2016 has been quite the year for me. I think I will call it my "Year of Bravery". I have been doing a lot of things that I would consider brave, but most of it has to do with leaving my previous job. It all started back in October, but didn't reach full momentum until December/ January. Being coupled with holiday time and a new year, a lot of things have changed for me. I not only knew that I was leaving a very (surface) good job, but also had to decide how I wanted to conduct myself as I left. I knew that I would be leaving for a while and tried to be the best employee that I could be throughout. I don't want to get too much more into that, but will say that I am proud of the work I did there. Maybe one day I will be able to write more about it publicly.
In January, I completed a month long yoga teacher training at Sonic Yoga in Hell's Kitchen NYC. I am going to write a separate post about my experience undergoing teacher training, but I will say here that it is something I have been aching to do for a long time.
I am so proud that I am making my dreams come true: I am so fortunate to live in NYC with the man of my dream in a dope apartment, teaching ice skating and yoga. I love coaching more than anything else I have ever done and am excited to add yoga to my repertoire. I still love writing, but I have developed a laziness for it. Like stretching, I am going to try to do a little bit every day. I can truthfully say that although I am not wealthy by any means, I am rich in happiness. I choose to live my life how I want every day.
So that is what I have been doing for February and March- living deliberately and happily. I coach when I can and eat what I like and live how I want. It is so freeing and so scary to be running my coaching/ teaching business as my main gig. I don't think I have ever been so continuously scared and excited about anything in my life. There is so much uncertainty and opportunity before me. I have gotten very creative in gaining new students and hope that I will never stop. I always thought of myself retiring to only teach skating, so in a lot of ways I feel retired- I am living the dream like an old lady. And there isn't a better feeling in the world!
