For several months now I’ve been writing and talking about honesty and being yourself. Prodding. Pushing. Encouraging. Asking you to get really clear on what it is you’d absolutely love to do, now that you’ve realised you’re sick of the regular day job.

Long suffering, mega long time readers will have seen me circumnavigate the virtual globe as I did what I’ve been so keen for you to do … find my thing. I wrote at least three ‘I’ve found my thing’ posts on just my first blog and here we are, nearly two years later, and I’m teetering on the edge of something awesome. (And yes, I know you’ve heard me say that before too. But hear me out. )

Back in July I started training to be a life coach and this was accompanied by a big grand announcement on my site at the time, TruthPassionJoy.com:

Truth, Passion, Joy is focussed on helping  creative entrepreneurs like you get happy by being honest about who and where you are, by empowering you to be brave and helping you share the most awesome you with the world.

Together we work on growing or expanding your business by getting past the mind blocks that are stopping you.

That was followed just two months later by this place and now, on the first day of advent, I finally need to tell you what’s been going on around here (and why I’ve been so quiet!)

But first, a little bit of back story (because it’ll help what I’m about to tell you next make a lot more sense!)

The first blog I ever wrote was for lovely UK charity Give A Brick. January 5th 2010.

Give A Brick exists

to inspire, empower and enable individuals to show love to other people in their community.

Why?

Everyone needs to be loved and, more importantly, to feel loved. We all deserve to be respected and valued. And in an ideal world, a person’s first experience of that should be within the micro-community known as ‘family’.

And we love because we were loved first. By this being I tend to call God (or the big guy) but you may know him as the Divine, Spirit, the universe, the force, or something else entirely. What you name him (or her. But in the interest of keeping things simple, let’s stick with ‘him’ for now) is really just semantics.

I’m a Jesus freak. Jesus is the reason why Give A Brick was founded.

And a couple of weeks ago I had the privilege of talking to a very close friend of mine about Jesus. We talked about God’s love and a feeling she was getting deep inside of her. The whole conversation was amazing. Time stood still (until I turned around to find hours had passed in the blink of an eye) and it felt like coming home.

You know how I’ve been urging you to find your thing? Legacy stuff?

Well finally I know what I’m here to do.

Because my friend doesn’t come from a traditional Christian background. The conversations we had weren’t about ‘praying the prayer’ and it was sheer joy to hear her say ‘I can hear her’ when talking about the Holy Spirit (because, like the big guy, traditionally the Holy Spirit is referred to using the masculine pronoun.)

Over the years I’ve always found it super easy to talk about God stuff with people in a way that meets them where they’re at. I can’t give you specific examples but it’s like we can be talking about sprouts (picking a word very much at random!) and it will morph into this conversation about God’s love.

And that is what I’m here to do.

Encourage conversations with people in a way that is kind and fun and respectful of where they’re at.

The irony is, after my conversations with my friend that weekend, I remembered a fully formed idea that accidentally popped in my head one Sunday in church. It was a book outline for an offering I called (largely for mine own amusement at the time I must confess) The G Spot.

It’s that feeling that you get inside that something’s missing. An ache or emptiness. This thing that is so very hard to find the exact right words for (you see, I told you The G Spot was a great name for it! ) but that everyone has, even people who have no apparent belief in anything bigger than themselves.

And it’s exploring that G Spot or ‘soul itch’ as I now more often call it (for reasons that will become apparent in the next paragraph) that I’m here to do.

This is legacy stuff for me.

But of course it doesn’t really fit here on Go To El. The soul itch stuff is bigger than me and so it needs to have the space to grow and evolve and develop. Soooo, as we sit on the edge of 2012, I’m here to pull back the curtain on The Itchy Soul.

What will happen to Go To El?

I honestly don’t know yet. Helping people get free from a day job they loathe is still something I feel very passionately about. But you could quit your job, start your own business, and still fail to scratch that soul itch and end up feeling empty, which is why The Itchy Soul must come first.

But in this, my final post on Go To El (for the forseeable future at least) I’d like to offer you a challenge. It can be very, very, VERY scary to look at your life and realise that some major changes are needed.

Going back to square 1 (I literally have no contacts or email list or products or anything like that yet) is daunting!

But do you know what’s more daunting? Getting to the end of your life and realizing that you never quite hit the mark. That feeling of never quite getting there, always something missing. That’s enough to make grown men cry.

So I dare you, as we enter the final of stretch of 2011 and prepare for the adventures that 2012 will bring, to take a good hard look at your life and where you’re headed.

And if there’s something you’re not happy with, it’s never too late to make some changes.

Go on. I dare you.

P.S. Did I mention yet how much I would love it if you hopped on over to The Itchy Soul with me? Click here to dive right in. There are only a couple of blog posts up right now but I’ll be publishing daily so we’ll soon remedy that.

P.P.S. Thank you xx