What Is The Thread Connecting You To The Life You Want To Live?

If you were to take a hard look at my life over the past three decades, you would notice the thread in my life has always been about connection. Connection to the world around me. Connection to adventure and travel. Connection to new ideas and a changing landscape of technology, art and entertainment. Connection to other cultures, faiths and belief systems. Connection to who I am. Connection to people and the relationships I've been able to build both personally and professionally. Connection to living a life I love.

You will read about this on my about page. You will see this as you follow along either digitally or in real life.

These connections have given me the richest, most fulfilling and hard life. Hard? Of course. Nothing comes easy for most of us. We have to work to overcome our struggles, weaknesses and places in life that trip us up. It’s natural. It’s the only way we grow.

It’s why I've come to realize that the most important part of my life is the relationships I have in my life. My family. My friends. Those two right there and the most vital. It’s also the two groups of relationships that can help make a professional life rewarding.

Because at the end of the day. No matter what we are dealing with people. Humans!!! With all of our flaws. With all of greatness.

And… It’s in this space that I love connecting people to life.

Back in the early 2000s I found my way into the blog space. Then into the social media space and eventually developing a two day workshop to help others leverage their strengths online. It was an absolute blast. Makes me proud to see some of those early attendees who are thriving online today with their careers.

And… While sitting face to face or talking on the phone provides the deepest of analog connection for me. This digital journey gave me the chance to share meaningful life lessons—what I had learned and still learning through my personal growth of success, failure and how these experiences were… still are changing me.

My favorite part of it all was really unexpected. Any time I would write about an experience and how I was finding the lessons in this experience, others would reach out and tell me how it helped them in some way. I never really banked on that happening. So anytime it did, I felt grateful that I could say something in a way that made someone else want to either start something they’ve never done, travel in a way they’ve never traveled… or just look a life, from a different angle.

It’s one of the underlying reasons I'm re-launching my website while focusing on some very important parts of my professional life.

Throughout my career I've been able to mold all of this together. Relational growth, business growth, personal growth, work life balance and build a vision for the future. It’s all connected.

Outwardly, I've built relationships that have not only yielded remarkable professional results but also gifted me with true friendships. I've guided others in building careers using a relationship-based approach and helped them develop the growth mindset needed to reach their life goals.

You see…

The older we get, the more we experience. The more we ask hard questions and struggle through difficult situations. The better our language develops to handle life when things are amazing and when things are freaking hard.

These experiences keep my curiosity alive. They teach me to be brave and allow me to embrace vulnerability—admit when I'm nervous, scared, or owning when I have failed. They also teach me that it’s ok to celebrate the win.

So… this reconnection of my life to the digital space (I had put on the back burner for these last several years) feels amazing. With it comes a new day. An older me. A focus on the present. Building today for today so that the future is sustainable.

It’s good to be back:)