It's exhilarating opening windows after a long, cold winter. Welcome, fresh air! To feel a comfortable breeze inside is refreshing and my wind chime is singing. I'm anxious to buy plants to grace my balcony, but it's still too soon. Our nights are still too cold, but I am ready.
Windows open, the parks full of people happy to be outside, and being able to sit outside on my balcony with a cup of coffee feels amazing! And as all the northerners are breaking out their summer clothes, I have a jump start on my tan, thanks to two warm destination vacations in the last couple of weeks.
Event season is about to begin booming. The last several months have been of significant internal transition and building my event schedule. The management company increased my revenue goal again (I beat the first one by the end of February), which could have been annoying that they increased it again, but I claimed I'd beat their added $60K in two weeks and I did it in one. I'm closing in on my 2020 revenue goal quickly.
My new banquet chairs have been approved, which is a game changer, and with our new General Manager, a friend of mine that began with us less than two weeks ago whom I adore, is my equal when it comes to hard work ethics and success. Iron sharpens iron and we have great work chemistry and respect.
Following Dave Ramsey's Debt-free Living and Financial Peace recommendations have put me in an excellent position, now the commissions on my hard work and effort will start rolling in.
Some seasons in life you take cover and some seasons blessings just fall. I am in a season of blessings and I recognize it. I thought for certain I'd be writing an ugly check to the IRS, my accountant informed me yesterday I have a pleasant refund coming. Going into work today because they didn't have anyone to cover the grill, I forgot how fun it is to have a wallet fat with tips. I even gave the cook 1/2 my tips to be kind, because I know he needs it.
Many things seem to be falling in my favor and I am grateful. I like living modestly, it becomes a habit just as living seeking sensationalism becomes habitual. I can tell ya, there is much more appreciation for simple things when you live modestly.
Seeking sensationalism is a temporary high and always leaves a bucket of holes needing more. You can see it in them, lost in busyness, chasing the wind. What are you searching for? Why are you not content? King Solomon's words echo in my mind.
I smile because I am grateful exactly where I am.
