who’s up for another road trip?

who’s up for another road trip?

-or should I say, finishing my road trip?

Westward ho!

Um, I mean…Eastward.

Looks like I’ll be back on the east coast in time to eat some turkey. Here continues the great job search of 2010!

In making my decision to continue east, I got this email from a business person I know. It was a humbling and flattering email to say the least and very unexpected. I wanted to share it not to pat myself on the back (we all know I have made plenty of mistakes in my life), but because it reminded me that everything I (you) do makes a difference. People really are paying attention. I met this person years ago, I’ve had very sporadic interaction with them, and sure assumed we had a mutual respect for each other, but certainly did not think that he “saw” me/thought quite as high as this about me. This is a person who has been around the block, is much older and lived X10 of life and business than I:

” I knew you had to travel the pipe line; wrestle a few Carribu; smash a few grapes; and find some hunk under a rock in Cassablanka. There is no doubt that “the killer chick” will find what she wants right under her nose – what usually happens. When one is as industrious, independent, smart, beautiful, and hardheaded as you are- one has to hit the right wall hard enough to know what direction to take. Keep hitting walls; it will come”

I suppose this is also important for me to share because I hope it encourages you to stay true to yourself. I have tried harder to do that than anything else in my life. I’ve had an inclination to throw in the towel a few times since I’ve been an adult. Life throws you curve balls and serves us challenges sometimes that are debilitating. That and lets face it, it is not an easy road to find your feet and foundation as you grow up. The truth is, how you maintain and stay true and steady to yourself and your beliefs during those tough growing times- those are what people remember you for. There’s no way everyone in the world is going to like me, or you. It’s impossible to please everyone. The best people will see you for who you really are and stick with you through the good, bad and ugly. (AKA; “Finding yourself through your 20’s, growing into your own, etc.)

Here’s to the journey, paying attention, staying in touch, and being flexible, but holding steady to what and who you are.