Happiness Is Trusting The Vision

Sometimes you see just the right thing at the right time. A book drops off the shelf. Or in my case, you turn the TV on at the right time and come across a program you weren’t planning to watch.

One you were meant to watch.

That happened to me last Friday. I was watching a movie, and I hit the wrong button and went back to the TV. The channel that came on hadn’t been one I had been watching. Can you hear the eerie music creeping in? Something magical is happening. The show was on Oprah’s network, OWN, and she was interviewing Pharrell about his song, “Happy.”

Well, I know when something significant is happening, so I started watching, and boy, am I glad I did.

Pharrell shared that when “Happy” came out in the movie, Despicable Me 2 in July, NO ONE would play the song on the radio. It sounded nothing like the other hot music on the radio then. Can you imagine that?

He doubted.

Then he trusted the vision.

He made the video to “Happy” in November because he believed in it, five months later mind you, and it went viral. Now it’s one of the most played songs out there and has catapulted this artist to his own success, one that he’d given up hoping on.

Happiness is trusting the vision.

Why did this resonate so much? I’m still a new author, out less than a year. I put NORA ROBERTS LAND out there in July, the same time as “Happy.” The book has been finding readers and the other way around, but there have been some bumps here and there. I still know where I want to be, and I’m not there yet. I’m grateful for all I have received, but I have had my moments since quitting a very lucrative career wondering if this is all going to work out.

Happiness is trusting the vision.

If Pharrell can have that big of a shift in just five months, so can I. My sister, Michelle, the one who had her ex blame their divorce on Nora Roberts also just had a huge breakthrough. She’s still working “the day job,” but pursuing her dream job on the side like I used to do. She was just voted Best Wedding Planner of the Year in the city she lives in.

Again, happiness is trusting the vision.

Deep down inside us, there is a blueprint of this vision. Once we are brave enough to look, we see what we’re called to do. But that’s not enough. We have to take guided action and that takes courage and trust and lots of grace.

When the storms come and shake the foundations, when things don’t turn out like we expect, it’s easy to stop trusting that that blueprint, that soul vision, and think it was wrong or simply fading like old ink on parchment.

In those moments, we have to reach deep inside and trust the vision. The vision is the path to our highest happiness.

Where are you with your vision? Do you have one? Have you looked? If so, are you moving forward?

A dear friend just wrote me to tell me she is taking the steps to her divine blueprint, this new blissful vision. She said it’s exciting and scary and oh so new.

That’s how the path is lined, it seems.

But we are not alone as we walk it, and our feet are sure and true as we continue to walk down it—even when the sky grows dark. When it does, there is shelter and support.

We wait for the sun to come out.

Happiness is trusting the vision.

 

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