Back on Track!

It's been a couple months since I posted. I wasn't exactly off track but was definitely wondering off freely into the distance with distractions! There were a few weeks over Christmas holidays that everyone in my family took it in turns to get the nasty cold/flu bug that was going round, I got my turn twice and therefore was quite unproductive with the exception of making Rudolph brownies, best christmas baking to date!

Wedding planning (I still hate to mention for some reason) took over massively with more lows than highs but that's all cleared up and back on track too. It's surprising how much I've learnt about myself through the whole process so far actually, all participating into understanding myself better - in terms of what I want, what's important to me, my relationship to money etc. I am really looking forward to the day now and need to keep the planning in balance with the rest of this experiment.

I have done some lifestyle adventuring since last reported - I have started an internship with a company I had been following for 4-5 years. I sound like a stalker! It's not what you think.

I saw them present at my previous company and remember writing down in the back of my notebook in small letters just in case someone saw or found my notebook and figured out i wanted to leave the company...I wrote something along the lines of 'i wish i could be them, this is awesome, it brings me energy, i need to find something else'.

4 years later I see their newsletter pop up and they were advertising for an intern - I applied, I followed up and I am now researching for them in all of my favourite topics! More to come on that :) It's funny how things (spirits, ideas, magical creative unicorns - however you want to call them) linger, then come back round in a circle and start tapping on your shoulder until you are ready to see them, acknowledge them and act on it. It reminds me of what I ready in 'Big Magic' by Elizabeth Gilbert.

Have also had a few opportunities come from the Wellbeing at Work conference I attended in London AND have some fun stuff planned for the month too!

I guess I wasn't that far off track after all? I think what I realised I was missing most was a timeline. I could forever carry on dabbling in things that are interesting and not hold myself accountable to really commit and go for something that I'm going to live and breathe every day. At the beginning of January I had a good talking to myself, sorted out the distractions and created a 2 month plan to complete this experiment honing down on the areas that really are of interest to me since the last few months of exploring.

This post is my commitment to that plan. By 10th March I should have a much clearer plan on what I'm going to commit to with income for the rest of the year. Things will change and evolve but this is the time I'm giving myself permission to dabble and explore with serious rational research to make some decisions about my future career and what my 9 to 5 is going to look like.

Will create a post a week again so you and me can all enjoy the ride :) It may mean 2 posts today for catch up by the way.

Thank you for holding me accountable!