2021 in review

I finally had some time this morning after a busy month of celebrating holidays and travel to look back on 2021. What a wild ride it was! I had a lot of fun creating this video of many RiseUP milestones.

I highly recommend taking time to reflect on your life periodically - the New Year has become a natural time to do so, but really we can do it whenever we feel pulled to do so.

When you look back and see all you have learned, accomplished or endured you will gain clarity on where you want to go and create momentum and motivation in your life to get there.
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I love you all! Here's to 2022 and more adventures.

Here is a month by month break down of major events in my life this past year:

January: Moved to Florida, one of my best friends and soulmates died by overdose/suicide

February: Cut WAY back on Facebook

March: Quit Facebook and actually delete my account. Started listening to Tom Woods podcast as a new habit

April: ?? What did I do?! Settled into Florida life I guess - ha! My Facebook account of 12+ years is officially deleted. (They give you 30 days to reactivate from the time you delete your account).

May: Heard Stu McLaren's name mentioned on the Tom Wood's show. It was nothing to do with his courses or membership but about something he said about businesses... it piqued my interest enough to go back to his episode. From there I found Stu's Live Free workshop (it was starting almost immediately!) I tuned in a lot for a couple of days. In a matter of days I went from having no plans of starting a business, to scribbling in a notebook what I could offer the world, to signing up for Tribe.
I had to get back on FB and start a new account. I started from scratch with a friends list.

June: Tribe! My birthday! My first Live! Announce my FML 

July 4th-8th: FML, my goal was 5 and I ended up with 8 Founding members (including my mom :-)

August: Tribe Live and getting a groove. Celebrate 1 month of my RiseUP membership.

September: I challenge myself to go Live every day and host my first Interview.

October: I celebrate 10 years of my blog, Together Walking in a "Blogiversary Celebration". I gave a book away each week and highlighted some of my best posts from the decade. I hosted my second interview.

Also, I lost my online teaching job (teaching English) due to new Chinese government regulations. The good news is I get more sleep now and can focus on my membership!

November: I launched a free "webinar experience", reopened doors and welcomed one new member. For the first time I shared personal stories of the how the RiseUP vision has impacted people, interviewing my amazing friends Laura Swain and 2 of my founding members, Lisa and Adam. This second launch was a lot of work and I only got one new member BUT I have a lot more figured out and set up for future launches now!

December: I was a guest on the Tom Woods podcast! My free private group and email list continued to slowly grow.

Also, we sold our house. I soaked up the holidays with my family and we end the year with an epic road trip.

Whew! What a ride.
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Thanks for reading. I think that I'm ready to look forward now. I'm looking forward to being more disciplined, balanced and intentional in 2022. I have a lot of ideas (probably too many!) but most importantly I feel patient and determined. This is what I want to do and it will take time, but if I keep showing up I know more goodness is inevitable!