12/16/2024
Last week, our agency did a planning day for the upcoming year. One of the exercises was to write out a 10-year vision. If you've never done that before, it's daunting. I had the hardest time thinking about what I want life to look like 10 years from now.
One thing that helped was thinking back 10 years and considering how much has changed since then. Ten years ago, I was 22 years old. That year, I completed my Masters degree, got married, and moved out with my new husband and our 4-year-old daughter. I was working my first big-kid job in marketing, and was crossing my fingers that this whole financial advisor thing my husband was doing would work out.
To say I'm not the same woman today as I was 10 years ago would be an understatement. And so I know 10 years from now, life will look drastically different than it does now. How do I know that?
Because the one thing that's been consistent throughout the past 10 years has been an unquenchable desire to learn, grow, and become the best version of myself. It's taken years to learn, but what I've finally accepted about life is that the more audacious I am, the more success I experience. The more I ground into who I am and what I value, and the bolder I am at living that out, the more beautifully full my life becomes.
So... where are you going to be in 10 years? What are you building now that is going to come to fruition over the next decade? What will you be proud of 10 years from now, that seems overly audacious now? Lean into that. Growth starts right there, where it feels the most impossible.
