About Dot Allport

All journeys begin with just one step.  I believe in just putting one foot in front of the other.

During the course of my journey, I have gotten to know myself and am really happy to be me. I tend to approach things with a creative bent and I like to laugh. From my perspective happiness is an inside out job.  Not the other way around. Some days, it is making lemonade from lemons and other days, it is just really appreciating what is happening in the moment.

You may be wondering about the journey that led me to this perspective.  For most of my life, I have been the traveler.  The ever present consummate explorer, I never landed anything in particular or anywhere in particular.  I responded to life versus having my life respond to me.

Life started to have a predictable pattern of discovery, getting lost and then losing myself.  I have always been prone to self reflection, the occupational hazard of being a writer.  But I have to say that I lacked the tools and understanding to really pull myself out of the self imposed vision I had of myself.  I had followed the idea that only through my suffering would I be able to create and have a life worth talking about.

Somewhere along the way, life started to throw opportunities for self improvement and different transformational ideas my way.   It was a personal journey to move past the patterns that I had in the past.  Happiness had depended on what others thought of me, who loved me and what mark I made in the world, which I had defined as insignificant and uninspiring.

I had built my life around that principle.  And utltimately, it made me unhappy.

In the past year, I started to clean my own internal house through coaching and learning and doing NLP.  And when I started to clear the cobwebs, I discovered myself, a wonderfully flawed passionate and loving human being.  What value was mine, I had to own first.

At the bottom of it all, I have always written. Sometimes more and sometimes less.  And in recent months, it is everyday.  It has become part of my ritual and part of the way I uncover the happiness of the moment, not in the anticipated gain and gifts of tomorrow.