I am in a fantastic mood, and for very good reason. Today I am mentally preparing myself for a long awaited and well deserved clean canvass start!
Isn’t it exciting to begin a new chapter.
Yet… what exactly do I mean about a new chapter? What I mean is precisely this… so you have gotten into the rat race of the every day and you have even at times been convinced whether by someone or yourself based on a mile long list of reasons that you CAN’T get out! The classic I am in a comfortable suffering… That was me… I had my own business, working from home, yeah I hear you sound delightful doesn’t it? Yet, in all honesty I was lonely, I truly was wearing too many hats and really needed to think about hiring on someone so I could focus, I was all over the place trying to do 100% with at least three people’s full time work loads, and then not ever truly being able to walk away from it really was eating at me at some strange way. Then I went to the all mighty powerful and eh well lets say at the moment un organized computer software giant I am leaving un named yet lets say I will give you a hint I worked in Redmond Washington and I was looked down upon for owning a crackberry. That whole short experience was a nightmare… If I ever feel I have the energy or feel I have tons of time to waste maybe I will write about it but lets just say that was an experience that really did make me physically ill… for two weeks!!
So, after that experience I was a left with a “So… Now what!?” Feeling. Okay, I am a sensitive creature, and the whole experience, along with being ill made me do a lot of checking myself out in the mirror, under a microscope, doing the full brain scan, evaluating my skills, thoughts, ideas, hopes, dreams, and I found myself overloaded with a renewed sense of “What am I doing with my life.” Now, you would think at my age I wouldn’t have had too many of these yet epiphanies, but in some ways I feel fortunate enough to have thought about it as much as I have, as I take my life decisions VERY seriously.
Okay, so I didn’t want to feel as if I wasn’t giving 100%+ towards opening up new doors for me, so I signed up for every career, monster under your bed job finder that I could make an account and have to remember another password I could find. Truly… nothing more than junk… and some good old fashioned entertainment, jobs that pay $11 dollars an hour yet want a BA in business… yeah keep dreaming! In addition to the online hunting, networking, giving my resume out to who ever would take it, I got in touch with a company called Business Careers in Renton. Truly that was an experience I hope all people that are in the business world that are looking for a new path in life, I really hope they get to have that personally enriching experience with one of their staff. I primarily worked with Lorri until Lindsay came on board, we instantly clicked and I think after a few weeks I will probably have a new best friend. Just that simple, they built a relationship with me, found out who I truly was and I don’t hesitate in saying that they truly were my campaign managers in advertising me to what they felt would be the best fitting position out there.
So while Lindsay and Lorri were busy working on leads, I TRIED to keep myself focused and ready to take on any interview that came my way. I spent time brushing up on skills that were on my resume, reading interview tips and well basically keeping my mind a finely tuned machine. I also kept fueling my fire, worked on healing pieces of me that were damaged over the last few major adventures and found some deeper definitions from myself on what I wanted and how I wanted to direct my next chapter of my life.
In a few weeks time, I had found a interfaith middle school camp that I feel in love with and have become involved in the planning, and have developed a passion and a soap box speech for that matter promoting the camp and it’s philosophy. Gotten involved in my church’s stewardship campaign, looked into gyms and well spent a lot of time with my animals.
Okay… so I have rambled on and on and I don’t have any more time to spend blabbering, that that is for today. Yet, I am excited to write more on this new chapter, and I am really excited to share this transformation and journey!
