To say that my life has been a whirlwind lately is an understatement. In the past two weeks, I have worked 100 hours, flown to Salt Lake City, and driven across Utah, Idaho, and Wyoming. In the past two months, I’ve moved in with The Mister, turned 27, spent a week in Vegas, started a new job, and have had to adapt and adjust to a huge lifestyle change. Today is the first day where I feel like I can actually stop and take a breath, so that’s what I’m doing.
Mother Nature put on a show for us as we drove across Wyoming.
The biggest change has absolutely been the new job. It’s a bit of a switch going from a 4,000 person company to a 50 person one, to say the least. I feel like in my current position I have more freedom than I ever would have had before. With that freedom comes more responsibility and longer hours, so it is definitely a trade-off, but if there was ever a time to work long hours, it’s now. No kids, a partner who works even longer hours, and a company I’m happy to work hard for – perfection.
The best part about where I am now, however, is the passion every.single.person I work with has. It’s incredible to be around smart, engaged, passionate people day in and day out – instead of coming home and feeling exhausted, I come home energized. There’s a lot of work to do, but it is all work I’m looking forward to doing. That was the number one thing I was hoping to find with a new company – not just another job where I punched in, did what I was paid to do, and punched out, but the opportunity to work on something I loved and cared about. I have to say that I’m lucky and found it!
I literally have nothing to complain about in my life at the moment, and that’s an incredible feeling. I love my job, I love living with The Mister, I’m getting back into my yoga swing, and there’s nothing better than a Denver summer. About six months ago I decided I was going to be happy and try to concentrate on the positive energy in the world, and I feel like the effort has more than paid off – not only am I a happier person overall, but the good energy I’m putting out is returning to me 10 fold.
Before I sign off, here’s a picture of Amy and me at “The Happiest 5k in the World,” aka The Color Run, which we walked last weekend:
How can you not be happy at this race?!
Looking forward, I just have to focus on making my new company proud, getting the new house ready to move into and the old house ready to sell, and being a good Maid of Honor for Amy’s upcoming wedding. I’m also going to try to enjoy summer as much as I can, because it is going to fly by way too quickly. Change so far has been good, and I want to keep it that way!
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