking, writing, exercising, anything really, I have gotten the best results. And likewise, every time I have left work incomplete only to do on a later day, something has come up and has caused me a lot of stress to get that original work done or worse---not get to it until it was too late.
I trust that in these 26 days of 2016, I am still due for a lot to be done and not just count this last month as the last month where I only await the new year but I continue giving it my fullest attention to be able to reach all the goals I have set for myself, and more importantly, to prepare for even bigger goals in 2017.
We traveled for a month, just as I had always dreamed we would do. We took a family trip to Miami, FL and we went on our honeymoon to the most beautiful islands of Bahamas on a cruise, we traveled to NYC, my home, for less than a week and came back to Oakland, CA. After much research and thinking, we finally decided we wanted to live in Los Angeles, CA so we moved here in August 2016. We have been living here ever since. I have to say, since the beginning but especially now after 4 months, I am more in love with LA than ever. I love my apartment, my neighborhood, the weather, the city, the ocean, the people, and of course the added bonus of having Iran in the palm of our hands here in LA where most Iranian-Americans live. I am grateful and thankful for all of this.
Another awesome fact about 2016 is that I feel like I have finally identified my calling in this world. Because I made the decision to stay with my husband for a month and a half in January in Iran, I lost both my teaching jobs. However, by losing those jobs, I gained something much better. I was pushed to pursue self-employment as a writing tutor and editor, which has led me to begin Meela Editing. The business is still very much in its first stages, but I feel like it has come a long way since its "launch" though that was never an official thing. I feel that because of it, I have now an opportunity to be led into the new year, 2017, with tangible goals, for which I'm truly grateful. I am also able to call myself a writer. I have been blogging regularly (despite the past couple of weeks), I am working on two writing projects including a work of fiction and a memoir/cookbook, and I am also doing academic writing on the side. In addition, I have designed and have begun facilitating a series of Writing Workshops where I have combined meditation with Free Writing. I feel that most of this has been possible because I didn't simply say: "I'll do it next year". As I mentioned in my previous blog, ever since I heard a #DarrenDaily about the importance of starting right now rather than leaving it for later, I have been trying to put it into practice in my life and I feel that I have truly gotten results. Anything that I think of and do right away like washing the dishes, cooking, writing, exercising, anything really, I have gotten the best results. And likewise, every time I have left work incomplete only to do on a later day, something has come up and has caused me a lot of stress to get that original work done or worse---not get to it until it was too late.
I trust that in these 26 days of 2016, I am still due for a lot to be done and not just count this last month as the last month where I only await the new year but I continue giving it my fullest attention to be able to reach all the goals I have set for myself, and more importantly, to prepare for even bigger goals in 2017.
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