Day One

Day One 

Yesterday I got the news that my stepmother passed away. She had been having a lot of health issues over the last year so it wasn't a total shock but it wasn't expected either. It made me stop and examine and evaluate my life. 

I will be turning 51 in a few days and I want the next 50 years to be better than the last 50. That means I needed to make some changes. So I posted a decent picture of me on my social media page with the words. I started a new journey and nothing else. I got a few comments and by a few I mean four. What they didn't know was it was an announcement to the world that I had started not only a new career but I had also decided to work on a new me. A career is nothing really, so that's not important, but living your best life is. 

I chose a photo that I felt was maybe my best photo that I had of me on my phone. This photo was taken right after I had finally got comfortable with going to work without my bottom teeth. You can't really tell in the photograph that I don't have my bottom dentures in. The point is, it was a photo taken of me when I felt somewhat comfortable. Isn't that what everyone wants  a life that is mostly comfortable. 

In my mind  I've always felt I need more money so I wanted to start a business. I'm tired of having to work myself to death and someone else getting the benefits. The problem though was not how much money I didn't have but my attitude about thinking or worrying about it.

I have still decided to start a business. But first things first. I want to be comfortable just being me! In order to accomplish that goal, however, I needed to needed to change the way I was living that meant I had to take a hard look at my life and figure out what I was doing wrong and then try real hard to fix it, have you heard the saying you are your own worst enemy? 

It's true I've wanted to own my own food truck I wanted to have an online store I wanted to be a country music singer I wanted to own rental properties. I want my own restaurant. I've toyed with the idea of becoming a personal trainer or a massage therapisteven a dog walker.

So you can see the problem, I really can't decide what I want to do. I just want to be a business owner and I want it to be successful. Why, so we can live comfortably or at least have a balance I our checkbook higher then a negative balance for a change.

Then after all of that I thought about Dad and Evy (Dad and his predicament) and how stuff isn't important but spending time with family is! I'm always gone to busy working weather it's for someone else or for myself. What I need to do is work on my attitude towards work. I have no time for the important things friends and family. 

I was even thinking about not going to the funeral because of work? I was afraid to even ask off! My priorities were definitely not where they should be.

I'm trying to figure out what my next steps are going to be professionally but I also examined what I want my home life to look like too and all I'm going to say is I'm going to try and prioritize the necessities while enjoying the view along the way in this journey!

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