We're halfway
through the year.

We're halfway through the year. If someone had shown me this page on 1 January and said, "This is how your first six months will unfold," I probably would have laughed; and then cried.

Because this year has held both applause and heartbreak.

It began in the most beautiful way possible. On the very first day of the year, RFP Ministries honoured me with the Most Impactful Individual Award for 2025. I remember standing there thinking, what a way to begin. I had no idea how prophetic that moment would be.

A few days later, Vision Works came alive again. We hosted two Vision Strategy Sessions; first in Blantyre, then in Lilongwe.

There is something difficult to explain about those sessions. People often ask me why I continue doing them. The answer is simple: every time I leave one of those rooms, I breathe differently. I leave feeling purposeful, fulfilled, accomplished. As though I've spent a few hours exactly where I was meant to be.

Then life reminded me that purpose doesn't exempt us from pain. On 13 January, my grandmother quietly closed her eyes for the last time.

Vision Works cannot always depend on Sarah being physically present. If this mission is bigger than me, then I need to build systems that continue serving people even when life asks me to step away.

That lesson is still unfolding, but I know it's shaping what comes next.

February surprised me. I had the privilege of recording my very first Growth Conversations with Standard Bank. The series wasn't new; my participation was. I'd watched those conversations before, never imagining one day I'd be sitting on that set, sharing my own thoughts about growth, purpose and money.

Life has a funny way of quietly introducing you to rooms you've admired from a distance.

Around that same time, a simple conversation online became something much bigger than I expected. It became the March Money Challenge.

The goal sounded outrageous: make MWK100,000 every single day for thirty-one days.

What started as a challenge quickly became a laboratory. How do ordinary people create money consistently; how do we build income instead of wishing for it; how do we think differently? The challenge forced me to build solutions I had postponed for years.

It gave birth to my website. It inspired online classes. It introduced my first "Buy Your First Shares" course. It created income streams I hadn't planned for at the beginning of the year.

Ironically, the challenge wasn't just about making money. It was about becoming the kind of person who creates value every single day.

One of my favourite moments still makes me smile. By the very first day, enrolments had already exceeded what I'd expected. I remember staring at the numbers wondering whether I'd calculated them correctly. Sometimes the biggest obstacle isn't opportunity; it's our imagination.

When the March Challenge ended, I wasn't ready for the momentum to stop. So we started another experiment: Save MWK1 million in 90 days.

As I write this entry, we're just eleven days away from completing that journey. Watching 1,000+ people build financial habits together has convinced me of something deeply important.

Money is rarely transformed by information alone. It's transformed through community.

May arrived with my birthday. I expected a quiet one. Instead, family and friends overwhelmed me with love. Being celebrated by strangers is beautiful. Being celebrated by people who've watched every version of you, the uncertain one, the exhausted one, the determined one, is something else entirely.

June brought one of the year's most unexpected highlights; my first yoga session. Not because I suddenly became a yoga enthusiast, but because I had the opportunity to lead affirmations during the experience. Who knew slowing down could feel so powerful?

Then, just as the first half of the year was ending, life quietly completed a full circle.

I stood on the stage at the Financial Success Conference hosted by RFP Ministries. I've attended that conference faithfully since 2018. Every year I sat in the audience learning from speakers I admired. This year, I became one of them.

There's something deeply emotional about standing on a stage that once helped build you. The stage that shaped me eventually welcomed me.

And I don't have words big enough to describe that feeling.

So if we've crossed paths this year, whether in a conference hall, a Vision Strategy Session, an online class, a private coaching session, or through a video that found its way onto your screen, thank you.

And if you'd like to keep walking this journey with me, you already know where to find me. Every conversation continues under one name: Vision Works with Sarah.

Until the next diary entry; thank you for reading a page from my life.