A year ago (tomorrow), was my last day at work before giving birth to my first child. I was planning on working from home the following week leading up to my due date, but I spent all of Memorial Day last year in the throes of contractions knowing I might not make it to that digital meeting Tuesday morning… I didn’t. I hung out in the hospital instead.
You know your life is going to change when you have a baby. I knew that. People tell you things. But it’s also one of those things you just have to experience for yourself, see how it changes you, your routines, your bank account, your work-life balance…
All of the things have changed. But what’s really exciting for me to keep in mind is how my work has changed in the year since I had my bub. Things changed in my day to day, coworkers left, coworkers joined, teams rearranged, responsibilities shifted and there is quite literally no end in sight to that change.
If you know exactly where you and your business will be in a year, do something unexpected. Or, I suppose, just wait for the unexpected to happen to you, soak it all in – the good and the bad – and show up every day ready for new and exciting changes and challenges.
This is a short article. This is a long weekend. Next week is a short week – surprise yourself. Do something out of routine. Shake things up at home or life. And enjoy every moment. It goes fast.

 
PS: I’ve been reflecting a lot lately, both about REMAN U –  its reach and effectiveness – and my own soon-to-be yearling. Slightly more than a year ago, I wrote my last REMAN U article before my baby-outage: My Last REMAN U (For Now). In that article, I was reflective about why we do REMAN U and why you should, too, (but your version!). This entire month I’ve been taking the time to write something every day – even if just a sentence, to honestly capture how I’m feeling and what’s happening around me. Do your version. And look at it a year from now. Then do it again!