It’s still settling in that I really did give my notice on Monday.  I waver between thinking that I am completely insane, and knowing that I am totally making the right choice to pursue a dream.  I have 17 official days of work left, but many of those days will be taken as PTO (aka paid time off, something I will definitely miss soon!), so it’s really only 12 work days left!

The current mantra of the corporate culture I’ll soon be leaving is “what if”.  Thus, I found it oddly synchronistic that when I randomly opened to a page in The 100 Simple Secrets of Happy People, I saw Secret 29: Don’t think “what if.”  In the case of Secret 29, the focus is more on looking forward as opposed to the “what if” I did x,y,z different in the past.  Oddly, the “what if” of my current corporate culture portrays those words as “what if” we did something different, which also pushes people to look forward rather than dwell how things have always been done in the past.  In any case, I think the real lesson to be learned here can be captured in these lines under the headline:

“Think about how you can improve for the future … Think about what you need to do to get where you want to be.”

Here’s to moving forward … one small step at a time.