Making Moves!

If we've met, you probably have gathered that I don't let dust settle too often.

As I begin a new/old life adventure career-wise, I'm also planning another adventure...an Etsy shop!  Because crafts.  All the crafts. All the time. 

I had an Etsy shop years ago that was not successful at all. But now I'm older, wiser (maybe? lol), and am about to have a lot more free time to plan and create. I also have help in all of these things, which I didn't have before.

This isn't going to be an immediate thing; I've got to work hard to improve my talents and create an inventory. The first time around was half-assed; this time around will be professional. It is my goal to someday just have a business where I produce items and food stuffs for people that make people feel good.  That's where I see myself in the future.

Creating challenges me. I love learning how to make new things; it keeps my brain moving. When I make something that's useful and unique and someone buys it and loves it...the feeling is like no other. I feel proud and fulfilled.

And that's how I want to live my life. Doing what I want to do, living authentically, and creating naturally.  I want to continue to live my life in such a way that I can sleep easily at night. 

So, right now I am working hard on creating more boxing glove/shoe deodorizers in fun, new patterns because of their practicality and popularity, but I will be upping my natural soap making, candle making, and over-all skin product game. I also want to work on hand-knitting, metal hammering, and overall upcycling products into something fresh and useful.  Quilting will be in the works for my partner but I have zero interest in that, personally, at this time.  I'd also like to learn how to basket weave!  #AllTheThings

Oh boy, I have my work cut out for me.

Be kind. Rewind.

In a shocking turn of events that has everyone's head spinning - I am making yet another large change for 2017.  2017 is the year I return to an old career path with a new perspective.

This one is going back to an office job!  #SayWhat?!

I have just found myself craving the normalcy of a regular schedule for sleeping, social life stuffs and personal time.  My old job, about a month ago, offered me my job back in such a way that it was kinda played off as a joke...but underneath it I knew they were interested.  I was surprised in the way that I didn't flat out reject it, I just kind of avoided it and continued to chew on it until I knew it was the right path to take.

Weird right?  I've been with the ILKB in Clifton Park since it opened. I have accomplished so much, I've met so many wonderful people who have touched my life.  I don't regret a single step of it. The change from a paralegal to a kickboxing instructor to a full out manager (Manager of the Year, if I do say so myself!) was so rewarding and empowering in a way that I don't think I could have achieved doing anything else.  I got to see not only members, but my staff, grow and change in ways that make me so proud.

Apparently 2017 is the time to just shake up every single aspect of my life and put it all in the hands of God, trusting in His plan and learning to just let go.

So I am traveling back in time, back to a time when I was a Davis working at a law firm in Malta.  It's like a movie - where you get to go back in time and do something a little bit better than before because you know better.  You're wiser now.  You know what to expect.  The perspective is different.

Life is about taking chances, moving on, making mistakes, being victorious, and above all - growing.