Following Your Inner GPS

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do

i had a plan

but again i let it go

i’m not afraid

of making a choice i need to

know my truth will you help me to find

what is

lost inside

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if it’s not for the love of being here

not for the passion

every day if it’s not for the joy

i’m not gonna stay

if you have ever been in a car with a

gps

a global positioning system and you’ve

had it set to the

female voice there is a chance that you

and i

have taken lots of fabulous trips

together

i meet a lot of people in my travels and

they want to share with me about their

relationship

with their gps and people seem to have

one

they call them by special names and make

all kinds of connections with that

voice of reason in their device

now my speaking voice unexpectedly ended

up in over a billion gps and smartphones

and

elevators and cruise ships and software

applications

all the way around the world telling

people where to go and

what to do giving them directions while

i’m here with you

right now but i’m getting ahead of

myself let me take you back

to the beginning i am from a town called

makai makai my map of australia

is on the queensland coast right next to

the great

barrier reef in the pacific ocean

right on the on the coastline there the

makai and whit sunday’s region

is glorious we have sugar white sand

we have turquoise blue water and nine

out of the ten

most poisonous snakes in the world

if the snakes don’t get you we have the

man in the grey suit

the shark uh and we also have the box

jellyfish they’re a kanji which uh

you know you’re in a lot of trouble

after only

20 minutes i grew up in paradise

seven years of age i’m sitting in our

family living

room watching television and on comes

the most

important and most influential person in

the

entire world

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olivia newton

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right this blonde australian singer

who had gone to america and everybody

loved her and when i saw olivia

my life changed i had direction

i knew what i wanted to do i wanted to

become a professional singer

and move to america

now it is my experience

that when we see our greatest mentors

or inspirational figures they help to

activate

what i call our inner gps

um you might call it your inner knowing

or instinct or intuition

but whatever you call it it is worth

listening to and in that moment when i

saw olivia

on television as a young girl

it activated my inner gps and i had a

dream

to follow now

fast forward i did get on that plane

and i made my way across

the pacific ocean and i landed at jfk

airport in new york city

i became a professional singer and

i moved to america

i listened to my inner gps along the way

i steered myself through overcoming

debilitating anxiety

and financial disaster unexpectedly

my singer-songwriter career took a turn

and i

ended up creating an empowerment brand

out of that one voice-over job

and have traveled the world speaking and

singing on stages and screens

to help people learn how to recalculate

when things did not go as planned

it is never too late to recalculate

even when things seemed dire

from olivia newton john and that

childhood experience my life

set its course

a mover and shaker business person

reached out to me and said karen i’d

love you

and your husband to come and come to

this special event

there will be lots of vips and

celebrities there and i want you to come

and sit at my corporate table

so on the big night my husband and i

arrived at cipriani’s

on wall street in new york city my

husband was wearing his tuxedo

and i was wearing my i’m going to meet

lots of fabulous celebrities tonight

dress we walked in to the ballroom which

was

gorgeous and the mover and shaker

business colleague saw me and said karen

come with me

and he he grabbed me and he heralded me

across

the room to where there was a swarm of

people and in the middle of those

those people there was somebody he

pushed me through to the middle

and there i was standing face to face

with the most important and influential

person in the entire

world olivia newton

and i started to gush

and i said i want to thank you because

every major decision i’ve ever made is

because of you in my life

from where i live to what i do and i

just i just want to thank you

and she said oh that’s such a lovely

thing to say what’s your name

and i said karen jacobson and olivia

newton-john said

and i kid you not you’re karen jacobson

i love your cd

i am still getting

over it and in that moment

i knew i was okay that i had reached

my destination and that maybe

just maybe i was okay

maybe i was enough

and i know that you are too

in your very best calm consistent gps

voice say with me i

am enough

i am enough

in honor of all of our mentors and

inspirational figures

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i am weary

i’ve tried as hard as i can try

through the darkness

your voice is telling me

to fly there are plenty of clouds to

combine

to reach for my star and to make it

because of you

i stand

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to live my dream you gave me

everything i’d ever

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need

because

i am

of you

i stand where

i stand behind the truth

because you showed me how to live my

dream

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you gave me everything

i’d ever need

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because

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you