I am relevant, even if I am invisible.

I am on the precipice of my own making.  

I am relevant, even if you don't know anything about me.

I am relevant despite my age. 

I am relevant and so are my experiences.

I have something to offer. 

I am relevant.

It occurs to me that the more I learn about people, the more I am amazed by what I don't know about them.

In my work as a magazine publisher, business strategist and writer of the human experience, fitness instructor and yoga-teacher trainee. I help people get somewhere by creating an environment for them to express themselves, either through movement, through plans and strategies, or by publishing their stories and distributing them.

In the process of doing this work, I learn about how amazing people can be, how they can confront challenges and face their fears. I learn about how people find a way to carry on and do good things with their talents and time, even when no one is watching. I learn about the unsung heroes that walk among us in yoga studios and grocery stores.

In my previous life, up until two years ago, I was the back up dancer for the executive team, and created a plethora of plans and visions without ever signing my name to a single document. My job was to develop and lead guiding systems to help get the ducks in a row and waddling in line with the corporate vision. As the corporate planner, I told myself it was about the people. But the truth is it was about money, shareholder value, and the perpetuation of inanimate corporate organizations and big business.

Since 1996, I have been using the tools of corporate strategy, like balanced scorecard, to help establish priorities like people, customer experience, quality products and services and community involvement. Through my 20 years leading corporations, the challenge was always there to make it a human process, when the true motivator behind the process was an inanimate object.

I changed my life two years ago, taking a new path to focus on people, not inanimate corporate objects, like corporations and big business. But people are much more difficult to move and to inspire, because first they must have no choice but to make a change.

Before I made the change from a six digit soul-less corporateer to a two-digit entrepreneur, I had talked about it many times like people do. "I want to own a business some day."  "Some day I will write a book."  "Some day I will <insert dream here>."

Life is always changing, we just don't know it, or we deny it. We make deals with time, and add qualifiers to our some day lists,like "when I retire", or "when I am rich".  One day though it happens and all the best laid plans are thrown out the window.

On my day, I knew that I had reached the end of one road and had to choice but to make good on all my "some days".

On that day, I also became officially invisible and seemingly irrelevant to the world, because my successes were all in the past. I found myself at the precipice of my life, alone on a ledge of my own making, and I could hear the music.

At the edge of what's next, I became completely dependent on my own ability to make a life.I became a business, so I did what came naturally to me and used the tools that I had used to guide corporations.

I set an intention for the rest of my life - to live in my own true colours and to help others do the same. I set goals to be healthy, to be happy, to do work that has meaning and purpose to others, and to build my soul up again by doing good things so that good things happen.

I established principles for my life, including being defiant, avoiding rooms with no doors, listening for the secrets of the universe and to embrace the imperfection of the moment.

In my new life, I had to find a community of people like me and to find ways to express my intention.  I created a consulting practice for freedom-loving, precipice dancing entrepreneurs. I am the publisher of a magazine that tells their stories and helps them realize their visions, and I am practicing a healthy living regime as a fitness instructor. Yoga helps to build my soul up again, as does doing good things that help people live in their own true colours.

Does the world know I am here? I don't know. But I am relevant, even if I am invisible.