Dearest Granddaughter,

You are now 18 – a young adult. You have new responsibilities but you also have an exciting future ahead of you. The choices you make now will affect that future, and I'm sure that all the adults close to you have offered all kinds of advice – including me. But right now there is only one piece of advice that will have the most impact on your future: Follow your bliss.

From the time you were a young child I have watched as two different talents have turned into gifts: drawing and writing. When you are absorbed in either activity, you radiate with blissful peace and contentment. My greatest wish for you is that you will follow that bliss into a career.

Here are some manifestations that you have found your bliss:

• you feel at one with the world, as if everything is in its rightful place and all interconnected
• you feel totally alive, as if your body is resonating at a slightly higher frequency
• your eyes light up and you feel like you could spend hours talking about the subjects you love
• you see things more clearly, as if a mist has cleared or a fog has lifted and now you can see more clearly or deeply understand
• you feel totally at home within your skin and so comfortable within yourself that your ideas of who you are fade
• time ceases to exist when you are following your bliss - whether that is researching at home or being on stage
• you feel surrounded by kindred spirits when you find other people who are passionate about the same things
• you have deep, insightful discussions with people you have known only a few minutes
• you experience leaps of insight and the profound understanding of concepts and ideas that go beyond words
• you find yourself creating at an extraordinary level far beyond your normal abilities
• worlds of ideas and knowledge that you never knew existed open up to you
• the world becomes a place where synchronicities start to make sense and form a subtle path pointing you to the things you need to discover
• you find yourself (many times unknowingly) amassing a collection of resources built around your bliss
• you feel the touch of unseen hands guiding you
• you feel like a light deep inside of you has been turned on
• days you follow your bliss start to feel a bit like Christmas morning, making you want to jump out of bed and see what the day holds
• you surprise yourself by the things you say and do because they make you seem much smarter and gifted than you usually think you are

If you would like to learn more about finding and following your bliss, Manifest Your Potential.

I love you very much and I will be watching as you travel down your chosen path. As I was reading that list, I realized that at long last I am following my own bliss. Please don't wait as long as I did to find it!

With all my love,
Nanny