I’m Crafting My Life

I’m so excited!  I signed up for Amber’s Craft­ing My Life course.  What does Craft­ing My Life mean?  Here is a basic descrip­tion from her website:

Craft­ing my Life is a 12 week online course about liv­ing with inten­tion. Dur­ing the class we fig­ure out what we really want to be when we grow up, and then take steps to make that a real­ity. Craft­ing your life is about tak­ing stock, find­ing your bliss, slay­ing your drag­ons, man­ag­ing your money and learn­ing a lot about your­self. It is also about find­ing sup­port and com­mu­nity in like-minded people.

This is exactly what I’m look­ing for right now.  Liv­ing with inten­tion?  That’s been on my radar for a while.  What we really want to be when we grow up?  Now that’s a blog post and a half, but it also mir­rors the con­ver­sa­tion I had with my book club last night.  Tak­ing stock, slay­ing your drag­ons (i.e. con­fronting neg­a­tiv­ity), man­ag­ing money, and learn­ing a lot about your­self?  All things that I am inter­ested in right now.

The first week’s topic is “Tak­ing Stock.”  I’m hop­ing to set aside a cou­ple hours a week for this course and really get some good time to eval­u­ate where I am and what I want for my life in the next five years.

About six and a half  years ago, I was inter­view­ing for a class I wanted to take, and the inter­viewer asked me, “What do you want for your life in 5 years?”  I answered imme­di­ately, “I want to be a mom.”  At the time it never occurred to me that there would be an answer for the time that co-existed with my time as a mom.  That was it.  That was my goal and my des­ti­na­tion.  Now that I’m there, and lov­ing where I’m at, I am look­ing for some­thing that con­tin­ues my journey.