Cheers to 10 years!!!

Happy NYE 2019!  As we end the 2010’s and embark on the 2020’s, a fun new “thing” on FB lately is the "10 year photo."   People are posting photos of themselves from 2009 and now in 2019.  It’s a fun post, and I’m happy to play along.  I’m feeling good that time has been kind to me, and I look pretty similar on the outside (minus a wrinkle or two and definitely “silver sparkles” that require me to color my hair more and more frequently.)

However, this post really got me thinking…although my outside self hasn’t changed much in 10 years, my inside self is a completely different woman.

Let’s travel back in time…In 2009…I was:

• 35 years old
• Totally single and wondering if I always would be
• In a career that didn’t serve me, but I really didn’t know how to think outside the box on careers, so I made it work with therapy, wine, and a lot of running.
• I had amazing friends, family, and lots of fun, but I was definitely on a quest for more.
• I felt like a caterpillar who was longing to be a butterfly but didn’t really know how.

In a word, I was searching…searching for more!  I knew I had a good life, but I wanted an extraordinary one!

Fortunately, that October of 2009, I attended my 1st Tony Robbins event, UPW (Unleash the Power Within).  That event was the ultimate catalyst to me taking action and ownership of my life and happiness. I realized this is my life, so let’s start really living NOW.

Don’t wait for prince charming or a dream job.  Celebrate who I am right now and enjoy life as ME!  All of me…my Dark & Light (hence…D LIGHT…yes, that’s why it’s my license plate.)
Then the party really began…

• I started traveling the world (Hello Bali) and saying yes to adventures (skydiving anyone?)
• had some whirlwind romances (and learned some incredible lessons that only heartbreak can teach you)
• rocked some bikini completions which lead me to an incredible woman who became a life changing friend and business partner
• Met the man of my dreams and married him!!!
• Honeymooned in Bora Bora on those over the ocean huts (bucket list…check!)
• Although I got laid off 2 times within 28 months, that is what launched me into health & fitness 100% and I am so grateful for it. 
• Found my career and purpose. Hello Isagenix & Orangetheory! You are THE BEST!!! 
• I am truly living my mission statement every day and I couldn’t be happier.
• 4 years of fertility fun that the Universe conspired, so we’d end up with our incredible son MJ!!!  I believe in divine timing!!!

Some days I pinch myself, I know my 35 year old self had doubts that this would be her future.  If I had a special power, I would go back in time and tell my crying 35 year old self this….

• Girl, you’ve got this!!!
• We are all on our own path with our own time table. 
• You’ll get everything you’ve ever dreamed of… just not until it’s your time. And sometimes you have to do some serious work before it’s your time.
• There’s fun to be had, so go have FUN!!!
• Be grateful for all that you have and are, and more will keep coming to you!!!
• Everything works out.  It always does. 
• Personal Development is essential and worth it's weight in gold.  INVEST in yourself and you'll get paid back 1000x!!!
• Sometimes the only mode of transportation we have is a leap of faith, so jump!  The universe will catch and provide for you!

I can’t go back in time and nor do I want to.  However, I hope someone who needs to hear this is reading it now.  It’s been an incredible 10 years.  I can’t wait to see what the next 10 bring!!!  With Mike and MJ on aboard, I know it's going to be EPIC!!! Only thing I’ll do different this time….remember to wear more sunscreen!!!  😊