The most beautiful change happens in your life when you realize this one fundamental thing: you are in charge of your joy, and you can quite literally create it every single day.

I throw my head back and clap my hands. I dance to a song in the grocery store and the street. I spin around a lamp post and make a silly pose at my boyfriend.

Do you know why I always seem to be having fun (and in truth, am)?

It's a sneaky thing…these moving lines between consideration for a person you love, and allowing their story to usurp your own.

Once I was stepping into my dream life by ACCIDENT, I was able to realize it was the right path for me - because I had already identified what would make me happiest on a deep level.

I just hadn't figured out yet how to have it.

So what changed?

On a recent road trip across Mexico, from Puerto Vallarta inland to San Miguel de Allende, I experienced one of those can’t-help-but-laugh-so-you-don’t-cry moments that also brought about something akin to an epiphany - and I think it’s worthy of sharing.