dailyprompt – Integrating the Spirals

Share a story about the furthest you’ve ever traveled from home.

The furthest I have ever traveled from home was probably when my husband, Richard, and I went to Stonehenge (outside of Amesbury) in England. We flew into Dublin, Ireland, Bath, England, and Edinburgh, Scotland during an 18-day vacation that included two hiking tours. The first hike was in Ireland (Game of Thrones tour). Read about it here: /https://sheilamurrey.net/2019/12/03/game-of-thrones-tour-dublin-ireland-winterfell/

The second tour, was the reason for our trip to Europe, a Sacred Celtic Journey. Read my three blog articles about our journey here:

https://sheilamurrey.net/2019/08/03/a-sacred-celtic-journey-part-1-ireland/

https://sheilamurrey.net/2019/10/20/a-sacred-celtic-journey-part-2-england/

https://sheilamurrey.net/2019/11/24/a-sacred-celtic-journey-part-3-scotland/

One of the reasons I felt drawn to take this journey was to go inside the Newgrange neolithic tomb and to meditate inside the stone circle of Stonehenge. I got way more out of this vacation than I bargained for though! The whole experience (including my winning the entry back into Newgrange for Winter Solstice) really was the highlight of my life!

Meditating within the stone circle of Stonehenge.

The blog article about our return trip for Winter Solstice:

https://sheilamurrey.net/2020/04/11/newgrange-inside-the-chamber-during-the-winter-solstice/

Name the most expensive personal item you’ve ever purchased (not your home or car).

Oh, today’s writing prompt rubs the proverbial scab off the wound for me today!

I spent $12k on an annual business coaching program (in 2019) which I may have gotten a few hundred dollars of benefit from. I made this outlandish purchase because I had never met someone of the coach’s caliber (he had ‘connections’ in Hollywood because his dad was a screen writer and had written some of my favorite movies), and because my job had told me I would be laid off in a couple of months. So, I guess I must admit fear and greed drove my decision. Boy, have I regretted it ever since!

I didn’t end up getting laid off, so I had no time to focus soley on the business program as I had planned, but since I signed a contract, I felt obligated to continue (and make the monthly payments I had agreed to make).

I enjoyed the Zoom calls we had and I did meet some exceptional people (a few I am still in contact with), but the coach couldn’t control the group and didn’t add much. I think my husband and I had two or three one-on-one calls with him. I had thought we would get a monthly call with him. He gave everyone a roadmap on how to plan out a business launch. And he gave us call scripts for how to sell others on hiring us as a coach. But I never wanted to be a coach, I wanted to get our original songs in a movie or TV show.

I would have been better off to have hired a song publicist.

Then again, my husband hired a song manager who ended up scamming him out of thousands of dollars and then moved to Mexico.

I suppose I am too gullible to run our own business. Nor am I a salesperson. Lessons learned!