When I grow up I wanna be...

What do I wanna be when I grow up?

Life long question...

Has anyone answered it? I mean there are so many things throughout our lives that change: our values, our priorities, our interests, our taste buds...even the texture of our hair changes 7 times in a life time!!! (Still waiting for that full, thick, silky texture like those hair commercials *cross fingers*)It seems that nothing remains the same over time...

...oh, but I have found one constant. It came to me on a Sunday afternoon, after I spent the weekend at a sisterhood retreat. I had a revelation that weekend... I needed to find my purpose. I went on Barnes&Noble.com and searched for the "how full is your bucket" and I stumbled across Gallup's StrengthsFinder 2.0 and Strengths Based Leadership... $50 later...shhhh don't tell mom, and 4 books later I find myself checking the mailbox everyday for the book arrivals.

Finally, Spring Break, relax, kick back, and assess my strengths.

Now, I haven't found out anything I didn't already know, but finally I have been able to put in words my natural strengths...One core question that everyone who takes this assessment has is, "so, what now? who do I become? what should my career be?"

Well, that's not the way I look at it. I see it as an opportunity to discover ways we can use our natural strengths in our daily lives, current jobs, and relationships in order to contribute our part to the situation.

These articulations of what I am naturally good at have sent me into a reflective spiral.

I have finally been able to make a list of my professional goals, personal goals, values, and what I want in a significant other.


Two years ago I would have told you I didn't want a husband or kids or the white picket fence, but as I grow older and I see my friends marrying off or seriously dating I take a step back and wonder....what good is all of this? how great can this life be, if you have no one to share it with?

Life changes, things happen, and we can't wonder what might have been different, we can't worry about tomorrow or five years from now. But what we can do is take a look at our strengths, take a look at what we can do now, focus, and be truly happy in those moments. Fate takes you where you need to go, as for now, I'm just along for the ride. I'll make a decision when I come to it (like grad school within the next few weeks)...

So it doesn't matter what you want to be when you grow up, as long as you never stop dreaming big and chasing those dreams.

Go do great things today.