If you ever watch the staging or interior re-design shows on HGTV, the designers always suggest “shopping your home” for accessories or furniture to move from one room to create a whole new look or feeling in another room of your home. What they seem to be suggesting is that you don’t have to go shopping beyond the confines of your house for what you need—it was always there.
During this holiday season, The Wizard of Oz was featured quite frequently on a variety of channels. Having grown up watching this fairytale of an incredible journey, I absorbed it in a different frame of mind having just turned, ah-hem, 40, this past September. It wasn’t until the end of the movie did I think about the way Dorothy woke up after her dream and she said that if she is ever looking for her heart’s desire all she has to do is look at home.
As we approach a new year and an opportunity for that fresh start, look no further than inside yourself to keep a resolution, start a new habit, break an old one, be a better person, achieve new business goals, find a job, etc. In other words…shop your soul because what you need to satisfy the journey to your heart’s desire has always been within yourself. So look no further because “there’s no place like home.”
Cheers to a safe, healthy, prosperous and joyous 2011!
Laura Nozicka
Laura Nozicka has nearly 20 years of extensive healthcare sales and marketing experience in the Chicago market. At NorthShore University HealthSystem, she was a member of the executive marketing team as the Assistant Vice President of Advertising. Her company, Fuzenology–a services marketing company specializing in healthcare, was launched in 2009. he has served as an adjunct faculty member in the undergraduate and graduate programs at Chicago-based Dominican and Lewis Universities teaching healthcare marketing, marketing strategy and brand management.
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Although on the surface, this short article seems a little bit trite. If the reader isn’t in the place to hear the depth of this advice, I’m sure it will be shrugged off as a “feel good” message. But for me, this really hit a chord. I’ve been searching frantically for years for something to replace much of what I loss during some bad decision years of my life. But recently, I’ve learned that the core of what I’ve needed to succeed really is inside of me. Although I’ve needed “Outliers” (Malcolm Gladwell’s definition of those around someone who helps them achieve), the initial thoughts and talents have been my own. I am happily building my business now and I know it will succeed. I’ve shopped my soul for it’s inventory.
Hi Todra and Happy New Year!
Thanks so much for your post. I am so very happy for you that you found it within yourself to use your past to persevere in your fabulous future. I wish you all the best and much success!
Laura