Things are about to become real.

It is one thing to sort out in my mind what I think my next steps are and why, it is another thing to speak it out loud. 

This may not seem like a monumental step, but it is.  There is something that happens in speaking our inner thoughts, hopes and dreams that create them in the larger world.  Declaring is an act of creation.

Merriam Webster defines declare as “the formal announcement of the beginning of a state or condition”

This act of declaring and creating is enlivening and exhausting.  It takes something to alter our existence and being.  For once we declare ourselves, it gives us access to being and doing consistent with our new, declared state. In the being and doing, we create the outcomes consistent with our declaration.  We become what we say we are.