Life Lesson 12- Dreaming big is not enough....

Lately I have found myself in such a crazy balancing act that I am amazed I am still standing. I am Juggling work, home, a board position and trying to finish my first novel. Yes, i am what you call an overachiever or just plain nuts. I have not even had time to keep up with my blog which I really love doing. I recently heard a speaker at one of my industry conventions say "you cannot complain about how stressed you are or how busy you are because you chose this" I thought about this and she was absolutely correct. I choose all of the things in my life and I really do have no right to complain when my left eyelid starts twitching from too much stress and coffee. I thought also if I should take one of the balls out of the air that I so brilliantly choose to put there....the answer was simple. All of those balls are part of who I am and part of my dreams. So they stay. If I intend on reaching and of my goals in life I need to accomplish the hard work that goes with each of them. I work, sit on a board of directors and travel in an industry I love because I want to run a company someday in my field. I write every free moment I have to finish my first novel because I want to be a published author and share the stories in my head. Most importantly I spend as much time with my daughter as I can because I want her to grow into a confident women who also dreams big! I do realize that I could probably focus on just two of these goals but I am also honest with myself about who I am and who I want to be, so for me this makes sense. The trick here is to make sure your dreams are within your power to achieve. Sure I would love to fly to the moon, but sadly I am not an astronaut and American Airlines does not yet go there (now that would boost my mileage and status quickly though!!!). While I think that is a bucket list type of dream, it is not a dream I would toss up a ball into the air for. It is not what I consider to be an achievable goal for me. Once you identify what your achievable goals are you should put your heart, soul and time into making them a reality. So many people have big dreams but the biggest life lesson they sometimes learn is that while life is moving along at this fast and crazy pace the opportunities to achieve your goals get slimmer each day. I will leave you with a few of my Driven Chick Quotes to inspire you to Dream Big and Work Hard :-)

"The closer we get to our dreams and what we want..The further we should let the ghost of fear and doubt haunt." - Driven Chick

"Chasing Dreams is not for the weak. Run fast to gain what you seek. If you pause a moment to long, all you have worked for will be long gone." - Driven Chick

Life Lesson 10 - The Cheerio Moments

My day goes something like this:
Wake up, not to an alarm but to an 18 month old who is up anytime between 5:30am and 6:30am. (when its my turn, great tip, my husband and i take turns so there is no cranky argument in the morning) but regardless of turns, i am up by at least 7am.
Then the baby gets milk and breakfast, i get ready for work and then leave to a now crying baby who can say no mommy bye bye! kills me every time......
But there is this moment in the morning between the milk and the breakfast and before my mad dash to look like a marketing director and not a tired mommy, where i have my cheerio moment.
She sits with me on the couch while i watch the news and we have a little bowl of cheerios on our lap. 2 hands reach into the bowl, one tiny and one needing a manicure........and we raise the cheerios to our mouth at the same time and crunch, which she giggles at every time......she looks at me with these big eyes and smiles like it is her favorite time of the day and i smile knowing it is mine.

Those Cheerio moments as i call them are so precious to a working mom like me. The times when i can show her at this age that mommy will make time even in a rushed tired morning state.

The life lesson here is to find your Cheerio moment with your family and lose yourself in that special moment , it will give your kids memories of childhood of special mommy moments even if your a Driven Chick :-)

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