This past year was a very interesting year with a lot of change, realizations, and truly figuring out what I want to accomplish with the skills I’ve attained throughout college. This time last year I had come back from my backpacking trip in Southeast Asia and it was my primary goal to get a full time job and move to Denver, which I was successful in accomplishing and now it’s been almost a full year since I’ve started my life in Denver. It truly is almost hard to believe that it’s almost been a year, because it has literally flown by. Now that I’m working full time everything around me moves so much faster and I’ve realized it has become hard to focus on multiple things at once. Evolve has been an amazing opportunity and I’m excited to see where I’ll go there, but now that I spend most of my life there it seems like all I’m focused on is work. One of my goals for 2019 is to focus more on a work and MY life balance. Some of the best perks of Evolve are all the happy hours and post-work events that we have, but it’s still circulated around work. Don’t get me wrong I love it there but I’ve recently realized that I need to focus more energy on the things I love to do outside work. This is the first time in my life that I’ve been working full time and have had this type of feeling, but after doing it for nearly a year I’ve quickly realized that it’s only natural and really healthy to have the balance so that I’m more productive at work but also have a clearer understanding as to what my long term goals are.
As far as my long term goals go I have a few different paths I’ve been torn with and that have been constantly racing through my head. Denver is amazing and I think it’s been an amazing place to start my career, but I’m still in the learning period as to whether or not I want to be here long term. It’s perfect for now and I love being here in my early twenties with all my friends from college and a great job, but I have a feeling that in the next few years I will outgrow it here and be ready to move on to something bigger. One of my favorite aspects about Denver is the community here and the fact that I do have a large network of friends and connections, however I know myself in that I always crave something bigger and a challenge for myself. Denver itself hasn’t been much of a challenge for me because I’ve spent the past few years just down the road in Boulder, but on the flip side it has allowed me to really flourish and given me the opportunity to shift from college into a professional job path. In the long term I don’t know yet if Denver will be the place for me and one of my biggest weaknesses is that I’m impatient. My biggest fear is that I’ll be impulsive and make a career move or move away from Denver and regret it so sometimes I need to take a step back to think about what I really want and in order for me to find the room to breath is to really find that balance with work and life. I’m very much so the person that works to live and doesn’t live to work unless the work that I do is something that I’m truly passionate about and that is my ultimate long term goal.
I think 2019 will be a great year full of even more realizations, new and old friends coming together, and further personal development that will lead me to my long term goals. I’ve been pretty much financially independent and with that comes a lot of freedom and equally as much responsibility in my actions. My life has never been as much in my control ever and it’s exciting but also daunting. I’m excited to see where things take me and I’m definitely along for the ride. With the lessons I’ve learned in 2018 and the new mindset I have going into this new year I have much more confidence in how I’m going to achieve my future goals. I’m telling myself to be patient and to think as everything I do as a stepping stone. It wont be easy and there will be times where I will feel a little lost again but life about figuring things out a long the way. What works, what doesn’t work and how to use the lessons you’ve learned to apply them in a positive light. Bring it on 2019!
