As I sit here in a coffee shop in Lisbon, I am taking some time to reflect on what's important in live and how I think about prioritizing what's important to me. For the last 10 years of my life I have been very focused on staying on the path of upward trajectory. Whether it's having a great job, spending my time with people who light me up, to staying in shape, I have been on this path of improvement with not real end goal in mind. I have been on a journey leading no where and have realized, despite my "success" thus far in life I am feeling unfulfilled professionally.

Today is the start of my journey to a fulfilling and independent career. As nice as it is to have the safety of working for a big company, all of those companies were once started by someone taking a risk to bet on themselves. If there is one thing I am sure of, it's that I want to be on myself first and foremost. Every day I will strive to learn, improve, and share the journey along the way.

Some days it's about the little wins in life. I was up super early and am currently back in NYC. This is one of those days where I need to learn to be kinder to myself.

Although I didn't have a huge win today, I did read 30 pages in my book, made some great progress on a current consulting project, and am focused on looking forward. It's all about those little 1% improvements and today was that day for me. I can still hold my head high knowing that I made some progress and tomorrow is another beautiful day to build upon that.