Hello world!

If you are looking for a real journey with a real person with real troubles staying on task, oh…you found her!  One thing I have learned about myself is that I am WAY better at staying on task – no matter what the task is – when I have accountability and am able to share my experiences.  Hence, this blog. I love writing!  But I also love food, snacks, beer, wine, NOT exercising, humor and connecting with people!  My intent in this blog is to set personal goals and ACTUALLY keep them.  I would love to take this journey…with you!

Hi!  Allow me introduce myself… My name is Shannon. I am (insert hesitation here) very close to turning 48 years old. Ah yes, middle aged. Gulp! I am currently married and we have three wonderful children. What?  Oh did I say “currently?”  Well that is because I have entered into the fantastic world of menopause. I’m not ruling out the possibility of imminent and absolute disaster.  😂 I am a “stay at home” which means my to do list and stress intake is much lower during the school year and much higher during the summer!  It wasn’t always low key – ever.  When the kids were younger, I didn’t have one minute to so much as pee without seeing little fingers under the door BEGGING for me to “come back” as if I had left the country!  Whether you are an “at home” mom or dad, or a “working” one, parenting is no joke! Getting on track and then staying there for more than a day and a half is also no joke!

In this blog, I will suggest many different strategies, plans and ideas to finding THE BEST POSSIBLE YOU!  Why?  Because it is my belief that if each of us were placed on this earth, it was for a reason. A purpose. And I, like many of you, am on my journey to find mine!  This is my very first blog. I haven’t the foggiest idea what I am doing yet but HAVE recently (should’ve been years ago) learned that you can’t get anywhere without at least taking that first step!  All my life, I have written. All my writing projects have been only for me. It was my therapy. My drug. My passion. It was cost effective. And it worked!  But I have also (all my life) felt there was this enormous thing just waiting for me!  What if I’m not alone in my journey?  What if I could share what I know and learn with others and that becomes the very vehicle that sets me off on this grand journey of life?  What if this moment, right now, is the exact thing I need to catapult me into becoming the very best version of myself? And…what if I could help readers, in some way, to also catapult themselves into THEIR best versions of themselves?  Even BIGGER….what if we all showed up in life as our best selves?  Can you imagine what that world could look like?  I can!  All I have to do now…is….BEGIN!