I’m sitting on the porch, watching as my son’s plastic toy car, the rug from Germany, and an old chair that my husband would be SO happy to "accidentally lose" get carried out to a huge truck bound for Pennsylvania.
It’s moving day! And I’m so glad it’s finally here.
Naturally, it’s making me think a lot about closure…
... taking one last gaze at my view of the snow-capped Rockies
… waving goodbye to the hospital where my son was born (I can see it from my house)
… lovingly mending nail holes so we can sell the first house that Ben and I purchased jointly
But I’ve realized it’s not just personal memories … I grew a business baby, too, and have a full (mental) album of business memories to show for it.
Over the last 3 years I’ve taken some really scary leaps: I’ve invested more, put myself "out there" more, produced more, earned more, coached more and just generally upleveled my mind more than seemed possible when we first moved here.
Which has been great sometimes, and terrible other times, but all around amazing. But there’s not a single thing I’ve done which compares to the closure and accomplishment I feel from creating Uplevel Your Life.
It’s the best work I’ve ever done, hands down.
It’s the first time I’ve been able to sequence everything that needs to be said, rather than trying to fit in important lessons in between tactical business advice.
And knowing that I’ll be able to help so many more people than in the past brings a sense of gravity and knowingness that I’ve never felt before (in a good way!).
But it wouldn’t have happened without the amazing women that signed up for the beta launch. Through getting to know them and care about their dreams, I got to create straight from the heart.
So before I close the book on this chapter, I really want to thank them.
Bonnie, Michele, Andrea, Dana and Jessica ... thank you from the bottom of my heart. Your candor and engagement and support for one another; your willingness to stretch yourself and grow; your questions and helpful feedback made this program what it is today and at the same time made my long-cherished dream come true.
Even though our human brains like to focus on what’s wrong around us (and that’s a super-important and necessary agent of positive change), reflecting on what’s right is equally helpful (and too often forgotten).
So as we all deal with the emotions of a new year that has been unlike anything we’ve ever seen and brought an awakening for change and course-correction in so many of us…
I encourage you to take a pause, and think about the things in your life that are coming to a close but deserve to be missed and appreciated.
Here’s to loving both our past and our future,
💛 Jenna