Come on an adventure with me, will you?! šŸš² It was 3 years ago on this exact day (March 29, 2017) that I pulled out of the driveway and started my drive down here, to move to San Diego, CA from Walla Walla, WA. My first time living in a new state after spending the first 30 years in wonderful WA. I love where I grew up, and I do sometimes miss the lush, green, dense (but soft) grass, and beautiful evergreen trees šŸŒ² but moving to San Diego has been the best decision of my life!
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After finally accepting that I didnā€™t like where I was living, wanted to move to San Diego, and had the ability to change my circumstances, I took a moment of courage on February 17, 2017 and announced to a very small group of people that I was going to move to San Diego by April 1, 2017. And while I hadnā€™t explicitly said this was ā€œfor their ears onlyā€ šŸ‘‚ at the time, it was during my final weekend of leadership training, and everything shared there was supposed to stay there. I guess not everyone got that memo, and it wasnā€™t 24 hours later that I had a post on my public Facebook page, congratulating me on this new adventure. While her sentiments were sweet, I was a bit miffed, if Iā€™m being honest šŸ˜‘ Why couldnā€™t she have just sent me a private message? It was NOT her place to tell the world my personal plans! And now it was out there for the world to see šŸ˜Ÿ
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I hadnā€™t yet shared with my own family that I was moving. Partly concerned of disappointing them (although my mind was already made up that I was for sure movingā€¦and, they were wonderfully supportive!) – and partly the fact that I had just come back from a very intense/long weekend and I hadnā€™t acclimated back into my life yet. As it turns out, her post was indeed how they found out šŸ¤¦ā€ā™€ļø
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This was supposed to be such a huge, brave, fun adventure, and, from the start, it didnā€™t go exactly as planned. It wasnā€™t as smooth as I envisioned. And it happened quicker than I thought, involving a few unexpected people. Isnā€™t that just so often the case though? We can make plans, and plan how itā€™s going to look, and plan how weā€™re going share it with others, and plan this, and plan that, and plan some moreā€¦.and then the simplest thing (or a huge curve ball) can totally knock us off track or discourage us.
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BUT, itā€™s still up to us to keep showing up, even when things donā€™t go as planned. Even when we donā€™t know the how. I saw a sign the other day that said ā€œstubborn on the vision, flexible on the pathā€ and it stuck with me! Let us be stubborn to stick to our vision, and flexible to know it can happen in a multitude of ways!
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It may not have gone how I thought, but Iā€™m HERE, and Iā€™m loving it! AND, I did indeed drive into town on April 1, 2017. Itā€™s been an incredible 3 years! Whatā€™s something youā€™ve been wanting? What if you could look back in 3 years and say ā€œIā€™m so glad I did that thing!ā€? Go for it!! Nowā€™s the time!
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