Yesterday I was putting together a shop game plan for the remainder of the year. I came to a realization. We are a mere 4.5 months away from 2011. Now let’s get the “WTF, OMG, say it isn’t so?, where did the year go?” responses out of the way, trust me, it ran immediately through my head too along with my Twitter buddies when I tweeted my realization.
We always hear (or proclaim it ourselves) the saying “time is flying” and boy, saying it yesterday was one HUGE wake up call. I had big goals for 2010. I’ll be the first to raise my hand and say those goals were derailed with an unexpected hiatus amongst other life events. I’ll also admit that I’ve dropped the ball and lacked in my follow through countless times. There’s no denying it.
While it would be easy for me to sit here and rue the facts (and believe me, here and there I will) all I can promise myself over the next 4.5 months is to give it my everything. To walk new paths and venture outside of my comfort zone. It’s pointless for me to look back on 2010 so far and see it as a failure. I don’t talk about every aspect of my life here and what can’t be shown on paper, or in sales and revenue is the life-changing events that have occurred. Thankfully mostly for the better.
Whenever I’d go quiet over here or throughout my break, I’d always bemoan the fact that I wasn’t sharing everything with you guys. I felt this need to justify why it appeared as though I was doing absolutely nothing while in the background things were often changing faster than I could comprehend. I’ve come (need!) to accept the most of 2010 wasn’t meant to be about modernemotive directly but more the centre of it – me. So, I can’t chastise myself for taking the time to recoup from it all. Truth be told, I was still regrouping from much of 2009s events too as well as other things. It’s typical of me to push any aftermath aside and keep chugging on. Eventually it all catches up to you but at some point you have to let it all go. Eventually you have to say goodbye to the “what ifs” and regrets. We have no choice.
As I’ve already said, it’s time to put everything I have into this. To put it mildly, I gotta kick some ass! When I used to work agency-side, no matter where I went, I was always known as the go-to girl to get things done with the key being I’d get it done fast with great results. There’s some slight irony that I take forever to get my self-assigned work complete, but with no bosses breathing down my neck, it’s easy to do. Very easy! So, I need to find that girl again and squeeze every drop of possibility out of the next 4.5 months. I’m ready.
What’s your take on 2010 so far? On track with your goals? And if not, what are your next steps to rev yourself up?
Photo Credit: .Mallory Beth.
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