Hello, welcome to the Christtaro podcast.

Christmas is almost here. Thanksgiving's behind us.

2021 is drawing to a close and golly, it's crazy to think what's been accomplished by so many this year.

I've been starting the process of reflecting back on where I was at the beginning of the year versus where I am now.

And wow, it is sometimes hard to fully wrap my head around what has been done.

One of the key successes to that has been adopting the next step mentality, as I refer to it.

I have spent the vast majority of my adult life being so

focused on steps three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, and devoting so much energy and

stress and angst to those later steps that it not realizing it's hindering my ability to perform really well at step one and giving a teeny bit of preparation for step two.

And as I stepped into this year and as I moved forward and as I continued to change my mentality and work towards next steps,

I have been able to make progress in ways that I just didn't understand.

It's weird. It's been a bit messier than I would have thought.

Normally, I would have been like, oh, we need to have more of a plan.

I should have been able to look back and like everything went according to plan.

But I've made so much more progress doing it this way.

And I've taken paths that honestly I never could have planned to get where I'm at,

both professionally, in my personal life, in my social life, in my romantic life, in my family life, I just in all areas I would have

never ended up where I am if I just wasn't willing to take the next step. I'm going to tell you,

sometimes I've been absolutely terrified. Sometimes I'm taking the next step knowing it's the right

next step with not a clue what is going to come after it, not a clue.

And it's been working out okay.

And parts of my life has been working out great.

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