I continue to learn great lessons from my family and
friends. My learning seems to get
focused when I notice differences between what others would choose to do,
think, and how they might act, than what naturally occurs to me.
As I look on the beginning of a new year, I not only am
aware of all my possibilities in the year ahead, but I consider the gifts I
have learned from the last year. One of those gifts has come from my youngest
son and his wife around the power of intentionality. Their annual New Year’s
Day ritual includes a very clear goal setting for direction for the upcoming
year. One year they decided to move from Olympia, Washington to Austin, Texas.
By February 1st they had a job for Mykey, started looking for a rent
house, had been able to route a pre-planned air flight through Austin, and
arrange a move in March in time to start a new job. I was amazed! They made it
happen with a little help from all of us.
A few years later, they announced on July 1st
that they had decided to move to Tulsa, OK (our home) in March the following
year. They wanted to be able to buy a home, have another child, and establish
roots in an affordable community. They started paying off loans, consolidating
school debt, and clearing out the clutter as they saved some cash for the move,
and slowly said goodbye to Austin.
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| Margaritte, Millie, MyKey, Turkey Mountain, Mother's Day 2014 |
They did it again. On January 1st, our son
started interviewing for jobs and had one starting in March. They packed up their home, moved over a
weekend into our upstairs apartment, and began again. It didn’t take long for
Margaritte to get a job, Millie to be in a pre-school, and the work on
clarifying both where they wanted to live and what they could afford. By September
they qualified for the loan they needed, bought a home, moved in and hosted a
house warming for friends and family.
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