2007-2008 Reflections, Expectations, and Forecasts

Last year I predicted that 2007 was going to be the year of change. For me, that meant doing big things in a big way. I felt I had to make a significant change because I knew the big 3-0 was going to arrive in 2008. I had to condense the 5 year plan I’d made when I was 25 in order to reach most of my goals by thirty. In my efforts to set this change into motion, I created a tsunami for which to usher in this change. I needed a big enough wave to carry me to my new place, the next plateau in my personal growth. As I stomped the ground and stirred up the water, I handed out surf boards made up of dreams and goals to all of those around me, I figured this wave would be big enough to carry me and anyone else who wanted to come along for the ride.
So with the tsunami in full motion, my dreams, goals and expectations building as the wave traversed the earth, it crashed me right into a place I should’ve been years ago! I won’t go into the details, but in the end, I’d made it to a place where I felt I could progress further, and I’d accomplished my goal for 2007.
And now it’s 2008. I predict that 2008 will be great! 2008 is the year to LET IT GO. What do I mean by this? Well with change and new things comes a lot of self exploration. I had to get over some things to initially make that move. I also came face to face with issues or things that I didn’t know I had problems with, but they had been the things that had impeded my growth to begin with. So in finding out my issues and in trying to continue to progress personally, there is a definite need to let some things go. I know that the issues that have continued to hold me back have no place in my present life. I know that holding on to certain feelings and perspectives may have at one point been good, helped me to survive some hard times, but that I don’t really need them anymore, and they are not helpful. So I’m working on letting it go!
In conclusion I would like to give a round of applause to all those who made changes in 2007, whether big or small, and I would like to encourage you to keep progressing in 2008 and work on our issues that may be holding us back. Just to name a few changes that took place in the ’07, I moved, someone got into Columbia and is working on her PhD, someone took a chance and moved to Austin just for the sake of having a life experience, someone moved out of their momma’s house, people got divorced/separated, people came out, people got married, people had babies (yay for twins!), people stopped smoking and people graduated from college!