I'm drinking the Koolaid, I'm eager to get after a life that highlights my God-given gifts, but I'm hung up on this question. I know that I want to leave my job, I know that I want to plunge into a career that inspires me, and I know that I cannot wait!
With my husband fully on board and supportive, I've decided to begin the research and prayer towards starting my own photography business. I've started a business plan (took me an entire day to write only one of ten sections), I've started looking into other local photography competition, and I've been listening to power-house women who have taken the leap of faith, struggled, failed, succeeded, and ultimately won! Kendra Scott, Rachel Hollis, Christy Wright, Jessica Honneger (go ahead, google them), all of these women knew that they were taking a chance and they owned it, rocked it, and freakin' brought it! They are all inspirations to me, but they all have something I don't (besides incredible careers), and that's a why. Why did they start a jewelry business? Why did they work so hard to empower women in third world countries? Why do they share their stories?
As I was sitting at our crummy uptown office, I think it dawned on me, in a very natural way. I don't want to work here anymore. I don't want to work for somebody else in a field that I don't even fully understand or really even find all that interesting. I'm not challenged, I'm underappreciated, and I'm straight. up. unhappy. And I have been for a very long time.
I think it's incredibly sad how people will stay in something, just simply getting by, because it's comfortable and familiar and, well, it pays the bills. We trade in our happiness 40 hours a week (usually more) for a paycheck.
I'm breaking the norm, I'm following my why!
Because life is too short to spend 1/3 of every week day in a space that is dragging you down. We are meant to be challenged and it has simply taken me too long to realize that happiness cannot be found in a paycheck. We are gifted, each and every one of us. There is somebody out there who would love and appreciate my current position as an Audit Manager-and I bet they are darn good at it!
Because I want to be happy again. I want to transition between life and work and back to life seamlessly, stress-free, and content.
Because I want to take pride in something.
Because I want to use my gifts to make others smile, to capture memories, to freeze moments in time!
Because I'm worth it. I'm worth the fear, the stress, the unknown.
Because it's my life and I'm taking it back!
Because I want to live out my why and be the best possible version of myself that I can be, every single day!
https://www.ted.com/talks/simon_sinek_how_great_leaders_inspire_action
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