Happy Birthday To Me! Rediscovering Denver or I’m So Glad I Quit My Job!

Today is my birthday and I’m feeling super blessed. I took a huge risk at the end of last year and I am so glad that I did. I should be very clear. I need to hustle and make more money. I’ve been a bit of a slacker from mid-June until…ahem…now. But, as I enter another year of life I can say with COMPLETE CONVICTION that leaving my old job and taking this risk was the best thing that I could have done to move my life forward.

I cannot imagine how I would be feeling about myself and my life if I had decided to continue down the safe road. I imagine that I would be feeling very alone. And would be a bit fatter, and increasingly more depressed and angry about the direction my life was going.

And-it would be my fault. There is a moment when you have to take well thought out risks and see what will happen.  I spent a lot of time reading about other people’s journeys and imagining how I could change my life. I could have failed or succeeded. Or, I could find that my experience is somewhat in the middle.

I will be honest:

There has been one negative consequence:

• My credit has  taken a ding-But I’m not fussed about it at all. Why? Because  I can easily rebuild my credit. I’m on an all cash budget and haven’t used credit since April. As my income and savings goes back up (read-I pitch more and work harder) things will balance out. Also, I’ve already bought a home and will live in it until I get married (I love my place) and I won’t take out a car loan for car. Basically, I am not interested in doing anything that I can’t pay for with cash. Which means-no more using credit. You do need to have good credit so of course I will work on cleaning up this unfortunate consequence of leaving my job.

The Positive Consequences:

• Professionally-I’ve learned to assert myself in a way that I couldn’t at my previous position. I am now about to start pitching for new clients and will be able to showcase skills developed and refined from my current list of clients.

• Health-I feel FANTASTIC!! I have been slowly but surely losing weight. Meditate, exercise everyday, and feel MELLOW (no Colorado jokes please) People (my friends and family) have actually remarked on how happy I seem. So-I was pretty unhappy before. Mental well-being-I am a lot more balanced and calm. I have time to reflect on situations or issues that I was managing in an unhealthy way (emotional spending/eating) and manage them in a healthy way.

• Social Life-I am reconnecting with all of the wonderful people who I have been blessed to have in my life for so long. I have spent time with my mom, my friends, and met new people. I’ve even begun dipping my toe back into the dating game. Connections with people has been something that I’m very concerned about and focused on. What is the point of a life without good people? I’ve also had a number of friends that I haven’t heard from in years reconnect with me. It has been wonderful.

• The Blogs-I am in the process of working on content/etc for The Shop My Closet Project and Colorado Luv Hub (www.coloradoluvhub.info) The moving guide that I offered for CLH has been pretty popular and I have some great resources for TSMYCP that I’m in the process of developing. I’m super excited about the developments on this end and hope to engage and serve my readers in a different way. I’m also enjoying my podcasts (plural) started one for both sites!

• Rediscovering Denver-It is pretty sad and kind of weird to say this but for awhile after I returned from Australia and started living my new life in Denver…I felt like I had moved to a new city. Even though I grew up in Denver/Boulder. The thing is, Denver has been growing and changing by leaps and bounds and it is AMAZING. I’ve rode my bike everywhere, discovered new places to eat, going to free concerts, finding dozens of Tiny Free Libraries, started hosting a Meetup and might start another one. It has been awesome. I love this town.

This hasn’t been a smooth transition but who expects a major life change to be pain free? We want to avoid pain but pain is part of the process. Pain is how I will push myself to grow my business, pain is how I will get uncomfortable enough to get out of my way.

No Pain, No Gain

On that note, I leave you with some pictures of Denver (and Boulder) and happy birthday to me!

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