A lot can happen in 10 years…

You ever think about what your life will look like 10 years from now and what your life looked like 10 years ago?

10 years ago, I was homeschooling a 3rd grader and kindergartener, while keeping a busy toddler out of everything and being pregnant with another. My husband was working full time and I felt like I was doing so much on my own. 

Today my husband is so involved with the kids and their schoolwork. He knows what they are learning. He is present at home and watching Molly grow and develop every day. He spends a lot of time with the family. He prepares meals and helps keep the house in order. He helps the kids with their projects. He leads family devotions. We are enjoying living in the house that he worked tirelessly and sacrificially for a year to build. He is pursuing an opportunity to work from home that is allowing him to use his natural strengths and talents and his mind to make an income. 

I would not trade this life for anything. 

I want more conversations with him. I want more time with him. In the next 10 years, almost all of my children will be old enough to have graduated from college, gotten married, and started a family. I could have five or more grandchildren. The days, weeks, months, and years are flying by. I want to soak in every moment. I’ve realized I do that by writing. 

Many times over the last 10 years as a business coach I have asked people the question: “If time and money were no object, what would your life look like?” This question gets people to start dreaming again and crafting a vision for their life. I then help them connect the dots between what they want their life to look like and how a home based business could provide that for them. 

When I think about that question for myself after working hard to build my business for so many years and surpassing every goal I had set out to achieve with it, the answer is, “My life would look exactly like it does right now except for one thing: I want to write.” 

I’ve accumulated some wisdom through my experiences over the years. Writing helps me process all of it. Writing helps me soak in every moment of it and the feelings that come along with it. The challenges and the setbacks, the successes and the failures, the relationships and what they mean to me, and what I’ve learned along the way. Writing helps me pass it on to others. 

So I am going to make time to do that.