Setting my Priorities

For those of you who have scratched your heads at my odd facebook status updates lately...here is my best attempt to explain what's going on.

When New Year's rolled around, I didn't bother making any real "resolutions." I did join a gym, as a gift from my brother, Dan. I decided that this would be the Year of Lindsay. No more aches and pains, no more weakness. Just me, doing something - anything - for myself, for once. I hadn't even made it INTO the gym once before the effects of this attitude change were bubbling to the surface.

When I looked at my life, I realized that there were a lot of things I could never change. If I wanted to find less stress, more balance, more peace, less pain...I needed to do SOMETHING different. Continuing on with everything in the exact same place and pattern was going to get me nowhere. (Ever read the definition for the word INSANITY?) I realized that the one thing I could change is my job.

(What's my job, you ask? I am the Senior Consultant at my family's bookkeeping and accounting firm. I do accounting work, business consulting, software training, and most of the firm's marketing. I function as the Accounting Department for my clients. It's a great job, I'm good at it, and I love my clients. It's just time for me to move on.)

So, very quickly, I let my stepfather/boss (or boss/stepfather, depending on the task at hand! Kudos to him for playing both roles so well) know that I needed to leave. We put a plan into motion for my last day to be Friday, February 26th.

Where am I going? Nowhere, yet. I have been, bit by bit, communicating with my contacts in the business community and trying to decide what I want to do, which direction I'm headed, what should my next step be? I'm thinking of preparing for the CPA exam, or taking the GMATs so I can start work on my MBA. I know that I want to be working with driven, dynamic people. I want to feel like I'm bettering my community. I need a workplace full of integrity. I'm looking at every opportunity and deciding if it has potential to be the next, best place for me. I can see myself as the Executive Director for a non-profit...someday! Getting from here to there...is a process I have yet to define.

The right job will support me in my priorities to:
1) Kiss my kid
2) Pay my bills
3) Feel fulfilled

I don't think it's asking too much. Do you?