It’s my birthday! 🎂

​​It’s my birthday today.  

I’ve never been the type of person to set hard deadlines for myself: to be in a serious relationship by age X, to have my dream job by age Y etc. 

However, I have been the type of person to always look for what’s on deck, especially in my professional life. I have worked hard to get to where I am in my career while always pondering my next step.

Recently, I was talking to a very high-achieving friend over coffee about this very thing. We have both worked to carve out lanes for ourselves in our respective fields, and we are simply tired. But more than that, we have realized for the first time that we are OK not knowing our exact paths forward.

I’m 29 today and I’m just now realizing that I can be still without feeling guilty. For so long, I associated being OK with where I’m at as stagnation. But now, as I reflect on a new year of life, I’m coming to realize that it’s not stagnation. It’s contentment.

Not every aspect of my life is perfect right now … honestly, far from it. And not every aspect of my career is stellar now either. But that’s OK.

I’ve been running, running, running toward something for the first 10 years of my career. And now, after I blow out my birthday candles, I’m gonna catch my breath.

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