It will be 1 year in June when I went to my friend and mentor, Carrie Henze's house for a goal planning meeting with my other teammates.  I was told to write down where I saw myself in 1 year, 5 years, and 10 years.  I was never a person who knew how to set goals, (god forbid I plan for my future), and I was probably the biggest eye-roller in the room.  But alas, I did what I was told, and I wrote down a few things that meant a lot to me.  These goals that I wrote down made my stomach hurt.  They made me short of breath.  I even laughed out loud at a few of them because they seemed so outlandish!  Who did I think I was to write something on paper that was so far out of my league?  They kept saying...the bigger and scarier they are, the better they are.

I looked back at that list a few months ago and what I saw blew my mind. I mean, it still does!  Six of the goals that I had written down, I actually accomplished.  I got teary-eyed as I looked at my list because I was so overwhelmed with what I wrote.

*move out of my apartment
*move in w/bf
*have my own office
*Premiere Coach by 12/31/14
*2 Star Coach by 12/31/14
*Have one child

In previous years, I was always searching for something.  I never knew what it was nor did I know how to get it or even find it.  Goal setting was the farthest from my mind.  What WAS on my mind??  Having the most amount of fun in the shortest amount of time!  I mean, who says that?  I even said it out loud!  In front of people!  What the heck kind of goal is that?

So as I sit here and reflect in my new office, (which was one of my 1 year goals),  I think about the other goals that made that list.  I get completely overwhelmed with happiness and I still feel like I'm living someone else's life.  I can't believe the person that I was three years ago, five years ago, and even ten years ago. That person is completely different than the person I see in the mirror now.  It didn't come easy and it was an extremely rocky road but I'm so excited for the future and what it's going to bring to me and my loved ones.  

I am now a firm believer in setting really huge and scary goals!  Why?  Why not?  WHY NOT ME!?