Chasing my Dreams!

2012 – Welcome!

Well here it is, Jan 1, 2012, and Ive already started the ball rolling on ticking off my List, with kicking off…

68. Take a photograph a day, for a year….which is also ‘baby-stepping’ me towards…

21. Advance my photography skills, creating a website for my shots

Brand new baby shoot growing from the middle of my Chain of Hearts plant

I wont share every photo here (it will chew up too much space), but I will be sharing a photo compilation from time to time, as the year progresses – Im really looking forward to focussing on this List item, and ticking it off at the end of the year – photography is one of my passions! ♥

Update…Jan 3, 2012 – 3 days in, and Im already feeling inspired by this item on my List…my creativity has been ‘woken up’ inside me, and my passion for my photography has deepened already. Its so much fun, creating a different shot every day…!

Update…Jan 5, 2012 – I am now realising the power of ‘taking a photograph every day’, I am finding that Im not just taking ‘a’ photograph, I am taking a PURPOSEFUL photograph, one which has meaning in my life…and the Gratitude it is bringing into every single day, is amazing. I already had a ‘handle’ on Gratitude, I am forever grateful for every single day, experience, and person in my life..but this has bought it into a much deeper level, even after just a few days..

I have already made a start on other list items as well, contacts have been made, emails sent off/about to be sent off, phonecalls to be made…2012: Chasing my Dreams…BRING IT ON!!!!

21. Advance my photography skills, creating a website for my shots

Along with taking my Photo a Day, Im also exploring joining a local photography club, and entering a regular competition through the Facebook page of a local Photography school.

“Why has this journey been ‘life-changing’?”

Why has this journey been ‘life-changing’? Well, lets just say, the hole that had always been in my heart & my spirit, for as long as I can remember, the emptiness about not being able to join in (because of my disability) with my family who were involved in motor racing when I was growing up – this hole is no longer there, inside myself.

The very moment that Steve and I arrived back into the Pit area at Qld Raceway, that hole had magically disappeared. It was true fulfilment’ – because I now feel truly fulfilled, in that area of my life – and the flow-on it has had to my mindset, is incredible – not to mention achieving the other two ‘Things’ on my List which were included in my trip to Qld Raceway – the solo train journeys and the stay in the city hotel by myself, were very empowering, personally.

The ‘searching for myself’ that I had done for years, and more specifically the last couple of years when I really had ‘lost myself’ has now simply disappeared..and this is because of this new way of thinking for me, that ANYTHING is possible. I mean, who would have thought that I would get the opportunity one day to race in a V8 Supercar, to get that chance to fill that void that had been in my life??? All it took was, ‘putting it out there’ from laying dormant inside my mind to, actually taking action towards bringing it to reality..and it magically BECAME my reality, once I focussed on it!

#1 Major Life Dream: Racing a Ford V8 Supercar! – DONE!

I am IN that Beast….IN that moment….Wow!!

Onboard: My Life Dream – Hotlap with Steve Johnson in his #17 Jim Beam V8 Supercar

Onboard the Dick Johnson V8 Supercar with Steve Johnson – Note the speed – 240km/hr!! 😀

Getting Strapped in for my Hotlap

Compilation video of photos from the day my Life Dream became my Reality

#1 – Racing a Ford V8 Supercar
Co-piloting Steve (Jnr) Johnsons #17 Jim Beam Racing Ford V8 Supercar, racing around Qld Raceway – INSANE!!
23 August, 2011 – Qld Raceway, Ipswich

I was born into motor racing, my father raced, and my sister raced, but because of my disability I was unable to join in with the family, in the sport. When you’re born into racing, it really is in your blood, in your spirit…so I always felt such a loss, with not being able to race, myself. ….Until August 23, 2011, when I raced around Qld Raceway in Steve Johnsons #17 Jim Beam V8 Supercar Beast…..at speeds of 240km/hr (and that was him ‘taking it a little easy’ as it was my first time LOL). Sliding corners @ 120km/hr…INSANE!! haha..

No I didnt drive the Beast, but I raced…MY way! WHAT A MOMENT…bringing my very special Life Dream to Reality!!

And thats what this Journey is about, making the ‘seemingly impossible’ – POSSIBLE!

this day unfolded in such an absolutely magical way..
its had the most incredible flow-on effect on my mindset, and my life.
….I got out of that Supercar, and I thought “Ive raced…OK life, what ELSE can I do??”  And the rest, as they say, is history! 🙂

Racing in this BEAUTIFUL V8 Supercar beast was the key I was looking for, to unlock the ME I had lost, for SO long…

20 posts/’ticks’ in April? This is not an April Fools Day joke! :D

In April 2012, I decided to branch out on my own, as opposed to being under the ‘umbrella’ of another bucketlist-er site – this day was an incredible day for me.  Stepping out ‘on my own’, as creator of Chasing my Dreams, and continuing this amazing journey as my own entity, not attached to anyone elses site.  This was the day that I truely felt the scope of where this ‘thing’ could lead, for myself, and for those who I happen to inspire along the way.  Amazing feeling.

This is also why, on this site, there is ’19 posts’ listed under April 2012, as this was the birth of my new site – this one right here..and transferring all my blogs, photos…my entire documented journey thus far, along this amazing lifestyle Im now living.  Just thought Id mention this, in case someone looked at ’19 posts’ under April 2012 and thought ‘What the..not 19 ticks in April, surely!’..haha 😉