My Next Thirty Years

The house is still.

I am up early, before the sun.

I am 30 today. I am basking in all the wonderful that is.

I came so, so, so far during my 29th year. It was a tough year, but it was a huge year for growth. My 20′s were good, not great (most of my story happens during the 20′s).

During this 29th year, I truly started to change: growing, helping, healing, cooking, baking, lifting, eating, playing and loving.

I am happier and more confident with where I am in my life than I ever have before. And yet, I still have so much work on myself to do. This is the beauty in our journey through life. We are given each day, each moment, to become better people – on the inside so that we can make difference on the outside.

Year 30 makes me older, but it also has me coming more and more into my own each day.

I am enough.

I have less to prove each day because I know that what I am is exactly who I am supposed to be.

I will make several less excuses for this person in my next thirty years.

♥ Tim McGraw sings it best (lyrics)….

I think I’ll take a moment, celebrate my age.

I am 30 today.

My friend Jenna told me, a couple weeks back, “the dirty 30.” I had never heard that phrase prior. No judging.

I actually hate the phrase. Yet, I find it funny. I also find it ironic, since it was actually my 20′s that were “dirty.” {Minus 1/2 of year 29}.
 
I came so, so, so far during my 29th year. It was a tough year, but it was a huge year for growth.

The ending of an era and the turning of a page

Some people are really afraid of the third decade.

Not me. I’m ready to embrace it.

Now it’s time to focus in on where I go from here. Lord have mercy on my next thirty years

The past decade I was all over the place. “Here” was a place I tried to find for a very long time. Instead of just enjoying what “here” was at any given moment, I made several bad decisions to find “here” for the moment.

Hey my next thirty years I’m gonna have some fun. Try to forget about all the crazy things I’ve done. Maybe now I’ve conquered all my adolescent fears. And I’ll do it better in my next thirty years.

I’m letting go of all that.

My next thirty years I’m gonna settle all the scores. Cry a little less, laugh a little more.

Thirty is young, but life is short.

Find a world of happiness without the hate and fear. Figure out just what I’m doing here

At just thirty, I have figured out my life’s calling. I know exactly what God put me on this earth to do…..

In my next thirty years

And because I know it, I am praying that the next thirty years allows me to reach as many women as possible.

Oh my next thirty years, I’m gonna watch my weight. Eat a few more salads and not stay up so late. Drink a little lemonade and not so many beers. Maybe I’ll remember my next thirty years.

These lines are classic for me.

But for my next thirty years:

Focus less on weight. Continue eating real food (not zero-calorie salads with fat-free, sugar-free dressing). Never short changing myself on sleep. Sipping on water and lemon.

And furthermore:

• Embracing everything God made me, not anyone else, to be.
• Repeating healthy, loving and happy daily self affirmations.
• Priming my best gut ever.
• Balancing.

My next thirty years will be the best years of my life

I fully believe my next thirty years will be the best years of my life.

Raise a little family and hang out with my wife

I didn’t have Ryan for all of the previous 30 years; I can’t wait to have him for the next.

And to have the minis…..God willing.

Spend precious moments with the ones that I hold dear. Make up for lost time here, in my next thirty years

In my next thirty years

♥ In my next thirty years….

Love your guts,
SKH