Last published 10/25/13...part 2

Friendships

Hmmm.  What can I say here.  I've always been blessed with amazing friends.  On the flip side of that I've always been...hindered, if you will, by this thought of change/newness/etc.
In short, I've always believed I'm gonna have these great friendships for a few years...like three max, and then move on to the next great friendships.  Not any ground shattering reason for not being friends anymore...that just being the natural order of things. 

And then I realized fairly recently, that I blew that notion out of the water several years ago.  My high school friends, college friends, HEB/LSS/CNL/BAR/Politico even ACLU friends are all beyond my three year 'threshold'.  When did that happen?!

But I've never been happier. So I'm glad to have moved on, grown up and disproven that threshold.  Mind you, I still juggle people, get stressed out because I'm juggling people.  Get involved in new organizations because I'm bored and subsequently meet new people....but I no longer feel like that there's some clock on my arm telling me when my superfun friends are gonna expire. A la:

I admit, I'm ashamed I watched this movie.  I'm pretty sure I wasted 5 bucks on demand for it. Ugh.

So yea.  A little freeing.  And i'm excited to not be on the board of, or in any major membership role of an organization come January.  I'm pretty certain it's been since mid-college when I was in this position.  I'm gonna enjoy the downtime and maybe casually join a few organizations with no intentions of being on boards for a while.  #famouslastwords.

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Last published 10/25/13...part 1

Whew its been awhile...thanks Phillip for reminding me I have a blog that I'm really bad about writing in.  But warning this maybe more of a ramble vs. a blog with actual linear thoughts.

I'm sitting here on day one of vacation thinking about the year in review and the upcoming year.  And I just want to write about selected topics.  Maybe I'll do a couple before the new year.  I'm about to outline the hell out of 2013/2014 yall!

• Work
• Friendships
• School
• Health
• Endurance Sports
• Hobbies
• Organizations
• Relationships
• Money
• Turning 30
• Weddings
• Birthdays
• Business Ideas
• Me. 

I think what's going to come out of it all is to be more open-minded and try new things.

Work 

Be more open-minded.  I know how I operate and what working style makes me happy.  If I could sit in my office alone for a month and catch up on everything, I'd be a much happier/social person.  I'm going to work on becoming a better colleague and more open-minded about....a lot of things. I would also burn myself out, as I kinda did when I was trying to accomplish so much before the end of the year.  I want to find the balance I been looking for for awhile.  Not just the work/life balance, but the work friendships/work balance, the day-to-day work/career track balance and the day-to-day work/big ideas balance.  Something truly did click around my 29th birthday.  I've missed politics so much, but I just let it go and really moved on to the next.  Now my career goals are somewhere in between growing where I am or growing where I am and planning for something bigger in a different career. It's going to be a fun ride. It involves the kind of follow through that has rarely gotten to happen for me, because I've worked in such short term projects before.  It also involves the kind of long term thinking I wanted to have at my last job, but it wasnt a large enough organization to take advantage of that. 

I love where I work and what I do.  The question will be, can I say that in a few years. 

Next up -  Friendships. Maybe in a few hours or tomorrow...

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