Welcome to the next decade!

Some of you may be thinking ‘halleluiah and good riddens to the noughties’ and others may just be excited to get started on a brand new year of exciting opportunities for creating the life (business / career, emotional resilience, finances, relationships & spirituality) that you’ve always wanted.

Either way – I’m finding that people I’m talking to are really excited about starting a new decade. It’s the same excitement people felt about the new millennium.

Big things are bound to happen and whilst I’ve noticed a few reports on the internet of ‘the last 10 years in the news’ – I’ve found there’s little focus on the really brilliant things that happened over the last decade. Of course technology is always up there – but what about personally – what big things have happened in your lives over the last 10 years?

For me a review of the decade of course shows both inspiring and challenging events, not the least of which was losing my Dad, but of course at almost 92 – even he would have said he’d had a good innings (he was happy when he beat his Dad’s record of 86! – funny what inspires us).
 

My top 10 positives would be:

1. January 2000 my daughter and I moved in with my Dad – and until his death in 2007, this was 8 years of the most extraordinary and rewarding relational experience of my life
    
2. Making a decision and undergoing training to become a Success Coach and converting my full time employment to part time to care for Dad (2005)
    
3. Starting my own coaching and consulting business to fit alongside my part time employment (2006)
    
4. Consulting at a school in the Western Suburbs working with the principal, teachers and students to create a values based culture and rewards program (2006-2007)
    
5. Giving up ‘working for the man’ part time in favour of increasing my hours in my own business and still fitting that around caring for Dad plus the flexibility to give my daughter the attention and support she needed during her final two years of high school (2006-2008)
    
6. Facilitating the Certificate IV in Small Business Management under the New Enterprise Initiatives Scheme (NEIS) and Case Management with the Youth Pathways program across 6 high schools (2007-2009)
    
7. Developing the Aspiring Women concept with Bravo Communication, running co-hosting and presenting a workshop at our ‘Women in Leadership’ event (2009)
    
8. Employing my daughter in my business under a 12 month Traineeship (2009)
    
9. Meeting countless amazing small business owners through a variety of network forums (2006-ongoing)
    
10. Continuing to build my client base for Business, Executive, Career and Lifestyle coaching (2006-ongoing)
     

I’d love to hear your top 10 achievements of the last decade have been too, so why not shoot me through an email at sue.booth@embrionics.com.au.